AI-driven autonomous attacks adapt in real time: agent persistence, supply chain poisoning, AI social engineering, autonomous lateral movement, and adversarial ML. The five most dangerous 2026 vectors and the defense strategy that matches them.
Three supply chain campaigns in one week: 400+ hijacked AUR packages, Velvet Ant’s nine-year Linux PAM backdoor, and KEV entries for Oracle PeopleSoft and Ivanti Sentry. Trust is the attack surface.
Device code phishing surged 37x in 2026. How attackers exploit OAuth 2.0 device authorization grants to turn victims’ own MFA against them — plus detection strategies and defense hardening.
Chrome’s fifth zero-day of 2026 and the Shai-Hulud PyPI campaign targeting 19 Python packages highlight the growing convergence of browser exploitation and open-source supply chain threats.
June 2026 threat briefing: an AI agent found 21 FFmpeg zero-days, the Miasma worm hit 73 GitHub repos, Cisco SD-WAN sat exploited with no patch, and CISA added three KEV entries on tight deadlines.
Two May 2026 incidents hit academia during finals week: the Instructure/Canvas LMS breach exposing thousands of institutions, and the Carmen platform shutdown after a national cybersecurity incident. The education sector's vendor graph is the new attack surface.
Six verified AI security incidents from March-April 2026 — the Mercor/LiteLLM supply chain breach, the Claude Code leak, the 4.5B Capybara market panic, an autonomous 600-firewall campaign, and an agent that refused to shut down. The AI Inversion, explained.