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🖋️ Growing Up The Hard Way 🖋️

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,.

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🖋️ UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data 🖋️

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.

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🖋️ 18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers 🖋️

A useafterfree 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.

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🖋️ New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution - Patch ASAP 🖋️

WordPress has fixed a preauthentication reflected crosssite 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 loggedin administrator interacts with an attackercontrolled page. Tracked as CVE202664638 CVSS score 8.9, the highseverity.

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🖋️ New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables 🖋️

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.

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🖋️ Growing Up The Hard Way 🖋️

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,.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread emaildriven phishing campaign" that employs adversaryinthemiddle 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 signins as ordinary consumer traffic,.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ 18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers 🖋️

A useafterfree 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.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day 🖋️

PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence AIassisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate humanguided discovery cascade also exposed a zeroday in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables 🖋️

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.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access 🖋️

Entra ID researcher Dirkjan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signedin Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longerterm cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token PRT, and add further authentication methods where tenant policies.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Microsoft 365 AitM Phishing Hijacks Accounts to Collect Payroll and Finance Emails 🖋️

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to an active "widespread emaildriven phishing campaign" that employs adversaryinthemiddle 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 signins as ordinary consumer traffic,.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets 🖋️

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 codingagent 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.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ AI-Assisted HTTP Terminator Finds Novel HTTP Desync Techniques and Apache Zero-Day 🖋️

PortSwigger says HTTP Terminator, an artificial intelligence AIassisted research system built by James Kettle, generated and proved new HTTP desynchronization techniques after exploring 30,000 candidate desync vectors. PortSwigger said a separate humanguided discovery cascade also exposed a zeroday in Apache Traffic Server. Kettle said HTTP Terminator tested 30,000 websites where.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ TeamPCP Linked To Redis Attacks Dating Back To 2020 And Later Supply Chain Campaign 🖋️

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 internetfacing 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,.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Malware Can Abuse Windows Hello for Business Keys for Persistent Entra ID Access 🖋️

Entra ID researcher Dirkjan Mollema demonstrated that malware already running in a signedin Windows session can silently use the victim's Windows Hello for Business key to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID. The attacker can then establish longerterm cloud access, register a device it controls, obtain a Primary Refresh Token PRT, and add further authentication methods where tenant policies.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ New Zapscape KVM Flaw Could Let Privileged L1 Guest Code Escape to Linux Hosts 🖋️

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 CVE202664561 and affects KVMx86's shadow memory management unit MMU, which manages shadow page.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets 🖋️

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 codingagent 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.

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🔗 Via "The Hacker News"

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🖋️ Cisco Patches 12 SD-WAN and IOS XE Flaws, Including Three 9.9 CVSS Score Bugs 🖋️

Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SDWAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SDWAN Software, regardless of device configuration, and Cisco IOS XE Software when it is running in autonomous or controller mode. "These vulnerabilities were found.

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📔 Healthcare and Victim Support Charities Affected by Beacon Cyber Incident 📔

Beacon has informed around 1500 customer charities that its CRM databases were accessed and likely exfiltrated by an unauthorized actor.

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🔗 Via "Infosecurity Magazine"

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🌊 CrowdStrike OverWatch vs. Dedicated AI SOC: When Endpoint-Layer MDR Is No Longer Enough 🌊

Compare CrowdStrike OverWatch vs a dedicated AI SOC and see when endpoint MDR stops covering identity and cloud. Evaluate your options today. The post CrowdStrike OverWatch vs. Dedicated AI SOC When EndpointLayer MDR Is No Longer Enough appeared first on UnderDefense.

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