Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones

The most common way into a company last year was to ask.

A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting

  • September 1, 2026

Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000

METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced “Meter”), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered “two notable security incidents” where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems.

No sensitive information is believed to

  • September 1, 2026

Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that’s been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis.

The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model’s (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its

  • September 1, 2026

Attackers Exploit Critical Langflow and Rails Flaws in Credential-Probing and C2 Activity

Threat actors are exploiting two critical flaws impacting Langflow and Ruby on Rails, according to new findings from VulnCheck.

The vulnerabilities in question are listed below –

CVE-2026-0768 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A lack of proper validation of a user-supplied input vulnerability that could be exploited to execute arbitrary Python code in the context of the root user.
CVE-2026-66066 aka

  • September 1, 2026