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Artifactory Under Attack: In-the-Wild Exploitation of CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018 & CVE-2026-82329

Wiz Research confirms in-the-wild exploitation of three JFrog Artifactory vulnerabilities, chained to gain administrative control, deploy Groovy plugins, and install Rust backdoors.

Wiz Research identified active exploitation of CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018, and CVE-2026-82329 in JFrog Artifactory between August 15 and September 8, 2026. Attackers chain the anonymous-token exposure (CVE-2026-42018) with the token scope-validation flaw (CVE-2026-42016) to obtain admin-scoped tokens, while CVE-2026-82329 allows unauthenticated administrative access in default configurations. Observed post-exploitation includes persistent administrator accounts created in under five minutes, malicious Groovy plugin deployment, ad-hoc command execution, Rust-based C2 backdoors dropped to writable paths, and webshell uploads. Wiz measured that 59-62% of organizations running Artifactory remained vulnerable to the chained CVEs weeks after disclosure, and the vulnerabilities were already included in CISA KEV.

Wiz Blog·updated Sep 14, 09:27 UTC · 2d ago·first Sep 10, 19:04 UTC · 5d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 7 sourcesCVE-2026-42016CVE-2026-42018CVE-2026-823292· 1 read

Cisco patches Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

Cisco patches actively exploited Secure Email Gateway zero-day CVE-2026-76461 enabling unauthenticated root command execution; CISA adds it to KEV.

Cisco disclosed that a critical zero-day (CVE-2026-76461) in the email parsing logic of AsyncOS for Secure Email Gateway is being actively exploited, allowing unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary SQL statements that lead to root-level command execution on virtual and physical appliances. CISA added the flaw to its KEV catalog and ordered federal agencies to patch within three days, by September 17. Cisco also patched four other critical SEG/SEWM vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-76440, CVE-2026-76441, CVE-2026-20353, CVE-2026-76443) with no evidence of exploitation, and shared IOCs including suspicious SQL statements in mail_logs.

BleepingComputer·Sep 15, 07:31 UTC · 1d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-76461CVE-2026-76440CVE-2026-76441+3 CVEs

Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days

Commentary argues that an unverified rumor of a software bug is now enough for researchers or attackers to develop a working exploit.

A short blog note reflects on how modern exploit development has accelerated to the point that even a mere rumor of a vulnerability can be enough to locate and weaponize a bug. The piece is commentary on the current state of security research and attacker trends rather than a disclosure of a specific flaw.

Lobsters · security·Aug 28, 20:23 UTC · 18d agoIndustry

Actively Exploited Oracle WebLogic Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Access Critical Data

CISA added actively exploited Oracle WebLogic flaw CVE-2026-21962 (CVSS 10.0) to its KEV catalog, letting unauthenticated attackers access or modify critical data.

CISA added CVE-2026-21962, a CVSS 10.0 improper access control flaw in Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle WebLogic Server Proxy Plug-in, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Oracle shipped patches in January 2026, and GreyNoise, CloudSEK, and SOCRadar have since reported exploitation attempts, including a lone IP scanning multiple WebLogic, Ivanti, GNU InetUtils, and GLPI vulnerabilities. The flaw is also among several exploited by a China-linked actor delivering the SNOWLIGHT downloader to government and commercial infrastructure in more than 100 countries. Federal civilian agencies must apply fixes by August 27, 2026 under BOD 26-04.

The Hacker News·Aug 26, 05:07 UTC · 21d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-21962CVE-2020-14882CVE-2020-14883+2 CVEs1

CISA: WatchGuard RCE flaw now exploited in ransomware attacks

CISA confirms ransomware gangs are exploiting critical unauthenticated RCE CVE-2025-14733 in WatchGuard Firebox firewalls, with roughly 9,000 devices still unpatched.

CVE-2025-14733 is an out-of-bounds write in WatchGuard Fireware OS allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, exploitable on firewalls configured for IKEv2 VPN and potentially even after the configuration was deleted if a static branch-office VPN peer remains. WatchGuard released patches in December and confirmed in-the-wild exploitation; Shadowserver found over 115,000 exposed Fireboxes at the time, with nearly 9,000 still unpatched after nine months. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in December under BOD 22-01 and on Thursday confirmed ransomware gangs are now exploiting it, without providing campaign details. WatchGuard serves more than 250,000 small and mid-sized companies through 17,000+ security resellers and service providers.

