Tag: cyber
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Atlassian Rovo AI Vulnerability Lets Attackers Steal Enterprise Data With a Single Click
RovoBlast is a recently disclosed vulnerability affecting Atlassian’s Rovo AI assistant that allows attackers to expose sensitive enterprise data through a single malicious link. According to Varonis Threat Labs, the vulnerability exploits Rovo’s handling of URL-supplied prompts, enabling attackers to inject malicious instructions into an authenticated user’s AI session. The attack does not require traditional…
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Ransomware Attackers Compromise Multiple Employees Inside the Same Company
Ransomware operations are increasingly targeting the people behind critical business processes, not just privileged IT administrators. Over a one-month observation period, ThreatLabz identified 351 victims across 334 organizations connected to a single ransomware campaign. More than a dozen of those organizations had multiple employees compromised, indicating that an initial account takeover may be only the…
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Sophos Warns Unprotected Endpoints Let Interlock Credential Theft Go Undetected
Interlock ransomware incident that shows how unprotected endpoints can give attackers enough time to steal credentials, establish persistence, and reach a domain controller before defenders intervene. During a March 2026 response engagement, Sophos Emergency Incident Response investigators found the group abusing legitimate forensic utilities, including Volatility3 and WinPmem, to acquire memory and extract credential material…
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Apple Private Cloud Compute Path Traversal Flaw Lets Attackers Write Files as Root
Security researcher Drinor Selmanaj has disclosed a path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-20685) in Apple’s Private Cloud Compute (PCC) that allows a privileged network attacker to write attacker-controlled files as root during node boot. This flaw affects the Apple Intelligence cloud-inference infrastructure. Apple has addressed the issue in PCC Release 5E290.3 and later, rating it as an…
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OpenAI locks down Astra over potential critical cyber capabilities
OpenAI’s internal evaluation of its upcoming model, Astra, found significant advances in agentic coding and cybersecurity, leading the company to conclude that it cannot … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/10/openai-astra-critical-cyber-capabilities/
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Claude Opus 5 Most Resistant to Indirect Prompt Injection Attacks, With Just 2% Success Rate
Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 has significantly reduced the likelihood of a successful indirect prompt injection (IPI) attack, bringing it down to 2% over 15 attempts in the Gray Swan IPI benchmark. This marks an improvement from a 5.5% success rate observed with Claude Opus 4.8. According to the company’s newly published system card, Opus 5…
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North Korean Hackers Explore AI Transcription for Stolen Calls and Meetings
Tags: ai, breach, cyber, hacker, intelligence, korea, malicious, north-korea, phishing, powershell, spear-phishing, windowsNorth Korea-linked Kimsuky operators are expanding their artificial intelligence capabilities, with newly observed evidence showing experimentation with local large language models. Retrieval-augmented generation, AI agents, and speech-to-text tooling that could accelerate analysis of stolen calls, meetings, and documents. The operation retains Kimsuky’s established use of spear-phishing lures, malicious Windows shortcut files, PowerShell loaders, and Git-based…
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Claude-Powered AI Agent Exploits API Authorization Flaw to Hack Gym Booking System
An Australian AI agent powered by Anthropic’s Claude reportedly exploited an authorization flaw in a gym booking platform, allowing it to book classes outside of permitted time frames and cancel another user’s waitlist reservation without explicit permission. This incident underscores how increasingly autonomous AI agents can turn routine online tasks into cybersecurity issues when granted…
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OpenAI’s Next AI Model Astra Shows Cyber Performance Strong Enough to Trigger Pause
OpenAI has announced that it’s pausing some “internal activities” involving its upcoming artificial intelligence (AI) model Astra after an internal evaluation found it had made significant advancements in agentic coding and cybersecurity.In response to the discovery, the AI upstart said it’s implementing security controls for higher-capability models and associated activities, such as isolated First seen…
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Payroll Pirates Abuse Microsoft Graph to Find HR and Finance Staff After Account Compromise
A widespread phishing operation that compromises Microsoft 365 accounts through adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) infrastructure, then uses Microsoft Graph to identify employees handling payroll, finance, HR, benefits, invoices, and banking workflows. The activity closely overlaps with Microsoft’s “Payroll Pirates” cluster, tracked as Storm-2755. Researchers also found similarities with activity previously documented by Security Risk Advisors, indicating that…
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Claude Code Child Process Can Read Its Own OAuth Token From macOS Keychain
A macOS Keychain implementation weakness in Anthropic’s Claude Code CLI could allow any process running as the logged-in user including a Claude Code-spawned child process to retrieve the tool’s OAuth credential bundle silently. The issue underscores how trusted AI coding-agent ancestry can mask high-impact credential access and persistence activity on developer endpoints. However, the CLI…
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Metabase 0-Day Flaw Exploited in Attack to Inject Arbitrary SQL and Steal Database Credentials
Tags: attack, cloud, credentials, cyber, endpoint, exploit, flaw, security-incident, sql, update, vulnerability, zero-dayMetabase has reported a critical security incident involving a zero-day vulnerability that is actively being exploited. This vulnerability affects self-hosted deployments running version 1.58 and later. According to the company, an attacker exploited this previously unknown flaw to target Metabase Cloud before the vulnerable endpoints were blocked and a patch was developed. Customers using Metabase…
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New CSS Bomb Attacks Let Hackers Steal Passwords and Tokens From Webmail Users
