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Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/microsoft-365-aitm-phishing-hijacks.html 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,

AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-assisted-http-terminator-finds-novel.html 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 attack 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 scanning

New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-natjack-attacks-hijack-tcp-sessions.html 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

Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/malware-can-abuse-windows-hello-for.html 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, disclose victim IP addresses and mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, Stagg said the techniques were demonstrated across network infrastructure devices

Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/claude-code-and-gemini-cli-flaws-let.html 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.

TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/teampcp-linked-to-redis-attacks-dating.html A new analysis has uncovered that the threat actor tracked as TeamPCP has been active on the cybercrime scene as far back as 2020, indicating the group has been compromising internet-facing infrastructure for years before training their sights on the software supply chain. "The connection is supported by overlapping domains, malware deployment paths, staging techniques, backend infrastructure,

New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-zapscape-kvm-flaw-could-let.html Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-64561 and affects KVM/x86's shadow memory management unit (MMU), which manages shadow page

Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.8 CVSS Score Bugs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisco-patches-12-sd-wan-and-ios-xe.html Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode. "These vulnerabilities were found

New Interrupt Injection Attack Can Bypass Spectre v2 Defenses on Intel and AMD CPUs https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-interrupt-injection-attack-can.html An unprivileged Linux program can time a hardware interrupt to land in the gap between a processor sanitizing its branch predictor and the kernel using it, re-poisoning the predictor after the defense has run. MIT CSAIL researchers Daniël Trujillo and Mengjia Yan named the technique INTERRUPT INJECTION. On an AMD Zen 2 machine running Linux 6.14 with every default Spectre v2 mitigation on,

ThreatsDay: Odysseus RCE, Samsung One-Click Takeover, iCloud Backdoor Fight + 27 More Stories https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/threatsday-odysseus-rce-samsung-one.html Apparently, opening the thing is now enough. A repo can run before the first prompt, a package can hide among hundreds, and a harmless-looking PDF can finish the job. This week runs on cheap leverage: exposed servers, recycled bugs, poisoned agent instructions, remote-access tools dressed as support software, and trusted defaults doing attackers a favor. Nothing here is especially mystical.

Over 4,400 Rockwell PLCs Exposed Online, 22 Found in Water Attack Cities https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/over-4400-rockwell-plcs-exposed-online.html Forescout found 22 internet-facing Rockwell Automation programmable logic controllers (PLCs) in cities hit by recent cyberattacks on US water utilities. Nineteen used the same mobile carrier network. Its August 3 scan counted 4,407 exposed Rockwell controllers worldwide, including 2,844 in the United States, but Forescout could not confirm any were compromised. That figure counts exposed

CryptoJS Weak RNG Behind $5.7 Million in Drains Affects Five Crypto Wallet Apps https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cryptojs-weak-rng-behind-57-million-in.html Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery phrases. Coinspect's on-chain analysis puts the measured theft across two sweeps since late May at a lower bound of

Apple iCloud Private Relay Can Expose Real IPs Through WebKit Proxy Bypasses https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/webkit-proxy-bypasses-can-expose-real.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a security issue with Apple's iCloud Private Relay tool that can expose a user's real IP address. Introduced with iOS 15, iCloud Private Relay employs a dual-hop architecture to ensure users' privacy by routing their Safari web traffic through two relays so that no single third-party, including Apple, can determine where the request is originating from

AI Recommendation Poisoning: How "Ask AI" Buttons Silently Alter LLM Memory https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ai-recommendation-poisoning-how-ask-ai.html A new class of prompt injection is spreading across commercial websites. It requires no malware, no stolen credentials, and no zero-day exploit. It abuses a standard feature built into almost every major AI assistant: pre-filled deep links. We observed production websites embedding hidden prompt injection payloads inside "Ask AI" buttons on marketing and competitor comparison pages. When a user

Attackers Compile khunt Inside Oracle to Turn SQL Injection Into Windows SYSTEM Access https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-compile-khunt-inside-oracle.html Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. They fed Java source code to the database, let Oracle compile it into stored schema objects, and ran commands from inside the database engine. Huntress, which tracks the toolkit as khunt,

AWS, Google, and Vercel Agent Flaws Let Attackers Trigger Tools Without Running the Model https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/aws-google-and-vercel-patch-agent-flaws.html Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. In several of the attack paths, the model never ran at all, so system prompts, content filters, and model-level guardrails never got a chance to intervene. The affected products include Amazon

Chinese-Made Zbtlink Routers Ship With Backdoor That Opens Unauthenticated Root Shells https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/chinese-made-zbtlink-routers-ship-with.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "factory-shipped backdoor" implanted in at least 20 Chinese router models from Zbtlink. According to a new report from VulnCheck, the implant appears in all 21 firmware images currently available from Zbtlink that span more than 2 years. The backdoors are designed such that they start automatically and attempt to beacon to Chinese

Ransom Cartel Creator Gets 16 Years in Prison for Operating Ransomware-as-a-Service https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/ransom-cartel-creator-gets-16-years-in.html A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, sentenced Maksim Silnikau to 16 years in prison on August 5 for creating and running Ransom Cartel, the ransomware-as-a-service operation he stood up in 2021. Between 2021 and 2023, Ransom Cartel conspirators attacked at least 18 companies, including firms in California, New York and Nebraska, and others abroad, according to the Justice Department.

CISA Flags TeamCity CVE-2026-63077 RCE Flaw Under Active Exploitation in the Wild https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/cisa-flags-teamcity-cve-2026-63077-rce.html A newly patched security flaw impacting on-premise versions of JetBrains TeamCity has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of deserialization of untrusted data that could allow an unauthenticated attacker with access to a TeamCity server

Snowflake Hacker Pleads Guilty Over Breaches Affecting at Least 100 Million People https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/snowflake-hacker-pleads-guilty-over.html Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records belonging to at least 100 million people. Moucka, 26, of Kitchener, Ontario, personally took at least $495,000 from