AI, Scripts, Operator: Inside the ConnectWise Attack
Microsoft says an AI agent drove the ConnectWise attack. Huntress telemetry is consistent with that: scripted tooling, steered by an operator.
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SPOJENO PŘES CVE Popcorn Time’s forgotten updater left millions of devices exposed to hijacking
You may have forgotten about Popcorn Time. Unfortunately, its updater didn’t forget about your device. Security researchers have intervened to disable an abandoned update mechanism in Time4Popcorn, a version of the once-popular streaming app. If left running in the background, the updater could have allowed attackers to take control of Windows and Mac computers, even if their owners hadn’t opened the app in years. Eye Security estimates that the vulnerable updater was present on millions of…
EPSS 0.00 CVE-2026-30612 Time4Popcorn Popcorn Time US
AI Halloween videos: Who’s getting your photos?
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Deploying AI agents securely: how Kaspersky products mitigate AI threats
Introduction AI agents and associated tooling are becoming increasingly common in corporate infrastructure. Agents can perform a range of actions with the user’s privileges, such as accessing data, running commands, and interacting with external services. This creates new security risks, especially when these tools are used without the security team’s oversight or well-designed policies. Detecting, tracking, and controlling AI agents is becoming one of the most pressing tasks for security teams…
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Looking for a Language [Guest Diary], (Wed, Oct 21st)
[This is a Guest Diary by Jeffray Spence, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Around Here, we start our day with coffee, but our day does not begin until we have our data...So much data. Where to even begin? When approaching a massive dataset, such as those from a DShield SIEM Honeypot, the first step is to actually find something to analyze. As for myself, I usually go looking for something that makes me go; "Huh." Today we will be walking through a starting approach with…
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Operational Summary - settembre 2026
Torna l’appuntamento mensile di CSIRT Italia sull’analisi e l’andamento della minaccia cyber con l’elenco delle vulnerabilità informatiche più gravi.
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Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers
Classification: Important, Solution: Workaround, Exploit Maturity: Proof-of-Concept, CVSSv3.1: None, CVEs: , Summary: A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding, and an attacker who already controls one device that the network's access rules permit to connect to the target. The…
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Kernel eviction notice: What wesp.sys reveals about the Windows Endpoint Security Platform
Microsoft is building a way for EDR products to run outside the Windows kernel. It is called the Windows Endpoint Security Platform, and two of its binaries already ship in Windows Insider build. One is the kernel driver wesp.sys, the other the user-mode API espclient.dll. Microsoft wants one kernel driver it maintains itself, in place of the one every security vendor currently ships, after the July 2024 CrowdStrike update crashed 8.5 million machines. WESP is undocumented, but the binaries…
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AI coding agents hijacked using AGENTS.md file in Downloads folder
Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer's Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. [...]
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SPOJENO PŘES CVE BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast. [...]
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(Reliable)? php2shell exploitability, (Fri, Oct 23rd)
Yesterday everyone was running around like crazy (me included :) because of the php2shell vulnerability. However, after looking closely at some published PoC's - and there is an unbelievable amount of AI generated - erm, slop - it looks like building a universal, reliable, one click exploit is quite difficult (unless I'm missing something, so please do let me know). The PoC's that have been released so far have several pre-requirements and are almost cheating. First, in order to have a clean…
Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks
In this article Attack overview Technical details Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise References Learn More On October 21, 2026, a compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) and distributed through official container images. The malicious package added files that Python could execute during normal interpreter initialization. An application did not need to import LiteLLM for the payload to run: starting Python in an affected…
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Infostealer riding the AI Train
Key Points Aokigahara, a newly observed infostealer, has been spotted in the wild. An earlier version may have been known as Kamidere or Stygian. The malware includes traditional data theft capabilities targeting browsers, VPN clients, cryptocurrency wallets, FTP/SFTP clients, password managers, and email applications, among other targets. AI applications and development tools are notable targets. The stealer collects authentication files, session data, and configuration files associated with…
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Obstacles to Weaponizing PHP2Shell Likely Constrain Immediate Widespread Exploitation
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SPOJENO PŘES CVE How CVE-2026-73570 turns a Zimbra log file into remote code execution
When we are building detections for various threats, we regularly run the exploits on representative systems to help us build high-quality rules. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) entry CVE-2026-73570 for Zimbra is no exception. Zimbra is a widely used enterprise email and collaboration software platform, known for its SMTP platform, among other services. SMTP plays a critical role in the infrastructure of many organizations by providing email services that often include either…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.72 CVE-2026-73570 Zimbra Synacor veřejná správa US IT HU
EMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromised
Eight compromised eMudhra intermediate CA private keys risk unauthorized TLS signing and MitM interception. Read our analysis and containment guide. The post EMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromised appeared first on Unit 42.
