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Unit 42: Attackers pivot across cloud, endpoint, identity and SaaS, exploiting visibility gaps between disconnected security tools

Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) describes how adversaries move beyond the initial foothold and pivot across the enterprise, exploiting the visibility gaps left by disconnected security tools. The 2026 Unit 42 Global Incident Response Report found that 43% of attacks involved activity across four or more attack surfaces, and some cases spanne…

Prompt injection in AWS AgentCore Harness default config lets the root shell tool steal plaintext AgentCore Identity credentials

Unit 42 researchers found that in default AWS AgentCore Harness deployments, prompt injection can steer the agent's built-in shell tool to exfiltrate plaintext credentials resolved from AgentCore Identity. The shell tool is enabled by default and runs as root, in the same UID as the harness runtime (PID 1, python3.10 -m loopy.server). Tha…

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BUGSTER actor uses jailbroken Hermes Agent and DeepSeek V4 for credential theft, VoIP fraud planning and Wi-Fi cracking, hitting Indian universities

Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…

CL-UNK-1211 uses AI-generated payloads and SysGoRAT RAT to spy on government Linux servers

Unit 42 reports a campaign, tracked as CL-UNK-1211, that targeted government entities and state-affiliated infrastructure between October 2025 and April 2026. The cluster has not been attributed to a nation-state or to cybercrime. The attackers focused on Linux servers for reconnaissance, persistence and intelligence collection, including…