A privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-16764 (GHSA-w2j3-x3j3-mm43, CVSS 3.1 7.8, CWE-269), affects OWASP DefectDojo. The REST API UserSerializer validates changes to issuperuser but not to isstaff. An authenticated user holding only the delegated auth.changeuser permission can therefore make themselves staff and then become superuser throu…
FortiGuard Labs describes an LLMjacking incident in which an AWS account was compromised through a leaked, long-lived IAM access key with AdministratorAccess permissions. The operator subscribed to one or more foundation models through AWS Marketplace and invoked them through Amazon Bedrock, generating inference charges against the victim…
FortiGuard Labs describes an intrusion in which a compromised Jenkins EC2 build host, tied to Shai Hulud persistence, was used to steal instance role credentials via IMDS and pivot into the victim's AWS environment. The actor used the credentials from external IPs, created an admin IAM user named cloudops-monitor, opened network paths to …
Zscaler ThreatLabz's 2026 Ransomware Report describes ransomware operators using generative AI to sharpen phishing, speed up reconnaissance and pick out the most sensitive corporate data to steal. The report records 896.2 TB exfiltrated by the top 10 ransomware groups between April 2025 and March 2026. The article cites a 275.8% annual in…
The FBI, CISA, DC3, NSA, USSS and the Republic of Korea's KNPA issued joint advisory AA26-222A on Gunra ransomware. Gunra appeared in April 2025 as a double-extortion variant derived from the leaked Conti source code. It launched a structured RaaS affiliate program in January 2026, also operating under the alias Golden Community, and recr…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…