Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept, that hidden work read data from the user's connected Gmail account and passed it to a second ChatGPT account through a hidden channel
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VU#859658: Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds contain an unauthenticated Bluetooth pairing vulnerability
Overview Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds, running firmware version 1.0.0.28, accept a new Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) pairing request from an unpaired device without requiring the earbuds to be placed into pairing mode or requiring any physical confirmation or interaction from the owner. Description The Skullcandy Dime 3 (Model S2DCW) wireless earbuds, running firmware version 1.0.0.28, accept a new Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) pairing request from a previously unpaired device without the device being placed into pairing mode by the owner and without physical confirmation on the earbuds. The device's Bluetooth PnP modalias identifies the chipset vendor as Airoha Technology Corp. (Bluetooth SIG company ID 0x0094). This vulnerability was previously disclosed in CVE-2025-20701 and is described as: In the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK, there is a possible way to pair Bluetooth audio device without user consent. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. An attacker is required to be within Bluetooth radio range to the target earbuds, but no prior pairing, physical access, or interaction with the earbuds' buttons or case is required to exploit the vulnerability. A direct pairing request to the earbuds' known or discovered Bluetooth Classic address can be sent without a PIN, passkey, or physical confirmation. The pairing/bonding completes without owner action due to the device's NoInputNoOutput I/O capability. The firmware version displayed on the affected Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds is 1.0.0.28. Impact Once bonded, the attacker's device is added as a trusted device and can reconnect automatically whenever in range. This allows an attacker to est
A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The
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Microsoft Corp. today issued updates to plug at least 974 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software, by far its biggest single patch batch ever. Microsoft says artificial intelligence is helping to speed the discovery of vulnerabilities, but security experts warn that many organizations already are struggling to prioritize the more human-intensive endeavor of testing and deploying so many fixes each month. Image: Shutterstock.com, Kirill Makarov. This month’s patch bundle obliterates the software giant’s previous record set in July , when it released updates for at least 570 security vulnerabilities. September’s Patch Tuesday brings this year’s total to more than 2,600, more than twice Microsoft’s previous record-setting patch year in 2020 (1,245) and with three more months to go. There are two “zero-day” flaws fixed this month that are being actively exploited: both CVE-2026-81963 and
Designed to compete with OpenClaw and Instinct, the company says Muse can do everything from sell your car to book you a plane ticket.
An operator running a Redis cryptomining botnet left their entire working directory exposed on a server. Instead of the usual single payload, the whole toolkit was there: exploit code, raw campaign logs, a bundled Python runtime, even two exported Windows registry hives. That let us read their own campaign logs instead of guessing: * 3,562 distinct Redis servers compromised, out of 12,966 targeted * Only one technique actually worked at scale, an abuse of Redis replication that drops a cron job to run XMRig * Their SSH and MongoDB attempts returned zero * Victims run Redis versions spanning eight years, so the problem is missing authentication, not an unpatched bug * The same crypto wallet ties this back to an earlier February 2026 campaign, so the operator has been at it for months The fix is configuration, not a software update: require a password, and turn off the replication commands you are not using. Full breakdown here: [https://hunt.io/blog/redis-cryptomining-botnet-3562-servers](https://hunt.io/blog/redis-cryptomining-botnet-3562-servers)
A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider. "The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment
I found this article mentioning "remote physical attacks" and I cannot wrap my head around this concept. What is it actually? From my knowledge, a physical attack is done on site.
