Tag: access
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Your AI Didn’t Lie to You: It Was Just Being Manipulated
Hidden AI Activity Creates Security Gaps That Traditional Controls Can’t Detect As AI agents gain access to critical business systems, prompt injection, shadow AI and poisoned data can manipulate decisions without triggering traditional controls. Full-pipeline telemetry and continuous testing can help security teams investigate incidents while maintaining human accountability. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to…
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Service Account Credential Rotation: The Blast-Radius Checklist
TL;DRThe problem: Service account credentials pile up with no clear owner, and teams avoid rotating them for fear of breaking production dependencies nobody has mapped.The checklist: Answer eight questions before rotating: validity, exposure, access scope, consumers, vault location, duplicate copies,… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/service-account-credential-rotation-the-blast-radius-checklist/
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The Shared Clipboard Inside the Sandbox: Cross-Account Data Leakage in ChatGPT
esearch by: Alexey Bukhteyev Key Takeaways Introduction Over the past several years, AI assistants have moved far beyond text generation. Modern systems can execute code, install additional dependencies, analyze user files, and access data through connected services. These capabilities significantly increase the practical value of LLMs, but they also change the security model: protecting user…
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Webinar: The forgotten Google Workspace access that can lead to a breach
Third-party applications connected to Google Workspace can retain access long after their original purpose is forgotten. This webinar examines how overly permissive integrations contribute to breaches and which security controls can help fast-growing companies reduce their exposure. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/webinar-the-forgotten-google-workspace-access-that-can-lead-to-a-breach/
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Dell Secure Connect Gateway Critical Flaws Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Admin Access
Dell has released security updates for the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Application and Appliance after discovering three critical vulnerabilities. These flaws can expose enterprise deployments to unauthenticated administrative access, remote command execution, and potential host-level compromise. Detailed in Dell Security Advisory DSA-2026-382, these issues affect SCG 5.0 appliance versions earlier than 5.36.00.16 and application versions…
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Dell Secure Connect Gateway Critical Flaws Allow Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution and Admin Access
Dell has released security updates for the Secure Connect Gateway (SCG) Application and Appliance after discovering three critical vulnerabilities. These flaws can expose enterprise deployments to unauthenticated administrative access, remote command execution, and potential host-level compromise. Detailed in Dell Security Advisory DSA-2026-382, these issues affect SCG 5.0 appliance versions earlier than 5.36.00.16 and application versions…
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Claude Mythos Executes EndEnd Intrusion From Initial Access to Full Domain Compromise
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview has demonstrated the ability to complete an end-to-end enterprise intrusion simulation, progressing from initial access through chained exploitation and network traversal to the defined compromise objective. The result marks a material shift in frontier-model cyber capability: the model did not merely solve isolated CTF-style tasks, but autonomously connected weaknesses commonly found…
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IT help-desk vishing tricks executives into handing over Microsoft 365 access
IT help-desk vishing calls, stolen session tokens, and sign-ins routed through residential proxies are behind a wave of data theft and extortion against Microsoft 365 and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/vishing-microsoft-365-data-theft-extortion/
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IT help-desk vishing tricks executives into handing over Microsoft 365 access
IT help-desk vishing calls, stolen session tokens, and sign-ins routed through residential proxies are behind a wave of data theft and extortion against Microsoft 365 and … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/08/vishing-microsoft-365-data-theft-extortion/
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ASUS Control Center Critical Flaw Allows Unauthenticated Attackers to Gain Root Access
ASUS has released a security update for the Control Center Express Agent to address CVE-2026-19397, a high-severity vulnerability related to missing authentication. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated nearby attacker to potentially take control of an affected host through a direct connection to the agent. The issue affects versions before 1.7.24 and was published and updated…
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Hackers Steal Microsoft 365 Sessions to Hijack Accounts Even After MFA
Cybercriminals are using a rebranded Evilginx2 phishing-as-a-service platform dubbed BigBear 2.0 to intercept authenticated Microsoft 365 sessions, allowing them to take over accounts even after victims complete multi-factor authentication (MFA). CloudSEK’s TRIAD team uncovered the operation after gaining administrative access to its control panel in June 2026 The campaign demonstrates a critical reality for Microsoft…
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Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Personal Data of Over 1 Million Students, Parents and Staff
Mathspace, an online mathematics learning platform used by schools in Australia and New Zealand, has reported a data breach affecting 1,079,819 students, parents or guardians, teachers, and staff members. The company stated that attackers exploited a critical vulnerability in its self-hosted Metabase reporting environment, allowing them to gain administrator-level access without legitimate credentials. Mathspace Data…
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PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser.”Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium’s own Secure Preferences First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Beyond the Login: Detecting Brute-Force and Credential Abuse in the Cloud Era
