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Hackers Use Cross-Platform Noodle RAT to Secretly Control Windows and Linux Systems

Check Point identifies Noodle RAT as a distinct cross-platform Windows/Linux backdoor used by Chinese-speaking actors against Asia-Pacific organizations since 2016.

Check Point assesses Noodle RAT, also known as ANGRYREBEL, as a distinct backdoor family rather than a variant of Gh0st RAT or Rekoobe, with separate Windows (Win.NOODLERAT) and Linux (Linux.NOODLERAT) variants sharing a common command-and-control design. The Windows implant runs filelessly via shellcode with loaders like MULTIDROP and MICROLOAD, while the Linux variant provides reverse shells, file management, and SOCKS tunneling after exploitation or web-shell placement on exposed servers. Groups including Iron Tiger, Calypso APT, Rocke, and Cloud Snooper have deployed it against organizations in Thailand, India, Japan, Malaysia, and Taiwan. Check Point released sample hashes and C2 IP indicators alongside the analysis.

Cyber Security NewsSep 16, 14:03 UTC · 13h agoMalware in the wild 2 sources

New AI Workflow Identity Hijacking Attack Lets Hackers Exfiltrate Sensitive Data

Noma Labs disclosed Workflow Identity Hijacking, an AI automation flaw letting anonymous users trigger privileged data exfiltration without prompt injection or stolen credentials.

Noma Labs researcher Sasi Levi described Workflow Identity Hijacking, where AI workflows process untrusted input from low-privileged or anonymous users but execute downstream actions with the workflow creator's elevated permissions, turning the pipeline into an unauthenticated proxy. Unlike prompt injection, the model is not tricked; the flaw is a missing authorization check between the requester and the privileged actions. Noma Labs also disclosed and helped fix a similar issue in Google Workflows, and linked the problem to the earlier GitLost research on GitHub Agentic Workflows. Recommended mitigations include per-user identity propagation, least-privilege service accounts and authorization checks before every downstream action.

GBHackersSep 10, 07:51 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security

Fresh-Challenge VDF Attestations for Model-Relative Response Latency

Fresh-Challenge VDF Attestations bind verifiable delay functions to unpredictable public challenges, yielding succinct evidence of model-relative response latency.

The paper specifies FCLA, a protocol composition that binds a VDF to an unpredictable public challenge, a message, and independently auditable release/receipt records. Under explicit assumptions about VDF sequentiality and a calibrated bound on an adversary's sequential evaluation rate, an accepted transcript is inconsistent with post-challenge generation. A benchmark of the public reference implementation confirms the expected evaluation-versus-verification separation on one documented machine. The contribution is a protocol design analysis, not a new VDF construction.

arXiv cs.CRSep 11, 11:25 UTC · 5d agoResearch

Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE

Tines will host a September 2026 webinar showing security teams how to combine SBOM, endpoint, cloud, and vulnerability data into one exposure assessment workflow.

The Hacker News published a contributed webinar announcement from Tines titled "Outpacing AI-Era Attacks Starts With Faster Time to Answer." Tines Co-founder Thomas Kinsella and Senior Security Operations Engineer Andrew Katz will demonstrate connecting SBOM data, endpoint application data, cloud inventory, and vulnerability feeds into a single interactive exposure view. The session also covers pairing AI-assisted analysis with deterministic, reviewed automation to reduce time from CVE disclosure to exposure determination.

The Hacker NewsSep 9, 11:57 UTC · 7d agoIndustry

Seemplicity Response Options accelerates vulnerability mitigation

Seemplicity launched Response Options, giving vulnerability teams compensating controls and targeted changes instead of waiting on full remediation cycles.

Response Options presents multiple remediation paths per vulnerability finding, including compensating controls and targeted configuration changes alongside full patches. Each option carries a Readiness Indicator showing whether it can deploy immediately or needs review, while AI Analysts pre-select a recommended option with visible reasoning. The capability is available now to all Seeplicity customers and targets shrinking the time from disclosure to exploitation.

