Rust Supply Chain Attack Puts Build-Time Malware in Crates with 245 Million Downloads

The Rust Project has deleted malicious versions of three widely used Rust crates from crates.io after a compromised maintainer account published releases that added a typosquatted dependency whose build script downloaded and executed a remote payload during compilation. The affected releases are...

Suspected Russian Hackers Abuse Google OAuth and WhatsApp Linking to Hijack Accounts

Three distinct suspected Russian cyber espionage threat clusters have been observed leveraging legitimate authentication flows to single out individuals working in academia, aerospace and defense, governments, and think tanks across Europe, as well as academia and think tanks within the U.S. Thes...

ThreatsDay: Gogs 10.0 RCE, n8n Workflow-to-RCE, $10M Reward, GLM-5.3 AI Exploit, and More

A lot of this week’s trouble starts with something trusted doing exactly what it was allowed to do. Signed drivers get turned against defenses. Legitimate apps help malware blend in. A weak header check opens a path to code execution. Elsewhere, exposed systems, old bugs, odd hiding tricks, and...

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence AI-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers PLCs to conduct reconnaissance and...

New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI...

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm , a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability "GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4", which has ye...

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed...

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration ZCS has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team CERT Polska. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 CVSS score: 8.9, which refers to a case of command injection that ca...

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale POS terminal reads over near-field communication NFC, without breaking any of the card...

Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem

In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it. The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI...

CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service DoS attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks CDNs convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin serve...

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. "Manic...

NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands

Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrument command bus. The chain,...

ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda aka TgToxic that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 167 remote commands and expands its targeting footprint globally. Zimperium zLabs, in a Wednesday report, said the Android malware also features...

40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets

A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source co...

Elementor Pro Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Upload PHP and Execute Code

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a critical flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin that, if successfully exploited, could lead to remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32475 , carries a CVSS score of 9.0 out of 10.0. It has been described as a case o...

Cloudflare Workers Spectre Attack Leaks JWT From Co-Located Worker at 12 Bits/Second

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a remote Spectre attack against Cloudflare Workers that leaked a JSON Web Token JWT from a co-located Worker in the production environment at up to 12 bits per second, 360 times the rate of an earlier attack demonstrated in 2021. The end-to-end...

OpenAI Pauses Frontier RL Training as It Tightens Defenses Against Unsafe AI Behavior

OpenAI on Tuesday revealed that it paused reinforcement learning RL training for its latest artificial intelligence AI models for two weeks while it shored up additional defenses and increased the scope of its monitoring to avert another Hugging Face-like incident. "As models become more capable,...

SilkParasite Espionage Campaign Targets Central Asian Governments with Five New RATs

A previously unreported cyber espionage operation dubbed SilkParasite has been observed targeting government bodies in Central Asia. The intrusion set makes use of seven remote access tool RAT families, five of which have never been previously documented: DriveSilkRAT, CookiETagRAT, NomadRAT,...

Hackers Compromised 14,500+ Dahua Devices Using Credential Attacks, Auth Bypasses, and P2P

Cybersecurity researchers at Hunt.io have disclosed details of a campaign that they say compromised more than 14,530 Dahua devices between June 17 and July 22, 2026, using credential attacks, two authentication-bypass flaws, and a peer-to-peer P2P relay technique. The activity, codenamed Operatio...

Phishing 3.0: The Fight Moves to Agent Versus Agent

Most email defenses still do the job they did a decade ago. Scan the message, look for something malicious, block it. That worked when the danger sat in the payload, a bad link or an attachment. It stopped working when the danger moved into the message's intent, and it is failing now that the...

StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a global cybercrime operation that abuses thousands of hacked WordPress websites as infrastructure to disseminate malware, commandeer infected hosts, store stolen documents, screenshots, and activity logs created to track the status of the activity. "The...

Critical macOS, SharePoint, vCenter, and Microsoft IKE Flaws Under Active Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Tuesday added four critical vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, stating they are being exploited in the wild. The shortcomings added to the KEV catalog are listed below - CVE-2026-65400 CVSS score: 9...

Microsoft Links 30+ Rotating Domains to MacSync Stealer Infrastructure

Microsoft Defender Experts have linked more than 30 web domains to MacSync Stealer, a macOS-focused information stealer, after correlating recurring endpoint and network behaviors across changing infrastructure, tracing the malware from payload retrieval through data collection, staging, and...

Clop-Linked Windchill Web Shell Decrypts Credentials and Maps Engineering Data

A JavaServer Pages JSP web shell deployed following the exploitation of a critical security flaw in PTC Windchill and FlexPLM servers is specifically designed for the enterprise Product Lifecycle Management PLM software, according to new findings from ReliaQuest. The cybersecurity company...

Microsoft Copilot Personal Flaws Could Let One Click Exfiltrate Data From Connected Apps

Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively...

Attackers Exploit MLflow SSRF Flaw to Steal Cloud Credentials and Secrets

Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence AI platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology OT and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to...

