Yokai Research (Hakai Security) published an analysis and a public proof-of-concept for GHSA-f9x3-7vq9-cph6, a critical authentication bypass (CVSS v4 9.2) in the Laravel framework's built-in TokenGuard, which backs auth:api. The flaw was discovered by KIKOmanasijev and reported via the GitHub Security Advisory program. When the user tabl…
Proofpoint disclosed an active campaign, tracked as UNKCondorFiltration, that used the TeamFiltration offensive framework against more than 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. It focused mainly on Chilean retail and financial institutions and originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 IP addresses. Seven accounts were compromised, a…
Dropbox confirmed that roughly 5,000 customer accounts were accessed between 4 and 21 August after attackers abused a legacy login integration between Dropbox and Lenovo ID, Lenovo's identity system. Lenovo ID did not verify that a person registering an account actually controlled the email address used. Because Dropbox implicitly trusted…
OVHcloud disclosed that attackers hijacked a developer's GitHub account and used it to modify the open-source OVHcloud CLI repository, publishing trojanized releases 0.11.0 through 0.15.0 that carry information-stealing malware. According to CEO Octave Klaba, the malicious release appeared at 14:47 on October 19 and was detected and block…
On 19 October 2026 an attacker used a hijacked contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases (v0.11.0 to v0.15.0) of OVHcloud CLI. The swapped files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that ran it. They were live from 12:47 to 14:21 UTC (up to 94 minutes) for m…
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…
Kenneth Carter, 44, of Portland, Oregon, a former AT&T retail store employee, was sentenced to 16 months in federal prison for acting as the inside man for a SIM-swap gang. According to his plea agreement, the scheme ran from May 2018 to November 2019 and involved at least three co-conspirators. Carter used privileged store access to move…
Episode 487 of the Smashing Security podcast covers the hijacking of Microsoft's official X (Twitter) account, which has 13 million followers. The attackers used a Clippy theme to promote a dubious crypto coin, and a corporate apology that circulated was not from Microsoft either. There was no ransomware or data theft. The episode also co…
Two official Twitter/X accounts of Ireland's police service, Garda Síochána, were accessed by an unauthorised third party on Wednesday evening and used to post cryptocurrency-related messages. The posts claimed followers could claim free cryptocurrency through an airdrop, a lure that can trick victims into handing over wallet keys and hav…
ConnectWise disclosed on October 16 that on October 15 it detected unauthorized access to application identities in its Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) environment. It suspended Cloud Backup, plus the integrated SaaS Security and Cloud Management services, as a precaution. As of 16:00 UTC on October 18 the services were still down, so end…
Robert Wayne Boling Jr., a 45-year-old US citizen living in Angeles City, Philippines, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, the US Department of Justice announced. Prosecutors call him the principal orchestrator of a scheme that used stolen PII to compromise bank accounts of thousands of US servicemember…
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a rising pattern of LLMjacking in which threat actors compromise privileged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users solely to offload the cost of large-scale LLM inference onto the victim. Attackers link external, attacker-controlled GCP projects to the victim's billing account, so all Gemi…
Huntress announced general availability of the Managed ITDR Lookback feature. It reviews up to 180 days of Microsoft 365 login history for newly onboarded tenants, looking for compromises that predate monitoring. Active compromises trigger a critical Incident Report, SOC investigation and session revocation. Previously remediated ones are…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in OpenAI's ChatGPT Atlas Chromium-based AI browser that lets an attacker monitor all open tabs and capture OAuth authorization codes for any site, effectively breaking the same-origin policy. Atlas exposes Mojo IPC bindings to all .chatgpt.com and .openai.com origins, so a single XS…
Hacktron published a vendor blog post comparing its AI pentesting platform against XBOW and Aikido, using the benchmark target from a Doyensec head-to-head report (sponsored by Aikido). Doyensec scanned the open-source projects Fider and Photoview at $4,000 per repo per platform. The author ran Hacktron on Fider v0.33.0, at an estimated c…
On July 25, 2026, Hacktron researchers chained a heap buffer overflow in libheif (reached through ImageMagick in Discourse's image-upload pipeline) with an OpenAI SSO weakness. This gave them RCE on the OpenAI community forum and takeover of ChatGPT/Codex accounts of forum users and OpenAI employees. To prove impact without reading sensit…
Researcher Pedro Cruz (gankd) documents two Client-Side Path Traversal (CSPT) chains found in production bug bounty programs. The first turns CSPT into Stored XSS and account takeover on a payments platform's Angular POS single-page application. The second, found with Felipe Torres, triggers unauthorized account deletion on one of the lar…
A malicious version 0.7.4 of the mrmustard photonic quantum computing library (Xanadu) was published to PyPI on July 23, 2026, after the account of the project's lead maintainer (ziofil, Filippo Miatto) was compromised. Importing the package reads SSH private keys, AWS credentials and the Kubernetes config, then sends them to an attacker-…
On August 20, 2026, a compromised release of the Rust crate arrayref (0.3.10, about 245 million all-time downloads) appeared on crates.io. It added a dependency on the typosquatted crate proc-macro1 1.0.107, whose build script downloads and runs a remote binary at compile time. The maintainer account droundy appears to have been compromis…
F5 Labs honeynet telemetry shows overall hostile activity rising 55.5% month over month in June 2026, a return to the levels of the earlier-year spike. Highlighted is CVE-2024-44000, an unauthenticated account takeover flaw (CVSS 9.8, CWE-522) in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin, which rose by 1,128 to 2,603 attacks (8). Scanning is i…