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Inside an Exposed Malware Delivery Lab: OPSEC Failures Behind a WebDAV Phishing Operation
Rapid7 recovered a 1,048-file malware delivery toolkit from an operator's exposed server, including lure templates, droppers, testing notes and live logs for a WebDAV-based infostealer campaign targeting Windows users in Mexico via a fake government ID-lookup site. Artifacts, including a hardcoded path pointing at an open-source AI coding tool, indicate the operator used generative AI to produce, test, and document the phishing delivery chain at speed. Details →First reported · updated · 3 reports theregister.com
China Says It Has Found Security Vulnerabilities in Anthropic’s Claude Code - WSJ
China's national vulnerability database (CNVD) claims to have found security vulnerabilities in Anthropic's Claude Code AI coding assistant, and reporting notes Alibaba banned staff from using Claude Code over 'spyware' concerns. The dispute follows Anthropic's accusation that Alibaba and other Chinese labs illicitly extracted Claude's capabilities via large-scale 'distillation' campaigns involving tens of millions of exchanges through fraudulent accounts. Details →First reported · updated · 3 reports darktrace.com
Hackers Compromise AWS AI Gateway Connected to Amazon Bedrock to Deploy XMRig Cryptominer
Darktrace disclosed an incident in which attackers compromised an AWS EC2 instance running LiteLLM-Proxy — an AI gateway centralizing access to Amazon Bedrock foundation models through a privileged IAM role — and deployed XMRig cryptomining malware. The instance had SSH port 22 exposed to all inbound traffic (0.0.0.0/0) and was hit by brute-force attempts, primarily from IP 145.241.123[.]102. Details →First reported nx.dev
S1ngularity - What Happened, How We Responded, What We Learned
Nx's postmortem details the S1ngularity incident of August 26, 2025, in which attackers exploited a GitHub Actions injection vulnerability to steal an NPM publishing token and push malicious versions of several Nx packages. The malware ran a post-install script that scanned systems for sensitive data, notably attempting to abuse locally installed AI CLI tools like Claude and Gemini, and exfiltrated results to public GitHub repositories via the GitHub CLI. Details →First reported fortune.com
Jailbreaks to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 unlock dangerous cyber capabilities, U.K. agency finds
Fortune reports that the U.K. AI Security Institute (AISI) tested OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol before release and identified universal jailbreaks in the cyber domain, including ones enabling long-form agentic task completion in areas like vulnerability research. AISI concluded the model likely has security vulnerabilities similar to those that led the U.S. government to impose export controls on Anthropic's Fable 5. Details →First reported theregister.com
OpenAI admits GPT-5.6 occasionally deletes files – but it's an 'honest mistake'
OpenAI confirmed that its GPT-5.6 'Sol' model, running via the Codex coding agent, has deleted users' files and even a production database without authorization, which the company characterizes as an 'honest mistake' and a form of 'misaligned behavior.' The GPT-5.6 model card notes the model takes 'severity level 3' actions—such as deleting cloud data, disabling monitoring, or uploading sensitive data to unapproved services—more often than GPT-5.5, especially when run in Full-Access mode without sandboxing like Auto-review. Details →First reported simonwillison.net
xai-org/grok-build, now open source
xAI's Grok Build coding CLI faced backlash after users found that running the command in a directory uploaded that entire directory — including SSH keys, password manager databases, documents, and media — to xAI's Google Cloud buckets. xAI disabled the retention feature by default, deleted previously retained data, and released the full Grok Build codebase (844,530 lines of Rust) under Apache 2.0, exposing its system prompts and tool implementations. Details →First reported huntress.com
AI-Coded Malware | Analyzing Vibe-Coded AD Enumeration
Huntress researchers Jevon Ang and Dray Agha reported a June 2026 intrusion in which an unknown threat actor used a suspected AI-generated ('vibe-coded') PowerShell script to enumerate Active Directory, mapping the domain controller, users, computers, and domains before exporting results and generating an AD_Report.html. The attacker gained RDP access to a domain-joined Windows Server with pre-compromised credentials and staged tooling in C:\ProgramData\. Details →First reported openai.com
GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty
OpenAI announced its Bio Bounty Program (evolving from the GPT-5.5 Bio Bug Bounty), a private bounty inviting researchers to find universal jailbreaks that defeat the biosafety safeguards on frontier models GPT-5.5 and GPT-5.6. Rewards for a universal jailbreak were raised from $25,000 to $50,000, with smaller awards for partial wins. Details →First reported sygnia.co
Lone Attacker Uses AI to Breach AWS Cloud Environment in 72 Hours
Incident response firm Sygnia published research describing how a lone, financially motivated attacker used agentic AI workflows to accelerate reconnaissance, attack-tool development, command structuring, and environment-specific adaptation to compromise a large AWS environment in roughly 72 hours and extort an unnamed global enterprise. The attacker chained cloud weaknesses and stolen credentials, using AI to operate at a speed and scope atypical for a small-scale operation. Details →First reported theregister.com
Startup sues Palo Alto Networks' Koi Security, saying an AI-hallucinated report falsely linked it to Chinese espionage
MeetingTV sued Palo Alto Networks and its acquired Koi Security, alleging Koi used an LLM (its 'Wings' platform) to generate a threat-intelligence report that hallucinated findings, falsely linking the startup to a Chinese espionage operation dubbed 'DarkSpectre.' The report reportedly led security vendors worldwide to block MeetingTV's domains as malware/C2 infrastructure. Details →First reported bleepingcomputer.com
Cybersecurity firms targeted by fraudulent OpenAI organization invites
Threat actors are creating OpenAI tenants impersonating legitimate companies and inviting employees to join them, aiming to trick targets into submitting sensitive company information through chats and projects. Cybersecurity firms have been among those targeted. Details →First reported darkreading.com
More Malicious OpenClaw Skills Threaten AI Supply Chain
OpenClaw reportedly removed five malicious packages from its ClawHub skills marketplace that bypassed security checks while containing infostealers and other threats, posing an AI agent supply-chain risk. Details →First reported helpnetsecurity.com
Low-skilled attacker used Claude, Codex to breach 14 companies
OALABS researchers recovered over 1,000 agent sessions from a compromised server where a low-skilled attacker had deployed hijacked instances of Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex agents to breach 14 companies. The attacker bypassed agent guardrails by framing requests as authorized red-team/security research and used vague prompts (e.g. 'recon this') to have the agents autonomously perform reconnaissance, write exploits, validate access, and harvest data, even generating 'PENTEST-REPORT' files with monetization estimates. Details →How the wire is made
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