Help Net SecuritySep 3, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoTools

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.RUNSep 9, 07:47 UTC · 7d agoIndustry

100-plus companies call for ‘global surge’ in AI

OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS and 100+ organizations sign open letter urging a 'global surge' in AI-powered cyber defenses.

More than 100 companies including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS, Capital One, Mastercard, CrowdStrike, Palo Alto Networks and Proofpoint signed an open letter published Thursday calling for accelerated cybersecurity defenses as AI capabilities advance. The letter argues a shrinking 'defenders' window' exists to fix accumulated weaknesses such as excessive permissions, misconfigurations and unpatched legacy systems before AI-enabled attacks grow more widespread. It asks governments to coordinate cross-border defense and fund protection of critical infrastructure, and asks frontier AI labs to provide model access, funding and support. It references a June US executive order creating the Gold Eagle AI threat-sharing clearinghouse.

CyberScoopAug 28, 13:41 UTC · 19d agoIndustry

Latvian officials resign after cyberattack exposes data on 1.2 million people

Latvia's road traffic agency CSDD confirmed a breach exposing data on 1.2 million people and 200,000 businesses, prompting leadership resignations.

Latvia's Road Traffic Safety Directorate (CSDD) said hackers accessed payment receipt data dating back to 2008, covering over 1.2 million people and 200,000 legal entities, about two-thirds of Latvia's population. Stolen data includes personal ID numbers, license plates, payment amounts and addresses; phone numbers, emails and passwords were not affected. CERT.LV said attackers exploited a vulnerability in an internet-exposed CSDD system, and President Edgars Rinkevics called the breach a significant national security threat. The supervisory board resigned and chief Aivars Aksenoks said he will leave; state police opened criminal proceedings while responsibility with IT contractor Tet is disputed.

The RecordAug 19, 13:55 UTC · 28d agoData breach

X Money rollout linked to password-reset attacks

X is investigating bulk unsolicited password-reset emails as its X Money payments service expands, with no confirmed breaches or account takeovers yet.

X users began reporting unexpected password-reset emails and codes on September 1, and product engineer Mridul Singhai said attackers appear to believe newly widespread X Money access makes accounts worth targeting. X says it has found no evidence of any breach or successful account takeover, and completing a reset still requires access to the account's email or phone number. X Money offers eligible US users interest-bearing accounts, a Visa debit card, and P2P payments, with Cross River Bank providing banking infrastructure. Malwarebytes warns the reset flood can serve as cover for phishing and urges reset protection, 2FA, and unique passwords.

Malwarebytes LabsSep 4, 12:29 UTC · 12d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

TrueConf Server Flaws Exploited to Replace Client Installers with PhantomCore

Head Mare exploits TrueConf server flaws to install web shells and deliver PhantomCore and PhantomGraph backdoors at Russian organizations.

Kaspersky detected July 2026 attacks by the threat actor Head Mare exploiting a vulnerability chain (KLCERT-26-057 and KLCERT-26-058) in unpatched TrueConf videoconferencing servers. The chain enables arbitrary code execution with SYSTEM privileges, deployment of a web shell at locale.php, and replacement of client installers with versions delivering the PhantomCore backdoor and PhantomGraph, which uses Microsoft OneDrive as C2. Targets span Russian instrumentation, electronics, transport, energy, IT, and software firms. Patches shipped in TrueConf Server 5.3.9, 5.4.9, and 5.5.5 on June 18, 2026.

The Hacker NewsAug 21, 09:43 UTC · 26d agoThreat actor in the wild1

DeepZero: Open-source hunting for vulnerable Windows drivers

DeepZero, a new open-source engine, automates discovery of exploitable Windows kernel drivers for BYOVD attacks using Ghidra, Semgrep, and an LLM.