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The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks
Unit 42 explores modern OAuth threats and actionable steps organizations can take to protect their environments. The post The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks appeared first on Unit 42.
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Unboxing Phishing Kits: Huntress Examines 3 Real Kits
Huntress examines 3 phishing kits that hand beginner attackers everything they need to steal tokens. See what the attacks look like from the inside.
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Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response
Attackers can steal credentials and begin exfiltrating data within minutes, often before security teams can respond. Exaforce examines real-world attacks involving stolen GitHub tokens, malicious AI installers, and MFA phishing, explaining why faster detection and automated containment are critical. [...]
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M365 Token Spray and Replay Campaign Compromises Business Email Accounts
Huntress tracked a 10-week Microsoft 365 campaign pairing AiTM relays with token replay, rogue Entra devices, MFA tampering, and hidden inbox rules.
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How to contain shadow AI, as it takes on multiple forms and spreads throughout your environment
Shadow AI used to be confined to a few simple scenarios, such as AI chatbots and AI browser extensions. Today, it spans a broad spectrum of complex vectors, making it harder to detect and control. In the latest installment of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series, learn how employee security training, AI usage governance, and exposure management can help you tackle shadow AI successfully. Key takeaways Integrating shadow AI into security awareness training helps employees recognize its…
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eMudhra CA compromise: eight private keys, and one of them is 4
Eight eMudhra CA keys could be guessed in at most 256 tries, and one is just the number 4. Who is affected, why curl lagged browsers, and how to fix it. Category: Vulnerabilities & Threats
MythicRatatoskr: An Yggdrasil-enabled backdoor deployed in a UAC-0099-Sandworm collaboration
ESET researchers uncover MythicRatatoskr – a previously unknown Go-based backdoor hiding its C&C server inside the Yggdrasil mesh network – that paved the way for a destructive attack against a Ukrainian grain firm
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Inside SiriusQT: A Seriously Skilled RAT
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Lazarus hackers use post-quantum cryptography for malware delivery
North Korean hackers are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism to secure malicious payload delivery in new operations that combine old and new malware. [...]
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WhatsApp’s chatbot was given hidden instructions to not mention privacy regulators
WhatsApp instructed its AI support chatbot not to recommend contacting privacy regulators when users couldn’t delete their accounts, researchers found. Privacy software company Redact discovered the hidden text on October 8. Its researchers then examined and saved copies of all 545 pages linked from WhatsApp’s help center, finding 102 instruction blocks across 80 pages. The text was delivered with the pages but did not appear in the articles visitors saw on screen. Instead, it could be found in…
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AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
In this article What’s happening What is ARTEX? Mitigation and protection guidance References Learn more As early as September 2026, Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across a broad range of industries. Several of these Storm-0940 ARTEX-driven attacks have resulted in the actor obtaining privileged access to an organization’s cloud infrastructure – including multiple…
OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it
OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. [...]