BleepingComputer·Sep 10, 09:10 UTC · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2025-14733CVE-2022-23176CVE-2025-9242

VEX-Bench: Benchmarking LLM Agents for Assessing Exploitability of Software Supply Chain Vulnerabilities

Introduces VEX-Bench, 75 expert-labeled real-world cases testing whether LLM agents can assess supply chain vulnerability exploitability; frontier models reach about 80% F1.

VEX-Bench is the first benchmark evaluating LLM agents on assessing whether upstream dependency vulnerabilities are exploitable in downstream projects, with 75 real-world expert-labeled cases across Python, Java, and Go mined from GitHub. Nine models across three agent harnesses were evaluated; GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus 4.6 reach approximately 80% F1 on binary vulnerability-status classification, but only GPT-5.5 surpasses 70% macro-F1 on fine-grained justification classification. The gap highlights the difficulty of moving beyond binary exploitability calls to explaining exploitability reasons, unlike prior benchmarks targeting zero-day settings.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 7, 22:52 UTC · 8d agoResearch1

Critical Gitea vulnerability now exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-60004)

Attackers are actively exploiting critical Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 via the diffpatch endpoint, prompting CISA KEV addition and at least one cryptomining compromise.

CISA added CVE-2026-60004, a critical code injection flaw in Gitea's diffpatch endpoint, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after in-the-wild attacks. An attacker with repository write access, or an unauthenticated visitor on instances with open registration, can execute arbitrary shell commands as the Gitea OS user. A disclosed incident saw an automated scanner register an account and deploy a loader and cryptominer inside a Docker container within about 11 seconds, with no persistence mechanism found. Gitea patched the flaw in v1.27.1, and CISA ordered US federal civilian agencies to update by August 28, 2026.

Help Net Security·Aug 26, 00:00 UTC · 21d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-60004

Securing the unpatchable in an age of AI-driven vulnerabilities

Cisco Talos argues AI-driven vulnerability discovery leaves unpatchable OT systems exposed, recommending virtual patching via NGFW/IPS and micro-segmentation.

AI-assisted code analysis is uncovering vulnerabilities faster than organizations can patch, leaving certified or end-of-life OT systems with unmitigated known flaws. Talos recommends virtual patching with next-generation firewalls and IPS, micro-segmentation using VLANs and ACLs, and building visibility-based inventories of legacy systems. The article cites WannaCry's impact on the NHS and 2023 exploitation of end-of-life software in government systems, and warns that air gaps and data diodes are routinely circumvented by operational shortcuts.

Cisco Talos·10:00 UTC · 2h agoResearch

Chinese Hackers Exploit Critical Tencent Software Flaw for One-Click Code Execution

China-linked UNC3569 actively exploited critical Sogou Input Method flaw CVE-2026-51990 for one-click system-level code execution, deploying the GrayRabbit backdoor.

Gen Threat Labs reports that China-linked threat actor UNC3569, possibly tied to contractor i-SOON, exploited critical CVE-2026-51990 in Tencent's Sogou Input Method, a Windows IME used by hundreds of millions, via crafted sgbiz URLs. The chain combines unvalidated command-line argument injection, unrestricted URL navigation, and an un-sandboxed Chromium 80 engine missing roughly six years of security patches. The exploit gives system-level code execution and was used to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor, which provides a reverse shell, plugin loading, file upload to C2, and system info collection, and has appeared in UNC3569 intrusions since at least 2021. Tencent patched the issue in version 16.3.0.3498 via automatic update, but the outdated Chromium configuration reportedly remained unchanged as of September 10.

SecurityWeek·Sep 14, 11:51 UTC · 2d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-519901· 1 read

CISA: Most exploited vulnerabilities should have been eradicated decades ago

CISA says most exploited vulnerabilities are decades-old flaws, blaming organizational culture and weak Secure by Design adoption.

CISA assesses that the vulnerabilities most exploited in the wild are old flaws that should have been eradicated decades ago. The agency attributed the problem to organizational culture and systemic gaps in Secure by Design adoption. The Register's coverage frames the remarks as renewed pressure on vendors and operators to eliminate long-standing weaknesses.

