CVE-2026-25885

PolarLearn is a free and open-source learning program. In 0-PRERELEASE-16 and earlier, the group chat WebSocket at wss://polarlearn.nl/api/v1/ws can be used without logging in. An unauthenticated client can subscribe to any group chat by providing a group UUID, and can also send messages to any...

A week in security (February 2 – February 8)

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PolarLearn 访问控制错误漏洞

PolarLearn is an online learning platform developed by PolarNL. Versions of PolarLearn prior to 0-PRERELEASE-16 contain access control vulnerability issues. This vulnerability stems from the use of WebSocket in group chats without the need for login, which may allow unverified clients to subscrib...

An AI plush toy exposed thousands of private chats with children

Bondu’s AI plush toy exposed a web console that let anyone with a Gmail account read about 50,000 private chats between children and their cuddly toys. Bondu's toy is marketed as: “A soft, cuddly toy powered by AI that can chat, teach, and play with your child.” What it doesn’t say is that anyone...

Windows Malware Uses Pulsar RAT for Live Chats While Stealing Data

We usually think of computer viruses as silent, invisible programs running in the background, but a worrying discovery shows that modern hackers are getting much more personal...

An AI Toy Exposed 50,000 Logs of Its Chats With Kids to Anyone With a Gmail Account

AI chat toy company Bondu left its web console almost entirely unprotected. Researchers who accessed it found nearly all the conversations children had with the company’s stuffed animals...

Malicious Chrome extensions can spy on your ChatGPT chats

Researchers discovered 16 malicious browser extensions for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge that steal ChatGPT session tokens, giving attackers access to accounts, including conversation history and metadata. The 16 malicious extensions 15 for Chrome and 1 for Edge claim to improve and optimize...

16 Fake ChatGPT Extensions Caught Hijacking User Accounts

A coordinated campaign of 16 malicious GPT optimisers has been caught hijacking ChatGPT accounts. These tools steal session tokens to access private chats, Slack, and Google Drive files...

A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats

WhatsApp is going through a rough patch. Some users would argue it has been ever since Meta acquired the once widely trusted messaging platform. User sentiment has shifted from “trusted default messenger” to a grudgingly necessary Meta product. Privacy-aware users still see WhatsApp as one of the...

Revealed: Leaked Chats Expose the Daily Life of a Scam Compound’s Enslaved Workforce

A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail...

Fake ChatGPT and DeepSeek Extensions Spied on Over 1 Million Chrome Users

Security researchers have identified two malicious Chrome extensions recording AI chats. Learn how to identify and remove these tools to protect your privacy...

Two Chrome Extensions Caught Stealing ChatGPT and DeepSeek Chats from 900,000 Users

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered two new malicious extensions on the Chrome Web Store that are designed to exfiltrate OpenAI ChatGPT and DeepSeek conversations alongside browsing data to servers under the attackers' control. The names of the extensions, which collectively have over 900,0...

Popular NPM Package lotusbail Exposed as Trojan Stealing WhatsApp Chats

Koi Security uncovers lotusbail, a malicious npm package with 56K downloads that steals WhatsApp messages and installs a persistent backdoor. Learn how to protect your data...

Urban VPN Proxy Surreptitiously Intercepts AI Chats

This is pretty scary: Urban VPN Proxy targets conversations across ten AI platforms: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, DeepSeek, Grok xAI, Meta AI. For each platform, the extension includes a dedicated "executor" script designed to intercept and capture conversations. The...

The Ultra-Realistic AI Face Swapping Platform Driving Romance Scams

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Chrome extension slurps up AI chats after users installed it for privacy

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Google ads funnel Mac users to poisoned AI chats that spread the AMOS infostealer

Researchers have found evidence that AI conversations were inserted in Google search results to mislead macOS users into installing the Atomic macOS Stealer AMOS. Both Grok and ChatGPT were found to have been abused in these attacks. Forensic investigation of an AMOS alert showed the infection...

EUVD-2025-200727

The MxChat – AI Chatbot for WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Sensitive Information Exposure in all versions up to, and including, 2.5.5 via upload filenames. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to extract session values that can subsequently be used to access...

📄 WhatsApp Android Contact Gating Bypass

WhatsApp Android has a contact gating bypass in groups that leads to interaction-less media download. Background To prevent security issues and spam, WhatsApp for Android requires some form of user interaction to automatically download files from non-contacts: a. After adding someone as a contact...

New Sturnus Android Trojan Quietly Captures Encrypted Chats and Hijacks Devices

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Sturnus that enables credential theft and full device takeover to conduct financial fraud. "A key differentiator is its ability to bypass encrypted messaging," ThreatFabric said in a report shared with The...