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Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign . The affected GitHub Actions are listed below - actions-cool/issues-helper actions-cool/maintain-one-comment Visiting either of the repositories now shows the message: "Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub's terms of service. If you are the owner of the repository, you may reach out to GitHub Support for more information." "On September 16, 2026, both repositories became accessible again," Socket researcher Karlo Zanki said . "Their release tags were not cleaned up first. They still point to the malicious content introduced on May 18, so any workflow that references either action by a version tag resumed downloading and executing the payload on its next run." The two GitHub Actions work...

Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same JavaScript for Automation (JXA) dropper mechanism, but modify the lure and the delivery method. "Where earlier variants embedded their payload key material directly in the JXA source, it now fetches a purpose-built decryption utility and completes a key exchange with the server before the payload can be unwrapped," security researcher Thijs Xhaflaire said in an analysis. "Without the server's cooperation, the payload cannot be recovered statically." A second major change is the choice of the decoy itself. While previous versions observed in July and August 2026 were observed using fake websites masquerading as Maccy, Scoppr, and Nancy Clipboard, victims are now lured through a bogus website ("wavel[.]app") advert...

Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lands on a low-privilege cloud account, and the first try at privilege escalation goes nowhere. That dead end used to cost hours of documentation reading, permission checks, and script debugging, and plenty of operators simply got stuck. With a model in the loop, the error gets explained, the script gets fixed, and a fresh enumeration path is under test within minutes. No step in that sequence is a new capability. Together they strip time, skill, and cost out of the unglamorous middle of an intrusion, the research and troubleshooting that sit between intent and outcome. What the threat reporting shows The public record traces the arc. In early 2025, Google's Threat Intelligence Group found state-backed actors treating generative AI as a prod...

Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets.  "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a limited number of hot wallets," BitGet said in a post shared on X. "Bitget's cold wallets and the overwhelming majority of platform assets remain secure and unaffected." The company emphasized that customer account balances remain accurate, and deposits and trading continue to operate normally. However, withdrawals have been temporarily suspended out of an abundance of caution while a "comprehensive security review" is underway. Bitget did not disclose any details on how the attack took place, but said it has enlisted the help of Google-owned Mandiant and SlowMist for a third-party investigation. "Bitget Wallet operates as a self-custodial wallet on a completely separate and independent infrastruc...

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security has warned that a now-patched Roundcube Webmail vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score: 8.1), a pre-authentication SQL injection in the virtuser_query plugin of Roundcube Webmail versions 1.6.x before 1.6.16 and 1.7.x before 1.7.1. The issue stems from a preg_replace() backslash escape bypass that allows attackers to inject arbitrary SQL statements without authentication. "Unauthenticated attackers can inject SQL into Roundcube's database backend through the virtuser_query plugin, potentially exposing mail account credentials and stored messages," SentinelOne said . Patches for the vulnerability were released by Roundcube in May 2026 as part of 1.6.16 and 1.7.1. In an update shared this week, the Cyber Centre said the security flaw is being actively exploited in the wild, citing open-source reporting. No additional details of the exploitation ac...

A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers' containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from any live workload, and an attacker could not choose whose data they got,  according to Cloudflare . The company has fixed the flaw across its service and says customers need to do nothing. Cloudflare Containers runs customers' programs inside containers on servers shared by many accounts, and Cloudflare, not the customer, picks the server. Cloudflare Sandboxes, which runs on Containers and is sold as a safe place to run untrusted code, including code written by AI agents, was affected too. The flaw was reported on September 4 by Oren Yomtov of the security firm Accomplish , through Cloudflare's bug bounty program. The problem was in how the shared disks were set up. Each container gets a ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added two critical security flaws impacting WSO2 and Adobe Commerce and Magento to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-5430 (CVS score: 9.8) - A path traversal vulnerability in  WSO2 API Control Plane, API Manager, Traffic Manager and Universal Gateway that could allow unrestricted file upload and lead to remote code execution. CVE-2026-71362 (CVSS score: 9.1) - An incorrect authorization vulnerability in  Adobe Commerce and Magento that could allow an attacker to leverage this vulnerability to gain elevated access to sensitive resources without any user interaction. The addition of CVE-2026-5430 to the KEV comes a little over a week after watchTowr said it's seeing in-the-wild exploitation efforts against its honeypots since at least September 13, 2026. "We captured forged JW...

A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats,  chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software  to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not said which. OnePlus confirmed both flaws in May. In the same reply, the company told Moorats that it alone decides when to make a flaw public and warned that publishing without its permission could result in legal liability. He published on September 24 anyway, when OnePlus had released no fix. OnePlus set out its position in the reply,  which Moorats published in full . It said a fix was scheduled, but claimed "the exclusive final right of vulnerability disclosure," and told him that even after a fix ships, researchers may not publish full technical details on their own. The comp...