Overview The UEFI Shell program may expose raw memory access capabilities that, if present in platform firmware for debugging or advanced support use cases, could be abused to undermine UEFI Secure Boot protections. When the UEFI Shell is included in SPI flash, an attacker with the ability to modify UEFI boot configuration may be able to create multiple boot option entries and bypass controls intended to prevent the UEFI Shell from launching while Secure Boot is enabled. This could allow an attacker to modify the pre-boot environment and execute unauthorized software during system startup. Description The Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) is a firmware specification that defines the interface between a computing platform's hardware and operating system (OS) during the early boot process before the operating system is loaded. UEFI Secure Boot helps ensure that only trusted and digitally signed software is executed during these early stages of platform initialization. The TianoCore EDK II project provides an open-source reference implementation of the UEFI and Platform Initialization (PI) specifications. The project includes the UEFI Shell , which provides command-line utilities for debugging, diagnostics, and advanced platform management. Many OEM and Independent BIOS Vendor (IBV) firmware implementations include the UEFI Shell in SPI flash for service and support purposes. Because the shell executes in the pre-boot environment, it provides powerful commands such as dmem (display memory) and mm (memory modify) that can access physical memory. Many implementations include a boot entry for the
Whoever took nearly 4,000 bitcoin from the Liquid Network on Sunday, September 6, returned 3,400 of it the next day, Bitcoin's public record shows. About 598.5 bitcoin has not come back. Liquid is a Bitcoin sidechain that holds real bitcoin to back a token called L-BTC. The network is still paused, so holders cannot turn that token back into bitcoin. The 3,400 bitcoin was sent to a&
VU#859658: Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds contain an unauthenticated Bluetooth pairing vulnerability
Overview Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds, running firmware version 1.0.0.28, accept a new Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) pairing request from an unpaired device without requiring the earbuds to be placed into pairing mode or requiring any physical confirmation or interaction from the owner. Description The Skullcandy Dime 3 (Model S2DCW) wireless earbuds, running firmware version 1.0.0.28, accept a new Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) pairing request from a previously unpaired device without the device being placed into pairing mode by the owner and without physical confirmation on the earbuds. The device's Bluetooth PnP modalias identifies the chipset vendor as Airoha Technology Corp. (Bluetooth SIG company ID 0x0094). This vulnerability was previously disclosed in CVE-2025-20701 and is described as: In the Airoha Bluetooth audio SDK, there is a possible way to pair Bluetooth audio device without user consent. This could lead to remote escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation. An attacker is required to be within Bluetooth radio range to the target earbuds, but no prior pairing, physical access, or interaction with the earbuds' buttons or case is required to exploit the vulnerability. A direct pairing request to the earbuds' known or discovered Bluetooth Classic address can be sent without a PIN, passkey, or physical confirmation. The pairing/bonding completes without owner action due to the device's NoInputNoOutput I/O capability. The firmware version displayed on the affected Skullcandy Dime 3 wireless earbuds is 1.0.0.28. Impact Once bonded, the attacker's device is added as a trusted device and can reconnect automatically whenever in range. This allows an attacker to est
Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept, that hidden work read data from the user's connected Gmail account and passed it to a second ChatGPT account through a hidden channel
Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI
Automatic Key Exchange: faster, post-quantum secure origin handshakes for 45 billion daily connections (and counting)
Every time Cloudflare opens a new TLS 1.3 connection to an origin server, we have to make a guess: the protocol requires us to commit to a key agreement algorithm in the very first packet we send, before the origin has told us anything about itself or what it can support. If we guess right, the handshake completes in one round trip. Guess wrong, and the origin replies with a HelloRetryRequest , we start over, and the connection costs two round trips. For years, our guess was the same for every origin on the Internet: X25519 . Widely supported, but as it turns out, suboptimal for roughly 30% of the origin connections we've since measured. Today we're announcing Automatic Key Exchange , an extension of Automatic SSL/TLS that replaces the guess with a measurement. We probe each origin to learn which key agreement algorithms it supports and prefers, then lead with that algorithm on the first try, preferring the post-quantum hybrid X25519MLKEM768 wherever the origin can speak it. With the ongoing rollout of Automatic Key Exchange across origin connections, HelloRetryRequests fell from roughly 52% to 3.7%, cutting more than 150 ms off connection handshake latency at p90. In addition, as part of our ongoing rollout, hundreds of thousands of domains now
“You’ve been gifted a voucher!”. “Your account will be closed unless you act now”. “Late payment demand. Invoice # 207”. Phishing scams come in many shapes and sizes. And, in 2026, they remain, by far, the most common attack vector targeting both individuals and organizations. To help you understand the scale of the threat, I’ve […] The post Phishing in 2026. Latest statistics and analysis appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image versions in our catalog. Those are the headline numbers, but I want to share what's actually behind them. The number itself is less interesting than the system that produced it, and why we had to fundamentally
Many healthcare organizations have been told that HIPAA requires an annual penetration test. The current rule is more nuanced. Penetration testing for HIPAA compliance is not prescribed as one universal annual obligation, but regulated entities must conduct a comprehensive risk analysis, manage identified risks, and evaluate whether their safeguards remain effective. A well-scoped pentest can provide important evidence supporting those responsibilities. HHS has also proposed making annual penetration testing explicit, although that proposal is not yet binding. The post HIPAA Penetration Testing Requirements for Healthcare Enterprises appeared first on Synack .
