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JarvisGUI: Towards Cross-Device GUI Agents with Dynamic Task Composition

JarvisGUI benchmark tests GUI agents on cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu, revealing major gaps in state transfer and long-horizon reasoning.

JarvisGUI is a dynamic benchmark that formulates GUI tasks as input-output transformations under a lightweight type system, automatically composing multi-step cross-device workflows across Android, Windows, and Ubuntu virtual environments. Evaluation shows state-of-the-art open-source GUI agents struggle with state-transfer awareness, cross-platform contextual reasoning, and long-horizon dependency management, exposing a capability gap invisible to existing single-device benchmarks.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 9, 16:59 UTC · 6d agoAI research1

Mistral X Mozilla: Private, Multilingual AI Browsing

Mistral and Mozilla partnered to power Firefox's Smart Window AI browsing assistant in France and North America, with zero data retention.

Mozilla's Firefox Smart Window (beta) AI browsing assistant is now powered by Mistral models for users in France and North America, with the UK and Germany expected later this year. Conversations are not saved on Mozilla's servers by default, and Mistral agreed to zero data retention. Both companies frame the partnership as advancing open-source, privacy-first, and regionally fine-tuned AI, with models trained on regional languages, dialects, and cultural context.

Hacker News · securityupdated 15:01 UTC · 40m agofirst 08:08 UTC · 7h agoAI industry 2 sources HN 35↑ · 8 comments

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 WeLiveSecurityupdated Sep 11, 14:32 UTC · 5d agofirst Sep 10, 09:00 UTC · 6d agoAI safety & security 3 sources1

Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls

Homebrew 7.0.0 adds a built-in vulnerability scanner (brew vulns), a Homebrew advisory database, stronger sandboxing, and the BrewUI GUI.

Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native BrewUI graphical interface for macOS 26 Tahoe and later, plus a new 'brew vulns' command that queries OSV.dev in batch to flag vulnerabilities in installed formulae, specific packages, or Brewfile dependencies. The release also introduces a Homebrew-specific OSV-format advisory database distinguishing outstanding vulnerabilities from backported fixes. Sandbox improvements block home directory access by default and separate network-enabled dependency downloads from offline installs.

BleepingComputerSep 14, 19:51 UTC · 1d agoTools1

PaperCut Zero-Day: Active Exploitation and Pre-Auth RCE

PaperCut NG/MF hit by a pre-auth RCE zero-day under active exploitation; Huntress reproduced the chain and urged immediate patching.

Huntress reports active exploitation of a zero-day in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF, and says it reproduced a pre-authentication remote code execution chain. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute code on exposed PaperCut servers. Huntress published urgent patching, exposure-reduction, and detection guidance. No CVE identifier was provided in the announcement.

HuntressAug 28, 03:00 UTC · 19d agoExploit / PoC in the wild

Google Doc Sidebar Sends Mac and Windows Users Down Different Paths to Malware

Huntress analysts trace one X direct message into separate Mac and Windows malware chains delivering AMOS infostealer and NetSupport Manager RAT.

Huntress SOC analysts dissected a malware campaign distributed via an X direct message styled as a Google Docs sidebar. macOS users were routed to the AMOS infostealer, while Windows users received NetSupport Manager remote access malware. The write-up details how a single message branched into two distinct delivery paths per operating system.

HuntressSep 11, 16:36 UTC · 4d agoMalware in the wild

MacOS 27 - First Boot, (Tue, Sep 15th)

SANS ISC documents the expected network traffic macOS 27 'Golden Gate' generates on first boot to help defenders baseline their networks.

Johannes Ullrich of SANS Internet Storm Center captured roughly 300 packets from a macOS 27 'Golden Gate' system before user login, covering DHCP, IPv6 duplicate address discovery, DNS, and TCP behavior. macOS 27 resolves hostnames like albert.apple.com (device activation, certificate-pinned), push messaging hosts, and ipv4only.arpa for NAT64 networks. The OS still uses a TCP window scale of 6, ECN, and random timestamps, with only four TCP connections observed during boot. The analysis provides a reference baseline for security teams monitoring Apple endpoints.

