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ShinyHunters hacked Clop leak site using Grav CMS path traversal flaw

The Clop ransomware gang has moved its data leak site to a new Tor address after confirming its previous server was compromised and defaced through an unpatched Grav CMS flaw that BleepingComputer has learned is an unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability…

AI Sandbox Escapes: Why Forensic Readiness Matters More Than Containment

When autonomous AI agents "escape the sandbox," the real story isn't rogue machines — it's the same access-control failures we've seen for decades.

Elementor WordPress flaw lets attackers create admin accounts

A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts…

What We Missed: Google Gemini Joins the AI Escape Party

In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.

CISA warns of Sharepoint, WSO2, Adobe Commerce flaws exploited in attacks

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple products from enterprise software provider WSO2…

Anthropic rolls out up to $250 in free Claude Code credits, but only for cloud sessions

Anthropic now allows you to run Claude Code via cloud sessions without signing up for the research preview, and it's offering up to $250 in free usage credits, so more users can give it a try…

OpenAI is preparing a $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan with faster Codex

OpenAI appears to be preparing a new ChatGPT Pro Max subscription that could cost $500 per month, but it's unclear when it'll begin rolling out…

With the Rise of AI Agents, SOC 2 Should Adapt or Risk Irrelevance

AI agents can operate through human credentials and take actions that existing SOC 2 controls may not distinguish from human activity. Token Security explains why SOC 2 needs to adapt to address the security gaps created by agent identities…

Stopping IT Worker Scams Requires Revamped HR Process

Training human-resource managers in the latest tactics and warning signs goes a long way toward blunting the threat, but automated analysis can help even more.

Compromised GitHub Actions Came Back Online and Resumed Executing Mini Shai-Hulud Malware

Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are listed below - actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/maintain-one-comment Visiting either of the repositories now shows the message: "Access to this…

PamStealer macOS Malware Adds Live C2 Payload Decryption and Multi-Layer Persistence

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify the lure and the delivery method. "Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material…

Microsoft plans to deprecate Windows Deployment Services

Microsoft announced it will deprecate the Windows Deployment Services (WDS) server role starting with the next Windows Server release…

Rydox marketplace admin pleads guilty, faces 22 years in prison

A Kosovar national has pleaded guilty to operating Rydox, a large illegal online marketplace that sold stolen personal information, login credentials, credit card details, and cybercrime tools…

The SOC Doesn't Need to Start Over with Every Alert

Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at privilege escalation goes nowhere. That dead end used to cost hours of documentation reading…

Bitget Says Suspected North Korean Hackers Stole $351.6M After Backend Compromise

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets," BitGet said in a post shared on X. "Bitget's cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain…

Microsoft: Recent Windows updates cause desktop loading issues

Microsoft has confirmed that some users may experience desktop loading issues, including black screens, after installing the August 2026 preview updates and subsequent updates…

Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1. The issue stems from a preg_replace() backslash…

Hackers steal $351.6 million in Bitget crypto exchange hack

​Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget disclosed today that suspected North Korean hackers have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets…

Russia's Hybrid Cyber-Physical War in Europe Heats Up

A storm is raging in the form of cyber sabotage, disinformation, and drone attacks on European nations, particularly those that provide material support to Ukraine.

Cloudflare Fixes Flaw That Let One Container Read Another Customer's Leftover Disk Data

A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers' containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from any live workload, and an attacker could not choose whose data they got, according to Cloudflare. The company…

WSO2 and Adobe Commerce Flaws Exploited in Attacks, Added to CISA KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-5430 (CVS score: 9.8) - A path traversal vulnerability in WSO2 API Control Plane…

'Salesbleed' Exploits Salesforce Agents to Enable Slack Phishing

Agentic AI can smuggle arbitrary instructions from the Web, across multiple apps, into trusted internal communications channels.

MacSync malware uses public iCloud calendars to deliver new payloads

A new variant of the MacSync malware targeting macOS systems now uses public iCloud calendar events to deliver new native payloads…

SectopRAT Returns, Hiding Inside a Legitimate Application

The latest activity from the remote access Trojan (RAT) shows why organizations should monitor the behavior of applications rather than blindly trusting them, experts say.

