Tag: access
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AI Agent Guardrails: How to Set Boundaries Before You Give an LLM Access to Your Systems
AI agents are crossing a line that traditional chatbots never crossed. A chatbot produces text. An AI agent can retrieve customer records, query financial data,…Read More First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: https://securityboulevard.com/2026/08/ai-agent-guardrails-how-to-set-boundaries-before-you-give-an-llm-access-to-your-systems/
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Escape joins OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber (TAC) to advance AI-powered offensive security
We’ve been approved for OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber preview. For years we’ve been building toward one idea: offensive security that runs continuously inside engineering, instead of arriving twice a year as a PDF nobody reads past the executive summary. Business-logic DAST first, then First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/escape-joins-openais-trusted-access-for-cyber-tac-to-advance-ai-powered-offensive-security/
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Hackers Exploit N-able N-central Flaw After Initial Fix Falls Short
N-able says attackers bypassed N-central authentication, reached managed client devices and installed Cloudflare tunnels that survived server access revocation. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/hackers-exploit-n-able-n-central-flaw-initial-fix/
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The OpenAI Hack Shows the Genie Is Out of the Bottle
This essay originally appeared in Foreign Policy. Earlier this month, two of OpenAI’s models broke out of their containment sandbox and attacked another AI company. The story is kind of wild. OpenAI was running security tests on two of its models: GPT-5.6 Sol and an unreleased model that is almost certainly GPT-6. In particular, it…
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Elastic Defend now covers 800+ vulnerable drivers, with automated troubleshooting and ARM support
Attackers reaching for kernel access on a Windows machine bring a driver Microsoft already trusts. It is signed, it loads, and it carries a known flaw. That flaw gives them … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/03/elastic-defend-vulnerable-driver-detection/
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What the Minnesota Water Attacks Reveal About Securing Remote Access to Critical Infrastructure
Tags: access, ai, attack, authentication, cisa, control, corporate, credentials, cyberattack, data-breach, exploit, Hardware, identity, infrastructure, Internet, law, least-privilege, malware, mfa, monitoring, network, password, risk, router, supply-chain, technology, vpn, zero-day, zero-trustWhen headlines break about cyberattacks targeting critical infrastructure, the conversation often turns immediately to zero-day exploits, advanced malware, and other sophisticated techniques. The recent attacks on municipal water systems across at least seven US states, including more than 30 Minnesota water and wastewater utilities, illustrate why this assumption can be misleading. As a “recovering CISO” who…
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N-able Says Attackers Take Over N-central Servers After Initial Fix Proves Incomplete
N-able said attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central to gain remote administrative access and reach the customer systems managed through those servers.Its first fix was incomplete. CVE-2026-18577 affects N-central builds prior to 2026.3.1.7. N-able shipped build 2026.3.1.7 on August 2 as the first unaffected version.N-central is the remote monitoring and management platform First seen…
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Critical N-able N-central Flaw Actively Exploited to Gain God-Mode Access to MSP Networks
Tags: access, authentication, control, cve, cyber, exploit, flaw, monitoring, msp, network, vulnerabilityN-able has issued an urgent hotfix to address a critical authentication-bypass vulnerability in its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, following confirmation of active exploitation. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-18577, affects N-central servers running earlier than version 2026.3.1.7. It allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to take over accounts and gain administrative control of the…
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SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Let Attackers Turn One WebSocket Request Into Root Control
SonicWall SMA Secure Mobile Access appliances are again at the center of a zero-day storm, with chained flaws that let attackers turn a single crafted WebSocket request into root-level control on internet-facing VPN gateways. The campaign, dissected by Volexity and other researchers, shows how a previously undocumented threat actor, tracked as UTA0533, abused SonicWall’s wsproxy…
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Hackers Exploit Critical Arista VeloCloud Flaw to Execute OS Commands
Arista Networks has issued a warning about attackers actively exploiting CVE-2026-16812, a critical unauthenticated OS command injection vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) deployments. This flaw carries a CVSS v3.1 and v4.0 severity score of 10.0, allowing a remote attacker with network access to the VCO web interface to access privileged internal functions and potentially…
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CosmosEscape: Schwachstelle gab Zugriff auf jede Azure-Cosmos-DB-Datenbank
Eine Schwachstellenkette in Azure Cosmos DB hätte Angreifern Lese- und Schreibzugriff auf Datenbanken des Cloud-Dienstes verschaffen können. First seen on it-daily.net Jump to article: www.it-daily.net/it-sicherheit/cybercrime/schwachstelle-azure
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Cryptomining campaign avoids root access to evade detection
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/cryptomining-campaign-avoids-root-access-to-evade-detection
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The Best Firewall-as-a-Service (FWaaS) Providers, Compared and Priced (2026)
