ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "
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The Internet isn’t a single lane of traffic. For a long time, the rule of thumb in web security was that bots are bad, while humans are good. Of course, we’re far past this generalization. Humans can be fraudulent, and bots can be helpful at different levels. Site owners actively want some automated traffic to interact with our sites to make the Internet functional and discoverable. To complicate things further, the line between "human" and "bot" is blurring more and more. Now, we have a type of “hybrid” traffic where a single session shifts from human to agentic and back again. (Think of a user browsing a store, and then handing off the checkout process to an automated shopping assistant.) So, how do website owners manage this kind of complexity? What matters here is assessing behaviors . Is this behavior abusive? Malicious? What’s the risk presented here, and can I trust this visitor based on their actions? Solving this requires moving beyond static, point-in-time checks. It requires analyzing continuous behaviors to evaluate Trust. In this post, we’ll share an inside look into the strategy of the Web Integrity & Trust team (covering the bots and fraud problem spaces) around detecting and analyzing good and bad behaviors, providing tools to help site owners tackle emerging challenges in the shifting Agentic Internet. We’ll also share findings around agentic traffic since the launch of Precursor , and a simulation where you can see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot — plus some exciting launch updates to expect in the near future. Defining Risk and Trust Let’s talk about the distinction between Risk and Trust , the way we discuss it within the teams at Cloudflare who work in bot detection. These are often viewed as polar
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the
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A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul
ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "
The `meetings`collection has no tenant isolation. Any authenticated tl;dv user can query every meeting across every account on the platform. Each meeting record hands you the creator's email address, the conference ID (which is a joinable Google Meet or Teams room), the provider, the recording status, and timestamps. I queried the Firestore `meetings` collection and saw there were **181,874 meeting records** belonging to **84,312 unique users** across **35,003 email domains**.
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services is attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via their
VU#987105: The nothings stb TrueType library, up to version 1.26, contains a heap buffer overflow vulnerability
Overview A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the stb TrueType library created by nothings. Exploitation of this vulnerability can occur when handling malformed font data and may lead to both Denial of Service (DoS) and Information Disclosure. Description The nothings stb repository, versions 1.26 and earlier, contains a collection of single-file public domain and MIT-licensed libraries for C/C++ projects. CVE-2026-18497 A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the stbtt_GetGlyphShape() function within the stb_truetype.h library when handling malformed TrueType Font (TTF) data. The issue occurs during glyph contour parsing. The function iterates based on the number of contour endpoints specified in endPtsOfContours , but does not validate that the points pointer remains within the bounds of the glyph data buffer. As a result, operations such as flags = *points++; may read memory beyond the allocated region. An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a TTF file that specifies an excessively large endPtsOfContours value while providing truncated or minimal glyph data. When an application utilizing stb_truetype.h attempts to load, bake, or render this malformed font via stbtt_GetGlyphShape() , the parser will continue iterating past the end of the glyph data buffer, triggering the out-of-bounds heap read. Impact Exploitation of this vulnerability can lead to application crashes due to invalid reads of unmapped memory addresses, resulting in denial of service (DoS). In some cases, an attacker may also be abl
The Internet isn’t a single lane of traffic. For a long time, the rule of thumb in web security was that bots are bad, while humans are good. Of course, we’re far past this generalization. Humans can be fraudulent, and bots can be helpful at different levels. Site owners actively want some automated traffic to interact with our sites to make the Internet functional and discoverable. To complicate things further, the line between "human" and "bot" is blurring more and more. Now, we have a type of “hybrid” traffic where a single session shifts from human to agentic and back again. (Think of a user browsing a store, and then handing off the checkout process to an automated shopping assistant.) So, how do website owners manage this kind of complexity? What matters here is assessing behaviors . Is this behavior abusive? Malicious? What’s the risk presented here, and can I trust this visitor based on their actions? Solving this requires moving beyond static, point-in-time checks. It requires analyzing continuous behaviors to evaluate Trust. In this post, we’ll share an inside look into the strategy of the Web Integrity & Trust team (covering the bots and fraud problem spaces) around detecting and analyzing good and bad behaviors, providing tools to help site owners tackle emerging challenges in the shifting Agentic Internet. We’ll also share findings around agentic traffic since the launch of Precursor , and a simulation where you can see how your own cursor movements would be assessed as human or bot — plus some exciting launch updates to expect in the near future. Defining Risk and Trust Let’s talk about the distinction between Risk and Trust , the way we discuss it within the teams at Cloudflare who work in bot detection. These are often viewed as polar
