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Organizations are rushing to implement AI without fully grasping where its legal protections begin and end. The post The AI Governance Gap Is a Leadership Problem: Waiting Won’t Close It appeared first on SecurityWeek .
SAP released 28 new and two updated security notes, including four notes dealing with critical-severity bugs. The post SAP Patches Critical Code Injection, Memory Corruption Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The Water Watch Center launched at DEF CON aims to help under-resourced utilities protect their systems against hackers. The post US Water Systems Get Cyber Boost From New Senate Bill and ‘Water Watch Center’ appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Mozilla announced today that it updated the GPG key used to sign Firefox and Thunderbird releases after it was accidentally exposed on GitHub. [...]
AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. [...]
OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. "Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to reduce refusals for certain higher-risk
Cloudflare says it mitigated more than 800 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks exceeding 1 Tbps in the second quarter of the year. [...]
Overview On July 14, 2026, Rapid7 and Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-55040, an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Microsoft SharePoint. Today we are publishing a technical analysis of the vulnerability along with an accompanying proof-of-concept (PoC) script . Figure 1: The Rapid7 Labs PoC for CVE-2026-55040. ⠀ A remote unauthenticated attacker can leverage CVE-2026-55040 to bypass authentication on a vulnerable SharePoint server, and perform operations as a SharePoint site user or administrator. The vulnerability is due to several issues in the JWT token validation pipeline. Analysis The following technical analysis is based upon SharePoint Server Subscription Edition version 16.0.19725.20210 . A critical authentication bypass vulnerability exists in SharePoint Server Subscription Edition's JWT token validation pipeline. The root cause is a chain of four distinct weaknesses that, when combined, allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to forge a valid JWT and impersonate any SharePoint site user. The below analysis is based upon decompilation and code review of the Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel module from a fully patched SharePoint Server Subscription Edition instance. The vulnerability resides in the SPJsonWebSecurityTokenHandlerV2 class and its base class SPJsonWebSecurityBaseTokenHandlerV2 , which together implement the token parsing and validation logic for Bearer service-to-service (S2S) tokens. SharePoint's S2S authentication uses a nested JWT structure: an outer token containing user identity claims, and an inner "actor token" embedded in the actortoken claim. The actor token represents the calling application and is expected to be cryptographically signed by a trusted certificate. The validation flow begins in SPApplicationAuthenticationModuleV2.TryExtractAndValidateToken() , which extracts the Bearer token from the Authorization header, parses it via SPJsonWebSecurityBaseTokenHandlerV2.ReadToken() , and then validates it via SPJsonWebSecurityTokenHandlerV2.ValidateToken() . The debugger call stack below shows the call stack at the time of calling ValidateToken . Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.dll!Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPJsonWebSecurityTokenHandlerV2.ValidateToken(System.IdentityModel.Tokens.SecurityToken token) (IL=0x01BC, Native=0x00007FFC730AA430+0x4A2) Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.dll!Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPApplicationAuthenticationModuleV2.TryExtractAndValidateToken(System.Web.HttpContext httpContext, out Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPIncomingTokenContextV2 tokenContext, out Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPIdentityProofToken identityProofToken) (IL=???, Native=0x00007FFC730A2A70+0x9FB) Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.dll!Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPApplicationAuthenticationModuleV2.ConstructIClaimsPrincipalAndSetThreadIdentity(System.Web.HttpApplication httpApplication, System.Web.HttpContext httpContext, Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPFederationAuthenticationModuleV2 fam, out string tokenType) (IL≈0x0041, Native=0x00007FFC730A1860+0xB2) Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.dll!Microsoft.SharePoint.IdentityModel.SPApplicationAuthenticationModuleV2.AuthenticateRequest(object sender, System.EventArgs e) (IL≈0x0139, Native=0x00007FFC7196F9D0+0x3E4) System.Web.dll!System.Web.HttpApplication.SyncEventExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute() (IL=0x005D, Native=0x00007FFC71846AE0+0xD1) System.Web.dll!System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStepImpl(System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep step) (IL=epilog, Native=0x00007FFC71846A00+0xB6) System.Web.dll!System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep step, ref bool completedSynchronously) (IL≈0x0015, Native=0x00007FFC71846640+0x5E) System.Web.dll!System.Web.HttpApplication.PipelineStepManager.ResumeSteps(System.Exception error) (IL≈0x027A, Native=0x00007FFC71842E00+0x77A) System.Web.dll!System.Web.HttpApplication.BeginProcessRequestNotifica
