Qilin EDR killer infection chain

Endpoint detection and response EDR tools are widely deployed and far more capable than traditional antivirus. As a result, attackers use EDR killers to disable or bypass them. Disabling telemetry collection process, memory, network activity limits what defenders can see and analyze. As defenders...

CVE-2026-4399

Prompt injection vulnerability in 1millionbot Millie chatbot that occurs when a user manages to evade chat restrictions using Boolean prompt injection techniques formulating a question in such a way that, upon receiving an affirmative response 'true', the model executes the injected instruction,...

CVE-2026-22569 Incorrect startup configuration in ZCC

An incorrect startup configuration of affected versions of Zscaler Client Connector on Windows may cause a limited amount of traffic from being inspected under rare circumstances...

PT-2026-29219

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions 1millionbot Millie chatbot affected versions not specified Description A prompt injection issue exists in the 1millionbot Millie chatbot. This occurs when a user bypasses chat restrictions using Boolean prompt injection techniques, constructin...

CVE-2026-33495

ORY Oathkeeper is an Identity & Access Proxy IAP and Access Control Decision API that authorizes HTTP requests based on sets of Access Rules. Ory Oathkeeper is often deployed behind other components like CDNs, WAFs, or reverse proxies. Depending on the setup, another component might forward the...

RedTrace

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Targeted Adversarial Traffic Generation : Black-Box Approach to Evade Intrusion Detection Systems in IoT Networks

The integration of machine learning ML algorithms into Internet of Things IoT applications has introduced significant advantages alongside vulnerabilities to adversarial attacks, especially within IoT-based intrusion detection systems IDS. While theoretical adversarial attacks have been extensive...

MAL-2026-2117 Malicious code in tui-ascii-art (PyPI)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: kam193 4358458e150317ab394c6dd2d0137a8c395a32bae309cc1bfd829f123dab1393 These packages are used as build dependencies of malicious packages in newer waves of the campaign 2026-02-urllib-slim. They are used to split the malicious...

54 EDR Killers Use BYOVD to Exploit 35 Signed Vulnerable Drivers and Disable Security

A new analysis of endpoint detection and response EDR killers has revealed that 54 of them leverage a technique known as bring your own vulnerable driver BYOVD by abusing a total of 35 vulnerable drivers. EDR killer programs have been a common presence in ransomware intrusions as they offer a way...

Evasive Intelligence: Lessons from Malware Analysis for Evaluating AI Agents

Artificial intelligence AI systems are increasingly adopted as tool-using agents that can plan, observe their environment, and take actions over extended time periods. This evolution challenges current evaluation practices where the AI models are tested in restricted, fully observable settings. I...

Web Shells, Tunnels, and Ransomware: Dissecting a Warlock Attack

Warlock continues to enhance its attack chain with new tactics to improve persistence, lateral movement, and defense evasion using an expanded toolset: TightVNC Yuze, and a persistent BYOVD technique leveraging the NSec driver...

fickling's `platform` module subprocess invocation evades `check_safety()` with `LIKELY_SAFE`

Our assessment We added platform to the blocklist of unsafe modules https://github.com/trailofbits/fickling/commit/351ed4d4242b447c0ffd550bb66b40695f3f9975. It was not possible to inject extra arguments to file without first monkey-patching platform.followsymlinks with the pickle, as it always...

Hackers Use Cloudflare Human Check to Hide Microsoft 365 Phishing Pages

Scammers are hijacking popular security tools like Cloudflare to hide fake Microsoft 365 login pages. Learn how this new invisible phishing campaign bypasses antivirus software and how you can stay safe...

Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents: Anticipating Capabilities, Tactics, and Strategic Implications

This report introduces the concept of "Highly Autonomous Cyber-Capable Agents" HACCAs, AI systems capable of autonomously conducting multi-stage cyber campaigns at a level comparable to today's top criminal hacking groups or state-affiliated threat actors, and analyzes the security implications o...

Microsoft Windows Active Setup Persistence Module

This Metasploit module leverages the Windows Active Setup mechanism to establish persistence while integrating multiple evasion and stealth techniques designed to reduce forensic visibility and bypass detection mechanisms...

CVE-2026-0230

CVE-2026-0230 affects the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent on macOS. A flaw in the agent’s protection mechanism lets a local administrator disable the agent, potentially enabling malware to operate without detection. The exposure is local (vector: LOCAL) with high privileges required (PR:H) an...

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Broker VM 安全漏洞

Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR Broker VM is a secure virtual machine developed by Palo Alto Networks. It integrates with Cortex XDR and can bridge networks with Cortex XDR. There is a security vulnerability in the Palo Alto Networks Cortex XDR agent. This vulnerability stems from issues with the...

Linux RC4 Encrypted Payload Generator

This evasion module packs Linux payloads using RC4 encryption and executes them from memory using memfdcreate for fileless execution. Linux kernel version support: 3.17+ Module Options msf use evasion/linux/x64/rc4packer msf evasionrc4packer show actions ...actions... msf evasionrc4packer set...

SlowBA: An Efficiency Backdoor Attack Towards VLM-Based GUI Agents

Modern vision-language-model VLM based graphical user interface GUI agents are expected not only to execute actions accurately but also to respond to user instructions with low latency. While existing research on GUI-agent security mainly focuses on manipulating action correctness, the security...

Retraction of "Antivirus and Endpoint Detection and Response Archive Scanning Engines may not properly scan malformed ZIP archives"

Overview Malformed ZIP headers can be used to obfuscate malicious content in ZIP files from antivirus detection tools. Despite the presence of malformed headers, custom extraction software can decompress the ZIP archive, allowing potentially malicious payloads to be recovered after successful...