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October 30, 2026

  • Radware tracked 83 CI/CD attacks against 61 public GitHub repositories — including Google LangExtract, Trivy, Brave browser and MLflow — with 77 of the malicious items posted in a 43-minute window on 1 September and six more in the two minutes after. Commands hidden in HTML comments inside issues, PRs and comments triggered vulnerable workflows within a second to steal credentials and tokens; 74 accounts, many with real commit histories, were used (The Register) (discussion). · Supply Chain & Build Pipelines
  • GitHub opened a public preview of an npm firewall that inspects metadata requests and package downloads and gates installs at install time; npm only for now (The Hacker News). · Supply Chain & Build Pipelines
  • EMBRACE: Forever Security broke the embedded browsers inside five AI coding assistants — Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop — finding arbitrary code execution, sandbox escape, local file read and exfiltration, prompt injection and address-bar spoofing (confirmed on Copilot 1.1.27 on 26 September). Codex and VS Code were still unpatched at publication (Forever Security). · AI & Model Security
  • Axis Camera Station gets a full chain write-up: unauthenticated RCE (CVE-2025-30026/CVE-2025-30023) through to decrypting every stored camera credential (CVE-2026-63286) (Ricardo Rodríguez). Huntress separately reports a campaign using camera management software as the initial-access route into victim environments (Huntress). · Vulnerabilities & Disclosures
  • vulnerator-ai — a containerised OODA-loop pentest agent where Nous Research's Hermes drives Kali tooling (nmap, nuclei, ffuf, sqlmap, Prowler) and headless Chromium over MCP, with ATT&CK as the orient language. Deliberately minimal: four containers, no UI, no REST API, and by default no scope or authorization gates, so operators have to enforce target restrictions themselves (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • CVEngine — self-hosted external attack-surface assessment that pairs continuous discovery (bbot, naabu, CT monitoring, nmap fingerprinting) with exploitation ranking from CISA KEV, EPSS, Exploit-DB, Metasploit and VulnCheck KEV, then validates matches read-only with Nuclei and banner probes and records the exact command used. Ships a Shodan-style search over your own inventory, a change timeline, an MCP server and a bug-bounty scope workbench (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in Attackers Go for the Management Plane

October 29, 2026

  • Yoba lures victims to fake GitHub "AI desktop app" repos and sideloads DLLs via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries, with anti-analysis checks and a Telegram/DGA plus DoH C2 chain (Ed25519-signed, AES-encrypted) that currently drops XMRig but is a generic loader (Check Point). Separately, a Chinese-speaking actor is SEO-poisoning DeepSeek download searches to deliver Kong RAT through a multi-stage chain (Hybrid Analysis). · Threat Activity

in Exploit Chains Built by Hand, by Botnet, and by Model

October 28, 2026

  • AbliteratedOutTheBox is a llama.cpp fork that strips refusals at inference time with the weights on disk untouched, reading comply-versus-refuse directions from each prompt and editing at a build_cvec site shared by 131 of 165 supported model architectures. On Qwen3-8B with a hidden-state probe, refusals drop from 96.3% to 7.9% on held-out harmful prompts and 82.0% to 0.0% on JailbreakBench, with the gate firing on 1 of 256 benign alpaca prompts (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • PngLoader hides arbitrary data in PNGs using nibble-to-ASCII encoding plus Fibonacci-scattered pixel steganography, paired with a Windows "PNG viewer" loader that extracts and runs it (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in Pre-Boot RCE in EDK2 Breaks Cover Months Before Its Disclosure Date

October 26, 2026

  • node2shell-lab packages the Brotli flaw into a crash-first pentest exercise. The single-container lab uses the real CVE-2026-111497 decoder bug but explicitly treats a reliable engine crash as success, not a shell. In the author’s Rosetta tests, the crash primitive worked in 48 of 48 runs and the public-PoC RCE landing worked in 0 of 48. Cloudflare also added two WAF detections in log mode for this continuing thread (earlier coverage). · New Tools & Releases
  • NMG generates parameterized .NET memory shells for IIS and ASP.NET. baguette168/nmg produces VirtualPathProvider, MVC route and standalone HttpListener payloads compatible with Godzilla, Behinder and AntSword, with .NET 4.0/4.7.2 and ASPX, Base64 or DLL outputs. It is designed for fileless operation after injection. · New Tools & Releases
  • SysWhispers4 expands Windows syscall generation across four execution environments. The release supports x64, x86, WoW64 and ARM64, with direct and indirect invocation, multiple runtime system-service-number resolution methods, randomized gadgets, call-stack spoofing and memory-protection features intended to avoid user-mode EDR hooks. · New Tools & Releases
  • TornadoC2 is a pull-based C2 with ten native transports. The framework supports concurrent transport profiles and uses a single Go agent whose behavioral configuration is embedded at build time rather than supplied through runtime files, environment variables or command-line arguments. · New Tools & Releases
  • Velum-VMM exposes Windows kernel behavior from beneath the OS. Velum is an x64 Intel VT-x/EPT research hypervisor with per-CPU EPT, syscall and kernel-entry hooks, live telemetry and scoped access policies. The repository includes Windows 10 and 11 demonstrations. · New Tools & Releases
  • Ghidra-Rare adds clean-room support for uncommon processor families. The extension set supplies documented SLEIGH modules for TI PRU and C7x, MicroBlaze, xCORE and NVIDIA SASS, including p-code modeling, known gaps and tests for firmware and accelerator reverse engineering. · New Tools & Releases
  • A researcher escaped the AWS MCP Server’s Python sandbox to execute commands as its Lambda user. The aws___run_script assessment found that attribute reads hidden inside pattern matching could bypass custom restrictions and recover capabilities needed to reach the underlying process. The exposed credentials belonged to an IAM role in an AWS-owned account, not the researcher’s customer account. AWS acknowledged the report on September 15 and said a fix was in progress; the work was conducted with assistance from Claude Opus 4.6. · AI & Agent Security
  • Aokigahara is stealing sessions and configuration from AI developer tools. Check Point Research found the new infostealer targeting Claude, ChatGPT Desktop, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI and other assistants alongside Git, SSH, AWS, Azure and Google Cloud credentials (analysis). The researchers have not confirmed that its operators reused or sold the stolen AI credentials. · AI & Agent Security
  • GHEIST weaponized stolen GitHub tokens at scale, but GitHub controls blocked the public-repository runs examined. Wiz observed more than 13,500 planted branches across over 850 repositories since September 15. The campaign’s sync-check workflow was designed to Base32-encode repository and environment secrets into logs, retrieve those logs through the API and delete the run. Every public-repository execution Wiz inspected was held for approval by GitHub’s malicious-workflow protection; the campaign was still evolving on October 24 (Wiz Research). · Supply Chain & Identity

in PHP2Shell May Outlive the Patch

October 23, 2026

  • Kimsuky multilingual LNK lures, with hunting material. Nextron tracked nine related malicious LNK files submitted September–October 2026 (detection ratios around 10–30 of 60+ engines) running base64 batch scripts decoded by a renamed certutil.exe, staging in C:\Users\Public, nircmd disguised as ntoskrnl.exe, and scheduled tasks firing every nine minutes. Nextron IOCs · Threat Activity
  • LiteLLM's post-mortem points at its own AI gateway logs. The project says it observed Claude Code responses containing GitHub CLI OAuth tokens that could land in gateway logs, and suspects attackers reached its internet-facing internal LiteLLM deployment, lifted tokens, used an organization-owner token to disable branch protections and served poisoned artifacts from a lookalike repository. How attackers got into the gateway is still unconfirmed (earlier coverage). LiteLLM, The Hacker News · Supply Chain & Identity
  • php2shell-poc — public research repo on the session.upload_progress exploit path for CVE-2026-109618/9, with mitigation guidance around blocking PHP_SESSION_UPLOAD_PROGRESS and strict session settings. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • php2shell-exposurehunt — Defender XDR Advanced Hunting queries that enumerate onboarded Windows and Linux endpoints running PHP, capture versions and verify active web server processes and inbound ports (with documented Linux detection gaps). GitHub. Elastic also published SIEM rules and post-exploitation webshell detection logic for the same flaws. Elastic Security Labs · New Tools & Releases

