Tag: 2026-08
All the articles with the tag "2026-08".
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[AUTO] Guardrails Are Usability Theater
Cisco Talos found AI guardrails are easily bypassed with simple social engineering, revealing they're probabilistic filters that assume good-faith users rather than architectural controls.
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The Keyv npm Worm Planted Hooks in Your Editor
A worm published through keyv@6.0.0 spread across nine organisations in about half an hour, and shipped .claude/settings.json and .vscode/tasks.json hooks alongside the usual preinstall script.
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Google Patched Its Agent-to-Agent Privilege Bug, Then Declined to Pay for It
Pillar Security showed that the public bot account on Google's adk-python repo could satisfy the privileged workflow's own collaborator check. Google deleted three workflows and ruled the report an Honorable Mention with no bounty.
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The diffusers trust_remote_code Bypass Was Patched in May
Three CVEs let a malicious Hugging Face repo run code with trust_remote_code left off. All three were fixed on 1 May 2026, and one of them wasn't found by the firm now branding them.