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Rockwell Automation ArmorStart LT

CISA flags two flaws (CVE-2026-19471, CVE-2026-19472) in Rockwell Automation ArmorStart LT <=v2.001: stored XSS and web server denial-of-service.

Rockwell Automation reported two issues in the embedded web server of ArmorStart LT v2.001 and earlier. CVE-2026-19471 involves multiple stored cross-site scripting flaws (CVSS 7.3) where unsanitized input is stored server-side and executes in other users' browsers. CVE-2026-19472 is a denial-of-service issue (CVSS 7.5) triggered by a crafted HTTP PUT request that exhausts web server resources. No public exploitation has been reported to CISA.

CISA Advisories·Sep 3, 12:00 UTC · 13d agoAdvisory 3 sourcesCVE-2026-19471CVE-2026-19472

GuardBreaker: Derailing AI-assisted malware analysis with a code comment

ESET names 'GuardBreaker': UAC-0099 embeds a nuclear-weapon question in VBScript comments to trip LLM scanner guardrails during analysis of its MATCHBOIL loader.

ESET researchers observed the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 inserting a decoy prompt injection into a VBScript used to install its MATCHBOIL loader in an attack against a Ukrainian target, aiming to make LLM-based code scanners refuse and stop inspecting the file. The comment triggers safety guardrails with a request about building a nuclear weapons but has no runtime effect. Similar LLM-thwarting tricks have appeared in malicious PyPI and npm packages reported by Socket and StepSecurity. ESET recommends multi-model cross-validation of AI-assisted analysis and treating missing LLM output as requiring further checks.

ESET WeLiveSecurity·updated Sep 11, 14:32 UTC · 5d ago·first Sep 10, 09:00 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security 3 sources1

Fortinet Code Execution Flaw Exploited in PivotC2 RAT Attacks

Threat actors exploit Fortinet heap-based buffer overflow CVE-2025-25249 to deploy PivotC2 RAT, infecting 178 devices and exfiltrating data from US targets.

SOCRadar reports exploitation of an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability, CVE-2025-25249 (CVSS 7.4), patched in January in FortiOS and FortiSwitchManager. Attackers scanned over 30,000 IP addresses, infected 178 devices with PivotC2 RAT, and at least two intrusions resulted in data exfiltration, primarily targeting US entities. SOCRadar attributes attacks to a likely Russian-speaking cybercrime actor and suggests the RAT was AI-assisted, in use since July 2026. CISA added the CVE to the KEV catalog with a three-day BOD 26-04 patch deadline for federal agencies.

SecurityWeek·updated Sep 10, 11:26 UTC · 6d ago·first Sep 10, 06:33 UTC · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2025-252491

Rockwell Automation security advisory (AV26-869)

Canada's Cyber Centre flags vulnerabilities across multiple Rockwell Automation ICS products including ControlLogix 5580 and RSLinx Classic.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-869, dated September 1, 2026, lists vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation products: 1756-ENBT Module (all versions), ArmorStart LT (v2.001 and earlier), CompactLogix 5380 / ControlLogix 5580 (V33 and earlier plus several V34-V36 releases), and RSLinx Classic (V4.50 and earlier). It references Rockwell advisories SD1792, SD1794, SD1797, and SD1798 and urges users to apply updates as available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 1, 18:45 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory

ArmorCode enhances attack path analysis with new AI agents and Context Risk Graph

Help Net Security·Aug 5, 00:00 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Vulnerability

Fortinet security advisory (AV26-898)

Canadian Cyber Centre advisory AV26-898 flags Fortinet vulnerabilities across FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiPAM, FortiSandbox and FortiMonitorOnSight, urging administrators to apply updates

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security relayed Fortinet PSIRT advisories (AV26-898) listing vulnerabilities affecting FortiOS 7.6.1-7.6.6, FortiProxy 7.6.2-7.6.6, FortiPAM Chrome extensions 7.4/8.0, FortiSandbox 4.4 and 5.0, FortiSandbox Cloud and PaaS 5.0.4-5.0.5, and FortiMonitorOnSight 7.2. The bulletin does not detail individual CVEs or exploitation. Administrators and users are encouraged to review the linked Fortinet advisories and apply the necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 9, 13:48 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory

Fortinet Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in FortiMonitorOnSight, Chrome Extension

Fortinet patched 10 vulnerabilities including two critical authentication flaws, CVE-2026-84390 (CVSS 9.6) and CVE-2026-84388 (CVSS 9.1), in FortiMonitorOnSight and the FortiPAM Chrome extension.