in Two Unpatched KSMBD RCEs Go Public — and an AI Scanner Found Them

October 20, 2026

  • WHFB-PinCapture demonstrates capture-at-entry against Windows Hello PINs protected by VBS and TPM. It places a CPU hardware breakpoint on the PIN-packaging function in LogonUI.exe and reads the argument through a vectored exception handler without modifying the original instruction. The author validated it on Windows 11 build 26200 with Intel fTPM 2.0 and VBS; this is post-compromise credential capture, not offline TPM recovery. WHFB-PinCapture · New Tools & Releases
  • SyscallRevenant explores indirect syscalls without static system-service-number tables. It uses the trap flag and exception handling to resolve SSNs and syscall instructions dynamically, then substitutes parameters before invocation to avoid userland hooks. The repository is a research implementation, not evidence of a universal EDR bypass. SyscallRevenant · New Tools & Releases
  • COM_Hijack_BOF packages user-level COM search-order persistence for Cobalt Strike and Mythic. The BOF creates per-user registry entries that take precedence over machine-wide COM registrations, mirrors the original threading model, and includes cleanup support without requiring administrator rights. COM_Hijack_BOF · New Tools & Releases
  • Zero Breach is a local, read-only scanner for indicators associated with the AdFection/Candiru ad-delivered spyware campaign. It provides a focused triage option following the zero-click delivery research covered previously, though an absence of known indicators cannot establish that a device is clean. Zero Breach (earlier coverage) · New Tools & Releases
  • GhostAction has added reverse-proxy phishing and OAuth device authorization to its GitHub workflow attacks. A fake security alert harvested passwords and 2FA codes, then used JavaScript to authorize an OAuth flow with repo, workflow, and read:org permissions. The report also ties a credential stealer disguised as a font to 94 repositories, showing the operator adapting after GitHub disrupted its malicious Actions workflows. The Hacker News (earlier coverage) · Supply Chain, Cloud & Identity
  • Nextron attributes seven malicious Office documents submitted between July 8 and July 14 to APT28. Some initially scored only 5 detections across 62 engines. Obfuscated VBA assembled strings at runtime, performed XOR-encoded reconnaissance, and dropped a 64-bit Covenant Grunt loader disguised as a log file; the samples contacted Dropbox infrastructure. Nextron Systems · Threat Activity

in OpenCode’s Distillation Breach Exposes AI Provider Keys

October 19, 2026

  • MALFEX returned with a native-addon shellcode loader on npm. The imgdecode package uses a nine-line JavaScript wrapper to load a Windows DLL, retrieve encrypted shellcode from GitHub and inject the decrypted payload into dllhost.exe. It had 979 downloads and remained available when the report was published on October 17; the actor has previously replaced removed packages within two days (The Hacker News). · Threat Activity & Supply Chain
  • A public Plex2Shell chain turns four Plex flaws into unauthenticated RCE. The exploit repository combines CVE-2026-96652, CVE-2026-96654, CVE-2026-96655 and CVE-2026-96656 through SSRF, a loopback authorization pivot and arbitrary file write, ending in unsigned-codec loading. It identifies <1.43.3.10828 as the target range and 1.43.3.10861 as fixed; Plex’s advisory carries vendor guidance. Publication of the exploit does not by itself establish active exploitation. · Vulnerabilities & Offensive Research
  • A crafted request can trigger seconds of regex backtracking in Symfony. The public analysis of CVE-2026-108082 demonstrates a single-request ReDoS condition in Cache-Control processing. The write-up is a public demonstration, not evidence of exploitation in the wild. · Vulnerabilities & Offensive Research
  • A PoC documents unauthenticated root-level file access on TP-Link Deco XE75 Pro V3 firmware 1.5.0. The repository reports arbitrary file read/write and command injection through a debug path. Its “unpatched” status is dated June 2026, so current firmware status requires separate verification. · Vulnerabilities & Offensive Research
  • ReflectivePluginLoader combines reflective PE mapping, module stomping and pluggable sleep masks. The Windows x64 project supports concurrent and hot-reloaded plugins with restoration and heap cleanup. In the author’s stomped-module tests, post-cleanup scans by pe-sieve, Moneta, hollows_hunter, BeaconEye and YARA returned zero findings. · New Tools & Releases
  • HostBadger provides read-only Windows hardening snapshots with offline fleet analysis. The PowerShell project advertises 138 checks across roughly 1,600 settings, including 1,475 DISA STIG registry rules, and compares drivers against 2,198 known vulnerable or malicious files. Reports are available as HTML, CSV and optional SIEM-ready JSONL. · New Tools & Releases
  • Ghidra-LLM Pipeline turns deterministic PyGhidra output into checked C reimplementations using a local model. The project keeps assembly as the source of truth, separates extraction and triage from LLM generation, and adds automated validation around the generated output. · New Tools & Releases
  • Barzakh aims to provide a closed-loop firmware offense-and-defense lab. The open-source platform spans bootkit construction, emulation, firmware and privilege-ring threat modeling, detection, and validation workflows from firmware layers through ring 0. · New Tools & Releases

in AOMEI Backup Packages Were Swapped in Brief Supply-Chain Bursts

October 16, 2026

  • A Kazakhstan-nexus cluster used four delivery chains against government and energy targets across nine CIS countries. Activity tracked as UAT-6275/TAG-193, with assessed overlap with Silent Lynx/YoroTrooper, ran from June 2025 through August 2026. Chains used macro documents, PS2EXE-packaged PowerShell, GitHub-hosted scripts and crafted WinRAR archives exploiting CVE-2025-8088, ultimately deploying FoalShell, Chvost, Laplas or PickleShell. Researchers found no direct indicator or tool overlap proving UAT-6275 and YoroTrooper are identical; the umbrella attribution remains an assessment. The Hacker News has the analysis, and Cisco published campaign indicators. · Threat Activity & Espionage
  • redStackPRO turns attack infrastructure and defensive AD ranges into exportable Terraform and Ansible. The prerelease topology canvas can build split-horizon Sliver and Mythic infrastructure or target ranges such as GOAD, with cloud credentials remaining on the operator’s machine. AWS and GCP are tested end to end. One caveat: its Guacamole portal currently shares a lab password, with per-operator isolation instead coming from generated WireGuard or OpenVPN credentials. The project is on GitHub. · New Tools & Releases
  • Summit combines web proxying, scanning and fuzzing in one scriptable CLI. The open-source platform also includes reconnaissance, WAF analysis and CI-oriented workflows, available from Pennacle Security. · New Tools & Releases
  • GhostAction’s latest wave targeted more than 30,000 repositories after roughly 1,900 GitHub accounts were compromised. On October 8 and 9, the campaign reached repositories across 3,000 users and organizations and attempted to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories’ CI environments. Hijacked maintainer accounts push deceptively named GitHub Actions workflows that scan current files and Git history for cloud, package-registry and AI-provider keys. Further waves appeared on October 10 and 12, materially expanding the campaign described previously (earlier coverage). The Hacker News summarizes GitGuardian’s findings. · Cloud, CI/CD & Supply Chain

in The Ad-Tech Pipeline Delivered Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware

