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Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit

Attackers Use LLM Agent for Post-Exploitation After Marimo CVE-2026-39987 Exploit

May 29, 2026 Vulnerability / Artificial Intelligence
An unknown threat actor has been observed using a large language model (LLM) agent to conduct post-compromise actions after obtaining initial access following the exploitation of a publicly-accessible Marimo network using a recently disclosed vulnerability. "The attacker compromised an internet-reachable Marimo notebook via CVE-2026-39987, extracted two cloud credentials from the compromised host, replayed them through a fanned-out egress pool to retrieve an SSH private key from AWS Secrets Manager, and used that key to drive eight short SSH sessions against a downstream SSH bastion server," Sysdig said . "The bastion phase exfiltrated the schema and full contents of an internal PostgreSQL database in under two minutes." CVE-2026-39987 refers to a critical pre-authenticated remote code execution vulnerability impacting all versions of Marimo prior to and including 0.20.4. It allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary system commands. The issue...
Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code

Critical Gogs RCE Vulnerability Lets Any Authenticated User Execute Arbitrary Code

May 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Open Source
A critical security vulnerability has been disclosed in Gogs, a popular open-source self-hosted Git service, that allows an authenticated user to execute arbitrary code under certain conditions. The security flaw, per Rapid7, is rated 9.4 on the CVSS scoring system. It does not have a CVE identifier. "The vulnerability allows any authenticated user to achieve remote code execution (RCE) on the server by creating a pull request with a malicious branch name that injects the --exec flag into git rebase during the 'Rebase before merging' merge operation," security researcher Jonah Burgess said . Rebasing is a Git action that's used to take a sequence of commits from one feature branch and replay them on top of another base branch to create a linear project history. While "git rebase" solves the same problem as "git merge" -- i.e., integrating changes from one branch into another -- the former rewrites the project history by creating new c...
Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer

Threat Actors Exploit Critical FortiClient EMS Flaw to Deploy Credential Stealer

May 28, 2026 Vulnerability / Endpoint Security
Threat actors are continuing to exploit a critical, now-patched security flaw impacting FortiClient Endpoint Management Server (EMS) deployments to deliver credential-stealing malware. "The campaign abused trusted endpoint management infrastructure to deliver malware across managed endpoints," Arctic Wolf said . "Threat actors disguised the credential stealer payload as a Fortinet endpoint update, silently executing the malicious executable through PowerShell." The activity, observed by the cybersecurity company in May 2026, involves the exploitation of CVE-2026-35616 (CVSS score: 9.1), a critical pre-authentication API access bypass leading to privilege escalation. The issue was addressed by Fortinet in FortiClient EMS 7.4.7 and later. A successful compromise is followed by the threat actor taking steps to modify configurations to defer firmware upgrade reminders, as well as modifying a Remote Access Profile configuration and endpoint policy to insert a mal...
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Security Plugin, Azure Priv-Esc, Kali365 MFA Bypass, FIFA Scams +15 More

ThreatsDay Bulletin: Claude Security Plugin, Azure Priv-Esc, Kali365 MFA Bypass, FIFA Scams +15 More

May 28, 2026 Hacking News / Cybersecurity News
Every time you think the industry has finally stopped doing some reckless, low-effort crap, somebody spins up a fresh box full of sketchy loaders, fake installers, recycled social-engineering bait, and enough exposed infrastructure to make you wonder if prod is just a public beta now - meanwhile some researcher casually drops a technique that turns a "minor" foothold into total account compromise because apparently six digits and blind trust were all that stood between your vault and getting absolutely pwned. Cool. Great. Love that for us. Then there's the supply chain mess... signed binaries, poisoned updates, legit tooling getting hijacked like it's still 2017, plus a few reports this week that feel less like advanced tradecraft and more like watching skiddies discover low-hanging fruit with enterprise branding slapped on top. The weird part isn't that it works. The weird part is how damn easy it still is. Anyway. Grab caffeine. Let's get into it. ...
Gitea Vulnerability Exposes Private Container Images without Authentication

Gitea Vulnerability Exposes Private Container Images without Authentication

May 27, 2026 Vulnerability / Software Security
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security flaw in Gitea, an open-source, self-hosted platform for version control, that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to pull private container images from Gitea deployments without requiring an account, password, or other credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-27771 (CVSS score: 8.2), affects all versions of Gitea prior to 1.26.2 , which addresses the issue. According to Noscope, the security defect likely impacts more than 30,000 deployments across over 30 countries and went undetected for close to four years. The vast majority of the exposures are in China, the U.S., Germany, France, and the U.K. Affected organizations span healthcare providers, aerospace manufacturers, retail infrastructure, and internet service providers. "On affected versions, the private designation on a container repository did not deliver the protection operators reasonably expected it to," Noscope said . "Gitea's cont...
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