Fortinet's September patch release fixes CVE-2026-84390, a sensitive-information issue in the FortiMonitorOnSight web portal that lets unauthenticated attackers bypass authentication with forged or reused JWTs. CVE-2026-84388 is an improper authentication flaw in the Fortinet Privileged Access Agent Chrome extension that can allow attackers to proxy a user's browser traffic via a malicious website, requiring upgrades to both FortiPAM 1.9.1/1.8.4 and extension 8.0.1.123+. High-severity information disclosure in FortiSandbox (CVE-2026-26084) and man-in-the-middle risk in the FortiOS/FortiProxy Agentless ZTNA portal (CVE-2026-84393) were also fixed, alongside medium/low issues across FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiSOAR, FortiClient, FortiSIEM and others. Fortinet did not indicate any of the flaws are being exploited in the wild.

SecurityWeek·Sep 9, 14:33 UTC · 7d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-84390CVE-2026-84388CVE-2026-26084+1 CVEs

UAT-10147 deploys SPECTRE: A cross-platform implant with Linux rootkit and BYOVD capabilities

Cisco Talos identifies UAT-10147 deploying the SPECTRE implant with cross-platform C2, credential theft, and kernel-level EDR bypass.

Cisco Talos reports that the tracked threat actor UAT-10147 is deploying a newly identified implant named SPECTRE. SPECTRE supports cross-platform command-and-control, process injection, credential theft, and anti-analysis protections. It also includes a Linux rootkit and BYOVD (bring your own vulnerable driver) capability enabling kernel-level EDR bypass, marking an evolution in commodity intrusion tooling.

Cisco Talos·Aug 20, 10:00 UTC · 27d agoThreat actor in the wild

X-AuT: Progressive Audio-Encoder Compression for Speech LLMs with Cross-Scale Distillation

XPeng AI's X-AuT prunes speech LLM audio encoders, cutting Qwen3-ASR-0.6B error from 5.61% to 5.27% with fewer parameters.

X-AuT is a progressive compression framework for speech LLM audio encoders that selects layer combinations via short behavioral probes and restores pruned models using cross-scale distillation and LoRA finetuning while keeping the language-model backbone frozen. Compressing Qwen3-ASR-0.6B from 18 to 16 audio-encoder layers lowered macro-average error from 5.61% to 5.27% on ten Chinese-English benchmarks. A 14-layer model reached 5.75% error with 20.7% fewer audio-tower parameters, and progressive pruning outperformed direct pruning (5.75% vs 6.73%).

Hugging Face daily papers·Sep 9, 20:00 UTC · 6d agoAI research

JustFit: 200K-Token LLM Serving on a 24 GiB Laptop with Just-in-Time State Management

JustFit MLX runtime serves 200K-token contexts for Qwen3.8-27B on a 24 GiB MacBook via just-in-time state management.

JustFit is an MLX-based inference runtime combining KVExec for compressed KV execution, PhaseSwap for component residency, and StateTrans for state-preserving serving transitions, independent of weight quantization. On a 24 GiB M4 Pro MacBook running Qwen3.8-27B MXFP4, it completed 196,608 input and 16,384 output tokens, raising single-request context from the mlx-vlm baseline's 30,720 positions to 212,992 (6.93x). Performance tests show 19.11 tokens/s on a 32K-input probe with a 16,374 MiB median peak footprint, and the runtime answered 29 of 30 AIME 2026 problems correctly.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL·Sep 15, 17:15 UTC · 22h agoAI research

UI DoS attack

FortiOS web interface is vulnerable to unauthenticated slow HTTP denial-of-service attacks via crafted requests (CVSS 5.0).

Fortinet advisory FG-IR-26-162 details an unbounded resource allocation flaw (CWE-770) in FortiOS, scored CVSSv3 5.0. An unauthenticated attacker can launch a slow HTTP denial-of-service attack against the FortiOS web interface using crafted HTTP requests. The advisory was revised on 2026-08-12 and does not state that exploitation has been observed.

Fortinet PSIRT·Aug 12, 07:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Advisory

BlueSTAR: Tiered Agentic Architecture for Autonomous Cyber Defense

BlueSTAR is a tiered agentic LLM architecture for autonomous cyber defense, validated on live enterprise IT/OT cyber ranges against seven attack chains.