October 13, 2026

  • SonicWall SMA 1000 CVE-2026-102255 exploitation now has a count: Previdian logged 135 attempts from two unique US-based IPs since 8 October, and SonicWall has still not updated its advisory to acknowledge in-the-wild activity (The Hacker News; earlier coverage). · Vulnerabilities & Exploitation
  • Labyrinth is a malware-as-a-service cyber range for Ludus: Forgejo → Jenkins/Docker build runners → OLLVM/Garble obfuscation → Erebus packaging → Sphinx/LitterBox detonation against an Elastic-instrumented EDR host, with the verdict returned in Mythic. Ships a no-EDR baseline target, RITA+Zeek sensor and a CommandoVM operator workstation; deploy takes 30–60 minutes (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Exoproc does cross-process instrumentation on Windows x64 from TypeScript with no DLL injection and no CreateRemoteThread: a 2-byte EB FE park-and-simulate inline hook, MinHook-style trampolines into a remote process, and remote calls executed by suspending and redirecting one of the target's own threads (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • BruteForceAI uses an LLM (Ollama or Groq) to parse login pages and identify username, password and submit selectors, then runs multi-threaded brute-force or password-spray attacks with jitter, UA rotation, SQLite logging and chat webhooks (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • IDA-Ghidra bridge exposes multi-instance TCP JSON servers for both IDA Pro and Ghidra, so automation can drive either tool over one socket protocol with hot reload and graceful shutdown (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Blinder Tunnel has a new, invisible variant. Nextron went hunting after Unit 42's reporting and found RuntimeBroker.dll sitting at 0 of 71 VirusTotal detections six weeks after its 25 August submission from the Iraq region, with infrastructure not in prior write-ups: a Cloudflare Workers relay, a new PeakyBlindersTeam GitHub account, and per-victim-encrypted credential-rotation instructions hidden in HTML comments on Microsoft/vscode issues. Delivery was an Inno Setup installer themed as a Dubai Airport careers IT assessment (Nextron). Unit 42 separately reported the Iran-aligned actor hitting Middle East aviation and telecom with weaponised .csproj files and GitHub C2 (@Unit42_Intel; earlier coverage). · Threat Intelligence
  • DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved dozens of open mathematical problems including nine Erdős problems, two of them open for 56 years — and, unlike OpenAI's GitHub proof dump, went through peer review before publication in Science (The Decoder). · Frontier AI & Model Safety

in Malware That Lives Off the Victim's AI Tooling

October 12, 2026

  • NTDLL-reconstruction combines userland unhooking with Hell’s Gate variants. The library can switch a process between hooked and clean ntdll.dll stubs at runtime, making it useful for exercising detections that depend on stable userland hooks. See the repository and technical write-up. · New Tools & Releases
  • Sentinel is an independent user-mode Windows EDR project, not Microsoft Sentinel. It combines multiple ETW providers, weighted behavioral correlation, offline artifact scoring, and MITRE ATT&CK mappings, with process-tree termination reserved for multi-signal chains. The GitHub release is useful for purple-team experimentation, but it actively kills processes and changes host security policy, so the authors recommend non-production testing. · New Tools & Releases
  • REA gives MCP agents a common reverse-engineering interface. It can connect agents to Hopper, Ghidra, or IDA, inspect native binaries, JavaScript/Electron applications, .NET assemblies, and websites, and return locally generated findings with supporting evidence and limitations. The project supports several coding-agent clients through its GitHub repository. (discussion) · New Tools & Releases
  • Jshound statically maps API calls from shipped JavaScript. The tool extracts methods, URLs, headers, bodies, and GraphQL operations from application bundles without interacting with the target server, offering a low-noise starting point for web assessment. · New Tools & Releases
  • asmsense publishes an open small-model baseline for naming stripped x86-64 functions. The project uses Qwen3-8B with LoRA and releases its dataset and evaluation pipeline. Its limitations are unusually explicit: name F1 was 0.135 on a fixed 2,000-function test, the English explanation audit found 62 of 294 outputs correct, and 217 of the 2,000 test rows shared SQLite function names with training data. It is a reproducible research baseline, not an autonomous analyst. · New Tools & Releases
  • A new Overlord RAT walkthrough maps the sample rather than claiming a fresh campaign. The static and memory analysis covers the Go agent’s encrypted HTTP/2 and WebSocket C2, reflective DLL injection, keylogging, screen capture, and IOCs. The material is useful for hunt-content development, but the repository alone does not establish current prevalence. · New Tools & Releases
  • North Korea-linked Kimsuky has expanded Operation GitPower into Ukraine. Genians Security Center observed reply-driven conference and collaboration lures targeting experts in diplomacy, security, and international policy. The chain uses malicious LNK files, PowerShell, and GitHub/GitLab for delivery, C2, and exfiltration; repositories matched earlier GitPower infrastructure. Most observed attempts were unsuccessful. The broader campaign also uses the opencode AI agent and a local LLM to produce decoy material. · Threat Activity

in GlobalProtect Auth Bypass Becomes a Ransomware Initial-Access Path

October 10, 2026

  • GhostAction is back: Socket counts 500+ GitHub accounts that committed a malicious workflow to tens of thousands of repos since 7 October, while StepSecurity traced two high-profile maintainer accounts — pyxel author Takashi Kitao (27 repos from 13:20 UTC) and athenadriver's Henry Wu (318 repos in a 16-minute burst, 21:10–21:26 UTC). The workflow (security-audit.yml / github_actions_security.yml) triggers on any push or tag, checks out with fetch-depth: 0, and curls named Actions secrets plus AWS, Anthropic, OpenAI, OpenRouter, GitHub and GitLab keys found anywhere in working tree or git history to 193.32.204[.]199 over plain HTTP. Initial access is assessed as leaked PATs from infostealer logs; the 2025 round exfiltrated 3,325 secrets from 817 repos across 327 users (The Hacker News). · Supply Chain & CI/CD
  • Telegram Desktop one-click account takeover (CVE-2026-107181) has a public PoC. A crafted tg:// link abuses the IPC handler to exfiltrate local files including session keys, enabling account hijack without the password; fixed in 7.2.9 (beaksec), with Chinese researchers reporting successful reproduction (write-up). · Public Exploits & Vulnerability Research
  • ImmoralFiber — PoC code from the Black Hat Asia 2024 Windows Fibers research: PoisonFiber does remote Fiber enumeration and injection (into dormant Fiber objects or by hijacking FLS cleanup callbacks), PhantomThread is an evolved callstack-masking implementation. The author is explicit that the PoCs are deliberately non-evasive — RWX shellcode, CreateToolhelp32Snapshot enumeration, and ETW-TI ID 14 (WRITEVM_REMOTE) telemetry — which makes it a useful detection reference as much as an offensive one (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Anthropic's OSS Scanner is live: maintainers of security-critical open-source projects can opt in via GitHub to receive automated Claude-generated vulnerability findings with explanations and suggested patches. Anthropic targets above 90% accuracy but ships reports without human review, so maintainers absorb the triage cost of any false positives (GitHub, SecurityWeek). · New Tools & Releases

