Tag: injection
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U.S. CISA adds a Progress LoadMaster flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityU.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Progress LoadMaster vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score of 9.6), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability is an OS Command Injection Remote Code Execution issue…
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Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress”¯Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary First seen on…
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Metabase SQLi zero-day exploited in customer data-theft attacks
A critical Metabase SQL injection vulnerability was exploited in zero-day attacks to breach customer instances in data theft attacks, known to impact Framework and Tally. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/framework-tally-disclose-metabase-data-theft-attacks/
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CVE-2026-16812: Critical Command Injection in Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator
First seen on resecurity.com Jump to article: www.resecurity.com/blog/article/cve-2026-16812-critical-command-injection-in-arista-velocloud-orchestrator
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Claude in Chrome Exploit Lets Attackers Steal Gmail Codes and Take Over Slack, X, and Claude.ai Accounts
Security researchers have demonstrated an indirect prompt-injection chain affecting Claude in Chrome that can transform a standard request, such as summarizing recent emails, into a cross-account takeover scenario. The research reveals how untrusted content viewed by an AI browser agent can exploit authenticated browser sessions to steal email-delivered verification secrets and compromise accounts on services…
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Ramin Farassat on how Menlo Security is securing AI agents from prompt injection
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/resource/ramin-farassat-on-how-menlo-security-is-securing-ai-agents-from-prompt-injection
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Prompt injection remains top LLM threat, OWASP report finds
First seen on scworld.com Jump to article: www.scworld.com/brief/prompt-injection-remains-top-llm-threat-owasp-report-finds
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New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs
An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run.MIT CSAIL researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan named the technique INTERRUPT INJECTION. On an AMD Zen 2 machine running Linux 6.14…
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Toolkit Hidden Inside Oracle Database Evades Endpoint Tools
Attackers used SQL injection to compile a post-exploitation toolkit inside an Oracle database First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/khunt-toolkit-oracle-database-sql/
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AI Recommendation Poisoning: How “Ask AI” Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory
A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links.We observed production websites embedding hidden prompt injection payloads inside “Ask AI” buttons on marketing and competitor comparison pages.…
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KHunt Toolkit Turns Oracle SQL Injection Into SYSTEM-Level RCE and Credential Theft
Tags: credentials, cyber, data, infrastructure, injection, oracle, rce, remote-code-execution, sql, theft, threatKHunt shows how a “routine” SQL injection against an Oracle”‘backed web app can be weaponized into SYSTEM”‘level remote code execution and credential theft by compiling a full post”‘exploitation toolkit directly inside the database engine. This incident materially shifts the Oracle threat model: the database itself becomes attacker infrastructure, not just a data store. Subsequent triage…
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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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Cisco Patches 7 IOS XE Vulnerability Classes, Including Critical Command Injection Flaws
Cisco has released security-hardening updates for IOS XE Software that address seven classes of vulnerabilities, including a critical command, operating system, and argument injection category identified as CVE-2026-20272. The advisory, released on August 5, has an overall CVSS score of 3.1 and 9.8 and provides no workarounds, meaning that upgrading is the only recommended solution.…
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AI Attacks Are Evolving: TryHackMe Demo Explores Prompt Injection
TryHackMe demo: Explore how prompt injection is reshaping AI security risks. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/ai-attacks-are-evolving-tryhackme-demo-explores-prompt-injection/
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No Perfect Fix for AI Browser Prompt Injection Flaws
AI browsers from top vendors remain vulnerable to prompt injection attacks despite multiple security guardrails, according to new research. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/application-security/no-perfect-fix-ai-browser-prompt-injection-flaws
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Oracle SQL Injection Attack Enables Remote Code Execution
A Huntress investigation reveals how attackers used SQL injection to achieve RCE and steal credentials. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/threats/oracle-sql-injection-attack-enables-remote-code-execution/
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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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OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Tests Show Prompt-Injection Gains and Agent Risks
OpenAI’s latest GPT-5.6 safety results show low failure rates for direct prompt injection but higher success rates when attacks arrive through tools and external content. The post OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Tests Show Prompt-Injection Gains and Agent Risks appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-gpt-5-6-prompt-injection/
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Menlo Security Extends MARS to Protect AI Assistants and Coding Agents
Menlo Security has expanded Menlo Agent Runtime Security, or MARS, with controls aimed at protecting AI assistants and coding agents from prompt injection, malware and data loss as they browse the web, use applications and process files. The company is highlighting the update at Black Hat USA 2026. MARS is a cloud-based capability in Menlo’s..…
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Aembit Adds Workload Identity Federation Support for the Claude API
5 min readToday, we’re announcing the Aembit Claude Workload Identity Federation Credential Provider, the latest addition to Aembit’s growing Claude support. Aembit already covers a lot of ground with Claude: workloads can authenticate to the Claude API using static API key injection, Claude Web and the Claude App are supported as Client Workloads, direct API…
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Menlo Security Extends Platform Reach to AI Agents
Menlo Security today at the Black Hat USA conference extended its cloud platform to secure artificial intelligence (AI) agents at runtime by sanitizing the web pages and files they read to neutralize prompt injection attacks and block data exfiltration. Company CEO Bill Robbins said the Menlo Agent Runtime Security (MARS) platform created to isolate browsers..…
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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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Prompt Injection Remains Biggest LLM Risk, Despite Limited Incidents
Prompt injection remains the most dangerous security threat to LLMs, according to OWASP’s latest Top 10 LLM Applications list First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/prompt-injection-llm-risk/
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CISA Flags Langflow RCE, Tomcat, and N-central Flaws as Actively Exploited
Tags: cisa, cve, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, infrastructure, injection, kev, rce, remote-code-execution, vulnerabilityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on August 5, 2026, added three flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild.The list of vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2026-9198 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A code injection vulnerability in Langflow that allows unauthenticated attackers to achieve full…
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30 days with Claude Mythos Preview: How Tenable adapted our security program, and why yours is next
Tags: ai, api, attack, business, control, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, endpoint, exploit, flaw, injection, LLM, remote-code-execution, risk, service, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityTenable spent 30 days running frontier AI models against our own code. It didn’t just find bugs, it proved they’re real, with reproducible exploits. That fundamentally changes code security from ranking potential code defects to a much higher signal focused on the findings that matter. Read on to learn how it reshaped our security team’s…
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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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Anthropic’s Opus 5 Is Better at Resisting Prompt Injection
Tags: injectionThe chart is interesting. On the IPI benchmark, Opus 5 improved over Opus 4.8, reducing the probability of an attacker succeeding within 15 attempts from 5.5% to 2.0%, and from 0.5% to 0.2% on 1 attempt. It also improved on Sonnet 5 (5.9% at k=15) and Mythos 5 (2.6%), making it the most robust model…