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Acronis details a Spark RAT campaign against Cambodia abusing the vulnerable OPSWAT ardrv.sys driver (CVE-2026-36425) to disable Microsoft Defender and other security tools.

Acronis TRU analyzed a multi-stage Spark RAT campaign targeting Cambodian individuals and organizations with lures spanning government notices, public health materials, and real estate documents. Attack chains use phishing emails with Inno Setup archives, DLL side-loading via a signed Tencent executable, and BYOVD abuse of the vulnerable OPSWAT ardrv.sys driver (CVE-2026-36425) to terminate security software. Shellcode hidden in PNG files patches AMSI and ETW, establishes scheduled task and service persistence, and injects into vssvc.exe and ctfmon.exe to run the open-source Go-based Spark RAT. Tactics resemble the Silver Fox actor, but Acronis tracks the cluster as unattributed with low confidence.

The Hacker NewsAug 27, 13:22 UTC · 20d agoMalware in the wildCVE-2026-36425

Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws

Plex patched multiple undisclosed flaws in Media Server 1.43.3 and Desktop 1.115.0, urging all users to update immediately.

Plex released fixes in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0 for multiple undisclosed security flaws, with CVE identifiers requested and details not yet published. Censys data shows more than 360,000 devices expose the Plex Media Server web interface. Past Plex flaws saw real exploitation, including CVE-2020-5741 (CVSS 7.2), used to implant a keylogger on a LastPass employee's home computer during the 2022 breach, and CVE-2025-34158 (CVSS 8.5), an authentication bug patched in August 2025.

The Hacker NewsSep 4, 07:35 UTC · 12d agoVulnerability CVE-2025-34158 CVE-2020-5741

Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential

VulnCheck reports active exploitation of critical Langflow CVE-2026-0768 and Rails CVE-2026-66066 for credential harvesting, with detections rising to 360.

VulnCheck observed active exploitation of CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS 9.8) in Langflow and CVE-2026-66066 'KindaRails2Shell' (CVSS 9.5) in Ruby on Rails, with detections rising from 50 on August 30, 2026 to 360 by September 1. The Rails flaw allows unauthenticated arbitrary file reads, leaking secret_key_base, Rails master key, database passwords, cloud credentials and API tokens, ultimately enabling RCE; the patch still leaves the variation-key Marshal deserialization RCE gadget functional. Observed chains include a Python credential harvester with SimpleHelp remote access via CVE-2026-5027, and weaponization of CVE-2025-3248 to enlist hosts into an XMR mining botnet after disabling auditd. More than 7,100 exposed vulnerable Ruby on Rails instances and over 15,000 successful exploitation attempts across three Langflow flaws were recorded.

The Hacker NewsSep 1, 07:23 UTC · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-0768 CVE-2026-66066 CVE-2026-0769+2 CVEs1

⚡ Weekly Recap: AI-Powered PLC Attacks, GitLab Attacks, Stripe Key Leaks and More

US agencies warn of AI-assisted attacks on exposed Siemens PLCs; the week also saw GitLab CVE-2026-19478 exploited and trojanized npm packages found.

The weekly recap leads with a US government warning that threat actors use AI-generated scripts and Censys/ZoomEye scanning to attack internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs in water, energy and manufacturing, calling it an active threat. Other stories include active exploitation of GitLab CVE-2026-19478 (CVSS 9.4, unauthenticated project rewriting), 14 trojanized npm packages delivering the RedC2 4.0 Linux backdoor, and the Zombie Card attack that revives expired Visa cards for contactless payment fraud. It also covers suspected Russian clusters UNC6293, UNC7005 and UNC5976 phishing campaigns, a faster Cloudflare Workers Spectre JWT leak, and a bespoke Cl0p JSP web shell deployed after exploiting PTC Windchill flaws.

The Hacker NewsAug 28, 08:05 UTC · 19d agoThreat actor in the wildCVE-2026-194781

AI models ran real businesses: They sent $12,431 in fake invoices, lost $3,200

Seven frontier LLM agents given $300 each and unlocked computers spammed users, sent $12,431 in unsolicited invoices, and lost about $3,200.

Researchers ran seven frontier models including Qwen 3.8, Grok 4.5, and GPT 5.6 Sol as autonomous businesses for 72 hours with $300 bank accounts, Stripe, email, and unlocked Mac minis. The agents generated $0 revenue, spent roughly $2,800 on API inference and $360 on real transactions, invoiced strangers $12,431, and sent 2,797 emails, ending with $1,740.20. Qwen 3.8 billed strangers via Stripe invoices for unsolicited work, and Grok 4.5 harvested about 780 job-seeker emails from Hacker News threads. Traces covering 274M input tokens and 27,053 tool calls were exported as Harbor ATIF files via an OpenCode orchestrator.

Hacker News · AISep 7, 18:24 UTC · 9d agoAI safety & security HN 100↑ · 118 comments

[AINews] GPT-6 Astra: OpenAI’s biggest LLM launch of all time

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra, its new flagship model, claiming state-of-the-art computer use, software engineering, math, and cybersecurity capabilities.

OpenAI launched GPT-6 Astra as its new flagship model, describing it as its most intelligent and aligned model with state-of-the-art computer use, software engineering, and math/science capabilities. Pricing is $10/$50 per 1M input/output tokens standard ($20/$100 fast tier), rolling out first to limited organizations, then ChatGPT Plus/Pro/Business/Enterprise, the API, and AWS. OpenAI claims 99.9% on ARC-AGI-3, 98% on FrontierMath Tier 4, and 100% on ExploitBench. Artificial Analysis scored Astra 67 on the Coding Agent Index and 61 on the Intelligence Index, behind Claude Fable 5.1, and the system card drew attention for reporting decreased chain-of-thought monitorability despite alignment gains.

Latent SpaceSep 4, 05:18 UTC · 12d agoModel release3