SANS Internet Storm CenterSep 15, 15:23 UTC · 1d agoResearch

VU#756733: Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG residential router contains missing authentication vulnerability

CERT/CC warns Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG routers on firmware EXOS/6.6.47 expose an unauthenticated UPnP WANIPConnection service on the public WAN interface.

CERT/CC issued VU#756733 for a missing authentication vulnerability in the Calix GS7 XGS GS5239XG residential gateway running EXOS/6.6.47. The device's UPnP service, implemented with MiniUPnPd 2.3.7, is exposed on the WAN interface by default and does not require authentication, potentially letting remote attackers alter port mappings through the WANIPConnection service. The flaw affects routing, NAT, and firewall functionality for home networks.

CERT/CC Vulnerability NotesAug 21, 14:44 UTC · 26d agoVulnerability

Homebrew 7.0.0 Adds Built-In Vulnerability Scanner and Stronger Package Sandboxing

Homebrew 7.0.0 ships a native brew vulns scanner, OSV-backed advisory database, stronger sandboxing, and fixes a sandbox-escape issue.

Homebrew 7.0.0 introduces a built-in 'brew vulns' command that scans installed formulae, dependencies, and Brewfiles against a new Homebrew-specific advisory database and OSV.dev data, distinguishing backported fixes from outdated versions. The release hardens sandboxing by blocking home-directory reads during builds, disabling network access at install time, and replacing Bubblewrap with Landlock on Linux. It also fixes moderate-severity GHSA-5263-whxq-77hp, where a malicious cask could execute code outside the macOS sandbox via LaunchServices, and drops macOS Catalina while moving Intel Macs to Tier 3.

Cyber Security NewsSep 15, 13:55 UTC · 1d agoTools

Critical Flaw in NASA/JPL Open-Source Spacecraft Command Software Allowed Unauthenticated Command Execution

NASA/JPL's AIT-GUI web console (CVSS 9.4) lacked authentication and CSRF protection, letting anyone send unauthenticated commands to spacecraft instruments; fixed in 2.5.2.

Cycode researchers found that AIT-GUI, the browser console of NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, ran an HTTP server with no authentication, no session checks, and no CSRF protection on state-changing endpoints, allowing arbitrary commands to spacecraft instruments. The issue combines four weaknesses: binding to 0.0.0.0 regardless of configured host, missing authentication, missing CSRF defense, and path traversal in the /seq and /script/run endpoints. Tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 with CVSS 9.4, it is fixed in AIT-GUI 2.5.2. The findings came from AI-assisted code analysis confirmed with working proofs-of-concept, including a headless-browser CSRF demonstration.

Security AffairsAug 22, 08:04 UTC · 25d agoVulnerability1

ZDI-26-578: NGINX HTTP Dav Module Alias Directive Integer Underflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

An unauthenticated integer underflow (CVE-2026-27654, CVSS 8.1) in NGINX's HTTP Dav module alias directive enables remote code execution.

ZDI advisory ZDI-26-578 describes an integer underflow in the alias directive of the NGINX HTTP Dav module that allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code. Authentication is not required to exploit the vulnerability. ZDI rated the issue 8.1 on CVSS and assigned CVE-2026-27654.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 13, 05:00 UTC · Aug 13, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-27654

PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities exploited in zero-day attacks

PaperCut warns of active zero-day exploitation chaining CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 for pre-auth remote code execution in NG/MF print management.

PaperCut Software confirmed attackers are chaining two vulnerabilities in PaperCut NG and MF: CVE-2026-81578, an improper access control flaw in the web management interface allowing unauthenticated configuration changes, and CVE-2026-82078, unsafe dynamic class loading in database connection utilities enabling arbitrary Java bytecode execution. Huntress reproduced a pre-authentication remote configuration takeover and full RCE chain against PaperCut NG 25.0.11.75758 and observed limited exploitation at two customers, including post-exploitation whoami and ver commands. The vendor released Emergency Patch Release 2 with additional hardening and urged restricting Application Server web access to trusted IPs. In 2023, Clop and LockBit affiliates abused CVE-2023-27350 and CVE-2023-27351 in the same software.

