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Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others.  Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to harvest a wide range of data from compromised systems. This can include credential, session tokens, and API keys. Once the data is stolen, threat actors who have purchased access to these off-the-shelf offerings put them up for sale on underground forums in the form of stealer logs to enable follow-on attacks. "Session tokens and API keys are sought specifically by threat actors because it is often possible to replay those secrets and bypass credential-based authentication," Jeremy Kirk, director of threat intelligence at Okta, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Once successfully replayed, a threat actor is effectively logged in to an LLM service without actua...

A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and research, that delay matters more. The challenge is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It is reducing the time between disclosure, exposure assessment, and response. Register now for our next live expert webinar, " Outpacing AI-Era Attacks Starts With Faster Time to Answer ," to see how the Tines security team approaches that problem. See How Tines Built a Faster Exposure View In this webinar, Tines Co-founder and CCO Thomas Kinsella and Senior Security Operations Engineer Andrew Katz will show how their security team brings multiple sources of exposure data into one interactive view.

Bitcoin wallet company Alby has  warned of a critical flaw  in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet. Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own computer or server, and it holds their bitcoin. The flaw affects versions v1.7.0 through v1.18.5, all released before August 2025, and Alby said one user has been affected so far. Versions v1.19.0 and later do not have the flaw. The first release with that fix was published on August 29, 2025, so a Hub updated to any release published since then is not affected. Alby is telling anyone still on an older build to stop outside access to the Hub's management interface first, which is the web page used to control the wallet. The next step is to update to  v1.24.0 , the current release. The company has not said what the flaw is. It said it would publish full details later, in l...

U.S. cybersecurity and intelligence agencies have accused China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies of conducting "systematic extraction" of proprietary functionalities and capabilities of American frontier models through distillation attacks. The activity has been described as occurring at an industrial-scale and one that forms the "core" of their AI development strategy, according to a bulletin released by the National Security Agency (NSA), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). "While 'distillation' is recognized as a legitimate and useful technique in AI research, China-based AI companies are engaging in aggressive, malicious, and targeted distillation activities at an industrial scale that extract restricted proprietary functionalities and capabilities of U.S. frontier AI models," the authoring agencies said . The joint advisory noted that Chinese AI firms l...

SAP has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) Processing that could have a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44756 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been described as a case of memory corruption. Discovered and reported by SAP security company Onapsis, it has been codenamed OVERPASS . The flaw, which resides in the SAP kernel's processing of the Extended Passport (EPP), is exploitable remotely and without authentication, and allows bad actors to run arbitrary operating system commands on the SAP host with SAP administrative privileges, leading to a total compromise of the underlying SAP business data and processes. CVE-2026-44756 stems from a missing boundary validation during the deserialization of EPP data, leading to a memory safety violation when processing externally supplied length fields. An unauthe...

A previously undocumented financially motivated threat actor has been linked to attacks targeting Brazilian financial institutions since at least March 2026. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking the Brazil-based activity cluster under the name Slim Spider . "The adversary demonstrates deep operational knowledge of Brazilian financial infrastructure, including the instant payment service Pix, digital asset platforms, and financial entities' cloud environments," CrowdStrike said . Slim Spider has been observed orchestrating a multi-stage intrusion at a Brazil-based financial institution in late March 2026, setting its sights on the entity's cryptocurrency assets and instant payment accounts. As part of the attack, the e-crime group is said to have developed custom Bash scripts that query the cloud instance metadata to steal temporary cloud credentials over socket connections. Upon establishing access to the organization's cloud environment, the t...

Check Point Research said in a report published today that a single instruction planted in a ChatGPT conversation could cause ChatGPT to quietly work for an attacker while answering the user's question as usual. In the company's proof of concept, that hidden work read data from the user's connected Gmail account and passed it to a second ChatGPT account through a hidden channel between the two. The reply the user saw said nothing about it. Check Point said the same channel could also copy out the chat history and the files in that conversation. How much an attacker could take depended on what the session could already access, including its data, tools, other connected apps, and permissions. The instruction had to be in the conversation before any of this worked. Check Point named three ways to get it there: a prompt the user pastes in, a shared ChatGPT conversation the user opens, or a custom GPT that holds it in its builder instructions, which are not shown to th...

Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations , with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six hours. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) said it has observed attackers with diverse motivations targeting proprietary AI models across healthcare, government, and media sectors, exfiltrating API credentials, and co-opting victim cloud environments to sustain unauthorized AI workloads. This highlights growing attacker focus on enterprise AI assets for espionage, extortion, and resource theft. "At this point, we can assume that all threat actors are using AI in some capacity and their operations have benefited," John Hultquist, chief analyst at GTIG, said in a statement shared with The Hacker News. "Like everyone else, we're concerned about the vulnerability problem, but AI is being applie...

In the last six months, Chainguard doubled its output from 500 million to more than 1 billion container build manifests. We also surpassed 3,000 unique container images and 675,000 image versions in our catalog. Those are the headline numbers, but I want to share what's actually behind them. The number itself is less interesting than the system that produced it, and why we had to fundamentally rethink that system to get here. What a build manifest actually represents Let’s be precise about what we're counting. How do we define a “build manifest”? Think of it as every time the Chainguard Factory produces a new, verifiable artifact: a fresh image for go:1.26.5 , a rebuild of nginx triggered by a libc patch, a new architecture variant, a regenerated SBOM after a dependency change - all these events cause a new build and therefore new artifacts. At our scale, a single project like Python might have dozens of supported versions, each with multiple architecture builds, each r...

