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ZDI-26-636: Oracle Outside In Technology PostScript File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a heap-based buffer overflow in Oracle Outside In Technology's PostScript parsing (CVE-2026-60412) enabling user-triggered remote code execution.

Zero Day Initiative published ZDI-26-636, a CVSS 7.8 heap-based buffer overflow in PostScript file parsing within Oracle Outside In Technology. Remote attackers can execute arbitrary code when the target opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page, making user interaction a requirement. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-60412. The advisory reports no exploitation.

ZDI Published Advisories · 8d agoVulnerability 4 sourcesCVE-2026-604121

German Manufacturer Shrinks Security Alert Response While Protecting 10,000 Endpoints

Vendor case study: a German manufacturer's five-person SOC cut alert triage time using ANY.RUN's cloud sandbox across 10,000 endpoints.

ANY.RUN published a case study in which a five-person security team at an unnamed German manufacturer replaced an air-gapped forensic laptop with its cloud-managed interactive sandbox, protecting roughly 10,000 endpoints and 10,000 users. The vendor claims a median 15 minutes saved per alert, 20-40 daily tasks processed, a 2.5-minute alert-to-isolation target, and a 95% agreement rate between analyst and sandbox verdicts; all figures are vendor-supplied with the customer identity withheld. The writeup also describes detonating a multi-stage phishing chain from a PDF link to a password-protected ZIP to malware execution.

Cyber Security Newsupdated · 5h agofirst · 22h agoIndustry 3 sources

ACEA: An Adversarial Co-Evolution Arena for Head-to-Head Red-Team and Blue-Team LLM Testing

ACEA is a pluggable arena scoring LLM red-team attackers and blue-team defenses head-to-head with an LLM judge and verifiable leakage ground truth.

ACEA connects pluggable red- and blue-team adapters to a shared target LLM through the model-agnostic ASAP HTTP protocol and scores attack and defense rates per adversarial round. Canonical seeded secrets provide verifiable ground truth that separates real leakage from hallucination, and attacks are delivered to the target even when blocked to measure raw potency. The platform adds real-time battle visualization, failure-localizing end-of-battle reports, and an optional in-context improvement loop that feeds advisory hints between rounds.

arXiv cs.CR · 9d agoAI safety & security1

ANY.RUN & SentinelOne: One Workspace, Instant Context for Rapid Response

ANY.RUN integrates its interactive sandbox, IOC lookups, and STIX/TAXII threat feeds natively into SentinelOne for faster automated malware triage.

ANY.RUN and SentinelOne launched connectors that embed interactive sandbox analysis and threat intelligence into the SentinelOne console via Singularity Hyperautomation. Suspicious files and URLs from alerts are automatically submitted to the ANY.RUN sandbox, with behavioral verdicts and risk scores returned into alert notes. On-demand IOC lookups draw on sandbox history from 16,000 organizations and 700,000 analysts. A separate STIX/TAXII feed streams verified malicious IPs, domains, and URLs through the SentinelOne Marketplace TAXII Connect app.

ANY.RUN · 1d agoTools

Six new dnsmasq vulnerabilities open the door to DNS cache poisoning, local root

Six dnsmasq flaws enable DNS cache poisoning, DoS, memory leaks, and local root code execution; fixes ship in version 2.92rel2.

Researchers disclosed six dnsmasq vulnerabilities spanning memory safety and input validation, including heap buffer overflows in extract_name() and extract_addresses(), DNSSEC infinite-loop and out-of-bounds read flaws, and a DHCPv6 out-of-bounds write allowing local root code execution. Exploitation paths include DNS cache poisoning, bypassing security controls, remote denial of service, and local privilege escalation. Maintainers released version 2.92rel2 with fixes, and a stable 2.93 release is expected within weeks.

Help Net Security · 24d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-2291CVE-2026-4890CVE-2026-4891+3 CVEs

Inside AI-Powered WAF Detections: Architecture and Safety Controls

Akamai published a technical breakdown of the architecture and safety controls behind its AI-powered WAF detections.

Akamai published a technical blog post examining the architecture of its AI-powered web application firewall detections. Per the title, the piece covers the design and safety controls applied to machine-learning-based WAF detections.

Akamai Blog · 9d agoTools

N-able ships second N-central hotfix as attackers keep exploiting CVE-2026-18577

N-able shipped a second N-central hotfix as attackers actively exploit authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577, attributed to ransomware group Storm-1175.

N-able released Hotfix 2 (N-central 2026.3.1.10) to counter ongoing exploitation of CVE-2026-18577, an authentication bypass that evades the patch for the earlier CVE-2026-18556; exploitation was first detected on August 1, 2026. Post-exploitation includes using the Take Control feature to reach managed endpoints, registering a Cloudflare tunnel service for persistence, creating a 'veeam' domain account, resetting admin passwords, and disabling Microsoft and Sophos security tooling. Microsoft analysts link the activity to Storm-1175, which now deploys a new StormEncryptor ransomware strain instead of Medusa, often reaching data exfiltration and ransomware within days. Sophos and Huntress expanded the IOCs and warned that partners who patched late should treat environments as potentially compromised.