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“Next Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and Execute Multiple Types of Cybercrime Activities
An investigation into a threat actor bypassing AI safety controls to coordinate credential theft, VoIP fraud planning, and database exfiltration. The post “Next Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and Execute Multiple Types of Cybercrime Activities appeared first on Unit 42.
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ClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet
ClickFix attacks are surging as cybercriminals use fake AI installers, malicious search results, and trusted chatbot platforms to trick users into executing malware. Push Security examines how these attacks evade traditional defenses and why AI tools have become increasingly effective lures. [...]
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The Science of Exploitability: Decoding BlueHammer
Executive Summary BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is an eight-stage local privilege-escalation chain targeting the Windows Defender Antimalware Platform before 4.18.26030.3011. It does not grant initial access; an attacker needs standard-user code execution first. Still, in the lab, it reached NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM, recovered domain-admin credentials from LSASS, and moved laterally via pass-the-hash. This is not memory corruption. It chains CloudFilter callbacks, batch oplocks, object-manager…
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Amazon-Themed ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Finger-Licking Malware
A Google search for Amazon business led to a ClickFix lure that dropped multiple malicious payloads onto the victim machine, including versions of Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Client RMM.
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How Tenable brought multi-language support to security detectors with agentic translation
AI security tools that can only detect threats in English offer limited protection. Here’s how Tenable trained our threat detectors to process nine additional languages and understand thousands more, without the need for a translation model, which increases costs and slows down processing. Key takeaways Tenable One AI Exposure’s detectors, covering AI threats, harmful content, and other policy risks, were originally English-centric. To assess threats written in other languages, our product…
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Fake Amazon Music x YouTube deal lures creators into a Google login trap
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Parasitizing trust: How legitimate infrastructure becomes a delivery pipeline for attackers
Legitimate infrastructure has become a powerful delivery mechanism for attackers, carrying the inherent trust they once had to build. As Cisco Talos explored in our previous research on weaponizing software-as-a-service (SaaS) notification pipelines, these platforms are increasingly repurposed as proxies for malicious intent. Talos has since tracked a significant acceleration in this trend, observing abuse across more than 25 distinct legitimate platforms in the past year. The abused…
Stray Cat, Open Doors: How k0t Wanders Through the Network Edge
Group-IB and NyxLab expose threat actor k0t's large-scale campaign exploiting FortiGate, FortiWeb, and Palo Alto GlobalProtect edge devices to harvest credentials, establish persistent access and exfiltrate data
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CrowdStrike Uncovers New Agentic AI Campaigns
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Operation FlashHole: Lazarus breaks security, defies control
In January, we responded to the Lazarus Group’s novel attack campaign against South Korea, which followed last year’s Operation SyncHole. In this new operation, the group employed an updated malware chain that included both their old and new malware, which we disclosed in full, and used another mandatory South Korean security software program as a part of infection chain using a watering‑hole strategy. Notably, the group targeted victims more selectively, sending spear‑phishing emails with…
Recent AI-Assisted Cyber Attacks in Japan: Investigating Attack Infrastructure and Techniques
On October 8, 2026, JPCERT/CC issued an alert regarding a series of unauthorized access incidents involving the leakage of personal and other information reported by multiple organizations in Japan. In cooperation with multiple organizations, JPCERT/CC has been investigating infrastructure that may have been used in these attacks. We confirmed that the attackers had used AI to scan for known vulnerabilities and carry out attacks via APIs. We identified several servers used for these activities…
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Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update Addresses 1209 CVEs
