Tag: exploit
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We now have a better understanding how OpenAI hacked into Hugging Face
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/jfrog-tries-to-spin-openai-0-day-exploit-of-its-app-into-a-success-story/
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JFrog tries to spin OpenAI 0-day exploit of its app into a success story
10 days passed from OpenAI models exploiting JFrog Artifactory 0-day to release of a patch. First seen on arstechnica.com Jump to article: arstechnica.com/security/2026/07/jfrog-tries-to-spin-openai-0-day-exploit-of-its-app-into-a-success-story/
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FastJson RCE Zero-Day Actively Targets Organizations
Threat actors are actively exploiting the FastJson CVE-2026-16723 zero-day, with no patch available for affected FastJson 1.x versions. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/fastjson-rce-zero-day-actively-targets-organizations/
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OpenAI models used Artifactory zero-days to escape to the internet
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in self-hosted Artifactory servers to help escape an isolated testing environment and gain access to the internet before attacking Hugging Face. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-models-used-artifactory-zero-days-to-escape-to-the-internet/
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Claude AI Just Cracked a Post-Quantum Test Scheme and Found a Faster 7-Round AES Attack
Anthropic says Claude Mythos Preview helped derive an end-to-end key-recovery attack against HAWK-256 and a 200- to 800-fold speedup for an attack on seven-round AES-128.The HAWK attack exploits a previously unused symmetry in the lattice behind the signature scheme. Anthropic’s released implementation gives an expected end-to-end runtime of about three hours and 42 minutes on…
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Many More Bugs But Exploits Stay Steady
Data Shows Hackers Not Using More Exploits, But They Are Exploiting Flaws Quicker. The coming of the vulnocalypse – our artificial intelligence-instigated moment of drastically accelerating flaw discovery – has yet to be matched with an equivalent rise in exploits, shows analysis of common vulnerabilities and exposure data from the first half of this year.…
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vBulletin fixes critical pre-auth RCE flaw with public exploit
A critical vulnerability in the vBulletin forum software allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code through template rendering. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/vbulletin-fixes-critical-pre-auth-rce-flaw-with-public-exploit/
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AI-assisted security tools are finding more bugs, but the threat level has not changed
Analysis from vulnerability intelligence firm VulnCheck shows AI-discovered flaws aren’t being exploited any faster than traditional ones. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-assisted-security-tools-are-finding-more-bugs-but-the-threat-level-has-not-changed/
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Fake Claude Code Installer Delivers MacSync macOS Infostealer Through Google Ads
A highly convincing malvertising campaign is targeting macOS users searching for “how to install Claude Code on Mac,” delivering the MacSync infostealer through a trusted-looking workflow that abuses legitimate infrastructure rather than exploiting software vulnerabilities. The attack highlights a growing shift toward trust-based compromise, where attackers weaponize authentic platforms such as Google Ads and claude.ai…
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JFrog Confirms OpenAI Models Exploited Artifactory Zero-Day Before Hugging Face Breach
JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment.Artifactory is JFrog’s software repository manager. OpenAI says the models then escalated privileges and moved laterally until they reached an internet-connected node. JFrog says it has since developed and released fixes for…
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AI-Discovered Linux Kernel Zero-Day Enables Root Privilege Escalation
A researcher recently disclosed an AI-assisted Linux kernel zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-53264, which allows local privilege escalation to root on affected systems. This flaw is found in the Linux packet scheduling subsystem (net/sched) and arises from a use-after-free condition involving traffic-control action objects. AI-Discovered Linux Kernel Zero-Day Star Labs researcher developed a reliable exploit…
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Researcher Says AI Helped Develop Linux Traffic-Control Race Into Root Exploit
STAR Labs has published a Linux kernel exploit that turns an ordinary local user into root on the CentOS Stream 9 build it targeted. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-53264 (CVSS score: 7.8), is a use-after-free race in the kernel’s network traffic-control subsystem.Researcher Lee Jia Jie said artificial intelligence (AI) helped him find the bug and…
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U.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the KeV catalog: CVE-2025-68686 is an…
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LegacyHive Exploit Abuses Windows Profile Loading to Hijack User Registry Hives
LegacyHive is a newly discovered proof-of-concept (PoC) for Windows that exploits profile initialization and offline registry hive manipulation to redirect user-level registry paths, potentially allowing access to resources associated with another account. This technique was published by the Nightmare-Eclipse disclosure actor shortly after Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday. Unlike traditional software vulnerabilities, LegacyHive chains legitimate…
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Attackers Exploit Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Command Injection Flaw
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of operating system command injection that could pave the way for arbitrary code execution.”VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem has a security issue where this issue First…
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CheckPoint authentication bypass bug exploited, added to CISA list