Help Net Security · Aug 12, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-18577CVE-2026-185561

Future-Proofing the Internet: Akamai Achieves End-to-End PQC

Akamai says it achieved end-to-end post-quantum cryptography across its network to future-proof internet traffic.

Akamai announced it has achieved end-to-end post-quantum cryptography (PQC) across its services. The company frames the move as future-proofing the internet against quantum decryption threats. No article text was available; details are limited to the announcement title.

Akamai Blog · 29d agoIndustry

Jev Ultrafast: A browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space

browser-use released Jev Ultrafast, an open-source browser agent that uses a dynamic, indexed action space for web automation.

Hacker News is linking to the browser-use Jev Ultrafast GitHub repository, described as a browser agent with a dynamic, indexed action space. The submission reached 40 points and 4 comments. The source text contains only submission metadata, so architecture and benchmark details are not available.

Hacker News · AI · 10h agoAI tools & infraHN 40↑ · 4 comments

ActGuard: Pre-execution Action Auditing against Indirect Prompt Injection in LLM Agents

ActGuard audits LLM agent actions before execution against predicted tool priors, masking only malicious spans from indirect prompt injections while preserving utility.

ActGuard is a pre-execution action auditing framework against indirect prompt injection in LLM agents, judging whether external content causes the current action to deviate from a locally reasonable expectation rather than whether content is inherently suspicious. At each step it predicts the tools likely used by the upcoming action, builds a local tool prior, then performs tool-level contrastive analysis and parameter-level evidence localization to identify deviations. A verifier masks only spans confirmed as malicious and regenerates the action from the sanitized context. On challenging tool-using agent benchmarks it reduces attack success to state-of-the-art levels while keeping task utility close to the no-attack setting; code is publicly available on GitHub.

arXiv cs.CR · 3d agoAI safety & security

Keys to the Kingdom: Erlang/OTP SSH Vulnerability Analysis and Exploits Observed in the Wild

Attackers actively exploit CVE-2025-32433, a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE in Erlang/OTP SSH, heavily targeting OT and critical infrastructure networks.

CVE-2025-32433 enables unauthenticated RCE in Erlang/OTP's SSH daemon via SSH connection protocol messages (codes >= 80) processed before authentication, affecting versions before OTP-27.3.3, OTP-26.2.5.11 and OTP-25.3.2.20. Unit 42 recorded a spike in exploitation between May 1-9, 2025, with 70% of detections on firewalls protecting OT networks, disproportionately affecting healthcare, agriculture, media and high technology. Observed payloads bind TCP-connected shells or launch Bash reverse shells to hosts like 146.103.40.203:6667, with randomized DNS lookups under dns.outbound.watchtowr.com indicating OAST-driven blind RCE validation.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2025-32433

Akamai Valkey Managed Database: Real-Time Memory for Enterprise AI

Akamai launched Valkey Managed Database, a low-latency in-memory data layer aimed at cutting AI inference costs and accelerating RAG.

Akamai introduced Valkey Managed Database, a managed in-memory data service based on the open-source Valkey project. The company positions it as real-time memory for enterprise AI, optimizing inference costs, accelerating retrieval-augmented generation, and powering real-time AI agents.

Akamai Blog · Aug 18, 2026AI tools & infra1

ActionSplice: In-Flight Action Editing for Interactive World Models

ActionSplice enables in-flight action editing in chunk-autoregressive video world models via a lightweight corrector, avoiding rollback or waiting for the next chunk.

ActionSplice is an inference framework that formulates in-flight action editing for chunk-autoregressive video world models as Counterfactual State Transport (CST), where a lightweight corrector transports the interrupted backbone-native representation toward the matched state induced by the revised action. The world model and sampler remain frozen, and sampling resumes without replaying completed evaluations. Across minWM-Wan Action2V and HY-WM1.5, the retargeting variant CST-R reduces rollback-relative LPIPS by 61.5% and 75.9% versus direct condition swapping, while the temporal-splicing variant CST-T reduces suffix LPIPS by 56.1% and 77.5% with 2.73x and 1.69x pixel-ready speedups over waiting.

Hugging Face daily papers · 9d agoAI research

Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses

Akamai published vendor marketing on how its platform defends customers against zero-day exploits before industry-wide disclosure.

Akamai published a blog post titled 'Zero-Day Dominance: How Akamai Defends Before the Industry Discloses'; no article body text was available. Based on the title, the piece promotes Akamai's capabilities for protecting customers from zero-day exploits ahead of public disclosure. No specific vulnerabilities, CVEs, incidents, or customers are identified.

