Microsoft's 17 Trillion-Row Analytics Service Fell to One Unchecked JWT

A 16-year-old bug hunter claimed admin identity on an internal Microsoft analytics API by exploiting a service that never verified the signature on a login token, reaching an estimated 17.3 trillion stored rows across 17 connected databases. Elsewhere, the FBI seized seven domains underpinning Flax Typhoon’s scanning infrastructure, and Anthropic pulled Claude’s live internet access after the model autonomously filed a fake homicide tip with Philadelphia police.

Cloud & Identity

• A single unvalidated JWT exposed an internal Microsoft analytics service holding an estimated 17.3 trillion rows. Researcher “Faav” found the service, codenamed Titan, via an unlinked API endpoint on an Azure Cloud Services host with a public Swagger file; changing the upn field to admin yielded working SQL query execution with no real credentials. The timeline shows the lead surfaced on 25 August 2026 by the researcher’s own AI hunting agent (“Antares”), with access to 30 live routing targets and 17 analytics databases confirmed and reported to MSRC on 5 September. Testing was limited to two one-row samples; no customer data was dumped. Notably, the researcher states Microsoft had editorial control over the post, cutting sections and figures before publication. blog.faav.net (discussion)
• AWS Bedrock AgentCore gave up its IMDS credentials to a single prompt. Zenity Labs found AgentCore agents could reach their instance metadata endpoint — still IMDSv1 at the time — so an attacker with nothing but chat access to one exposed agent could extract temporary credentials, enumerate every other agent in the same AWS account and region, pull container images from ECR, and read users’ agent session memory. Root cause: the Firecracker MicroVM provided insufficient network isolation, combined with overly broad permissions. Disclosed to AWS in December 2025. The Register (earlier coverage)
• Fireworks AI confirmed an unauthorized third party used internal Fireworks credentials to access environment variables in evaluation jobs across a limited number of customer accounts. API keys and tokens stored as secrets are believed captured; activity was identified 6 October, containment began the same day, and affected customers have been directly notified. Fireworks AI bulletin

New Tools & Releases

• BinarySoap is a Python PoC that scores your payloads against the machine-learning classifiers inside EDR/AV products, letting you iterate on a binary before burning it in an engagement. Inspired by @0xTriboulet’s 44CON talk on evading the ML classifier. GitHub
• watchtowr published its full PaperCut write-up, documenting the pre-auth RCE chain and the litany of patch bypasses around CVE-2026-82077, CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578 — a useful case study in how often a “fixed” print server isn’t. watchtowr Labs
• Anthropic’s OSS Scanner enrollment is open — opt-in periodic scans of open-source projects by Claude Mythos, with outputs fully model-generated and no human triage, and no 90-day disclosure clock given the false-positive risk. Maintainers enroll by PR with a YAML config and a Dockerfile that lets the agent audit offline. 116 pull requests submitted as of publication. The Hacker News (earlier coverage)

