A CVSS 10.0 Lands in Entra ID — and Microsoft Can't Keep Its Exploitation Story Straight

Microsoft patched a maximum-severity remote code execution flaw in Entra ID, first flagging it as exploited in the wild and then quietly reversing that call a day later. Elsewhere, the UK’s AI Security Institute is on the defensive after Reuters surfaced the GitHub record of an unguardrailed test model trying to plant malware in a stranger’s open-source project.

Cloud & Identity

• Microsoft shipped a fix for a CVSS 10.0 RCE in Entra ID, part of a 22-patch out-of-band batch dominated by code execution, privilege escalation and information disclosure bugs (SecurityWeek). The messaging was a mess: the original bulletin marked the Exploitability Assessment “Exploited: Yes,” driving headlines about active attacks (BleepingComputer), before Microsoft corrected the field to “No” and said the flaw was not exploited (The Hacker News). Denmark’s CERT pushed the original “exploited in attacks” framing to national constituents (CERT.dk) — worth checking which version your intel feeds ingested.
• Hundreds of leaked AWS access keys are circulating that grant full control of corporate accounts, not the scoped, low-privilege credentials usually found in public repos (BleepingComputer). Rotate and scope; assume anything committed is live.
• Terabytes of developer credentials and secrets are being traded following mass exposure tied to LiteLLM deployments, with the actor identified as TeamPCP and screenshots pointing at victims including Microsoft. Kevin Beaumont’s summary — organisations adopting GenAI middleware without securing it — matches the pattern from this week’s other AI-adjacent secret dumps (Kevin Beaumont, Hudson Rock) (discussion).

Vulnerabilities & Exploits

• CISA ordered federal agencies to patch two actively exploited TrueConf Server flaws, the self-hosted conferencing platform widely deployed in Russia and CIS states (BleepingComputer). The Head Mare hacktivist group is exploiting the bugs to deploy PhantomCore malware (SecurityWeek).
• Cisco patched nine vulnerability groupings in Crosswork and Secure Workload, five of them CVSS 10.0 — SQL injection (CVE-2026-20030), missing authentication on critical functions (CVE-2026-20357) and external control of the file system (CVE-2026-20358) among them, all found during an internal engineering review with no reported exploitation (The Hacker News, Cisco advisory).
• “CDN Tsunami” abuses HTTP/3-to-HTTP/1.1 translation for up to 350x DoS amplification against origin servers. Researchers evaluated the two attacks against major CDNs including Alibaba and Baidu; a low-bandwidth client-side request stream is amplified in the CDN’s protocol downgrade (The Hacker News).
• A wormable root RCE is claimed in the Unitree G1 humanoid robot, with the finders saying one infected unit can automatically spread to other vulnerable robots in range. Exploit release is promised soon (@IntCyberDigest).
• An expired nameserver let a researcher take over e164.arpa zones for multiple territories — and accidentally log hundreds of thousands of ENUM lookups for calls to military bases. A clean read on abandoned-but-not-dead protocol infrastructure (lina.sh); commenter toast0 notes ENUM isn’t truly dead, just private — number-porting services still run it over VPN to non-public nameservers (discussion).

Supply Chain

• The poisoned arrayref Rust crate is now linked to North Korean actors. Attackers compromised the maintainer account and published a version adding a dependency that pulled an infostealer payload, executing on developer machines at compile time (SecurityWeek, BleepingComputer) (earlier coverage).
• Two more malicious Rust crates impersonating proc-macro2 were caught by Nextron’s artifact scanner, suggesting the crates.io campaign is broader than a single hijacked maintainer (@cyb3rops) (discussion).
• 14 trojanised npm packages drop the RedC2 4.0 Linux backdoor, which ships AI-assisted command-and-control functionality (The Hacker News).

