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Using autonomous AI agents, an attacker breached an enterprise network in a matter of hours. Understand how to address and defend against agentic attacks. The post An AI-Assisted Cyber Attack: Inside a Unit 42 Investigation appeared first on Unit 42.

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Learn how the Spring Ring campaign abuses Microsoft Teams and voice phishing to deploy malware and target enterprise domain controllers. The post Spring Ring: An Inside Look at Voice Phishing Campaigns in Microsoft Teams appeared first on Unit 42.

PaperCut NG/MF contains an unsafe reflection vulnerability that allows an attacker to manipulate system configuration parameters and execute arbitrary Java bytecode residing on the application classpath under the security context of the PaperCut server process. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-81578.

PaperCut NG/MF contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to modify certain system configurations. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-82078.

New research reveals that AI safety refusal lives in a thin neural layer, highlighting the critical need for external, multi-layered security. The post Perturbation Probing: A New Diagnostic for the Fragility of LLM Safety appeared first on Unit 42.

Wiz honeypots uncover active campaigns targeting LiteLLM, MCP servers, and AI frameworks through RCE, blind prompt injection, and memory credential theft.

Inside the multi-agent pipeline and feedback loops that turned a bucket scanner into a context engine.

A practitioner’s guide to log visibility, incident readiness, and threat hunting across the major version control services.

ownCloud contains an improper authentication vulnerability that allows an attacker to access, modify, or delete any file without authentication if the username of a victim is known, and the victim has no signing-key configured.

Linux Kernel contains an unspecified vulnerability that can allow for privilege escalation via IPv6 networking subsystem. This vulnerability can impact multiple products, including but not limited to Suse, Red Hat, and other products using Linux.

JFrog Artifactory contains an improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory vulnerability. This can allow an authenticated user to write data outside the intended Docker cache path under specific remote-repository conditions.

How the Wiz Cloud Cost automates cost allocation to power developer-led cost optimization and connect cost to business value.

Wiz Research telemetry reveals why the majority of high-severity findings lack a path to compromise

AI applications can pass security scans yet remain exploitable through chained attacks across models, tools, data, and business workflows. Learn how DAST, AI pentesting, and red teaming work together to expose end-to-end risk.

Ajax.NET Professional (AjaxPro) contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution via arbitrary .NET classes. The impacted product(s) could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users are advised to discontinue use and/or transition to a supported version.

Red Hat libuser contains a race condition vulnerability that allows authenticated local users to corrupt the /etc/passwd file to cause a denial of service or privilege escalation.

Red Hat Automatic Bug Reporting Tool (ABRT) contains a privilege escalation vulnerability that could allow local users with certain permissions to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file with a predictable name. The impacted product(s) could be end-of-life (EoL) and/or end-of-service (EoS). Users are advised to discontinue use and/or transition to a supported version.

Linux Kernel contains an out-of-bounds memory write vulnerability which could allow a local user to gain privileged access or cause a denial of service on the system.

Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway contain an improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability which could lead to denial of service.

Microsoft SQL Server contains a remote code execution vulnerability that could allow an attacker to execute code in the context of the SQL Server Database Engine service account.

Explore Unit 42 research on AI-enabled malware. Learn how existing behavioral detection and endpoint analytics stop AI-authored code before execution. The post The State of AI-Enabled Malware August 2026: From Brand Abuse to Agentic Execution appeared first on Unit 42.

Gitea contains a code injection vulnerability that allows an attacker with repository write access to send a malicious patch to the diffpatch API endpoint to plant an executable Git hook and run shell commands as the Gitea service account.

Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in contain an improper access control vulnerability that can result in unauthorized creation, deletion or modification access to critical data as well as unauthorized access to critical data or complete access to all Oracle HTTP Server and Oracle Weblogic Server Proxy Plug-in accessible data.

Attackers are targeting CI/CD pipelines and developer tools instead of application code, requiring total SDLC visibility and strict security controls The post Connecting the Dots: Securing the Overlooked Corners of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) Supply Chain appeared first on Unit 42.

Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) contains an OS command injection vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to send specially crafted SMTP requests that may result in execution of arbitrary operating system commands as the Zimbra user.

Malicious versions of the arrayref Rust crate (and others) executed a backdoor at compile time. The campaign's infrastructure overlaps with recent DPRK supply chain attacks, including Mastra and axios.

Unit 42 details how attackers exploit enterprise collaboration tools for identity phishing and credential theft. Discover key defense strategies. The post Identity Abuse Through Trusted Communication Channels appeared first on Unit 42.

TrueConf Server contains a code injection vulnerability that could allow an unauthorized remote attacker with network access via port 4307/TCP to use a specially crafted script to break out of the isolated environment and execute arbitrary code on the host system.

TrueConf Server contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability which could allow a remote unauthorized attacker with network access via port 4307/TCP to execute an arbitrary script.