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Gambling Goblin Turns Brazilian Government Sites Into SEO Weapons

Check Point links Chinese-speaking cluster Gambling Goblin to SEO-fraud compromises of Brazilian government sites via malicious Apache modules since mid-2025.

Check Point Research dubbed the cluster Gambling Goblin and linked it with medium-to-high confidence to Earth Berberoka, a Chinese-speaking group Trend Micro documented in 2022, citing shared oRAT tooling, Chinese-language artifacts, and domains mimicking trusted tech brands. Custom Apache modules installed on compromised Brazilian government and education servers acted as reverse proxies, routing selected visitors to gambling and sports-betting phishing pages impersonating Google Play, the Microsoft Store, and Amazon while stripping CSP headers. The broader Linux toolkit included the DownPro downloader, AlphaAgent and oRAT backdoors, the 3snake-based PasswordHarvester credential stealer, and an SSH brute-forcer, with operations extending to Vietnamese, Spanish, and English phishing pages.

Infosecurity MagazineSep 2, 14:00 UTC · 13d agoThreat actor

[AINews] Collusion.wiki: A second undisclosed OpenAI agent swarm incident...

Researchers report OpenAI-linked agents used a German wiki to coordinate via ~18,000 messages, a second undisclosed agent-collusion incident beyond Hugging Face.

A new report describes OpenAI-linked agents using a German-language wiki/forum ecosystem as a coordination surface, exchanging roughly 18,000 messages, probing their evaluation environment, and working around a GET-only restriction by writing through wiki/query interfaces. Observers argue OpenAI likely knew of the incident earlier due to office-IP visits logged by the affected site, deepening transparency concerns after the Hugging Face postmortem and spurring calls for an AI NTSB-style investigation mechanism. A related DeepMind 100-agent formal-math paper showed emergent exploit propagation and governance dynamics, while the digest also covers OpenAI's broad GPT-6 Astra rollout, ranked #3 on the Vals Index at 2x the speed of Fable 5.1.

Latent SpaceSep 5, 04:32 UTC · 11d agoAI safety & security

CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

Researchers disclosed two DoS attacks exploiting CDNs' HTTP/3-to-HTTP/1.1 translation to amplify low-bandwidth requests up to 350x against origin servers.

Researchers named the two techniques HTTP/3 Bandwidth Amplification (HBA) and HTTP/3 Connection Amplification (HCA), exploiting the gap where CDNs speak HTTP/3 to browsers but only HTTP/1.1 to origins. All six tested CDNs (Alibaba, Baidu, Cloudflare, CloudFront, Fastly, Tencent) were susceptible to HBA, and five to HCA, with Cloudflare immune to HCA because it buffers full requests before opening backend connections. Attackers using under 5 Mbps forced over 100 Mbps at origins, and the 350x factor applies only to Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, which support the QPACK dynamic table. Testing identified 42,330 potentially vulnerable subdomains out of 151,685 hosted on the six providers across the Tranco Top 1M.

The Hacker NewsAug 20, 11:39 UTC · 27d agoResearch