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Microsoft on Tuesday announced the takedown of the EvilTokens device code phishing service that it said used artificial intelligence (AI) "at every step of the attack chain." The action, carried out with authorization from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, involved the efforts of Health-ISAC, alongside Cloudflare , Coinbase, OpenAI, Railway, SpyCloud, The Shadowserver Foundation, and TRM Labs. Microsoft is tracking the threat actors behind the development and support of EvilTokens as Storm-2992 . In tandem, the Metropolitan Police Service arrested two men, aged 32 and 38, on September 11, 2026, in connection with the illicit commercial operation. The tech giant described EvilTokens as a "powerful cybercrime platform" that used AI to compromise email accounts and design roadmaps for financial fraud and scams. "While EvilTokens helped cybercriminals access email accounts, at the center of the service was an AI-style chatbot t...

A critical vulnerability in  Bifrost , an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The flaw, tracked as  CVE-2026-90898  (CVSS score: 9.8), affects all versions of the Bifrost HTTP transport before 2.1.0 when management authentication is disabled, which is the default configuration. A fix is available in transports/v2.1.0. Yuval Moravchick of  JFrog Security Research , who discovered the flaw, said an attacker can register a stdio-type MCP client through a single unauthenticated POST to the management API endpoint /api/mcp/client. Bifrost starts the specified command immediately, before any MCP handshake, as the gateway process user. On the official Docker image, that user is appuser. Because the gateway stores API keys for every connected provider, executing commands on the gateway process grants the attack...

A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was  published on GitHub  on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster , has no patch, no CVE, and no Microsoft advisory. Its author, Abdelhamid Naceri, is a former Microsoft security researcher whose earlier Defender exploits were used in attacks. When updates are blocked, Defender keeps running, but its detection content grows stale. The researcher's screenshot shows Defender returning a generic Windows error when trying to update, but whether the failure raises an automatic alert is not clear from the proof-of-concept alone. Naceri said he was dismissed from Microsoft's Security Response Center in 2024 and has been releasing exploits without coordinating with the company since April. His first three Defender tools — BlueHammer, RedSun, and UnDefend — were all  exploited in live intrusions  before Microsoft...

Security teams have spent decades asking whether an identity has too much access. AI agents raise a harder question: how can we determine which paths an autonomous system can discover, given the access it already has? A person may try several ways to complete a task. A deterministic application follows the flow its developer wrote. But an AI agent is relentless in its pursuit of done. In May 2026, OpenAI announced that one of its models had disproved a 1946 Erdős conjecture in discrete geometry, largely by working through paths a mathematician would abandon as too tedious. The same principle applies to cybersecurity. An AI agent can test thousands of actions, abandon failed routes, discover credentials, switch tools, and keep going. That persistence is part of what makes agents useful, but it also changes how we need to think about lateral movement. AI agent risk has two dimensions: Access defines the possible blast radius Autonomy determines how much an agent can do with...

Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, Arista said on September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93952 , may allow a remote attacker with no login access to privilege internal functions and affect the VCO host. Only orchestrators set up to authenticate their Edges with certificates are exposed. As of September 22,  fixed releases  are out for the 5.2 and 6.4 release trains, but not yet for the 6.1 and 7.0 trains. Arista has already patched the Hosted and Dedicated versions of VCO. The affected releases include those that fixed a different VCO flaw, which Arista reported as  exploited in July . Arista gave the flaw a CVSS 3.1 score of 10.0. A successful attack may compromise the orchestrator and the data it manages. A compromised VCO may also give attackers access to the Edge devices it manages. Arista said the flaw "was discovered externally and is known t...

When the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) became enforceable across the European Union in January 2025, it triggered an administrative sprint. Financial entities spent the first year establishing risk governance, assessing third-party service providers, updating contract clauses, and documenting incident escalation workflows. Now in its second year, the harder part of DORA is demonstrating how well frameworks work in practice. EU regulators are increasing their focus on DORA implementation, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) incident analysis, and the effectiveness of ICT risk supervision. For security teams, that raises an important question: does the SOC have enough visibility to detect, investigate, and scope an active intrusion across critical systems? While DORA doesn’t prescribe a particular security stack, several of its requirements rely on continuous visibility in the ICT environment to identify behavior that may indicate an emerging risk. Continuou...

A new flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can leave a freed piece of host memory exposed to a guest virtual machine on hosts with nested virtualization enabled. The bug, tracked as  CVE-2026-89775 , allows a guest to read and write host kernel memory, and the researcher who found it says it can be used to escape the guest and run code on the host machine. The affected code is part of the mainline Linux kernel for ARM64, and it is fixed in Linux 6.18.51, 7.2.5, and 7.3-rc1. Nested virtualization allows a guest to run its own hypervisor, enabling it to host virtual machines. On ARM64, it is off by default. It is  an experimental boot-time mode  that needs Armv8.4 hardware with a feature called FEAT_NV2, so a plain ARM64 KVM host that never turns it on is outside the reported attack path. The flaw sits in the part of KVM that handles nested virtualization on ARM64. When a guest arranges its memory in a certain way, a size calculat...