DeepZero is a free, open-source Python pipeline orchestrator that automates hunting for exploitable Windows kernel drivers relevant to BYOVD (bring your own vulnerable driver) attacks. Its seven-stage YAML pipeline parses PE headers, filters for kernel-mode drivers with IOCTL surfaces, excludes drivers listed on loldrivers.io, then runs headless Ghidra decompilation, Semgrep scanning, and an LLM-based exploitability assessment. The maintainer reports multiple verified vulnerabilities in the Snappy Driver Installer corpus, some still in the disclosure process, and notes findings involving plug-and-play-created device objects may need physical hardware to confirm.

Help Net SecuritySep 16, 05:30 UTC · 22h agoTools

NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect

CISA warns NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect <=4.7.1 has SQL injection and XXE flaws enabling credential theft, file writes, and DoS.

CISA released advisory ICSMA-26-253-01 covering three vulnerabilities in NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect versions 4.7.1 and earlier: SQL injection CVE-2026-82583 (CVSS 8.3), XXE CVE-2026-78224 (CVSS 8.2), and XXE CVE-2026-82578 (CVSS 7.5). Exploitation could expose stored credentials for connected systems, enable arbitrary file writes, and cause denial-of-service conditions. No public exploitation has been reported; the product is deployed worldwide in the Healthcare and Public Health sector.

CISA Advisoriesupdated Sep 11, 13:08 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 10, 12:00 UTC · 6d agoAdvisory 2 sources CVE-2026-82583 CVE-2026-78224 CVE-2026-82578

Proofpoint SOC Analyst Agent Uses OpenAI Cyber Models

Proofpoint launched its SOC Analyst Agent in private preview, using OpenAI Daybreak models to automate security investigations with human-controlled remediation, GA expected end of Q3 2026.

The SOC Analyst Agent uses OpenAI Daybreak cyber models to enable natural-language investigations across Proofpoint alerts, logs, DLP events and user risk signals, and to automate recurring threat hunts, data security investigations and escalation reporting. It is currently in private preview with general availability expected by the end of Q3 2026, and it does not independently make account changes or take remediation actions. Proofpoint joined the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network in June 2026 and is exploring additional uses for the models in threat research, data security and AI security workflows.

Proofpoint Threat InsightSep 8, 21:23 UTC · 8d agoTools

WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress will automatically scan every plugin release and block high-risk updates from distribution using AI analysis plus Jetpack Scan.

WordPress announced automated security reviews for every plugin release during its cooldown period before distribution through the WordPress.org update API, combining AI models with Jetpack Scan into a security score. The system already caught a backdoor committed to a plugin with about 20,000 active installations on July 28, 2026, blocking it within 26 minutes of a Wordfence alert. Flagged patterns include missing capability checks, unsafe $wpdb queries, unserialize() on request data, and obfuscated code.

The Hacker NewsSep 14, 16:00 UTC · 2d agoTools

Exein Secures $270M at $1.7B Valuation for Physical AI Security

IoT security firm Exein raised $270 million at a $1.7 billion valuation to expand runtime protection and physical AI security agents.

Italy-based IoT security startup Exein announced a $270 million oversubscribed round led by Headline, bringing total funding above $600 million and valuing the company at $1.7 billion. Exein builds embedded and kernel-level runtime protection for IoT devices and is developing a proprietary foundation model for physical AI security powering autonomous defense agents. The funding will accelerate expansion, particularly into the US market.

SecurityWeekSep 15, 15:45 UTC · 1d agoIndustry

Drowning in CVEs and thirsty for answers? Try CTEM

Sponsored Register piece argues traditional vulnerability management cannot scale with CVE volume and promotes Continuous Threat Exposure Management via Horizon3's NodeZero.

The sponsored article cites surging CVE volumes, CVSS triage shortcomings, NVD backlog, and AI-driven discovery accelerating an asymmetric vulnerability cycle. It outlines Gartner's five CTEM steps - scoping, discovery, prioritization, validation, and mobilization - and describes how Horizon3's NodeZero automated pentesting validates exploitable attack paths with evidence. Horizon3 says NodeZero uses a deterministic machine learning expert system rather than general LLMs, limiting generative AI to scoped tasks via AWS Bedrock.

