Tag: exploit
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Zenity Labs Finds Zero-Click Attack Chains Across Agentic Browsers
Zenity Labs released research at Black Hat USA 2026 showing zero-click PleaseFix exploit chains across Claude in Chrome, Gemini in Chrome, Perplexity Comet, ChatGPT Atlas and Copilot Edge. The attacks demonstrated paths to silent data theft, credential theft, account takeover and remote control of a victim’s machine. PleaseFix abuses the way agentic browsers combine information..…
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AI code security with Claude Mythos Preview: Inside Tenable’s 500+ hours of testing for Project Glasswing
Tags: access, ai, api, application-security, compliance, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, reverse-engineering, risk, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityWe spent 500+ hours and 40 billion tokens testing Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview for Project Glasswing. The takeaway: frontier AI won’t run your code security program, but used well, it can make one even stronger. Key takeaways Frontier AI dramatically scales security testing. In one month, Tenable dedicated 11 security experts and more than 40…
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Meta Joins OpenAI and Anthropic in Reporting AI Exploit Incident
One of Meta’s AI models exploited a third-party security flaw during an evaluation, the latest in a series of similar incidents involving advanced AI systems First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/meta-ai-exploit-incident/
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Patch Me If You Can, The VPN, the Backup Server, and the Browser Zero-Day
Actively exploited VPN, browser and backup vulnerabilities show why effective patching depends on risk-based cybersecurity governance, not perfect security. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/patch-me-if-you-can-the-vpn-the-backup-server-and-the-browser-zero-day/
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Apple’s bug bounty program is drowning in so much AI slop, it is in danger of missing serious exploits
Apple has imposed strict new submission limits on its bug bounty portal after finding itself overwhelmed by low-quality, AI generated vulnerability reports – many of which were found to be describing security flaws that simply didn’t exist. First seen on bitdefender.com Jump to article: www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/apple-bug-bounty-ai-missing-exploits
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U.S. CISA adds a JetBrains TeamCity flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a JetBrains TeamCity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. At the end of July, JetBrains released security updates for TeamCity…
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Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access
Attackers broke into an organization’s Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle compile it into stored schema objects, and ran commands from inside the database engine.Huntress, which tracks the…
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OpenAI Agents Worked Together to Find Exploits and Hack External Systems
OpenAI has revealed new details about an incident involving AI agents, in which multiple autonomous agents reportedly worked together to identify vulnerabilities, bypass containment measures, and gain access to external systems during a cybersecurity evaluation. Speaking at the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas, OpenAI alignment researcher Eric Wallace and security and infrastructure specialist Michael…
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CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild
Tags: access, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, data, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityA newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of deserialization of untrusted data that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with access to a TeamCity…
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Anthropic-KI manipuliert Menschen per E-Mail, um Schadcode in Software einzuschleusen
First seen on t3n.de Jump to article: t3n.de/news/anthropic-ki-manipuliert-menschen-per-e-mail-um-schadcode-in-software-einzuschleusen-1756393/
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CISA Alerts Issues on Actively Exploited TeamCity Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data-breach, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical vulnerability in JetBrains TeamCity, tracked as CVE-2026-63077, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog due to evidence of active exploitation. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on vulnerable TeamCity On-Premises servers exposed via HTTP or HTTPS. CISA Issues on TeamCity RCE…
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Hackers Abuse Cloud Startup Credits to Resell Claude and Gemini AI Access
Threat actors are exploiting free cloud trials and startup credit programs to build gray-market AI proxy services. These services resell discounted access to advanced AI models, including Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, according to Okta Threat Intelligence. These services rely on fraudulent or synthetic account registrations to accumulate promotional credits offered by cloud providers. The…
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Thousands of servers can be backdoored by exploiting buggy motherboard controllers
Tags: exploitBaseboard management controllers from the world’s biggest manufacturers are a security mess. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/08/thousands-of-servers-can-be-backdoored-by-exploiting-buggy-motherboard-controllers/
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Phoenix Security Launches Exploit Hunt to Validate Vulnerabilities With AI-Generated Exploits
Phoenix Security has launched Exploit Hunt, an AI red-team capability that works from a live threat model and reports a vulnerability only after generating and validating a runnable proof-of-concept exploit. Announced Aug. 5 and timed to Black Hat USA 2026, Exploit Hunt is available now in Phoenix Purple. It can run continuously, on every pull..…
