AI as tradecraft: How threat actors operationalize AI

In this article 1. AI as an enabler for cyberattacks 2. Post-compromise misuse of AI 3. Emerging trends 4. Mitigation guidance for AI-enabled threats 5. Microsoft Defender detections Threat actors are operationalizing AI along the cyberattack lifecycle to accelerate tradecraft, abusing both...

Microsoft Reveals ClickFix Campaign Using Windows Terminal to Deploy Lumma Stealer

Microsoft on Thursday disclosed details of a new widespread ClickFix social engineering campaign that has leveraged the Windows Terminal app as a way to activate a sophisticated attack chain and deploy the Lumma Stealer malware. The activity, observed in February 2026, makes use of the terminal...

CVE-2026-28394 OpenClaw < 2026.2.15 - Denial of Service via Unbounded Response Parsing in web_fetch Tool

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.15 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the webfetch tool that allows attackers to crash the Gateway process through memory exhaustion by parsing oversized or deeply nested HTML responses. Remote attackers can social-engineer users into fetching malicious...

CVE-2026-28394

OpenClaw versions prior to 2026.2.15 contain a denial of service vulnerability in the webfetch tool that allows attackers to crash the Gateway process through memory exhaustion by parsing oversized or deeply nested HTML responses. Remote attackers can social-engineer users into fetching malicious...

Plane is Vulnerable to Unauthenticated Workspace Member Information Disclosure

Executive Summary A security vulnerability exists in the Plane project management platform that allows unauthenticated attackers to enumerate workspace members and extract sensitive information including email addresses, user roles, and internal identifiers. The vulnerability stems from Django RE...

Delta Electronics CNCSoft-G2

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in an attacker achieving remote code execution on the device. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of these vulnerabilities, such as: Minimize network...

Portwell Engineering Toolkits

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a local attacker to escalate privileges or cause a denial-of-service condition. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk of exploitation of this vulnerability, such as:...

PT-2026-23050

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Google Chrome versions prior to 145.0.7632.159 Description An object lifecycle issue in the DevTools component of Google Chrome allowed an attacker to potentially exploit heap corruption. This exploitation could occur if a user was convinced t...

CVE-2025-9909

A flaw was found in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Gateway route creation component. This vulnerability allows credential theft via the creation of misleading routes using a double-slash // prefix in the gatewaypath. A malicious or socially engineered administrator can configure a...

UAT-10027 Targets U.S. Education and Healthcare with Dohdoor Backdoor

A previously undocumented threat activity cluster has been attributed to an ongoing malicious campaign targeting education and healthcare sectors in the U.S. since at least December 2025. The campaign is being tracked by Cisco Talos under the moniker UAT-10027. The end goal of the attacks is to...

Copeland XWEB and XWEB Pro

RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authentication, cause a denial-of-service condition, cause memory corruption, and execute arbitrary code. 2. RECOMMENDED PRACTICES CISA recommends users take defensive measures to minimize the risk...

SLH Offers $500–$1,000 Per Call to Recruit Women for IT Help Desk Vishing Attacks

The notorious cybercrime collective known as Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters SLH has been observed offering financial incentives to recruit women to pull off social engineering attacks. The idea is to hire them for voice phishing campaigns targeting IT help desks, Dataminr said in a new threat brief. T...

CVE-2026-26320

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant. OpenClaw macOS desktop client registers the openclaw:// URL scheme. For openclaw://agent deep links without an unattended key, the app shows a confirmation dialog that previously displayed only the first 240 characters of the message, but executed the full...

CVE-2026-26959

ADB Explorer is a fluent UI for ADB on Windows. Versions 0.9.26020 and below fail to validate the integrity or authenticity of the ADB binary path specified in the ManualAdbPath setting before executing it, allowing arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-26959 ADB Explorer Vulnerable to RCE via Insufficient Input Validation

ADB Explorer is a fluent UI for ADB on Windows. Versions 0.9.26020 and below fail to validate the integrity or authenticity of the ADB binary path specified in the ManualAdbPath setting before executing it, allowing arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-26959

ADB Explorer is a fluent UI for ADB on Windows. Versions 0.9.26020 and below fail to validate the integrity or authenticity of the ADB binary path specified in the ManualAdbPath setting before executing it, allowing arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-26959 ADB Explorer Vulnerable to RCE via Insufficient Input Validation

ADB Explorer is a fluent UI for ADB on Windows. Versions 0.9.26020 and below fail to validate the integrity or authenticity of the ADB binary path specified in the ManualAdbPath setting before executing it, allowing arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the current user. An attacker can...

CVE-2026-26320

OpenClaw is a personal AI assistant. OpenClaw macOS desktop client registers the openclaw:// URL scheme. For openclaw://agent deep links without an unattended key, the app shows a confirmation dialog that previously displayed only the first 240 characters of the message, but executed the full...

Using AI to defeat AI

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. Generative AI and agentic AI are here to stay. Although I believe that the advantages that AI brings to bad guys may be overstated, these new technologies allow threat actors to conduct attacks at a faster rate than before. One...

Betterment data breach might be worse than we thought

Betterment LLC is an investment advisor registered with US Securities and Exchange Commission SEC. The company disclosed a January 2026 incident in which an attacker used social engineering to access a third‑party platform used for customer communications, then abused it to send crypto‑themed...