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2026-08-05 15:48 UTC
Vendor Research

From open lures to cloaked gates: How a macOS ClickFix campaign learned to hide

Microsoft Security Blog · Microsoft Security Research and Srinivasan Govindarajan · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

A macOS ClickFix campaign shifted tactics from openly serving infostealer lures to hiding them behind a browser-fingerprinting gate. The change makes malicious infrastructure harder to detect while giving defenders new hunting opportunities. The post From open lures to cloaked gates: How a macOS ClickFix campaign learned to hide appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

AppleMalwareMicrosoft
P0
2026-08-05 12:45 UTC
Vendor Research

Tenable Hexa AI: Automating exposure remediation with agentic routines

Tenable Blog · Ziga Cerkovnik · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Discover how Tenable Hexa AI closes the gap between exposure management and endpoint patching using intent-driven routines, smart guardrails, and human approval.Key takeawaysThe problem: A slow handoff between security workflows creates a days-long remediation gap. The solution: Tenable Hexa AI bridges this gap using intent-driven Routines that automate scoping, deployment, and verification across integrated platforms like Jamf. Safety and control: Autonomy is governed by the harness built into…

AppleVulnerabilities
P25
2026-07-31 10:00 UTC
Vendor Research

The Xcode Assassin Returns: A Deep Dive Into the Latest XCSSET Version

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 · Adva Gabay and Noa Dekel · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Analysis of XCSSET v40 reveals a macOS malware targeting developers via Xcode. Unit 42 used advanced pattern matching and AI to decode its logic. The post The Xcode Assassin Returns: A Deep Dive Into the Latest XCSSET Version appeared first on Unit 42.

AppleMalware
P0
2026-07-30 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Batten Down Your Packages: Mitigation Guidance for Supply Chain Compromise

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Kelli Vanderlee, Stuart Carrera For years, the cybersecurity industry's understanding of software supply chain compromise has been anchored by a few watershed events, including Russian cyber espionage actor ICE RELIC’s (formerly known as APT29) 2020 compromise of SolarWinds and North Korean cyber espionage actor UNC4736's 2023 compromise of 3CX. However, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has been tracking growth in threat activity targeting open source software repositories to…

AI SecurityAppleAPT / Nation-StateCybercrimeData BreachesDFIRLinuxMalwareRansomwareThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P15
2026-07-29 05:00 UTC
Other

ZDI-26-494: Apple macOS USD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative · indexed 2026-09-07 17:35 UTC

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Apple macOS. Interaction with the USD library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-43729.

AppleVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-43729
P20
2026-07-29 05:00 UTC
Other

ZDI-26-493: Apple macOS USD File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative · indexed 2026-09-07 17:35 UTC

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Apple macOS. Interaction with the USD library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-43733.

AppleVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-43733
P20
2026-07-29 05:00 UTC
Other

ZDI-26-492: Apple macOS ImageIO Numeric Truncation Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative · indexed 2026-09-07 17:35 UTC

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Apple macOS. Interaction with the ImageIO library is required to exploit this vulnerability but attack vectors may vary depending on the implementation. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 7.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-43780.

AppleVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-43780
P20
2026-07-29 05:00 UTC
Other

ZDI-26-491: Apple macOS CoreAudio Out-Of-Bounds Write Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative · indexed 2026-09-07 17:35 UTC

This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations of Apple macOS. User interaction is required to exploit this vulnerability in that the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8. The following CVEs are assigned: CVE-2026-43673.

AppleVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-43673
P20
2026-07-24 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Updated Cyber Threat Actor Naming System

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Update (July 30): A table listing the new names of select prominent threat actors was appended to this post. Introduction Today, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) will begin rolling out a unified naming schema for tracking threat actors. This new naming taxonomy represents an effort to standardize tracking across platforms and public reporting. Why are we Adopting a Different Naming System? Historically, Mandiant and Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) maintained distinct tracking system…

AppleAPT / Nation-StateDFIRMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-07-23 05:00 UTC
Other

ZDI-26-451: Docker Desktop for macOS Inference Server Permissive Allow List Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative · indexed 2026-09-07 17:35 UTC

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escape the model runner sandbox on affected installations of Docker Desktop for macOS. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code within the sandbox in order to exploit this vulnerability. The ZDI has assigned a CVSS rating of 8.8.