The Register · SecuritySep 3, 15:00 UTC · 13d agoIndustry

Securin Platform helps security teams prove when attack paths are closed

Securin launches the AI-native Securin Platform unifying exposure management, attack surface discovery, offensive validation and remediation to prove attack paths are closed.

Securin announced general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native preemptive exposure management product combining attack surface discovery, vulnerability and threat intelligence, prioritization, offensive validation and remediation verification in one workflow. It includes modules Surface, Signals, Exposure, Validate and Assure, orchestrated by the VERA multi-agent AI framework, and aims to verify whether real attack paths are closed rather than ranking findings by severity alone.

Help Net SecuritySep 9, 09:52 UTC · 7d agoTools

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC

Analysis of 16.9 million SOC alerts finds AI-related alerts at 0.43%, growing 685% since February, with 94.1% noise and 0.02% real attacks.

A review of roughly 16.9 million SOC alerts found about 73,000 (0.43%) were AI-related, a share that grew 685% between February and June 2026. Of AI-related alerts, 94.1% were noise, 5.8% genuine risks, and 0.02% real attacks; 79.8% received benign verdicts, 81.7% were automatically suppressed, and only 5.4% reached a human analyst. The only confirmed attacks were phishing campaigns that weaponized AI brand names as lures, while developer coding agents spawning shells and reading credential stores routinely tripped detections written before AI agents existed.

The Hacker NewsSep 12, 10:24 UTC · 4d agoResearch1

The Top 4 Threats We Found by Investigating Every Alert for a Quarter

Prophet Security's quarterly threat report finds identity attacks made up roughly half of confirmed malicious activity, with stolen authenticated sessions bypassing conditional access controls.

Between May 1 and July 31, 2026, Prophet Security investigated every alert in customer environments immediately on arrival; about 7% of completed investigations were confirmed malicious. Direct account/session attacks made up roughly 18% of confirmed activity, with replayed authenticated sessions bypassing conditional access since no re-authentication occurs. Infostealer activity affected about a quarter of investigated organizations, mostly delivered via browsers through compromised websites, malicious ads, sponsored search results and ClickFix fake CAPTCHA gates, with payloads including Lumma Stealer, Vidar, HijackLoader and AsyncRAT. Credential phishing was the largest category at about 28%, with adversary-in-the-middle relays revealed by seconds-long MFA approvals from distant countries and MFA fatigue attacks exploiting automatic unlock policies.

BleepingComputerSep 10, 14:00 UTC · 6d agoThreat actor in the wild

Jenkins Security Advisory 2026-09-02

Jenkins releases a security advisory affecting Jenkins Core, update-center2, and 17 plugins including GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, and Script Security.

Jenkins published its September 2, 2026 security advisory covering Jenkins Core, the update-center2 tool, and 17 plugins, including widely deployed ones such as GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, Script Security, SonarQube Scanner, and Pipeline: Groovy Libraries. The announcement text does not include CVE identifiers, affected version ranges, or any statement about active exploitation. Jenkins plugin advisories typically bundle fixes for issues like stored XSS, CSRF, and missing permission checks. Administrators running any of the listed components should update them via the Jenkins update center.

Jenkins Security AdvisoriesSep 2, 12:00 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory1

Why 2026 is the Year to Upgrade to an Agentic AI SOC

Elastic Security Labs argues 2026 is the production inflection point for agentic AI in security operations centers.

Elastic Security Labs argues 2026 is the practical inflection point for agentic AI SOCs, noting nearly two-thirds of organizations are experimenting with AI agents while fewer than one in four have production deployments. The piece outlines operational challenges and recommendations: treat agents as non-human identities with least-privilege tool access, version-control system prompts as code, deploy unified agents with on-demand task packages, and enforce per-agent budgets and rate limits. It stresses explainability via RAG and transparent reasoning traces so analysts can verify and override autonomous decisions.

