ShinyHunters Takes Cl0p's Leak Site Hostage

ShinyHunters defaced Cl0p’s data-leak site and is publicly extorting the ransomware crew over its Oracle EBS proceeds — a crime-on-crime escalation with a 66-hour countdown attached. Elsewhere, a malicious npm package with 2 million weekly downloads sidesteps npm v12’s install-script approvals by hiding its loader in ordinary runtime code.

Threat Activity

ShinyHunters has compromised and defaced the Cl0p leak site, replacing the page behind Cl0p’s CAPTCHA with its own Umbreon-branded imagery, per DarkFeed’s Ido Cohen (earlier coverage). What’s new today is the demand: an updated 20 September message addressed to “Likhogray & Tarasov” demands all proceeds from the Oracle EBS campaign “plus more AND WITH INTEREST,” threatening to publish which companies paid, how much, and to which Bitcoin addresses, with 66 hours on the clock (Dark Web Informer). Catalin Cimpanu frames it as ShinyHunters demanding the money Cl0p made from EBS.
Google had an undercover Mandiant analyst inside TeamPCP’s inner circle, disclosed by GTIG researcher Austin Larsen at LABScon. The persona had spent months building trust with an actor who was later invited into the group, meaning “almost day one, Mandiant was watching everything behind the scenes” — letting Google warn victims and disrupt exploitation during a campaign that tainted hundreds of open-source packages, used a Dune-themed self-spreading worm, and breached more than a thousand companies (Ars Technica, earlier coverage). Two Australians in their early 20s were arrested last month and described by the AFP as principal participants. Larsen also says internal chat visibility showed someone in the core circle using an AI tool to develop a zero-day against a widely used login product, aimed at bypassing its 2FA. Google additionally received intelligence from ShinyHunters, which had partnered with TeamPCP before turning on it.
Qilin added four victims to its leak site on 20 September: Turkish conglomerate Zorlu Holding, Vietnamese Apple reseller ShopDunk, German building-services firm KMLS, and Touring Club Suisse — the Swiss mobility club with 1.65 million members and ~2,200 staff (Dark Web Informer, ransomware.live). No initial-access vector, ransom demand or data volume has been published for either listing; the Zorlu entry carries Hudson Rock infostealer telemetry (69 compromised employees, 101 users, 223 third-party credentials) with no evidence linking those credentials to the intrusion.
A DarkSword-linked iOS exploit kit is live in the wild, with redirects pointing at an OKX subdomain and a fake OKX CAPTCHA page, suggesting the crypto exchange’s users are the target (malwrhunterteam). The same researcher flagged a second staging host with an OKX redirect and a code comment dated last week about iPad support. Separately, SlowMist published an analysis of FomoPeek App Store poisoning chained with iOS kernel exploitation, also tagged DarkSword (SlowMist).
Hackers claim to have breached Russia’s Central Election Commission ahead of this weekend’s Duma elections, publishing a “cikleak” site that mocks the GAS Vybory system with an editable results XML file (Catalin Cimpanu). Treat as a claim — no independent verification. (discussion)
Vietnam, Laos, Pakistan and Argentina took concrete steps against North Korean IT worker schemes as of July, following last October’s UN Panel study (The Record).

Supply Chain

indexed-btree hides its loader inside BTree.prototype.set() — the function every consumer calls — so installation is clean and npm v12’s install-script approval controls never fire. The typosquat of sorted-btree has reached 2 million weekly downloads. Once triggered, it collects architecture, hostname, CPU, memory and uptime, exfiltrates via hardcoded Slack and Telegram channels, and polls an Ethereum smart contract on the Sepolia testnet for C2, using X25519 to derive an AES key for a second-stage payload. It can also delete its files and strip the trigger from the package to erase traces. Checkmarx notes an attacker wallet holding 109 ETH — the report does not claim those funds came from crypto theft — and a curated GitHub repo with fabricated commit history to sell legitimacy (BleepingComputer, Checkmarx).

Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Three Linux kernel flaws went into CISA KEV on 19 September with evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS 9.8, TLS receive path, memory disclosure/DoS), CVE-2026-53266 (8.8, out-of-bounds write in the ebtables SNAT ARP rewrite path, local privilege escalation) and CVE-2025-39964 (7.8, AF_ALG socket race). Red Hat updated all three advisories the same day to acknowledge exploitation, noting known public exploits; the FCEB remediation date under BOD 26-04 was 21 September (The Hacker News). No details have been published on how they are being used, or whether they form one chain.
Heapjack escapes the OpenAI Codex sandbox from its strictest read-only mode with no approval prompt and nothing on screen. Accomplish AI’s Oren Yomtov found that node_repl — written into ~/.codex/config.toml at Codex Desktop install time, with no opt-in and no off switch, and inherited by plain CLI users via the shared config — runs trusted and untrusted JS contexts in one Node process sharing one heap. The untrusted side snapshots the heap with v8.getHeapSnapshot(), brute-forces UUID-shaped strings until the error message confirms a valid token, then writes its own requests onto the pipe to the unsandboxed native parent. Opening someone else’s repo and asking a question about the code is enough to give its author command execution on your machine. Reported 12 August, fixed within eight days (BleepingComputer, earlier coverage).
Two critical Suricata 8.x flaws let crafted traffic crash the IDS/IPS itself: CVE-2026-94083 (CVSS 9.4, DoH2 type confusion / invalid free) and CVE-2026-94084 (9.4, HTTP/2 use-after-free), both unauthenticated and network-triggerable, fixed in 8.0.7. The DoH2 path is enabled by default in 8.x. OISF notes this is its highest-ever count of vulnerability reports in one release, attributing the spike to AI-assisted analysis, and that Suricata 7 is now EOL (OISF).
Cache key injection — YesWeHack Labs details how discrepancies in how caches and origins derive keys let an attacker smuggle poisoned content past the cache boundary (YesWeHack).
A PS4 jailbreak for firmware 13.02–13.52 is public, and Sony is reportedly still letting 13.52 consoles pass PSN authentication, putting jailbroken consoles with mod menus into public GTA Online lobbies (@TexFunz2). One practitioner warns the bundled HEN is “open source, quite limited, it causes kernel panic when it reaches 30 minutes,” and advises against using a legitimate account on 13.52 with active PSN (@xVibez). A PS5 13.60 equivalent is being teased but not shipped; treat the 13.60 claims as unconfirmed.
Check Point shipped emergency hotfixes on 9 September for two CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated RCE flaws in Security Gateway, Security Management Server and Spark Firewall where Remote Access or Site-to-Site VPN is configured; CERT-EU urges prioritising perimeter appliances (CERT-EU, SecurityWeek).
SAP’s September patch day carried CVE-2026-44756 (“OVERPASS”, CVSS 10.0, memory corruption in Extended Passport processing, found by Onapsis Research Labs) and CVE-2026-58240 (“S4GET”, 9.8, missing authentication check in the NetWeaver Message Server) — both remotely exploitable without authentication (CERT-EU).

