Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing two crafted Jupyter notebooks and requesting their…
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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…
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…
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…
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 been…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 packages associated with…
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…
Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs
RefluXFS, a new 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…