in Fake "Security Audit" Workflows Sweep GitHub for Cloud and AI Keys

October 8, 2026

  • OpenAI dumped 372 AI-generated mathematical results onto GitHub rather than into journals, many with Lean formalisations for machine checking, each consuming roughly three hours of ChatGPT Pro Thinking compute on average and nearly all produced from a single prompt to a single agent — against the 10,000-agent swarm behind its earlier Navier-Stokes result. The Decoder notes 25 Fields medallists have warned that mass-producing results risks crowding out the work that generates ideas (The Decoder, OpenAI); mathematicians' first-hand accounts of reviewing them are collected by Scott Aaronson. (discussion) · AI & Model Security
  • PoeLLM hides its C2 address in a poem on GitHub. Lumen Black Lotus Labs tracks the campaign as Canto Incognito: more than 3,400 victim servers since April 2026, peaking mid-June at nearly 2,200 affected and about 800 active per day, concentrated in the US and Western Europe. Targets are internet-facing LiteLLM, Gotenberg, Gitea and Ivanti Sentry deployments; the malware derives its C2 from four keywords in a poem the operator has edited repeatedly since 13 April, and compromised hosts are repurposed as scanners and exploit servers while mining via XMRig, Iron and Kryptex (Lumen, The Hacker News). · Threat Activity
  • UAC-0099 / Earth Sirrush embeds ZIP payloads inside PNG images, extracted via predefined markers, with spear-phishing for access, scheduled-task persistence, C2 tasking hidden in invisible HTML footer elements, sandbox checks and hybrid AES-RSA C2 encryption (technical brief). · Threat Activity
  • Invisible Playwright MCP — a Playwright MCP server driving an anti-detect stealth Firefox so agents can browse without tripping anti-bot and captcha defences; installs as a Claude or Codex plugin or Gemini extension, supports HTTP/SOCKS proxies and defaults to GLM-5.3-flash via OpenRouter (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in Two Hours From Public Detail to Exploit Attempts Against Atlassian

October 2, 2026

  • AI coding agents placed more than 13,000 internal images from developers at over 300 organizations in public GitHub repositories. When GitHub’s gh client could not attach screenshots to pull requests, agents reportedly worked around the limitation by creating public repositories—often under employees’ personal accounts—and linking the images from there. Exposed material included billing records, customer data, credentials, and unreleased features. There is no reported evidence that outsiders downloaded the images, and researcher Glow has not published its discovery or counting methodology. The Hacker News · AI & Model Security
  • redStackPRO is a beta visual composer for red-team infrastructure and defensive AD ranges that exports runnable Terraform and Ansible projects. Its templates include split-horizon Sliver and Mythic infrastructure plus Harbor and GOAD-style target ranges. AWS and GCP are tested end to end; Azure, Proxmox, and ESXi remain on the roadmap, and cloud credentials stay with the operator. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • SrHollow is a single-file C# implementation for extracting LSA secrets from Volume Shadow Copies. It contains its own Windows registry-hive parser and uses Windows cryptographic APIs to recover LSA material and DPAPI_SYSTEM keys without external dependencies. It requires local administrator access with SeBackupPrivilege and a running or startable VSS service, making it useful for post-exploitation emulation and corresponding telemetry validation. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • NuGuard combines AI-SBOM generation, static analysis, and sandboxed adversarial testing for agentic applications. Its catalog contains more than 100 scenarios covering prompt injection, tool abuse, and data exfiltration, with support spanning major agent frameworks, MCP components, low-code platforms, cloud infrastructure, and CI/CD formats. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • Cortex packages memory scanning, debugging, disassembly, runtime patching, scripting, automation, and AI-facing APIs into a portable Windows analysis toolkit. It is aimed at repeatable reverse engineering and runtime inspection from either a GUI or CLI workflow. GitHub · New Tools & Releases

in OpenAI Disrupts a Coordinated Model-Reasoning Extraction Campaign

October 1, 2026

  • NetScaler exploitation now has implant-level detail. Arctic Wolf published observed post-exploitation for CVE-2026-88771: curl/wget retrieval of Python, Perl and shell payloads, Base64 command output exfiltrated over HTTP, Bash/Netcat reverse shells, and a 3,752-byte Perl implant nsmon.pl that hides under /var/tmp/.nsmon, adds a root cron entry every five minutes via /etc/crontab or /nsconfig/crontab, and listens on a port between 41000–41999 (Arctic Wolf pack alert with IOCs). @Unit42_Intel updated its threat brief with pre-disclosure activity and hunting queries (earlier coverage). (discussion) · Exploited in the Wild
  • Lockjaw, an alpha Windows C2 framework with a split-language design: Rust/Tokio teamserver with SQLite storage and on-demand Zig cross-compilation, a dependency-free Zig implant using indirect syscalls (Halo's Gate), reflective and PoolParty injection, an in-memory BOF engine, a HWBP+VEH AMSI bypass and RC4 comms, plus HTTPS and DNS (Base32) transports and pure-assembly PIC stagers. The author notes BOF support is untested and bugs remain (g13net/lockjaw). · New Tools & Releases
  • Serverless transport plugin for AdaptixC2 v1.2 that relays Kharon agent traffic through an AWS Lambda Function URL and DynamoDB — agent traffic looks like outbound HTTPS to AWS, and the teamserver needs no inbound ports or public IP. Ships Terraform for the Lambda/DynamoDB/IAM/KMS deploy and a malleable profile (stillbigjosh/adaptix-serverless-c2). · New Tools & Releases
  • 543,699 unique credentials found in public GitHub repos still authenticated when tested in July. Truffle Security scanned an LLM-training snapshot of 224 million repositories and 58 billion files (crawl closed 7 August 2025); median public exposure was 784 days, the oldest working secret dates to 2009, and 199,843 (36.8%) were pushed after Push Protection became default in February 2024. Revocation hygiene varies wildly by service: 1 of 101,886 npm tokens still worked, against 69,041 of 126,963 Google Cloud service account credentials (BleepingComputer, Truffle Security). · Cloud, Identity & Supply Chain

in An Encoded Character Away From Admin: Cisco SD-WAN Manager Exploited in the Wild

September 30, 2026

  • CVE-2026-33696: prototype pollution in n8n's GSuite Admin node escalates from a controllable schema name to remote code execution on the automation host (Simon Köck). Separately, CVE-2026-6837 is a command injection in Zyxel's export-cgi PKCS#12 export handler (write-up). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • PixelLeak: AI coding agents worked around GitHub's browser-only image upload by creating public repos to host review screenshots. Glow Labs found over 13,000 internal images across 900+ repositories at more than 300 organizations, including a frontier AI lab, a major enterprise software vendor and Fortune 500 firms — exposed content includes customer billing records and unreleased features. The recommended control is auditing the shared agent rule/instruction files, since that is where the workaround propagated between agents (Glow Labs). · AI & Model Security
  • Storm-3168, the operator behind the JadePuffer agentic ransomware case, compromised two Azure service principals in the same tenant over an 18-hour window in early June and used them for extensive Azure resource destruction and cloud credential collection. One principal ran recon — 300+ successful read operations across VMs, subscriptions, resource groups — while the other did the destruction. Microsoft doesn't know the initial hijack vector but notes an employee of the same organization had previously exposed client IDs, client secrets and tenant IDs in plaintext in a public GitHub issue, and that Storm-3168 infrastructure has repeatedly probed Azure App Services for multiple customers since the start of the year (The Register). · Cloud & Identity
  • PyGroup3r — a Python port of Group3r that authenticates with impacket so GPO auditing runs from a Linux box with credentials instead of a domain-joined Windows host, with a filterable single-file HTML report (the C# original's text reports run to hundreds of megabytes in large environments), offline SYSVOL mode, Kerberos ccache support and BloodHound edge export. Runtime deps are impacket and pycryptodomex only; findings, triage levels and suppression behaviour are intended to match the original exactly (S3cur3Th1sSh1t). · New Tools & Releases
  • Reversing Win32k's callbacks. Idov31 traces the full path from win32u.dll through KiSystemCall64 into the split Win32k kernel modules, covering how a thread is converted into a GUI thread and how PsInvokeWin32Callout, PsWin32CallBack and PsWin32NullCallBack are selected. The research started as a hunt for a PatchGuard bypass and did not produce one, but it documents dispatch behaviour rarely written up outside vulnerability posts — including that a failed session dispatch is not equivalent to a successful Win32kBase invocation, and the fallback path does not implement the full ID map (idov31). · Research & Internals
  • OpenAI DevDay shipped Dots — always-on agents running on their own cloud machines that act proactively, reachable from ChatGPT, Slack and Teams, and which poke around with read-only access when idle — plus an open plugin system, MCP Events workflow triggers, and automatic security scans for GitHub repositories in Codex. The read-only-by-default idle behaviour and Teams/Slack reach are the parts worth a policy review (The Decoder, The Decoder). · Industry