Since launching in 2020, Cloudflare Radar has provided one-of-a-kind insight into Internet traffic on a global scale. The open data that Radar publishes from our global network is used by a variety of experts in different domains: human rights advocates, journalists, academic researchers, network operators, and more. Today, as part of Agents Week , Radar is beta-launching a new tool: Radar Researcher. Now, if you want to answer a question with Radar’s data, you can just ask in plain language and get an answer back with real, interactive charts, all built on Cloudflare's developer platform. You no longer need to find the right page, choose the right filters, or read the API documentation to write a query. Why we built Radar Researcher Over the past six years, the Radar team has worked to provide clear, accessible, reliable data visualizations of complex datasets. This is not without its challenges: our user base is vast and ranges from curious novices to technical network experts. Even so, we publish as much insight into the Internet as seen from our network as we can: DNS queries from our public resolver 1.1.1.1 , HTTP traffic from across our global network, network quality data collected from Cloudflare Speed Test , and so much more. We also believe in the power of open, public data, which is why everything you see in Radar’s data visualizations is available via our free API . Every year we make more and more of the Internet visible. But as Rad
As a platform for helping build a better Internet, Cloudflare helps turn ideas into real products and experiences around the world. Across communities and backgrounds, developers build with Cloudflare using the tools they love, shaping what comes next for the Internet while inspiring, collaborating with, and teaching others. The community is where some of Cloudflare’s best moments happen. Students show their friends how to deploy Workers for the first time. Discord users answer questions from other developers via working code samples, instead of links to documentation. Open-source contributors build novel solutions to solve their own problems, then share them with the world. Organizers host events that give builders from all backgrounds the space to start building their dream project. All of these represent a community at its best: people helping other people build. This spirit of community is an exciting and vital part of helping to build the Internet. Those who step up to educate and support others, or to invent, build, or maintain tools shared across the ecosystem, make lasting contributions to the health and potential of the Internet. We want to have their backs. That's why today we’re announcing an improved community program, designed to better support, recognize, and empower the people getting involved, while working with them to shape what comes next. The program has two main tracks: Cloudflare Ambassadors: Bringing Cloudflare to their own communities. Cloudflare Community Engineers: Contributing to open-source projects that improve the Internet. We’re launching a new home for the program where you can learn more and get involved: cloudflare.com/community . Cloudflare Ambassadors Cloudflare Ambassadors are people who bring Cloudflare into their own communities. You can probably think
AI Gateway and Workers AI first started as distinct products, but over time, we noticed our users were converging. With AI Gateway, you can proxy requests to any model provider and get built-in observability, logging, access, and security. On Workers AI, we host models on the GPU infrastructure that we manage, exposing an API endpoint you can leverage to access inference-as-a-service. The architecture of these products looks different, but to an end user, it achieves the same goal: connecting you to models with a sophisticated control plane. Today, we're excited to share our plans on how these products converge into one unified path, so you can connect to any model provider (including Workers AI), while managing things like observability, billing, security, and logging from a single control plane. It’s the next step toward some big plans we have — read on to learn what a unified control plane means for the future of model routing. Merging the binding and API We've been hinting at the fact that these products are becoming more unified through our entrypoints: the Workers binding and the REST API. We have an AI binding that you can use to call AI Gateway and Workers AI. There's no concept of a separate AI Gateway and Workers AI binding: it all goes through the same path. We shipped the idea of a “default” gateway a few months ago, so that if you have never set up an AI Gateway before, you could still automatically inherit the AI Gateway observability and logging. Of course, you can still specify your own gateway if you'd like to split up applications into multiple projects. Here's what the binding call looks like, if you are calling Workers AI via AI Gateway: We’ve also announced a single unified REST API — the /ai/ endpoint that allows you to make similar calls to Workers AI via AI Gateway. Doing this allows us to unify the entrypoi
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the
*My model is better at attacking than yours* /s What’s going on here with these companies? What kind of ad would this even be?
Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,
A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where
Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies
A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor's agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default, and presented the work at Black Hat USA on August 5.
A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. "The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure,
Thursday, August 6
Security researchers tracked and eavesdropped on a WIRED reporter using vulnerabilities in a pink plastic smartwatch. It’s just one piece of a deeply insecure supply chain of GPS-enabled gadgets.