Overview Rapid7 Labs conducted a zero-day research project against Microsoft SharePoint, resulting in the discovery of two new vulnerabilities that, when chained together, achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) against a vulnerable SharePoint server. Today, both Rapid7 and Microsoft are disclosing the second vulnerability in this chain, the RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-63520. The first vulnerability in the chain, CVE-2026-55040, was disclosed by Rapid7 and Microsoft last month. Our full disclosure timeline for the exploit chain can be seen below in Figure 1. Figure 1: The road to disclosure. ⠀ CVE-2026-63520 affects all supported versions of Microsoft SharePoint, and certain versions of Microsoft Project Server and Microsoft Office Web Apps Server. For the purpose of our research, we focused solely on SharePoint. An attacker can leverage CVE-2026-63520 to execute arbitrary code on a vulnerable SharePoint server with the privileges of the SharePoint Site’s service account. The vulnerability is due to an unsafe .NET type instantiation issue within the Business Connectivity Services . CVE-2026-63520 has a CVSSv3.1 score of 8.1 (High) , and a Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) of CWE-20: Improper Input Validation . While the severity of the RCE is described as high, chained together with CVE-2026-55040 it becomes part of a critical unauthenticated RCE exploit chain against SharePoint. The exploit chain was developed as an entry for this year's Pwn2Own Berlin hacking competition; while our entry was unsuccessful on the day of the competition, this research highlights Rapid7 Labs' continued effort to raise the bar in Vulnerability Intelligence and our commitment to the preemptive protection of our customers through original vulnerability research. Our research methodology focused on understanding how publicly available AI models can assist in the discovery of significant vulnerabilities against proprietary enterprise targets. Our results established that the rate of model advancement is significantly accelerating vulnerability research, model guidance from subject matter experts is a force multiplier, and complex proprietary targets are easily handled through agentic workflows. Rapid7 is hosting a webinar on Thursday August 13, 2026 to discuss the research and findings for CVE-2026-55040 and CVE-2026-63520. Please join Douglas McKee and Stephen Fewer to learn more about this body of work. Workflow For this research project we wanted to understand the capabilities and limits of publicly available LLMs circa January through to March of this year. We wanted to answer the question if an AI workflow could find and develop an unauthenticated RCE exploit against a hard target such as SharePoint. This research project concluded with the successful discovery and development of such a chain. To that end, the publicly available models at the beginning of this year were indeed capable. This is notable as the rate of model improvement from Q1 of 2026 through to today has been significant. Our team's later testing of the most recent frontier models confirms the significant increase in capabilities from that of the beginning of this year. Our primary conclusion from the SharePoint research project in Q1 is that an agent guided by a subject matter expert (SME) was crucial to keep moving the model and its work towards the end goal. Given our current experience of frontier model capabilities, the need for an SME to verify and guide a model is lessened, but the compounding impact an SME can bring remains. Our first sprint in January did not result in any significant findings, rather, this sprint helped us establish the workflow and tooling that proved most useful, scope out the extremely large attack surface, and integrate prior work into our process. We augmented the agentic work with manual source code review and reverse engineering to provide additional context and steering to the model. Our early results quickly indicated how a fully aut
CISA confirmed today that ransomware gangs have begun abusing a high-severity Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution vulnerability, which has been flagged as actively exploited since early July. [...]
A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the security firm Fuzzware tested 26 phones and cellular modules for the capability, found it
Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded Firefox tarball came from Mozilla and was not tampered with. That decision carries a cost for
Corma emerged from stealth with seed funding from Sequoia Capital, Khosla Ventures, and Coatue. The post Corma Raises $60 Million for Defensive Cybersecurity AI Model appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pasadena, Texas, then sent a California driver's license and a New York bank account. The
The extension amassed over 300,000 installs and a 4.6 rating before Google removed it for stealing data. The post Extension Banned for Stealing AI Chats Returns to Chrome Store, Resumes Malicious Activities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cisco warned of two high-severity vulnerabilities affecting the Secure Endpoint Connector that allow threat actors to crash the ClamAV scanning process in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. [...]