Oracle addresses 1209 CVEs in its final quarterly update of 2026 with 1295 patches, including 112 critical updates. Key Takeaways The October 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) contains fixes for 1209 unique CVEs in 1295 security updates 112 issues (8.6% of all patches) were assigned a critical severity rating Oracle Fusion Middleware received the highest number of patches at 206, accounting for 15.9% of all patches Background On October 20, Oracle released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for…
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The Real Jump Scare Isn’t the Attacker; It’s The Vulnerabilities You’re Focusing On
Key Takeaways Teams are remediating more than ever, but exposure from the vulnerabilities that matter is still rising faster than they can keep up with. Mean time to exploitation is about −7 days. Mean time to remediate sits around +30 days. Qualys research: closures rose from 73M (2022) to 473M (2025) – 6× – while critical findings still open at day seven rose from 56% to 63%. Less than 1% of vulnerabilities are actively exploited. A volume-and-CVSS program spends most of its effort on the…
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There's only so much code: the rise in vulnerability numbers
Frontier AI models (like Mythos) are rapidly mining decades of technical debt across ubiquitous legacy libraries, driving monthly Microsoft Patch Tuesday vulnerability advisories up more than tenfold (reaching 1,415 this month). This volume is overwhelming open-source maintainers and putting pressure on the traditional 90-day coordinated disclosure model. Despite a 105% year-over-year surge in CVEs, Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEVs) grew by only 37%, and only 3 of September's 975 Microsoft…
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The Risk of AI-Powered Antidetect Browsers in Online Fraud and Influence Operations
Key Findings Antidetect browsers obscure the digital identity of their users, enabling a single operator to silently manage thousands of isolated accounts across multiple platforms (including Facebook, TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube), while evading detection systems that look for scams and coordinated inauthentic behavior. Threat actors abuse these platforms, taking over accounts and using them for financial fraud, phishing and malware distribution. These accounts can also be used to coordinate…
Man seeking love travels 2,000 km to meet an AI-generated woman
A 49-year-old bricklayer sold his belongings before traveling 2,000 km by bus from his home in Brazil to meet “Jéssica,” an online influencer he had fallen for. Yet despite having a social media account with more than 300,000 followers, she never existed. Edimar Rocha Martins lives in Imperatriz, a city in northeastern Brazil. He says he struck up an online conversation with Jéssica Fazendeira, who supposedly lived near the southeastern city of Belo Horizonte. The AI persona promising love The…
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The Checker You Pay For
How criminals turn spend-management onboarding into fraud infrastructure, and why you may be accountable for the fraud you never see.
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The journey of a paper unicorn: adventures inside a modern warehouse
Introduction Imagine you’ve ordered a small paper unicorn from an online marketplace. You clicked “Buy”, received a cheerful notification, and expect a courier to bring the box tomorrow. If the unicorn is delayed by a day, it will be annoying but not catastrophic: an apology, a discount promo code — and the incident is forgotten. Now let’s multiply one late unicorn by several hundred thousand orders. Packages start heading to the wrong cities. The website shows an item is in stock, even though…
Threat Actors Targeting GCP Billing Accounts for LLM Usage (Campaign)
Wiz identified threat actors hijacking Google Cloud Platform (GCP) billing accounts via search-ad phishing to fund unauthorized Gemini API usage. By stealing corporate credentials and MFA tokens, attackers gain access, dismantle IAM domain restrictions, and link external GCP p...
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BRONZE SANDCASTLE deploys modified Meterpreter shells
<p>The China-based threat group uses DLL sideloading in these attacks</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: BRONZE SANDCASTLE, Meterpreter, Sandboxie
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Inside the Underground Market for Know Your Client Services
Cybercriminals are selling forged identity documents, deepfake videos, and live verification services to help buyers bypass Know Your Client (KYC) checks. Flare examines how these underground services operate and the techniques used to create and maintain fraudulent verified accounts. [...]
