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3BB Attacker Used MeshCentral Backdoor for Root Access, Targeted Subscriber Credentials

An attacker was operating inside the network of 3BB, one of Thailand’s largest broadband providers, and maintained remote control of internal machines using a legitimate management tool called MeshCentral, threat intelligence firm Hunt.io said. The company uncovered the intrusion by examining a server the attacker had left open on the internet, which held the attacker’s […]

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New DDRop Attack Breaks Intel TDX and AMD SEV-SNP Confidential Computing

Researchers have disclosed a new hardware attack, called DDRop, that breaks the memory protection in Intel and AMD confidential computing by silently dropping writes to a server’s memory, so the processor keeps reading old encrypted data as if it were current. The attack requires an attacker who already controls the server’s software and can briefly

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WordPress Adds Automated Plugin Reviews to Block High-Risk Updates Before Distribution

WordPress has announced it’s launching an automated security review for every release of a plugin before it’s distributed through the WordPress.org update API so as to analyze it for potential security issues and ensure there are no risks involved. “New plugins are reviewed before they enter the directory, but updates ship continuously after that,” David

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Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries

A suspected Chinese threat actor tracked as Red Heron has been attributed to the rapid exploitation of a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Gitea to compromise internet-facing instances as part of a multi-national campaign. “Red Heron scanned 1,386 Gitea instances across seven countries and maintained a separate dataset of 477 Taiwan-based systems,” Acronis Threat Research

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Telegram Desktop Flaw Lets Hidden JavaScript Exfiltrate Messages From HTML Exports

A flaw in Telegram Desktop let a bot’s message plant hidden JavaScript inside chats that users exported to HTML files, security researchers at ExPatch said in a writeup published on September 12. In Telegram, the message looked ordinary, with a link button, and the script ran only when someone opened the export file in a web browser.

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Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as

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CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. Details of the vulnerabilities are as follows – CVE-2026-42016 (CVSS score: 8.1) – An incorrect authorization

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OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers

The “major malicious attack” that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej Mensfeld, senior product manager for software supply chain security at Mend.io, disclosed details of a coordinated

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Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model assumes the role of

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