Security researcher Gareth Heyes has revealed techniques for webmail attacks that exploit HTML and CSS, the technologies used to format emails, to manipulate user interfaces, leak authentication data, and in some cases, capture passwords. Webmail services need to display HTML controlled by the sender without compromising the security of the mailbox application. To achieve this,…
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UK manufacturers face rising hacking risk as survey shows 30% were hit last year
Big companies describe being under constant threat but only half have a plan in place to respond to an attackNearly a third of British manufacturers have been hit by a cyber-attack on them or a company in their supply chain, according to a survey that highlighted the growing hacking risk to companies.The findings come almost…
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The Best Intrusion Detection Prevention (IDS/IPS) Tools, Compared and Priced (2026)
This market runs from $0 to seven figures, and the free options power half the paid ones, so price comparisons here reward honesty. The verdict up front: Snort and Suricata are the best-value detection engines on earth (free, production-grade, industry-embedded), Zeek is the evidence standard, and among commercial platforms Fortinet delivers the strongest inline-prevention […]…
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Cybersecurity Newsletter Weekly Top 50 Biggest Cybersecurity Stories $70M Bitcoin Heist,Google Passkey Theft, Copilot CEO Fraud,Chrome 151 Claude Exploits More
Welcome to this week’s edition of the GBHackers cybersecurity newsletter, your weekly cybersecurity bulletin covering the 50 most important stories from August 37, 2026. It was a brutal week for trust in the tools we rely on: a Coldcard firmware flaw drained $70 million in Bitcoin, malware learned to steal Google’s synced passkeys, and […]…
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6 Strategies for Maintaining Cyber Resilience During Peak Vacation Periods
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/6-strategies-cyber-resilience-maintain-vacation
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EU AI Act Compliance Roadmap: What to Document – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/eu-ai-act-compliance-roadmap-what-to-document-kovrr/
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Continuous Control Monitoring vs Annual Testing – Kovrr
Articles related to cyber risk quantification, cyber risk management, and cyber resilience. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/continuous-control-monitoring-vs-annual-testing-kovrr/
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WordPress XSS2Shell Flaw Enables Attackers to Achieve Remote Code Execution
WordPress has patched a high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-64638 and nicknamed XSS2Shell, that begins as an unauthenticated cross-site scripting bug on the login screen and can be chained into full remote code execution. Researchers at pwn.ai discovered the flaw, which carries a CVSS score of 8.9 and affects every actively maintained WordPress branch, a codebase…
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Bugtraq Is Back: The Original Full Disclosure Mailing List Is Live Again
Sophia Antipolis, France, August 7th, 2026, CyberNewswire At DEF CON 34 in Las Vegas, security researcher Jonathan Brossard, known in the community as endrazine, announced the rebirth of the original Bugtraq mailing list. Established in 1993, Bugtraq is the original mailing list where cybersecurity vulnerabilities, mitigations, and cutting-edge techniques have been discussed at scale. With…
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18-Year-Old Linux Kernel SCTP Vulnerability Lets Attackers Gain Root and Escape Containers
SCTPhantom, tracked as CVE-2026-64564, is a high-severity Linux kernel use-after-free vulnerability in the Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) Dynamic Address Reconfiguration implementation. Researchers at Tencent Zhuque Lab’s Corvus AI project reported that a local attacker could leverage the flaw to escalate privileges to root and, in certain configurations, to escape from containers to the host.…
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Fake Zoom Installer Uses .NET Downloader to Deploy Overlord RAT on macOS
A cross-platform malware campaign that disguises itself as a legitimate Zoom installer to deploy Overlord, an open-source remote access trojan (RAT), on both macOS and Windows machines. Documented by Jamf, unlike most macOS malware, which typically relies on Go or Rust for cross-platform reach, this campaign’s first-stage downloader, a macOS ARM64 Mach-O binary named ZoomMeetings,…
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Critical macOS RCE Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Gain Root Access Without Password
Tags: access, apple, cve, cyber, data-breach, flaw, macOS, password, rce, remote-code-execution, update, vulnerabilityApple has shipped emergency macOS updates to close a critical vulnerability in Screen Sharing, tracked as CVE-2026-65400, which allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code and access files with root-level privileges. The flaw is especially severe on systems where Screen Sharing is exposed to the public internet. Apple’s August 6 releases macOS Tahoe 26.6.1,…
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Russian Hackers Use AI Slopsquatting to Publish 700+ Malicious npm Packages
A large-scale supply chain attack has hit the npm registry, with a suspected Russian threat actor publishing more than 700 malicious packages in just 48 hours. Researcher Paul McCarty documented the campaign, tracked as WEL1DROPPER, and the package count has since grown past 1,000. WEL1DROPPER marks an evolution in AI slopsquatting, where attackers register randomly…
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Storm-1175 Launches StormEncryptor Ransomware Attacks Using N-able Security Flaw
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a new ransomware campaign attributed to the financially motivated threat actor Storm-1175 that began deploying a previously undocumented ransomware strain, StormEncryptor, on August 2, 2026. The activity represents Storm-1175’s first observed operation since April 2026 and signals a notable shift in its ransomware tooling. The group was previously associated with…
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Securing the modern perimeter: Delivering intelligent cyber resilience
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/native/securing-the-modern-perimeter-delivering-intelligent-cyber-resilience
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UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671.”UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via their…