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Russian Developers Used AI to Build Autonomous Drone Software, Anthropic Reports
Anthropic says a small Russia-based freelance team used Claude to develop software for an autonomous FPV drone swarm, highlighting the growing security risks of AI-assisted weapons development.

GitLab Fixes Critical Path Traversal Flaw That Could Expose Arbitrary Server Files
GitLab has patched CVE-2026-85706, a critical path traversal vulnerability in its repository commits API that could allow unauthenticated users to read arbitrary files from affected GitLab servers.
TrendingCloudflare CASB Adds Automatic Remediation Policies for SaaS Security Findings
Cloudflare CASB now lets security teams automatically respond to SaaS security findings with supported remediation actions, webhooks, or both, reducing the need for manual intervention.
TrendingRussian Developers Used AI to Build Autonomous Drone Software, Anthropic Reports
Anthropic says a small Russia-based freelance team used Claude to develop software for an autonomous FPV drone swarm, highlighting the growing security risks of AI-assisted weapons development.
TrendingGitLab Releases Critical Security Patch for 19.3, 19.2 and 19.1
GitLab has released versions 19.3.2, 19.2.6 and 19.1.8 to address 18 security issues, including two Critical vulnerabilities and six High-severity flaws.
TrendingGuardBreaker: How a Simple Code Comment Can Disrupt AI-Assisted Malware Analysis
ESET researchers identified GuardBreaker, a prompt-injection technique that uses a malicious code comment to trigger an LLM safety refusal and potentially disrupt AI-assisted malware analysis.
TrendingMantax Otax Android Malware Combines Ransomware, Spyware and Remote Device Control
Zimperium researchers have uncovered Mantax Otax, an Android malware strain linked to Indonesian threat actors that combines ransomware, spyware, credential theft and remote device control in a single campaign.
TrendingHow Codex and ChatGPT Are Helping Researchers Search for New Antimicrobial Molecules
Researchers are combining AI models, ChatGPT, Codex and laboratory experiments to search vast biological datasets for potential antimicrobial molecules that could help address drug-resistant infections.
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TrendingGoogle Spanner Removes Cumulative DML Mutation Limits, Enabling Larger Transactions
Google Cloud has changed how Spanner handles DML mutation limits. The 80,000-mod cap now applies separately to each DML statement, allowing transactions to contain multiple larger operations without a cumulative DML mutation limit.
TrendingOpenAI Brings GPT-Live-1 to API, Making Voice Agents More Natural and Responsive
OpenAI has launched GPT-Live-1 in its API, bringing full-duplex voice conversations, smoother interruption handling, backend model delegation, telephony support and greater control over voice-agent behaviour.
TrendingOpenAI Introduces Agents API to Bring Codex-Style Cloud Agents to Developers
OpenAI has launched the Agents API in public beta, giving developers a managed way to build long-running cloud agents with the Codex harness, tools, sandboxes, context management and multi-agent workflows.
TrendingVwork and Gigabud: How Attackers Are Abusing Android App Cloning
Group-IB has uncovered how the Gigabud Android banking trojan uses Vwork, a modified open-source app cloner, to isolate cloned banking apps and evade security controls during fraudulent transactions.
TrendingBeyond Database Migration: How to Replicate SQL Server Logins and Users to Cloud SQL
Migrating SQL Server databases to Google Cloud can leave applications unable to authenticate. Here is how sp_help_revlogin helps preserve SQL logins, password hashes and SIDs during Cloud SQL migrations.