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πŸ–‹οΈ ⚑ Weekly Recap: AI Goes Rogue, Metabase 0-Day, MCP Supply-Chain Attacks, and Router Backdoors πŸ–‹οΈ

A lot of security problems still begin with someone doing a completely normal thing. Cloning a repo. Answering a call. Leaving a box exposed. Trusting the default. That pretty much covers the mood this week. Old bugs are back, supply chains are getting stranger, and some exploit paths are so short you wonder what was supposed to stop them in the first place. Thats only part of it. Heres.

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πŸ“” Researchers Uncover RovoBlast Vulnerability in Atlassian AI Assistant πŸ“”

Atlassian fixed a flaw letting one crafted link make its Rovo AI assistant exfiltrate company data.

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πŸ–‹οΈ BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems CMS platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository," Wordfence researcher Paolo Tresso said.

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πŸš€ Are AI tutors safe for your kids? πŸš€

AI tutors can offer useful support, but their quality and safeguards vary widely. Heres what parents should check before handing one to a child.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine πŸ–‹οΈ

Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the processwater treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about 730 a.m. while the intruders were still active inside the network, and customers lost neither heat.

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πŸ“’ OpenAI has paused work on its Astra AI model after it passed a 'critical threshold' in cyber capability – but it’s not the one that breached Hugging Face πŸ“’

The firm said it's Astra model can "develop functional zeroday exploits of all severity levels".

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πŸ“’ Logistics firm supply chain breach hits Valve and other customers πŸ“’

After the hack of Ceva Logistics, customers are being warned to look out for scam emails.

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πŸ“’ Warning issued over Gunra ransomware gang as attacks ramp up globally πŸ“’

Recruiting pen testers and 'ethical' hackers, the group targets known vulnerabilities in internetfacing devices.

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πŸ–‹οΈ OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development πŸ–‹οΈ

OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurityfocused model called GPT5.6Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. "Built on GPT5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks e.g., finding zeroday vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains and to reduce refusals for certain higherrisk.

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πŸ–‹οΈ A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices πŸ–‹οΈ

A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electricvehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the security firm Fuzzware tested 26 phones and cellular modules for the capability, found it.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo πŸ–‹οΈ

Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded Firefox tarball came from Mozilla and was not tampered with. That decision carries a cost for.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers πŸ–‹οΈ

Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pasadena, Texas, then sent a California driver's license and a New York bank account. The.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Researchers Turn USB Auto-Install Into a Full SYSTEM Takeover on Windows 11 πŸ–‹οΈ

Windows Plug and Play can be abused to fetch signed vendor software for an emulated USB device and execute privileged installation components that researchers chained to SYSTEM access on a fully updated Windows 11 machine. The same PnP path can be triggered over Remote Desktop without physical hardware when supported Plug and Play or lowlevel USB redirection is enabled Microsoft says that.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets πŸ–‹οΈ

A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused split the request into fragments that each look routine, place them in channels the assistant already uses, and let.

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πŸ–‹οΈ Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks πŸ–‹οΈ

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world. Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and facilities, and professional and nonprofit services. "Gunra is another variant in the ongoing trend of.

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πŸ“” Six npm Packages Read C2 Addresses From Ethereum Wallet πŸ“”

Six npm packages queried an Ethereum wallet to locate C2 infrastructure.

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πŸ“” Cursor Security Bug Allowed Repositories to Execute Commands Before Trust Verification πŸ“”

Cursor fixed a pretrust code execution path in three days then closed the report as informative.

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πŸ“” Suisan City, California, Responds to Cyber Incident Amid Wave of US Local Government Attacks πŸ“”

Police and fire response has been impacted by the attack on Suisan City, while two other local authorities have been hit by cyber incidents in the past week also.

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πŸ“” OpenAI Launches Two-Tier Security Access Program Alongside GPT 5.6 Cyber πŸ“”

Daybreak Blue removes some OpenAImade guardrails while Daybreak Red grants the use of cyberfocused frontier AI models.

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πŸ“” Logistics Giant Ceva Suffers Data Breach Impacting European Clients πŸ“”

Supply chain attack and data breach at Ceva Logistics appears to have a large blast radius.

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πŸ“” OpenAI Pauses Some Development of Astra Model on Security Concerns πŸ“”

OpenAI is tightening restrictions on testing of its upcoming Astra model due to security concerns.

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