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Unmasking the robots: Why it’s critical to discover AI agent identities and how Tenable helps you secure them
Discover how to secure AI agents in your cloud environment with Tenable One Cloud Exposure. We explore Microsoft Entra Agent ID and provide essential best practices for robust agentic AI identity security. Key takeaways Understand your current maturity level and then build an appropriate action plan to secure your agent identities. Use your cloud providers’ native tools or Tenable One Cloud Exposure to locate and catalog every AI agent operating in your environment. Do not assign human…
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ConnectWise Cloud Backup application abused in cross-tenant token sweep
<p>Automated sign-ins used the vendor's Entra application identity to request Microsoft Graph tokens across consenting tenants</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: connectwise
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Graph reconnaissance and ServiceNow user enumeration in a modern identity intrusion
No novelty required to be effective Categories: Threat Research, X-ops Tags: incident response
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SPOJENO PŘES CVE BeyondTrust Remote Support - BT26-05
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Functional, CVSSv3.1: 9.3, CVEs: CVE-2026-102764, Summary: BeyondTrust has remediated a critical vulnerability in Remote Support (RS) that could allow a remote attacker to perform file operations on an affected appliance. The vulnerability exists within internal components of Remote Support. The components did not adequately validate the origin of the messages it received. Under the right conditions, this could be used to…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.19 CVSS 9.3 CVE-2026-102764 BeyondTrust FI CA SE US NL IT
Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files: YARA Rule, (Sun, Oct 18th)
Here is the YARA rule I used to detect "Orphaned VBA Projects Inside DWG Files". rule autocad_orphaned_vba_project { strings: $a = "AC10" $b = {D0 CF 11 E0 A1 B1 1A E1} $c = "[Host Extender Info]" ascii condition: $a at 0 and uint32(0x24) == 0 and $b and $c } A VirusTotal retrohunt with this rule gave me only 2 detections: 09d4607941e458f6dbb6be17825641d863c0b37c185027984e137d8a67e919d8 3310c1a9bfe6115e49d8ac372cef5f460850da05138340107e66b958a6b5bca6 Didier Stevens Senior handler blog…
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Mind the (Patch) Gap , Part 3: Analysis with Volexity Volcano, Threat Intel, and MCP
Last month, Volexity published two blog posts in its Mind the (Patch) Gap series. The series details Volexity’s discovery of multiple Chinese threat actors simultaneously using zero-day exploits in Google Chrome and Microsoft Windows in campaigns that, if successful, would download and run malware on an exploited system. Those posts covered technical details of the exploits and malware Volexity observed, along with general detection methods for each case. Behind those findings was one of the…
Top 5 Initial Access Threat Vectors Observed by Unit 42 in September 2026
Unit 42 details the top initial access vectors adversaries use to breach organizations, led by edge exploits, credential abuse and phishing The post Top 5 Initial Access Threat Vectors Observed by Unit 42 in September 2026 appeared first on Unit 42.
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Zero-click attacks used targeted ads to deliver Candiru spyware
Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. [...]
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Eiliko robot companion exposes private chats and can be hijacked
The Verge reports that Eiliko, a small AI robot companion made by Energize Lab, has serious security flaws that expose private conversations and let an attacker remotely change what the toy says. According to The Verge, researcher Sammy Azdoufal could access 13 million conversations and what appeared to be the entire active worldwide fleet of 68,000 robots. The publication reports that the US is the largest market, with more than 31,000 profiles belonging to children there. Azdoufal found…
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AI-Powered Espionage Campaign Targets Government Linux Infrastructure
Our analysis an AI-powered espionage campaign targeting government Linux infrastructure with custom malware, web shells, and advanced credential theft. The post AI-Powered Espionage Campaign Targets Government Linux Infrastructure appeared first on Unit 42.
The Q3 Vulnerability Pulse: Discovery ≠ Exploitation
Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. I've been following a lot of (sometimes heated) threads and discussions lately about the current vulnerability landscape. I learned new words/phrases such as Summer of Hell (although I'm writing this with 1°C/34°F outside), Vulnpocalypse, Bugmageddon, Bugpocalypse, Breachpocalypse... Let's look at some numbers: We crossed the 70k mark, and it's only the end of September. This has never been seen before — I think we can agree this…
KEV ✓ EPSS 0.87 CVE-2014-125110 CVE-2015-1000013 CVE-2026-104935 veřejná správa US