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PHP2Shell scanner
New PHP2Shell scanner checks your hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code …

OVHcloud
Info-stealing malware slipped into OVHcloud CLI releases on GitHub

OVHcloud, the French cloud computing and web hosting company, alerted customers that a hacker tampered with its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to spread …

DevGuard
DevGuard: Open-source vulnerability management for the software supply chain

DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them. …

TorchTPU
Google open-sourced TorchTPU, so PyTorch on TPUs just got a lot easier

Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units. Google also announced TPU support in …

Bearer CLI
Bearer CLI: Free, source-available code security scanning tool (SAST)

Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities and prioritizes them by the sensitive data they touch. SAST …

GitHub
GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code

GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and …

Meshery
Meshery: Open-source cloud-native manager for Kubernetes

Meshery is an open-source tool for designing, deploying and managing Kubernetes infrastructure, built by Layer5 and its community and hosted as a Cloud Native Computing …

npm
npm Trusted Publishing flaw exposed 1,500+ npm packages to takeover

Bloom Security researchers found that npm’s Trusted Publishing feature let an attacker push new versions of someone else’s package without stealing a credential. The attacker …

AWS Strands
Strands Box: Open-source sandbox for AI agents

AWS released Strands Box, an open source sandbox for AI agents that pairs operating-system isolation with rules that can weigh what an agent has already done before letting it …

malware
Cryptomining botnet hides C2 addresses in GitHub poem, infects over 3,400 servers

Thousands of hijacked servers have been looking up their command and control (C2) server in a poem posted on GitHub, according to Black Lotus Labs. The malware reading it, …

GitHub
GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push

GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials to code repositories. …

AI Agent Gateway
AI Agent Gateway: Open-source tool keeps credentials out of agent configs

Tuskira’s AI Agent Gateway is an open-source solution that sits between AI agents and everything they call: the MCP tool servers that connect them to services like …

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