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600 Firewalls Breached by AI in 5 Weeks — Plus Chrome Zero-Day, CVSS 9.9 RCE & AI-Powered Malware | HN63

Mar 5, 2026

AI is reshaping both sides of the cybersecurity battlefield — and fast. In this episode, we break down five stories that prove it: the first Chrome zero-day of 2026 (CVE-2026-2441), a near-perfect CVSS 9.9 in Microsoft's Semantic Kernel SDK (CVE-2026-26030), a supply chain attack on AI coding assistant Cline that...

6 Zero-Days Exploited NOW, Lazarus Poisons npm, AI-Generated Malware & More | HN62

Feb 26, 2026

Microsoft just dropped patches for SIX actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities — and that's just the beginning. In this week's Hacking News, we break down the February 2026 Patch Tuesday emergency, North Korea's Lazarus Group poisoning npm and PyPI through fake job recruiters, nation-state hackers...

State Hackers Hit 37 Countries, BeyondTrust CVSS 9.9 RCE, Signal Hijacked & More | HN Ep. 61

Feb 19, 2026

A newly uncovered state-backed espionage group has compromised 70 organizations across 37 countries in a single year — and they were scanning infrastructure in 155 more. In this episode of Hacking News, we break down Palo Alto Unit 42's Shadow Campaigns investigation, a CVSS 9.9 pre-authentication RCE in...

CRITICAL: Office Zero-Day + WordPress Admin Takeover + Chrome Extensions Stealing AI Chats | EP 60

Jan 29, 2026

Microsoft just dropped an emergency patch for an Office zero-day being exploited in the wild. A WordPress plugin has a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability — that's the golden goose of hacking. 900,000 Chrome users had their ChatGPT conversations stolen by malicious extensions with Google's Featured badge. And two...

I'm Back and Introducing Forgebound Research | The Rebrand

Jan 12, 2026

Exploit Brokers is back—under a new banner.

In this episode, I explain why the show went quiet, what Forgebound Research means, and how the podcast is evolving. We're shifting to a hybrid model: some episodes will be news commentary with technical insight, others will be lab-driven deep dives where I actually pull...