AppleVulnerabilities
P0
2026-07-16 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Demystifying AI Exploits: A Blueprint for AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Jules Czarniak Introduction As highlighted in the Mandiant M-Trends 2026 report, the mean time-to-exploit (TTE) has dropped to -7 days, meaning vulnerabilities are often exploited a week before a patch even exists. To keep pace, many security teams are exploring how to integrate large language model (LLM) agents into their codebases, development environments and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for automated vulnerability discovery and remediation. Ho…

AI SecurityAppleMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilities
P10
2026-07-15 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Corné de Jong Introduction Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverless deployments typically run custom-developed code that incorporates third-party packages, making them targets for a wide range of application-level attacks, including: Local and Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI) Command Injection Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can …

AI SecurityAppleCloud SecurityMalwareThreat ActorsVulnerabilities
P15
2026-07-14 14:23 UTC
Vendor Research

Microsoft’s July 2026 Patch Tuesday Addresses 569 CVEs (CVE-2026-56155, CVE-2026-56164)

Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts · Research Special Operations · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

56Critical510Important3Moderate0LowMicrosoft addresses 569 CVEs in the largest Patch Tuesday release yet. This month’s release includes three zero-days, two of which were exploited in the wild.Microsoft patched 569 CVEs in its July 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with 56 rated critical, 510 rated as important, and 3 rated as moderate. This marks the largest Patch Tuesday release ever, crushing the previous record of 198 CVEs in June. Last week, Microsoft announced that its multi-model agentic scann…

AppleCloud SecurityLinuxMalwareMicrosoftMobile SecurityNetwork SecurityVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-56155CVE-2026-56164
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2026-07-07 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

The ‘Ghost’ in the Database: Recovering Active ADFS Signing Keys via Machine DPAPI

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The "Golden SAML" technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of the most effective methods for threat actors to forge identity assertions in the Microsoft ecosystem. By obtaining the private key of an ADFS token-signing certificate, an attacker can authenticate as any user to any SAML-federated application, bypassing multifactor authentication (MFA), conditional access, and …

AppleMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-07-02 12:00 UTC
Security Journalism

Celebrating Canada Day with Localized Managed Phishing

Huntress · indexed 2026-09-07 17:30 UTC

Huntress Managed SAT now offers localized phishing simulations for Canada, using familiar, country-specific brands and scenarios to provide more effective security awareness training for your learners.

ApplePhishing
P0
2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Introduction Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified an active compromise and extortion campaign attributed to UNC6240 (ShinyHunters) targeting Oracle PeopleSoft application infrastructure. The activity was observed between May 27, 2026, and June 9, 2026 and is consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2026-35273, a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the Environment Management component. The exploitation of this vulnerability directly aligns wi…

AppleCloud SecurityData BreachesLinuxMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-35273
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2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
Vendor Research

CVE-2025-11462 AWS ClientVPN macOS Client Local Privilege Escalation

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-020 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/10/07 01:30 PM PDT Description: AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables secure access to AWS and on-premises resources. The AWS Client VPN client software runs on end-user devices, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux and provides the ability for end users to establish a secure tunnel to the AWS Client VPN Service. We have identified CVE-2025-11462, an issue in AWS …

AppleCloud SecurityLinuxMicrosoftNetwork SecurityVulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-11462
P15
2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
Vendor Research

CVE-2025-8069 - AWS Client VPN Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Scope: Amazon/AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/07/23 8:30 AM PDT Description: AWS Client VPN is a managed client-based VPN service that enables secure access to AWS and on-premises resources. The AWS Client VPN client software runs on end-user devices, supporting Windows, macOS, and Linux and provides the ability for end users to establish a secure tunnel to the AWS Client VPN Service. We identified CVE-2025-###, an issue in AWS Client VPN. During the AWS …

