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Secrets Sprawl Is an Identity Problem That AI Just Made Impossible to Ignore
AI coding agents are changing how quickly developers can build and ship software as well as how quickly credentials can become exposed. According to…
Corp MDM Spyware Targets Logistics Firms, Steals New SMS and Redirects Calls
The logistics sector has become the target of a new malicious cyber campaign that distributes an Android spyware codenamed Corp MDM. According to Have I…
17,000 URLs Reveal How ClickFix Turns Trusted Websites Into Malware Traps: Report by CTM360
ClickFix has become the most common way attackers get into enterprise networks, and it does it without an exploit, an attachment, or a file on disk. Our…
TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts…
OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister…
Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is…
Attackers Use Malicious Terraform Providers to Deliver Go Malware via HashiCorp Registry
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors…
A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You
The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your…
ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure
Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. “ChainScript has…
MikroTrick Chain Let Attackers Take Over MikroTik Routers Without a Password or SSH Key
Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password,…
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…