Ransom Busters Claims It Hacked Ransomware Servers, Asks Victims for Up to $60,000

A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000. "In these messages, the third-party offers to help the...

TWINLOOT Abuses SharePoint and Teams to Steal Credentials and Move Across Networks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented Python implant framework dubbed TWINLOOT. "TWINLOOT is a modular, PyArmor-hardened Python implant designed to operate its entire command-and-control infrastructure inside trusted Microsoft services," Ontinue said in a...

AI "Mind Viruses" Can Spread Between Agents Through Persistent Prompt Files

Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence AI agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, releas...

One Attacker Has Scraped Both Salesforce and ServiceNow Portals Since 2025

A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after ...

16 Typosquatted RubyGems Packages Steal Browser Credentials and Crypto Wallets

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new typosquatting campaign targeting RubyGems users with a Windows-based information stealer. OpenSourceMalware, which discovered the activity on August 15, 2026, is tracking the threat under the moniker StubMaker. The complete list of packages published a...

SafePal Hardware Wallet Maker Says Flaw Exposed Data of Nearly 40,000 Customers

SafePal has disclosed that an authorization flaw in an order-tracking plug-in exposed the names, email addresses, shipping addresses, phone numbers, and purchase details of approximately 39,798 customers. The hardware wallet maker said all affected customers were notified individually by email on...

CISA Flags Actively Exploited Ray Flaw That Can Trigger Browser-Based RCE

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificia...

Critical GitLab GraphQL Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Delete Public Projects

GitLab has released security updates to address a critical vulnerability impacting its Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE software that, under certain conditions, could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely modify or delete public projects and user data. The flaw, tracked as...

Snowflake GitHub Actions Flaw Lets Crafted Issues Trigger Command Injection

Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira...

Forminator WordPress Flaw Can Enable Unauthenticated RCE via Malicious PHP Uploads

A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748 , is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS...

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern aka Cav3rn command-and-control C2 framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster...

⚡ Weekly Recap: VMware Exploits, Windows 0-Day, MCP Attacks, Browser Hijacks and More

The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was...

How MCP Servers Can Expose Enterprise Secrets

MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in M...

Unisoc VoLTE Video Call Exploit Chain Can Give Attackers Full Android Kernel Access

Security researchers at SSD Secure Disclosure have published a two-stage exploit chain that achieves full Android kernel access on devices running Unisoc modem firmware through a VoLTE video call, with no fix from the chipset maker. The advisory, published August 17, 2026, is the second stage of ...

Evooo1Bot Linux Botnet Exploits Known Flaws to Turn Edge Devices Into SOCKS5 Proxies

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies. "While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the public...

Suspected China-Nexus Actor Exploits VMware vCenter Flaw, Deploys Babuk-Derived Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers have attributed the exploitation of a newly patched security flaw in Broadcom VMware vCenter to a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat APT. The attacks involve the exploitation of CVE-2026-59310 CVSS score: 9.8, a severe directory-traversal vulnerability in t...

SAP Commerce Cloud CVE-2026-58231 Targeted in Exploitation Attempts Days After Patch

A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting SAP Commerce Cloud is witnessing active exploitation efforts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231 , is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It relates to an instance of insufficient authorization checks and input validation. "SAP...

Apple macOS Screen Sharing Flaw Exploited on Internet-Exposed Macs to Install Monero Miner

A recently patched security flaw in Apple macOS has come under active exploitation in the wild to deploy a cryptocurrency miner, the Netherlands National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-NL has warned. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-65400 CVSS score: 9.8, a critical authentication issue...

Hackers Spend Nearly $7 Million on Expired Domains to Redirect Traffic to Scams and Malware

Threat actors are acquiring expired domains to inherit their website traffic and reputation with an aim to redirect victims to scams and malware on a large scale. DNS threat intelligence firm Infoblox has given the name dropcatch domains to those that get a second chance, where an expired domain...

IAM Compliance Requirements and Best Practices

IAM compliance is the practice of demonstrating that identity and access controls are not only documented but actually enforced across users, applications, infrastructure, and non-human identities. This guide explains what IAM compliance requires, which regulations matter, and how organizations...

Mustang Panda Adds Signed Windows Rootkit to CoolClient Backdoor for Stealth

The threat actor known as HoneyMyteaka Mustang Panda has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kernel-mode rootkit that can hide and protect malicious processes, files, registry objects, and command-and-control C2 network information. Russian...

Chrome DevTools Technique Enables Authenticated Session Hijacking in Live Windows Browsers

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a post-exploitation technique that enables the Chrome DevTools Protocol CDP inside a running Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge process on Windows, allowing an operator to access cookies, saved data, and authenticated browser sessions. The technique assumes th...

CTM360 Uncovers Over 3,000 Recruitment Phishing URLs Using Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) Credential Traps

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a large-scale, global recruitment-themed phishing campaign that uses fake interview scheduling pages and Browser-in-the-Browser BitB windows to steal Google and Facebook credentials and, in more advanced cases, relay multi-factor authentication MFA prompts...