A SharePoint Server vulnerability that Microsoft initially classified as a spoofing flaw with a CVSS score of 6.5 actually enables authenticated remote code execution, according to full technical details published today by Viettel Cyber Security researcher Dinh Ho Anh Khoa. The flaw, CVE-2026-65660 , affects SharePoint Server 2016, 2019, and Subscription Edition. Patches have been available since the  August 11 security updates , and the National Vulnerability Database scores it 8.8. Microsoft's advisory  describes CVE-2026-65660 as allowing an authorized attacker to perform spoofing and assigns no impact to integrity or availability. The CVE record that Microsoft publishes separately, updated on September 11, titles the same flaw a remote code execution vulnerability and says it allows an authorized attacker to execute code. Both records assign CWE-94, a code-injection weakness. Defenders who triaged CVE-2026-65660 based on the advisory saw a moderate spoofi...

A malicious npm package named "indexed-btree" has been observed hiding its malicious behavior within application code rather than using lifecycle scripts, indicating that threat actors are likely shifting tactics in response to recent security controls . "Indexed-btree is a malicious npm package mimicking the legit sorted-btree package, an ordinary B-tree/indexing utility," Checkmarx said . "Unlike the common attacks we've seen in the supply chain space, this package does not rely on preinstall / postinstall at all. Instead, it runs entirely from application code at runtime." The package and the associated GitHub repository are no longer available for download from npm. However, statistics show the package was first uploaded to the registry on June 18, 2026, by an npm user named " charlessadler25 ," amassing millions of downloads in a short span of time . To make matters worse, the campaign may have generated illicit profits for the...

The threat actor known as SideCopy has been observed using spear-phishing lures to target academic institutions in India, expanding their strategic focus beyond government entities. "SideCopy campaign operations typically initiate through spear-phishing campaigns that leverage the abuse of mshta.exe to execute malicious scripts and circumvent standard security protocols," Trellix researchers Boggavarapu R S S Srinivas Gupta and Ravishankar N C said in a technical report. "This delivery mechanism facilitates the deployment of a remote access trojan (RAT), which serves as the central pillar of their offensive infrastructure." Active since at least 2019, SideCopy (aka TAG-140) is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group that originates from Pakistan, and shares overlaps with the Transparent Tribe cluster. Historically, the threat actor has primarily targeted Indian defense forces and government officials. In a report published in June 2026, Seqrite Labs a...

Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a  proof-of-concept  released on September 21. It works by changing a hidden setting so that when the user taps the microphone and dictates a prompt, the words go to the attacker instead of Meta. The flaw is in the Mac version of Muse, and it only works if an attacker can already run code as the logged-in user. It cannot break into a Mac on its own. But Wardle told The Hacker News that a remote attacker could hijack Muse and steal its token through a ClickFix trick, which fools the user into running a single command with nothing to download or install. Muse is the personal AI agent Meta  launched this month  in the United States. Once a user turns it on, it can work across their files, email, messages, calendar, shopping and smart-home apps, using whatever access the person chooses to g...

A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed the flaw, tracked as  CVE-2026-93485  and called " Comment2Shell ," on September 17 in  version 7.1.1  and told site owners to update right away. There is no sign it has been used in attacks, and it is not on the U.S. government's list of actively exploited software flaws. Patchstack, the company that assigned that identifier, rated the flaw 7.1 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. WordPress checks a comment for dangerous HTML when it is saved, then reformats it when the page is shown, and the flaw sat in the gap between those two steps. Rafie Muhammad, the security researcher who reported the bug, laid out the full chain in  a write-up  on September 21. The trick was a line break placed inside the attribute of an allowed HTML tag ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-7273 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary operating system (OS) command execution. "A stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the CGI program of the Zyxel GS1900 series switch firmware could allow a LAN-based, unauthenticated attacker to exploit the flaw and potentially execute OS commands via a crafted HTTP request," Zyxel said in an advisory released in June 2026.  The issue has been addressed in the following versions -

A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs said on September 17. Microsoft's own hardware-compatibility program signs the driver, scored zero detections on VirusTotal when researchers checked it in August, and was not on Microsoft's list of blocked drivers. LastPass says none of its own systems, services, or customer vaults were touched, and that the attackers only borrowed its name. The lure is a fake GitHub page (github.com/LastPass-Authenticator) that ranks in search results for terms like "LastPass Authenticator download" and looks like a real LastPass product page. Clicking the download button sends the visitor through several GitHub pages to an attacker server, which serves a large ZIP file. The real LastPass Authenticator comes from lastpass.com and ...

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory . The primary targets of the campaign are individual web designers, engineers, and specialists in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 technologies. In all, the threat actors are estimated to have plundered at least $10.71 million worth of cryptocurrency from victims. The alert comes courtesy of cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Japan, the U.S., Australia, and Germany. The activity is tracked by the broader cybersecurity community under the monikers CL-STA-0240, DeceptiveDevelopment, DEV#POPPER, Famous Chollima, Gwisin Gang, PurpleBravo, Tenacious Pungsan, UNC5342, Void Dokkaebi, and WaterPlum. The cyber threat group "conducts cyber attacks by infiltrating unsuspecting job seekers' com...

Google has been  fined €403 million  for breaking the EU's data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people's location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google's lead regulator in the EU, also ordered the company to make its processing comply with the law within 6 months. The DPC has not said publicly which processing the order covers, and it says its full decision will be published later. The three features are Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy. Web & App Activity is a Google account setting that, when turned on, lets Google process data about a user's activity on its sites and apps. That data can include location. Location History, which users must opt in to, keeps track of where they go with their signed-in mobile devices, even when they are not using a Google service. For both cases, the DPC found that Google breached the GDPR's rules on law...