IT News Analysis

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Nearly 1 in 10 Exposed LiteLLM Gateways Accepted the Example "sk-1234" Admin Key

Nearly one in ten of the internet-facing LiteLLM servers that  Wiz Research  scanned in February accepted  sk-1234 , the example admin key in LiteLLM's own setup guide. LiteLLM is an open-source AI gateway, the software a company puts between its applications and the model providers it pays for. That key is the gateway's administrator credential. Anyone who holds it can read every model provider's API key stored on the server. In Wiz's tests, it also reached the cloud IAM credentials of the machine the gateway runs on. Changing the key needs no upgrade, and it closes every path in Wiz's report that depends on holding it. Where the Number Comes From Wiz ran one scan. It found 3,074 LiteLLM gateways on Shodan in February, and 294 of them accepted the key. In 191 of those 294, no key was set at all, so they would have accepted anything. The rest had the setup guide's value left in place. A second scan in August found more than 85,000 instances, but W...

Sep 10, 2026

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SANS 2026 Security Awareness & Culture Report Shows What's Next

11 years of practitioner data on what it takes to keep pace with a field that keeps shifting.

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Anthropic Discloses Fourth AI Hacking Incident Involving Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic on Wednesday disclosed a fourth incident in which its artificial intelligence (AI) model broke into real third-party systems, marking the latest in a growing list of cases that have raised concerns about the security risks posed by autonomous AI agents. The AI company said the incident dates back to January 2026 and involved an early version of Claude Opus 4.6 that breached "third-parties after being unable to abort its task." It said it notified all the affected parties but did not share any further details. The January incident is said to have gone unnoticed until last month. In late July 2026, Anthropic revealed three of its models, including Claude Opus 4.7, Mythos 5, and an unnamed research model, broke into three unnamed organizations during cybersecurity evaluations without its knowledge. The American firm said it expanded its scan to roughly 481 million transcripts following the discovery of the latest incident, but noted it did not find "other...

Sep 10, 2026

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U.S. Disrupts Xinbi Guarantee Scam Marketplace, Freezes $52.8 Million in Crypto

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced coordinated actions aimed at an illicit online marketplace called Xinbi Guarantee that offered scam services, including seizing Telegram channels used to run the service, confiscating two cryptocurrency wallets, and deploying the Scam Center Strike Force to Madagascar to help disrupt 13 scam compounds run by Chinese organized crime syndicates. "Approximately $52 million of cryptocurrency involved in scam money laundering was restrained in one day, bringing the total restrained by the Scam Center Strike Force to approximately $938 million," DoJ said. In tandem, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has sanctioned the Chinese-language media for facilitating cyber scams, fraud, money laundering, and other criminal activity targeting Americans. "Scam centers in Southeast Asia steal billions of dollars from American victims each year," said Secretary of the Treasury Scot...

Sep 09, 2026

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Four Spy Groups Used the Same Chrome and Windows Exploit Kit Within a Week

Multiple espionage-motivated threat activity clusters have been found deploying a previously undocumented exploit kit called BlueMoon that chains together multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Google Chrome. The first in-the-wild use of BlueMoon has been attributed to the China-aligned state-sponsored group tracked as APT31 (aka Bronze Vinewood, Judgement Panda, JungleBamboo, PerplexedGoblin, RedBravo, TA412, Tide Castle, and Violet Typhoon) on August 28, 2026. "Within days, several other espionage-motivated clusters began using BlueMoon, the majority of which have a suspected China nexus," Proofpoint said in a report published today. "However, BlueMoon may not be exclusive to China-aligned actors, as some usage remains unattributed and there are also potentially more actors using the exploit kit." The exploit chain employs three vulnerabilities - CVE-2026-85046 , a type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome CVE-2026-87491 , an out-of-bounds...

Sep 09, 2026

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Infostealer Logs Expose Replayable AI Tokens That Can Bypass MFA

Cybercriminals are hijacking artificial intelligence (AI) user accounts via information stealer logs to create "stolen keys" that grant illicit access to tools from model providers like Google, Anthropic, and others.  Information stealers like Lumma Stealer or Vidar are equipped to harvest a wide range of data from compromised systems. This can include credential, session tokens, and API keys. Once the data is stolen, threat actors who have purchased access to these off-the-shelf offerings put them up for sale on underground forums in the form of stealer logs to enable follow-on attacks. "Session tokens and API keys are sought specifically by threat actors because it is often possible to replay those secrets and bypass credential-based authentication," Jeremy Kirk, director of threat intelligence at Okta, said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Once successfully replayed, a threat actor is effectively logged in to an LLM service without actua...

Sep 09, 2026

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New Webinar: How AI Broke the Pyramid of Pain for Threat Detection

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Webinar: Learn How to Answer “Are We Exposed?” Faster After a New CVE

A major vulnerability is disclosed. The alert lands immediately. Then comes the harder question: Are we actually exposed? For many security teams, answering that means jumping between vulnerability scanners, endpoint tools, cloud inventories, SBOMs, repositories, and application data to build enough context to act. As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and research, that delay matters more. The challenge is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It is reducing the time between disclosure, exposure assessment, and response. Register now for our next live expert webinar, " Outpacing AI-Era Attacks Starts With Faster Time to Answer ," to see how the Tines security team approaches that problem. See How Tines Built a Faster Exposure View In this webinar, Tines Co-founder and CCO Thomas Kinsella and Senior Security Operations Engineer Andrew Katz will show how their security team brings multiple sources of exposure data into one interactive view.

Sep 09, 2026

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DeepSeek Harness Flaw Let AI Agents Disable Their Own File Sandbox Without Approval

A flaw in DeepSeek Harness , DeepSeek's open-source tool for running AI coding agents on a developer's machine, let a sandboxed agent turn off its own sandbox with a single command. The tool runs an agent's commands inside an operating-system sandbox, so that an agent working on untrusted files cannot write outside its workspace. The agent could remove that limit by calling the tool's own web interface on the same machine, and its commands would then run outside the sandbox without an approval prompt. It worked on a default installation until DeepSeek fixed the tool on August 27, and it required attacker-supplied text that the agent read to prompt it to make the call. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-82533 . VulnCheck, which assigned the identifier,  published the record  on September 8 and rated the flaw 9.4 out of 10. OX Research , the security firm that reported the flaw, said one shell command was enough. The command invoked the tool's local interface an...

Sep 09, 2026

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Alby Hub Critical Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Over Internet-Exposed Bitcoin Wallets

Bitcoin wallet company Alby has  warned of a critical flaw  in Alby Hub that could have let an attacker take over a wallet and send its funds, but only where the owner had made the Hub reachable from the internet. Alby Hub is a self-hosted Lightning wallet, meaning the owner runs it on their own computer or server, and it holds their bitcoin. The flaw affects versions v1.7.0 through v1.18.5, all released before August 2025, and Alby said one user has been affected so far. Versions v1.19.0 and later do not have the flaw. The first release with that fix was published on August 29, 2025, so a Hub updated to any release published since then is not affected. Alby is telling anyone still on an older build to stop outside access to the Hub's management interface first, which is the web page used to control the wallet. The next step is to update to  v1.24.0 , the current release. The company has not said what the flaw is. It said it would publish full details later, in l...

Sep 09, 2026