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 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 …
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 …
TrustedSec published Part 1 of a red-team tradecraft series on what to do after finding plaintext AWS access keys during an engagement. It is educational content, not a report of a specific incident. It explains the difference between long-term AKIA keys (IAM user) and temporary ASIA keys (STS-issued, which also need a session token and a…
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a growing number of intrusions in which an AI agent system ran the entire operation: finding entry points, harvesting credentials, pivoting across platforms and debugging its own scripts in real time. In one investigated case, the agent compromised a large multi-cloud organization (GC…
On 4 August 2026, an npm worm published 2,234 poisoned versions across 444 package names, using credentials from twelve organisations. Affected scopes include @ornikar, @deliveroo, @onereach, @or-sdk, @servicetitan, @qlik, @picsart, and the keyv and cacheable families. The keyv, flat-cache, file-entry-cache and cacheable-request packages …
The LiteLLM release 1.107.0 (a widely used open source LLM proxy) was trojanized on PyPI on 21 October 2026 and carries a credential stealer plus a remote code execution backdoor. All seven wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) drop three extra files in site-packages, two of which run whenever any Python process starts, even one that never impor…