Help Net SecurityAug 31, 14:39 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-82078 CVE-2023-27350+1 CVEs1

Building a Linux GPU Driver for the M4 Mac Mini in One Month

Two developers built a fully OpenGL ES 3.0 compliant Linux GPU driver for the M4 Mac Mini in one month via clean-room reverse engineering.

Niklas and the author reverse engineered Apple's AGX GPU firmware ABI and user-space components in about a month, a process that normally takes years, producing an OpenGL ES 3.0 conformant driver fast enough to run Minecraft at 200fps on an M4 Mac Mini. The work was done transparently using hypervisor traces without examining Apple binaries, following clean-room practices, and included a custom shader compiler, command stream builder, and a full Linux kernel driver for the firmware ABI. The A18 Pro firmware ABI proved significantly more complex than the M1's, with 1.5x as many structs and twice as many pointers. All experiments and provenance evidence were published in public agx-re repositories.

Hacker News · AISep 15, 19:30 UTC · 20h agoResearch HN 40↑ · 5 comments

Ask HN: What default model do you use and why?

Ask HN thread polls developers on default AI models; submitter prefers Claude Opus 4.8 as good value, avoiding pricier Fable.

A Hacker News 'Ask HN' thread asking which default AI model people use drew 23 points and 38 comments. The submitter reports using Claude Opus 4.8 for web, mobile, and cloud backend work, calling it good value and mostly accurate. They describe Fable as overkill that burns through Max plan session credits in minutes when planning with four agents, with cache timeouts causing further credit loss.

Hacker News · securitySep 12, 14:58 UTC · 4d agoAI industry HN 23↑ · 39 comments

Context Engineering Inside the Harness: 4 Mechanisms That Beat Context Overflow and Goal Loss on Long-Horizon Tasks

Survey of four harness mechanisms—context budgeting, compaction, todo-state, and memory—that keep long-horizon LLM agents on task across 200+ tool calls.

The article details how agent harnesses, not larger context windows, solve context overflow and goal loss on long-horizon tasks, citing Chroma's Context Rot report showing 18 LLMs (GPT-4.1, Claude 4, Gemini 2.5, Qwen3) degrade on long inputs. Concrete implementations include LangChain Deep Agents offloading tool responses over 20,000 tokens to the filesystem and truncating old tool calls at 85% window usage, and Claude Code capping auto memory at 25KB while re-reading the 5 most recently modified files after compaction. OpenAI's Responses API now offers server-side compaction via context_management with a standalone /responses/compact endpoint, which Codex uses for long-running coding tasks. Manus reports a roughly 100:1 input-to-output token ratio per ~50-tool-call task, motivating todo.md state recitation to prevent goal drift.

MarkTechPostSep 13, 05:56 UTC · 3d agoAI research1

HarnessVLN: Unifying Training-Free Embodied Navigation through an Agent Harness

Researchers introduce HarnessVLN, a zero-shot training-free agent harness that sets new training-free SOTA on vision-language navigation benchmarks including R2R and HM3D.

HarnessVLN is a zero-shot, training-free framework for embodied vision-language navigation that coordinates perception, retrieval, grounding, navigation, recovery, and termination through a unified tool interface. It validates planner proposals against spatial evidence, geometric feasibility, and subgoal consistency, using hierarchical event memory and a persistent Spatiotemporal Graph that stores reusable spatial evidence and failure annotations. It reports success rates of 60.8% on R2R, 53.9% on RxR, 76.0% on HM3D-v2, and 59.3% on HM3D-OVON, surpassing prior training-free state of the art, with real-world humanoid deployment demonstrated.

