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ThreatBook announced RedAgents on October 16, 2026. It is a SaaS platform that runs several AI penetration testing agents in parallel against authorized targets and shows the findings in one interface. The platform combines Artex Pro, Cyber(YanJi), Yanxun and CyberStrikeAI Enterprise Edition. ThreatBook says that combining agents improves…
A Chinese-speaking operator used autonomous AI agents on the open-source Cairn platform to compromise the websites of more than 100 companies. NorForge tracks the most active campaign as AIA0001: over 1,100 attack projects across 14 dashboards, and more than 1,200 break-in attempts overall. Targets were e-commerce businesses in the United…
GhostAction has returned with an expanded credential-theft operation. By October 9, 2026, attackers had injected malicious GitHub Actions workflows into 790 repositories, according to OpenSourceMalware's validated total. The campaign was first documented by GitGuardian in 2025 (817 repositories, 3,325 stolen secrets). It relies on comprom…
Bitdefender documented Midnight Mimosa, an Android malware campaign that embeds a platform-signed malicious system app in the firmware of low-cost, MediaTek-based handsets and counterfeit flagship models before they reach buyers. Thousands of infected devices were observed in more than 150 countries over roughly two years. The implant dri…
A supply chain campaign tracked as UNC7017 hijacked the update infrastructure of AOMEI Technology between April and July 2026 to distribute the CROSSROAD downloader and the SHINYROAD backdoor through AOMEI Backupper and AnyViewer update workflows. The attackers tampered with server configurations only briefly, then restored legitimate con…
Microsoft has warned that AI agents with access to enterprise systems can be manipulated through prompt injection, compromised inputs or shifts in task context. Agents do not need malicious intent to cause harm: their ability to read corporate data, invoke tools, approve transactions and talk to other agents widens exposure once untrusted…
Federal investigators examining ShinyHunters have uncovered potential links between the extortion group and executives at two ransomware negotiation firms, according to a KrebsOnSecurity report published on October 19. An executive at an unnamed U.S. consulting firm (reportedly 1,000+ employees) allegedly helped operate the group's extort…
OpenCode disclosed on X on October 17 a security breach affecting 1.4% of its Console users, which it attributes to a "large-scale distillation attack". The affected accounts belong to users who had connected external providers. The company emailed affected users the following morning and says anyone who did not receive a notice was not i…
Attackers used compromised application credentials from ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to access Microsoft 365 customer environments. Huntress researcher Jonathan Semon confirmed unauthorized sign-ins across 162 tenants as of 19:00 UTC on October 16. ConnectWise disabled application access, which interrupted backup services, …
Docking stations are easy to leave unpatched. A Dell support article (last modified May 22, 2026) says that with "Enable External USB Port" off and Type-C dock LAN on, the HD22Q, WD19 and WD22TB4 docks cannot be updated by Dell's Firmware Utility. Separately, the tools that update docks have had local vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-4…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
NIST, the National Security Agency and CISA released voluntary guidance on October 16, 2026 warning that advanced AI agents may exploit security flaws, break out of assigned limits and leave persistent access behind. The document sets out ten practices across preparation, detection, response, recovery and reporting. It targets organizatio…
Microsoft awarded researcher Sam Chen (Samchen) US$4,000 for reporting CVE-2026-81376, a critical (CVSS 3.1 score 9.6) Workspace Trust security feature bypass in Visual Studio Code versions before 1.136.2. A specially prepared workspace could connect to an attacker-controlled service and bypass Restricted Mode, potentially exposing local …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser (QTNKSR) disclosed a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It allows an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to disclose memory and execute code, including as root, on vulnerable routers. The attacker does not need the Wi-Fi password, network membership or a co…
Drupal published an advisory on October 14, 2026 for CVE-2026-108097, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Field UI module (fieldui) of Drupal core. The advisory gives it a risk score of 19/25, with basic attack complexity, no authentication required, and full confidentiality and integrity impact. Drupal core alone is not…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a privilege-escalation chain in Snowflake Postgres that turned a limited, non-superuser role (snowflakeadmin, holding CREATEROLE) into operating-system command execution as the postgres account. The chain abused built-in PostgreSQL behaviors, even though Snowflake had blocked the usual SQL-to-OS routes. Varon…
Bright Security announced the launch of STAR Fuzzer, an agentic fuzzer in its Bright STAR platform. It uses AI to select security-critical functions and generate harnesses, then runs an evolutionary search engine to find faults and delivers byte-exact reproducing payloads. In pre-release testing, 45% of the open-source projects tested had…
