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Risky Bulletin: Slovakia finds Russian backdoor in traffic speed cameras

Slovakia's NBU found an SMS-triggered backdoor in Russian-made NERO R-ONE traffic cameras, pausing a 279-unit deployment.

Slovakia's national security service NBU issued an alert against NERO R-ONE high-speed traffic cameras after finding a backdoor that grants shell and network access via SMS from hardcoded Russian phone numbers. The cameras are a rebranded version of the Russian CORDON PRO.M model by St. Petersburg firm Semicon, purchased via a Cyprus shell company under a €30 million EU-funded project. The report also found SecureBoot disabled, vulnerable web management, and unauthenticated live streams; the Interior Ministry paused deployment of 279 cameras pending independent assessment.

Risky Business NewsAug 19, 04:52 UTC · 29d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Slovakia Warns of Cyber Risks in Road Speed Cameras

Slovakia's NBÚ warns that speed camera systems from SODASUS, Simicon and NEROline pose cyber risks including undocumented remote access.

Slovakia's National Security Authority (NBÚ) warned of a significant cyber threat tied to several road speed camera products: NERO R-ONE units sold by Cyprus-based SODASUS, and Cordon-series cameras made by Russia's Simicon and sold by Croatia's NEROline. A security analysis requested by the Interior Ministry found weak protections, mismatches between documented and actual communication settings and software versions, unclear hardware/software provenance, and pre-configured remote-access mechanisms outside operator control. NBÚ warned that compromised cameras could expose vehicle and licence-plate data, tamper with records, or serve as a foothold into public-sector networks lacking segmentation. The Interior Ministry reportedly removed the units from its pilot deployment and asked the supplier to replace them with equipment meeting Slovak and EU security requirements.

Security AffairsAug 24, 08:54 UTC · 24d agoAdvisory

.blend URL Viewer

Simon Willison demos a .blend URL viewer built with GPT-6 Astra in Codex and ChatGPT Images 2.5 generating Blender models.

Simon Willison used ChatGPT Images 2.5 to generate a Faberge egg concept image themed after the TV show Pluribus, then had Codex running GPT-6 Astra (high) execute a Blender local skill to build a 3D model from it. He published the result as a .blend URL viewer tool and continues experimenting with agentic Blender workflows. The post is a hands-on demo of AI-driven creative tooling rather than a security or release announcement.

Simon WillisonSep 9, 23:58 UTC · 7d agoAI tools & infra

GeoJSON Map Viewer

Simon Willison built a GeoJSON map viewer with PNG export using GPT-5.6-Sol, Claude Code for web, and Fable 5.1.

Simon Willison describes building a GeoJSON map viewer that displays boundary files and exports maps as PNGs. GPT-5.6-Sol proactively offered to create the tool, and iterations used Claude Code for web and Fable 5.1. He also notes ChatGPT Work will assemble boundary polygons from government data sources when asked.

Simon WillisonSep 1, 18:05 UTC · 15d agoAI tools & infra

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

Simon Willison's pelican SVG comparison shows GPT-6 Astra producing markedly better images than GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna across reasoning levels.

Willison generated pelicans-riding-bicycles SVGs with newly accessed GPT-6 Astra at low through max reasoning levels and rendered them in a comparison grid against GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna. Astra's outputs were markedly more coherent, while even the best GPT-5.6-Sol images remained largely abstract shapes. Astra does not support a reasoning=none setting, so all comparisons involved reasoning-enabled runs.

Simon WillisonSep 4, 23:59 UTC · 12d agoAI research

Abyssos: Technical Analysis of a New Modular RAT

Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzes Abyssos, a new modular C++ RAT offering credential theft, file exfiltration, and VNC-based remote access.

Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family tracked as Abyssos in late June 2026. Abyssos is a modular remote administration tool (RAT) written in C++ that supports credential theft, file exfiltration, and remote access via VNC. The malware is under active development, with multiple version numbers and obfuscation passes designed to evade security products. The analysis covers its core features, configuration, obfuscation, and network communication protocol.

Zscaler ThreatLabzAug 10, 15:51 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Malware

New Mirai-Based Linux Botnet ‘Evooo1Bot’ Turns Victims Into Proxies

A newly observed Mirai-based Linux botnet dubbed Evooo1Bot compromises edge devices and turns them into persistent proxies for threat actors.

Evooo1Bot is a newly identified Linux botnet built on the Mirai framework but enhanced with additional advanced capabilities. The malware compromises edge devices and converts them into persistent proxies, likely for relay or resale use. The botnet's evolution beyond stock Mirai highlights continued targeting of poorly secured IoT and edge systems.