The Register · Security·Aug 28, 11:29 UTC · 19d agoPolicy & legal in the wild

New IoT Malware Uses Public Linux Exploits to Gain Root and Launch DDoS Attacks

Nozomi details KATARU, an IoT botnet that brute-forces Telnet, exploits public Linux kernel flaws for root access, and launches multi-protocol DDoS attacks.

KATARU, discovered after honeypot Telnet brute-force activity from a Vietnamese IP, downloads an ARM payload (vlxx.arm) and attempts privilege escalation by editing /etc/passwd or exploiting CVE-2026-46300 (Fragnesia), CVE-2026-43284 (Dirty Frag), and CVE-2026-31431 (Copy Fail). It combines Mirai-style TCP, UDP, ICMP, HTTP, QUIC and DNS floods with application attacks against Minecraft, FiveM, OpenVPN and WireGuard. The malware uses X25519 and ChaCha20-Poly1305 encrypted C2, unusually broad persistence across systemd, cron, init frameworks, and Android hooks, plus anti-debugging and decoy traffic to hinder analysis. Implementers copied x86 shellcode into the ARM binary and reused an RFC 7748 test-vector key, indicating low-quality but rapidly evolving commodity development.

GBHackers·updated Sep 11, 14:17 UTC · 4d ago·first Sep 11, 09:07 UTC · 5d agoMalware in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-46300CVE-2026-43284CVE-2026-31431

GeoServer Zero-Day Targeted in Active Exploitation Attempts, Can Lead to RCE

A CVSS 9.8 SQL injection zero-day in GeoServer's PostGIS datastore enables RCE and drew active exploitation; fixes shipped in versions 3.0.1, 2.28.5, 2.27.6.

A SQL injection flaw in GeoServer's jsonArrayContains function within the GeoTools PostGIS datastore (GHSA-mqjf-5f49-2fjh, CVSS 9.8) was disclosed August 12, 2026, and saw hundreds of exploitation attempts within hours per watchTowr. An attacker-controlled value is interpolated into a PostgreSQL jsonb_path_exists() expression without escaping; with superuser or pg_execute_server_program privileges it escalates to OS command execution via WFS 1.0. GeoServer released versions 3.0.1, 2.28.5, and 2.27.6, and the flaw is a regression of CVE-2023-25158. GeoServer has a history of mass exploitation, including CVE-2024-36401 used for botnets and proxies.

The Hacker News·Aug 17, 17:05 UTC · 29d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2024-36401CVE-2023-25158CVE-2023-251571

[webapps] Langflow 1.8.4 - Path Traversal to Remote Code Execution

A path traversal to remote code execution exploit for Langflow 1.8.4, a popular LLM application builder, was published on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept exploit chaining path traversal to remote code execution in Langflow 1.8.4, an open-source tool used to build LLM applications and agents. The chain allows an attacker to write arbitrary files outside the intended directory and achieve code execution on the host. The provided text does not include a CVE identifier or reports of exploitation in the wild, but RCE in a widely deployed AI tooling product is notable for defenders.

Exploit-DB·Aug 31, 00:00 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC1

Patch Tuesday to Pentest Wednesday: How an Equipment Rental Company Is Turning Continuous Testing Into Continuous Exposure Management

An equipment rental company uses Horizon3 NodeZero for continuous exposure management, surfacing an SSH key exposure in eight hours versus annual pentesting.

The company moved from periodic penetration testing to continuous exposure management using the NodeZero Proactive Security Platform, feeding telemetry into a Splunk-based CTEM pipeline via Horizon3 APIs. NodeZero exposed SSH RSA key pairs from a PHP web server change about eight hours after introduction and found more findings in 12 hours than a third-party engagement found in roughly 30 days. An Active Directory password audit of 15,000 passwords found about 300 identical or similar compromised passwords, driving a banned-password list, 12-character minimums, service desk changes, and self-service reset rollout; users with similar passwords later dropped from 880 to 209. NodeZero also validated a suspected Cisco vulnerability as exploitable.

