--- title: Best BleepingComputer posts — July 2026 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted BleepingComputer posts from July 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of/2026/07 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of/2026/07 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best BleepingComputer posts — July 2026 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted BleepingComputer posts from July 2026, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of BleepingComputer — July 2026 1. 1 [](https://daily.dev/posts/duckduckgo-browser-now-blocks-youtube-video-ads-v7x8v6gio "DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads") Article BleepingComputer · 9w DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads DuckDuckGo's browser now blocks most YouTube video ads, including pre-roll and mid-roll ads, across iOS, Mac, and Windows by default. Android users must enable it manually in Settings. The feature uses community-maintained filter lists from uBlock Origin, supplemented by DuckDuckGo's own compatibility rules. It works separately from the existing Duck Player feature, and both can be used simultaneously. DuckDuckGo joins Brave and Opera in offering built-in YouTube ad blocking without third-party extensions. Minor buffering delays may occur, and the feature may occasionally break as YouTube changes its ad-serving methods. 264 30 2. 2 [](https://daily.dev/posts/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-qdgtmh9jv "OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide") Article BleepingComputer · 7w OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide ChatGPT is experiencing a major worldwide outage starting around 5 AM ET, preventing users from loading chats or interacting with the AI. OpenAI has acknowledged the issue on its status page and is investigating. 59 26 3. 3 [](https://daily.dev/posts/jadepuffer-ransomware-used-ai-agent-to-automate-entire-attack-egb37hxoo "JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack") Article BleepingComputer · 10w JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack Sysdig researchers have documented what they believe is the first ransomware operation fully orchestrated by an LLM agent, dubbed JadePuffer. The attack exploited CVE-2025-3248, an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in Langflow, to gain initial access. From there, the AI agent autonomously performed reconnaissance, credential theft, lateral movement, persistence via cron job, privilege escalation, and data encryption — adapting in real time to failures. It ultimately encrypted 1,342 Nacos service configuration items using MySQL's AES\_ENCRYPT() and left a ransom note with a Bitcoin address. Notably, the encryption key was never stored or transmitted, and the Bitcoin address appears to be a training-data artifact. Sysdig warns this marks the arrival of 'agentic threat actors,' lowering the skill barrier for sophisticated cyberattacks while also creating new LLM-specific detection opportunities. 12 4 [See all BleepingComputer archives](/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"CollectionPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of/2026/07#page","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of/2026/07","name":"Best BleepingComputer Posts — July 2026","description":"The most upvoted BleepingComputer posts from July 2026, curated by the daily.dev community.","isPartOf":{"@type":"WebSite","url":"https://daily.dev"}},{"@type":"ItemList","@id":"https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of/2026/07#items","numberOfItems":3,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/duckduckgo-browser-now-blocks-youtube-video-ads-v7x8v6gio","name":"DuckDuckGo browser now blocks YouTube video ads"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/openai-confirms-chatgpt-is-down-worldwide-qdgtmh9jv","name":"OpenAI confirms ChatGPT is down worldwide"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"url":"https://daily.dev/posts/jadepuffer-ransomware-used-ai-agent-to-automate-entire-attack-egb37hxoo","name":"JadePuffer ransomware used AI agent to automate entire attack"}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Sources","item":"https://daily.dev/sources"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"BleepingComputer","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":4,"name":"Best of","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/bleepingcomputer/best-of"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":5,"name":"July 2026"}]}]} ```