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Received β€” 3 November 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

We found 4,972 "hello" messages hiding thousands of malicious commands targeting Flowise

TL;DR: Our research team at Era uncovered Greeter, an attack framework targeting Flowise, an AI development platform with 55,000+ GitHub stars.

We deployed seven honeypots and captured 4,972 "hello" messages, each carrying malicious JavaScript through Flowise's overrideConfig parameter.

The interesting part? The malicious code never appeared in the saved workflow.

We reconstructed 4,000+ commands revealing:

  • Host reconnaissance and privilege checks
  • Searches for credentials, SSH keys, and secrets
  • AWS, Azure, and GCP metadata probing
  • Persistence attempts and fileless execution preparation

We also identified 4,372 internet-exposed Flowise instances, including 46 unauthenticated instances that appeared to match our vulnerable setup.

The bigger concern is how a compromised AI application can become an entry point into the broader cloud environment.

Full technical breakdown: https://era.security/blog/greeter-flowise-ai-infrastructure-attack

submitted by /u/Budget-Score725
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A primer on TETRA mission-critical radio network authentication flaws

tl:dr;

  • Contrary to popular belief among vendors, system integrators, and asset owners: network authentication in TETRA mission-critical radio networks does not provide authenticity & integrity guarantees at the individual message level.
  • To make matters worse: base stations don't require a re-authentication whenever a radio is roaming from one cell tower to the next.
  • This allows for traffic injection attacks: both voice and data. The latter is particularly worrying for SCADA WAN scenarios or where voice & alarming functionality can disrupt operations at such as at airports, harbors, railway operators, and civil defense siren systems.
  • The 2026 attack on Taiwan High Speed Rail's TETRA network, leading to the emergency stop of several trains, shows a mild example of possible impact: https://www.midnightblue.nl/blog/analyzing-the-taiwan-high-speed-rail-thsr-tetra-cyber-incident-part-1
submitted by /u/2ROT13
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CPGuard / OPSSHIELD LLP Breach

Had a subscription in the past with them and received the following e-mail:

Doesn't look like many sites have have picked up on this:

Dear cPGuard customers and partners,

An unidentified attacker targeted OPSSHIELD, gained unauthorized access to our licensing and update systems, and distributed a malicious script through the cPGuard update channel. **We have stopped further distribution of the script and released cPGuard 5.88.25 to remove the known backdoor and files left by the script.**

The script sent data to an endpoint on our licensing server under a compromised account. We secured that account as soon as we identified the breach and cleared our infrastructure credentials. We are investigating how the attacker gained access, which customer servers ran the script, and what data the attacker accessed.

**Please take the following actions immediately.**

  1. **Update every cPGuard server.** Run `cpgcli update --start`. The corrective update removes the backdoor shell at `/var/tmp/.cpg91511_sh` and the collection directory `/var/tmp/.cpg91511`, including the password hashes and credential archive (`loot.tgz`) staged there.
  2. **Verify the installed version.** After the update completes, run `cpgcli --version` on each server and confirm it reports **5.88.25**. If the update fails or the server still reports an older version (between 5.88.12 and 5.88.19), contact OPSSHIELD Support immediately.
  3. **If you know or suspect the malicious script ran, reset passwords and revoke exposed credentials.** The script targeted `/etc/shadow`. Reset passwords for root and all other password-enabled local accounts from a trusted recovery environment. From a trusted device, change any passwords reused elsewhere and rotate affected database passwords, S3 access keys, DigitalOcean tokens, and secrets recorded in root's shell history. Replace SSH private keys stored under `/root/.ssh` and remove the corresponding old public keys from every system that trusts them. Complete this step even if the update succeeds, because credentials copied before cleanup may still be usable.

We are sorry that this breach put your systems at risk. If you need help assessing a server, please contact OPSSHIELD Support through your usual support channel. We will share further findings as we verify them.

The OPSSHIELD Team

submitted by /u/3verse16
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Securing Internet-Critical Software: How We Could Have Backdoored Bash

(May 2026)

TL;DR:

  • an email address like atouch${IFS}/tmp/savane-rce-proof@attacker.example gave any registered user code execution on its backend.
  • From there, we made our account a superuser,
  • impersonated Bash’s maintainer, and confirmed we could add an SSH key with push access to the upstream Bash repository.
  • An unpatched kernel gave us root access and access to a GNU backup server. We reported it to the FSF on May 11, 2026.

FSF incident report: https://static.fsf.org/nosvn/security/savannah-20260807.pdf

submitted by /u/gainan
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Received β€” 2 November 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

/r/netsec's Q4 2026 Information Security Hiring Thread

Overview

If you have open positions at your company for information security professionals and would like to hire from the /r/netsec user base, please leave a comment detailing any open job listings at your company.

We would also like to encourage you to post internship positions as well. Many of our readers are currently in school or are just finishing their education.

Please reserve top level comments for those posting open positions.

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r/netsec monthly discussion & tool thread

Questions regarding netsec and discussion related directly to netsec are welcome here, as is sharing tool links.

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  • All discussions and questions should directly relate to netsec.
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Received β€” 30 October 2026 ⏭ /r/netsec - Information Security News & Discussion

php2bitcoin x brotli2coin: live hacking stream

I wanted to figure out just how exploitable php2shell and http2shell were in practice, so I've created two purposely vulnerable web apps: https://brotli2bitcoin.com & https://php2bitcoin.com with a standard production config -- pop an RCE and find the flag to claim the $1K BTC.

And to make it interesting, I setup a live stream showing every single attack attempt happening live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7_EJWqRzvw

Good luck! ;)

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Stopping Remote Code Execution with Sandboxes, CVE-2026-115995: Rust Zip

With AI platfforms, #vulnpocalypse, and supply chain attacks security teams and platform engineering teams heads are spinning. The two recent HIGH and CRITICAL CVEs in the rust zip make a great case study for how we can build more resilient, defendable, and secure platforms with Wasm Sandboxes:

https://cosmonic.com/blog/stopping-remote-code-execution-with-a-sandbox/

submitted by /u/HectaMan
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