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A researcher has reverse-engineered the iOS SDK that Bright Data embeds in consumer apps and documented how, with the user's consent, it can turn devices, including always-on smart TVs, into exit nodes that relay web-scraping traffic for a data business Bright Data markets heavily to the AI industry. The company, the successor to Luminati, operates what it calls the largest residential proxy network in the world, advertised at more than 400 million residential IPs. Part of that supply comes from this SDK, shipped inside free apps behind an opt-in screen and described by Bright Data as a consent-sourced pool of 150 million-plus IPs. The findings, published June 5 by  Include Security  and independent researcher Buchodi, matter because the scraping comes from the user's home IP, not the customer's. The immediate risk is not a hacked account or stolen data; it is that a home connection and its bandwidth get used as someone else's scraping infrastructure. A connec...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity security flaw impacting SolarWinds Serv-U multi-protocol file server software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28318 (CVSS score: 7.5), is a denial-of-service (DoS) bug that causes the service to crash under certain conditions. CISA described it as an uncontrolled resource consumption vulnerability that results in a DoS condition. "SolarWinds Serv-U is susceptible to specially crafted POST requests that crash the Serv-U service without authentication using Content-Encoding: deflate," SolarWinds said in an advisory released earlier this week. The issue has been addressed in SolarWinds Serv-U version 15.5.4 HF1. As mitigations, it's advised to limit access to known addresses and block any request containing "content-encoding" since the vulnerable service does not r...

Two things landed within days of each other this week. A security startup reported 21 previously unknown vulnerabilities in FFmpeg, the media library inside almost everything that touches video, all of them found by an autonomous AI agent. The same week, Google shipped Chrome 149 with patches for 429 security bugs, the most ever in a single release. Only the FFmpeg bugs were found by AI. Chrome's record landed after Google overhauled its bounty program to cope with a flood of AI-generated reports. The mechanisms differ, but the pressure is the same: AI is putting more vulnerabilities in front of the people who have to deal with them, and faster than before. The FFmpeg findings come from depthfirst , whose autonomous security agent scanned the project's roughly 1.5 million lines of C and produced 21 confirmed zero-days, each with a reproducible proof-of-concept input. The company puts the cost of the run at around $1,000. Several of the bugs had been latent for 15 to 2...

Microsoft's GitHub repositories have become the latest to fall victim to the ongoing Miasma self-replicating supply chain attack campaign. The incident impacted 73 Microsoft repositories across four of its GitHub organizations, including Azure, Azure-Samples, Microsoft, and MicrosoftDocs, per OpenSourceMalware . The development has prompted GitHub to disable access to those repositories. "Access to this repository has been disabled by GitHub Staff due to a violation of GitHub's terms of service," reads the message when attempting to access the " Azure/azure-functions-host " repository. "If you are the owner of the repository, you may reach out to GitHub Support for more information." According to OpenSourceMalware, some of the repositories impacted by the incident are listed below - azure-search-openai-demo-purviewdatasecurity Connectors-NET-LSP Connectors-NET-SDK durabletask durabletask-dotnet durabletask-go durablet...

Cisco has warned that a high-severity security flaw impacting Catalyst SD-WAN Manager has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20245 , carries a CVSS score of 7.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. It affects the following deployment types - On-Prem Deployment Cisco SD-WAN Cloud-Pro Cisco SD-WAN Cloud (Cisco Managed) Cisco SD-WAN for Government (FedRAMP) "A vulnerability in the CLI of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, could allow an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root by supplying a crafted file to the affected system," Cisco said in an advisory. The network security company said the vulnerability is the result of insufficient validation of user-supplied input, which an attacker could exploit by uploading a crafted file to the affected system. This, in turn, could permit the attacker to perform command injection attacks and elevate their privileges as the root user. "To...

Multiple software supply chain attacks have hit the npm ecosystem, with threat actors using both malicious and poisoned versions of over 50 legitimate packages to distribute a Rust-based information stealer and a self-spreading worm, respectively. According to JFrog , the information stealer "scrapes every secret it can find on a developer's machine, hides behind an eBPF kernel rootkit, and answers to its operator over Tor." The stealer also uses the stolen credentials as a propagation mechanism, drawing similarities to the infamous Shai-Hulud worm. The new malware has been codenamed IronWorm by the software supply chain security company. By publishing itself to the npm registry in the form of trojanized packages, the approach results in a self-replicating attack. The malicious activity has been traced back to a compromised npm account named " asteroiddao ," which has been found to publish package versions containing the Rust ELF binary that's exec...

Arabic-speaking users have emerged as the target of a new Android spyware codenamed Asin , according to findings from ESET. The Slovakian cybersecurity company said it first detected the malware spread via multiple campaigns in early 2025, with each attack wave making use of distinct websites mimicking utilities, war-related updates, and a government news source: govlens[.]net, which impersonates a government news source (registered on May 27, 2025) pdf-reader[.]help, which impersonates a secure PDF editor (registered on May 29, 2025) live-war-map[.]com, which claims to offer updates on military incidents (registered on January 20, 2025) Two of these websites - govlens[.]net and live-war-map[.]com - were also marketed via dedicated accounts on social media platforms like Facebook and Telegram - www.facebook[.]com/GovLens t[.]me/liveuamap_ar "Each of these websites distributes a malicious app that combines legitimate functionality with stealthy spyware ca...