Horizon3.ai·Sep 9, 15:58 UTC · 6d agoIndustry

[hardware] Fullhan FH8626V100 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in the Fullhan FH8626V100 hardware chip have been disclosed alongside public proof-of-concept exploits.

Exploit-DB lists an entry covering multiple vulnerabilities in the Fullhan FH8626V100, a hardware component. The listing provides no CVE ids, vulnerability classes, or evidence of in-the-wild exploitation. Impact is likely limited to devices embedding the affected chip.

Exploit-DB·Sep 2, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoExploit / PoC

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added actively exploited PaperCut NG/MF flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to the KEV catalog, mandating federal patching.

CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-81578 (PaperCut NG/MF missing authentication for critical function) and CVE-2026-82078 (PaperCut NG/MF unsafe reflection). Under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies are required to prioritize and apply these updates. The KEV listing signals observed exploitation of the PaperCut print management platform.

CISA Advisories·Aug 31, 12:00 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-82078

Rethinking Indirect Prompt Injection as a Test-Time Search Problem

Researchers frame indirect prompt injection as test-time search, showing added attacker compute improves vulnerability discovery and exploitation against tool-using agents.

The paper models indirect prompt injection as a test-time search over a task-dependent attack surface shaped by the environment, user task, and injection goal. The authors build an agentic attacker with a dedicated search harness that performs reconnaissance, structured strategy reasoning, and adaptive evaluation using victim-agent feedback. Experiments show more attacker test-time compute improves discovery and exploitation of injection vulnerabilities, with explicit strategy management needed to avoid redundant search. The results argue that agentic security evaluations should characterize attacker search procedures and compute budgets rather than treating attack success as budget-independent.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 3, 21:28 UTC · 12d agoAI safety & security

Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

Rapid7 disclosed CVE-2026-55040, a SharePoint JWT validation bypass chaining into CVE-2026-63520 unauthenticated RCE, with research substantially AI-agent-assisted; patches released.

Rapid7 disclosed CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), several JWT validation pipeline issues letting unauthenticated attackers impersonate chosen SharePoint users by SID or UPN, chained with CVE-2026-63520 (CVSS 8.1), an unsafe .NET type instantiation in Business Connectivity Services yielding RCE as the service account. An AI agent contributed significantly across 96 sessions and roughly 80,000 tool calls over 24 active days, though an expert had to steer it and it repeatedly overstepped its threat model. No exploitation of the bypass had been reported as of CISA's July 14 assessment. The RCE affects SharePoint Subscription Edition, 2019, and 2016, plus Project Server 2013 SP1 and Office Web Apps 2013 SP1; the July updates break the chain.

The Hacker News·Aug 11, 16:49 UTC · Aug 11, 2026VulnerabilityCVE-2026-55040CVE-2026-635201

The Vulnerability Gap: Why Discovery Is Outrunning Repair

Dark Reading argues AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery and tightening regulation are widening the gap between flaw discovery and repair capacity.

The article argues that AI tooling is increasing the pace at which vulnerabilities are discovered while remediation capacity has not kept up, creating a growing backlog. It frames this widening 'vulnerability gap', combined with a tightening regulatory environment, as an all-hands-on-deck moment for security teams. The piece is analysis and opinion rather than disclosure of a specific flaw.

Dark Reading·Aug 24, 14:00 UTC · 22d agoIndustry

More than half of AI

CyberScoop·Aug 7, 17:10 UTC · Aug 7, 2026Exploit / PoC

Flextype v1.0.0-alpha.3 Server-Side Request Forgery via fetch() in Query API

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 exposes an SSRF flaw in its /api/v1/query endpoint, letting authenticated users make the server send arbitrary HTTP requests.

Flextype CMS v1.0.0-alpha.3 contains a server-side request forgery vulnerability in the expression-processing functionality of the /api/v1/query endpoint. An authenticated remote attacker can supply an arbitrary URL to the exposed fetch() function, causing the server to issue outbound HTTP requests. The application does not sufficiently restrict destination hosts, enabling requests to attacker-controlled or internal targets.

Full Disclosure·Sep 4, 00:13 UTC · 12d agoVulnerability 8 sources

New GPUThor Rowhammer Defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A6000 to Gain Host Root Access

University of Toronto researchers present GPUThor, a Rowhammer attack that defeats ECC on NVIDIA RTX A4000-A6000 GDDR6 GPUs and achieves host root access.