Threat hunters have disclosed details of a widespread data theft and extortion threat cluster that's targeting Microsoft 365 and other software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings through information technology (IT) help desk vishing, adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) token theft, and residential-proxy sign-ins. The activity, which mainly singles out directors, vice presidents, and other executive staff, is being tracked by Arctic Wolf under the moniker PREY-0058 . The operation shares significant tradecraft similarities with a data extortion group that Google-owned Mandiant calls UNC6671 . It also said that the data extortion threat actor known as Cinder likely represents yet another rebrand or a possible continuation of Pink operations, citing overlaps between organizations listed on the Cinder leak site and those connected to Pink. It's worth noting that the ever-evolving labels do not correspond to a single proven actor identity, but rather an amorphous set of affiliates, s...

Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on. Elsewhere, a trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol designed for secure network management gave outsiders useful clues before login. Add active attacks on browsers, routers, and online stores, and there’s plenty to check—even for teams that have kept up with the patches. Read the full recap for the week’s major developments, plus more research, attacks, and security news beyond what we covered last week. ⚡ Threat of the Week N-able Patches Critical N-central Flaws — N-able has released hotfixes to address two severe N-central flaws (CVE-2026-86206 and CVE-2026-86207) that could allow an unauthorized party to bypass authentication controls and gain full access to the platform. ...

If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn't hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index , Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like. How risk differs across cloud providers Intruder grouped every misconfiguration into one of six categories: weak identity and access management (IAM), missing logging, misconfigured services, permissive firewalls, exposed services, and weak encryption. For each category, they compared how many accounts had at least one issue in it across the three providers. Weak IAM controls and missing logging are near-universal, affecting between 80% and 98% of accounts regardless of provider. The other four categories are where things diverge: Exposed services: AWS (76%) , Azure (64%) , Google Cloud (8%) Permissive firewalls: AWS...

JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their Cadence executions," JetBrains said . "They should also treat all executions, including their inputs and outputs in your Cadence project, as potentially untrusted." "As the threat actors gained access to the Cadence server, any credentials or secrets stored in Cadence, contained in the compromised backup, or made available to executions on the affected server should be considered compromised and must be revoked or rotated." Cadence is a JetBrains-hosted cloud computing service that integrates with PyCharm via an optional plugin to let developers run machine learning and heavy workloads on cloud...

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki , a German software developer wiki that runs on the ProWiki farm at wikiservice[.]at and had been edited about 20 times over the previous decade. The researchers, led by Sydney Von Arx of the AI safety nonprofit  Nightingale Collective , reconstructed the deleted pages from edit history and published their analysis along with a downloadable copy of the data. The wikis let anyone change a page with an ordinary web request, the kind normally used only to read a page rather than to write one. Agents that were restricted to reading the internet could therefore still write to the site, because the restriction was written a...

The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door? That idea runs through this edition. Attackers use real tools, fake login pages, old account links, and software guides that point to unsafe downloads. One wrong letter in a web address can be enough. There is also ransomware, stolen ID data, hidden attack servers, and weak settings that should have been fixed long ago. Here’s the full list. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out.

Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track , the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West Publishing said it discovered the activity on June 30, 2026. A subset of court records could contain individuals' names, Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers, dates of birth, medical information, and health insurance information, the company said. The firm is offering potentially affected individuals 12 months of Experian IdentityWorks credit monitoring, with enrollment open until December 31, 2026, using a multi-use code published in the notice, and a hotline at 1-833-918-5294 that requires the engagement number B171847. In Canada, Thomson Reuters Canada Limited is offering 12 months of TransUnion myTrueIdentity monitoring with a call center scheduled to open on September 4. "...

An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campaign spanning 46 countries. Around 45% of observed activity was associated with the United States , making it the campaign's top geographic target. ANY.RUN research connected 601 cases to the wider operation, which uses fake documents to trick victims into installing legitimate remote monitoring and management (RMM) software. The attackers adapt their lures to different targets, using shipping and UPS communications, Adobe PDFs, tax notices, US Social Security Administration themes, invoices, and other documents. Rapidly rotated, disposable Vercel infrastructure makes the campaign harder to track and detect. US-First Threat with Daily Infrastructure Rotation Threat overview by ANY.RUN The campaign’s infrastructure changes significantly faster than its attack pattern. ANY.RUN researchers identifi...

In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments , Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs. Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have stopped trying to break trust relationships and started using the credentials that already make those relationships work. Software supply chains have always depended on trust.  Developers trust package registries. Organizations trust maintainers. CI/CD systems trust the credentials and identities they're given. Applications trust the dependencies they pull down during a build.  Attackers realized they don't need to break any of that. They just needed to find where the credentials and standing privileges already sit. This is what is driving the current focus on software supply ...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive functionality and perform unauthorized operations.  CVE-2026-83549 (CVSS score: 7.8) - A post-authentication operating system command injection vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that could enable a remote authenticated attacker as administrator to execute arbitrary OS commands, resulting in remote code execution. CVE-2026-9586 (CVSS score: 9.3) - An SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL statements against the backend PostgreSQL...

The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to move fast. Organizations must focus on adopting AI at business speed without losing control of cyber risk. Download the full eBook here.   The Business Reality   In Sygnia’s 2026 CISO Survey Report , which surveyed 600 senior IT and security leaders worldwide, nearly one-third already report extensive AI use across threat detection and IR, with 63% expecting it to be fully embedded in their organization by 2027. 1 Yet 73% of IT security decision makers say their organization would not be fully ready if a significant cyberattack occurred tomorrow. 1 Security teams feel they do not have adequate time to adapt. The tools are being deployed. The governance, controls, and incident readiness to support them are not. Security leaders are now tasked with enabling AI adoption while reducing the inheri...