IT News Analysis

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A Leaked GitLab Issue Email Address Lets Anyone Push Code and Run CI Jobs as You

The private email address GitLab gives you for filing issues by email is a credential. Anyone who gets it can email a patch that GitLab commits in your name, to any branch you can push to, including main, and can start CI/CD jobs that run as you. GitLab shows each user this address behind a button labeled "Email work item to this project." Mail sent to it opens an issue in that project, authored by you. The string in the middle of the address is a token tied to your account, and GitLab's documentation says it does not expire. The address looks like it belongs to one project. It does not.  Aikido Security , which reported the behavior, found that the addresses GitLab creates for a user's different projects all share the same token, and that the token applies to every project the account can open, public or private. GitLab does not check who sent the email. Any mailbox can write to the address, and GitLab acts on the message as if it came from you. Whoever holds...

Sep 23, 2026

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MikroTrick Chain Let Attackers Take Over MikroTik Routers Without a Password or SSH Key

Two MikroTik RouterOS SSH vulnerabilities chained together let attackers take full administrative control of Internet-exposed routers without a password, SSH key, or completed authentication. The chain, which CERT Polska calls MikroTrick , combines an SSH state-machine flaw ( CVE-2026-67279 ) with an argument-injection bug in the RouterOS login process ( CVE-2026-86060 ). Attack logs date to at least September 2, one day before MikroTik shipped patches in RouterOS 6.49.21, 7.23.4, and 7.24.2. As  previously reported , CERT Polska warned on September 5 that attackers were using RouterOS flaws to take control of devices whose SSH service was reachable from public networks. That warning confirmed the exploitation and urged immediate patching but did not identify which two flaws formed the chain or explain how they combined. This latest analysis provides both. How the Chain Works SSH requires three steps in order: it establishes an encrypted connection, authentica...

Sep 23, 2026

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This Windows Malware is Built to Let Up to Four AI Models Vote on Its Next Move

A Windows malware called CLOSEDQUORUM is built to take orders from a vote of up to four AI models instead of an attacker's server, Cisco Talos said on September 22. The models can choose to steal Windows credentials, saved browser passwords, and crypto wallet data. Talos has not seen this setup work from start to finish, and the public version of the malware does not work as it is. Talos found the malware with  CAIRN , an open-source tool it released the same day to hunt for malware that uses AI services. The malware is at least three months old, because Talos's analysis of the code is dated June 17, 2026. The researchers did not describe how the malware would get onto a victim's computer. It said clues in the code tied the developer to criminal forum posts about carding, the trade in stolen card data, dating to 2025. How the AI Vote Works Malware usually takes orders from a command-and-control (C2) server that the attacker runs. CLOSEDQUORUM instead asks up t...

Sep 23, 2026

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Do You Need to Protect AI, Use AI, or Govern AI? SANS has Mapped All Three.

Free frameworks, guidelines, and role-based AI security training, gathered in one place.

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Compromised MemTensor Packages Deliver sckit Credential Stealer via npm and PyPI

Unknown threat actors have managed to compromise two legitimate MemTensor packages across the npm and Python Package Index (PyPI) repositories to push a platform-specific Go-based implant dubbed sckit designed for Windows, Linux, and macOS. According to reports from Aikido , SafeDep , Socket , and StepSecurity , the libraries in question below - @memtensor/memos-cloud-openclaw-plugin versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23 and 0.1.25 (versions 0.1.22 and 0.1.24 are clean) MemoryOS version 2.0.34 (project currently quarantined on PyPI) The malicious npm package versions include a "hidden Go payload into a legitimate AI memory integration. Versions 0.1.21, 0.1.23, and 0.1.25 contain code that launches the payload when the agent gateway starts and whenever the plugin handles a memory-recall event," StepSecurity said. "The launcher passes the host process environment and, during recall, the user's prompt text directly to the malicious executable."

Sep 23, 2026

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New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account Run Code as Root, Take Full Server Control

A flaw in cPanel's  CalDAV and CardDAV service  lets anyone with a cPanel hosting account run code as root and take "full control of the server," the company said on September 22. A  second bug in the WP Toolkit plugin, used to install and manage WordPress sites, allows an account holder to change databases that belong to other accounts. cPanel has released fixed versions for both, along with a fix for a  third flaw  in the same service, which stores each account's calendars and contacts. That third flaw lets a local user on the server read other accounts' calendar events and contacts, but not change them or gain root access. cPanel lists no requirements for the root flaw other than having an account. On a shared server where a hosting provider sells accounts to the public, that means any customer could use it. So could anyone who gets hold of a customer's login. The three flaws and the versions that fix them:

Sep 23, 2026

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Mikko Hyppönen and Enterprise CISOs on What AI-Speed Attacks Actually Change

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545 Hackers Tested It First. Now XRanges for AI Scores Your Security Agent

Autonomous security agents are getting good at finding bugs. Nobody has a good way to measure how good. Point one at a realistic target and what comes back is a report the agent wrote about itself: confident prose, a list of findings, and no way to tell which of them happened. Someone with a security background then sits down and checks every claim against the target. Which findings are real, which are duplicates, which are inventions, and, the question nobody has time for, what did the agent never try? That is a day of expert work for one run. Multiply it by three models, four prompt variants and ten repetitions, and the review queue is longer than the experiment. XRanges for AI, built by CTF.ae, exists for that loop. It deploys realistic target applications with instrumentation baked into every service, records what an agent actually does inside them, and scores each run live on four independent signals. This walkthrough covers how it works, what a run looks like from deployment t...

Sep 23, 2026

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Anthropic and OpenAI Models Still Attempt Restricted Actions in Safety Tests

Anthropic and OpenAI on Tuesday announced new models, with both artificial intelligence (AI) companies noting that they are continuing to invest in improving alignment to combat risky behavior. Opus 5.5, per Anthropic , is a "major step up from Opus 5," and "achieves the best scores of any model to date on our automated behavioral audit, our alignment suite that tests Claude across thousands of simulated scenarios." The AI company said the model is less likely than its other recent models to carry out hard-to-reverse actions or act outside the boundaries it's been given, adding it's more resistant than Opus 5 to prompt injection. In its systems card, Anthropic explained that the latest model exhibited less misaligned behavior and less cooperation with misuse than any other recent Claude model. "It also took overeager or destructive actions less than any other model we tested," Anthropic said. "Regressions included being more likely ...

Sep 23, 2026

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Exploit Released for Unpatched Ubuntu Linux Flaw Enabling Host-Root Container Escape

A use-after-free in the Linux kernel's AF_UNIX socket subsystem can be used to escape a container and gain root on the host, security firm DepthFirst  said in research published September 22. The flaw, tracked as  CVE-2026-80521  (CVSS score: 7.8), was fixed upstream on August 6, but Ubuntu has not shipped the patch for its 26.04, 24.04, or 22.04 LTS releases. DepthFirst  released exploit code  targeting Ubuntu 26.04. Ubuntu's security tracker  lists the Linux package on 26.04 as "vulnerable, work in progress." The 24.04 and 22.04 releases are also affected through newer kernel packages, including those for AWS, Azure, and GCP workloads. No fix has shipped on any affected release. The flaw is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and there are no confirmed reports of attacks using it. The vulnerability sits in the kernel's garbage collector for AF_UNIX sockets. That collector cleans up file descriptors passed between processes t...

Sep 23, 2026