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Metasploit Opens Its Exploit Engine to LLMs via New MCP Integration
If there was any reason to patch your systems, this would be it: The release of Metasploit 6.5, which brings the penetration testing framework into the AI age. Now, script kiddies and sophisticated foreign operatives don’t even have to cut and paste their code to break into your systems. They can just ask Metasploit to..…
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Hackers run khunt post-exploitation toolkit from Oracle database
Hackers exploited a SQL injection vulnerability to install a post-exploitation toolkit directly inside an Oracle database that was used to breach a corporate network. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-run-khunt-post-exploitation-toolkit-from-oracle-database/
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CrowdStrike Warns AI Adoption Is Creating ‘Underdefended’ Attack Surfaces
CrowdStrike warns that AI adoption, rapid vulnerability exploitation, cloud attacks, and malicious npm packages are creating new enterprise security risks. The post CrowdStrike Warns AI Adoption Is Creating ‘Underdefended’ Attack Surfaces appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-crowdstrike-ai-underdefended-attack-surfaces/
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Flaws in Google APK for Python Unlock AgentAgent Attack
Google has fixed the issues, which exploited a trust boundary between two AI agents with different privilege levels to trigger automation that could compromise the supply chain. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/flaws-google-apk-python-agent-to-agent-attack
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COLDCARD security audit phishing attack installs remote access tool
A phishing campaign is exploiting fears surrounding the recently disclosed COLDCARD wallet vulnerability and suspected $88.6 million Bitcoin theft to trick users into installing ScreenConnect remote access software. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/coldcard-security-audit-phishing-attack-installs-remote-access-tool/
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U.S. CISA adds Langflow, Apache Tomcat, and N-able N-central flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Langflow, Apache Tomcat, and N-able N-central flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: The first issue added to the catalog, tracked as CVE-2026-9198, is a critical issue in IBM…
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CISA warns of hackers exploiting Langflow, N-central, Apache Tomcat flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is giving federal agencies three days to mitigate vulnerabilities in IBM Langflow, N-central, and Apache Tomcat, all actively exploited. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-of-hackers-exploiting-langflow-n-central-apache-tomcat-flaws/
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Terra Security Adds Prevention Rules to Its Offensive Security Platform
Terra Security has launched Prevention, a capability that turns confirmed exploit findings into targeted Web Application Firewall or firewall rules while a permanent fix is still in progress. The feature is part of Terra Platform. When Terra confirms that a finding is exploitable, its AI agents test whether existing compensating controls stop that attack path……
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Hackers Smuggle Post-Exploitation Toolkit Into Oracle Database Via Classic SQL Injection Flaw
A SQL injection vulnerability that many organisations might consider a decades-old, well-understood threat has been used as the entry point for a far more sophisticated attack, after threat actors were caught planting a custom-built, database-resident toolkit inside an Oracle database. Security firm Huntress said it was alerted to suspicious activity on an endpoint hosting an…
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Researchers Document Instance of AI Agent Being Used to Hack Other Agents
Pilar Security researchers have documented what they describe as the first instance of an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that could be used to exploit another AI agent. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/08/researchers-document-instance-of-ai-agent-being-used-to-hack-other-agents/
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New OVSwrap Linux Kernel Flaw Lets Local Users Gain Root via Open vSwitch
A memory corruption flaw in the Linux kernel’s Open vSwitch datapath gives ordinary local users a path to root on a broad set of default-configured distributions, and a public exploit ships with pre-built records for roughly 800 kernel builds.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-64531 (CVSS score: 7.8) and codenamed OVSwrap by its discoverer, was disclosed by…
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Mythos 5: KI erschafft FakeMails
Mythos 5 erstellt Fake-Identitäten, verschickt Phishing-Mails und versucht, reale Entwickler mit Schadcode zu manipulieren. First seen on tarnkappe.info Jump to article: tarnkappe.info/artikel/cyberangriffe/mythos-5-fake-identitaeten-phishing-mails-332137.html
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Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft
GitGuardian researchers found 321 n8n instances accepting API tokens exposed in public GitHub commits and demonstrated four ways attackers could use them to access sensitive data and downstream credentials without exploiting a software vulnerability.We scanned public GitHub commits for exposed n8n API tokens and identified 4,576 unique credentials associated with 1,255 hostnames. Of the 896…
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15 TP-Link Omada Flaws Exploit Zero-Touch Provisioning to Hijack Devices and Infiltrate Networks
Security researchers have disclosed 15 vulnerabilities in TP-Link’s Omada zero-touch provisioning (ZTP) ecosystem, which can be exploited to hijack devices, compromise controllers, expose credentials, and create access points into internal networks. The research, titled >>Zero Day Provisioning,<< was presented at Black Hat USA 2026 and focuses on weaknesses in the trust relationships that enable Omada…