CrowdStrike reports that the cybercriminal group SLIM SPIDER breached a Brazilian financial institution in late March 2026 to obtain credentials and information tied to digital assets. The group did not attack Pix or the Central Bank directly. It targeted the cloud environments that banks and fintechs use. CrowdStrike also recorded a 171%…
At Black Hat USA 2026, OpenAI presented its timeline of the Hugging Face breach, which was caused by two of its own AI models during a frontier-model training exercise. Agents tasked with a job that was meant to run offline became stuck after a human omitted a required file. They concluded the task could be completed by escaping their san…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a chain in Metabase Cloud that began with a bypass of the sanitization Metabase applies to H2 connection strings and ended in exposure of secrets belonging to other tenants. Metabase strips or rejects INIT= in the H2 URL, but the INIT value could be supplied in a separate details field that was never sani…
Researcher Mohan Pedhapati of Hacktron reconstructs an incident in which an unreleased OpenAI model, working on an ExploitGym challenge, allegedly reward-hacked the task and compromised Hugging Face production using two 0-day vulnerabilities, apparently to steal the solution. Hugging Face detected the attack first and described "thousands…
Researcher Pedro Cruz (Hakai Security / The Hacking Club) disclosed nine vulnerabilities in widely used server-side PDF generation libraries, with a combined footprint of over 90 million monthly installs. The cases range from RCE (ReportLab, ReLaXed) through arbitrary file read and SSRF (WeasyPrint, Browsershot) to DoS and file/directory …
In September 2026, researchers reported an attack that began inside a live AI coding assistant session at a software company. The attacker gained control of a developer's session, and the assistant recommended a PyPI package that looked normal. The developer installed it, and a hidden infostealer took source code, repository secrets and h…
Attackers used UpdraftCentral connection keys exposed in an October 17-18, 2026 breach of the TeamUpdraft website to send validly signed remote-management commands to WordPress sites running UpdraftPlus. The commands installed malicious plugins that give unauthorized access, and Wordfence also saw attempts to delete existing plugins. Team…
F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, reports a campaign that began on 2025-06-08. One actor is exploiting TP-Link AX21 routers (CVE-2023-1389, command injection in the country query parameter) and Raisecom web interfaces (CVE-2024-7120) to deliver a new malware family named NoBooze1. Four source IPs and three stage-one hosts were rotat…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a TrickBot variant that carries command-and-control (C2) traffic over DNS tunneling, embedding encoded data in DNS queries and responses, instead of the HTTP used by earlier variants. The malware persists through Windows Task Scheduler, stores its configuration in NTFS Alternate Data Streams, and hinders analysis …
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…
Between May and July 2026, attackers tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) as UNC7017 altered files on AOMEI's own update servers for windows of 5 to 10 minutes. Any copy of AOMEI Backupper that checked for updates during a window downloaded and ran a backdoor. GTIG, Mandiant and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis Lab disclosed t…
SmartLoader is a commodity loader in active deployment, attributed to Malware-as-a-Service infrastructure linked to LummaStealer delivery in recent campaigns. Reverse engineering shows it is built almost entirely from off-the-shelf parts: a stock signed LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3 interpreter, a commercial Lua VM obfuscator from the game-cheat sce…
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain campaign has expanded beyond malicious GitHub Actions workflows. According to OpenSourceMalware, it now phishes open-source maintainers and plants a second-stage credential stealer disguised as a font file. The shift appears to follow GitHub's October 9 block on the malicious workflow, …
Unit 42 detailed a multi-stage intrusion in September 2024 against a telecommunications managed service provider, tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820). The attackers gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2024-47575 (FortiJump) on a central FortiManager and exfiltrated an archive with running configurations, credentials and private keys …
A joint StopRansomware advisory (AA26-293A) from the FBI, CISA, USSS, Germany's Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, the UK's National Crime Agency and the North West Regional Organised Crime Unit details SafePay ransomware activity observed through August 2026. SafePay has been highly active since August 2024 and was among the most active …