VU#487613: Alinto SOGo v5.12.7 vulnerable to cross-site scripting via malformed ICS calendar invitations
Overview A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in Alinto SOGo v5.12.7 allows attackers to achieve remote code execution by embedding malicious SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) objects in ICS (iCalendar) invitations. The vulnerability has been actively exploited in the wild, as confirmed by VirusTotal sightings. Description Alinto SOGo is an open-source webmail and groupware platform for email, calendars, contacts, and shared scheduling. It is primarily used by organizations seeking a self-hosted interface solution for existing mail infrastructure. CVE-2026-8496 The vulnerability exists in SOGo’s handling of ICS files, where the DESCRIPTION field is rendered without proper sanitization or Content Security Policy (CSP) enforcement. When a calendar invite contains an SVG payload, such as <animate onrepeat='...'> , with JavaScript event handlers, the browser executes the script in the context of the SOGo webmail interface. This occurs during normal calendar view rendering (e.g., when a user opens or previews the calendar tab), even without explicit interaction. Impact Once an attacker delivers a malicious ICS file via email, any user who views the calendar will execute the embedded XSS payload, granting the attacker full read access to the victim's mailbox. This enables: Credential theft through forced logout/login phishing Password manager autofill hijacking Full exfiltration of email messages, folder contents, and metadata Extraction of contact lists and calendar data Solution Users are recommended to upgrade to SOGo v5.12.8 or newer. v5.12.8 addresses this
Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode. "These vulnerabilities were found
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud provider Snowflake . Connor Riley Moucka , of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers. A surveillance photo of Connor Riley Moucka, a.k.a. “Judische” and “Waifu,” dated Oct 21, 2024, 9 days before Moucka’s arrest. This image was included in an affidavit filed by an investigator with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). The U.S. Justice Department said between February and October 2024, Moucka and co-conspirators used stolen login credentials to steal cloud-hosted data belonging to at least 165 customers of a U.S.-based software-as-a-service company. The hackers targeted stolen credentials for Snowflake customer accounts that did not enforce multi-factor authentication, and extorted or attempted to extort a host of well-known companies, including TicketMaster, Lending Tree, Advance Auto Parts and Neiman Marcus. Snowflake responded to the data thefts by increasing password complexity requirements and enforcing multi-factor authentication. Moucka
An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan named the technique INTERRUPT INJECTION. On an AMD Zen 2 machine running Linux 6.14 with every default Spectre v2 mitigation on,
Most of the cyber incidents landing on our desks these days start with someone believing a lie. It’s not a brilliant piece of code that causes most breaches. A convincing email, a confident phone call, and a fake sense of urgency can make people hand over exactly what the attacker needs. Last week I talked […] The post The risk awareness radar. A superpower every MSP needs to train appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bugs, poisoned agent instructions, remote-access tools dressed as support software, and trusted defaults doing attackers a favor. Nothing here is especially mystical.
Today, we’re excited to announce a few developer experience improvements to Cloudflare AI Search to make it easy to manage a search solution out of the box. Previously, you had to stitch together components of the Cloudflare primitives (Workers AI, AI Gateway, Vectorize, R2, Browser Run) but now, AI Search can do this automatically, and better. Our goal is to give your agents their own search engine, where they can easily find data to provide better answers for themselves and their humans. We’re also sharing an early preview of pricing for customers of AI Search so you can learn how this scales. We modeled pricing in a way that makes it predictable and scalable: embedding and reranking are free when you use the default models, so no need to worry about predicting token count. In AI Search, users can now: Index a collection of data for your agent: Make structured and unstructured data easily accessible for your agent to build with, from individual files to websites you own. (Today, it must be a zone on your Cloudflare account, but with more ways to verify ownership coming soon.) Skip the sitemap for your websites: Previously, AI Search required that websites have a sitemap to use the website integration. Now you can select the “Discover” parsing option to add a website without a sitemap as a source. Get a single public endpoint for searching across a namespace: When you enable public URLs on your namespace, you can get a /search and /mcp endpoint that can search through multiple instances or websites at once without authentication, so you can share easily with your customers. Put your own custom domain over public endpoints: You can now add your own domains over your public URLs, so you can brand your /search
Over the last year and a half, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has become the universal standard for how agents interact with external services. But one of the main criticisms of MCP was that the protocol required a stateful connection between Client and Server. This evolved from MCP’s origins and the first STDIO transport, designed for local applications . When MCP Servers went remote, it translated the stateful connection that worked so well locally and transposed it onto web infrastructure. Building a well-behaved MCP Server meant managing request routing to sticky sessions, holding open streams, message replay, and generally more overhead and complexity than a traditional web server. This changes now. The latest MCP 2026-07-28 specification was released last week, together with updated TypeScript, Python, Go, and C# SDKs. MCP is now a fully stateless protocol. The specification, interaction model and SDKs have all been rewritten to leverage this new protocol and simplify usage. This means that MCP servers can now run in just a Worker, no stateful infrastructure needed, and customers benefit from the operational simplicity and reduced cost of less moving parts. A new MCP At Cloudflare, our journey with MCP goes back to the very beginning. In March 2025, we released our McpAgent primitive for building MCP servers with Cloudflare Agents SDK . Two months later, we ran an MCP Demo Day s