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or low-level USB redirection is enabled; Microsoft says that
A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request into fragments that each look routine, place them in channels the assistant already uses, and let
Marcus Hutchins doesn’t personally consider himself a hacker – but he accepts the epithet because it’s a widely used term for what he once did. The post Hacker Conversations: Marcus Hutchins and the Journey From the Gray Zone to Redemption appeared first on SecurityWeek .
U.S. federal agencies and South Korea's National Policy Agency warned government and critical infrastructure organizations worldwide to secure their systems against Gunra ransomware attacks. [...]
OpenAI has also announced the expansion of its Daybreak platform to give more organizations access to its AI. The post OpenAI Unveils New Cybersecurity Model GPT-5.6-Cyber appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world. Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and facilities, and professional and nonprofit services. "Gunra is another variant in the ongoing trend of
Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about 7:30 a.m. while the intruders were still active inside the network, and customers lost neither heat
The previous GPG signing subkey was inadvertently added to a GitHub repository and Mozilla decided to revoke it. The post Mozilla Issues New Firefox GPG Key Following Exposure appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository," Wordfence researcher Paolo Tresso said.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Postfix. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un déni de service à distance, un contournement de la politique de sécurité et un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans CPython. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un déni de service à distance.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans SPIP. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une injection SQL (SQLi) et une falsification de requêtes côté serveur (SSRF).
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Docker. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à l'intégrité des données.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans OpenSSH. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans les produits SAP. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une élévation de privilèges et une atteinte à la confidentialité des données.
Hackers breached a heat-and-power plant facility in Poland, which supplies heat to about 50,000 residents, using a private APN (Access Point Name) to access an OT (Operational Technology) network. [...]
New research shows how attackers can use security alerts and blocked events to manipulate and hijack AI agents.
Attacks targeting water systems just keep flowing across a dozen states, against ill-secured, Internet-exposed PLCs.
A threat actor compromised the upstream infrastructure of BdThemes, a developer of premium WordPress web-design tools, and modified a remote JSON feed delivered to administrators' browsers to create rogue admin accounts. [...]
The maximum-severity vulnerability, which still has no CVE, allows malicious, remote administrator access to the business-analytics platform and its downstream users.
OpenAI has developed a new model called "GPT 5.6 Cyber," designed for vulnerability research, penetration testing, incident response, and remediation. [...]
It's time to turn from CVSS-backed patching to choke-point patching focused on breaking chains to critical assets.
A financially motivated threat actor previously associated with the Medusa ransomware operation is now deploying a new ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. [...]
AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It is keeping security from becoming the bottleneck, or worse, losing control of what gets shipped.
Sophisticated iPhone exploit chains previously limited to nation-states are spreading far and wide to organized cybercrime groups.
Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary's previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team said. "StormEncryptor is written in C++ and appends the file name extension .encrypted
A public policy expert mapped global cybercrime laws to develop a five-point framework for protecting ethical hackers and good-faith security research.
Multiple vulnerabilities in ClamAV could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition, interrupting scanning operations. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory. For additional information on these vulnerabilities in ClamAV, see the ClamAV blog . Cisco plans to release software updates that address these vulnerabilities in affected Cisco platforms. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilities. Notes: The Security Impact Rating (SIR) for these vulnerabilities is High for Windows-based platforms only because those platforms run the ClamAV scanning process in a privileged security context. The platforms that are highly impacted include Cisco Secure Endpoint Connector for Windows. The SIR for these vulnerabilities is Medium on other platforms, including Linux and Mac platforms, because those platforms run the ClamAV scanning process in a lower-privileged security context. The affected platforms include Secure Endpoint Connector for Linux and Mac. Cisco Secure Endpoint Private Cloud itself is not impacted by these vulnerabilities. However, the Cisco Secure Endpoint Connector software that is distributed from the device is impacted. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-clamav-WuuvVd26 <br/>Security Impact Rating: High <br/>CVE: CVE-2026-20337,CVE-2026-20338,CVE-2026-20339,CVE-2026-20345,CVE-2026-20346,CVE-2026-20347,CVE-2026-20348
The crime solver wore disguises, spied on targets, and built intelligence networks long before modern-day tactics emerged. He has lessons for today's ethical- and nonethical-hat hackers.
