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AUG8
Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data

The RovoBlast attack method identified by Varonis researchers could have been exploited to steal Confluence, Jira and SharePoint data. The post Critical One-Click Vulnerability in Atlassian’s Rovo AI Exposed Enterprise Data appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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AUG8
Atlassian Rovo Can Be Tricked Into Sending Jira and Confluence Data to Attackers

Attacker-controlled instructions can make Atlassian's Rovo assistant collect Jira or Confluence data that a signed-in user can access, then send it to an outside server. Two security firms found that behavior independently, by different routes. Only one of those routes is confirmed closed. PromptArmor, an AI security firm, hid the instructions in content Rovo reads. It said an uploaded file was

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AUG8
New CSS Attacks Can Break Webmail Defenses to Steal Passwords and Tokens

New research shows content inside an email can escape its message boundary and interfere with the webmail interface. Across attack chains spanning Outlook, Gmail, Fastmail, Proton Mail, Yahoo Mail, and AOL Mail, the techniques can capture passwords, take over third-party accounts, leak tokens, hijack trusted UI actions, and manipulate AI tools that read email. PortSwigger researcher Gareth

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AUG8
Metabase Zero-Day Exploited in Wild Allows Admin Access Without Authentication

Metabase has warned that a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its business intelligence and data visualization software package has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. The vulnerability (CVSS score: 10.0), which does not carry a CVE identifier, allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to inject arbitrary SQL into the Metabase application database, enabling them to gain

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AUG8
N-able Issues N-central Hotfix 2 as Attackers Reach Managed Systems and Persist

N-able has released a fresh round of hotfixes for N‑central as part of its investigation into ongoing exploitation of a recently disclosed security flaw in the Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) product. "We are proactively expanding protections in response to ongoing monitoring of threat actors as they evolve their attack techniques," the company said. "This is not a duplicate of our

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AUG8
Progress Kemp LoadMaster Flaw Hits CISA KEV After 792 Reported Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a critical-severity security flaw impacting Progress Kemp LoadMaster to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-8037 (CVSS score: 9.6), is a command injection flaw that could be weaponized to achieve arbitrary

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AUG7
Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer

A cluster of nearly 800 malicious packages has been published to the npm registry as part of a new campaign designed to deliver cross-platform malware targeting Windows, Mac, and Linux systems. "These packages appear to use AI slop squatted, or randomly generated typo-squatting package names, but all of them deliver a powerful RAT and infostealer payload," OpenSourceMalware researcher Paul

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AUG7
ClickFix Attacks Deliver macOS Stealer That Can Drain Crypto Wallets

ClickFix-style attacks are being used to deliver a Go-based malware capable of stealing cryptocurrency assets, as well as browser-stored passwords, Apple iCloud Keychain data, and cached credentials. The macOS-focused infection chain is designed to deliver a shell script that profiles the host and then fetches a macOS malware payload that's compatible with the computer's CPU architecture. "

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AUG7
UNC6671 Vishing Attacks Target Personal Phones to Steal SaaS Data

A recent wave of cyber attacks targeting financial services, private equity, and professional services has been attributed to a data extortion group known as UNC6671. "UNC6671 continues to rely on voice phishing (vishing) to target enterprise employees, posing as IT help desk staff facilitating mandatory, urgent security migrations. Significantly, the threat actor often contacts employees via

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AUG7
In Other News: AI Slop Limits Apple Bounties, North Carolina Port Attacks, Hackers Target Wall Street

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: ban on Chinese data center tech, QuickFox VPN supply chain attack, IEH Corporation mailbox breached via phishing. The post In Other News: AI Slop Limits Apple Bounties, North Carolina Port Attacks, Hackers Target Wall Street appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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AUG7
New WordPress Pre-Auth XSS Could Lead to PHP Code Execution - Patch ASAP

WordPress has fixed a pre-authentication reflected cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw in its login screen that affects every version of the content management system. pwn.ai demonstrated how the flaw can be chained into PHP code execution on the server when a logged-in administrator interacts with an attacker-controlled page. Tracked as CVE-2026-64638 (CVSS score: 8.9), the high-severity

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AUG7
Growing Up The Hard Way

Open Source had a great childhood. For two decades it got to be a kid. It ran around barefoot, gave everything away, trusted strangers, and never once thought about who was watching. It ran the kind of lemonade stand that took IOUs from anyone who wandered up — take what you need, pay me back whenever, no need to leave a name. It was idyllic. It was also, in retrospect, a little feral. Then,

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AUG7
18-Year-Old Linux SCTP Flaw Could Let Local Users Gain Root and Escape Containers

A use-after-free bug in Linux's SCTP networking code can be turned into full root on a host, and Tencent researchers say they used it to escape a container and reach the machine underneath. The flaw has existed since 2008. The fix already shipped: stable kernels 7.1.6, 6.18.42, 6.12.101 and 6.6.148, released August 3, close it. Anyone running an older kernel with SCTP reachable should update.

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AUG7
Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions

Initially calling itself BlackFile, the group has expanded operations to the Redact, Pink, Helix, and Falcon brands. The post Vishing Extortion Group UNC6671 Rebrands After Making Millions appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
AUG7
New NatJack Attacks Hijack TCP Sessions and Spoof DNS by Manipulating NAT Tables

Security researcher Malcolm Stagg has disclosed a new attack class called NatJack that manipulates network address translation (NAT) connection state to hijack active TCP sessions, spoof DNS responses, expose mapped ports, and exhaust NAT tables. Presented at Black Hat USA 2026, the research found affected behavior across independently developed implementations, including Windows and

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