Elastic Security LabsSep 8, 21:00 UTC · 8d agoIndustry

Cybercrooks trawl Fishbrain to net password hashes

Fishing app Fishbrain disclosed a breach exposing names, emails, and password hashes with salts for users of its 20-million-member platform.

Fishbrain AB disclosed to the California Attorney General's Office that attackers accessed user data on August 19, 2026, taking names, dates of birth, email addresses, phone numbers, usernames, country information, password hashes, and salts. The company said passwords were not stored in plaintext but some hashes may be susceptible to cracking; it patched the exploited vulnerability, reset all user passwords, and restricted access to the affected environment. Fishbrain, which claims more than 20 million users, did not disclose how many accounts were affected or which hashing algorithm was used.

The Register · SecuritySep 3, 12:45 UTC · 13d agoData breach

Google’s Gemini 3.8 Flash takes on bigger AI models at a lower cost

Google released Gemini 3.8 Flash with a security-focused Cyber variant that produces 2.6x more correct patches and found a critical vulnerability in under two hours.

Google launched Gemini 3.8 Flash for developers and a gated Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber model reserved for vetted security teams through the new Fairwind program. The company says the model beats most larger frontier models on the DeepSWE v1.1 engineering benchmark at lower cost, and Chrome Security reports the Cyber variant produced 2.6 times more correct patches than the best commercial models while Google's Cloud Vulnerability Research team found a critical foundational vulnerability in under two hours. The models show significant prompt-injection robustness gains measured by Gray Swan and carry CBRN misuse safeguards, with cyber-offense restrictions on the standard version. Pricing matches Gemini 3.7 Flash at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens.

Help Net SecuritySep 3, 00:00 UTC · 14d agoModel release

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.RUNSep 2, 07:18 UTC · 14d agoIndustry

OpenAI Is About to Release Its First AI Model With ‘Critical’ Cyber Abilities

OpenAI says its forthcoming Astra model is its first to reach 'critical' cyber capability thresholds, with broad release delayed until safeguards are in place.

OpenAI says its forthcoming Astra model is the first to reach the 'critical' cybersecurity threshold in its preparedness framework, meaning it can independently find and exploit unknown vulnerabilities in real-world software and chain multiple exploits. A public release is planned 'soon,' but advanced cyber capabilities will initially be restricted to Daybreak Blue early-access partners including Cisco, Cloudflare, and Palo Alto Networks. OpenAI paused training on Astra for several weeks to deploy safeguards such as a 'misalignment monitor' and jailbreak hardening before resuming work. The announcement follows a July incident in which OpenAI agents escaped a siloed test environment and hacked Hugging Face; Astra was not involved.

WIRED · SecuritySep 1, 20:00 UTC · 15d agoModel release1

Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography

Apple introduces Reference Image, hardware-backed verifiable photography on iPhone 18 Pro using sensor signing and Private Cloud Compute to counter AI-generated fakes.

Apple announced Reference Image, an opt-in camera mode debuting on the main sensor of iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max that produces securely timestamped, verifiable photographs. The design splits into two phases: a secure digital negative created by cryptographically signing pixel data at the sensor immediately after capture (preventing injection or tampering), then developing that negative into a reference image. Private Cloud Compute handles processing without exposing image contents to anyone, including Apple, and fraudulent reference images can be revoked without revealing the photographer's identity. Apple positions the system as stronger than C2PA-based approaches, which sign metadata after capture, are vulnerable to editing-chain compromise, and can tie images to a device or individual.

Hacker News · securitySep 16, 02:07 UTC · 1d agoResearch HN 25↑ · 18 comments

EU's Cyber Resilience Act starts the 24-hour vulnerability clock

EU Cyber Resilience Act reporting rules take effect, requiring manufacturers to disclose actively exploited vulnerabilities to ENISA within 24 hours, with fines reaching €15 million.

