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Source: Dark Reading

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Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency

Threat actors exploited old unpatched ownCloud vulnerabilities to breach the Philippines nuclear agency, stealing reactor databases, personnel records, and credentials.

Attackers used commodity vulnerabilities in ownCloud as their initial access vector to compromise the Philippines nuclear agency. Stolen data reportedly includes reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores. The flaws had gone unpatched, allowing sustained access to internal systems. The incident underscores continued exploitation of known file-sharing vulnerabilities against critical infrastructure targets.

Dark Reading · 13d agoData breach in the wild

AI Model Evaluator METR Hit by Credential Theft, Probing

Threat actors stole an API key from AI evaluator METR and consumed $600,000 in public model credits; a second campaign probed its infrastructure.

Dark Reading reports that AI model evaluation nonprofit METR suffered a credential theft in which attackers obtained an API key that led to consumption of $600,000 worth of public AI model inference credits. METR also faced a separate sustained campaign in which financially motivated actors probed its publicly accessible infrastructure and attempted initial access via credential stuffing and OAuth token grants. No evidence of access to sensitive information was reported in either incident.

Dark Reading · 14d agoData breach in the wild