Infosecurity MagazineAug 14, 13:00 UTC · Aug 14, 2026Malware in the wild

Curiouser and Curiouser

Cisco Talos' Threat Source newsletter reflects on the 'Make Hazel a Hacker' segment and how cybersecurity questions can have multiple correct answers.

In this edition of the Threat Source newsletter, William reflects on the 'Make Hazel a Hacker' segment from the Beers with Talos podcast. The piece discusses how cybersecurity is a field where questions can lead to multiple correct answers. It is commentary and career discussion rather than threat intelligence or research.

Cisco TalosAug 13, 18:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Industry1

Tracking Elirks Variants in Japan: Similarities to Previous Attacks

Unit 42 links new Elirks backdoor variants attacking Japanese organizations to 2012 Taiwan attacks, delivered via spear-phishing PDFs exploiting Adobe Flash CVE-2011-0611.

Unit 42 analyzed new Elirks backdoor variants found in an attack on a Japanese business, noting strong similarities to 2012 attacks on Taiwanese ministries. The backdoor retrieves its C2 address from attacker-created accounts on Japanese blog and SNS services. Recent deliveries used an airline e-ticket lure named "E-TKT" with a PDF exploiting Adobe Flash CVE-2011-0611. Shared infrastructure and tactics with the Scarlet Mimic campaign suggest possible ongoing cyber espionage across East Asia.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 17, 12:56 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Threat actor in the wildCVE-2011-0611

Molecular Déjà Vu: Digit-Level Retrieval of Published Values in Frontier Language Models

Audit of 22 frontier models finds widespread verbatim retrieval of published molecular property values, with higher reasoning increasing recall of memorized numbers.

An arXiv audit tests 22 frontier LLMs across 12 molecular regression benchmarks for verbatim retrieval of published values. More than 50% of the LLMs show verbatim retrieval on five datasets, and identical experiments are flagged 89% more often at a high reasoning level than at the lowest one. Suppressing retrieval moves model prediction errors closer together in relative terms, suggesting predictive capability is not determined solely by memorized values.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 4, 17:32 UTC · 12d agoAI research1

[Control Systems] Siemens security advisory (AV26-890)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a Siemens advisory affecting Reyrolle 7SR5, Teamcenter, Siveillance Control, Desigo CC and other products.

Advisory AV26-890, dated September 8, 2026, flags Siemens vulnerabilities in Reyrolle 7SR5 (versions prior to V2.70), Teamcenter, Siveillance Control, SIMATIC AX Runtime, Desigo CC, Industrial Edge Management, and SIMOVE Fleetmanager and SIPLANT across multiple versions and models. The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the Siemens advisory and apply available updates. No specific CVEs or exploitation details are provided in the relayed advisory.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 8, 17:27 UTC · 8d agoAdvisory

Video compressor

Simon Willison built a browser-based video compressor using the WebAssembly FFmpeg build, generated by Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web.

Willison recorded a demo video of his Equal Earth animation and wanted an optimized web-publishable version. He had Claude Fable 5.1 running in Claude Code for web build a compressor around the WebAssembly port of FFmpeg. The post is a short vibe-coding demonstration, not a model release or security event.

Simon WillisonSep 7, 18:29 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB language-agnostic syntax highlighter that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label code tokens in the browser.

gpu-lexer splits source into words, whitespace, and symbols, then a small WebGPU model uses local and whole-file context to assign nine token classes, working on languages never seen in training. On held-out files, 12.57% of token labels differ from Shiki, though this measures agreement with Shiki rather than objective correctness. In benchmarks against Shiki 4.4.3, Prism.js, Highlight.js, Sugar High, and Starry Night, it highlighted 10 concatenated copies of three.min.js (5.56M characters) about 10x faster on an Apple M4 Pro in Chrome 152. The author frames it as an experiment, not a grammar-equivalent highlighter.

Hacker News · securitySep 9, 01:14 UTC · 8d agoAI tools & infra HN 21↑ · 5 comments1

Mercator ↔ Equal Earth

Simon Willison used GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work to build an animated D3 transition between Mercator and Equal Earth map projections.

Willison built an animated transition between the Mercator and Equal Earth map projections using D3. The tool was generated by GPT-6 Astra (medium) in ChatGPT Work. Equal Earth is a projection recently voted on at the UN. The post is a vibe-coding demonstration rather than a security or major model event.