Your next customer may not find you through a search engine. Instead, they'll ask an AI assistant: "how do I do X?"; "which option is best for someone like me?"; "just handle it for me" and an agent will find the answer, weigh the options, and act on their behalf. Increasingly, the moment that determines whether a customer chooses you happens inside a model's response — before a human ever sees your homepage. This agentic audience is already here: by our count, fewer than half of all HTML page requests now come from a human . Not all of those machines are agents acting for a person, but that share is growing fast, and answer engines, shopping assistants, and research tools will shape which businesses are found and recommended. Discoverability used to mean ranking on a results page. Now it means being found, read, and confidently recommended by the agents that guide your customers. The old metrics, human clicks and page views, no longer paint the full picture. We spent time talking to site owners who were staring at access logs full of AI bots, completely blind to whether those bots were capable of using their site or recommending their products and services to their users. We heard two main questions: Can agents actually use my site? Am I getting recommended? To help site owners answer these questions, we have integrated our previous work on Agent Readiness into the Cloudflare dashboard, and added our new Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) tool as well. These tools treat agents as a core user base for your site, showing you how an agent will see it, and how often you get recommended. The opportunity is big, and the bar is low, because most sites aren't built fo
Should we build our own browser? This is one of those questions that has come up every few months internally at Cloudflare for years. Unsurprisingly, it’s the kind that triggers long threads with multiple reasons and persuasive arguments on why we should do it. The browser is obviously the most important software we use every day on our computers; it’s arguably the operating system of the Internet. We’re a company on a mission to help build a better Internet — who wouldn’t want to take on the challenge of building a new browser? But we never quite found the balance between the technical difficulty of such an endeavour and the unique problems we’d be solving by doing it. And so, the idea was shelved, over and over again. Until now. Something magical happened: we reached a tipping point where a series of powerful technical advancements in our Developer Platform became a reality, while the advent of AI agents and the demand for a new kind of browser became critical at the same time. Running WebAssembly (Wasm) in Workers is now very mature. Primitives like dynamic workers , SQLite-based Durable Objects , Worker-to-worker RPC , service bindings , higher
Today we are launching a developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare. Switch it on and browser agents can start working with your site, with no code and nothing changed at your origin. Cloudflare adds a small bridge to your pages, which registers a set of tools for a visitor’s agent to use. The web was built on the assumption that there is a person on the other end: someone to read the page, click buttons, and fill in the forms. But now more and more visits come from AI agents instead, to an Internet made for humans. The usual approach has been crawlers, which copy content back to a server and, too often, give the original site none of the traffic and little of the credit. There is a better way, and it does not involve scraping. WebMCP is a new browser standard, shipping experimentally in Chrome 146, that shows up in the page as document.modelContext . A site can choose to expose a set of tools for agents running in the browser, meaning agents no longer have to guess their way through a page built for humans. This enables agents to have a different browsing experience from the user and use tokens on tasks, not navigation. The catch: the site has to implement it. Cloudflare has been building both ends of this. BrowserRun , our remote browser, already added WebMCP support, so an agent can discover and call the tools a site exposes. Cloudflare Radar will soon offer WebMCP tools of its own. This preview is about the other side: a way to give any site on Cloudflare those tools with a single switch, and no code. A developer preview of WebMCP on Cloudflare Implementing WebMCP by hand is a small project: design the tools to expose, wire them into your interface, and keep them working as the standard evolves. We wanted it to be simple
Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users' privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so that no single third-party, including Apple, can determine where the request is originating from
A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production websites embedding hidden prompt injection payloads inside "Ask AI" buttons on marketing and competitor comparison pages. When a user
At the Black Hat security conference, the AI giant revealed new details about how its agents went rogue, hacked several other companies—and did it all right under the company’s nose.
Wednesday, August 5
For nearly two years, researcher Vangelis Stykas has maintained access to North Korean hackers’ servers. His work shows they pulled off intrusions in a shocking number of systems across the globe.
Researchers at security firm Zenity found more than a dozen flaws in AI browsers—and managed to get OpenAI’s Atlas to make an unauthorized Amazon purchase.