A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who may log in across a Linux domain and maintains all identities in a 389 Directory Server database accessed via LDAP. The attack needs a second flaw in that database software. The
CVE-2025-25249 (FortiOS/FortiSwitchManager cw\_acd heap overflow) has been patched for some time. We're publishing evidence of what's been happening to instances that weren't: a purpose-built Node.js RAT, 178 confirmed victim sessions, activity since July 2026.
Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed StyleSmuggler by Sansec, which discovered zero-day exploitation starting September 4, 2026. "This update resolves a critical
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026, has been codenamed BengalSEO. It has operated out of the Indian state of Rajasthan since at least 2015, driven by two IT service providers named WeConnect
Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.K. over allegations that it shared users' personal information, including their HIV status, with third-parties. Grindr, which is the largest LGBTQ+ dating app, was sued in April 2024, accusing it of violating U.K. privacy laws by sharing sensitive data for commercial purposes such as advertising.
Many security bugs are race conditions, where multi-threaded execution has to occur with the right interleaving for a negative effect to appear. This creates challenges for several use cases: Confirming bug candidates that have been discovered manually or through static analysis. Regression tests: After fixing a race condition bug, there is often no good way to write a regression test that reliably triggers the bug as part of a test suite. Automatic bug discovery, such as fuzzing: It is hard for a fuzzer to exercise all interesting interleavings of concurrent operations, or reach code paths that are only exercised when operations are racing.
During my research into model alignment, I noticed how frequently safety guardrails cause false positive refusals on legitimate cybersecurity tasks. To address this, I applied directional abliteration to Qwen3-4B. By locating the specific internal activation pattern responsible for refusal and removing it directly from the model weights, I neutralised the refusal response entirely. \[model : [https://huggingface.co/IamLucif3r/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-Abliterated](https://huggingface.co/IamLucif3r/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-Abliterated) \] The process requires no fine tuning, no datasets and preserves the model's original reasoning and coding performance. You can run it using ollama : `ollama run` [`hf.co/IamLucif3r/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-Abliterated:Q4_K_M`](http://hf.co/IamLucif3r/Qwen3-4B-Instruct-2507-Abliterated:Q4_K_M) What this modification provides: * Direct, unhindered analysis of exploit payloads, binaries and source code. * Complete removal of conversational lecturing and moral disclaimers * Baseline benchmark capabilities intact without catastrophic forgetting. I have documented the complete methodology, findings & technical setups in my article: [https://blog.anmolsinghyadav.com/llm-abliteration-refusal-guardrails-f227460e2c7c](https://blog.anmolsinghyadav.com/llm-abliteration-refusal-guardrails-f227460e2c7c) You can create your own abliterated model.
At Bug Bounty Village during DEF CON 34, Inti De Ceukelaire delivered a talk on how attackers can abuse today's AI agents in ways most defenders haven't thought about yet, from tricking agents into spilling secrets to forcing them to carry out unauthorized actions on behalf of the victim. This resulted in over $50,000+ in bounties in just a few weekends, without actually poking the target with Burp Suite or any automated scanners.