This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI tools leak more than expected. Fake prompts look real enough. And some attacks barely need an exploit at all — just one weak setting or one person doing what the screen tells them. Nothing here looks especially dramatic. That is what makes it useful. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out.

The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays," Manifold Security's Head of Research, Ax Sharma, said . "Unlike 'example[.]com,' third-party[.]com is not IANA-reserved . Anyone could register it, and someone did. Every doc, test, and skill that hard-coded it now points readers at attacker infrastructure." As of writing, the domain has been marked as malicious and unsafe on both VirusTotal and Google's Safe Browsing list . ClickFix is a social engineering attack technique in which either malicious or legitimate-but-compromised websites display error messages, browser alerts, or CAPTCHA verification prompts, tricking users into copying and executing hidden commands via the Windows Run d...

An active ClickFix campaign has been observed compromising legitimate Ukrainian business websites to inject bogus Cloudflare verification pages and trick victims into downloading a previously undocumented information stealer called Psychedelic . "When a visitor interacts with the page, the lure copies a Windows Installer command to the clipboard and instructs the visitor to paste it into the Windows Run dialog," Arctic Wolf Labs said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News. The ClickFix chain uses an "msiexec.exe" command to fetch a Windows MSI installer that's used to deliver the stealer malware. The malicious tool is designed to harvest browser passwords, account tokens, and cryptocurrency-wallet data, set up scheduled-task persistence, and contact a command-and-control (C2) server for additional tasking. Some of the compromised websites include a hair-treatment clinic, a scale-model manufacturer, a specialist bookseller and publisher, a psy...

The logistics sector has become the target of a new malicious cyber campaign that distributes an Android spyware codenamed Corp MDM . According to Have I Been Squatted, the campaign uses fake Google Play pages branded as CEVA and TKW Logistics to distribute an Android Package Kit (APK) file that's dressed up as a system service. The delivered app has the package name "com.corp.mdm" Corp MDM is a "compact surveillance implant designed to exfiltrate newly received SMS content, divert calls, and maintain a hidden foreground service," security researcher Ben Folland said . The malware has been described as narrow by design, lacking in spyware functions typically observed in commercial Android spyware. It's suspected that the threat actor behind the campaign used artificial intelligence (AI) during the development phase, given the presence of bugs that interfere with its capabilities. In addition, the activity is said to be part of a broader campaign t...

AI coding agents are changing how quickly developers can build and ship software as well as how quickly credentials can become exposed. According to GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Secrets Sprawl Report , commits identified as AI-assisted are leaking secrets at approximately twice the rate of human-written ones. Most of the fastest-growing categories of leaked credentials are now connected to AI services, meaning the tools meant to advance development are also accelerating the exposure of the keys development relies on. This isn’t a new vulnerability; what is new is AI changing the scale and pace at which those mistakes can happen. A coding agent can read an entire project, modify files, generate configurations and interact with external services in the time a developer might take to review a single pull request. The main issue isn’t that AI agents sometimes encounter secrets but that many of those secrets were never designed for an environment in which software can act autonomously. A...

ClickFix has become the most common way attackers get into enterprise networks, and it does it without an exploit, an attachment, or a file on disk. Our new global threat report traces the technique from a novelty in late 2023 to a subscription product with on-chain infrastructure and a state-sponsored user base, and explains why blocking malicious domains is no longer a useful defense. Read the full report here:   https://www.ctm360.com/reports/clickfix-beyond A particular kind of security problem no patch will close. ClickFix is one of them. The attack begins with a page that presents a problem the user believes is theirs to solve. A human verification check that will not complete. A browser that cannot render the page. A document that will not open. A Mac that is running low on storage. The page offers a remedy in the form of instructions, quietly writes the "fix" to the clipboard, and asks the user to open a system interface they already trust, paste, and press Ent...

An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister  Anthony Albanese said . The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that handle Medicare claims and personal records. The agent reached files on it that were not public, but no personal information is believed to have been accessed so far. OpenAI first told the government on September 10, in an email to a public mailbox at Services Australia, which runs the portal. OpenAI says it found the activity in August. Albanese said the company took far too long to inform the government and that the manner in which it did so was unacceptable. On June 18, the portal repeatedly refused the agent's data requests, but the agent found a workaround and gained unauthorized access. The government has not said how the agent got past them. Services Australia has told the government that the age...

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial institutions. It originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 source IP addresses. "The campaign compromised 7 accounts – all of which were unmanaged functional or service accounts rather than individual employee accounts – highlighting a critical exposure gap around forgotten, non-human identities carrying default or unrotated passwords and no MFA [multi-factor authentication]," the enterprise security company said in a statement. The Microsoft 365 brute-force campaign is said to have unfolded across three different waves from late July to August 2026, with an unnamed Chilean retailer facing the brunt of 78.3% of all observed authentication events - July 21-24, targeting approximately 100–120 ...