Researchers present BlueSTAR, a tiered agentic architecture for autonomous cyber defense in enterprise IT/OT networks that transforms high-volume security telemetry into compact indicators of compromise. It pairs deterministic containment for known threats with LLM reasoning for attacks requiring contextual and cross-cycle analysis, and introduces a resilience metric jointly weighing attacker reach, mission-critical impact, and defensive disruption. Evaluation on two live cyber ranges with seven attack chains based on real-world intrusion techniques covered credential theft, repeated compromise, concurrent attackers, and attacks on physical processes.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 10, 17:36 UTC · 5d agoResearch

CVE-2025-25249 Exploitation Delivers PivotC2, a FortiGate Post-Exploitation RAT

Attackers exploiting CVE-2025-25249 in Fortinet FortiGate firewalls deploy PivotC2, a post-exploitation RAT, on exposed edge devices.

SOCRadar reports that exploitation of CVE-2025-25249 is being used to deploy PivotC2, a purpose-built post-exploitation RAT, on FortiGate firewall appliances. The attack follows the common pattern of compromising public-facing edge devices such as VPNs, routers, and firewalls as the initial entry point. Defenders running FortiGate appliances should prioritize patching and watch for post-exploitation activity indicating RAT deployment.

SOCRadar·Sep 8, 10:00 UTC · 8d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2025-25249

Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard

CISA advisory: two hardcoded cryptographic key flaws in Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard 5.07.0923.01 (CVSS 9.0/9.1) could allow unauthorized updates, code execution, and credential theft.

CISA advisory ICSA-26-258-02 discloses CVE-2026-78225 (CVSS 3.1 9.0 critical), a hardcoded cryptographic server key in the deployer-ng Update Controller of Wärtsilä FOS-Onboard 5.07.0923.01. CVE-2026-81855 (CVSS 3.1 9.1 critical) is a hardcoded client authentication key in the robot testing framework component. Successful exploitation could let an attacker deliver unauthorized updates, execute code, or extract credentials to impersonate a privileged client. The product is deployed worldwide in transportation systems critical infrastructure; Cydome Security reported the flaws and CISA states no known public exploitation exists.

CISA Advisories·Sep 15, 12:00 UTC · 1d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-78225CVE-2026-81855

HTTP/2 Bomb CVE-2026-49975

Fortinet advisory details CVE-2026-49975, an Apache HTTP Server HTTP/2 flaw enabling denial of service, affecting versions 2.4.17 through 2.4.67.

Fortinet PSIRT advisory FG-IR-26-163, revised 2026-08-19, covers CVE-2026-49975, a memory allocation with excessive size value flaw (HTTP/2 bomb) in Apache HTTP Server's mod_http2, scored CVSSv3 5.8. Malicious HTTP requests can cause a denial of service, and affected versions span Apache HTTP Server 2.4.17 through 2.4.67. The advisory text does not state which Fortinet product bundles the affected Apache component or whether exploitation has been observed.

Fortinet PSIRT·Aug 12, 07:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026AdvisoryCVE-2026-49975

Persistent Attempts at Cyberespionage Against Southeast Asian Government Target Have Links to Alloy Taurus

Alloy Taurus (GALLIUM) compromised Southeast Asian government networks from 2022 to 2023 using Exchange web shells and undocumented .NET backdoors Reshell and Zapoa.

Unit 42 tracked persistent multiwave intrusions at a Southeast Asian government starting in early 2022 and continuing through 2023, attributing the activity with moderate confidence to Alloy Taurus (aka GALLIUM), a Chinese state-aligned espionage group. Attackers exploited Exchange Server vulnerabilities to deploy web shells including China Chopper, then ran reconnaissance with Fscan and WebScan, created administrative accounts, and installed undocumented .NET backdoors named Reshell and Zapoa. They established resilience by installing SoftEther VPN, brute-forced Active Directory credentials with Kerbrute, and dumped credential stores with GoDumpLsass and LsassUnhooker. The campaign reflects long-term espionage tradecraft to maintain a foothold.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 10:54 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Threat actor in the wild1

FortiOS and FortiProxy ZTNA Validation Vulnerability Allows Attacker to Perform a Man-in-the-Middle Attack

Fortinet discloses high-severity certificate validation flaw CVE-2026-84393 in FortiOS and FortiProxy Agentless ZTNA portals enabling unauthenticated man-in-the-middle attacks.