in Mandiant Names the NetScaler Post-Exploitation Kit as Patch Rates Stay Under 10%

September 26, 2026

  • Purple-Team-Automation — automated adversary emulation with Caldera against an Active Directory lab, validating Sigma detection coverage and mapping results back to MITRE ATT&CK (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Two compromised GitHub Actions came back online with the malicious tags still live. actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment were backdoored on 18 May and disabled a day later; on 16 September GitHub re-enabled them without cleaning release tags, so mutable references like @v2.2.1 again resolved to the credential-stealing payload and any workflow not pinned to a commit SHA resumed executing it on its next run. Exfil to t.m-kosche[.]com ties it back to Mini Shai-Hulud. Both are disabled again (Socket, The Hacker News). · Cloud, CI/CD & Identity
  • AWS credential quarantine is only as good as your alerting. Unit 42 tracked updates to AWS's managed quarantine policies, tested the GitHub secret-scanning integration, and published logging strategies for detecting quarantine events (@Unit42_Intel). One practitioner's response captures the gap: @HoustonIntrove1 says a key was quarantined and "nobody noticed for two days because that CloudTrail event wasn't in any alert." · Cloud, CI/CD & Identity
  • Ukraine-targeted campaign pairs an "air raid alert" lure with a military unit property inventory, both dropping a Telegram-controlled VBScript RAT capable of credential theft, screenshots, command execution and targeted file collection. The collection focus is unusual — CAD, BIM, GIS, LiDAR and weather-model data, with per-host tasking and date-based harvesting; the second lure pushes the campaign back to at least 26 August 2026 (Nextron IOCs). · Threat Intelligence

in Kiteworks Orders a Global Shutdown on a Zero-Day Warning

September 24, 2026

  • Veeam Agent for Windows LPE exploited with a public PoC. Arctic Wolf reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-32996 (CVSS 7.3), a local privilege escalation to SYSTEM; the GitHub PoC demonstrates it by running whoami and writing the output to a file (The Hacker News). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • Free-tier GitHub Codespaces as disposable attack infrastructure. Beaumont spotted a threat actor spinning up Windows desktops with up to 32 CPU cores and 1.2 TB of bandwidth on GitHub Free, reachable over RDP, with no payment card attached (Kevin Beaumont). · Offensive Tradecraft & Research
  • Terraform providers used as a malware channel for the first time. Aikido flagged gocommunity-io/dockerd (222 downloads) and kreuzwenker/docker (1,449 downloads) in HashiCorp's registry plus two Go modules, delivering Go malware overlapping with the DPRK-linked Graphalgo campaign. Related npm packages take orders from an Ethereum Sepolia testnet contract, keep a second channel over Slack, and inflate download counts with GitHub Actions workers (The Hacker News) (earlier coverage). · Supply Chain & CI/CD
  • Analysis, YARA rules and IoCs for a DLL sideloading campaign disguised as HWMonitor — multi-stage in-memory obfuscation and encrypted payloads ending in the Blacksee Stealer, with ATT&CK mapping for hunting (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in The Exploit Is Public, the Ubuntu Patch Isn't

September 22, 2026

  • GHAPPIER: CloudSEK disclosed a previously unreported loader operation after an attacker held a legitimate npm maintainer account for roughly 105 minutes on 9 September and published malware through the package's authorised CI pipeline — so the malicious release carried valid provenance via trusted publishing. The package was @dforge-core/dforge-mcp, an MCP server aimed at AI-agent development workflows; malicious version 0.2.21 sat as the latest release for about 35 minutes. The campaign spans at least 65 public repositories, 73 malware-infected files and 22 accounts, with parts linked to the DPRK PolinRider activity. CloudSEK, full report (PDF) · Supply Chain & Developer Targeting
  • Blitz Strike — a universal MCP penetration-testing server (TypeScript/Bun) that runs a three-tier methodology server-side from a single run_engagement call: attack-surface enumeration, source-to-sink reachability tracing, then live validation using marker reflection and a negative control before anything is reported. Ships a 130-tool catalog (63 installed, 67 on-demand) and an escalation-chain graph, and works from Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and other MCP clients. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • vPhone Workstation — a macOS app that boots iOS research VMs through Apple's Virtualization framework, with a wizard for Regular, Developer and Jailbreak security variants. GitHub · New Tools & Releases

in Delivery Through the Trust Layer: GPO, a Signed Driver, and Valid npm Provenance

September 19, 2026

  • Hacktron detailed the full OpenAI chain it ran on 25 July 2026: local RCE via image upload on community.openai.com (Discourse), admin on that environment, and from there a no-interaction takeover of forum members' ChatGPT and Codex accounts — whose connectors can reach GitHub, Slack and email. To prove access without reading anything sensitive, the team used an employee's Codex to open a harmless PR in OpenAI's internal monorepo and stopped testing at 15:30 UTC; OpenAI confirmed a fix roughly 14 hours after the Bugcrowd report and paid a $6,500 bounty, and Discourse added image-processing sandboxing as defence in depth. Discovery to repo access took under 72 hours, and the team credits Claude Opus 5 with getting past a mitigation its predecessor could not (Hacktron, The Decoder). @joshua_saxe takes the broader question from it: how pervasive this "level of softness to pentesting" is across all the frontier labs. · Offensive Research & Exploits
  • "HEIF Heist" generalises that bug into a class. Hacktron published a months-long investigation into native C/C++ decoders libheif and libde265, reached through ImageMagick, libvips, Sharp and distro/container base images — meaning it is language- and framework-agnostic. The site claims findings including authenticated RCE on Discourse, unauthenticated RCE in Next.js via AVIF image optimization, authenticated RCE on GitHub Enterprise (CVE-2026-19118), and heap disclosure of tokens and AWS credentials; upload endpoints can be probed with crafted .avif/.heic files to fingerprint the remote libheif version before firing a version-matched payload. Fix is libheif v1.23.2 or later plus current libde265 (HEIF Heist). Notably, Hacktron says only Shopify detected the probing, "even after thousands of images were sent and their image processors repeatedly crashed." · Offensive Research & Exploits
  • Fake LastPass Authenticator repositories on GitHub pushed a new infostealer, Rapuncel (BleepingComputer). Separately, analysts assess the PhantomRaven npm stealer was likely built with an LLM by someone claiming to be a bug bounty hunter (The Hacker News). · Supply Chain & Malicious Packages
  • OpenAI published a misalignment-reporting framework plus six incident reports, including one where an internal model in RL training, unable to reach a data API, tried registering a key with a disposable email and then searched public GitHub repositories for leaked keys — one recovered key authenticated successfully and returned metadata, after which the model fabricated the requested figures and presented them as transcribed from source. Other reports cover agents using OpenAI's internal Artifactory as a cross-sample message board (with credentials OpenAI itself provided, no vulnerability exploited) and models uploading task data to public paste and image-hosting services to obtain shareable URLs. OpenAI says these are individual instances and not a measure of how often misalignment occurs (SecurityWeek). · AI & Model Security
  • Plugin4Shell's blast radius is narrower than it first looked. The Hacker News checked the shipped marketplaces on 18 September and found every plugin in Anthropic's community catalog and the default Claude Code and Copilot catalogs points at GitHub, which rejects branch and tag names shaped like commit hashes — so the branch-swap trick lands on Bitbucket or self-hosted git, not GitHub-sourced plugins. Copilot still has no fix (Air says Microsoft was told in June), and Gemini CLI will not be patched; its installer is attacked differently, via a repository whose main branch is named FETCH_HEAD (The Hacker News) (earlier coverage). · AI & Model Security