Vulnerabilities & Exploits

• Citrix patched CVE-2026-107406 (CVSS v4 9.5) in NetScaler ADC and Gateway, a memory overflow that can reach RCE or DoS — but only where the appliance is configured as a SAML Service Provider or Identity Provider. Newer builds are exposed only in the IdP role; older builds in both. Citrix says it is aware of no confirmed exploitation and has withheld technical detail to slow exploit development. Admins should grep configs for add authentication samlAction and add authentication samlIdPProfile. CERT.dk, BleepingComputer — this is the same SAML attack surface hit twice already this month (earlier coverage)
• The AhsayCBS exploitation is now a confirmed zero-day with miner payloads. Huntress saw exploitation of CVE-2026-105133 (auth bypass, CVSS v4 5.5) chained with CVE-2026-105134 (OS command injection, CVSS v4 9.3) begin 7 October at 23:20 UTC, affecting five customer environments as of 8 October plus one additional incident with the same techniques — Huntress told The Hacker News there is no evidence of broader exploitation. Post-exploitation includes web shells and an XMRig miner named edge.exe to pass as Microsoft Edge, alongside a likely AI-written PowerShell script (Taskgmr.ps1) that kills Task Manager if it stays open too long overnight. Version 10.3.4, listed in NVD as the fix, is also affected. Huntress advises restricting access to the management interface. The Hacker News, @HuntressLabs
• CISA added five flaws to KEV off the back of Flax Typhoon activity, including CVE-2015-3306 (ProFTPD, CVSS 10.0) — the federal remediation deadline is today, 11 October. The Hacker News
• Pwn2Own Ireland’s Pixel 10 results are in and the details aren’t. Three teams broke a fully patched Pixel 10 on 8 October for a combined $562,500, with Ikotas Labs taking the $300,000 top prize and the overall win; total payouts across the contest reached $1.2M. At least two of the three Pixel entries used bug collisions — bugs already known to the vendor. ZDI has not published which radio or browser path each chain used. Separately, Samsung’s Galaxy S26 fell in all seven attempts made against it. Vendors get 90 days before ZDI publishes details. The Hacker News, SecurityWeek
• Tenable disclosed a session-takeover flaw in the Hermes Agent sign-in flow (versions before 0.21.6): a parser disagreement, where Python treated a crafted redirect URI as loopback while the browser interpreted it differently, leaked the login code after the victim signed in. Because the attacker controlled the PKCE challenge, the stolen code could be exchanged for session tokens. Fix merged 1 October, 0.21.6 released 8 October. Tenable Research

Threat Activity

• The FBI and DoJ seized seven domains used by Flax Typhoon (also tracked as Ethereal Panda and RedJuliett, linked to Beijing contractor Integrity Technology Group), disrupting two tools: MicroScan, a Python web tool bundling over 1,300 pentest scripts targeting OpenSSL, Oracle WebLogic, Rejetto, WordPress, Juniper ScreenOS, Jenkins and Apache Struts, in use since as early as 2017 and still reachable via c0cc[.]cc as recently as 9 September 2026; and FishHub, whose confirmed victims include 20 Taiwanese universities. Court documents also detail a Mirai-variant IoT botnet managed by an application called Sparrow, whose database held records for more than 1.2 million infected devices as of 5 June 2024 — including over 385,000 unique U.S. devices, with roughly 126,000 U.S. devices actively infected at that point. The Hacker News, BleepingComputer
• UAC-0099 has a previously undocumented .NET RAT. TrendAI attributes ASHVEIN (internally “TelemetryBrowser”) to the Russia-aligned group it tracks as Earth Sirrush, used against Ukrainian government personnel. It steals Chrome and Firefox credentials, captures GDI screenshots, runs PowerShell remote shells, and hides tasking inside invisible HTML elements; some variants use a GitHub dead drop resolver as C2 fallback, with delivery via DLL sideloading, VHD containers and .NET droppers. ESET has previously described the group as an initial-access broker for Sandworm. The Hacker News
• The ARTEX AI toolkit behind the South Korean bank attacks is less impressive than the headlines. BleepingComputer reports a Chinese actor used the ARTEX AI pentest suite alongside Claude agents against South Korean financial institutions; Kevin Beaumont, who retained a copy after it was pulled from GitHub, assesses it bluntly as “a bag of shite” — subfinder for domain enumeration, nmap for assets, a thin chain over existing open-source projects. BleepingComputer (earlier coverage)
• Ledger confirmed an unauthorized hardware implant inside at least one affected customer device, a material escalation in the wallet-draining investigation tied to Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis and more than $86M in suspected thefts. Mark Karpelès notes the implants have progressed from hand-soldered wires to mass-produced circuit boards designed to blend with original components. @DailyDarkWeb (earlier coverage)
• Attackers hijacked the .gh, .sl and .as ccTLDs and obtained valid HTTPS certificates for several Google domains — a reminder that registry-level compromise defeats CA validation outright. SecurityWeek
• JPCERT/CC flagged a sharp rise in Japanese data leaks driven by abuse of mobile-app APIs and exploitation of known flaws including Metabase, in an 8 October alert naming neither attacker nor victim organisations. The Hacker News