Fortinet disclosed CVE-2026-84393 (CVSSv3 7.3, CWE-295) on September 8, 2026 under advisory FG-IR-26-174: improper certificate validation in the Agentless ZTNA portal of FortiOS and FortiProxy. An unauthenticated attacker on the network path could present a forged or mismatched certificate and intercept or tamper with traffic between the portal and backend destinations, with impact classified as information disclosure. Affected versions are FortiOS 7.6.1 through 7.6.6 and FortiProxy 7.6.2 through 7.6.6; the 8.0, 7.4 and 7.2 branches of both products are unaffected. Fortinet urges upgrading to 7.6.7 or later and reports no evidence of exploitation in the wild.

Cyber Security News·Sep 8, 17:15 UTC · 7d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-84393

PentestGPT: Open-source automated penetration testing agentic framework

Open-source PentestGPT runs autonomous LLM-driven penetration tests via Claude Code and Codex, with legacy human-in-the-loop mode supporting many providers.

PentestGPT, originally published at USENIX Security 2024 by Gelei Deng and colleagues, is an open-source framework that lets a large language model autonomously run penetration testing stages (recon, exploit, walkthrough) with no human in the loop, driving Claude Code or Codex CLIs. A legacy interactive mode uses three cooperating LLM sessions maintaining a Pentesting Task Tree and supports OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, xAI, Qwen, Moonshot, and local models via Ollama. The tool sends anonymous telemetry to Langfuse by default, excluding command outputs, credentials, and flags, and is available free on GitHub.

Help Net Security·Aug 12, 00:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Tools1

New AI Attack Hides Malicious Instructions in Normal-Looking Text to Evade Safety Filters

Check Point researchers show crafted prose hides policy-violating instructions that bypass all tested LLM gatekeepers, including GPT-4o mini and Llama Guard 3.

A new prompt-crafting technique embeds malicious payloads inside grammatical, natural-looking text without Base64, invisible Unicode, or obvious encodings, defeating lightweight pre-screening gatekeepers. In testing, all four evaluated gatekeeper models—gpt-4o-mini-2024-07-18, gpt-oss-safeguard:20b, claude-3-haiku-20240307, and llama-guard3:8b—classified the crafted wrappers as safe at a 100% bypass rate across 23 obfuscated prompts. GPT-5 Thinking in high-reasoning mode recovered and acted on the hidden instruction in 17 of 18 tests (~94.4%), often spending over a minute and multiple Python executions. Researchers recommend paraphrasing untrusted input, hardening gatekeeper policies, and applying defense-in-depth controls for agentic deployments.

GBHackers·Sep 11, 05:53 UTC · 5d agoAI safety & security 2 sources

Dell security advisory (AV26-863)

Dell issued firmware and AppSync security updates for PowerEdge Intel-processor servers (DSA-2026-356, DSA-2026-165); Cyber Centre urges administrators to apply them.

Dell advisories DSA-2026-356 and DSA-2026-165 cover vulnerabilities in Dell PowerEdge server firmware for Intel processors across multiple versions and models, and in Dell AppSync versions up to and including 4.6.0.4 and 4.6.1.0. Canada's Cyber Centre republished the notice (AV26-863) urging users and administrators to review the provided links and apply necessary updates. No exploitation or severity details were included in the bulletin.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Aug 31, 15:55 UTC · 15d agoAdvisory

ACEA: An Adversarial Co-Evolution Arena for Head-to-Head Red-Team and Blue-Team LLM Testing

ACEA is a pluggable arena scoring LLM red-team attackers and blue-team defenses head-to-head with an LLM judge and verifiable leakage ground truth.

ACEA connects pluggable red- and blue-team adapters to a shared target LLM through the model-agnostic ASAP HTTP protocol and scores attack and defense rates per adversarial round. Canonical seeded secrets provide verifiable ground truth that separates real leakage from hallucination, and attacks are delivered to the target even when blocked to measure raw potency. The platform adds real-time battle visualization, failure-localizing end-of-battle reports, and an optional in-context improvement loop that feeds advisory hints between rounds.

arXiv cs.CR·Sep 8, 04:57 UTC · 8d agoAI safety & security1

Hackers Exploit Critical FortiGate Flaw to Deploy AI-Assisted PivotC2 RAT

SOCRadar says attackers exploit FortiGate CVE-2025-25249 to deploy the PivotC2 Node.js RAT, compromising 178 of 30,000 targeted devices and stealing credentials.

