Escaping Claude Cowork’s local VM sandbox via CVE-2026-46331

ThreatLocker has released highlights of the company’s cybersecurity research, threat analysis, industry commentary and community outreach from June. “AI driven cyber-threats continued to generate significant attention in June, but most of the attacks we looked at came back to the same issue: trusted access being misused,” said Danny Jenkins, CEO & Co-founder of ThreatLocker. “Attackers…

For several years, some New York legislators have been attempting to enact a stand-alone consumer health privacy law aimed at health-related data that falls outside the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Such data includes information collected by apps, wearables, websites, advertisers, and other consumer-facing businesses. Nixon Peabody reported on the previous version of…

The Montgomery County Police Department arrested a Silver Spring man accused of dealing drugs as well as committing identity theft. County police said in a release Friday that Wildy Cherubin, 38, was arrested on July 8.  While executing search warrants on July 8 and July 9, police and Drug Enforcement Administration agents found around 4.6…

Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension bug enabled silent WhatsApp data theft Pierluigi Paganini July 22, 2026 Adobe patched CVE-2026-48294, a flaw in Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that could let attackers steal WhatsApp Web chats by luring users to a webpage. Guardio Labs researcher Shaked Biner disclosed HermeticReader, a vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension…

Jack Wallen/ZDNET Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET’s key takeaways Android is very close to being a full-blown Linux desktop. With the ability to run Linux apps, the OS takes a major step forward. But there is one glaring problem with the feature. I’ve been waiting for this moment —…

Military forces are under increasing pressure to field autonomous capabilities faster than ever before. Across the U.S., UK, and NATO, new investment, evolving defense strategies, and accelerated acquisition pathways are transforming how capability is delivered, rewarding programs that can move from concept to operational deployment at commercial speed. Now the focus shifts to the trusted…