This daily digest covers a mass credential harvest via FortiBleed targeting FortiGate firewalls, new backdoors like ModeloRAT and Mistic tied to ransomware brokers, and critical data-exposure flaws in platforms such as Dify AI. It also highlights supply-chain risks in open-source CI/CD workflows, Anthropic’s Mythos model uncovering classified-system weaknesses, and industry moves on AI-driven SecOps and network-layer virtual patching.

• FortiBleed brute-forced 430,000+ FortiGate firewalls since February, harvesting over 110 million credentials across 24 protocols for resale
• Four critical Dify AI flaws (CVE-2026-41947 to -41950) let any console user read other tenants' chats, files, and internal APIs; patched in 1.14.2
• ModeloRAT and diskless Mistic backdoors tied to the Woodgnat access broker use signed pythonw.exe and DLL sideloading to evade detection
• Cordyceps research found 300 CI/CD exploit chains across 30,000 GitHub Actions workflows letting free-tier accounts steal tokens and taint builds at Microsoft, Google, Apache, and Cloudflare

The article discusses a recent supply chain attack involving the popular Axios package, highlighting how an attacker installed malware without altering the original code. It emphasizes the challenges posed by AI in both coding and attacking, as automated systems can easily introduce vulnerabilities faster than traditional security measures can respond.

• Attackers hijacked a maintainer account and slipped a self-deleting RAT into Axios (100M+ weekly downloads) via a malicious dependency, leaving no CVE for traditional scanners to catch.
• AI coding agents are 50% more likely than humans to pick known-vulnerable dependencies and often hallucinate package names that attackers exploit via "slopsquatting."
• Attacks have shifted from targeting single packages to automated, ecosystem-wide worms, like the TeamPCP campaign that spread through 66 npm packages in days.
• Socket detected the malicious Axios dependency in 6 minutes by analyzing code behavior, versus the industry-average 267 days for breach detection.