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Ruflo MCP Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Commands and Poison AI Memory
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a maximum-severity security flaw in Ruflo, an open-source agent meta-harness for Anthropic Claude Code and OpenAI…
Three Critical VMware Flaws Allow Auth Bypass, Code Execution, and VM Escape
Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple security flaws impacting VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, three of which have been…
Nine-Year Fraud Campaign Clones Russian Company Sites to Steal Advance Payments
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale fraud campaign that involves creating lookalike websites of major Russian companies with…
Coordinated Cyberattack Targets 30+ Minnesota Water Systems as One Plant Goes Offline
A coordinated cyberattack targeted operational technology at more than 30 Minnesota community water systems on July 26 and 27, triggering a statewide…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…