A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and some exploit paths are so short you wonder what was supposed to stop them in the first place. That’s only part of it. Here’s
CISA has confirmed that ransomware gangs have begun exploiting two recently patched SonicWall SMA1000 vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw. [...]
The current GPT-5.6-Sol has been assigned a ‘high’ cybersecurity threshold, but Astra could reach the maximum ‘critical’ threshold. The post OpenAI’s Upcoming Astra Model Raises Autonomous Cyberattack Concerns appeared first on SecurityWeek .
The startup analyzes subtle telemetry signals to detect attacks that traditional security tools cannot see inside accelerator-powered AI infrastructure. The post Stealthium Targets Security Blind Spots in AI Accelerators and Neo-Clouds appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Remote, unauthenticated attackers could exploit the bugs to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The post Cisco Warns of High-Severity ClamAV Vulnerabilities With Public PoC appeared first on SecurityWeek .
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to their Zero Trust strategies. [...]
North Korea's state hackers are no longer content to type prompts into public chatbots. One of the country's main espionage groups has begun running artificial intelligence (AI) offline on its own servers, connecting document-search tools to files in its possession, and collecting the software parts needed to build AI into its malware. South Korean security firm Genians says it uncovered the
An AI agent executes instructions that an attacker has planted in the log or alert that records a blocked request word for word. The post ‘Ghostjacking’ Attack Uses Poisoned Logs to Turn AI Agents Bad appeared first on SecurityWeek .
A member of "The Com," a loose-knit online cybercrime collective that targets children and teenagers, has been sentenced to two years in prison for blackmail and sextortion offenses against nearly 120 victims worldwide. [...]
Three separate research efforts last week demonstrated ways to defeat passkey protections without breaking the cryptography they rest on. Passkeys are designed to replace reusable passwords and resist phishing. The attacks instead reused signed authentication material that Windows had exposed, abused a cloud-synced passkey system from malware already on the victim's machine, and used a
LexisNexis took its Diligence, Metabase API, and Newsdesk services offline as part of its response to unusual activity on servers hosted and managed by an unnamed third-party vendor. [...]
Video game publisher and digital distribution giant Valve is notifying Steam hardware customers in Europe that hackers stole their data after hacking its shipping partner, CEVA Logistics. [...]
The threat actor known as Head Mare has been observed weaponizing security flaws in unpatched TrueConf servers once again in attacks targeting Russian companies spanning instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software development sectors. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it detected the attacks in July 2026. The activity involves exploiting a vulnerability chain
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a malicious Microsoft Visual Studio Code (VS Code) extension named Solidity Pro ("solidity-pro") that has been observed delivering a browser wallet and credential stealer. The names of the extensions are below - helper-beeps.solidity-pro web3devtoolsx.solidity-pro Although neither of the extensions is now available on Open VSX, the GitHub repository
OpenAI has announced that it's pausing some "internal activities" involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity. In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it's implementing security controls for higher-capability models and associated activities, such as isolated
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans SonicWall Global VPN Client. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un déni de service.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Roundcube. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une atteinte à la confidentialité des données et une falsification de requêtes côté serveur (SSRF).
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Synology Assistant. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à la confidentialité des données, une atteinte à l'intégrité des données et un déni de service.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans HPE Aruba Networking Private 5G Core. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges et un contournement de la politique de sécurité.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans VMware Tanzu Greenplum. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans ClamAV. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une atteinte à la confidentialité des données, un déni de service et un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was
New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth
Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain
N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. "We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques," the company said. "This is not a duplicate of our
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information in clear text on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control enforcement for specific template types that are not included in the encryption allowlist. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by viewing logs on the local system or on a remote logging server. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to view sensitive authentication credentials, which could lead to further compromise of network infrastructure and connected services. Cisco has released software updates that address this vulnerability. There are no workarounds that address this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: https://sec.cloudapps.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-sdwan-infodis-SPuJBDCe <br/>Security Impact Rating: Medium <br/>CVE: CVE-2026-20294
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul
ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.
