Tag: access
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CVE-2026-58048: cPanel Bug Enables Full Database Administrator Access
A critical cPanel flaw (CVE-2026-58048) lets authenticated users execute SQL as root. Users should update to fixed versions immediately. If you run a shared hosting box, this one’s worth reading before your morning coffee gets cold. cPanel just patched a flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-58048 (CVSS score of 9.4), that let an ordinary authenticated hosting customer,…
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Fake Bank of America Phishing Emails Found Delivering Disguised ScreenConnect RAT via UAC Bypass
Researchers at Huntress have identified an active phishing campaign impersonating Bank of America that culminates in the covert installation of a remote monitoring and management (RMM) tool, giving attackers persistent, hard-to-detect access to victims’ Windows machines. The campaign was flagged after a message landed in one of Huntress’s spamtrap accounts on 28 July, sent from…
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Fake Xeno Roblox Cheats Deliver Java RAT That Steals Discord and Gaming Accounts
Fake Roblox cheat tools are once again being weaponized, with a newly observed campaign distributing a sophisticated Java-based remote access trojan (RAT) disguised as an “undetected” version of the popular Xeno script executor. Security researchers warn that the operation specifically targets gamers through Discord communities and underground forums, leveraging trust in widely used cheat utilities…
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Escape joins Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program to advance AI-powered offensive security
Good news doesn’t arrive alone. This month we joined not one frontier AI program but two! Yesterday we shared that Escape joined OpenAI’s Trusted Access for Cyber. Today we’re a verified member of Anthropic’s Cyber Verification Program. Both programs solve the same First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/escape-joins-anthropics-cyber-verification-program-to-advance-ai-powered-offensive-security/
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Russian Access Broker Sells Network Access to Ransomware Gangs While Spying on Ukraine
Tags: access, cyber, data-breach, defense, exploit, intelligence, network, ransomware, russia, ukraineAn exposed server linked to a Russian”‘speaking initial access broker (IAB) has revealed a sprawling operation that simultaneously fuels ransomware intrusions worldwide and supports Russian state-aligned intelligence collection against Ukrainian defense and aerospace targets. The artefacts show a mature, high”‘volume access brokerage pipeline that industrialises exploitation of internet”‘facing appliances, pivots to full Active Directory compromise,…
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Barracuda Networks Shows How AI Agents Can Compromise Business Email
Barracuda Networks shows how attackers could hijack Microsoft Copilot to access sensitive emails, impersonate executives and execute convincing business email compromise attacks. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/barracuda-networks-shows-how-ai-agents-can-compromise-business-email/
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DOUBLECUP Uses ClickFix and Cached PNGs to Deliver CountLoader and DeviceManager RAT
A new Russian loader-as-a-service (LaaS) codenamed DOUBLECUP has been using ClickFix lures as a way to stage malware-laced PNG images in victims’ browser cache and ultimately deliver CountLoader and a previously undocumented remote access trojan called DeviceManager.”The first stage drops a steganographic PNG image into the browser’s cache, retrieves its hidden content, and executes the…
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cPanel Database Privilege Escalation Flaw Enables Full Administrative Access
CVE-2026-58048 is a critical privilege-escalation vulnerability in the database management functionality of cPanel & WHM. This flaw allows an authenticated cPanel user to execute arbitrary database commands with full administrative privileges. cPanel Database Privilege Escalation Flaw All supported versions of cPanel & WHM before the recently released security updates are affected. As WebPros states, an…
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Apple files fresh claim against Home Office move to access encrypted cloud data
Apple files fresh legal complaint over secret Home Office order to require it to provide access to encrypted iCloud data stored by UK customers First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366647012/Apple-files-fresh-claim-against-Home-Office-move-to-access-encrypted-cloud-data
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New DOUBLECUP ClickFix service hides malware in browser cache images
A new Russian loader-as-a-service named DOUBLECUP uses ClickFix attacks to hide malicious code in PNG images cached by victims’ browsers, ultimately delivering CountLoader to Windows and macOS devices and a new remote access trojan named DeviceManager to Windows systems. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-doublecup-clickfix-service-hides-malware-in-browser-cache-images/
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Fake Roblox Xeno script launcher pushes infostealer, RAT malware
Fake Xeno Executor installers are infecting unsuspecting Roblox players with malware that provides remote access and steals sensitive information. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fake-roblox-xeno-script-launcher-pushes-infostealer-rat-malware/
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18 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT to Alibaba Tool Users
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new set of malicious npm packages that target users of Alibaba developer tools with a cross-platform remote access trojan (RAT) as part of a sophisticated, targeted software supply chain attack targeting Chinese-speaking environments.One of the packages in question is “lib-mtop,” an unscoped package with the same name as a private…
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INC Ransomware Emerges as Dominant Actor Exploiting SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaws
The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the “dominant threat actor” exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances.In a report published over the weekend, Resecurity said it observed the INC Ransomware accelerating its activity since the beginning of August 2026, listing multiple victims on its data…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS Hijacks
This week kept coming back to permission. A model crossed a boundary. A wallet trusted bad randomness. Webmail kept an intruder around. Public systems, package feeds, hotel networks, and login flows all gave away more than intended.Some of it was clever. Most of it was just access left lying around: old bugs, exposed gear, poisoned…
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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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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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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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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, […]…