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/news/checkpoint-authentication-bypass-bug-exploited-added-to-cisa-list
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Hackers target US firms in FastJson RCE zero-day attacks
Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the FastJson open-source Java library, allowing remote code execution without user interaction or elevated privileges. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-target-us-firms-in-fastjson-rce-zero-day-attacks/
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Arista patches VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks
Arista has patched a maximum-severity command injection vulnerability in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator deployments that is being actively exploited in attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/arista-patches-velocloud-orchestrator-zero-day-exploited-in-attacks/
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New Certighost PoC exploit lets attackers hijack Windows domains
A proof-of-concept exploit for “Certighost,” a Windows Active Directory Certificate Services vulnerability, has been released that can allow authenticated attackers to potentially compromise a Windows domain. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/new-certighost-poc-exploit-lets-attackers-hijack-windows-domains/
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Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw
Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP’s eval() function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched forum server. The attack requires no account, administrative access, or interaction from another user.SSD Secure Disclosure lists vBulletin 6.2.1 and earlier, and 6.1.6 and earlier, as affected, but does not…
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âš¡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More
Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up.This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found new work, exposed systems stayed exposed, and attackers kept hiding inside normal-looking services. Nothing looked strange at first. That helped.That is the mood. Here is the full recap.âš¡ Threat of the…
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PoC exploit released for critical AD CS domain-takeover flaw (CVE-2026-54121)
Security researchers who discovered and reported CVE-2026-54121 (aka >>Certighost<<), a critical privilege elevation vulnerability in Active Directory Certificate … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/07/27/certighost-cve-2026-54121-poc-exploit-released/
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Claude Opus 5 Finds Software Vulnerabilities While Blocking Exploit Generation
Claude Opus 5, the latest flagship AI model from Anthropic, represents a significant shift in how advanced systems can be safely utilized in cybersecurity. This model can proactively identify software vulnerabilities while specifically preventing the generation of exploits and offensive usage. Announced on July 24, 2026, Opus 5 is positioned as a high-end, general-purpose intelligence…
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GitLab Users Urged to Patch After Research Reveals Critical RCE Chain
Researchers chained two Oj parser bugs to achieve GitLab RCE via Jupyter notebook diffs, affecting authenticated users on unpatched versions. Depthfirst researchers published a working remote code execution exploit for GitLab on July 24, chaining two memory corruption bugs in Oj, a Ruby JSON parser with a native C implementation, into full command execution inside…
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vBulletin Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Allows Remote PHP Code Execution
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in vBulletin, tracked as CVE-2026-61511, could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable forum servers. This issue affects vBulletin versions 6.2.1 and earlier, as well as 6.1.6 and earlier, according to a July 27, 2026, disclosure from SSD Secure Disclosure. If exploited successfully, this vulnerability…
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Crypto Criminals Use Social Media Profiling to Select Victims for Violent Wrench Attacks
Crypto criminals are increasingly weaponizing social media intelligence to identify and target high-value individuals in a surge of violent “wrench attacks,” marking a shift from purely digital exploitation to coordinated physical coercion campaigns. Recent threat intelligence indicates that attackers are systematically profiling cryptocurrency holders using publicly available data across platforms such as Instagram, TikTok, X,…
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In the Mythos era, security belongs at runtime
Frontier AI cut time-to-exploit from years to hours. Why defense now has to happen at runtime. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/spons/in-the-mythos-era-security-belongs-at-runtime/825478/
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Iranian Hackers Exploit Rockwell, Schneider and Siemens PLCs Across U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Tags: advisory, automation, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, hacker, infrastructure, Internet, iran, technology, threatIranian-affiliated advanced persistent threat (APT) actors are actively exploiting internet-connected programmable logic controllers (PLCs) from major industrial vendors, including Rockwell Automation, Schneider Electric, and Siemens, targeting U.S. critical infrastructure sectors. A joint cybersecurity advisory (AA26-097A) released by the FBI, CISA, NSA, DOE, EPA, Treasury, and U.S. Cyber Command highlights sustained exploitation activity against operational technology…
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Windows WalletService Flaw Lets Standard Users Gain SYSTEM Privileges
Microsoft Windows WalletService is affected by a local privilege escalation vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-49176. This flaw could allow a standard authenticated user to obtain SYSTEM-level privileges. The vulnerability arises from WalletService’s handling of user-controlled file paths during initialization. An attacker can exploit this by redirecting the service to a maliciously crafted Extensible Storage Engine (ESE)…