Feds: Super sophisticated computer hacking hackers hacked all the utilities!

The actual attackers:

We gave GPT 5.6-Cyber one task: escape a QEMU/KVM VM used to sandbox agents.

It escaped three times. The final escape came from three 0-days the agent found on its own and built into a working exploit after we patched known bugs and rebuilt QEMU from upstream.

Our takeaway is off-the-shelf VMs cannot contain a modern, cyber-capable agent.

https://blog.trailofbits.com/2026/08/26/vms-wont-contain-cyber-capable-agents/

#infosec #AIsecurity #linux

A bit annoyed by tech reporting again. Found two major tech news outlets provide an incorrect explanation of the WebAudio fingerprinting (not you arstechnica. You did good). The thing is mostly prevented in major browsers like Firefox, as explained in this excellent technical analysis https://ritter.vg/blog-webaudio_alibaba.html by @tomrittervg.

Worst part is the article that went straight for FUD and had links for paid articles explaining how to "protect yourself" blergh. I thought better of you heise...

sev:CRIT ../ in WatchGuard Agent. Once again, INFOSEC increasing that attack surface instead of decreasing it.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-57909

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The legendary Cliff Stoll gave a delightful talk at DEFCON on Stalking The Wily Hacker (40 Years Later) at DEFCON. It's now online. If you've never seen Cliff, a Klein Bottle, or an overhead projector before, rush over to the youtubes and fix that right now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=656058JxTM0

Released the 1st sample (https://pub.expmon.com/analysis/328592/, 594404aac2354fc0185f8de346c06382e4c203ec64673a41a0eae0ed7e37c113) here (password: "expmon"):

https://drive.google.com/file/d/140JTizPrejK28bP3kt-iPdS5bRIy5hLr/view?usp=sharing

As shared previously, the crash still affects the latest Adobe Reader, but probably just a null-pointer-dereference issue.
https://bird.makeup/users/haifeili/statuses/2090513692895154536

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flock ceo calls for compromise

you heard em, hackers

Chaining CVE-2026-55040 and CVE-2026-63520 for full auth bypass-to-RCE in Microsoft SharePoint: https://www.vulncheck.com/blog/cve-2026-63520-sharepoint-unsafe-type-rce

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