Critical OpenWrt DHCPv6 Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code as Root

OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked as CVE-2026-53921 and rated 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 in OpenWrt's GitHub advisory, lets an unauthenticated attacke...

Nimbus Manticore Deploys NightLedger and Turns Victim Systems Into Covert Relays

The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as Nimbus Manticore aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten, Smoke Sandstorm, Subtle Snail, and UNC1549 has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting entities across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The intrusions involve the use of a...

Critical TeamCity Flaw Could Let Attackers Run OS Commands Without Logging In

JetBrains is urging customers of on-premise versions of TeamCity to update to the latest version following the discovery of a critical security issue that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-63077 CVSS score: 9.8, affects all TeamCity On-Premises version...

Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit

STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 CVSS score: 7.8, is a use-after-free race in the kernel's network traffic-control subsystem. Researcher Lee Jia Jie said...

Microsoft Says New Cybersecurity AI Model Helps MDASH Score 95.95% at Half the Cost

Microsoft has launched its first cybersecurity-specific model inside MDASH , its multi-model vulnerability identification and remediation harness. The company says MDASH, using MAI-Cyber-1-Flash and GPT-5.4, scored 95.95% on CyberGym. It also claims the configuration costs 50% less than its curre...

Attackers Exploit Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Command Injection Flaw

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator VCO has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812 CVSS score: 10.0, is a case of operating system command injection that could pave the way for arbitrary...

NVIDIA Forms 37-Member Open Secure AI Alliance and Open-Sources NOOA Framework

NVIDIA and 36 other organizations have formed the Open Secure AI Alliance to develop and share open technologies, techniques, and tools for securing software and artificial intelligence AI agents. The 37-member group spans cloud, security, enterprise software, and AI companies, including Microsof...

Dysphoria IoT Botnet Adds Blockchain C2 and Victim Relays After JackSkid Disruption

Dysphoria , an Internet of Things IoT botnet line tracked by CNCERT and XLab, has adopted blockchain-based name services and infected-device relays after a March law-enforcement operation against JackSkid infrastructure. The researchers say the design makes the botnet harder to disrupt. CNCERT,...

Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw

Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP's eval function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched forum server. The attack requires no account, administrative access, or interaction from another user. SSD Secure Disclosure lists vBullet...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More

Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up. This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found new work, exposed systems stayed exposed, and attackers kept hiding inside normal-looking services. Nothing looked strange at first. That helped...

n8n Sandbox Escape Lets Workflow Editors Run OS Commands as the n8n Process

n8n has patched a high-severity expression-sandbox escape that could let an authenticated workflow editor execute operating-system commands on the server running the automation platform. Security Joes found the flaw while probing n8n's February fix for CVE-2026-27577 for another bypass. The...

Operation BlueDash Deploys Level RMM and ScreenConnect via Fake Teams Update

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a Microsoft Teams-themed phishing campaign that employs "secure document" lures to deliver legitimate remote monitoring and management RMM tools. "The victim was directed through compromised web infrastructure to a counterfeit Microsoft Store page claiming...

Cruciferra Crypter Uses BYOVD and Process Ghosting to Hide Windows Malware

The China-linked cybercrime group behind the use of income tax-related phishing lures targeting Indian taxpayers, tax professionals, and corporate finance teams has been observed using a sophisticated crypter service called Cruciferra. According to a new analysis by Proofpoint, Cruciferra has bee...

TELESHIM Abuses Telegram for C2 in Attacks Against Middle East Governments

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged fresh malicious cyber activity by a threat actor with ties to East Asia targeting government entities in the Middle East. The intrusions have resulted in the deployment of previously unreported malware families dubbed TELESHIM, MIXEDKEY, and BINDCLOAK,...

GitHub Adds 3-Day Dependabot Cooldown to Limit Poisoned Package Adoption

GitHub has announced a new cooldown mechanism in Dependabot, allowing the tool to wait at least three days after a release is published before opening a pull request. "The cooldown configuration option in the dependabot.yml still controls the behavior, though, so you can choose a different cooldo...

Malvertising Sends Malware in Pieces, Then Makes the Browser Build the Executable

A malvertising operation dubbed SourTrade is making victims' browsers build the final Windows executable themselves, using a legitimate Bun runtime as its base instead of serving one complete malicious file from a fixed URL. Confiant, which detailed the campaign on July 23, 2026, said it has...

Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available

Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba's JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a malicious JSON request can execute code without authentication, with the privileges of the Java process. Tracked as CVE-2026-1672...

CTM360 Research Reveals How Insurance Phishing Has Evolved Into Real-Time Account Hijacking

For years, phishing campaigns targeting financial institutions followed the same playbook. Victims were tricked into entering usernames and passwords, attackers collected the credentials, and accounts were compromised later when an opportunity arose. That model is changing. Recent investigations...

Cl0p Affiliates Target Internet-Exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM with Unauthenticated RCE

Threat actors linked to the Cl0p aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC Windmill and FlexPLM deployments as part of a new data extortion campaign. "Attackers chain a pre-authentication information disclosure i...

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git

Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs commands as git on any self-managed 18.11.3 server that has not taken the update. Any authenticated user who can push to a project can run it...

DevMan RaaS Portal Centralizes Payload Builds, Victim Management, and Affiliate Payouts

The operators of the DevMan ransomware-as-a-service RaaS scheme are maintaining a dedicated web platform that offers affiliates the ability to build payloads, oversee earnings, and manage various aspects related to victims. Swiss cybersecurity company PRODAFT is tracking the centrally administere...

BlueNoroff Zoom Phishing Kit Profiles Crypto Wallets Before Malware Delivery

The North Korean threat actors behind the ClickFix-style campaigns that employ typosquatted Zoom and Microsoft Teams domains have been found to operate an active phishing kit to impersonate the videoconferencing platforms in social engineering campaigns designed to deliver malware. "BlueNoroff ha...

Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller

Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain Controller and authenticate as that machine. They codenamed the flaw Certighost. Because Domain Controller accounts carry directory...

ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI's ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and deploy an autonomous artificial intelligence AI agent inside a victim's organization. The vulnerability has bee...

Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft's Servers

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing's image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft's production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines in the same fleet. XBOW's testing got the same result on workers across different hosts and network ranges, so the problem sat i...

Seeing AI Agents Is Not Enough. Security Teams Must Enforce What They Can Do

AI agent security is moving through a familiar maturity curve: adoption, then visibility, and finally, control. But what we've collectively discovered is that enforcing least privilege for AI agents is harder than we ever imagined. This is why there are so many approaches, from prompt filtering t...

Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry

Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed it at Thailand's Ministry of Finance, which runs the country's treasury and tax collection. The agent then worked through the ministry's...

Golden Chickens Resurfaces With Four New Malware Families and Modular Implants

The threat actors behind the Golden Chickens malware-as-a-service MaaS ecosystem have resurfaced with four new malware families, indicating that the operators are showing no signs of stopping despite extensive public disclosures into their inner workings. The malware families in question are:...

NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats

Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and says its AI pentest agents found them in a six-hour review of the forum software's source code. Every version before 4.14.0 is affected. NodeBB has...

Kimi K3 Agents Found Redis Zero-Days and Built RCE Exploit, Researchers Say

Redis shipped seven security releases on July 23 after researchers published authenticated RCE PoCs for stock Redis 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0. All four chains require RESTORE. The Streams chains also need EVAL and XGROUP; the 8.8.0 chain needs EVAL and the bundled RedisBloom module. Redis...

Fake Notepad++ Plugin Delivers MATCHBOIL.V2 in UAC-0099 Attacks

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has warned of a new campaign that involves the use of a malicious program that's dressed up as a Notepad++ plugin to compromise Windows systems. The activity has been attributed by the agency to a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0099 , a...

Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes

A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra's webmail client. The payload goes after the last 90 days of email, the organization's entire email directory, the password saved in the browser and the codes kept for two-factor...

ThreatsDay: Android Spyware, PLC Attacks, AI Image Prompt Injection + 12 More Stories

Most of this week's trouble came dressed as something useful. A package stole data. A fake extension opened remote access. A safety app became spyware. An image gave hidden orders to an AI agent. Other threats hid in open systems, weak code, and normal network traffic. The threats change every...

Claude Cowork Flaw Could Let AI Agent Escape Its VM and Access Mac Files

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a sandbox escape vulnerability in Anthropic's Claude Cowork that makes it possible to break out of the confines of a Linux virtual machine VM within which the agent runs to read or write files anywhere on the Mac. Accomplish AI, which shared details of the...