We're honored to announce that Cloudflare is the only vendor that has been recognized as a Visionary in both the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for SASE Platforms and the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Security Service Edge reports. To us, this validates our architectural choices and, more importantly, reflects the trust our customers place in us to navigate an increasingly complex security landscape. To every customer who shared feedback with Gartner, discussed your roadmap challenges with our team, and pushed us to build better solutions: thank you. This recognition belongs to you as much as it does to us. The SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) and SSE (Security Service Edge) markets are at an inflection point. Many organizations started with the SSE as the “security half” of SASE to tackle their remote work challenges during the pandemic. More recently, SASE has grown more prominent given the rise in return-to-office work mandates. Now, as AI agents, post-quantum threats, and the sprawl of shadow apps reshape enterprise security, organizations need platforms that can adapt at the speed of change, not vendors locked into yesterday's architecture. That’s exactly where Cloudflare One, our agile SASE platform, comes in. The market gap and where SASE is heading next It’s no secret that most SASE vendors haven't adapted to the architectural realities of modern enterprises. In fact, when customers migrate to Cloudflare, we hear some of the exact same challenges time and time again: Fragmented architectures: When SASE platf
A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications.
Security researcher James Kettle tried to push the limit of AI’s hacking abilities—and discovered how effective it can be when combined with human expertise.
Homeland Security told immigrants that leaving the US would wipe out fines it claims they owe. Now it wants private investigators to find them in their home countries and collect.
More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.
Synack Red Team researcher Malcolm Stagg takes the stage at Black Hat USA 2026 on August 6 to present three years of independent research on a new class of network infrastructure attacks. Here's who he is and why the talk belongs on your calendar. The post From DARPA to Black Hat: An SRT Researcher’s Next Chapter appeared first on Synack .
To hear both sides of the build vs buy debate around AI pentesting solutions, we spoke with Dow's cyber engineering team lead Dan Lacher and Synack's CTO Mark Kuhr. From Dow's perspective, Synack served as a force multiplier for a small internal red team. Meanwhile, building the Synack Autonomous Red Agent (Sara) from scratch definitely had some trial and error. The post Build vs. Buy AI Pentesting: Why Dow Chose to Partner With Synack appeared first on Synack .
For the last twelve years, enterprise security has moved away from trusting the network. BeyondCorp made the case that a request's origin, inside the corporate perimeter or on the open Internet, should not decide whether it is allowed. Identity and device health should. That model won: it now underpins much of Zero Trust. Google’s BeyondCorp assumed a specific principal: a human at a device, acting at human speed. Organizations are now deploying agents , software principals that reason, act, and reach into systems on our behalf. A task-scoped agent run is ephemeral. It ends when its work is done. A long-lived agent service may handle many such tasks and move data far faster than a person. The controls we built for humans do not fail loudly when we point them at agents. They fail quietly, by granting too much, seeing too little, and trusting for too long. This paper proposes an access model for agents: the Agent Access Model (AAM) . We describe the model and show how its components can be built. We then walk through a concrete example and separate the single-principal controls available today from the harder problem of multiplayer access control . Much of the current work tries to make each access decision smarter. AAM takes a different approach: make the agent's capability smaller, so there is less to judge in the first place. The shift A decade ago, the hard question in enterprise security was where is this request coming from, and do I trust that place? BeyondCorp's answer was that you should not trust the place at all. You authenticate the user, interrogate the device, and make an access decision for that specific request. Location became one signal among many, not a verdict. That reframing worked because the principal was legible. A human logs in each morning, carries a device or two, works at human speed, and generates a trickle of access decisions a s
A use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel bridge (net/bridge) Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) implementation. A bridge that is administratively down while kernel STP is enabled, together with a port driven into the LEARNING state, arms periodic STP timers without an IFF\_UP guard. The teardown path taken by dellink never synchronously deletes those timers, so the backing net\_device (which embeds struct net bridge as private data) is freed with a timer list still queued on a per-CPU timer base. The result is a slab use-after-free in the kmalloc-cg-8k cache.
Tuesday, August 4
Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.
EtherRAT off a The Gentlemen staging server. C2 resolution is the fun part: no hardcoded domains. The sample holds an Ethereum contract address + call selector and pulls the active C2 from the contract via public RPC endpoints. Every operator rotation is a contract write, so the full history is recoverable, five domains here. Tasking has no fixed command set. Any response over ten chars is thrown into a new async function with require, process, Buffer, etc. in scope, so arbitrary JS in the user context. Polls use random file-like paths (png/css/ico) to blend in, tell is a custom X-Bot-Server header. MSI drops a Node bootstrapper + XOR-encrypted backdoor, decoder writes plaintext and sets a Run key relaunching via headless conhost. Full write-up with hashes and IOCs: [https://hunt.io/blog/the-gentlemen-etherrat-ethereum-smart-contract-c2](https://hunt.io/blog/the-gentlemen-etherrat-ethereum-smart-contract-c2)
Now, it is possible to query phishing-suspect FQDNs through the free API, featuring database information on WHOIS, IP, Geolocation, and threat mapping [https://github.com/julioliraup/AT/wiki/REST-API-USE](https://github.com/julioliraup/AT/wiki/REST-API-USE) A frontend interface is also available: [https://julioliraup.github.io/AT](https://julioliraup.github.io/AT)
Facing a growing drone threat, the Pentagon is poised to sign a first-of-its-kind contract for “Enduring High Energy Lasers”—and make directed energy weapons an official part of the Army’s kit.
