Summary
During the week of March 2–9, 2026, there were 15 vulnerability advisories (including 5 actively exploited flaws in products like VMware, Cisco, and WordPress) and 17 incidents led by the LexisNexis AWS cloud breach (400K individuals affected), an FBI surveillance systems breach. Multiple ransomware attacks hitt government, healthcare, and education sectors.
Take Action:
Update your Comet browser, or even better, wipe it from your system. It's too dangerous. Treat AI agents as untrusted insiders and manually restrict their access to sensitive websites or local files. Always enable 'ask before filling' in your password manager to prevent agents from accessing credentials without your explicit consent. Treat AI documentation feeds as executable code and never assume a tool is safe just because it has high GitHub stars. Limit your AI assistant's file system permissions and verify the source of all instructions delivered through MCP servers.
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