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Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86's shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page
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 data storage 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.
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
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Thursday, August 6
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
Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86's shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page
"OSS Security Principles and Practices" is Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's (CISA) strategic framework for federal agencies to manage open source software throughout its entire lifecycle. This on [IProgrammer](https://www.i-programmer.info/news/136-open-source/19058-cisas-oss-security-principles-and-practices-.html) article discusses the key points.
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 data storage 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.
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
Our data shows that a lot of traffic from well-behaved bots is re-fetching pages that have not changed . Billions of requests. An enormous amount of machine effort, attached to no outcome at all. That's the signature of a web built for humans being visited by something else. Agents are here - not as a new kind of software, but as a new kind of visitor to the web. The web reshaped around this new visitor is what we call the Agentic Internet. We see its future as readable, discoverable, callable, and payable. To realize that future, it needs its own tools and protocols. Cloudflare's developer platform gave agents a place to run, and the first tools to build them. What's missing are the ones that let agents and domain owners cooperate instead of collide — on the open Internet, not just inside a single platform. Every browser has always identified itself to the web with a header called User-Agent. The name only made sense once you realized the browser was acting on your behalf. Now a user agent is truly a user's agent: a program that fetches the web on a person's behalf. Today its most mature form is the coding agent that reads and writes code, pulls the docs it needs, and never sees the pages it reads. An agent doesn't render your CSS, see your hero image, or click your ads. But it has a paying human on the other end. Every request now costs someone money and carries a purpose. Block it and you block your customer. Treat it like a scraper and you lose them. Every agent runs because someone — a person or a business — is paying for what it does. Most people don't spend tokens for the sake of it. This version of the Internet, one with an outcome and a bill on the other end of every request, is going to look nothing like the one we have now. The web was not built for this, and neith
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 bind
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
Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery phrases. Coinspect's on-chain analysis puts the measured theft across two sweeps since late May at a lower bound of
A couple of months back I put up a small browser game where you play the human-in-the-loop for an AI coding agent. There's 60 seconds on the clock to approve or deny as many commands as you can ([https://llmgame.scalex.dev](https://llmgame.scalex.dev/)). After looking at 409,000 approve/deny decisions, the 'humans-in-the-loop' missed 1 in 3 threats, even in a game that warns you up front it's full of them. It's just a game, but I found a few other things interesting: * `cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa` gets blocked by 82% of players, but other sensitive config/credential files get waved through about half the time. * For any evil code reading this, your best bet is to modify `package.json` and request to be run as an `npm run` command. `npm run analyze` was approved 65% of the time, even with the evil payload explicitly visible in the execution history log right above the prompt. I wrote up the full breakdown with the threat tables here: [https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/](https://scalex.dev/blog/ai-agent-permissions-stats/)
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
Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle compile it into stored schema objects, and ran commands from inside the database engine. Huntress, which tracks the toolkit as khunt,
Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. In several of the attack paths, the model never ran at all, so system prompts, content filters, and model-level guardrails never got a chance to intervene. The affected products include Amazon
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt to beacon to Chinese
A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, according to the Justice Department.
A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of deserialization of untrusted data that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with access to a TeamCity server
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
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.
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.
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.
A macOS ClickFix operation spanning more than 250 front-end domains now fingerprints visitors before deciding whether to show them a malware lure, a change Microsoft Threat Intelligence tracked on infrastructure it had been watching for weeks. The server-side gate hides the malicious page from crawlers and sandboxes while presenting selected Mac users with a fake software download. Microsoft
OpenAI said it disrupted a Cambodia-based scam operation that used its generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT to facilitate a wide range of investment, romance, gambling, and law enforcement impersonation schemes. To that end, it banned a coordinated network of ChatGPT accounts likely originating from Southeast Asia and operating from the city of Poipet, a region with extensive
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 .
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged an evolution of the EtherHiding blockchain-based command-and-control (C2) technique that conceals the C2 server IP address inside a made-up destination address of a completely empty Ethereum transfer. The new dead drop resolver approach, observed in two trojanized npm packages "bianira-ui" and "fluid-type-ui," has been codenamed NullReceiver by
Sam Rhea is Cloudflare’s Chief Information Officer. I knew we had a problem about six months ago when a member of our sales organization reached out to me asking for API keys. Keys plural. They used AI to build what they described as a SuperApp that would transform our go-to-market teams. All they needed was production access to about a dozen systems of record at Cloudflare and admin permissions to a deployment pipeline to make it work. We had taken a fairly cautious approach to rolling out AI at Cloudflare during 2025. We deployed informational chat applications and tinkered with using AI to help write some boilerplate code, but we felt that the technology was not ready to change how we work. And then, over the course of a few days at the end of last year, better models and more powerful harnesses changed that calculus. AI agents could do things, and they could do them well. Hundreds of team members across Cloudflare, in technical and non-technical roles, spent the quieter weeks around the New Year experimenting with new tools that made it easier than ever to build. That sales team member building their SuperApp was just the first in an avalanche of people raising their hands to use these tools to transform how they get things done. We had an obligation to equip and enable them to do so. But we also had an obligation to keep our systems, internal data, and customer data safe. We have spent the last several months building a platform to do exactly that inside of Cloudflare. We call it Cloudflare OS. We started by stitching together off-the-shelf components from our Developer and Zero Trust platforms like Cloudflare Workers and Access . As we learned more about the challenge, we also created custom
Let’s imagine the Case of the Endlessly Closing Tickets. The bug tickets start closing at noon. Nobody thinks much of it. Joe moved a few tickets to Done, and Joe is having a productive afternoon. Then the pace picks up. By 4 p.m., thousands of tickets have been closed, all by Joe. Joe is a good engineer. Joe is not a thousand-tickets-an-hour engineer. We learn that he has several background agents running across three concurrent sessions. It takes half an hour to find the one at fault: a cleanup task with a prompt that was a little too broad. Once we’ve stopped the agent, we need to repair the state of the ticketing system. Joe has also been legitimately closing tickets by hand that afternoon. The system records all those changes under Joe regardless of whether it was him or his agent, and the network logs do not distinguish one agent session from another. From the outside, the actions look identical. The example above is relatively low-stakes, but we can all imagine, or read about , much more destructive cases. An agent with access to contract software could amend an agreement. An agent wreaking havoc in a support queue could send hundreds of replies to customers. An agent with database access could drop entire tables. At Cloudflare, we knew we could not depend on every employee to configure every agent perfectly or watch every tool call. So before expanding write access across our own internal MCP servers, we built WriteGuard. We are now bringing those controls to Cloudflare MCP server portals through a private beta. MCP Fundamentals Before explaining WriteGuard, let’s review what an MCP server is and how it works with AI
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
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.
- [ChainDrop npm Worm: Bun-loaded CI/CD credential harvester with Ethereum dead-drop C2](https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/chaindrop-npm-worm) - [Popular npm Packages in the keyv and Cacheable Namespaces Compromised in Active Supply Chain Attack](https://socket.dev/blog/popular-npm-packages-in-the-keyv-and-cacheable-namespaces-compromised-in-active-supply-chain) - [npm Worm Poisons 400+ Packages Across Nine Organisations](https://safedep.io/keyv-npm-supply-chain-compromise/)
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|
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