Chaos Ransomware Uses msaRAT to Route C2 Traffic Through Headless Chrome and Edge

The Chaos ransomware group ran its command-and-control through the victim's own browser. Cisco Talos on Thursday detailed msaRAT, the Rust implant behind it, found on a compromised Windows machine ahead of the encryptor. The implant never opens an outbound connection of its own. Its process talks...

China-Nexus JadeProx Uses New TriBack Loader in Government and Healthcare Attacks

An exposed Alibaba Cloud server has revealed a China-nexus operation that Group-IB tracks as JadeProx. The cluster has targeted government, healthcare, and education organizations across Asia and Latin America with a previously undocumented Windows loader called TriBack Loader. Group-IB found the...

How Synthetic Identity Fraud is Coming for Machine Identities

Most people understand identity theft as an attacker stealing a real person's sensitive information and impersonating them. Synthetic identity fraud is much harder to catch. Instead of stealing a real identity, the attacker manufactures a new one, frankensteining together several real data points...

Attackers Weaponize GitHub Actions Runners to Target cPanel and WHM Servers

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a large-scale campaign that has turned compromised GitHub repositories into distributed attack infrastructure designed to target cPanel and WebHost Manager WHM instances. The activity involves malicious Packagist development versions spanning 10 packag...

Google Adds Selfie Video Recovery for Users Locked Out of Their Accounts

Google on Thursday announced a new way for users to sign-in to their accounts by letting them take a selfie video. The selfie for sign-in, per the tech giant, is another option on top of existing recovery methods to log in to an account, including an email address or a phone number. The idea is t...

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

RefluXFS, a Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS filesystem and gain persistent root access. Qualys said default installations of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivatives, Fedora Server, and...

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management MDSM products, including a critical flaw that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-16232 CVSS score: 9.3, is an...

GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier

Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+ to a fixed $10,000, while its permanent invite-only VIP tier will pay $30,000 or more. Reports filed before that date, including those...

Ubuntu snap-confine Flaw Could Give Local Users Root on Default Desktop Installs

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new local privilege escalation LPE vulnerability in snap-confine that an unprivileged user can trigger to obtain root access and gain complete control of a target environment. The high-severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-8933 CVSS score: 7.8,...

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited, could facilitate a silent hijack of a user's WhatsApp data. The shortcoming has been codenamed HermeticReader by Guardi...

Hackers Exploit Windmill Flaw to Read Arbitrary Server Files Without Authentication

A high-severity security flaw impacting open-source developer platform Windmill has come under active exploitation in the wild, per VulnCheck. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-29059 CVSS score: 7.5, a case of unauthenticated path traversal impacting Windmill's "getlogfile" endpoint...

The Fastest Path to AI Adoption Runs Through Security

Security leaders who build fast, visible paths to AI adoption are becoming the most valued partners in their organizations. AI governance done right gives security teams the visibility they need, employees the tools they want, and CISOs the strategic influence they have earned. According to...

OpenAI Says Its AI Models Escaped Sandbox, Targeted Hugging Face to Cheat Benchmark

OpenAI on Tuesday said a combination of its artificial intelligence AI models, including GPT-5.6 Sol and an "even more capable pre-release model," was behind the security incident that targeted Hugging Face's production infrastructure last week. The AI company said the models were operating with...

Why Modern SOCs Need Multi-Layered Detections

The cycle is over. For years, cybersecurity followed a familiar pattern: defenses improved, attackers adapted, and the back-and-forth continued. Today, AI-equipped attackers are simply outpacing defenses. Most intrusions now bypass endpoint and malware-based detection entirely. The CrowdStrike...

Police Dismantle Kratos Phishing Kit Built to Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions and Bypass MFA

German and US law enforcement have taken down the core infrastructure of Kratos , described by German investigators as one of the world's most widely used criminal phishing kits, and Indonesian authorities arrested the man they say developed and ran it. In a joint announcement on Monday, the...

Trojanized Newtonsoft.Json Fork Hides Game-Rigging Code in a Working Library

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a NuGet typosquat that's unlike the typical information-stealing malware distributed via package registries: usual info-stealers: it's designed to rig live game results on Digitain. The package, named "Newtonsoftt.Json.Net," masquerades as the...