--- title: This Week In Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable... description: A weekly security roundup covering several notable incidents: the Januscape KVM VM escape vulnerability affecting major cloud providers after 16 years in the... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-security-escaping-linux-vms-vulnerable-solar-confusing-ai-again-and-confusing-npm-x6gajlxpc twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: This Week In Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable Solar, Confusing AI (Again), And Confusing NPM Malware | daily.dev og:description: A weekly security roundup covering several notable incidents: the Januscape KVM VM escape vulnerability affecting major cloud providers after 16 years in the... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/this-week-in-security-escaping-linux-vms-vulnerable-solar-confusing-ai-again-and-confusing-npm-x6gajlxpc og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/x6gajlxpC.png og:image:alt: This Week In Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable Solar, Confusing AI (Again), And Confusing NPM Malware og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # This Week In Security: Escaping Linux VMs, Vulnerable Solar, Confusing AI (Again), And Confusing NPM Malware **[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A weekly security roundup covering several notable incidents: the Januscape KVM VM escape vulnerability affecting major cloud providers after 16 years in the codebase; unencrypted RF protocol flaws in Hoymiles balcony solar micro-inverters affecting ~500,000 units; OpenSSH 10.4 release with security fixes and post-quantum encryption experiments; a possible Tenda router backdoor via hardcoded password; a prompt injection attack on GitHub's AI agent that leaked private repository contents; a Windows device identifier helping identify a Scattered Spider ransomware operator; CISA's post-incident review after credential exposure via a public GitHub repo; and NPM infostealer packages traced to a cybersecurity company owner. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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