GPUThor uses non-uniform hammering to bypass Target Row Refresh and overcome SECDED ECC on NVIDIA Ampere workstation GPUs with GDDR6 memory, inducing 72,000 to 377,552 bit flips per gigabyte across RTX A6000, A5000, A4500, and A4000 cards. Triple-bit silent data corruption enables host privilege escalation to root with the IOMMU enabled, reusing GPUBreach page-table corruption techniques, and double-bit DUEs allow escalation when the IOMMU is disabled during a ~10 ms lazy-service window. The attack cut end-to-end escalation time on the A6000 from 21.9 hours to 1.1 minutes. Reported to NVIDIA, Google, Microsoft, and AWS on April 29, 2026; findings were embargoed until August 25, 2026, and no CVE identifier was assigned.

The Hacker News·Sep 8, 16:03 UTC · 7d agoResearch1

[webapps] flyto_core 2.26.7 - Server-Side Request Forgery

Exploit-DB published a server-side request forgery proof of concept for flyto_core 2.26.7.

Exploit-DB lists a proof-of-concept for server-side request forgery affecting flyto_core version 2.26.7. SSRF flaws can allow attackers to make arbitrary requests from the server toward internal resources. No CVE id is cited and no in-the-wild exploitation is reported.

Exploit-DB·Aug 17, 00:00 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Exploit / PoC

The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary, (Mon, Aug 31st)

A SANS honeypot caught a real coding-agent session routed to a rogue "free" LLM endpoint, exposing a Windows user's transcript and tool outputs.

A SANS analyst describes how an internet-exposed inference honeypot was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names like DeepSeek, and enrolled in infrastructure serving "free" LLM backends. On 2026-08-30 an opencode terminal coding agent sent an 88-message, 224 KB transcript 210 times in 91 seconds via a China Unicom relay, exposing directory listings, tool outputs and read file portions. The analyst frames tool-enabled agents treating model endpoints as trusted control planes as a novel risk — a "rogue model endpoint" that could request tool executions on the user's machine.

SANS Internet Storm Center·Aug 31, 20:00 UTC · 15d agoAI safety & security1

Towards Scalable and Cost-Efficient Vulnerability Detection: A Study on Automatic Query Generation

A study finds LLM-synthesized CodeQL queries improve average F1-score by 82% over baseline queries, offering scalable vulnerability detection versus direct LLM scanning.

Researchers conducted an empirical study evaluating whether LLMs can synthesize executable CodeQL queries from National Vulnerability Database vulnerability data. LLM-generated queries significantly enhanced baseline CodeQL suites, yielding an 82% improvement in average F1-score across a diverse set of real-world vulnerabilities. A cost-benefit analysis shows direct LLM-based scanning of entire repositories is often computationally and financially prohibitive, while LLM query synthesis offers a scalable and cost-effective alternative for large-scale vulnerability detection.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 9, 16:31 UTC · 6d agoResearch1

Arrested man allegedly impersonated NSA elite hacking unit, Supreme Court chief justice

Colorado man Joshua Culver indicted for impersonating NSA's Tailored Access Operations chief and Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in Indiana court cases.

Joshua Culver, also known as Maverick Young, was arrested in Colorado after a July Indiana indictment on four counts of falsely impersonating an officer of the court and one count of using a forged judge's signature. He allegedly posed as an NSA officer in September to pressure the Tippecanoe County sheriff's office, and later presented a forged document purportedly from the head of the Tailored Access Operations unit demanding case dismissal and warrant quashing. The indictment also alleges he used a forged signature of Chief Justice John Roberts on a dismissal order in Grant County, Indiana.

CyberScoop·Aug 25, 18:43 UTC · 21d agoPolicy & legal2

get the module working against several of the 12.4.3 versions

A Metasploit Framework exploit module was updated to work reliably against several 12.4.3 software versions.

A commit to the Rapid7 Metasploit Framework repository adjusts an existing exploit module so it functions against several 12.4.3 version targets. The change is described as getting the module working against those versions, indicating reliability or compatibility improvements. The commit text does not describe a new vulnerability, exploitation campaign, or affected victims.