Hugging Face daily papersSep 13, 20:00 UTC · 2d agoAI research

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 Security05:30 UTC · 10h agoTools

ZDI-26-549: OriginLab OriginPro OGG File Parsing Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI discloses CVE-2026-18290, a CVSS 7.8 out-of-bounds write in OriginLab OriginPro OGG file parsing enabling remote code execution via malicious files.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-549 describing an out-of-bounds write in OriginLab OriginPro's OGG file parsing, tracked as CVE-2026-18290 with a CVSS score of 7.8. The flaw allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations. Exploitation requires user interaction, such as visiting a malicious page or opening a malicious file.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 11, 05:00 UTC · Aug 11, 2026Vulnerability CVE-2026-18290

U.S. CISA adds PaperCut NG/MF flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA added two actively exploited PaperCut NG/MF pre-auth flaws to the KEV catalog; federal agencies must patch by September 14.

CISA added CVE-2026-81578 (CVSS 8.8, missing authentication for critical function) and CVE-2026-82078 (CVSS 9.4, unsafe reflection) in PaperCut NG/MF to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Huntress confirmed active pre-authentication RCE exploitation in two customer environments and reproduced the full chain against a clean PaperCut NG 25.0.11 server, chaining the auth bypass into unsafe Java class loading for SYSTEM-level execution. About 47% of roughly 2,500 tracked PaperCut installs still run version 23 or earlier with no patch available, and observed attacker activity was limited to system discovery commands.

Security AffairsSep 1, 08:13 UTC · 15d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-82078

PaperCut NG/MF Zero-day Vulnerability Exploited in the Attacks (CVE-2026-82078 & CVE-2026-81578)

PaperCut NG/MF zero-days CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578 are actively exploited, chaining to pre-auth RCE on the Application Server.

PaperCut issued an urgent security advisory for two actively exploited vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578, affecting all versions of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF. When chained, the flaws enable pre-authentication remote code execution on the PaperCut Application Server, originating from a request-confusion and authorization gap. PaperCut is widely deployed for print management in enterprises and education, making unpatched instances a high-value target.

Qualys ThreatPROTECTAug 31, 12:07 UTC · 16d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-82078 CVE-2026-81578

Show-Harness: Just a VLM Agent Can Play Robots

Show-Harness lets VLM agents control robots via discrete semantic action units, outperforming VLA baselines zero-shot and after light fine-tuning.

Show-Harness is an embodied agent harness that exposes discrete semantic action units a VLM reasons over, with embodiment-specific interpreters grounding them into local robot actions. It enables zero-shot robot control with closed-source frontier VLMs and low-cost adaptation of small open-source VLMs using only a few GPU-hours of fine-tuning. The companion GUMI (GUI Manipulation Interface) extends the same semantic action space to GUI-based demonstration collection without specialized teleoperation hardware. Experiments show robust generalization across tasks, embodiments, and environments, beating representative agentic and VLA paradigms.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CLSep 9, 17:53 UTC · 6d agoAI research

ZDI-26-592: NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX File Parsing Improper Validation of Array Index Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

NVIDIA TensorRT improper array index validation in ONNX parsing (CVE-2026-24238, CVSS 7.8) enables remote code execution.

ZDI-26-592 addresses improper validation of array index in NVIDIA TensorRT's ONNX file parsing, tracked as CVE-2026-24238 with CVSS 7.8. Exploitation permits remote code execution on affected installations and requires user interaction. The advisory was published by the Zero Day Initiative on August 24, 2026.

ZDI Published AdvisoriesAug 24, 05:00 UTC · 23d agoAdvisory CVE-2026-24238

CVE-2026-81578 + CVE-2026-82078 | PaperCut NG/MF Authentication Bypass and Unsafe Dynamic Class Loading Vulnerabilities

Two chained PaperCut NG/MF flaws, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, enable pre-auth RCE, with active exploitation confirmed in customer environments.

