Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Phantom. The threat actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking and functions both as an intrusion and data-extortion operator, as well as an
Bulletin ID: 2026-148-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/23/2026 10:30 AM PDT Description: Amazon Web Services Multi Model Server (MMS) is an open source tool for serving machine learning models for inference. It was published by AWS on GitHub, PyPI, and Docker Hub, and reached end of life; its source repository has been archived and read-only since November 20, 2025. CVE…
This release adds multiple new modules, and 6 of those modules point at a single target: Langflow, the open-source LLM workflow builder. Together they cover an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-93680), 3 unauthenticated remote code execution paths (CVE-2026-0768, CVE-2026-0769, and CVE-2026-10134), and 2 authenticated code execution flaws (CVE-2026-7873 and CVE-2026-93674), spanning Langflow releases from 1.0.0 through…
The state-sponsored hackers targeted hundreds of organizations and gained privileged access to some environments. The post China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A cybercrime crackdown spanning 21 countries has led to 1,462 arrests, the disruption of 10,909 malicious networks and the recovery of more than USD 105 million in illicit funds, making Operation Serengeti III one of the largest cybercrime enforcement operations Africa has seen. Coordinated by INTERPOL between 29 June and 31 August 2026, the operation targeted cyber-enabled fraud, ransomware, business email compromis…
When Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, the cybersecurity debate quickly turned to what AI could do: uncover decades-old vulnerabilities, develop working exploits and accelerate tasks that once required specialist expertise. Anthropic noted that Mythos discovered software flaws no human had caught, and early tests showed it could carry out multi-stage network attacks in minutes, tasks that once took skilled…
Hackers used compromised GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push and approve malicious packages on PyPI and Docker. The post LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
China-linked Storm-0940 used AI tool ARTEX to target 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, exploiting stolen ConnectWise credentials at machine speed. Microsoft published a detailed technical report naming Storm-0940, a China state-aligned group, as the actor behind the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain compromise. The group used ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, to run attacks […]
Attackers are increasingly focusing on a limited range of critical vulnerabilities to run attacks with flaws packaged into exploits within as little as three days. Rapid7’s latest Quarterly Threat Landscape report found the number of newly exploited vulnerabilities in Q3 of 2026 was 43, up 19% year on year. Douglas McKee, director of vulnerability intelligence at Rapid7, said it would be wrong to interpret that 19% a…
Kate Pundyk, Siena Anstis, and Marcus Michaelsen write about the rise of AI-enabled digital transnational repression in their piece for Just Security. The post How Generative AI is Scaling Transnational Repression appeared first on The Citizen Lab.
It’s no secret how artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tools and systems, which promise users exponential productivity, growth, and efficiency, have quickly become integral in organizations' processes and workflows. AI — specifically generative AI (GenAI) and large language models (LLMs) — is now a foundational element of the software development process, allowing developers to build and scale software at a velocity…
Shadow AI used to be confined to a few simple scenarios, such as AI chatbots and AI browser extensions. Today, it spans a broad spectrum of complex vectors, making it harder to detect and control. In the latest installment of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series, learn how employee security training, AI usage governance, and exposure management can help you tackle shadow AI successfully.Key takeawaysIntegrat…
Hackers hijacked the software release pipeline of LiteLLM, a popular open-source AI gateway, to distribute credential-stealing malware, marking the project’s second supply chain compromise this year despite security measures introduced after an earlier attack. The compromised version, 1.107.0, was distributed through the Python Package Index (PyPI) and official Docker images on October 21. LiteLLM said the malicious…
A China-state-aligned threat actor compromised a ConnectWise cloud backup application and used an open-source agentic AI framework to turn its stolen credentials against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft said. Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributed the activity to Storm-0940, which it said has used the ARTEX framework since as early as September 2026 to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations.…
Cyble scanned 1.3M+ newly registered domains and found AI-built sites leaking live secrets to the browser: OpenAI keys, Stripe keys, and database tokens. Spinning up a website no longer takes a developer. A prompt to an AI app-builder returns a working, styled, deployable site in minutes, and when one template works, the same operator clones it across a dozen domains before launch. That is also how secrets end up in…
A new LiteLLM supply chain attack has turned version 1.107.0, an official release of the popular open-source LLM gateway, into a credential stealer. On October 21, 2026, attackers used stolen maintainer tokens to publish trojanized wheels to PyPI and poisoned Docker images, exposing cloud keys, AI provider secrets and LiteLLM proxy databases on any host […]
Amazon Web Services logged attempts to leverage the internet-melting PHP2Shell bugs four days ago. They’re now being “broadly exploited” across the internet.
Bulletin ID: 2026-142-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/21/2026 12:30 PM PDT Description: The Amazon SageMaker Python SDK is an open-source library for training and deploying machine learning models on Amazon SageMaker. We identified CVE-2026-112408, an issue in the default_bucket() function. The SDK uses a predictably named Amazon S3 bucket and does not check that the c…
IntroductionIn October 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz investigated AI-assisted cyberattacks that combined the ARTEX penetration testing framework with AI coding assistants and custom automation scripts. Initial reporting of the incident identified the targeting of South Korean financial institutions. However, ThreatLabz discovered additional information about the attack, which went far beyond South Korea. The AI-assisted a…
OpenAI reveals two cases of AI agents disabling safety monitoring during coding tasks, with one falsely denying it had removed the safeguards. OpenAI published an internal incident report this week documenting two separate cases in which GPT-6 class agents weakened the system designed to detect misaligned behavior, in both cases while carrying out routine coding […]
Police agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’t new (ALPRs have existed in various forms for more than 50 years, and in the U.S. since 1998), the surveillance landscape has shifted dramatically. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and national data sharing hav…
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
AI security tools that can only detect threats in English offer limited protection. Here’s how Tenable trained our threat detectors to process nine additional languages and understand thousands more, without the need for a translation model, which increases costs and slows down processing.Key takeawaysTenable One AI Exposure’s detectors, covering AI threats, harmful content, and other policy risks, were originally En…
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
PHP prepares emergency patches for two critical RCE flaws, while older, unsupported versions could remain exposed without vendor fixes. The U.S. government ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them. The order also reaches third-party tools and services built with DeepSeek implementations, which is the part most […]
How a single Google Search ad click leads to credential theft, hijacking of cloud billing account, and hundreds of thousands of dollars incurred in unauthorized AI API usage
Artificial intelligence is complicating security in the software development life cycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibility, and reduced testing costs offer CISOs a way ahead.
