Scans for vulnerable email scripts resurge on honeypots
SANS ISC notes scans for old email scripts allowing arbitrary To addresses, suspecting spammers and poor code hygiene.
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Scans for Wordfence Protected Websites, (Tue, Sep 29th)
SANS sensors saw sparse scans for wordfence-waf.php, likely probing Wordfence-protected WordPress sites.
BlackHatSect0r Hackers Disable AI Safety Controls to Automate Credential Theft and Cyberattacks
French-speaking crew BlackHatSect0r disabled AI agent safety controls to automate scanning, credential harvesting, and vishing, exposing 16,834 stolen credentials.
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Scans Targeting Hospitality Applications, (Wed, Sep 16th)
Scans from a bulletproof-hosting IP target the abandoned PIAF-HMS hospitality application, which contains numerous unpatched SQL injection flaws.
Exposed Vite servers are being probed for AWS and Azure credentials
F5 honeypots logged 32,000+ probes against Vite file-access bypass CVE-2026-39364, hunting AWS and Azure credentials on exposed dev servers.
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Hackers Mass-Scan Exposed Vite Servers to Steal AWS and Azure Cloud Credentials
F5 honeypots record mass scanning of exposed Vite dev servers exploiting CVE-2026-39364 to harvest AWS and Azure cloud credentials.
Scans for Proxmox Servers, (Wed, Sep 9th)
SANS observed increased scanning and brute-force attacks on port 8006 targeting unsupported Proxmox VE 7 servers after a recent vulnerability advisory.
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Threat Actors Are Posing as OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepSeek to Target Credentials and Secrets
GreyNoise observes scanners spoofing OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepSeek crawler user agents to hunt leaked credentials and secrets.
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