Hi. I just published a four-part deep dive into windows kernel exploitation, progressing from classic control flow hijacking to modern pool grooming and pure data-only attacks on windows 11. I wanted to highlight the real-world friction of modern security measures. A lot of the focus is on mitigating LFH randomization, and avoiding IoCompleteRequest bugchecks by dodging ReadFile for arbitrary reads. Hope this is helpful or insightful to some of you looking into modern kernel exploitation.
Technical analysis of Parivahan App ( shared on ScamIndia by /u/ImpressiveYouth3990 couple of days back )
# Fake mParivahan : Malware Analysis Report # 422 Users are affected by it till now ( I was able to get the attackers admin panel ) **Classification:** Critical : Android SMS / UPI spyware RAT **Method:** Static reverse engineering of dropper + payload; no-root payload extraction; StringFog decryption; read-only Firebase C2 IOC enumeration # 1. Executive summary Marketed as **“M Parivahan”** is a **two-stage Android malware** operation: 1. **Dropper** (`com.ioaheishsbsb.ljgcdfhm`) : NP Manager–packed installer with a fake VPN / WebView UI that decrypts and sideloads an embedded APK (`output.apk`). 2. **Payload** (`com.veaheishsbsb.kekskks`) : Sketchware-style SMS/call spyware with **Firebase Realtime Database** command-and-control and **Telegram** first-run alerts. The payload steals SMS and device telemetry, can forward SMS and calls, and can send SMS from the victim’s SIM (commonly abused for UPI / OTP fraud). At the time of analysis the Firebase panel was r**everse engineered too** and contained **422** client device IDs. # 2. Sample identification |Field|Stage 1 (Dropper)|Stage 2 (Payload)| |:-|:-|:-| |Package|`com.ioaheishsbsb.ljgcdfhm`|`com.veaheishsbsb.kekskks`| |Related / alias|`com.mr_fox.bhai`|Label: “M Parivahan”| |Application class|NP Manager shell|`np.protect.assets.ShellApplication`| |Protection|NP Manager (`libnp_protect_res.so`, xhook)|NP Manager + StringFog XOR| |UI|Fake VPN + `file:///android_asset/main_ui.html`|Permission / settings-style UX| |Embedded artifact|Logical asset `output.apk` (encrypted on disk)|—| |SDK|—|minSdk 21, targetSdk 28, compileSdk 33| |Build leftover|—|Synthetic names: `dApp-binance-Trading-Signals`| **Related package queried by dropper:** [`com.avejfhdhd.android`](http://com.avejfhdhd.android) # 3. Infection chain Victim sideloads fake “mParivahan” APK │ ▼ Dropper (NP Manager) decrypts embedded payload │ ▼ Writes temp_info.apk / temp_install.apk → installs com.veaheishsbsb.kekskks │ ▼ Payload requests SMS / phone permissions │ ▼ MyService enrolls device on Firebase + dumps ~50 SMS │ ▼ Telegram alert to operator bot/chat │ ▼ Listens on clients/<deviceId>/webhookEvent for remote commands **Extraction note:** Static decrypt of the packed dropper blob failed due to native crypto. Payload was recovered without device root by patching the unpack path to `getExternalFilesDir` and pulling `/sdcard/Android/data/com.ioaheishsbsb.ljgcdfhm/files/temp_info.apk`. # 4. Capabilities |Capability|Severity|Detail| |:-|:-|:-| |SMS theft|Critical|Intercepts inbound/outbound SMS; uploads to `messages/<deviceId>`| |SMS forward|Critical|Relays SMS to operator number (`SmsForwardTo`)| |Remote SMS send|Critical|Sends SMS from chosen SIM (`sendSms` webhook)| |Call forwarding|High|USSD `**21*<number>#` / `##21#`| |Device fingerprinting|High|Model, Android version, root, storage, CPU, carrier, public IP, SIMs, battery, MSISDN| |Telegram notify|High|First-run HTML report to admin bot/chat| |Persistence|High|Foreground service, boot/alarm receivers, restart in `onDestroy`| |Keylogger flag|Medium|`KeyLogger` webhook present; appears stubbed/partial| # 5. Remote command surface **Listener path:** `clients/<androidId>/webhookEvent/` |Command key|Fields|Action| |:-|:-|:-| |`callForward`|`from`, `to`, `isActive`|Activate/deactivate call forward via USSD| |`smsForward`|`from`, `to`, `isActive`|Toggle SMS forward preference| |`sendSms`|`from`, `to`, `message`, `isSended`|Send SMS from victim SIM| |`checkLiveness`|`text=ping`|Reply `pong` under webhook| |`KeyLogger`|`isActive`|Preference flag (partial implementation)| Presence uses `clients/<id>/status` with Firebase `.info/connected` \+ `onDisconnect`. # 6. C2 infrastructure & IOCs # 6.1 Firebase |Item|Value| |:-|:-| |RTDB URL|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |API key|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |App ID|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |Storage|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |Top-level