Tag: exploit
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Anthropic Mythos: Separating Signal from Hype
The recent buzz around Anthropic’s Mythos model has been intense, and for good reason. Early reports suggest a model that significantly advances automated reasoning over large codebases, vulnerability discovery, and exploit generation. Some are already calling it a “game changer” for offensive security. But like most breakthroughs in AI, the reality is more nuanced. Let’s unpack what Mythos is,……
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Hackers Are Using GitHub and Jira to Bypass Your Security
The modern enterprise runs on collaboration tools. Platforms like GitHub and Jira are deeply embedded in daily workflows, powering everything from development to project management. But that same trust is now being weaponized. New reporting from Cyber Security News reveals how attackers are exploiting notification systems within these platforms to deliver malicious payloads. Instead of…
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Microsoft drops its second-largest monthly batch of defects on record
The vendor disclosed one actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint that allows attackers to view information and make changes to disclosed information. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-patch-tuesday-april-2026/
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Microsoft’s April 2026 Patch Tuesday Addresses 163 CVEs (CVE-2026-32201)
Tags: advisory, api, attack, best-practice, cloud, container, cve, cvss, cyber, data, exploit, firewall, firmware, flaw, framework, github, Internet, malicious, microsoft, mitigation, office, powershell, rce, remote-code-execution, service, software, sql, startup, tool, update, vulnerability, windows, zero-day8Critical 154Important 1Moderate 0Low Microsoft addresses 163 CVEs in the April 2026 Patch Tuesday release, including two zero-day vulnerabilities, one of which was exploited in the wild. Microsoft patched 163 CVEs in its April 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with eight rated critical, 154 rated as important and one rated as moderate. This is the second…
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Your Fraud Detection Model Is Already Too Late to the Party
Real-Time Payments, AI-Led Exploits Are Exposing Flaws Fraud Detection Can’t Catch For years, fraud prevention has followed a familiar script. A transaction is initiated. A model evaluates it. Fraud still gets detected as it happens or after it occurs. But this model is breaking down with the rise of instant payments and artificial intelligence tools.…
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Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Critical PDF Flaw Exploited For Months
Adobe patches a critical PDF flaw exploited for months, allowing attackers to bypass sandbox protections and deliver malware. Users urged to update now. The post Adobe Issues Emergency Patch for Critical PDF Flaw Exploited For Months appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-adobe-critical-pdf-flaw-exploited-months-emergency-patch/
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McGraw-Hill confirms data breach following extortion threat
Education company McGraw-Hill has confirmed in a statement to BleepingComputer that hackers exploited a Salesforce misconfiguration and accessed its internal data. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mcgraw-hill-confirms-data-breach-following-extortion-threat/
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New PHP Composer Flaws Enable Arbitrary Command Execution, Patches Released
Two high-severity security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Composer, a package manager for PHP, that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary command execution.The vulnerabilities have been described as command injection flaws affecting the Perforce VCS (version control software) driver. Details of the two flaws are below -CVE-2026-40176 (CVSS First seen on thehackernews.com Jump to…
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AI-Driven Pushpaganda Scam Exploits Google Discover to Spread Scareware and Ad Fraud
Cybersecurity researchers have unmasked a novel ad fraud scheme that has been found to leverage search engine poisoning (SEO) techniques and artificial intelligence (AI)-generated content to push deceptive news stories into Google’s Discover feed and trick users into enabling persistent browser notifications that lead to scareware and financial scams.The campaign, which has been First seen…
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Adobe fixes PDF zero-day security bug that hackers have exploited for months
It’s not clear how many people were compromised by this hacking campaign, but a security researcher said the hackers were targeting victims since at least November 2025. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/04/14/adobe-fixes-pdf-zero-day-security-bug-that-hackers-have-exploited-for-months/
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Claude Mythos Changed Everything. Your APIs Are the First Target.
Tags: access, ai, api, attack, breach, ceo, crowdstrike, cyber, cybersecurity, data, endpoint, exploit, finance, flaw, infrastructure, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-dayAnthropic just released Claude Mythos Preview. They did not make it publicly available. That decision alone should tell you everything you need to know about what this model can do. During internal testing, Mythos autonomously discovered and exploited zero-day vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. It found a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD.…
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CISA Alerts on Exploited Microsoft Exchange and Windows CLFS Security Flaws
Tags: cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a high-priority alert regarding two actively exploited security vulnerabilities in Microsoft products. Added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on April 13, 2026, these flaws impact the Microsoft Windows Common Log File System (CLFS) and Microsoft Exchange Server. Federal agencies and private organizations are strongly…
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AI Codex Exploits Samsung TV Driver Flaw to Gain Root Access
A new experiment has shown how an AI coding assistant, Codex, can independently escalate privileges on a Samsung Smart TV by abusing dangerously exposed kernel drivers in Samsung’s KantS2 Tizen firmware. Working from an existing browser foothold, Codex chained together source-code auditing, physical memory access, and credential tampering to turn a sandboxed browser process into…
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Attackers target unpatched ShowDoc servers via CVE-2025-0520
A critical RCE flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520, in ShowDoc is being actively exploited, putting unpatched servers at serious risk. A critical remote code execution flaw, tracked as CVE-2025-0520 (CVSS score of 9.4), affecting ShowDoc is under active exploitation in the wild. ShowDoc is an online tool that helps IT teams share documents and improve collaboration…
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Hackers Exploit Obsidian Plugin to Deploy Cross-Platform Malware
Hackers are abusing Obsidian’s Shell Commands plugin and shared cloud vaults to deliver a new cross”‘platform malware chain that ends with the PHANTOMPULSE remote access trojan. Attackers pose as a venture capital firm targeting financial and cryptocurrency professionals, first engaging over LinkedIn and then moving conversations to Telegram group chats with multiple fake “partners” to…
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Hackers Exploit Critical ShowDoc RCE Flaw in Ongoing Attacks
