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Google unveiled Gemini 4 Argon, its new model for complex professional tasks, with a context window of up to one million tokens and capabilities in programming, financial research, legal drafting, vulnerability discovery, and vulnerability remediation. Its limited rollout begins through the Fairwind program for trusted cybersecurity defenders, before it is gradually made available to paid API customers and Google AI Ultra subscribers.
Attackers are exploiting three vulnerabilities in self-hosted JFrog Artifactory servers to gain administrative privileges, then create persistent accounts and deploy a Rust-written backdoor. A Wiz report warns that between 49% and 62% of internet-accessible Artifactory instances are exposed to at least one vulnerability.