nodes|`clients`, `messages`, `devices`, `deviceMessages`| |Clients observed|**422** (2026-08-04, shallow enumeration)| |Rules posture|Open / world-readable (IOC check succeeded without auth)| # 6.2 Firebase path map |Path|Purpose| |:-|:-| |`clients/<androidId>`|Device profile enrollment| |`clients/<androidId>/status`|Online/offline| |`clients/<androidId>/webhookEvent/*`|Command inbox| |`messages/<androidId>/<timestamp>`|Stolen SMS| |`.info/connected`|Connectivity watch| # 6.3 Telegram |Item|Value| |:-|:-| |Endpoint|`https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage`| |Bot token|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |Admin chat ID|`REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP`| |Config source|Raw resource `Loda` (obfuscated APK path `ۦ/ۥ۟`)| { "chatIDs": ["REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP"], "tokens": ["REMOVED I HAVE IT, IF ANY OFFICAL IS READING IT, PLEASE REACH OUT ASAP"], "workSuccess": 1 } Only **one** admin chat/token pair is embedded in the sample. # 7. Attacker / mule phone numbers **Not hardcoded in the APK.** Numbers are pushed via Firebase webhooks at runtime. From live `clients/*/webhookEvent` (`smsForward` / `sendSms` `to` fields), 2026-08-04: |Number|Hits|Observed role| |:-|:-|:-| |**8789**\*\*\*\*\*|**6**|**Primary SMS forward target (strongest IOC)**| |9279\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|2|SMS forward + sendSms| |8340\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|2|SMS forward| |9522\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|2|sendSms| |9279\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|1|sendSms (same line as 927\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* with country code)| |8712\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|1 each|sendSms / UPI-style collect| |9211\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|1 each|sendSms / UPI-style collect| |8291\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*|1|sendSms / UPI-style collect| |Others (one-offs)|1|Mixed sendSms destinations| **Primary SMS-intercept candidate:** `8789`\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* UPI collect destinations may be money-mule wallets rather than the panel operator’s personal line. # 8. Persistence & stealth # Components (payload) * Activities: `MainActivity`, `PermissionRequestActivity`, `DebugActivity` * Service: `MyService` (foreground; `FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`) * Receivers: `SmsReceiver`, `BootReceiver`, `AlarmReceiver`, `MultiEventReceiver`, `BatteryLevelReceiver` * Persistent notification text: **“System Settings is Running…”** # Obfuscation / hardening * NP Manager resource and path mangling * StringFog (Base64 + XOR with key `UTF-8`) * Dropper encrypted asset (non-standard ZIP compression) * `usesCleartextTraffic="true"`, `allowBackup="true"` # 9. Dangerous permissions (payload) * `INTERNET`, `ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`, `ACCESS_WIFI_STATE`, `CHANGE_*` * `READ_SMS`, `RECEIVE_SMS`, `SEND_SMS`, `DELETE_SMS`, `BROADCAST_SMS` * `CALL_PHONE`, `READ_PHONE_STATE`, `READ_PHONE_NUMBERS` * `RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED`, `WAKE_LOCK` * `FOREGROUND_SERVICE`, `FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK` * `REQUEST_IGNORE_BATTERY_OPTIMIZATIONS`, `POST_NOTIFICATIONS` # 10. Key payload classes |Class|Role| |:-|:-| |`MyService`|Core RAT: enroll, listen, process commands| |`SmsReceiver`|SMS intercept / forward / Firebase write| |`TelegramBotUtils`|HTTP Telegram `sendMessage`| |`AdminInfo`|Load bot token ↔ chat ID map| |`callForwardingUtility`|USSD call forward| |`SmsHelper` / `SMSRetriever`|Send SMS / dump inbox| |`DeviceInfoUtil` / `SimInfoUtil`|Fingerprint + public IP| |`SharedPrefManager`|`isFirst`, `isSmsForward`, `SmsForwardTo`, flags| |`BootReceiver` / `AlarmReceiver`|Keep-alive| # 11. MITRE ATT&CK (Mobile) mapping |ID|Technique|Evidence| |:-|:-|:-| |T1660|Phishing / fake app|mParivahan brand abuse| |T1406|Obfuscated files or information|NP Manager + StringFog| |T1624|Event triggered execution|`BOOT_COMPLETED`, `SMS_RECEIVED`| |T1517|Access notifications / SMS|SMS permissions + receivers| |T1437|Application layer protocol|Firebase + Telegram HTTPS| |T1636|Protected user data|SMS, MSISDN, SIM info| |T1428|Exploit via SMS / USSD|`sendSms`, `**21*`| |T1409|Stored application data|SharedPreferences C2 flags| |T1625|Hijack execution flow / packer|`ShellApplication` dropper|
Intro In 2024 I released the initial version of Pipeleek. At the time the tool