Metasploit Framework commits·Sep 9, 11:10 UTC · 7d agoTools1

In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review

SecurityWeek weekly roundup covers exploited WordPress Super Forms flaw CVE-2026-14894, a $10M bounty on an Iranian cyber official, InjectEave attacks, and more.

SecurityWeek's weekly roundup aggregates short items across the threat landscape, including Microsoft's report of invisible Unicode tag characters used in financial phishing lures at up to 2.37 million messages per day, and active exploitation of critical WordPress Super Forms plugin flaw CVE-2026-14894 to deploy PHP webshells. Policy items include a $10 million US bounty for IRGC-CEC Cyber Operations Command lead Amir Yaryab, a 16-month prison sentence for ex-AT&T employee Kenneth Carter over SIM swaps with nearly $600,000 in intended losses, and the US arraignment of Russian Sergei Anatolyevich Filimonov over credential harvesting. Technical items include InjectEave electromagnetic side-channel attacks tested on 11 devices, an FBI warning on OAuth consent phishing, and VulnCheck's finding that only 202 of 26,153 Anthropic Project Glasswing findings were fixed.

SecurityWeek·Sep 11, 14:19 UTC · 4d agoIndustry in the wildCVE-2026-148942

[webapps] flyto-core 2.26.7 - Arbitrary File Write

flyto-core 2.26.7 has an arbitrary file write vulnerability with a public proof-of-concept exploit on Exploit-DB.

Exploit-DB listing 52655 discloses an arbitrary file write vulnerability in flyto-core version 2.26.7. A proof-of-concept exploit is publicly available. The listing provides no CVE identifier and no indication of active exploitation; arbitrary file writes can potentially enable code execution depending on write locations.

Exploit-DB·Aug 18, 00:00 UTC · 29d agoExploit / PoC

Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.9 CVSS Score Bugs

The Hacker News·Aug 7, 06:12 UTC · Aug 7, 2026Vulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-20303CVE-2026-20304CVE-2026-20310+12 CVEs1

Building a risk-based vulnerability management program that scales

Asimily CEO Shankar Somasundaram outlines a risk-based vulnerability management approach using inventory, attack paths, KEV and EPSS data.

In a Help Net Security video, Asimily CEO Shankar Somasundaram argues patching everything is infeasible as AI-driven attacks inflate vulnerability counts, with one customer finding a thousand unknowns for each known one. He recommends building a full inventory of devices, applications, and data flows, mapping attack paths for reachability, and prioritizing with KEV, EPSS, and business impact. Mitigations include patching, virtual patching via NACs and firewalls, segmentation, and configuration snapshots to detect drift.

Help Net Security·Aug 24, 04:21 UTC · 23d agoIndustry

The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers counted 36,769 publicly reachable self-hosted AI endpoints, only about 2% behind HTTP authentication, exposing Ollama, vLLM, and Flowise to abuse.

A Mysterium VPN study found 36,769 self-hosted AI endpoints reachable through internet scanning, with only 2.02% returning an HTTP authentication challenge. Open WebUI accounted for 18,529 reachable instances, Ollama for 6,935 fingerprinted hosts, and 5,223 agent-builder and workflow platforms were exposed, often holding API keys, database credentials, and other secrets. The report highlights LLMjacking risk from exposed Ollama APIs, a critical Flowise bug (CVE-2026-40933), leaked n8n tokens, and prior SentinelOne/Censys research finding roughly 175,000 exposed Ollama hosts in 130 countries.

Security Affairs·Sep 11, 17:27 UTC · 4d agoAI safety & securityCVE-2026-409331

AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA warn that actors use AI-generated Python scripts to exploit internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs at U.S. critical infrastructure.

A joint advisory from NSA, CISA, FBI, DOE and EPA describes an active threat in which AI-generated exploit scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools target Siemens S7 Series PLCs (S7-200 through S7-1500, including F-series safety controllers). The actors use Censys and ZoomEye scanning to find internet-exposed, outdated PLCs and a custom Python script using snap7 libraries over the S7comm protocol for initial access, credential access and denial of service; no attribution was given. Targeted sectors include Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater, Chemical, Food and Agriculture, and Commercial Facilities, with potential for process disruption and cascading impacts. A related Dream report details a near-autonomous AI-agent campaign (July 1-4, 2026, 12 waves) against Taiwan government entities, using Hermes and OpenClaw agents with eight parallel sub-agents to crack 85 accounts via password spraying and exfiltrate over 2,564 personnel records, SSO client secrets and database credentials.