Firewall-asa-service moved from experiment to default: inspection, IPS, and policy delivered from the cloud, priced per user or per site instead of per appliance. The value answer up front: Cloudflare offers the most accessible entry economics, Cato Networks the best converged price-for-simplicity in the mid-market, and Prisma Access the deepest (and priciest) inspection stack, […]…
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Hijacked Hotel Wi-Fi Pushes Fake Updates to Deliver Surveillance Malware
A fake browser update served over hijacked hotel Wi-Fi has been used to deliver CornFlake, a remote access trojan (RAT) that can capture webcam images, microphone audio, and keystrokes, Microsoft said in its latest report.Researchers track the operation as CaptiveCrunch and attribute it to Storm-2945. It assesses Storm-2945 to be an operational sub-cluster of Midnight…
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MacSync Stealer RAT Uses Fake Claude Guides to Steal Passwords and Crypto Wallets
A newly disclosed macOS malware campaign dubbed MacSync weaponizes fake Claude AI installation guides to deploy a six-stage stealer and remote access trojan. Documented by Huntress, the kit targets browser credentials, keychain secrets, and cryptocurrency wallets. The attack begins when victims search Google for >>how to install Claude on a Mac<< and click a sponsored…
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North Korea’s APT Capabilities Are No Longer State-Exclusive
Tags: access, apt, cyber, finance, group, hacker, infrastructure, korea, lazarus, malware, military, north-korea, ransomware, skillsAhnLab Found Shared Malware, SSH Keys and Infrastructure Across Two Campaigns. Shared malware, infrastructure and access methods link Lazarus Group to Gunra ransomware activity, while former North Korean military hackers allegedly used state-trained skills to steal bank funds, exposing cyber capability diffusion and blowback inside the regime. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/north-koreas-apt-capabilities-are-no-longer-state-exclusive-a-32392
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Anthropic Says Claude Models Hacked 3 Organizations During Cyber Tests
Anthropic found Claude accessed systems at three real businesses after a testing error gave its AI models live internet access during cybersecurity evaluations. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/anthropic-claude-models-hacked-organizations-cyber-tests/
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AI-Enabled Data Breaches Cost Organizations $6 Million on Average
IBM found AI-enabled breaches cost organizations $6 million on average, exposing gaps in vulnerability management, access controls, and AI governance. The post IBM: AI-Enabled Data Breaches Cost Organizations $6 Million on Average appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-ibm-ai-enabled-data-breach-costs/
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5 Things To Know On Anthropic Claude Autonomous Hack
Anthropic has disclosed that Claude models gained unintended access to ‘real-world’ systems of three organizations as part of cybersecurity testing, raising further questions about whether stronger isolation is needed. First seen on crn.com Jump to article: www.crn.com/news/security/2026/5-things-to-know-on-anthropic-claude-autonomous-hack
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Wordfence Finds Critical Backdoor in ARVE WordPress Plugin
A backdoored ARVE WordPress Plugin release could grant attackers administrator access with one token, but WordPress.org blocked automatic distribution to WordPress sites. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/wordfence-critical-backdoor-arve-wordpress-plugin/
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6 Reasons Why Device Code Phishing is the Fastest-Growing Threat of 2026
Device code phishing – the abuse of the OAuth 2.0 device authorization grant to steal access tokens – has evolved from a niche red-team technique to an industrial-scale threat in under six months.Designed for input-constrained devices like smart TVs, printers, and so on, the device authorization login flow has been adopted by a wide range…
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Critical JetBrains TeamCity Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Tags: access, authentication, cve, cyber, data-breach, flaw, network, remote-code-execution, risk, vulnerabilityJetBrains has revealed a critical security vulnerability in TeamCity On-Premises that enables unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on affected servers. This poses a significant risk to CI/CD environments exposed over HTTP(S). The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63077, affects all supported versions of TeamCity On-Premises and allows attackers with network access to bypass authentication checks and execute…
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Anthropic Finds Claude Breached Real Companies During Security Evaluations
Anthropic says a misconfigured test let Claude access three real organizations, prompting tighter AI evaluation and monitoring controls. Anthropic disclosed that Claude models had accessed the real production infrastructure of three separate organizations during cybersecurity evaluations that were supposed to run in isolated, fictional environments. The company found the incidents after reviewing 141,006 evaluation runs…
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CVE-2026-20316 Zero-Day Actively Exploited, Cisco Releases Fix
Cisco has released security updates for an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-20316, affecting Cisco Secure FMC (Secure Firewall Management Center) software. The flaw, disclosed on July 29, 2026, allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to log in to vulnerable systems using a built-in low-privilege account and access sensitive data. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article:…
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Chinese-Speaking Hacker Uses DeepSeek Agent to Launch Autonomous Cyberattacks
Chinese-speaking threat actor “knaithe” (aka KnYuan) has been caught running an AI-enabled autonomous attack stack built around DeepSeek and the Hermes Agent framework, proving that large language models can now drive end”‘to”‘end offensive operations with minimal human oversight. Hermes provided terminal access, skills orchestration, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integrations. At the same time, DeepSeek…