PT-2026-22504

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MaxSite CMS versions up to 109.1 Description A code injection issue exists in MaxSite CMS due to a flaw in the eval function within the file application/maxsite/admin/plugins/editor markitup/preview-ajax.php of the MarkItUp Preview AJAX Endpoi...

How to understand and avoid Advanced Persistent Threats

By definition, an advanced persistent threat APT is a prolonged, targeted attack on a specific victim with the intention to compromise their system and gain information from or about that target. About a decade ago, the term was mostly used for state-sponsored threat actors. I used threat actors...

Microsoft Warns Developers of Fake Next.js Job Repos Delivering In-Memory Malware

A "coordinated developer-targeting campaign" is using malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessments to trick victims into executing them and establish persistent access to compromised machines. "The activity aligns with a broader cluster of threats that...

CVE-2024-1524

When the "Silent Just-In-Time Provisioning" feature is enabled for a federated identity provider IDP there is a risk that a local user store user's information may be replaced during the account provisioning process in cases where federated users share the same username as local users. There will...

Developer-targeting campaign using malicious Next.js repositories

Microsoft Defender Experts identified a coordinated developer-targeting campaign delivered through malicious repositories disguised as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials. Telemetry collected during this investigation indicates the activity aligns with a broader cluster...

Reddit, porn sites fined by UK regulators over children’s safety and privacy

The UK’s online safety and privacy regulators are targeting companies that violate new age verification laws at both ends : Porn sites that did not keep children out, and mainstream platforms that profited from children coming in. On February 23, media regulator Ofcom fined porn operators that...

CVE-2024-1524 A local user can be impersonated when using federated authentication with Silent JIT Provisioning.

When the "Silent Just-In-Time Provisioning" feature is enabled for a federated identity provider IDP there is a risk that a local user store user's information may be replaced during the account provisioning process in cases where federated users share the same username as local users. There will...

PT-2026-21674

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions The product name cannot be determined. affected versions not specified Description When the "Silent Just-In-Time Provisioning" feature is enabled for a federated identity provider IDP, a local user store user’s information may be replaced duri...

CodeHacker: Automated Test Case Generation for Detecting Vulnerabilities in Competitive Programming Solutions

The evaluation of Large Language Models LLMs for code generation relies heavily on the quality and robustness of test cases. However, existing benchmarks often lack coverage for subtle corner cases, allowing incorrect solutions to pass. To bridge this gap, we propose CodeHacker, an automated agen...

Many Tools, Few Exploitable Vulnerabilities: A Survey of 246 Static Code Analyzers for Security

Static security analysis is a widely used technique for detecting software vulnerabilities across a wide range of weaknesses, application domains, and programming languages. While prior work surveyed static analyzes for specific weaknesses or application domains, no overview of the entire securit...

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...

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful...

TFL: Targeted Bit-Flip Attack on Large Language Model

Large language models LLMs are increasingly deployed in safety and security critical applications, raising concerns about their robustness to model parameter fault injection attacks. Recent studies have shown that bit-flip attacks BFAs, which exploit computer main memory i.e., DRAM vulnerabilitie...

OpenClaw Hook Session Key Override Enables Targeted Cross-Session Routing

Summary The issue is not deterministic session keys by itself. The exploitable path was accepting externally supplied sessionKey values on authenticated hook ingress, allowing a hook token holder to route messages into chosen sessions. Affected Behavior - POST /hooks/agent accepted payload...

Spam Campaign Abuses Atlassian Jira, Targets Government and Corporate Entities

We uncover how a campaign used Atlassian Jira Cloud to launch automated and targeted spam campaigns, exploiting trusted SaaS workflows to bypass security controls...

Vulnerabilities fixed in Apple iOS and iPadOS

Apple has fixed vulnerabilities in iOS and iPadOS. The vulnerabilities included several problems such as memory corruption, buffer overflow, and post-release usage, which could lead to unauthorized access to sensitive data, unexpected process crashes and other stability issues. The vulnerabilitie...

CVE-2026-20700

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, tvOS 26.3, visionOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3. An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this...

Apple Fixes Exploited Zero-Day Affecting iOS, macOS, and Other Devices

Apple on Wednesday released iOS, iPadOS, macOS Tahoe, tvOS, watchOS, and visionOS updates to address a zero-day flaw that it said has been exploited in sophisticated cyber attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20700 CVSS score: 7.8, has been described as a memory corruption issue in dyl...

CVE-2026-20700

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in watchOS 26.3, tvOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, visionOS 26.3, iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3. An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this...

CVE-2026-20700

A memory corruption issue was addressed with improved state management. This issue is fixed in iOS 26.3 and iPadOS 26.3, macOS Tahoe 26.3, tvOS 26.3, visionOS 26.3, watchOS 26.3. An attacker with memory write capability may be able to execute arbitrary code. Apple is aware of a report that this...