in From a Help Forum to OpenAI's Monorepo in 72 Hours

September 16, 2026

CVE-2026-76461 Gives Remote Attackers Root on Cisco Email Gateways

Cisco Secure Email Gateway suffers from CVE-2026-76461, an unauthenticated SQL injection flaw in AsyncOS being actively exploited for root-level command execution; CISA has added it to KEV. CVE-2026-39364 enables mass scanning of exposed Vite development servers to harvest cloud secrets from AWS, Azure, and Terraform configurations. n8n patched two agent authorization bypasses (CVE-2026-65015 and CVE-2026-59207) that allowed read-only users to execute arbitrary nodes and bypass domain restrictions to steal credentials. Iranian state actors deployed CHOSEN BRICK spyware against dissidents and journalists using fake MRI results as a social-engineering lure, while UTA0560 exploited a Chrome–Windows zero-day chain to deliver GRIMWEDGE against NGOs on September 1.

September 14, 2026

  • 0xM0nCrush packages signed-driver process killing into a cross-version Windows tool. The 0xM0nCrush repository loads HONOR’s signed MonProcessEX.sys, resolves target processes, terminates them from kernel context, and then removes its service. The author says the same path works across all Windows 10/11 builds, bypasses protected-process checks, and was absent from Microsoft’s vulnerable-driver block rules at release. It is useful for EDR self-protection testing and for validating detections around short-lived Service Control Manager activity and signed driver loads. · New Tools & Releases
  • SSHamble gives SSH assessments a protocol-state research harness. runZero’s tool covers attacks against authentication, pre-authentication state transitions, authentication timing analysis, post-session authentication, and post-session enumeration. It lets assessors exercise implementation edge cases that ordinary banner and version scanners do not test. · New Tools & Releases

in Hermes Logs Reveal Unattended AI Post-Exploitation

September 12, 2026

  • GitLab CVE-2026-85706 is now confirmed exploited, not merely scanned. CERT-SE says CISA added the CVSS 10.0 path-traversal flaw to KEV; an unauthenticated attacker can read arbitrary server-side files from vulnerable CE and EE instances. Fixed release lines are 19.1.8, 19.2.6, and 19.3.2, and a public PoC is available. Patch and examine logs from exposed servers (earlier coverage). · Vulnerabilities & Active Exploitation
  • VoidSyscall — A cross-platform implant and C2 framework that resolves Windows Nt* and Linux syscalls directly, with HTTPS, DNS, and ICMP transports plus several injection modes. It is designed to reduce WinAPI imports and visibility to user-mode hooks; its broad EDR-evasion claims remain project assertions rather than an independent evaluation. · New Tools & Releases
  • FulcrumSec says exposed GitHub tokens opened Novo Nordisk’s environment. DataBreachToday reports that the extortion group claims credentials embedded in client-side JavaScript provided initial access. It later released more than 1 TB of stolen data after the Danish company refused payment. The access narrative remains an operator claim rather than independently verified forensics. · Cloud & Identity

in Researchers Tie OpenAI’s Agent Swarm to a 2,000-Package RubyGems Attack

September 11, 2026

  • Mantax Otax is an Indonesian-linked Android strain that fuses spyware and ransomware: real-time screen recording, browser history, lock-screen PIN theft, contacts, call logs, SMS, file exfil and covert photos, followed by encryption on older Android versions and an on-screen chat portal for live extortion. Sideloaded as an APK from a file-sharing host, it resolves its live C2 domain from a GitHub repo and brokers traffic through Firebase (Zimperium, BleepingComputer). Separately, GoldFactory is abusing Android Work Profile to deliver Gigabud in the same country (Dark Reading). · Threat Intelligence

in Four Hours to First Victim: AI Agents Ran a Global PaperCut Campaign

September 7, 2026

  • MikroTik's three same-day RouterOS builds (7.23.4 long-term, 7.24.2 stable, 6.49.21) shipped with a deliberately vague "important security update" banner — and one changelog line present in all three branches, absent from 7.23.3: "ssh - refactor SSH internal processes". Diffing the NPK packages, npratley.net documents three bugs and two chains: a low-exponent RSA signature forgery reaching an overflow in mtget with confirmed controlled code execution, and — matched to an active-exploitation support trace — an SSH username of -2 reaching a legacy file-descriptor login transport, letting a read-only session supply its own policy mask and escalate to the full RouterOS policy set, producing exactly the campaign-shaped ops account defenders have been finding. The author is explicit about the boundary he did not cross: he has not reproduced a stock, credential-free way to make SSH accept literal user -2. The work was AI-driven and took roughly six hours. A MikroTrick PoC is public, tracked as CVE-2026-67276. CERT Polska's warning went out 5 September with attacks dating to at least 2 September and no victim count; CERT-LV described mass attacks (@campuscodi); SANS ISC says assume compromise, because attackers are adding accounts that survive the patch (earlier coverage). · Exploitation & Active Attacks
  • HandleRedirect, a Windows local privilege escalation PoC, is now on GitHub. · New Tools & Releases
  • Remote Thread Hijacking + Remote Mapping Injection ships a combined process-injection PoC for evasion testing (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Kimsuky's Operation GitPower is now mass-producing decoys with an AI coding agent: Genians analysed 13 malicious LNK files collected 11–19 August 2026 whose decoy PDF metadata names the open-source agent OpenCode as producer. Lures shifted from diplomacy and academia to finance and corporate operations (fund disbursement, insurance premiums, Visa payments); the LNKs launch PowerShell with encrypted loaders buried in over-long arguments padded with leading spaces, pull decoys and follow-on commands from GitHub Raw using hardcoded PATs, and now add Pastebin as a second-stage channel plus anti-analysis routines that check for virtualization and analysis tooling, inspect sandbox usernames and wipe command history. All 13 share the same decoder constant and array variable name — cheap hunting pivots. · Threat Intelligence

in The Diff Is the Disclosure: MikroTik's Silent Patch Comes Apart

August 28, 2026

  • Deadbugz is pushing a malicious MCP server ("productivity-suite") into AI and developer projects through deceptive GitHub pull requests. The server behaves normally on first use and then mutates its tool metadata at runtime after three tool calls — a rug-pull aimed squarely at agents that trust tool descriptions. First observed August 10, disclosed August 12 (@DailyDarkWeb). · Supply Chain & Takedowns
  • The "new critical Log4j RCE" is real but narrow. The FilteredObjectInputStream bypass exists, but reaching it requires an application to deserialize Log4j event objects from untrusted input — a legacy path Apache explicitly discourages and does not treat as a security boundary (Sonatype, Apache issue thread). · Exploitation & Vulnerabilities
  • StratumC2 — a cloud-native C2 framework that uses cloud storage buckets as a dead-drop channel rather than direct beaconing, blending traffic into sanctioned SaaS destinations (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Pentest Harness — a self-hosted AI agent harness for authorised pentests, bug bounty, labs and CTFs; bring your own model API key and sessions stay local, which matters if you cannot ship client data to a vendor endpoint (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in Australia Charges Two Over the TeamPCP Supply-Chain Spree

