An automated roundup of 35 notable cybersecurity article(s) from the last 36 hours, aggregated from 5 source(s). Descriptions are pulled directly from each publisher's feed; follow the links for the full articles.
Krebs on Security
FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses
A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it…
BleepingComputer
Hackers abuse Faronics Deploy admin tool to install ScreenConnect
Phishing actors are abusing the legitimate Faronics Deploy endpoint-management platform to gain remote administrative control over victim computers and install the ScreenConnect remote support software. [...]
Aesto Health says data breach affects over 9.5 million patients
Aesto LLC, operating as Aesto Health, disclosed that a data breach discovered recently affects more than 9.5 million individuals. [...]
Critical Langflow flaw exploited to steal OpenAI and AWS keys
Threat actors are exploiting an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-0768) in Langflow, an open-source framework for building AI applications, to steal credentials, tokens, and keys. [...]
Hackers push malicious Virtualizor update in BGP hijacking attack
Hackers delivered malicious updates to the Virtualizor VPS management software after hijacking BGP routing for its update infrastructure and redirecting update requests to malicious servers. [...]
Novocure data breach affects more than 1,400 cancer patients
Healthtech company Novocure says the data of an undisclosed number of employees and more than 1,400 U.S. cancer patients has been exposed in a mid-August cyberattack. [...]
Why Even the Best Edge Security Still Misses High-Risk Sessions
Attackers can hide behind residential proxies, VPNs, and other infrastructure that makes malicious sessions appear legitimate to existing edge security controls. Spur explains how session enrichment adds data points that help organizations identify risky sessions and make…
Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to hijack attacks
Nearly 22,000 Microsoft Exchange servers exposed online remain unpatched against a high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability that allows attackers to hijack all user mailboxes. [...]
Five Venezuelans plead guilty to ATM jackpotting attacks in US
Five Venezuelan nationals pleaded guilty to attempting to empty automated teller machines (ATMs) using malware in a series of ATM jackpotting attacks. [...]
Recently patched PaperCut zero-days used in data theft attacks
Two security vulnerabilities in the PaperCut NG and MF print management software, patched last week after being exploited as zero-days, are now being abused in data theft attacks. [...]
Cronos blockchain restarts after $74 million Tectonic exploit
The Cronos blockchain network has resumed trading activity after a price-manipulation attack on the Tectonic cryptocurrency lending platform allowed an attacker to borrow $74 million. [...]
Microsoft warns of TerminalFix attacks deploying reverse tunnels
A new ClickFix variant dubbed TerminalFix uses fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA prompts on compromised websites to trick victims into running malicious PowerShell commands in Windows Terminal. [...]
The Hacker News
Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure
Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to…
Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems
Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as…
13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target Unpatched iPhones to Steal Crypto Wallet Seeds
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS…
Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests
The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote…
Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones
The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique…
Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents"…
Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in…
Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity
Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability…
Dark Reading
Old, Unpatched Flaws Give Attackers Access to Philippines Nuclear Agency
Threat actors exploited commodity in ownCloud to gain initial access, resulting in stolen reactor databases, personnel records, and credential stores.
Attackers Pounce on Critical Artifactory Flaw Following Disclosure
CVE-2026-82329 is an authentication bypass flaw in JFrog's repository manager that enables bad actors to gain admin-level access on affected systems.
Stronger Security Drives Ransomware Groups to Recruit From Within
Some security researchers have observed an uptick in insider-assisted ransomware attacks, but malicious insiders pose other threats that cost companies millions.
Critical Langflow Flaw Exploited as Attacks on AI Platform Rise
The attacks targeting CVE-2026-0768 are the latest threat against the low-code AI development platform, which is receiving more attention from adversaries this year.
AI Model Evaluator METR Hit by Credential Theft, Probing
In one attack, threat actors stole an API key that ultimately led to the consumption of $600,000 in public AI model credits for the security nonprofit.
ClickFix Campaign Compromises 31 Orgs, Abuses Polygon Blockchain
The campaign uses EtherHiding to dynamically update its command-and-control server, abusing the blockchain as an attacker-controlled address book.
Anthropic Users Hit by Infostealer Attacks, Session Thefts
A threat actor used a variety of infostealers to collect session information and access Claude accounts belonging to an unknown number of users.
'TerminalFix' Campaign Weaponizes PowerShell for Enterprise Attacks
The ClickFix-style campaign features a sophisticated, multistage attack chain that includes reverse tunnels into victim organizations' networks.
The Guardrails Debate: Security Researcher Changes His Mind
While guardrails are critical, as evidenced by recent high-profile incidents, defenders need help staying ahead of attackers who do not play by the rules.
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SANS Internet Storm Center
Guildma (Astaroth) malware infection from Brazilian Portuguese email, (Tue, Sep 1st)
Introduction
The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary, (Mon, Aug 31st)
One of my internet-exposed inference honeypots was discovered, relabeled with sought-after model names, and incorporated into infrastructure apparently used to provide "free" LLM backends. It then received a real coding-agent session &#;x26;#;xe2;&#;x26;#;x80;&#;x26;#;x94;…