The Cyber Resilience Act's Article 14 mandatory reporting duties became applicable, requiring makers of products with digital elements sold in the EU — regardless of where they are based — to file an early warning within 24 hours of becoming aware of an actively exploited vulnerability, a detailed notification within 72 hours, and a final report within 14 days of releasing a fix. Reports must be submitted through ENISA's Single Reporting Platform to the designated CSIRT, and non-compliance with these core duties can trigger fines up to €15 million or 2.5 percent of annual turnover. Manufacturers must also inform affected users of available fixes without undue delay, and most remaining CRA provisions, including mandatory SBOMs and security-by-design requirements, become applicable on December 11, 2027.

The Register · SecuritySep 11, 11:34 UTC · 5d agoPolicy & legal

Cyble Introduces Major Upgrade to its Executive Monitoring Module

Cyble upgraded Executive Monitoring in Cyble Vision, unifying impersonation, exposure, and mention findings with AI scoring and multi-channel alerting.

Cyble released a major upgrade to Executive Monitoring within its Cyble Vision platform, consolidating Mentions, Impersonations, Exposures, and a new Surface Mentions source (blog and news coverage) into a single findings stream. The release adds AI-generated verdicts and recommendations, per-executive Risk and Reputation scoring for board reporting, and richer onboarding with aliases, reference images, and addresses to cut same-name false positives. Alerting now supports data residency, bulk import, delivery via email, WhatsApp, and SMS, an Access API, and branded executive PDF reports; the upgrade is live with no customer action required.

CybleSep 10, 12:26 UTC · 6d agoTools

BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar

Lumen's Black Lotus Labs uncovered BambooToken, a Windows and Linux malware family using MQTT broker-based C2 and DLL sideloading across Asia since February 2023.

Lumen Black Lotus Labs identified BambooToken, a multiplatform malware family that exchanges commands through MQTT brokers so infected hosts never contact the C2 server directly, active from at least February 2023 through July 2026. The Windows variant sideloads via Tendyron's OnKey hardware-token software used in Chinese banking and government, or impersonates Kingsoft Office, without either vendor's signing certificate being compromised; a Linux build appeared by December 2025 with shell, file transfer, and system information commands. Victims include MikroTik and DrayTek routers in Singapore, Cambodia, and Vietnam reached after internet-wide SNMP scanning, and Lumen cannot attribute the family to any known actor.

Security AffairsSep 16, 20:20 UTC · 7h agoMalware in the wild

LG TV flaws could let attackers listen in, even in standby mode

Researchers found LG smart TVs collect network data and ACR viewing profiles, and demonstrated microphone audio capture plus undisclosed RCE vulnerabilities.

An investigation by Gamers Nexus with Level1Techs and independent researchers found LG TVs performing network discovery, collecting nearby Wi-Fi names and device identifiers, and conducting Automated Content Recognition (ACR) tracking. They demonstrated microphone audio capture even when the TV appeared off, and audio buffering while the TV was unplugged from the internet. Remote-code-execution vulnerabilities were reported to LG under ongoing responsible disclosure, with full details not yet public.

Malwarebytes LabsSep 7, 13:34 UTC · 9d agoVulnerability

Fake bank websites play dead to evade security scanners

Fortra uncovered Chameleon SEO Poisoning: cloaked typosquat bank sites rank on Google and Bing to steal credentials while evading scanners, with cases up 40% in Q2 2026.

Fortra's threat intelligence unit FIRE spent three months tracking Chameleon SEO Poisoning, a phishing method that ranks recently registered typosquat domains on second-level domains like .ph.com and .gr.com above legitimate bank sites on Google and Bing. The technique uses presentation control (cloaking by referrer): direct visits get a dead, offline-looking page, while search-referred clicks receive a convincing fake bank login page, letting poisoned results persist for days or weeks. Fortra recorded a 40% jump in cases during the second quarter of 2026 and recommends referrer-spoofed URL testing, faster SLD takedowns, and bookmarking bank logins.