was a simple GitLab CI/CD pipeline secrets scanner, not much more. Since then, it has evolved quite a bit: I’ve added support for new CI/CD platforms, integrated the Renovate security research published last year, and built a range of helper commands on top of the scanner. Today it’s time to release version 1.0 of Pipeleek! Features Secret Scanner Platform Additions At its core Pipeleek is still a secrets scanner for exposed credentials in CI/CD pipelines. While many products scan for secrets at the version control level, Pipeleek covers leaked credentials in pipeline logs and artifacts. With version 1, Pipeleek supports the following CI/CD platforms: GitLab GitHub Bitbucket Azure DevOps Gitea CircleCI Jenkins Pentest Helpers
On August 4, 2026, several popular npm packages, including 'keyv', were compromised to deliver malware.
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Internal documents show ICE's DNA collection has skyrocketed in the second Trump administration. Now hundreds of thousands of people never convicted of a crime are in an FBI criminal database forever.
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Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite Today, we welcome the 47th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned’s free gov service: Nepal. Their National Cyber Security Centre now has access to monitor Nepalese government domains against the data in HIBP. This gives the NCSC the ability to identify exposure across government email addresses and respond quickly when those accounts appear in a new data breach. This is precisely what the HIBP government service was built for: helping national cyber teams strengthen threat monitoring and incident response capabilities by providing visibility into compromised credentials and breached accounts across their government domain space. Nepal joins a growing list of governments and national cybersecurity teams using HIBP to better understand their exposure, protect government departments and public resources, and reduce the risk posed by compromised credentials before attackers can take advantage.
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Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite Apparently, Aussies are so obsessed with coffee that it's referred to as the coffee capital of the world down here (some bits, at least). "But what about Italy?" people ask. Having spent a lot of time in a lot of Italy, no, it's just not the same. It's not the same ubiquity of high-quality coffee shops and passion for what many view as the art of making espresso-based drinks. There's comparably little tolerance for the likes of Starbucks ( who have not fared well in Australia ), and other mass-produced forms of the drink (I don't think I've ever seen diner-style filter coffee here ). All that said, we may have gone just a little overboard with the new machine, but anything worth doing is worth doing to excess
Learn how trusted coding-agent projects can execute repository-controlled code before the first prompt through Codex MCP configuration and Claude Code environment settings.
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Security lapse leaves sensitive information and contact details of 51 government officials exposed for 40 hours The public body in charge of the UK’s state investments has been pushed to improve its internal security after a data breach left “high-level management information” publicly accessible for nearly two days. UK Government Investments (UKGI), the agency that manages the taxpayers’ interest in a swathe of companies including Channel 4 and the Post Office, said the security failure also left more than 50 government officials’ personal details exposed for nearly 40 hours. Continue reading...
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The critical RufRoot vulnerability gave unauthenticated attackers a path from an exposed MCP endpoint to shell access, stolen AI provider keys and poisoned agent memory. Paul Mote explains why the incident should change how security teams define, test and recover their AI attack surface. The post RufRoot Exposed the Hidden AI Agent Attack Surface appeared first on Synack .
Plus: The FBI eyes AI-powered tech to detect future crimes, Russia charges Telegram’s founder, xAI sues to stop a state’s “nudification” ban, and the Democrats learn a lesson about getting scammed.
Both major AI labs’ models broke containment, escaped onto the internet, and hacked other companies. If a human had done that, the law would likely be against them. But a bot?