Simon WillisonSep 7, 16:24 UTC · 9d agoAI tools & infra1

Locus: A Framework for Exploring and Optimizing Point Addition Hardware for Zero-Knowledge Proofs

Locus framework automates ASIC and FPGA point-addition designs for elliptic curves, achieving 2.71x speedups and 3.11x area reductions for ZKPs.

Locus is a framework that automatically generates ASIC and FPGA implementations of elliptic curve point addition (PADD) for supported equation forms, enabling exploration of over 1,000 design points. On a 12nm technology node, its designs achieve a 2.71x geomean speedup and 3.11x geomean area reduction versus prior ASICs, plus 34.67x geomean speedup over CPU. Integrated into a prior ZKP accelerator at iso-area, it yields a 3.15x geomean speedup on end-to-end proof generation. The framework is open source on GitHub.

arXiv cs.CRSep 16, 15:53 UTC · 22h agoResearch1

Cisco Talos Intelligence blog

Cisco Talos argues restrictive frontier AI models impose a 'safety penalty' that hampers security teams' real-time incident response.

A featured Cisco Talos post contends that increasingly restrictive frontier AI models create a 'safety penalty' slowing defenders' real-time incident response, and advocates 'operational sovereignty' so defensive AI keeps pace with unconstrained adversaries. The blog index also promotes a Beers with Talos podcast episode on how threat intelligence is gathered. The page is a blog listing rather than a single news story.

Cisco TalosSep 10, 01:33 UTC · 7d agoAI safety & security

Prisma Cloud Archives

Unit 42 archive page for Prisma Cloud product-category articles; contains no new research or announcements.

This Unit 42 archive page lists product-category posts about Prisma Cloud, Palo Alto Networks' cloud security platform for public clouds, SaaS applications and remote users. It contains no new research, incidents, or product announcements.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 19, 12:04 UTC · 29d agoIndustry

August newsletter is out

Simon Willison published his sponsors-only August newsletter covering OpenAI's accidental cyberattacks, Claude auto mode, one-shot game generation, and recent model releases.

Simon Willison announced the August edition of his sponsors-only monthly newsletter. It covers OpenAI's accidental cyberattacks, one-shotting Raccoon Heist games with Fable 5 and Sol 5.6, Claude auto mode, ChatGPT Work, and recent model releases. Access requires a $10/month sponsorship, with the July issue available as a free preview.

Simon WillisonSep 4, 05:54 UTC · 13d agoAI industry

Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2 (Update A)

CISA details CVE-2026-61884 (CVSS 9.8) in Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2: unauthenticated access to power relays when credentials are unset; fixed in 2.4.5.

CISA updated its advisory for Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB2 firmware below 2.4.5, covering two vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-61884 (CVSS 9.8, CWE-306) lets any network attacker reach full device controls, including power relay management and reboots, on units left without configured HTTP credentials. CVE-2026-55985 exposes stored system credentials in cleartext to authenticated dashboard users, enabling compromise of other local systems. No public exploitation has been reported to CISA.

CISA AdvisoriesSep 3, 12:00 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory 2 sources CVE-2026-61884 CVE-2026-55985

The Frontier AEO Tracker: What Astra Chooses (and every other frontier model, and what you can do about it)

Latent Space launches an AEO tracker scoring 7 frontier models' product recommendations across 161 categories, revealing generational bias flips.

Latent Space built a tracker measuring Answer Engine Optimization by running 6 prompt variations across 7 frontier models with search enabled over 161 product categories, scoring first choices, alternatives, mentions, and anti-recommendations. It found 28 categories with a universally dominant primary choice and observed soft biases, such as models favoring their own lab's coding agents. Analysis of Anthropic's Sol→Astra and Opus→Fable generations showed newer models consulting fewer sources and being less likely to change answers when questions are paraphrased.

Latent SpaceSep 7, 21:32 UTC · 9d agoAI research

The story behind the intelligence

Cisco Talos newsletter features adversary-engagement podcast, flags AI guardrail 'safety penalty' slowing defenders, and recaps McKesson breach and PaperCut patching headlines.

The Threat Source newsletter spotlights the Beers with Talos podcast, in which researcher Azim Khodjibaev describes maintaining eight dark-web personas to identify prolific cybercriminals and support disruption efforts. Talos also argues frontier AI guardrails impose an AI 'safety penalty', citing a July 2026 incident where Hugging Face's primary cloud LLM refused to analyze forensic breach data and delayed response. Recapped headlines include ShinyHunters claiming theft of 284 million patient records from McKesson via vishing and Okta account takeover, Anthropic warning Claude users about infostealer malware, and PaperCut issuing emergency patches for chained vulnerabilities.