*A cyber incident forced Springfield Public Schools to close its 64 schools Tuesday, disrupting instruction for more than 23,000 students across Springfield, Massachusetts.* *The district also canceled after-school activities and told staff and students to avoid its network and district-issued laptops while officials investigate and restore systems.*
Bose Sleepbuds II: Reverse-engineered the full BLE file-transfer protocol (TUMBLE) — audio codec still unidentified
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. "Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension directly into Chrome/Edge profiles, bypassing Web Store checks and user prompts by forging Chromium's own Secure Preferences
Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that's targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff
The core components required to move from automated discovery to proven risk now exist: capable models, controlled execution, scalable orchestration, evidence capture and human judgement. The opportunity is to engineer them as one dependable system rather than treat each as a standalone feature. The post AI Can Find Vulnerabilities. Building a System That Proves Risk Is the Hard Part. appeared first on Synack .
Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on. Elsewhere, a trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol designed for secure network management
If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like. How risk differs across cloud providers
A TantoSec proof-of-concept turns an AES-CBC "padding oracle" in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX into unauthenticated remote code execution — but only against applications in a specific non-default configuration, and Progress patched the chain in July. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation in the wild. Security firm TantoSec has published a working exploit chain targeting vulnerabilities
Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able's incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed. N-able has released its fourth hotfix in five weeks for the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this time for a
Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities. "The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers," Check Point Research said in a
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.
Presently sponsored by: Report URI: Guarding you from rogue JavaScript! Don’t get pwned; get real-time alerts & prevent breaches #SecureYourSite I've started playing around with YouTube's "create video thumbnail", which hopefully will give me back a bit of time in my day (it used to be a manual job in Photoshop) and be a bit more interesting. And on that note, the imagery it's chosen this week is spot on: that Lockwood ES2100 electric strike looks like the perfect solution for my first fully installed Ubiquiti Access door lock. Having the door position sensor built in really simplifies things, and hopefully Ubiquiti will later add support to their hubs for the latch position and strike lock status. Once I'm back from this next round of travel, I should be able to do a full review of what it's like to actually live with.
Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner. The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and
Plus: Tens of millions of US and Canadian drivers’ licenses go up for sale on the dark web, the US military finally tries to tackle the risk online ad data poses to troops, and more.
Homeland Security Investigations agents hit the outdoor retailer with a controversial subpoena as part of a dragnet search for the identities of protesters who entered a Minnesota church in March.
ChatGPT, Claude, and Grok all suffered outages at nearly the exact same time for reasons that remain murky.
This week on Uncanny Valley, we dig into the latest prediction market buzz, Flock’s AI-powered police search tool, and how tech bros don’t know how to talk about “rouge” AI agents
Introducing context-aware vulnerability discovery and remediation with Cloudflare Managed Defense and OpenAI Daybreak models
Your scanner just flagged 4,000 new vulnerabilities, 78 of them critical. Which one do you fix first? To answer that question, Cloudflare is announcing early access to Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation, now part of Cloudflare Managed Defense . Vulnerability Discovery and Remediation is a new, invitation-only Cloudflare service that helps customers detect and mitigate vulnerabilities in their codebases. Through the OpenAI Daybreak Defense Network , we use OpenAI Daybreak models, including GPT-5.6 Cyber, for reconnaissance, hunting, and validation against codebases that you authorize us to access. If we detect a vulnerability, we will then propose solutions to you, automatically checking each proposed patch and any accompanying proposed mitigation before presenting them for review. Importantly, you are in the driver’s seat: while we may propose code patches and other mitigations, you decide whether they are implemented. Choosing what to fix first has always been hard. It's getting harder. Large language models can now surface weaknesses across a codebase in minutes , which means the number of findings keeps climbing. But the real problem is speed. Attackers can use AI to accelerate parts of vulnerability discovery and exploitation, giving security teams and developers less time to decide what matters and act on it. Imagine that your scanner tells you there's a vulnerability in a handler. It doesn't tell you whether that code is deployed. It doesn't tell you whether anyone is actually hitting that route, what security activity surrounds it, or what controls you already have