How intelligent security monitoring can identify suspicious authentication activity before a failed login becomes a successful compromise The modern enterprise no longer has a single security perimeter. Employees, applications, cloud services, and remote-access platforms are connected from virtually anywhere in… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/beyond-the-login-detecting-brute-force-and-credential-abuse-in-the-cloud-era/
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MikroTik Issues Patches for Routers Amid Zero-Day Attacks
Chaining Two Flaws Leads to Full Compromise, Warn Polish Incident Responders. Latvian router-maker MikroTik has issued emergency patches in the face of in-the-wild MikroTrick attacks that chain together exploits for two zero-day vulnerabilities in the RouterOS operating system that runs MikroTik devices to obtain full, remote control of any device with SSH access enabled. First…
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Attackers use rogue ScreenConnect clients to spread malware
A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. >>A CVE identifier … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/07/connectwise-screenconnect-file-transfer-flaw/
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PoisonedRefresh Malware Backdoors F5 BIG-IP Servers With Memory-Only PHP Web Shells
Tags: access, backdoor, cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, linux, malware, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA sophisticated Linux implant linked to compromised F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Management (APM) environments. The activity has been associated with exploitation of CVE-2025-53521, an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw affecting BIG-IP APM when an access policy is configured on a virtual server. F5 has confirmed exploitation of the vulnerability and links the related compromise activity…
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Rogue ScreenConnect Clients Spread Four-Stage VBScript Chain to Newly Connected Hosts
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of worm-like activity that abuses ConnectWise ScreenConnect to distribute a malicious Visual Basic Script (VBScript) payload to newly connected systems.According to Huntress, three unrelated incidents have been found to use diverse initial access methods, namely a Quick Assist tech-support scam, a phishing-delivered MSI installer, and a fake First seen on…
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ConnectWise ScreenConnect Remote Access Flaw Impacts Guest File Transfer Sessions
ConnectWise has announced a security issue affecting file transfer functionality in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions. This issue affects both cloud-hosted and on-premises ScreenConnect deployments. In response, the company has issued immediate mitigation guidance. At the same time, it is working on an official patch and securing a CVE identifier. The advisory, released…
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Global Phishing Campaign Abuses Google Infrastructure to Evade Security and Steal Credentials
Tags: access, control, credentials, cyber, email, google, infrastructure, network, phishing, serviceA large-scale phishing operation is abusing trusted Google services as a multi-stage redirect network to bypass email security controls, deliver highly personalized credential-harvesting pages, and, in some cases, install ScreenConnect remote-access software. The campaign’s central advantage is that it presents trusted Google-owned domains at nearly every point a gateway, proxy, or analyst is likely to…
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OpenAI Commits $1 Billion in Daybreak AI Cyber Tools to Protect Critical Infrastructure
OpenAI has announced a $1 billion global commitment to expanding access to its Daybreak AI cybersecurity platform for frontline defenders who protect critical infrastructure, public services, and under-resourced organizations. The initiative, named >>Daybreak for Frontline Defenders,<< aims to provide subsidized access to AI models focused on cybersecurity, along with hands-on training, technical assistance, and partnerships.…
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BYOTC Attack Abuses Trusted Windows Clients to Access Privileged Kernel Driver Operations
A newly documented Windows attack pattern, dubbed Bring Your Own Trusted Caller (BYOTC), shows how attackers can bypass driver-level authorization controls without exploiting a traditional memory-corruption flaw. Instead of attacking a privileged kernel driver directly, an adversary compromises or abuses the legitimate user-mode application that the driver already trusts. The technique expands on the well-known…
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ConnectWise warns of new ScreenConnect flaw without patch
ConnectWise has shared temporary mitigation measures for a new ScreenConnect Remote Access vulnerability that it plans to patch later this week. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/connectwise-warns-of-new-screenconnect-flaw-without-patch/
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Roundcube Fixes 12 Security Flaws Including Zero-Click XSS and SSRF Bypass
Roundcube has released security updates 1.6.19 and 1.7.4, which address 12 vulnerabilities affecting its 1.6 LTS and 1.7 Webmail branches. The flaws include a zero-click stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability, several bypasses of remote content filtering, email header injection bugs, cross-user contact access issues, and a server-side request forgery (SSRF) bypass. Published on September 6,…
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The Best 12 Business VPN Solutions, Compared and Priced
Best value overall: Tailscale. It publishes its pricing, has a genuinely usable free tier for small teams, and its per-service access model is more secure than the network-level access a traditional VPN gives you. Best free option: WireGuard, if you have the engineering capacity to run it yourself. Best enterprise picks: Palo Alto GlobalProtect and…
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Attackers spread malware through ScreenConnect file transfers
A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. >>A CVE identifier … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/07/connectwise-screenconnect-file-transfer-flaw/
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Kimsuky Uses OpenCode AI Agent and GitHub PATs in Operation GitPower Attacks
North Korea-linked threat actor Kimsuky has expanded its Operation GitPower activity with malicious LNK shortcuts, GitHub Personal Access Token (PAT)-authenticated payload delivery, and AI-generated decoy documents linked to the OpenCode coding agent. Genians Security Center analyzed 13 malicious LNK samples collected between August 11 and August 19, 2026. The files were delivered in ZIP archives…