Tag: access
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Irregular says ‘human oversight’ responsible for AI sandbox escape incidents
In a post-mortem, the frontier AI testing company said internet access for models is necessary to fully test out their cybersecurity capabilities. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/irregular-ai-sandbox-escape-human-oversight/
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OpenAI Workload Identity Federation: Aembit Brings Secretless Access to the OpenAI API
3 min readAembit already covers a lot of ground when it comes to securing AI workload access. For OpenAI’s ChatGPT, workloads can authenticate to the ChatGPT API using static API key injection, with the Aembit proxy handling direct access transparently. Today, we’re extending that coverage with the introduction of the OpenAI Workload Identity Federation Credential…
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Hacker claims 3.6 million Azure account records stolen from major companies
A threat actor is selling employee databases allegedly stolen from the Microsoft Azure infrastructure of multiple Fortune 500 companies after gaining access using compromised credentials. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-claims-36-million-azure-account-records-stolen-from-major-companies/
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C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied To Ransomware With GitHub C2
IntroductionIn July 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new Rust-based malware family that we track as C2Looper, which is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. Furthermore, ThreatLabz assesses with low to medium confidence that C2Looper has been delivered to victims through a multi-stage ClickFix infection chain. C2Looper supports backdoor commands including executing arbitrary commands, performing reconnaissance,…
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FireTail State of AI Security 2026: Adoption Has Outpaced Control FireTail Blog
Tags: access, ai, control, credentials, data, group, intelligence, jobs, leak, risk, threat, tool, vulnerabilityAug 17, 2026 – Ayush Sethi – What your workforce’s AI prompts reveal in aggregate Most AI security controls judge one prompt at a time. We built Topics to read the layer above them, where a workforce’s prompts add up into a pattern that no single message shows.Someone in your legal team pastes a contract…
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Alert: Unpatched Fortinet Devices Fall to Gunra Ransomware
Tags: access, cybersecurity, firewall, fortinet, government, group, infrastructure, korea, north-korea, ransomware, vpnUS and South Korea Tie Initial Access to Unpatched Firewalls and VPN Gateways. Critical infrastructure organizations running unpatched firewalls and VPN gateways – including Fortinet gear not updated since early 2025 – and getting hit hard by a ransomware group with possible ties to the North Korean government, warns a joint U.S.-South Korean cybersecurity alert.…
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Vague Task, Total Access: When AI Delegation Becomes a Security Risk
AI agents can improvise beyond the intended scope of a task when they are given broad access to enterprise systems and data. Token Security explains why organizations need to define agent intent and continuously enforce permissions around what each agent was actually created to do. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vague-task-total-access-when-ai-delegation-becomes-a-security-risk/
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Plug Pwn Attack Exploits Windows PnP to Gain SYSTEM Access With Zero Clicks
Security researchers Alejandro Hernando, also known as 0xedh, and Borja MartÃnez have unveiled a research project titled >>Plug & Pwn.<< This project demonstrates how the Windows Plug and Play (PnP) driver installation workflows can be exploited to execute vendor-supplied code with NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM privileges. Presented at DEF CON 34, the research explores the risky intersection…
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Copeland XWEB Pro Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Gain Root Access and Manipulate Refrigeration Systems
Security researchers have discovered 23 vulnerabilities in Copeland’s XWEB Pro commercial refrigeration controllers, with 21 rated as high severity. These vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to gain root-level remote code execution and control connected cooling equipment. Claroty’s Team82 found that an attacker could exploit a combination of authentication flaws, predictable administrator credentials, and command-injection vulnerabilities…
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OpenAI Launches Two-Tier Security Access Program Alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber
Daybreak Blue removes some OpenAI-made guardrails while Daybreak Red grants the use of cyber-focused frontier AI models First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/openai-daybreak-blue-red-gpt-cyber/
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China-Linked Hackers Use N-able Flaw in Ransomware Attacks
Microsoft Says Storm-1175 Exploited CVE-2026-18577 After Its Disclosure. Microsoft says China-linked Storm-1175 is exploiting N-able N-central authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 to gain administrative RMM access, pivot into managed endpoints and rapidly deploy its new StormEncryptor ransomware. First seen on govinfosecurity.com Jump to article: www.govinfosecurity.com/china-linked-hackers-use-n-able-flaw-in-ransomware-attacks-a-32506
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Critical Rancher Flaw Lets Authenticated Users Gain Full Admin Access to All Managed Clusters
A critical privilege-escalation vulnerability in SUSE Rancher could allow a low-privilege, authenticated user to gain administrative control of the Rancher management plane and every downstream Kubernetes cluster it manages. This issue is tracked as CVE-2026-44945 and GHSA-v584-7w32-jwpq, affecting Rancher releases 2.11.0 through 2.11.15, 2.12.0 through 2.12.11, 2.13.0 through 2.13.7, and 2.14.0 through 2.14.1. Rancher has…
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Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11
Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine.The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or low-level USB…

