N-able is warning that attackers exploited an authentication bypass in N-central, the remote monitoring and management platform used by managed service providers and IT teams to administer customer endpoints. The flaw, CVE-2026-18556, allows unauthenticated administrative account takeover, and N-able's initial fix in one release proved incomplete: it found another way to exploit the same weakness, tracked as CVE-2026-18577, that widened the affected range. After taking over a server, attackers used its remote-control feature to reach managed endpoints and installed Cloudflare tunnels as services, which kept access alive even after the route through the N-central server was cut. Build 2026.3.1.7 is the first unaffected version.
Researchers at Zafran disclosed three flaws, collectively named FaceHugger, in Hugging Face's widely used Diffusers library that let a crafted model repository run arbitrary code on any machine that loads it. All three bypass trust_remote_code, the safeguard meant to stop unreviewed code from executing, by exploiting a timing gap: the trust check runs against the first of two separate download requests, so anything that makes the loader see custom code the check did not slips through. One variant abuses a default None.py filename, another a race condition, and a third cross-repository pipeline loading. Because Diffusers runs inside production pipelines, CI/CD, and container images, one poisoned model load can mean deep initial access.
A data-leak forum listing is advertising an alleged dataset from Polish convenience-store chain Żabka for 5,000 euros, claiming roughly 541,000 Jira issues, about 230,000 IT service-desk tickets, and source code from 89 GitLab repositories. The post names real internal systems, including the chain's point-of-sale platform and SAP environment, and more than 20 outside vendors. A reviewer of the sample archive found the counts internally consistent and noted that a single GitLab access token appears across all 89 repository dumps, pointing to reused credentials rather than a code flaw. Żabka has not confirmed the breach, and the seller's account has no trading history.
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 described three techniques, collectively Pass-ta-key, in which malware already running on a compromised Windows PC abuses Google Password Manager's synced passkeys. None break the underlying cryptography; they target how Chrome stores device keys, re-enrolls a device, and whether a site verifies that a person was present. The techniques can silently obtain a valid login assertion without any unlock prompt, register an attacker-controlled verification key that defeats user-verification checks, or extract the secret that decrypts all of a user's synced passkeys for reuse elsewhere. Passkeys still resist phishing, but a fully compromised endpoint undermines the synced-passkey model.
Researchers at Socket found 18 malicious npm packages that deliver a cross-platform remote access trojan to users of Alibaba developer tools, splitting the attack across many packages so each looks harmless on its own. Ten lure packages with no real function depend on a bridge package, which pulls in loaders that fetch a rule-engine configuration from GitHub and use it to run OS-specific payloads from a server disguised as Alibaba infrastructure. On Windows it even replaces a legitimate Alibaba security app with a trojanized copy. The final trojan can steal data, run commands, and move laterally, and the campaign stayed hidden for about three months.
Resecurity reports that the INC ransomware operation has become the dominant group exploiting two SonicWall SMA1000 VPN appliance flaws, accelerating its attacks since early August. The pair, CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410, were exploited as zero-days before SonicWall patched them in mid-July, and can be chained to gain root on the appliance and extract credentials, session databases, and one-time-password data. Many appliances remain unpatched or already compromised, leaving footholds attackers can reuse. Victims listed recently span private and government organizations across several countries, and some reported follow-up emails and phone calls from people claiming to help with the ransomware.
Adobe patched a critical flaw in Campaign Classic, its enterprise marketing automation platform, that can let an attacker run code without any user interaction. Tracked as CVE-2026-48449 and scored 10.0, it is an incorrect authorization issue leading to arbitrary code execution in the context of the current user. The same update fixes a high-severity SQL injection flaw that allows arbitrary file reads. Affected versions are Campaign Classic v7 build 9397 and earlier on Windows and Linux, mostly on-premises and hybrid deployments, with a fix in build 9398. Adobe says it is not aware of exploitation, and separately patched eight critical flaws in Adobe Bridge.
A firmware flaw in Coldcard Bitcoin hardware wallets let attackers reconstruct wallet seeds offline and sweep roughly 70 million dollars from 1,196 addresses in 41 minutes on July 30. A March 2021 build error routed seed generation to a weak software random number generator instead of the device's hardware one, because the check confirmed a configuration macro existed rather than that it was enabled. That collapsed the randomness behind seeds to as little as 40 bits on older models, letting an attacker who can constrain the device identifier and timer state reproduce candidate seeds and match them to funded addresses. Coinkite shipped emergency firmware, but updating does not repair an already-generated seed.
Biotechnology company Amgen disclosed that attackers stole patient and corporate data from multiple cloud systems run by third-party providers, rather than from its own servers. In a securities filing, Amgen said it detected the intrusion in July, confirmed data was exfiltrated, and determined the incident material based on the volume and sensitivity of affected files. Confirmed stolen data includes proprietary company information and patient protected health information, and the company is still assessing whether intellectual property, research and development data, and further patient records were taken. Operations, product supply, and financial systems were not disrupted. Amgen has not named a provider, entry point, or responsible party.
Attackers compromised a widely used tracking script from advertising firm Adform, turning it into a browser-side tool that rewrites cryptocurrency wallet addresses. The malicious code was appended in obfuscated form to Adform's trackpoint-async.js library, served from the company's own infrastructure, so any site loading it ran the altered script in visitors' browsers. It swapped Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Tron addresses both in the clipboard and in form fields, redirecting transfers to the attacker. Adform detected and removed the code on July 27 and says it did not install software or persist after a page closed, but cached copies may linger. It has not said how many page loads were affected.
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