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Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code

2 September 2026 at 14:07
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the agent's sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive

Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages

2 September 2026 at 13:44
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports betting. Check Point Research said it has tracked the campaign since mid-2025. The modules

BGP Hijack Delivers Malicious Virtualizor Update That Establishes Persistent Root Access

2 September 2026 at 13:12
Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at 20:57

GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends

2 September 2026 at 09:18
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals. The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026, and published the vulnerability details on August 31. GeoNetwork originated at the United Nations Food and

Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands

2 September 2026 at 09:10
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

2 September 2026 at 07:47
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targetsΒ CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server's handling of theΒ USERΒ command

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