Overview Casdoor is an open-source Access Management (IAM) platform used to manage web applications. An authorization bypass vulnerability affects Casdoor versions 3.115.0 and earlier. The vulnerability allows a non-global organization administrator to perform unauthorized administrative actions against arbitrary organizations by exploiting inconsistent object resolution between the authorization layer and downstream controllers. In multi-tenant deployments, an attacker with administrative privileges within a single organization can bypass tenant isolation and perform administrative operations against other organizations. Description CVE-2026-15630. The vulnerability stems from a desynchronization between authorization and action in multiple POST /api/{add,delete}- endpoints (e.g., /api/add-user, /api/delete-user, /api/add-permission) . While the global authorization filter ( routers/authzfilter.go ) correctly uses the ?id= URL query parameter as the authoritative target for authorization decisions, the affected controllers ( controllers/user.go , controllers/permission.go , etc.) ignore ?id= and operate solely on the owner and name fields in the JSON request body. As a result, authorization is evaluated against one object while the requested operation is executed against another, allowing an authenticated organization administrator ( IsAdmin=true ) to perform unauthorized administrative actions across tenant boundaries. Impact An attacker with administrative privileges in a single organization can compromise the isolation guarantees of a multi-tenant Casdoor deployment. Depending on the exposed endpoints and de
You know what you spent on penetration testing last year. But can you explain what that investment covered between engagements? For many organizations the honest answer is that it covered the weeks the testers were working against a scope agreed before they started. That was a reasonable arrangement when systems changed a few times a year. It is worth revisiting, now that many of them change weekly. The post Offensive Security Is Becoming a Program, Not a Purchase appeared first on Synack .
Heimdal’s MXDR team flagged a surge in detections tied to a program called Shift Browser on 2 September 2026. Our team confirmed activity on more than 50 client environments in a single day. The installers we captured trace to a malvertising lure. Shift Browser also runs a documented paid creator and affiliate marketing operation, though […] The post Shift Browser is signed adware that fingerprints your endpoint before it drops payload appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog .
WIRED rebuilt Flock’s latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer’s browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description.
While the full implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) won’t take effect until December 2027, another critical milestone is already approaching much sooner. Starting from 11 September 2026 , all manufacturers selling products with digital elements in countries of the European Union will be required to report actively exploited vulnerabilities in their digital products, as well as related security incidents, as well as security incidents that affect or compromise products already placed on the market. Incidents or vulnerabilities limited to development or internal environments are therefore only relevant if they result in (or could result in) a compromise of production devices. Although the platform itself is not yet available, the landmark legislation has already established a detailed framework and set of requirements. This article aims to summarize the most important aspects of the reporting process in order to help you prepare for these upcoming changes. Additionally, it provides clear guidelines for determining when a vulnerability or incident becomes mandatory to report. Overview In Chapter I, Article 14, §1, the Cyber Resilience Act states the following: A manufacturer shall notify any actively exploited vulnerability contained in the product with digital elements that it becomes aware of simultaneously to the CSIRT designated as coordinator, in accordance with paragraph 7 of this Article, and to ENISA. In the context of the CRA, an “ actively exploited vulnerability ” is defined as a “vulnerability for whic
Expert judgment is the scarcest resource in offensive security. Making it accessible to more of the world, continuously, is an engineering problem. The post Putting Experts on the Problems Only Experts Can Solve appeared first on Synack .
Why we merged NetSPI and Synack to bet against the loudest idea in security. The post Autonomy Was Never the Goal appeared first on Synack .
A new 13Cubed episode is out! 🍎 Windows forensics on a Mac usually means firing up a VM first. Not anymore. IRFlow Timeline is a free, open-source DF/IR timeline tool built natively for macOS. Feed it EVTX, Plaso, $MFT, or $J and go straight to process inspection, lateral movement, persistence, and VirusTotal enrichment. Featuring the tool's author, Renzon Cruz 👇 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9xHbNgZuT0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9xHbNgZuT0)