PaperCut NG/MF is affected by CVE-2026-81578, an improper access control flaw (CVSS 4.0 8.8) allowing unauthenticated configuration changes, and CVE-2026-82078, an unsafe dynamic class loading flaw (CVSS 4.0 9.4) enabling arbitrary Java bytecode execution. Chained, they yield pre-authentication remote code execution on the PaperCut Application Server. PaperCut confirmed active exploitation and customer incidents, and Huntress observed exploitation starting August 26, 2026. Emergency Patch Release 2 is available for NG/MF v24-v26, with IOCs including suspicious pc-app.exe child processes, truncated server.log files, and AnyDesk installs.

Horizon3.aiSep 1, 15:31 UTC · 15d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-820781

PaperCut NG/MF Critical Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

PaperCut confirms active exploitation of critical zero-days CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 in PaperCut NG/MF print management software, with confirmed customer incidents.

PaperCut Software issued an urgent advisory on August 27, 2026, confirming it is investigating active exploitation of flaws in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF and treating the issue as a security emergency. On August 28 the vendor assigned CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to the two vulnerabilities forming the exploit chain. At initial disclosure, no CVSS score, vulnerability class, authentication requirements, or exploit path details were public. Rapid7 is tracking the issue as an emerging threat.

Rapid7 BlogAug 28, 10:09 UTC · 19d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578 CVE-2026-82078

Mozilla security advisory (AV26-868)

Canada's Cyber Centre reports Mozilla vulnerabilities fixed in Firefox 155 and Firefox ESR 115.40, 140.15, and 153.2.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-868, dated September 1, 2026, notes vulnerabilities in Firefox (versions prior to 155) and Firefox ESR (prior to 115.40, 140.15, and 153.2). The bulletin links to Mozilla's security advisories and urges users and administrators to update. No CVE identifiers or exploitation details are provided.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 1, 18:14 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory

F5 security advisory (AV26-878)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed an F5 advisory (AV26-878) covering vulnerabilities in BIG-IP, BIG-IQ, NGINX components, and APM clients.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-878 noting F5 vulnerabilities affecting BIG-IP all modules prior to 17.1.3.4, 17.5.1.8, 21.0.0.3, and 21.1.0.1, plus BIG-IQ prior to 8.4.2.1, NGINX Gateway Fabric, NGINX Ingress Controller, NGINX JavaScript 9.9, and APM clients. F5 issued an out-of-band security notification (K000162872) on September 2, 2026. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisory and apply updates as they become available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber SecuritySep 3, 14:05 UTC · 13d agoAdvisory

Top 10 Best Enterprise Browsers in 2026

2026 enterprise browser guide ranks Island first and notes Mammoth Cyber's wind-down plus corrections to standard vendor shortlists.

An editorial guide assesses ten enterprise browser options, ranking category creator Island first for last-mile DLP and BYOD controls, followed by Palo Alto's Talon browser as a Prisma Access/SASE surface and Google Chrome Enterprise Premium for DLP on already-deployed browsers. It corrects common lists, noting SlashNext is browser-adjacent phishing and BEC defense rather than a managed browser, and that Mammoth Cyber has wound down independent operations. Microsoft Edge for Business is positioned as effectively free policy depth for Microsoft 365 estates, with Menlo Security offering an isolation-plus-browser blend.

Cyber Security NewsSep 11, 07:07 UTC · 5d agoIndustry1

12 Best Browser Isolation Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

2026 comparison ranks Zscaler, Cloudflare, Menlo Security, Garrison (Everfox), Authentic8 and Kasm among twelve remote browser isolation solutions.

Guide compares twelve RBI products across four architectures: pixel streaming, DOM/vector reconstruction, platform-embedded SSE isolation, and self-hosted containers. Zscaler and Cloudflare lead RBI delivered inside SSE platforms, while Menlo Security leads isolate-everything efficacy and Garrison (Everfox) provides hardware-grade isolation for government use. Most offerings price per user per month.

GBHackersSep 15, 06:27 UTC · 1d agoTools