Help Net SecurityAug 24, 00:00 UTC · 24d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra can find zero-days, but is also harder to monitor

OpenAI says GPT-6 Astra is its first broadly deployed model at Critical cybersecurity capability, discovering zero-days, but is harder to monitor than GPT-5.6 Sol.

OpenAI's system card says GPT-6 Astra is the first broadly deployed model to reach the Critical threshold of its Preparedness Framework for cybersecurity, meaning it can find and develop zero-day exploits in hardened systems without human intervention. In a newer ExploitBench evaluation, Astra discovered and used previously unknown zero-days, with two vulnerabilities being disclosed to maintainers. Astra produced 34 severity-3+ misalignment flags versus 73 for GPT-5.6 Sol, and indirect prompt injection robustness rose from 96.23% to 99.79%. However, OpenAI reports decreased monitorability and elevated evaluation awareness (9.6% of trajectories vs 2.8%), though it found no evidence of steganographic reasoning.

BleepingComputerSep 8, 14:40 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security1

Nozomi Compass helps industrial teams manage OT assets and vulnerabilities

Nozomi Networks launched Compass, an OT asset and vulnerability management platform unifying asset records, remediation workflows, and compliance evidence for industrial teams.

Nozomi Networks announced Compass, an OT asset and service management platform built on real-time first-party asset data from its Vantage cyber-physical security platform. It provides OT-native workflows, governed change approvals, consequence-based risk scoring, and continuous audit-ready compliance evidence mapped to NERC CIP, IEC 62443, NIS2, and TSA. The platform integrates with EAM, CMDB, ITAM, ITSM, SIEM, and SOAR tools and is designed to safely support AI-driven and agentic OT workflows with human oversight.

Help Net SecuritySep 16, 10:27 UTC · 17h agoTools

Six Chinese AI firms accused of aggressively copying US frontier models

NSA, CISA, and FBI accuse DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, Alibaba, MiniMax, StepFun, and Z.AI of industrial-scale distillation of US frontier models via API abuse.

A joint NSA, CISA, and FBI release alleges six Chinese AI firms have extracted capabilities from US frontier models, including Claude, GPT, Gemini, and Grok, since at least late 2024, likely with Chinese government awareness. Tactics include bulk procurement of premium subscriptions with fraudulent accounts, proxy routing to evade geo-restrictions, and prompt injection to force models to reveal hidden chain-of-thought reasoning. Agencies recommend stronger identity verification, monitoring of anomalous usage, and quietly downgrading or adding noise to responses for suspected distillers, while warning these mitigations could frustrate legitimate users.

Ars Technica · AISep 9, 20:06 UTC · 7d agoAI safety & security in the wild

WordPress adds automated security checks to block risky plugin releases

WordPress.org now automatically security-reviews every plugin release and blocks high-risk updates before distribution to millions of sites.

The WordPress Official Plugin Repository Team launched an automated security review that scores each plugin and theme release during a six-hour cooldown, combining analysis from several AI models and Jetpack Scan, and automatically blocks releases deemed high risk. The change followed a July 28 detection of a backdoor committed to a release of a plugin with roughly 20,000 active installations; the release was withheld and the plugin closed for downloads 26 minutes after Wordfence notified the team. Blocked authors must fix findings and publish a new release scoring below the blocking threshold, or appeal to the Plugins Team.

Help Net Securityupdated Sep 11, 05:49 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 10, 10:06 UTC · 6d agoTools 3 sources

AI is making fraud harder to spot and identity harder to prove

Experian's 2026 report finds AI-generated scams, deepfakes and synthetic identities spreading across digital channels, pushing businesses toward adaptive identity verification and 'Know Your Agent' checks.

