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n8n , the workflow automation platform, handed out the wrong accounts at login. On Enterprise instances configured to trust more than one external token issuer, it matched an incoming JWT to a local user on the  sub  claim alone and ignored  iss . A valid token from issuer A carrying a  sub  that belongs to someone under issuer B logged you in as them. Their password never came into it. n8n shipped the fix on June 24. The flaw is tracked as  CVE-2026-59208 . The CVE record did not go public until July 9. n8n  credits the report  to the GitHub account bearsyankees , whose profile lists Strix, which makes an AI penetration testing agent. Strix  says  it pointed out that the agent at the token-exchange flow and found the identity-binding bug there. Two issuers, one account Token exchange is n8n's Enterprise route for  OEM partners who embed the product , an  RFC 8693 implementation  that spares their users a second...

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a new modular malware called TELEPUZ that's been spreading via websites infected with ClickFix lures since late April 2026. "The malware is full-featured, lightweight, and modular," Elastic Security Labs researcher Cyril François said in a technical report. "While the number of C2 [command-and-control] domains is currently small, the daily volume of builds uploaded to VirusTotal and the rapid pace of updates indicate active development and likely further growth." The disclosure makes it the second new threat cluster after SCMBANKER to be propagated via ClickFix , a pervasive social engineering attack that tricks users into manually running malicious commands by disguising them as innocent fixes for fake browser errors, software updates, or CAPTCHA verifications. Underpinning the technique is an approach called clipboard hijacking. Because web pages using ClickFix inject malicious script or commands i...

ClickLock Stealer , a new macOS infostealer, answers a victim's refusal by killing their apps on a loop until they hand over the login password. It arrives as a command pasted into Terminal, asks for the password behind a fake system dialog, and when the victim cancels, installs two LaunchAgents and quietly exits. At the next login, Finder, the Dock, Spotlight, Terminal, Activity Monitor, and the major browsers start dying every 210 milliseconds, for up to 83 hours, leaving one password box on a dead desktop. Type it, and the machine gives up the Keychain, the browser credentials, and the crypto wallets. Group-IB's telemetry counts at least 100 targets across 33 countries since May, over half of them in Europe. Its analysts assume from the code structure that the malware is still under development. Uploaded to VirusTotal on June 9, the orchestrator script had  zero detections  there when Group-IB analyzed it. And the analysts never found the front door. They have the ...

More than 20 Brazilian government websites were hijacked and turned into malware delivery channels in an active PhantomEnigma campaign uncovered by ANY.RUN , a leading provider of interactive malware analysis and threat intelligence solutions. The investigation revealed previously undocumented backdoor behavior, hidden infrastructure relationships, and multiple attack arms behind a campaign putting banks and public agencies at risk. By connecting hundreds of seemingly unrelated sandbox sessions, ANY.RUN researchers exposed the operation’s broader scope and showed how trusted .gov.br links and authenticated emails helped the activity remain hidden. For the complete technical analysis, infrastructure details, indicators, and detection guidance, read the full PhantomEnigma investigation report Trusted Government Infrastructure Became the Lure The attack began with fake police-themed documents presented as official “Ofício Polícia Civil” or “Procuração Digital” notices. Some ...

Ask an AI agent to summarize the reviews on a product page, and a single planted review can make it click "Buy Now" instead. Ask a coding assistant to apply a maintainer's fix from a GitHub thread, and a fake comment can make it run a stranger's command on your computer. Neither trick hijacks the agent's task. Each one just corrupts the facts it trusts and lets it carry on with the job you asked for. That is the shape of a new class of attack laid out in a  paper posted July 6  by researchers from Seoul National University, the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Largosoft. They call it agent data injection , or ADI. The attacker's input gets dressed up as data the agent already trusts, like a sender's name or a button's ID, so it slips past most of the defenses built to stop prompt injection. The gap comes from how an agent reads. It takes in two kinds of things: instructions, meaning what you and the app's developer tell it to d...

An advanced malware previously attributed to a China-linked threat actor has resurfaced after more than four years within a Taiwan manufacturing firm, along with a previously unreported backdoor dubbed Stupig . Daxin ("srt64.sys"), as the kernel-mode rootkit is referred to, was first documented by Broadcom-owned Symantec in March 2022, with evidence indicating its use in targeted attacks aimed at governments and other critical infrastructure targets since 2013. The latest findings from the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team show that Daxin is still operational, after it was found running on a compromised host in Taiwan in 2026. The same machine, belonging to a Taiwan-based subsidiary of a multinational high-tech manufacturer, is also said to have been infected with Stupig ("a.dll" or "kbdus1.dll"). The file name is an attempt to masquerade as "kbdus.dll," a legitimate Microsoft DLL associated with the U.S. English keyboard layout...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is changing offensive security, but it has not changed the standard that matters most: a finding has to be proven before it becomes useful. AI-assisted tools can read code quickly, generate payloads, summarize attack surfaces, explain unfamiliar APIs, and run repetitive testing workflows at impressive speed. That is a real advantage for security teams. It also creates a new kind of pressure, because the industry can now produce more vulnerability-looking output than ever before. The problem is that output is not the same as evidence. A generated report can sound polished, include a severity rating, and even contain a proof-of-concept that looks reasonable at first glance. None of that proves the bug exists in the deployed environment. None of it proves exploitability, impact, or risk. In offensive testing, the hard part has never been writing something that sounds like a vulnerability report. The hard part is demonstrating what is actually true. That d...