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Attackers conceal phishing lures using invisible Unicode characters
Threat actors have adopted the ASCII smuggling technique in phishing campaigns, using invisible Unicode characters to evade email security filters…
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Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication
Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska's attack warning, published on September 5. Successful attacks date to at least September 2. The Hacker News’s September 6 review of the warning found no victim count or…
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Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner. The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and…
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Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores
Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store's server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5. Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4. "Sansec is…
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Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials
JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their Cadence executions," JetBrains said.
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Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code
Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow vulnerability that a local attacker with elevated privileges can exploit to run arbitrary code. "A…
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Over 5,400 hacked sites serve ClickFix payloads stored on the blockchain
A massive cybercriminal operation is leveraging thousands of compromised small-business websites to deliver ClickFix payloads stored in smart contracts on the BNB Smart Chain (BSC)…
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Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the company's hardware wallets…
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OpenAI admits it didn't disclose rogue AI wiki hijacking incident
OpenAI admits it did not disclose an incident where autonomous AI agents hijacked a German wiki, created 18,000 posts, shared answers, and bypassed restrictions, saying it treated the activity as model "misalignment" rather than a security breach…
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Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs…
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Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as…
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IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers
Multiple lawsuits have been filed against identity verification company IDScan after hackers allegedly breached the service and offered to sell more than 153 million driver's licenses…
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Companies Have 6 Months to Prepare for Automated Attacks
Frontier AI models have already demonstrated they can autonomously — and in some cases, inadvertently — conduct end-to-end compromises, but the situation will become more urgent very soon.
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Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The…
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Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks
Attackers have begun targeting a critical-severity Citrix NetScaler auth bypass flaw (CVE-2026-19490) in the wild, according to vulnerability intelligence company Previdian…
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PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are…
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New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and…
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Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client
Microsoft is working to resolve a known issue that causes delays or blocks some users from opening the Microsoft Teams desktop client on Windows systems…
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39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication
Passkeys eliminate many password-based attacks, but researchers have documented 39 methods for compromising authentication built around them. Token explains how attackers can abuse authentication prompts, synced credentials, enrollment, recovery, and other trust boundaries without breaking FIDO2 cryptography…
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New CrowdStrike 'FalconFlank' zero-day grants SYSTEM privileges
An anonymous security researcher who uses the "Nightmare Eclipse" handle released a CrowdStrike Falcon zero-day exploit named "FalconFlank" that lets attackers escalate privileges on up-to-date Windows systems…
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AI Is Ending the Era of Hidden Vulnerabilities — Are Vendors Ready?
A tidal wave of bug reports is overwhelming software vendors, exposing secure-by-design failures and creating disclosure bottlenecks.
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Exchange Online outage causes email delays, 'Server busy' errors
Microsoft is working to resolve an ongoing Exchange Online outage that is delaying email sent to and received from external domains…
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Insurers Search for Answers to Rein in Rogue AI
As incidents of unintended harm caused by rogue AI agents mount, CISOs and insurance firms are figuring out how to handle the fallout.
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Google warns of new Chrome zero-day flaw exploited in attacks
Google has updated the Chrome browser to address an actively exploited high-severity zero-day flaw in the V8 engine and 11 other vulnerabilities…
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Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including…
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Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws
Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0. The streaming media service did not elaborate on what those issues are, but said CVE identifiers have been requested for them. "We recommend all server owners and Desktop users…
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Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day
Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.82 allowed a remote…
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GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. "Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering…
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French hospital fined €500,000 after breach exposes data of 727,000
France's data protection authority (CNIL) has fined Hôpital privé de la Loire €500,000 ($580,000) for failing to adequately protect patients' and their relatives' data…
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Large Enterprises Targeted in Fake Merger & Acquisition Scams
Threat actors behind the "Phantom Deal" campaign are studying companies in extreme detail, aiming to dupe midlevel employees into initiating large financial transfers.
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Coder's registry infrastructure compromised to push malicious modules
Attackers compromised Coder's Cloudflare infrastructure and added unauthorized registry servers that delivered malicious Terraform modules containing credential-stealing code…
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