Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password,…
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Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors
The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based “much smaller organization” in the information…
This Windows Malware is Built to Let Up to Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move
A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker’s server, Cisco Talos said on…
Compromised MemTensor Packages Deliver sckit Credential Stealer via npm and PyPI
Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a…
New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control
A flaw in cPanel’s CalDAV and CardDAV service lets anyone with a cPanel hosting account run code as root and take “full control of the server,” the…
Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests
Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday announced new models, with both artificial intelligence (AI) companies noting that they are continuing to invest in…
Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape
A use-after-free in the Linux kernel’s AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the host, security firm DepthFirst said…
545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent
Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes…
F5 Patches Critical BIG-IP APM Zero-Day Exploited for Unauthenticated RCE on OAuth Servers
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) that lets them run code on a BIG-IP system without logging in, F5 says.…
Chinese Hackers Exploit Chrome-Windows Zero-Day Chain to Deploy CLEANGULP Malware
A Chinese threat actor codenamed UTA0565 has been observed exploiting the recently disclosed Google Chrome-Microsoft Windows exploit chain as zero-days…
Critical Next.js ImageResponse Flaw Can Lead to Server Code Execution via Crafted SVG Input
A new security vulnerability in Next.js could allow attackers to run code on a server via ImageResponse, the feature that generates Open Graph and other…
ShinyHunters Claims FBI Breach, Says It Stole Data on Agents and Job Applicants
The cyber extortion group known as ShinyHunters on Tuesday claimed it had breached the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and stolen data belonging to…
Malicious npm Package Poses as Twilio Bug-Bounty Probe, Can Exfiltrate Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named “tw-pkgprobe-7731” that masquerades as a security tool targeting…
WordPress Issues Patch for Critical Flaw That Can Enable Code Execution on Some Servers
WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders.…
Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point’s Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said.…
Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was…
Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials
A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to…
Microsoft Takes Down EvilTokens Device-Code Phishing Service Tied to 12,000 Inbox Compromises
Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) “at every step…
New CVSS 10.0 VeloCloud Orchestrator Flaw Actively Exploited in Certificate-Based Setups
Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, Arista…
AI Agents Are Rewriting the Rules of Lateral Movement
Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an…