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AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

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AI-Generated Exploit Scripts Target Siemens S7 PLCs in U.S. Critical Infrastructure

The U.S. government on Wednesday warned of an "active threat" targeting critical infrastructure organizations in the country using artificial intelligence (AI)-generated exploit scripts. The activity is targeting Siemens S7 SeriesProgrammable Logic Controllers (PLCs) to conduct reconnaissance and capability development using AI-generated scripts disguised as legitimate monitoring tools. That

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

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New Cryptographic Context Injection Attack Could Let Web Pages Steal Grok Chat Data

Adversa AI has disclosed an attack technique that it says can cause xAI's Grok chatbot to send a user's name, approximate location, subscription tier, and the prompts from the ongoing conversation to an attacker-controlled server after the user asks it to summarize an ordinary web page. The AI security company, which has codenamed the technique "Cryptographic Context Injection," said the

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE

ProgrammingSecurity Advisory

Isolated-vm Flaw Lets Sandboxed JavaScript Escape to Host for Potential RCE

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in isolated-vm, a popular open-source sandbox with more than 2,900 stars and 190 forks on GitHub, that could allow attackers to escape the confines of the isolated environment. The vulnerability ("GHSA-864f-rcv7-6rh4"), which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, impacts all versions of the library before and including 7.0.0.

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

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Critical NetScaler Flaw Can Bypass Authentication on Certain Gateway and AAA Servers

Citrix has released updates to address two security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, including a critical-severity authentication bypass vulnerability. According to the cloud computing and virtualization technology company, the issues affect customer-managed NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, including certain FIPS and NDcPP builds, as well as SecurAccess

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

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Attackers Exploit Zimbra SNMP Flaw for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

A now-patched security flaw impacting Zimbra Collaboration (ZCS) has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to the Polish Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT Polska). The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), which refers to a case of command injection that can lead to remote code execution. "A remote code execution vulnerability exists in Zimbra

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

SecuritySecurity Advisory

Zombie Card Attack Can Revive Expired Visa Cards for Contactless Payments

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have demonstrated an attack that revives expired Visa contactless credit cards for real in-store purchases by rewriting the expiration date a point-of-sale (POS) terminal reads over near-field communication (NFC), without breaking any of the card's cryptography. The attack, which the researchers named "Zombie Card," requires physical

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem

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Why "Shady AI" is Security's Next Big Governance Problem

In March 2026, an internal AI agent at Meta triggered a “Sev 1” incident after sensitive company and user data was exposed to employees who weren’t authorized to access it.  The incident began when a Meta employee posted a technical question on an internal forum. An engineer used an approved AI agent to analyze it, but the agent posted its response publicly without approval. The employee

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

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CDN Tsunami Attack Abuses HTTP/3 Translation for Up to 350x DoS Amplification

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that exploit how major content delivery networks (CDNs) convert client-facing HTTP/3 traffic into HTTP/1.1 requests to the websites they front, amplifying a low-bandwidth request stream by up to 350x against the origin server. The attacks, collectively named "CDN Tsunami," were evaluated against Alibaba, Baidu,

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

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Manic Android Malware Exfiltrates Data From Offline Phones via Nearby Infected Devices

A new Android threat codenamed Manic has been observed actively targeting Ukrainian banks, government and identity services, and messaging applications, as well as Russian and European financial institutions, global fintech and cryptocurrency services, and military-focused communications. "Manic sits at the intersection of Android banking malware and mobile spyware, combining financial-fraud

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands

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NASA AIT-GUI Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Issue Spacecraft Commands

Security researchers at Cycode have disclosed a chain of flaws in AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console for NASA/JPL's open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, that allow an unauthenticated attacker to issue arbitrary commands to the software's spacecraft and instrument command bus. The chain, tracked as GHSA-p9r8-2q67-fp86 and rated 9.4 on the CVSS v3.1 scoring system, impacts AIT-GUI

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud

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ToxicPanda 2.0 and GoldDigger Expand Android Banking Attacks with On-Device Fraud

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on an updated version of ToxicPanda (aka TgToxic) that comes with "significant enhancements," including a set of 167 remote commands and expands its targeting footprint globally. Zimperium zLabs, in a Wednesday report, said the Android malware also features a PIN harvesting workflow targeting more than 140 banking and cryptocurrency applications.

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets

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40 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Web3 Products to Steal Wallet Secrets

A set of 40 Mozilla Firefox extensions has been found to engage in cryptocurrency wallet theft by masquerading as OKX, Rabby Wallet, TronLink, and other Web3 products. According to the Socket Threat Research team, the extensions are part of a broader set of 77 browser add-ons that share source code and infrastructure overlaps. The campaign, dubbed Offside Wallet Theft Factory, is believed to

The Hacker News·August 20, 2026·1 min read

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