Tags: attack, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, hacker, rce, remote-code-execution, risk, software, vulnerabilityCybersecurity researchers have highlighted a critical vulnerability in ShowDoc, a widely used online document-sharing platform designed for IT teams. Tracked as CNVD-2020-26585, this severe security flaw allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on compromised servers. The vulnerability poses a significant risk to organizations relying on outdated versions of the software for internal collaboration, as it…
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Hackers Exploit Kali Forms Vulnerability to Take Over WordPress Sites
A recently disclosed Kali Forms vulnerability affecting a widely used WordPress plugin has escalated into an active security threat, enabling unauthenticated attackers to achieve Remote Code Execution on affected websites. The flaw impacts Kali Forms, a drag-and-drop form builder with more than 10,000 active installations, and has already been exploited in the wild shortly after…
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U.S. CISA adds Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: adobe, apple, cisa, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, kev, microsoft, vulnerability, windowsU.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Adobe, Fortinet, Microsoft Exchange Server, and Microsoft Windows flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Apple, Laravel Livewire and Craft CMS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Below are the flaws added to the catalog: Last week,…
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Dark Web Article Contest Offers $10,000 for Exploit Writing on TierOne Forum
In an unusual development within the underground cyber world, a dark web article contest has been announced on a well-known dark web forum, TierOne forum. The initiative is backed by a $10,000 prize pool. The contest places a spotlight on technical writing centered around vulnerability exploitation, offering insight into how knowledge is shared and rewarded in these spaces. First…
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CISA Warns Fortinet SQL Injection Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited
Tags: cisa, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, injection, kev, sql, threat, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an urgent warning regarding a critical security flaw in Fortinet software. On April 13, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-21643 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. This action confirms that threat actors are actively exploiting this weakness in real-world cyberattacks. CISA maintains this authoritative database to help…
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ShowDoc RCE Flaw CVE-2025-0520 Actively Exploited on Unpatched Servers
A critical security vulnerability impacting ShowDoc, a document management and collaboration service popular in China, has come under active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2025-0520 (aka CNVD-2020-26585), which carries a CVSS score of 9.4 out of 10.0.It relates to a case of unrestricted file upload that stems from improper validation of First…
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CISA Adds 6 Known Exploited Flaws in Fortinet, Microsoft, and Adobe Software
Tags: adobe, cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, fortinet, infrastructure, injection, microsoft, software, sql, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added half a dozen security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation.The list of vulnerabilities is as follows -CVE-2026-21643 (CVSS score: 9.1) – An SQL injection vulnerability in Fortinet FortiClient EMS that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to First seen on thehackernews.com…
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Anthropic’s Mythos signals a structural cybersecurity shift
Tags: access, ai, attack, business, ciso, control, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, defense, exploit, governance, network, offense, risk, supply-chain, technology, updateClaude Mythos Preview is a step up: A separate analysis from the UK’s AI Security Institute (AISI) evaluated Mythos Preview itself.The evaluations involved both capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and more complex ranges designed to simulate multi-step attack scenarios, where the model outperformed other AI systems.Mythos Preview came out on top in a 32-step corporate network attack…
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Claude Mythos Could Flood Vendors With Fixes They Deferred
Ex-Microsoft CIO: Mythos Could Surface Known Flaws Faster Than Vendors Can Fix Them. Former Microsoft CIO Jim DuBois and IDC’s Frank Dickson say Claude Mythos Preview could rapidly surface long-known but unfixed software flaws at scale, forcing vendors and enterprises to strengthen patch validation, orchestration and deployment before attackers exploit the backlog. First seen on…
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CSA: CISOs Should Prepare for Post-Mythos Exploit Storm
Security experts warn of an AI vulnerability storm triggered by the introduction of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos in a new paper from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA). First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cloud-security/csa-cisos-prepare-post-mythos-exploit-storm
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Adobe Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day That Lingered for Months
An attacker has been using maliciously crafted PDF files to exploit a zero-day in Adobe Acrobat and Reader for at least four months. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/adobe-patches-actively-exploited-zero-day
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Why Network Monitoring Alone Misses Application Attacks
Tags: application-security, attack, defense, detection, exploit, monitoring, network, tool, vulnerability, waf<div cla TL;DR Network security monitoring excels at traffic analysis and perimeter defense, yet research shows WAF alerts generate overwhelming noise with minimal correlation to actual exploit attempts. The gap exists because network tools operate at the packet level or network edge, while application attacks exploit vulnerabilities during code execution. Runtime application security through Application…
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On Anthropic’s Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing
The cybersecurity industry is obsessing over Anthropic’s new model, Claude Mythos Preview, and its effects on cybersecurity. Anthropic said that it is not releasing it to the general public because of its cyberattack capabilities, and has launched Project Glasswing to run the model against a whole slew of public domain and proprietary software, with the…
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Coupon Glittering Explained: How Bots Exploit Promo Codes
Tags: exploitCoupon glittering is the umbrella term for using coupons, promo codes, or discounts in a way they weren’t meant to be used. Learn how to stop it. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/04/coupon-glittering-explained-how-bots-exploit-promo-codes/
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Adobe rolls out emergency fix for Acrobat, Reader zero-day flaw
Adobe has released an emergency security update for Acrobat Reader to fix a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-34621, that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since at least December. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/adobe-rolls-out-emergency-fix-for-acrobat-reader-zero-day-flaw/