Cisco TalosSep 3, 18:00 UTC · 13d agoIndustry

Generating running routes with GPT-6 Astra and ChatGPT Work

Simon Willison used ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra to generate 5K/10K running loops from OpenStreetMap data, noting the agent's executed code was not visible.

Simon Willison prompted ChatGPT Work running GPT-6 Astra (Max) to design looping 5K and 10K running routes from his address using OpenStreetMap data. The agent ran for 27 minutes and delivered an embedded visualization plus downloadable GPX and GeoJSON files, stating it used Nominatim for geocoding and Overpass to fetch local OSM roads and trails. He notes frustration that the actual executed code and exact actions were not visible in the ChatGPT UI, highlighting a transparency gap in agentic AI products.

Simon WillisonSep 12, 23:56 UTC · 4d agoAI industry

New Mirai-Based Evooo1Bot Botnet Targets Linux Devices

FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot, a Mirai-based Linux botnet active since July 2026 that hijacks routers and IoT devices for DDoS, credential theft, and SOCKS5 proxying.

Fortinet's FortiGuard Labs disclosed Evooo1Bot, a previously undocumented Linux botnet active since July 2026 that reuses Mirai's DDoS engine while adding encrypted C2, SSH brute-force scanning, credential sniffing, and SOCKS5 proxy modules. The bot exploits 18 known CVEs across Alcatel, NETGEAR, Tenda, D-Link, Telesquare, and Mitsubishi devices, some dating back to 2007, and communicates exclusively over port 443 to blend with HTTPS traffic. Compromised hosts can be turned into SOCKS5 relays for anonymous traffic forwarding or monetization via proxy services. The malware uses AES-256-CTR, ChaCha20, and XOR obfuscation with a 28-command administration interface.

Security AffairsAug 18, 07:20 UTC · Aug 18, 2026Malware in the wildCVE-2007-3010 CVE-2016-6277 CVE-2018-14558+7 CVEs

New infosec products of the month: August 2026

August 2026 roundup of security product releases from ServiceNow, Tanium, Snyk, F5, A10, Searchlight Cyber, Intezer, NETSCOUT, Tufin, and Abnormal AI.

Help Net Security's monthly product roundup covers roughly a dozen vendors. Highlights include Snyk's general availability of Evo Continuous Offensive Security with AI-powered pentesting and AI agent red teaming, Searchlight Cyber's PTEM platform combining exposure visibility with attacker intelligence, and A10 and F5 AI gateways to govern enterprise LLM and agent usage. Other updates include Abnormal AI email DLP and phishing training, NETSCOUT outbound DDoS mitigation for service providers, Intezer's native Workflows automation, and Tufin's AI-powered Segmentation Intelligence.

Help Net SecurityAug 28, 00:00 UTC · 20d agoTools

Mitsubishi Electric Multiple FA Products (Update D)

CISA warns Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN remote I/O modules are vulnerable to denial-of-service via crafted UDP packets (CVE-2025-3511).

CISA published Update D of advisory ICSA-25-128-03 covering Mitsubishi Electric factory automation products. Affected products include CC-Link IE TSN Remote I/O modules NZ2GN2S1-32D, NZ2GN2S1-32T, NZ2GN2S1-32TE, and NZ2GN2S1-32DT at firmware version 09 or earlier (CVE-2025-3511). A remote attacker can send a specially crafted UDP packet to cause denial-of-service conditions, timeout errors, or communication delays on the affected products.

CISA AdvisoriesAug 27, 12:00 UTC · 21d agoAdvisory CVE-2025-3511

Hackers Exploit Critical Cisco Firewall Flaw to Gain Root Access and Deploy Malware

State-sponsored and ransomware actors actively exploit critical Cisco FMC flaws CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS 10.0) and CVE-2026-20316 to gain root access and deploy ransomware.

Cisco Talos confirmed in-the-wild exploitation of CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS 10.0, unauthenticated authentication bypass enabling root command execution) and CVE-2026-20316 (CVSS 5.3, hard-coded static credentials) in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center. Three activity clusters were identified: UAT-12197 dropping a JSP web shell and credential harvester; UAT-11823, assessed as Sandworm, deploying a Cyclops Blink variant; and UAT-11988, a Qilin ransomware affiliate chaining the flaws before deploying ransomware. CISA added both CVEs to the KEV catalog with a September 12 remediation deadline for federal agencies.

Cyber Security NewsSep 10, 13:33 UTC · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20079 CVE-2026-20316