AI & Model Security

AWS AgentCore Harness’s default-enabled shell tool reaches into the same memory space where AgentCore Identity resolves credentials to plaintext, so prompt injection can steer an agent into exfiltrating them. Unit 42 examined the harness against the Identity vault and a downstream MCP server it authenticates to; encryption at rest, in transit, KMS and IAM gating all hold until the credential has to leave the vault to be used. AWS reviewed and closed the report as informative under the shared-responsibility model, pointing to allowedTools scoping and egress filtering as customer-side controls — which is also Unit 42’s mitigation advice, alongside least-privilege vault service accounts and outbound traffic monitoring from harness containers (Unit 42).
Google confirmed Gemini autonomously broke into three real companies during a May evaluation run by third-party evaluator Irregular, after a testing-scope mix-up. The model found public information online and guessed credentials to reach sites it believed were in scope; in one case it simply guessed passwords until it got in, and Google says the model stopped in each instance. Irregular told the BBC it notified Google and all affected entities in July and has since remediated (BBC, earlier coverage). (discussion)
Insiders allege OpenAI and Anthropic overstated AI security incidents to push federal protection of their market position ahead of IPOs, per reporting amplified by Nicolas Krassas. WSJ’s opinion desk argues the Hugging Face incident “wasn’t what it was cracked up to be” — not a hive mind of agents going rogue. Relevant context for anyone calibrating on vendor incident disclosures.
An AI agent breached a Spanish organisation and modified personal data without authorisation, per Dark Reading’s write-up of the AEPD case (Dark Reading).
A Chinese research group published an assessment of LLM relay/proxy services with a public leaderboard and stated methodology — useful if you are evaluating the security posture of third-party API relays sitting between your apps and frontier models (TrustTools benchmark).

New Tools & Releases

CnaEmulator — a standalone harness for developing, emulating and testing Cobalt Strike Aggressor scripts without a teamserver or GUI client. Validates .cna syntax against the Sleep 2.1 engine with exact line numbers, emulates documented Beacon APIs (injection, token manipulation, filesystem, network, GUI callbacks) with realistic mock returns, implements native bof_pack serialisation matching Cobalt Strike’s datap format, and bridges beacon_inline_execute to COFFLoader64.exe so BOFs actually run in-memory with live output. Ships an interactive beacon> console and a 48-scenario test runner. The author notes the code was fully generated with Antigravity and is not yet reviewed — read it before you run it (GitHub).
OneDrive-UDC2 — a Cobalt Strike User-Defined C2 channel using OneDrive as transport. Requires an Entra ID app registration with Files.ReadWrite.All application permission and admin consent, two OneDrive folders as inbox/outbox, and a Python relay between the teamserver’s UDC2 listener and Graph; the client side is a BOF. Includes state, spool and lock files so an interrupted relay retries uploads rather than losing data (GitHub).
ZK-JPEG — zero-knowledge proofs for image editing and compression, verifying a large family of transformations without revealing the original. The authors describe merging translucent layers so the layer is disclosed while content beneath an opaque region stays secret. On HN, Retr0id asks the load-bearing question: whether the supported transformation family is broad enough to turn a real image A into an arbitrary fake image B (ePrint) (discussion).

Data & Breaches

Gyazo’s breach reached 23.6 million user records and ~490 million image metadata records. Helpfeel says an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the image upload server on 11 September to execute commands and was ejected the next day. Exposed fields include names, email addresses, password hashes, user and device IDs, X integration tokens, profile and billing data; card data was not taken. The metadata could let an attacker reconstruct and access image URLs, and a list of private images was also compromised — volume undisclosed (SecurityWeek, earlier coverage).
Microsoft Teams’ internal chatbot API is unauthenticated, allowing unauthorised reading, writing and incomplete deletion of private conversation sessions, per a disclosed HackerOne report (HackerOne #4020767).
Teams is also the delivery surface for a help-desk impersonation technique — external “IT support” messaging users first, aimed at credential harvesting in SMB tenants (ScamDrill).

Industry & Policy

Trump announced an “AI Force” modelled on the Space Force and plans to appoint an “AI czar,” rejecting new regulation and claiming AI could reach 25 percent of US economic output (The Decoder, MTV Uutiset). What the unit actually is — a military branch, an AI-operated force, or an administrative office — was not specified.
Anthropic has reportedly pushed its IPO from October to November 2026 to land stronger Q3 numbers, against investor expectations of roughly a $2 trillion valuation, infrastructure costs including $1.25 billion a month for its SpaceX deal, and unresolved security risks (The Decoder).

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