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Mythos Asks the Right Question. It Doesn't Answer It.
AI is compressing exploit timelines. The real question isn't whether your vulnerability management playbook needs to change, it's which part of it you've been getting wrong all along. The conversation happening in security circles right now goes something like this: Mythos is here. Exploit...
Researchers Show a Single Malicious Webpage Visit Can Compromise Tor Browser
Nebula Security says a patched Firefox JIT flaw could be triggered by simply visiting a malicious webpage and was also used to compromise Tor Browser. Tracked as CVE-2026-10702 , the bug provides arbitrary code execution inside the browser's renderer process. Mozilla rated it High and fixed it in...
73% of Organizations Say They Are Not Fully Ready for a Major Cyberattack
Most organizations have incident response plans, security tools, and technical teams in place. Yet new research suggests that many still lack the coordination, visibility, and executive alignment needed to withstand a serious cyberattack. According to The State of Incident Response Readiness 2026...
Russia Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov With Aiding Terrorist Activity
The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation FSB on Wednesday said it charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov for allegedly facilitating terrorist activities and for failing to remove prohibited information in violation of Russian law. The principal security agency said the instant messagi...
Public PoC Released for Exploited Check Point SmartConsole Authentication Bypass
Cybersecurity researchers have shared additional technical details about a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Check Point Security Management Server and Multi-Domain Security Management Server MDS that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as...
OpenAI Agent Used Exposed Credentials Across Four Services During Hugging Face Breach
OpenAI on Tuesday revealed the rogue artificial intelligence AI agent that escaped its sealed evaluation environment and broke into Hugging Face's production environment also hacked multiple third-party accounts and services as part of the attack. The latest disclosure shows that the security...
New Gitea RCE Lets Repository Writers Plant a Git Hook to Run Shell Commands
Gitea, the self-hosted Git platform, has patched a critical remote code execution vulnerability. A user with ordinary repository write access can turn attacker-controlled patch content into a live Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account. Tracked as CVE-2026-60004 CVSS score:...
Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates
Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan RAT framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researcher NetAskari traced matching control panels and certificates to 170 internet servers. They linked the framework to a fake "公安一网通办" Public...
Two Compromised joyfill npm Packages Run RAT When Imported Into Node.js
Beta release versions of two npm packages in the @joyfill namespace have been compromised to deliver a remote access trojan RAT associated with the DEVPOPPER malware family. The list of affected packages is as follows - @joyfill/[email protected] @joyfill/[email protected]...
Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128. The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic's released...
Tengu Botnet Reboots Compromised Linux Devices When Defenders Kill Its Process
A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its...
24,650 Internet-Exposed BMCs Disclose IPMI Password Hashes Before Login
Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller BMC management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface IPMI protocol to the public internet. Of the 36,872 internet-exposed server-management interfaces running IPM...
JFrog Confirms OpenAI Models Exploited Artifactory Zero-Day Before Hugging Face Breach
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is JFrog's software repository manager. OpenAI says the models then escalated privileges and moved laterally until they...
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...
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...
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...
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...