New Carbonato malware uses AI agents to hijack exposed Docker hosts

A new botnet malware called Carbonato is targeting insecure hosts running Docker daemons to install the Hermes Agent AI framework and take control…

Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions

A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not…

ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories

This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI tools leak more than expected. Fake prompts look real enough. And some attacks barely need an exploit at all — just…

Exposed GitLab project email addresses let attackers push code

Private GitLab email addresses that allow developers to push issues or tasks to a project are being deliberately exposed in READMEs, contributing guides, and support pages used to collect bug reports…

Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content

The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays," Manifold Security's Head of Research, Ax Sharma, said. "Unlike 'example[.]com,' third-party[.]com…

3 Cyber Threats That Defined the Summer of 2026

Hacked Ukrainian Sites Serve Fake Cloudflare ClickFix Lures for Psychedelic Stealer

An active ClickFix campaign has been observed compromising legitimate Ukrainian business websites to inject bogus Cloudflare verification pages and trick victims into downloading a previously undocumented information stealer called Psychedelic. "When a visitor interacts with the page, the lure copies a Windows Installer command to the clipboard and instructs the visitor to paste it into the…

How to Build a SASE Framework for Modern Cybersecurity

Securing edge computing requires organizations to fundamentally rethink security governance. This step-by-step guide to building a SASE framework provides the path forward.

FedRAMP VDR & VER: Daily Scans Are Only the Beginning

FedRAMP's new VDR and VER requirements make vulnerability management more continuous, with faster scanning, tighter remediation deadlines, and stronger evidence requirements. Anecdotes explains why the December 7 deadline is just the beginning of a broader shift toward continuous, automated compliance validation…

Ghost Service Accounts Enable M365 Data Theft in Chile

Even if the organization locks down employee accounts, forgotten and lost service accounts can still undo the organization's entire M365 environment.

Hackers now exploit critical Roundcube flaw in code injection attacks

A high-severity Roundcube Webmail vulnerability patched in May is now being actively exploited in attacks, according to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security…

Prompt-Injection Bug Hits $4B Agentic AI App 'Manus'

AI apps that interpret external data (read: most AI apps) need exceptionally rigorous security filters, or attackers can take advantage.

Windows 11 KB5124010 update released with 46 changes and fixes

Microsoft released the KB5124010 September 2026 non-security preview update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, with 46 changes including Bluetooth improvements and the ability to remap the Copilot key…

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 Been Squatted, the campaign uses fake Google Play pages branded as CEVA and TKW Logistics to distribute an Android Package Kit (APK) file that's dressed up as a system service. The delivered app has the package name "com.corp.mdm" Corp MDM…

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 GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl Report, commits identified as AI-assisted are leaking secrets at approximately twice the rate of human-written ones. Most of the fastest-growing categories of leaked credentials are now connected to AI…

CISA: Ransomware gangs now exploiting critical TeamCity flaw

​The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies on Wednesday that ransomware gangs are now also exploiting a critical JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability patched in July…

OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers

OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while performing information-retrieval tasks as part of a research project…

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 new global threat report traces the technique from a novelty in late 2023 to a subscription product with on-chain infrastructure and a state-sponsored user base, and explains why blocking malicious domains is no longer a useful defense. Read…

Microsoft fixes bug that broke Windows File History backup feature

Microsoft has fixed a known issue that breaks the built-in File History backup feature on some Windows systems after installing the September 2026 security updates…

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 Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that handle Medicare claims and personal records. The agent reached files on it that were not public, but no personal…

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 across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial institutions. It originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 source IP addresses. "The campaign compromised 7 accounts –…

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 CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). "An unauthenticated attacker can make get_page_template() page-template resolution include a chosen readable local .php file…

Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks

The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a placeholder in developer documentation and code examples, is serving a fake Cloudflare verification page that attempts to trick Windows users into executing PowerShell commands…

SASE Converges Network & Security Into One Cloud Solution

Enterprise computing is moving to the edge. Keeping it secure requires tactics far beyond putting up firewalls.

New RemControl Android banking malware targets users in Europe and Canada

A new Android malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called RemControl is targeting users through malvertising campaigns that impersonate the TVTap IPTV application…

EDR Evasion Stack Helps Process Injection Slip Past Defenses

A process parameter-poisoning technique evades EDR by injecting code into process initialization structures without using the Windows APIs that EDR tools typically watch out for.

GitLab Email Addresses Can Be Weaponized for Supply Chain Attacks

Incoming email addresses automatically assigned to each user on the platform contain highly privileged access tokens that attackers can use.