SOCRadar's Threat Research Unit reports active exploitation of CVE-2025-25249, a CVSS 9.8 heap-based buffer overflow in the cw_acd daemon of FortiOS and FortiSwitchManager, via crafted CAPWAP requests to UDP port 5246, compromising at least 178 of 30,000 targeted internet-exposed FortiGate devices since July 2026. The campaign deploys PivotC2, a Node.js RAT that provides interactive shells, SOCKS5/HTTP proxying, port forwarding, network scanning, and automated configuration harvesting that decrypts stored FortiGate credentials, including VPN pre-shared keys, SSL-VPN credentials, and LDAP secrets. Russian-language artifacts, AD enumeration, browser credential theft, RDP enablement, and exfiltration of Exchange .pst files to Wasabi S3 point to a Russian-speaking, financially motivated group; two US organizations confirmed full-network intrusions. Fixes include FortiOS 7.6.4/7.4.9/7.2.12/7.0.18+ and FortiSwitchManager 7.2.7/7.0.6+, plus blocking CAPWAP on internet-facing interfaces.

GBHackers·Sep 9, 08:57 UTC · 7d agoMalware in the wildCVE-2025-252492

EITest Campaign Evolution: From Angler EK to Neutrino and Rig

Unit 42 details the EITest campaign's shift from Angler to Neutrino and Rig exploit kits while distributing ransomware, downloaders, and banking trojans.

Unit 42 updated its tracking of the EITest campaign, first identified in October 2014, which compromises websites with injected scripts that redirect victims through a gate to exploit kits. After Angler EK disappeared in June 2016, EITest switched to Neutrino and then primarily used Rig EK by August 2016. In September 2016 the campaign began using hex-obfuscated JavaScript and simplified gate URLs, while continuing to distribute payloads including Gootkit, Cerber, Bart, CryptFile2, Vawtrak, Ursnif, and Tinba. Gate infrastructure consistently reused IP blocks such as 85.93.0.0/24 even as domain names changed.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 17, 09:52 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Threat actor in the wild

Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Fortinet discloses a low-severity SSRF in the FortiSIEM GUI allowing authenticated attackers to send requests from targeted devices.

Fortinet PSIRT advisory FG-IR-26-159, revised 2026-08-12, describes a server-side request forgery (CWE-918) in the FortiSIEM GUI, scored CVSSv3 3.4. An authenticated attacker can send HTTP requests originating from the targeted device via specially crafted requests, potentially enabling internal network probing. No CVE identifier or exploitation status is included in the advisory text.

Fortinet PSIRT·Aug 12, 07:00 UTC · Aug 12, 2026Advisory

**Subject:** CVE-2026-2035703: Tozed ZLT X300 5G CPE — Unauthenticated Remote Root Code Execution via TR-069 Command Injection (CVSS 9.8)

Tozed ZLT X300 5G CPE firmware 6.01.3 has an unauthenticated TR-069 command injection (CVE-2026-2035703, CVSS 9.8) enabling root code execution.

Tozed ZLT X300 5G CPE router firmware 6.01.3 contains an OS command injection (CWE-78) in the TR-069/CWMP client daemon netcwmpd, tracked as CVE-2026-2035703 with CVSS 9.8. The IPPingDiagnostics Host parameter is passed unsanitized into sprintf, and the resulting shell command executes via system_by_root() as root. An attacker operating a rogue LTE base station built from roughly $300 of SDR hardware can impersonate the carrier's Auto Configuration Server and inject arbitrary commands. The disclosure does not report any observed exploitation.

Full Disclosure·Sep 8, 17:30 UTC · 7d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-2035703

U.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator and Fortinet FortiOS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Security Affairs·Aug 5, 15:24 UTC · Aug 5, 2026Exploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2025-68686CVE-2026-16812

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.

The author inspects the virtual machines hosting cloud agents: Claude Code runs in a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and 443-only MITM'd SSE egress to api.anthropic.com with host-rotated OAuth tokens and no inbound access. Instinct rents E2B sandbox-as-a-service Firecracker microVMs (Ubuntu 22.04, 2 vCPU, 1.9 GB RAM) where agent memory is a git repo of Markdown committed by the agent and pushed to S3 as a single bundle, using short-lived STS credentials. Both platforms rely on Firecracker, differing mainly in fleet operator and guest boot configuration.

Hacker News · AI·Sep 8, 04:36 UTC · 8d agoAI tools & infraHN 58↑ · 19 comments1