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⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/weekly-recap-cisco-0-day-ai-agent-rce.html A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed systems, weak checks, fake fixes, and attack paths that look almost too easy. Even the research side is getting messy, with more findings, more automation, and not

TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/taskstomp-powershell-backdoor-steals.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor "automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for new files in real time, steals Wi-Fi passwords and clipboard contents, takes screenshots, and accepts arbitrary

ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/clickfix-lures-deploy-chainscript-rat.html Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. "ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66, while presenting itself as Spotify, Zoom Workplace, and Microsoft Teams software," Blackpoint Adversary Pursuit Group (APG)

Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/jade-sleet-linked-to-indian-it-provider.html The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based "much smaller organization" in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again highlighting how the adversary continues to target developers to breach target networks. Cybersecurity company SentinelOne, which disclosed details of the activity, said it involved the use of Apple

Can You Prove a New CVE Is Exploitable Before Attackers Do? Learn How in This Webinar https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/can-you-prove-new-cve-is-exploitable.html A new CVE drops. Your scanner finds it. The severity score looks ugly. But that still does not answer the question that matters: Can it actually be exploited in your environment? Mythos-class AI is compressing the time between disclosure and working exploitation, while many security programs still validate risk on weekly or quarterly cycles. The dangerous gap is no longer just technical. It is

Identity Visibility in 2026: The Foundation of Identity Security https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/identity-visibility-in-2026-foundation.html Identity visibility is a starting point for modern identity security, because stolen and misused credentials are among the most frequently reported initial access vectors in breach research, including Verizon's annual Data Breach Investigations Report. This article explains what identity visibility means in IAM, why cloud and multicloud environments complicate it, which capabilities matter in

Claude Opus 5 Helped Researchers Take Over OpenAI Staff Accounts via Chained Flaws https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/claude-opus-5-helped-researchers-take.html Three researchers at the security firm Hacktron used Anthropic's Claude Opus 5 to chain two flaws and take over the ChatGPT and Codex accounts of several OpenAI employees, then reach an internal OpenAI code repository. The chain began with a bug in the software that runs OpenAI's public help forum and moved through a weakness in OpenAI's own login system. This was security research,

SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/solarwinds-patches-arm-hard-coded-key.html SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-28326, is rated 8.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. The issue affects all versions of Access Rights Manager 2026.2 and prior. "SolarWinds

‘Nudify’ apps: What to do if someone makes a fake nude of you https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/privacy/nudify-apps-fake-nude-you/ Whether you’re a victim, the parent of a victim, or just concerned, here’s what you can do about fake nude images

Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/critical-pre-auth-rce-in-orkes.html A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case of unauthenticated remote code execution. "Orkes Conductor 3.21.21 before 3.30.2 contains an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability that allows remote

Google Gemini Broke Into Real Company Systems After Security Test Domain Mix-Up https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/google-gemini-broke-into-real-company.html Google's Gemini model has become the latest artificial intelligence (AI) system to access the internet and break into other companies during a cybersecurity evaluation. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The incidents occurred in May 2026 as part of a test run conducted by Israeli company Irregular. The evaluation partner was also involved in similar hacks disclosed

CrowdSec Says TanStack npm Attack Led to Copy of 170 Private GitHub Repositories https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/crowdsec-says-tanstack-npm-attack-led.html An attacker copied about 170 of CrowdSec's private GitHub repositories on May 22 using the account of an employee who had just left, CrowdSec said on September 18. The French security company had kept his GitHub access open. CrowdSec says his laptop was compromised in May's supply chain attack on TanStack, in which malicious versions of TanStack's npm packages stole credentials from

CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/cisa-flags-three-linux-kernel.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2025-39682 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An improper check for unusual or exceptional conditions vulnerability in the TLS receive path

Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/public-exploits-released-for-four-linux.html A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so a system running an up-to-date kernel is not affected. But the exploit code is now public, and any machine still running an older kernel should be updated. The flaws

New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/new-wordpress-click2shell-flaw-forces.html WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org directory without anyone clicking Install. The security firm pwn.ai, whose researchers reported the flaw, calls the attack chain Click2Shell. On its own the flaw only

Transparent Tribe Deploys New Rust Backdoor Using Private GitHub Repositories for C2 https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/transparent-tribe-deploys-new-rust.html The Pakistan-aligned threat group tracked as Transparent Tribe (aka APT36 and Earth Karkaddan) has been attributed to a fresh set of cyber attacks targeting government and defense entities in India and Afghanistan. The attacks, per Zscaler ThreatLabz, involve the use of previously undocumented tools called RUSTYSHADE, RUSTYMOVE, PSNATCH, and BASHNATCH. The activity has been codenamed Operation

Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/microsoft-patches-cvss-100-azure-ai.html Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. "Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network,"

An Abandoned CDN Domain Was Re-Registered. Thousands of Sites Still Call It. https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/an-abandoned-cdn-domain-was-re.html In July 2025, someone registered a domain that used to belong to a content delivery network.  The CDN had been wound down years earlier, and the domain it served assets from was allowed to expire. What it had not lost were its callers. Thousands of websites, code repositories, and documentation pages still carry hard-coded references to hostnames beneath it.  The new owner holds

Plugin4Shell Lets Repository Owners Swap Pinned Plugin Code Across Four AI Coding Agents https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/plugin4shell-lets-repository-owners.html A flaw in four widely used AI coding agents lets someone who controls a plugin's code repository swap the plugin an agent installs for a malicious one, even when the agent locked that plugin to a specific reviewed version, security firm Air Security said on Thursday. The firm said Anthropic has patched the flaw in Claude Code 2.1.179 and OpenAI in Codex 0.146.0, that GitHub Copilot has no

WeaselBiscuit Stealer Spreads via 13 npm Packages to Harvest Chrome Extension Storage https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/weaselbiscuit-stealer-spreads-via-13.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 13 npm packages that have been found to deliver a previously undocumented JavaScript stealer codenamed WeaselBiscuit. The new malware family, per OpenSourceMalware, exhibits functional overlaps with two malware strains associated with the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's (DPRK) Contagious Interview campaign: BeaverTail and