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A new security flaw, LegalPwn, exploits a weakness in generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT, where malicious code is disguised as legal disclaimers. Learn why human oversight is now more critical than ever for AI security.

A list of topics we covered in the week of July 28 to August 3 of 2025

Last year, we announced the largest hacking event in history: Zero Day Quest, with up to $4 million in bounty awards. The response from the global security community was incredible and helped improve security for our customers and partners. This year, Zero Day Quest is back with even more potential bounty awards: up to $5 million total for high-impact research in Cloud and AI security.

An Ohio man lost $27,000 after an Apple ID scam text hit his phone. The strangest part? It happened at his doorstep.

What if malware didn't require an operating system to function? How would anyone possibly notice, let alone disable it?

### Summary The OpenEXRCore code is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow during a read operation due to bad pointer math when decompressing DWAA-packed scan-line EXR files with a maliciously forged chunk. ### Details In the `LossyDctDecoder_execute` function (from `src/lib/OpenEXRCore/internal_dwa_decoder.h`, when SSE2 is enabled), the following code is used to copy data from the chunks: ```cpp // no-op conversion to linear for (int y = 8 * blocky; y < 8 * blocky + maxY; ++y) { __m128i* restrict dst = (__m128i *) chanData[comp]->_rows[y]; __m128i const * restrict src = (__m128i const *)&rowBlock[comp][(y & 0x7) * 8]; for (int blockx = 0; blockx < numFullBlocksX; ++blockx) { _mm_storeu_si128 (dst, _mm_loadu_si128 (src)); // src += 8 * 8; // <--- si128 pointer incremented as a uint16_t dst += 8; } } ``` The issue arises because the `src` pointer, which is a `si128` pointer, is incremented by `8*8`, as if it were a `uint16_t` pointer...

A Florida correctional institution leaked the names, email addresses, and telephone numbers of visitors to the facility to every inmate.

Scammers are using texts that appear to have been sent to a wrong number to get targets to engage in a conversation.

We’re excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program’s scope, simplify the award structure, and offer great incentives for security researchers. The .NET Bounty Program now offers awards up to $40,000 USD for vulnerabilities impacting the .NET and ASP.NET Core (including Blazor and Aspire).

We’re excited to announce significant updates to the Microsoft .NET Bounty Program. These changes expand the program’s scope, simplify the award structure, and offer great incentives for security researchers. The .NET Bounty Program now offers awards up to $40,000 USD for vulnerabilities impacting the .NET and ASP.NET Core (including Blazor and Aspire).