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LiteLLM Vulnerability Chain Lets Low-Privilege Users Take Over AI Gateway Servers
A default low-privilege account on a LiteLLM proxy can climb to full admin and run code on the server by chaining three vulnerabilities, researchers at Obsidian Security disclosed LiteLLM is a widely deployed open-source AI gateway that brokers calls to more than 100 model providers behind one OpenAI-compatible interface. A server takeover exposes every provider key it holds, the secrets that
Council of Europe investigates ShinyHunters data breach claims
The Council of Europe, the continent's oldest intergovernmental body, is probing claims of a data breach made by the ShinyHunters extortion group over the weekend. [...]
20 years of Intel Macs: Why Apple switched, and why it switched again
Remembering the ups and downs of the Intel Mac era as it finally winds down.
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Docker joins the Athena coalition: a cross-industry collaboration for supply chain security
The obvious takeaway from 2026's biggest incidents is that attackers are increasingly using AI to move fast. Docker's CISO, Mark Lechner, wrote about this shift and what every engineering team should do now. What worries us is that the bar is about to drop further. For most of the last decade, finding a serious vulnerability...
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