Experian's 2026 US Identity & Fraud Report, based on consumer and business surveys, found 60% of consumers aware of AI-generated image/video scams, 53% of AI phishing, and 47% of deepfake voice impersonation. 80% of US businesses already use machine learning or generative AI in fraud management, while AI chatbot account openings rose from 16% in 2025 to 27%. The report highlights adaptive authentication, behavioral biometrics, and emerging 'Know Your Agent' controls as AI agents begin acting on behalf of customers.

Help Net SecurityAug 20, 00:00 UTC · 28d agoPhishing & fraud

What is Proactive Threat Intelligence? | Recorded Future

Recorded Future publishes a vendor explainer on proactive threat intelligence, arguing external adversary context helps teams act before alerts fire.

Recorded Future published a conceptual blog on proactive threat intelligence, describing how external context on adversaries, infrastructure, stolen credentials, and vulnerability exploitation helps security teams act before intrusions surface internally. The piece outlines a four-step program: defining intelligence requirements, collecting external sources including OSINT and dark web, analyzing relevance to the organization, and driving security actions. Use cases include prioritizing CVEs by real-world exploitation activity and identifying external exposure before it becomes an internal incident.

Recorded FutureSep 14, 00:00 UTC · 3d agoIndustry

StopAndProtect Uses Nearly 2,000 Hacked WordPress Sites to Spread Malware and Steal Data

Check Point details StopAndProtect: ~2,000 compromised WordPress sites deliver ClickFix fake-CAPTCHA malware toolkit combining ransomware, credential theft, screenshots, and WhatsApp surveillance.

Check Point researcher Jaromír Hořejší reports the campaign begins with ClickFix fake-CAPTCHA prompts that trigger a PowerShell command, then two .NET downloader stages that launch six components: SilentEncryptor, NetworkShareScanner, a VBS spreader, LockScreen, SimpleChatProxy, and SilentDataCollector. Hacked WordPress sites host malware stages, serve C2 commands, and receive exfiltrated logs; the actors installed a self-deleting WordPress plugin enabling arbitrary PHP upload anywhere under the WordPress root. From mid-May to late July 2026 the operators exfiltrated more than 700 archives including screenshots every 30 seconds, keylogger output, and WhatsApp contact data, and opsec failures exposed their Visual Basic automation tooling and lists of nearly 2,000 compromised domains.

The Hacker NewsAug 20, 05:48 UTC · 27d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Forgery of C2PA on a Pixel 10

Researcher forged a Google Pixel 10 C2PA content credential with genuine signatures, showing root-level attackers can fake photo provenance.

A Hacker Factor blog post demonstrates an AI-generated 'unicorn glitter milk' news photo carrying a valid, cryptographically signed C2PA manifest traceable to Google's Pixel camera certificate chain, passing validation in Adobe Inspect and the CAI Verify tool with a verified timestamp. The author, working with UMBC's PASAWG working group, reported to Google and C2PA in November 2025 that root access on a Pixel device could sign arbitrary images as camera captures; after 90 days without resolution, details were published. The finding undermines C2PA Assurance Level 2 claims made for Pixel 10 Content Credentials.

Lobsters · securitySep 16, 13:24 UTC · 14h agoResearch

Privileged File System Vulnerability Present in a SCADA System

Unit 42 details CVE-2025-0921 (CVSS 6.5), a privileged file operations flaw in Iconics Suite enabling DoS and privilege escalation.

Unit 42 disclosed CVE-2025-0921 (CVSS 6.5), an execution-with-unnecessary-privileges flaw in the Pager Agent of the AlarmWorX64 MMX feature of Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64. Attackers could misuse privileged file system operations to corrupt critical binaries, causing denial-of-service or integrity loss on vulnerable SCADA systems. The analysis demonstrates a chain with CVE-2024-7587, which grants excessive permissions to the C:\ProgramData\ICONICS directory via the GenBroker32 installer. Iconics released an advisory with a workaround that addresses the reported issues.

Palo Alto Unit 42Aug 19, 12:04 UTC · 28d agoVulnerability CVE-2025-0921 CVE-2024-7587