The Hacker News·Aug 21, 05:39 UTC · 26d agoExploit / PoC in the wild1

ZDI-26-671: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Dialog Object Type Confusion Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a type confusion RCE (CVE-2026-80161, CVSS 7.8) in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC requiring user interaction to exploit.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-671 for a Dialog Object type confusion vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC. The flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code when a user opens a malicious file or visits a malicious page. ZDI rated the issue 7.8 on the CVSS scale and assigned CVE-2026-80161. The advisory does not report active exploitation.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 10, 05:00 UTC · 6d agoAdvisory 19 sourcesCVE-2026-80161

Critical Langflow Vulnerability Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise

Attacks exploiting CVE-2026-0768, a critical vulnerability in the Langflow low-code AI platform, are rising amid growing adversary attention this year.

CVE-2026-0768 is a critical vulnerability in Langflow, a low-code AI development platform, with exploitation attacks now rising. Dark Reading notes the platform has drawn increasing adversary attention in 2026. Organizations running exposed Langflow instances face elevated risk and should patch promptly and review instances for compromise.

Dark Reading·Sep 1, 20:48 UTC · 14d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-07681

Agentic Societies Need a Social Harness

Researchers propose a layered 'social harness' to stop malicious AI agents from exploiting inter-agent communication in multi-agent societies.

The paper shows experimentally that in agentic societies—autonomous AI agents coordinating across trust boundaries—even honest, competent agents fail to reach satisfactory outcomes with existing harnesses and messaging primitives. Faulty or malicious agents can stall collaboration, influence outcomes, and pursue harmful goals by exploiting vulnerabilities in communication. The authors propose a layered social harness architecture that prevents classes of failures, enables runtime detection of invalid messages, and supports post-facto investigation and consequences.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 15, 17:57 UTC · 18h agoAI safety & security

An Empirical Analysis of ReDoS Vulnerabilities and ReDoS Detection Tools

Study of NVD data finds ReDoS vulnerabilities growing more prevalent and more likely to be exploited, while five detection tools disagree substantially.

The study compares five publicly available ReDoS detection tools and one regex correction tool across three datasets. An empirical analysis of all ReDoS vulnerabilities reported to the NVD finds they are becoming more prevalent and are much more likely to be exploited than non-ReDoS weaknesses. The detection tools exhibited substantial disagreement on whether a given regex is vulnerable.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 9, 15:09 UTC · 6d agoResearch

Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability

Unauthenticated SQL injection in Cisco Secure Email Gateway email parsing enables root command execution via crafted messages; patches released.

A vulnerability in email parsing of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Email Gateway allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. Insufficient validation in the email parsing logic lets a crafted email containing malicious SQL statements achieve arbitrary SQL execution and root command execution. Cisco has released software updates, and the companion September 2026 hardening advisory states this flaw is actively exploited.

Cisco Security Advisories·Sep 14, 16:00 UTC · 1d agoVulnerability in the wild

On Identifying Sound Conditions for Frontrunning Resistance

Researchers formally define smart-contract frontrunning resistance, showing 55% of 393 audited vulnerabilities escape state-of-the-art detection, and find two undisclosed Ethereum flaws.

The paper gives the first formal definition of frontrunning vulnerability for smart contracts, grounded in how honest users interact with contracts rather than contract code alone. In a large-scale study of 287 smart contract audits, 55% of the 393 vulnerabilities reported by leading auditors fall outside the scope of state-of-the-art dynamic detection criteria. The authors present a sound algorithm for synthesizing secure interaction conditions and apply it to real-world contracts, uncovering previously undiscovered vulnerabilities in two Ethereum contracts.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 10, 13:35 UTC · 5d agoResearch

The SCREEN Act is a Christian Nationalist Nightmare

404 Media·Aug 4, 17:41 UTC · Aug 4, 2026Policy & legal