Akamai Blog · 20d agoIndustry

The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026: From Model Risks to Agentic Security

Akamai analyzes the OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications 2026, which shifts focus from model-level risks to agentic AI security.

The OWASP Top 10 for LLM Applications has been updated for 2026, and Akamai published an analysis of the revised list. Per the title, the 2026 edition shifts emphasis from model-level risks toward the security of agentic AI systems, framed as a realistic security model. No article body was available, so the specific ranked risk entries cannot be enumerated.

Akamai Blog · Aug 14, 2026AI safety & security

15 Minutes Saved Per Alert: How a Lean German Manufacturer Protects 10,000 Endpoints with ANY.RUN

A five-person security team at a German manufacturer protecting 10,000 endpoints cut triage time by 15 minutes per alert after adopting ANY.RUN's cloud sandbox.

Philipp Z., Security Lead at a leading German manufacturer, described how a five-person team protects 10,000 endpoints and users using ANY.RUN's Interactive Sandbox in a private cloud. The firm previously relied on a single air-gapped forensic laptop running Flare VM, which caused 5-10 minute setup delays, single-user bottlenecks, and selective triage. The switch reportedly saved roughly 15 minutes per alert and reduced forced wiping and reimaging of user machines. ANY.RUN data cited in the piece puts manufacturing security workloads 22% above other major industries.

ANY.RUN · 8d agoIndustry

Erlang security advisory (AV26-870)

Canada's Cyber Centre warns that multiple Erlang/OTP versions are affected by vulnerabilities and urges administrators to apply updates.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued advisory AV26-870 on September 1, 2026, noting vulnerabilities affecting Erlang OTP across multiple versions. The bulletin contains no CVE identifiers or exploitation details and directs users and administrators to Erlang's own security advisories to apply necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 15d agoAdvisory

Privilege escalation from IIS AppPool to NT Authority/SYSTEM

A write-up demonstrates privilege escalation from an IIS AppPool identity to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM via the AD CS RPC endpoint.

A technical write-up details a Windows privilege escalation path that moves an IIS application pool identity to NT AUTHORITY/SYSTEM by abusing the Active Directory Certificate Services RPC endpoint. The technique chains the restricted IIS AppPool service context with AD CS access to reach SYSTEM on the host. The post is relevant for defenders mapping privilege escalation paths on Windows web servers.

Lobsters · security · 17d agoResearch

Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) in FolkPatch due to Hardcoded Default SuperKey

A hardcoded default SuperKey in FolkPatch, an APatch-based kernel patching tool, enables local privilege escalation limited to FolkPatch's downstream code.

A disclosure posted to the oss-security mailing list describes a local privilege escalation (LPE) in FolkPatch caused by a hardcoded default SuperKey. FolkPatch is a downstream project based on APatch that utilizes its own custom KernelPatch. According to the post, the vulnerability is specific to FolkPatch's downstream modifications rather than upstream APatch or KernelPatch code.

oss-security · 4d agoVulnerability1

Release Notes: Faster TI Investigations, Fresh Threat Research, and 650+ Threat Coverage Updates

ANY.RUN August release adds TI Lookup connections view, 81 behavior signatures, 16 YARA rules, 559 Suricata rules, and three new threat intelligence reports.

ANY.RUN released August product updates expanding its Threat Intelligence Lookup with a Connections block for pivoting between related observables (domains, IPs, URLs), JSON export for retrohunting and SIEM/NDR integration, and hidden whitelisted data by default. Detection coverage grew with 81 new behavior signatures, 16 YARA rules, and 559 Suricata rules covering malware execution, phishing, and C2 traffic. Three new Threat Intelligence Reports cover a US-focused RMM phishing campaign across 46 countries, the Mirage2FA phishing-as-a-service targeting Microsoft 365 (1,249 sandbox sessions, 9,332 potential compromise events), and a threat brief on OVERLORD RAT, CRPX0, and TRIBACK loader.

ANY.RUN · 14d agoTools1

Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed

OpenAI previews Ultrafast, an API service tier running GPT-5.6 Sol up to 14x faster via Cerebras at up to 750 output tokens per second.

OpenAI announced a preview of Ultrafast, a new API service tier that runs GPT-5.6 Sol at up to 14 times the speed of standard inference. The tier is powered by Cerebras hardware and delivers up to 750 output tokens per second. The offering targets latency-sensitive developer workloads on OpenAI's API platform.

OpenAI News · Aug 13, 2026AI tools & infra

The OCUDU dApp Platform: An Open Runtime and E3 Interface for Real-Time AI-RAN

OCUDU open runtime lets third-party signed AI-RAN dApps run inside production 5G distributed units under three timing contracts, released as BSD-3 preview.