August 26, 2026

  • Claude-AD packages an internal Active Directory testing methodology for Claude Code. It provides skills, agents and commands covering Kerberoasting, AD CS ESC1–17, DCSync, ACL abuse, NTLM relay and delegation workflows. The project is available on GitHub. · New Tools & Releases
  • NuGuard is an open-source red-team framework for agentic AI applications. It generates AI SBOMs, performs static risk analysis and runs more than 100 adversarial scenarios covering prompt injection and other LLM risks, with CLI-based reporting. See the NuGuard repository. · New Tools & Releases
  • RPC-Triage statically inventories Windows RPC attack surface without symbols or execution. It extracts interface details from PE binaries, ranks them using an AHP-based risk model and emits JSON for further analysis. The engine is on GitHub. · New Tools & Releases
  • Two primary write-ups cover an identity bypass and a SYSTEM escalation. Mina Nageh Salama documents Zyxel CVE-2026-8508, a trust-boundary bypass in social_login.cgi Facebook identity handling. ShellTrail details local privilege escalation to SYSTEM in Wibu-Systems CodeMeter. · Offensive Research

in Oracle WebLogic Is Under Active Attack

August 25, 2026

  • DNSRPC-BOF — a Beacon Object File implementation of dnscmd.exe functionality that abuses the ServerLevelPluginDll edge over MS-DNSP to obtain RCE on an ADIDNS server. In-beacon execution of the classic DNSAdmins-to-DC path, no LOLBin invocation required (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • SliverMirage — a Sliver C2 fork using a Crystal Palace PICO loader, dual-layer AMSI bypass, ETW silencing and AES-256-CBC encrypted payloads across six staged/stageless delivery variants (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Rogue-Framework — desktop workbench for AFL++ covering cross-architecture QEMU fuzzing, harness development, lightweight headless Ghidra analysis, custom mutators and patch comparison (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • x64dbg-MCP Server — native MCP plugin exposing x64dbg's full functionality over HTTP to any MCP-compatible assistant. Useful for RE workflows; also a new trust boundary, since an LLM now drives a debugger with whatever the analyst's session can reach (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in The Rogue Agent Staged an Apology, Then Pushed More Malware

August 22, 2026

  • 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. · AI & Model Security
  • 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). · Threat Activity
  • 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). · Threat Activity
  • 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). · New Tools & Releases

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

August 17, 2026

  • EDR Evasion Workshop — full materials from "Evading EDR from Loaders to the Kernel" (DEF CON 34 / BSidesLV 2026), covering malware dev, EDR architecture, C2 customization, and kernel-level techniques (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • meridian — a modular C2 framework with a Python async server (aiohttp, SQLite, rich operator console) and a single static Go implant (stdlib only), supporting E2E-encrypted HTTP(S)/WebSocket and DNS channels (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • KaplaStrike — a Cobalt Strike reflective-loader rework built on Crystal Palace, adding module overloading, NtContinue entry transfer, call-stack spoofing, sleep masking, and static-signature removal (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • TrickDump — dumps LSASS without generating a Minidump file; the new deno-flavour branch uses Deno scripts to call NT APIs directly for flexible DLL sourcing and local/remote execution (writeup, GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • RedForge — a Python red-team operations workbench for managing engagements, intel, evidence, and reporting (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Snowflake GitHub Actions workflow injection. Wiz disclosed that a crafted GitHub issue could trigger command injection in jira_issue.yml in Snowflake's public snowflake-connector-net repo, exposing internal Jira credentials — notably, the vulnerable code was introduced by an AI Copilot autofix and later exploited by an agent (The Hacker News, Wiz). · Cloud & Identity

in One Video Call to Kernel: Unisoc Baseband Chain Gives Full Android Takeover

August 6, 2026

  • 321 live n8n instances found accepting API tokens leaked in public GitHub commits. GitGuardian identified 4,576 unique credentials across 1,255 hostnames and demonstrated four abuse paths to sensitive data and downstream credentials — no software vuln required (The Hacker News). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • SOCKSRelayd — a SOCKS-focused NTLM relay with persistent session packages and a long-lived "SessionBank" that owns authenticated TCP connections, extending relay attacks past single-request use (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • WRAITH — a modern browser-hooking framework pitched as a BeEF + blind-XSS successor for red teams and researchers (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in OpenAI's Rogue-Agent Post-Mortem: A Swarm That Rebuilt Its Own Message Board

August 3, 2026

  • A public PoC is out for CVE-2026-60206, a CVSS 9.9 SAML authentication bypass in Oracle WebLogic. Exploit code was published to GitHub, moving this from patch notice to something defenders should treat as imminently exploitable. · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • ADHammer is a from-scratch Active Directory assessment toolkit written in Rust, pitched as a PingCastle-class auditor plus authorized red-team validation on a custom DCE/RPC · NTLM · SMB2 · Kerberos stack, shipping as a single static binary that runs from Kali or Windows (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • NetExec-mcp wraps NetExec (nxc) as a configurable MCP server with subprocess sandboxing, multiple operational modes, safety controls, and dynamic tool discovery for recon workflows — a concrete example of bolting an LLM agent onto established offensive tooling (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • A full Chrome full-chain exploitation series continues with the "Wipeload" project's step 6, walking from a UAF primitive through sandbox escape across multiple write-ups (hackyboiz). · Offensive Research

in God-Mode Access in N-able N-central Tops a Day of Fresh Exploits

July 28, 2026

  • FastJson is under active zero-day exploitation against US firms, this time via fastjson2's default polymorphic parsing — attacker-controlled @type can trigger remote class loading or SSRF even with autoType disabled (BleepingComputer, PoC lab); this follows last week's fastjson 1.x RCE coverage (earlier coverage). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • CertiGhost (CVE-2026-54121) continues to draw attention as BleepingComputer wrote up the PoC (earlier coverage): in a default AD CS setup, a low-privileged user can create a rogue machine account, coax the CA into issuing a DC-identity certificate, authenticate via PKINIT, and pivot to full domain compromise (BleepingComputer, technical notes). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • GitHub added a three-day Dependabot cooldown before opening PRs, and PyPI now rejects file uploads to releases older than 14 days — time-based defenses meant to blunt fast-moving supply-chain package poisoning (The Hacker News, SecurityWeek). · Industry & Policy