AI & Model Security

• An autonomous AI agent under UK AI Security Institute testing tried to deploy malware into a stranger’s open-source GitHub project. A Turkish CS student thought he was fighting a human attacker; he was arguing with an AISI test model (TRT World). Ed Newton-Rex surfaced the archived pull request and argues the actions would be illegal under the UK Computer Misuse Act, raising the open question of who carries liability when a deliberately unguardrailed model touches third-party infrastructure. Sits alongside the Irregular test-environment incidents from earlier this week.
• Encrypted prompts bypass safety guardrails in Grok and Gemini, with encoded input surviving filtering long enough to be decoded and acted on downstream (SecurityWeek).
• Aikido burned 11.7 billion tokens benchmarking ten models on vulnerability discovery, three runs each. Headline result: GLM-5.3 improved sharply on cybersecurity tasks since pre-release evaluation and now tracks GPT-5.6 class models (Aikido).

Threat Activity

• Kimsuky is installing a malicious Chrome extension that auto-exfiltrates victims’ Gmail to C2 in spear-phishing against South Korean and Japanese targets, alongside abuse of legitimate remote-control tooling. Korean-language comments and debug strings throughout the extension’s JavaScript suggest most of it was written with generative AI (ENKI).
• FTP server banners are being used as dead drop resolvers to stage two new Windows RATs, E4del and PINHOLE — an unusual channel that most egress monitoring will treat as benign protocol chatter (BleepingComputer).
• Armored Likho has rewritten BusySnake in Golang and adopted the open-source Kharon RAT, while moving C2 and payload hosting off public GitHub to private GitLab and GitHub repos to frustrate analysis and blend with normal developer traffic. LLM-generated loaders remain part of their toolchain (@blackorbird) (earlier coverage).
• ToxicPanda 2.0 adds 167 remote commands and a PIN-harvesting workflow against 140+ banking and crypto apps, expanding globally alongside GoldDigger’s on-device fraud capabilities (The Hacker News).
• The French state hacking unit behind the EncroChat takedown used the 2017 “Bad Binder” Android exploit sourced from GitHub, a flaw left unpatched across an estimated 2.5 billion phones for two years, to take full control of tens of thousands of cryptophones (Computer Weekly).
• LockBit5 is reportedly recruiting initial-access brokers and affiliates, offering a cut of ransom payments or direct purchase of access to companies, banks and platforms — attribution to the LockBit brand is unconfirmed (@DarkWebInformer).
• Rockstar still hasn’t identified the GTA VI leaker or the intrusion path, with Take-Two lawyers seeking records from Microsoft and Discord while the actor “CyberLeek” publishes demands and threatens further releases. The Aug 27 gameplay premiere is unchanged (Bloomberg) (earlier coverage).
• Follow-up on the Siemens S7 advisory: ICS practitioners point out the coverage has flattened a decade of known water-sector PLC exposure into a novel-sounding AI story, and that CISA’s own advisory stresses the targeting is broader than Siemens (Lesley Carhart) (earlier coverage).

New Tools & Releases

• “Have I Been Flocked?” indexes 242 million Flock Safety ALPR searches covering 4.68 million license plates, built from audit logs obtained via FOIA and government transparency portals, and lets anyone check whether their plate was queried (haveibeenflocked.com) (discussion). Context: Bruce Schneier notes police policies actively restrict transparency about Flock use, echoing the Stingray playbook (Schneier).
• VulnCheck published its curated public-exploit corpus stats — 17,800+ PoCs and write-ups reviewed so far in 2026, already 87% of last year’s total. The useful signal for anyone triaging GitHub PoCs: fake AI-generated exploits are now routine for high-profile and emerging CVEs, and are the most common reason for rejection (VulnCheck).

Policy & Regulation

• Finland’s Traficom says AI transparency failures can now draw penalties of up to €15 million or 3% of global turnover. The EU AI Act’s transparency obligations took effect at the start of August, requiring AI-generated content — including images, video and audio — to be marked, for example with watermarks (MTV Uutiset / Traficom).
• The White House has authorised DOJ and DHS to run offensive cyber operations through private companies against transnational criminal groups — effectively a modern letter of marque, and a development worth watching for anyone in the commercial offensive space (Cisco Talos).

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