Week 35 – CoSnitch: When Copilot Starts Snitching

24 – 30 Aug 2026

What if your AI assistant could be tricked into handing your data to an attacker?

This week’s CVE of the Week looks at CVE-2026-24301 (CoSnitch), a CVSS 8.8 vulnerability in Microsoft Copilot combining automatic prompt execution, data exfiltration and persistent memory poisoning.

Read the full technical breakdown on the White Hat blog.

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