The OCUDU dApp platform provides an open runtime and E3 interface for executing signed AI-RAN applications inside a production 3GPP NR distributed unit, where prior dApp frameworks could only observe export streams. Modules run under three typed timing contracts: GPU receive-chain residency (Class A), the scheduler's 100 microsecond deadline (Class B), or non-blocking observer (Class C). On a GB10 gNB, dApps including an out-of-tree neural equalizer ran on a live cell without fallback. Platform, SDK, and a zero-hardware quickstart are public under BSD-3-Clause-Clear as a preview of the OCUDU AI-RAN Working Group 2.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

Triage & Response Bottlenecks Eating into MSSP Margins: How to Remove the Friction

ANY.RUN says manual triage bottlenecks erode MSSP margins and promotes its Threat Intelligence Lookup and sandbox to cut Tier 1 workload by up to 20%.

Vendor blog post from ANY.RUN describes recurring MSSP triage and response bottlenecks: manual alert validation, unnecessary Tier 2 escalations, manual handoffs, outdated threat data, and disconnected tools. It cites a healthcare MSSP case study where the Tier 1 closure rate rose from 20% to 70% and false escalations dropped 34% after adopting its tools. The piece claims ANY.RUN can reduce Tier 1 workload by up to 20%, letting MSSPs absorb more clients without proportional headcount growth.

ANY.RUN · 15d agoIndustry

Boardroom Battles 2026: ASD’s Cyber Priorities & AI Risk

Huntress analyzes the Australian Signals Directorate's 2026 board cyber priorities and frontier AI guidance on managing AI-era threats.

Huntress analyzed the Australian Signals Directorate's 2026 boardroom cyber priorities and its guidance on frontier AI risk. The piece argues that rapid AI adoption alone will not counter AI-era cyber threats and outlines what boards should focus on. No specific incident, vulnerability, or regulation change is described.

Huntress · 18d agoPolicy & legal

What your vendor says about PQC tells you if they are ready

Allot CTO outlines a telecom post-quantum migration playbook: inventory crypto, deploy hybrid ML-KEM on TLS first, and avoid missed interfaces.

Dr. Yaakov Stein, VP CTO of Allot, explains how mobile operators should triage post-quantum migration by data shelf life, protecting subscriber identity mappings, billing records, and call metadata that stay sensitive for years. He recommends starting with a comprehensive crypto inventory, then hybrid ML-KEM key exchange on TLS-protected 5G SBA and management interfaces, followed by IPsec backhaul and roaming links. Stein warns that migrations most often fail operationally through missed legacy interfaces such as SSH, RADIUS, or forgotten load balancers, and cites the early Kyber multi-packet TLS client hello issue as an example of middlebox incompatibility.

Help Net Security · 16d agoIndustry

Identifying Agentic Automation with Behavioral Telemetry: Part 2

Akamai details behavioral telemetry signals for identifying agentic automation traffic in the second part of its research series.

Akamai published part two of its series on identifying agentic automation using behavioral telemetry. The post appears on Akamai's security research blog and focuses on detecting AI-agent-driven traffic. Full article text was unavailable at classification time, so classification relies on the title and source.

Akamai Blog · 21d agoResearch

CVE-2026-86792: Apache Airflow Apache Kafka provider: Connection-editor remote code execution on the Scheduler via Kafka connection callback configuration

Apache Airflow Kafka provider 1.15.0 before 2.0.0 resolves unvalidated dotted-path strings into Python callables, enabling Scheduler RCE.

CVE-2026-86792 (moderate) affects apache-airflow-providers-apache-kafka versions 1.15.0 before 2.0.0. Dotted-path strings in a Kafka connection's extra field are resolved into Python callables via import_string with no allowlist, then invoked by the confluent-kafka client. This allows someone with Kafka connection configuration access to achieve remote code execution on the Airflow Scheduler; upgrading to 2.0.0 resolves it.

oss-security · 1d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-867921

Webinar Today: Keep Pace With AI – A New Operating Model for Endpoint Remediation

SecurityWeek and Automox host a webinar on accelerating endpoint vulnerability remediation through automation and governance policies.

The 20-minute webinar promotes 'Frontier Pace Governance,' an approach to balancing automation, policy, and business risk in endpoint patching. It is vendor marketing content co-hosted with Automox, covering visibility, remediation automation, and patching SLAs.

SecurityWeek · 7d agoIndustry

PacketFence Cloud: Enterprise Network Access Control, Now a Managed Service

Akamai announces PacketFence Cloud, delivering PacketFence enterprise network access control as a managed service.

Akamai published a blog post introducing PacketFence Cloud, an offering that delivers enterprise network access control (NAC) as a managed service. No further article text was available, so additional technical details are limited.

Akamai Blog · 28d agoTools