AppleCloud SecurityLinuxMicrosoftNetwork SecurityVulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-8069
P15
2026-05-29 14:19 UTC
Vendor Research

Amazon Cognito 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse

Tenable Research Advisories · Ben Smith · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Amazon Cognito 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse Researchers associated with Tenable have discovered a 1-click open redirection technique in Amazon Cognito that can be triggered by abusing the OAuth error-handling mechanism. The vulnerability stems from AWS's OAuth implementation validation sequence: if validation fails due to an unsupported scope, mismatched PKCE parameters, or an unsupported response type, the error handling processes the failure and automatically issues…

AppleCloud SecurityMalwarePhishingSecurity ResearchVulnerabilities
P0
2026-05-29 13:56 UTC
Vendor Research

Microsoft Entra ID 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse

Tenable Research Advisories · Ben Smith · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Microsoft Entra ID 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse Researchers associated with Tenable have discovered new techniques to trigger 1-click open redirection attacks in Microsoft Entra ID by abusing the OAuth error-handling mechanism. The attack relies on an initial setup phase where a threat actor registers an OAuth application in an actor-controlled tenant and configures its redirect_uri to point to an attacker-controlled domain. When a victim clicks on a specifically craf…

AppleMalwareMicrosoftPhishingSecurity ResearchThreat Actors
P0
2026-05-25 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

Exploitation of KnowledgeDeliver via ViewState Deserialization Vulnerability

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Takahiro Sugiyama, Peter Revelant, Mathew Potaczek Introduction In late 2025, Mandiant responded to a security incident involving a compromised web server running KnowledgeDeliver. KnowledgeDeliver is a Learning Management System (LMS) developed by Digital Knowledge commonly used in Japan. Mandiant identified a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE). An unknown threat actor leveraged this access to inject malicious code into the LMS platform,…

AppleDFIRMalwareMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-5426
P55
2026-05-25 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

2 PhaaS 2 Furious: The Evolution of Chinese-Language Phishing Services

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

While Russian-speaking threat actors have historically dominated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) landscape, a rival ecosystem is rapidly growing within the Chinese-language underground. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen current PhaaS offerings in the Chinese underground, all of them mature services and many likely tied intricately to the broader criminal ecosystem in that region. These services not only lower the barrier to entry for Chinese cyber criminals, but reveal …

AppleCybercrimePhishingThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-05-14 09:38 UTC
Other

The Mythos Effect: Why Exposure Intelligence Matters More Than Ever

Red Hunt Labs · Sudhanshu Chauhan · indexed 2026-09-07 17:30 UTC

Why Mythos (and other AI models) Make Continuous Exposure Visibility Critical For years, vulnerability discovery was naturally constrained by expertise, time, and scale. Finding meaningful security issues often required experienced researchers spending days or weeks understanding codebases, testing assumptions, reviewing implementations, and validating exploitability. That dynamic is changing rapidly. Recent developments around systems like Anthropic’s Project Glasswing 🔗 and Mythos, OpenAI’s …

AppleMicrosoftSecurity ResearchVulnerabilities
P50
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations to the industrial-scale application of generative models within adversarial workflows. This report, based on insights derived from Mandiant incident response engagements, Gemini, and GTIG’s proactive research, highlights the dual nature of the current threat environment where AI serves as both a so…

AI SecurityAppleAPT / Nation-StateCloud SecurityDFIRMalwareMicrosoftNetwork SecurityRansomwareSecurity ResearchThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilities
P60
2026-04-21 13:00 UTC
Security Journalism

Tradecraft Tuesday Recap: axios npm Supply Chain Compromise

Huntress · indexed 2026-09-07 17:30 UTC

A few weeks after the major axios npm supply chain attack, a group of researchers from Huntress, Wiz, and Aikido Security debriefed on the compromise’s lasting impacts.

Apple
P0
2026-04-09 17:07 UTC
Vendor Research

Protecting Cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials

Google Online Security Blog · Google · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC

Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security landscape. Session theft t…

AppleCybercrimeMalwareMicrosoftThreat Actors
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