Overview On July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077 , a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity . An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execute operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process. JetBrains reported no known active exploitation when it disclosed the vulnerability. However, on August 5, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-63077 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, confirming exploitation in the wild. Our analysis finds that a vulnerable TeamCity server creates a permissive XStream allowlist. This allowlist is intended to restrict which Java classes can be deserialized when servicing unauthenticated agent requests. However, this allowlist incorrectly adds TeamCity protocol classes without removing XStream's existing default permissions. This introduces an unsafe deserialization issue. A patched TeamCity server remediates this by adding NoTypePermission.NONE before the TeamCity allowlist, which removes the default permissions and makes the allowlist exclusive. Rapid7 Labs has verified that the patch successfully remediates the exploit described in this analysis. A proof-of-concept script for CVE-2026-63077 can be found here . Analysis Our analysis compares a vulnerable TeamCity version 2026.1.2 against a patched version 2026.1.3 . TeamCity uses a central server to coordinate builds and separate build agents to run them. An agent can communicate with the server through the agent polling protocol: it registers, asks the server for its next command, and reports whether that command succeeded or failed. The endpoints under /app/agents/v1 support this agent communication channel rather than the TeamCity web interface or REST API. A TeamCity-AgentSessionId HTTP header value identifies a polling connection, but it does not mean that either a user or agent has authenticated to TeamCity, as access to many agent endpoints remains unauthenticated. XStream is a Java library that converts object graphs to XML and reconstructs those graphs from XML. An object graph can contain nested objects, collection entries, private fields, and references to an object that appeared earlier in the document. XStream aliases give Java types shorter XML names. For example, <linked-hash-map> is XStream's alias for java.util.LinkedHashMap . Nested element names and class attributes select other concrete Java types, while reference attributes point back to objects that XStream has already constructed. Converters and reflection-based code then allocate the selected types and populate their fields. Patch diff The class jetbrains.buildServer.messages.XStreamHolder is TeamCity's wrapper for creating and configuring XStream instances. TeamCity 2026.1.2 creates an instance of XStreamHolder , configures it, and then calls setupSecurityIfNeeded() . If the TeamCity allowlists contain entries, this method adds those entries to the permissions that XStream already installed: // ./webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/messages.jar package jetbrains.buildServer.messages; public class XStreamHolder { // ... private void setupSecurityIfNeeded(XStreamWrapper xStream) { if (this.myAdditionalClassesWhiteList.isEmpty() && OUR_STATIC_CLASSES_WHITE_LIST.isEmpty()) { XStreamHolder.setupDefaultSecurityOldWay(xStream); return; } xStream.allowTypes(OUR_STATIC_CLASSES_WHITE_LIST.keySet() .toArray(new String[0])); // <--- [1] xStream.allowTypes(this.myAdditionalClassesWhiteList .toArray(new String[0])); // <--- [2] } The calls at [1] and [2] do not start from an empty permission set. The bundled XStream 1.4.20.3 constructor has already called setupSecurity() , which permits several broad type hierarchies, including Map and Throwable : // ./webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/lib/xstream.jar package com.thoughtworks.xstream; public class XStream { // ... protected void setupSecurity() { if (this.security
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the high-severity
Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,
A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where
Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies
A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor's agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default, and presented the work at Black Hat USA on August 5.
A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. "The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure,
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Progress Telerik. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, un déni de service à distance et une atteinte à la confidentialité des données.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Google Chrome. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
Une vulnérabilité a été découverte dans Apple macOS. Elle permet à un attaquant de provoquer un contournement de la politique de sécurité.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux de Debian. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges, une atteinte à l'intégrité des données et un déni de service.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux de Debian LTS. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges, une atteinte à la confidentialité des données et un déni de service.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux de Red Hat. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire, une élévation de privilèges et un déni de service à distance.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux de SUSE. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer un contournement de la politique de sécurité et un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans le noyau Linux d'Ubuntu. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une élévation de privilèges, une atteinte à la confidentialité des données et un problème de sécurité non spécifié par l'éditeur.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans les produits IBM. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une élévation de privilèges et un déni de service à distance.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans WordPress. Certaines d'entre elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une élévation de privilèges et une atteinte à la confidentialité des données.
The fight against cybercrime continues because threat actors have adapted their strategies to avoid deterrents, but law enforcement still operates in silos.
In the span of three weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all disclosed AI agent sandbox escape events affecting real organizations.
A researcher demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack chain that provided C2-style influence over ChatGPT's isolated sandbox during a session at Black Hat USA 2026.
Two former chief security officers of the Democratic National Committee explain that a strong security-first mindset requires executive support — and a dose of absurdity.