HeyJaredJessica Lyons
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Another Artifactory CVE under attack by AI agents or humans (opens the original)
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Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit Security researchers reported that someone is exploiting CVE-2026-82329, a critical JFrog Artifactory authentication-bypass bug, just days after the vendor patched the 9.8-rated flaw. And we don't know if that someone is human. Artifactory is a widely used tool for managing software artifacts, packages, binaries, and AI models. It’s also popular with AI agents that go rogue and need to communicate with eac
Attacker stole a METR API key, used $600K worth of credits, and no one noticed for weeks (opens the original)
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The model provider gave METR the credits for free. An actual customer would not have been so lucky AI model testing organization METR has disclosed two attacks that happened earlier this year, including one in which an attacker stole an API key and spent three weeks consuming public-model credits worth about $600,000. METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research) found no evidence that the attackers accessed sensitive information in either incident, and the org said it investigated both
Destructive Windows backdoor stuffs multiple wipers and ransomware code into a single package (opens the original)
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Microsoft says GigaWiper combines at least 3 malware families into one modular tool A newly identified destructive Windows backdoor combines ransomware-like encryption with multiple data-wiping features, according to Microsoft. Last October, the Redmond threat-hunting team first spotted attacks using the Golang-based implant they've named GigaWiper. Its developers stuffed multiple malware families into the software as on-demand commands, giving criminals a Swiss Army knife of command-and-control
An unnamed US county – perhaps in Ohio – paid $1M extortion demand to cybercriminals (opens the original)
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A US county reportedly paid $1 million to Kairos, an extortion gang that claimed to have stolen more than 2 TB of data, but the county never received independently verifiable proof that the stolen files had been deleted - just the criminals' promise. This means the county’s stolen files may turn up for sale on a dark web forum, and the same (or another) crime crew could again demand an extortion payment to not leak the data. It’s also a reminder that, despite the feds urging victims not to pay c
Suspected Chinese snoops caught breaking into universities' Roundcube mailservers (opens the original)
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Proofpoint researcher tells The Reg: 'We estimate the total volume of targets would be a few dozen' Suspected Chinese spies have been breaking into major US and Canadian universities since May, exploiting vulns in Roundcube mailservers to steal data belonging to physics and engineering administrators and professors, according to Proofpoint threat researchers. Proofpoint directly observed “less than 10” universities targeted in these intrusions, Greg Lesnewich, principal threat research engineer
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