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…
After a three-month lull, Prince of Persia hid a Tornado C&C server on US shared hosting, its first US-based server since 2016. The post Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016 appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure. According to The PHP Foundation, several organizations had agreed to a coordinated release detailing the critical flaws and mitigation actions, but cybersecurity firm Chainguard “unl…
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 […]
As AI accelerates cybercrime and reshapes enterprise security priorities, Flashpoint experts examine what threat intelligence teams need to prepare for in 2027. The post Preparing for 2027: Five Trends Shaping Enterprise Threat Intelligence appeared first on Flashpoint.
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…
By Adrian Cheek, Senior Cybercrime Researcher Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP have put renewed attention on a familiar operational question: how many internet-facing PHP services are running versions that no longer receive upstream security fixes?? We examined existing internet-scan records to measure the PHP versions that services disclose to the public internet. The result was […] The post PHP2Shell Exposure: 7…
IntroductionIn September 2026, Zscaler Threat Hunting identified an SEO poisoning campaign that used fake websites impersonating the Chocolatey package manager and the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool to distribute a Python-based malware family we track as Armorsteal. The fake websites targeted users searching for Chocolatey or MAS software installation commands. Each lure page displayed a malicious PowerShell…
SOCRadar Threat Intelligence Unit (STRU) researchers found PHP2Shell exploit tooling on an attacker-controlled server whose working directory was exposed...
AWS detected PHP2Shell exploit attempts four days before disclosure, highlighting the risk of attackers exploiting critical flaws before patches arrive. Attackers attempted to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before the flaws became public, according to Amazon Threat Intelligence. “Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot […]
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.…
Microsoft said it has observed threat actor activity in multiple ConnectWise customer environments, with the attackers leveraging the ARTEX agentic AI platform
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…
Discover how Akamai responded to critical PHP vulnerabilities using agentic AI, real-time telemetry, and rapid action switching to deliver adaptive WAF defense.
Kaspersky GReAT experts discovered a new UEFI bootkit, BlackX. It exploits the Baton Drop vulnerability (CVE-2022-21894) and is similar to the BlackLotus bootkit.
GitLab is not affected by PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). The GitLab application is not written in PHP and does not run it to serve web requests, and our Security team has found no evidence of impact to GitLab-managed infrastructure. GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, and GitLab Dedicated are not impacted.PHP is a widely used programming language that runs on web servers and powers popular platforms li…
Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability was under embargo, the targeting of a honeypot from an anonymized IP address […]
*October 26, 2026: This advisory has been updated to clarify language describing exploitability and potential impact.*October 23, 2026: This advisory has been updated with new ThreatLabz analysis and Zscaler Deception telemetry on exploitation activity observed during the first 48 hours following disclosure.IntroductionOn October 21, 2026, two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and…
Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework to automate attacks and “reach more than 2,250 tenants at 2,900 sign-in attempts per minute,” Microsoft researchers said. The post Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group appeared first on CyberScoop.
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…
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) have been published. Both vulnerabilities carry a severe CVSS score of 9.2 (more technical details are in the Unit 42 Threat Brief). This is … The post Millions of PHP Instances Exposed - What Organizations Need To Do Right Now appeared first on Palo Alto Networks Blog.
On October 22, 2026, the PHP Security Team announced in an advisory that it would release security updates addressing the vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Although the causes of the two vulnerabilities differ, they are both remote code execution vulnerabilities that allow an unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code remotely. AhnLab SEcurity intelligence Center (ASEC) […]
An investigation into a threat actor bypassing AI safety controls to coordinate credential theft, VoIP fraud planning, and database exfiltration. The post “Next Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and Execute Multiple Types of Cybercrime Activities appeared first on Unit 42.
By Adrian Cheek, Senior Cybercrime Researcher A stolen password often leaves work for the person holding it. He or she may still need to identify the service, locate its login page, and establish what the account can reach. For some industrial remote access platforms, however, the stolen browser record already contains much of that context […] The post Measuring Credential Exposure of Contractors and Integrators Afte…
Three days is the average time between a high-severity vulnerability becoming public and its exploitation, according to the latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7. And 71% of the exploitation tracked in Q3 occurred within the first seven days.For security teams already managing growing vulnerability backlogs, this creates a difficult question: How do you reduce exposure when attackers can exploit vulner…
During triage, analysts may overlook valuable threat intelligence simply because they don’t know it exists. Previous investigations, related malicious activity, and industry-specific observations could provide the context needed to decide what to investigate next. Now, all that valuable context is finally within reach! With Related Threat Context, now available to ANY.RUN Enterprise clients, SOC and […] The post Your…
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Patches are available for supported PHP 8.x branches, and exploitation attempts began before public disclosure.Change logUpdate October 26: CISA added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to its KEV catalog. Added details on a regression in PHP 8.4.27 and 8.5.12 and on PHP's October 23 session upload progress advisory. Added a note o…
Kaspersky researchers analyze Operation FlashHole – a recent complex attack by Lazarus, involving a sophisticated malware set, watering-hole technique and abuse of CrossWeb EX financial security software.
It’s the work of the infamous group behind the attacks on Democrats during the 2016 presidential election, Symantec said. The post Russian GRU hackers hit NATO shipbuilder, aircraft engine maker, law enforcement agency in espionage campaign appeared first on CyberScoop.