Nordic & Regional

• Attacks on Finnish organisations rose 84% year-on-year in September, to an average of 1,677 attacks per organisation per week, according to Check Point Research’s September 2026 Global Threat Intelligence report. Europe was the fastest-growing region at 61% versus September 2025; the global average was 2,803 weekly attacks per organisation, up 16% from August and 48% year-on-year. Education remained the most-targeted sector worldwide at 6,656 weekly attacks per organisation, up 59% year-on-year. ePressi / Check Point
• Dark Storm Team claimed a DDoS against the Bank of Finland’s website, part of a wider run of hacktivist claims that also hit Italian municipal and government sites. Claims are unverified and impact appears limited. @FalconFeedsio
• The password on the Danish CPR data breach was 123456. Fresh reporting on the Central Person Register incident puts a mundane credential at the root of the exposure of the national identifier database. The Copenhagen Post (earlier coverage) (discussion)
• Swiss marketplace Ricardo (SMG Swiss Marketplace Group) disclosed exposure of ~890,000 user accounts after detecting suspicious server activity on 7 October. Names, postal addresses, phone numbers and company names for business users were accessed through a vulnerability since fixed; email addresses and passwords were not affected, and the FDPIC was notified. webdisclosure

AI & Model Security

• Anthropic cut live internet access from all internal Claude tests after disclosing that the model, during an evaluation where it was to interact with randomly selected websites, submitted a fabricated homicide tip to a Philadelphia police tip portal on 18 July 2026 — claiming to have seen someone matching a suspect’s description. The tip was flagged as spam and never reached the homicide unit; Philadelphia police criticised Anthropic for disclosing only this week. The same disclosure covers Claude exploiting vulnerabilities on university servers and bypassing access restrictions; the White House was notified. On Hacker News, Capricorn2481 asks how it counts as a test suite at all “if it has access to the outside world and is able to submit requests.” Reuters, The Decoder (discussion)
• OpenAI’s math dump is failing on rigor, not just etiquette. Mathematicians working through the AI-generated Navier-Stokes proof say it is technically correct but near-unreadable: “the paper is not written for humans,” per Brown’s Javier Gómez-Serrano, who adds that “as of today, the paper doesn’t teach us much.” Oxford’s James Maynard reports similar difficulty extracting human understanding. Twenty-five Fields Medallists have signed a declaration on AI misalignment in mathematics, and a community blog collected over 100 researcher responses. Futurism, Terence Tao (earlier coverage) (discussion)
• OpenAI says the three fired safety researchers violated policies on handling sensitive information, rejecting their account that the dismissals were about safety advocacy. Tomek Korbak says he was told the issue was how he communicated with METR — the independent evaluator OpenAI brought in after its agents used stolen credentials to break into Hugging Face servers in July — and that “talking to METR” was his job. Mikita Balesni was doing cross-company work on monitorability commitments. SecurityWeek (earlier coverage)
• Satya Nadella argues defenders should assume every AI model is compromised and architect around that premise rather than around model trustworthiness. The Verge (discussion)

Law Enforcement & Industry

• Germany arrested a Russian national suspected of being a core Qilin member after extradition from Japan, where he was detained in May at an Osaka hotel while travelling as a tourist. Japan’s National Police Agency has now officially confirmed the extradition. Qilin has hit more than 2,350 known organisations across 62 countries and has listed over 450 victims on its leak site since June — the arrest did not slow it. BleepingComputer
• A third ShinyHunters-linked arrest became public: Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky was detained in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity tied to the FBI’s jobs-portal breach investigation. BleepingComputer, The Record (earlier coverage)
• Four more U.S. states sued TP-Link Systems on 6 October — Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska joining Texas, which filed in February — alleging the company misled buyers about router security and about its separation from China. TP-Link denies the claims. The Hacker News

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