Identity-based attacks drive 90% of incidents. Learn how modern attackers exploit identities and what SOC leaders can do to respond. The post Inside the Modern SOC: The Identity Front Door appeared first on Unit 42.
A vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager could allow an authenticated, remote attacker to view sensitive information in clear text on an affected system. This vulnerability is due to insufficient access control enforcement for specific template types that are not included in the encryption allowlist. A low-privileged attacker could exploit this vulnerability by viewing logs on the local system or on a remote logging server. A successful exploit coul…
Ten years ago, we launched AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory, a fully managed Microsoft Active Directory in the AWS Cloud. In that original announcement, Jeff Barr described a straightforward promise: “You will spend less time administering and more time working on your applications and your business.” A decade later, AWS Managed Microsoft AD […]
A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul
ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "
A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.
Misconfigured Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets can expose your data to unauthorized access. Without proactive review, S3 bucket policies or Access Control Lists (ACLs) configured with broad access may go unnoticed in your environment. In this post, you learn how to identify and fix over-permissioned S3 buckets across your AWS environment, along with […]
OverviewOn July 27, 2026, JetBrains published a security advisory for CVE-2026-63077, a critical unsafe deserialization vulnerability affecting JetBrains TeamCity. An attacker who can reach a TeamCity server over HTTP or HTTPS can exploit the agent polling protocol without credentials and execute operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process.JetBrains reported no known active exploitation when it disclosed the vulnerability. However, on August 5, 2026, CISA added …
WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the high-severity
Agentic AI armed attackers first, but it also put real building power in defenders’ hands. Here’s what security practitioners built in two days at Black Hat USA 2026, and how the CyberAgents Exchange keeps that work compounding long after the event.Key takeawaysBuilding defensive cybersecurity tooling no longer requires a developer. Agentic tooling drove the cost of finding and exploiting a vulnerability down to 1990s levels; it also removed the engineering barrier that kept defenders from buil…
Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,
A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.
Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and
Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread email-driven phishing campaign" that employs adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) techniques to take control of Microsoft 365 accounts with an aim to identify key personnel involved in financial workflows and gather related email. "The campaign uses residential proxies to disguise malicious sign-ins as ordinary consumer traffic,
PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate human-guided discovery cascade also exposed a zero-day in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where
Entra ID researcher Dirk-jan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signed-in Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longer-term cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token (PRT), and add further authentication methods where tenant policies
A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic's and Google's own coding-agent repositories. On OpenAI's, it was enough to hijack the next agent run. Novee Security ran the attack against each vendor's agent in the configuration that the vendor ships by default, and presented the work at Black Hat USA on August 5.
UNIX systems (including Linux) are well-known to record a lot of activities in many different locations. But there is one domain where they definitely lack of "modern" logging: shells. Most shells provide an historization of the typed commands through a flat file in the $HOME directory (ex: $HOME/.bash_history). They suffer of multiple problems:
Analysis of ChainDrop, an npm supply chain worm extracting GitHub Actions runner secrets and using Ethereum smart contracts for C2 routing. The post ChainDrop: Inside a Self-Propagating npm Worm appeared first on Unit 42.
Customers tell us that managing TLS certificates at scale is one of their biggest operational concerns. The Certification Authority Browser Forum (CA/Browser Forum) has mandated a phased reduction in maximum certificate validity for public certificates. By March 2027, the maximum validity drops to 100 days. By March 2029, it lasts for 47 days. For an […]
The fight against cybercrime continues because threat actors have adapted their strategies to avoid deterrents, but law enforcement still operates in silos.
In the span of three weeks, OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta have all disclosed AI agent sandbox escape events affecting real organizations.
A researcher demonstrated a proof-of-concept attack chain that provided C2-style influence over ChatGPT's isolated sandbox during a session at Black Hat USA 2026.
Two former chief security officers of the Democratic National Committee explain that a strong security-first mindset requires executive support — and a dose of absurdity.
Bulletin ID: 2026-077-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 08/06/2026 11:00 AM PDT Description: Strands Agents is an open-source SDK for building AI agents. The strands-agents-tools package provides pre-built tools for use with the SDK, including the mongodb_memory, elasticsearch_memory, and mem0_memory tools for storing and retrieving agent memories. We identified CVE-2026-19111, an insecure direct object reference (IDOR) issue in the mongodb_memory, el…
In this week's newsletter, Martin looks at how the metaphors we use to describe AI "escaping" its sandbox can completely change how we react to the threat.
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud data storage provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers.
This post assumes familiarity with envelope encryption and the AWS Encryption SDK. When your encryption system generates millions of duplicate API calls per hour, costs spiral and performance degrades. That’s exactly the challenge NICE Actimize faced while operating their global-scale, event-driven financial crime detection platform on Amazon Web Services (AWS). NICE Actimize, a leading provider […]
Written by: Tyler McLellan, Austin Larsen Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) continues to track UNC6671 actively conducting compromises leading to data theft extortion, despite the alleged announced retirement of the BlackFile extortion brand in May 2026. Telemetry and infrastructure analysis reveal that rather than disbanding, UNC6671 has diversified its operations across multiple extortion fronts including Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon. UNC6671 continues to rely on voice p…