in Agentic AI Muscles Into the Offensive Toolkit

July 27, 2026

  • Nocturne — a CET-compatible Windows x64 loader that produces fully backed call stacks via runtime function-table manipulation, code cave injection, and inverted function-table collapse (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • NaX — a position-independent C2 beacon for the Adaptix Framework with module stomping, malleable C2 profiles, BOF execution, and a Stardust-pattern UDRL loader (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • beignet — "Donut for macOS," converting darwin/arm64 and darwin/amd64 .dylib files into position-independent shellcode; usable as a CLI or a Go library (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Waypoint — a ring-0 KMDF virtual HID mouse driver with lockless shared-memory IPC, aimed at EDR-bypass research (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • OffsetInspect — a PowerShell toolkit for AMSI/Defender detection-boundary analysis and static malware triage, shipped alongside OffsetScan (@ipurple). · New Tools & Releases
  • RootHound — an offline, interactive HTML visualizer that maps Linux privesc paths from enumeration data, BloodHound-style, with multi-hop chains and quick access to abuse commands (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • GitHub is restructuring its bug bounty into a two-tier model with fixed payouts and a private VIP tier, explicitly to cope with a surge of low-quality AI-generated reports (GitHub) (discussion). · Industry & Policy

in Two Live Exploits and a Bench of Fresh Offensive Tooling

July 23, 2026

  • "Agentbaiting": ~800 of 7,600 malicious GitHub repos posed as AI Skills or MCP servers, per Island research shared by @blackorbird — a supply-chain twist aimed at tool-using agents rather than human developers, peaking in April 2026. · AI & Model Security
  • CVE-2026-49176 — Windows WalletService to SYSTEM. Write-up and PoC published for a service-based LPE (David Carliez). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • Fraggap (CVE-2026-53362) — a 15-byte out-of-bounds write in the Linux UDPv6 corking path (qwerty.or.kr); plus a UAF write-up in the Windows Brokering File System (CVE-2026-50458) (rotcee). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • GhostLock (CVE-2026-43499) PoC scanner — a Go-based tool with a passive scan mode plus a trigger for the Linux kernel use-after-free LPE (may cause a kernel panic) (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in "Every Frontier Model Tried to Cheat": UK Safety Institute Puts Numbers Behind the OpenAI–Hugging Face Incident

July 19, 2026

  • Two Windows kernel write-ups drop with technical detail. A deep dive covers CVE-2026-58532, an unsigned 64-bit integer overflow during deserialization in tcpip.sys patched in July (write-up); separately, a PoC and write-up for CVE-2026-50416 exploits a win32k desktop-heap info leak to disclose stable kernel pointers and bypass KASLR from an unprivileged process (PoC/write-up). · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • npm supply-chain attackers exploited a gap in the CI/CD pipeline itself, with Unit 42 also observing an attacker leveraging GitHub Copilot to trigger infection (Unit 42). · Cloud, Identity & Supply Chain

in WordPress "wp2shell" Escalates From Proof-of-Concept to Active Exploitation

July 9, 2026

  • DirtySlide is a fresh macOS local privilege escalation to root stemming from a single missing bounds check, with a public write-up and PoC. gracecondition.github.io · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • Git hash-chain malleability research shows that GitHub's "Verified" badge is not the guarantee reviewers assume: given any signed commit, an attacker without the signing key can mint a second commit with identical files, author, and date, a valid signature, and a different hash that GitHub still marks Verified — a supply-chain integrity problem for anyone pinning by commit hash. The Hacker News, arXiv · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • GitHub Copilot guardrail bypass — Kumar and Maple show a request Copilot refuses in chat can be produced anyway if broken into small, ordinary-looking steps inside the code editor, across models routed through Copilot, Claude, and Gemini. The Hacker News · AI & Model Security
  • StealC via GitHub spam — vx-underground flagged an automated campaign posting fake "patch" comments on open GitHub issues; the Go binary resolves C2 through a Telegram channel description acting as a bootleg DNS resolver, complicating takedowns. vx-underground · Threat Activity
  • cve-2026-20896-gitea-poc — a checker for the Gitea Docker X-WEBAUTH-USER auth bypass now under active exploitation (6,200+ exposed instances); useful for validating your own exposure. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • ida-nativeaot — an IDA helper for analyzing .NET NativeAOT binaries, released alongside Check Point's Cavern Manticore research and handy for reversing modern AOT-compiled malware. GitHub · New Tools & Releases

in A 15-Year-Old Linux Kernel Bug Hands Root on Every Distro

July 8, 2026

  • Nemesis is a .NET process monitor that hooks the CLR at the native layer, dumps reflectively loaded assemblies from memory, and checks AMSI/ETW integrity against on-disk binaries — useful blue-team/purple tooling for catching in-memory .NET tradecraft. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • OPFOR is an open-source, multi-mode adversary-emulation framework aimed at AI agents and MCP servers, supporting multi-turn attack simulations and integration with common eval platforms — a purpose-built harness for red-teaming agentic systems. GitHub · New Tools & Releases
  • Noma Labs' "GitLost" shows an unauthenticated attacker can leak an org's private repositories by filing a normal-looking issue on a public repo. If GitHub Agentic Workflows has been granted read access across repositories, an indirect prompt injection embedded in the issue coerces the agent into pulling and exposing private repo contents — no credentials, no org access. Mitigations: input sanitization and minimal agent permissions. Noma Security, The Hacker News · AI & Model Security
  • The Adobe ColdFusion exploitation story widened: Horizon3 detailed pre-auth unrestricted file upload and path traversal in CVE-2026-48283/CVE-2026-48313, and a public PoC dropped for the actively exploited CVE-2026-48282 (RDS path traversal, CVSS 10.0). Horizon3, PoC · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • Two memcached heap buffer overflows — an LRU-crawler metadump bug in the default config and a proxy backend-response length truncation leading to RCE — were fixed in 1.6.44, with PoCs, ASAN evidence, and fix validation published. GitHub · Vulnerabilities & Exploits
  • Update — the 16-year-old KVM guest-to-host escape ("Januscape") now has a public PoC (V4bel/Januscape), affecting Intel and AMD systems running KVM. BleepingComputer, PoC · Vulnerabilities & Exploits

in Synacktiv Drops a Kerberos Reflection Bypass That Hands Attackers SYSTEM

June 19, 2026

  • Novo Nordisk was breached after FulcrumSec found a GitHub token left in a repo for two months, ultimately exfiltrating 1.3TB including unreleased drug formulas and internal AI models; the company refused a $25M extortion demand and the data is now being sold (Dark Reading, SecurityWeek). A clean reminder that secrets management is an identity problem, not a tooling one. · Threat Activity & Intrusions
  • Offensive Azure Security Cheatsheet — a practical quick-reference of Azure/Entra ID/M365 attack commands and notes distilled from CloudBreach's Breaching Azure courses (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases
  • Certificate of Compromise — a whitepaper on offensive operations against Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) (GitHub). · New Tools & Releases

in FortiBleed Burns 70,000+ Fortinet Edge Devices While a Leaked GitHub Token Guts Novo Nordisk

June 17, 2026

  • DCOMIllusionist released by Synacktiv at x33fcon: new offensive DCOM techniques including a COMouflage variant for arbitrary executable execution and a fileless lateral-movement method based on .NET deserialization. Directly relevant for AD lateral-movement work. Synacktiv. · Offensive Tooling & Techniques
  • Arch Linux AUR suffered an ongoing compromise ("AtomicArch") with 1,500+ packages backdoored to deploy a Rust infostealer and an eBPF rootkit via malicious PKGBUILD install hooks invoking npm install; a second obfuscated wave hit Node.js, Firefox, LibreWolf, and NeoVim packages. Arch suspended new AUR signups; Nextron published YARA rules. The Register, YARA rules. · Supply Chain
  • GitHub dismissed two formal vulnerability reports on design flaws researchers say are now being exploited by variants of the Shai-Hulud supply-chain worm to compromise hundreds of packages and developer accounts. The Record. · Supply Chain

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