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2026-07-16 14:00 UTC
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Demystifying AI Exploits: A Blueprint for AI-Assisted Vulnerability Management

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Jules Czarniak Introduction As highlighted in the Mandiant M-Trends 2026 report, the mean time-to-exploit (TTE) has dropped to -7 days, meaning vulnerabilities are often exploited a week before a patch even exists. To keep pace, many security teams are exploring how to integrate large language model (LLM) agents into their codebases, development environments and continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines for automated vulnerability discovery and remediation. Ho…

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P10
2026-07-16 12:00 UTC
Vendor Research

CVE-2026-32201, CVE-2026-45659, CVE-2026-56164: Frequently Asked Questions About Active Exploitation of Microsoft SharePoint Server Vulnerabilities

Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts · Research Special Operations · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Four Microsoft SharePoint Server vulnerabilities are under active exploitation, prompting CISA to issue a hardening alert. An additional high-severity flaw recently patched adds pressure for organizations running on-premises deployments.Key TakeawaysCISA confirmed active exploitation of three on-premises SharePoint Server vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-32201, CVE-2026-45659, CVE-2026-56164), used to gain unauthorized access, establish remote code execution, steal IIS machine keys and deploy malware …

Cloud SecurityMalwareMicrosoftRansomwareThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-32201CVE-2026-45659CVE-2026-55040CVE-2026-56164CVE-2026-58644
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2026-07-15 14:00 UTC
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The Risk of Exposed Cloud Functions and How to Harden

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Corné de Jong Introduction Mandiant security assessments frequently identify publicly exposed serverless applications that lack authentication, often as a result of specific business requirements. Serverless deployments typically run custom-developed code that incorporates third-party packages, making them targets for a wide range of application-level attacks, including: Local and Remote File Inclusion (LFI/RFI) Command Injection Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities can …

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2026-07-15 13:14 UTC
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CVE-2026-15409, CVE-2026-15410: SonicWall SMA 1000 zero-day vulnerabilities exploited in the wild

Tenable Cyber Exposure Alerts · Scott Caveza · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

SonicWall patched two recently exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in its SMA 1000 Series secure remote access appliances which may have been chained for unauthenticated remote code execution.Key takeawaysCVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410 are a pair of exploited vulnerabilities that may have been chained together to allow for code execution on SonicWall SMA1000 series appliances. Zero-day exploitation of these vulnerabilities has been observed and confirmed by SonicWall. Patches and indicators o…

Cloud SecurityNetwork SecurityRansomwareSecurity ResearchThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-15409CVE-2026-15410
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2026-07-07 14:00 UTC
Vendor Research

The ‘Ghost’ in the Database: Recovering Active ADFS Signing Keys via Machine DPAPI

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Shebin Mathew Introduction The "Golden SAML" technique, first described by CyberArk researchers in 2017, and further detailed by Mandiant researchers in 2021, remains one of the most effective methods for threat actors to forge identity assertions in the Microsoft ecosystem. By obtaining the private key of an ADFS token-signing certificate, an attacker can authenticate as any user to any SAML-federated application, bypassing multifactor authentication (MFA), conditional access, and …

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2026-06-25 14:00 UTC
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STOCKSTAY Another Day: The Latest Addition to Turla’s Intelligence Gathering Apparatus

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Jordan Jones Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has conducted an in-depth analysis of a .NET backdoor, tracked as STOCKSTAY, that has been continually developed and deployed by the Russia-linked threat actor Turla (aka SUMMIT, Secret Blizzard, VENOMOUS BEAR, UAC-0194) since at least December 2022. Turla has deployed STOCKSTAY against government and military organizations in Ukraine, as well as entities with an interest in Italian foreign policy. Used for ongoing cy…

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2026-06-24 11:00 UTC
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Zero-Day Exploitation of Vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Chester Sng, Pete Boonyakarn, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Lukasz Lamparski Introduction In early 2026, Mandiant identified a threat actor targeting SD-WAN infrastructure at a service provider. After gaining initial access, the threat actor exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-20245) in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN to escalate privileges from a compromised administrative account to root-level access. The vulnerability stems from the device’s file upload feature lacking the ability to prop…

MicrosoftNetwork SecurityThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-20127CVE-2026-20182CVE-2026-20245
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2026-06-15 14:00 UTC
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Public and Private Medical Community Targeted by China-Nexus Threat Actor Pursuing Artificial Intelligence, Cyber, Medical, and National Defense Research

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Patrick Whitsell, John McGuiness, Muhammad Umair Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a sophisticated campaign attributed to UNC6508, a People's Republic of China (PRC)-nexus threat actor, targeting institutions in the North American academic, medical, and military research community. While remaining undetected for over a year, the threat actor compromised externally facing web applications, deployed bespoke malware, pivoted to sensitive internal systems, and abuse…

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2026-06-11 14:00 UTC
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ShinyHunters Targets Education Sector with Oracle PeopleSoft Exploit

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Introduction Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) have identified an active compromise and extortion campaign attributed to UNC6240 (ShinyHunters) targeting Oracle PeopleSoft application infrastructure. The activity was observed between May 27, 2026, and June 9, 2026 and is consistent with the exploitation of CVE-2026-35273, a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVSS 9.8) in the Environment Management component. The exploitation of this vulnerability directly aligns wi…

AppleCloud SecurityData BreachesLinuxMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-35273
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2026-06-10 06:47 UTC
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2026-007: Critical Vulnerability in Windows Netlogon

CERT-EU Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-15 18:50 UTC

On 12 May 2026, Microsoft published a security advisory addressing a critical vulnerability affecting Windows Server when acting as a domain controller. This vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code over a network. According to The Centre for Cybersecurity Belgium (CCB), this vulnerability is currently exploited by threat actors. It is strongly recommended updating affected Windows servers as soon as possible.

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2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
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CVE-2025-12829 - Integer Overflow issue in Amazon Ion-C

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-027 Scope: Amazon Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/11/7 10:15 AM PDT Description: Amazon's Ion-C is a library for the C language that is used to read and write Amazon Ion data. We Identified CVE-2025-12829, which describes an uninitialized stack read issue in Ion-C versions < v1.1.4 that may allow a threat actor to craft data and serialize it to Ion text in such a way that sensitive data in memory could be exposed through UTF-8 escape seq…

Cloud SecurityThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-12829
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2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
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[Redirected] Memory Dump Issue in AWS CodeBuild

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Bulletin ID: AWS-2025-016 Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2025/07/25 6:00 PM PDT Description: AWS CodeBuild is a fully managed on-demand continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy. Security researchers reported a CodeBuild issue that could be leveraged for unapproved code modification absent sufficient repository controls and credential scoping. The researchers demonstrat…

Cloud SecurityDFIRSecurity ResearchThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-8217
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2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
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CVE-2026-6550 - Key commitment policy bypass via shared key cache in AWS Encryption SDK for Python

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Bulletin ID: 2026-017-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/04/20 12:45 PM PDT Description: AWS Encryption SDK (ESDK) for Python is a client-side encryption library. We identified CVE-2026-6550, which describes an issue with a key commitment policy bypass via shared key cache. Cryptographic algorithm downgrade in the caching layer of Amazon AWS Encryption SDK for Python before version 3.3.1 and before version 4.0.5 might allow an authenticated local …

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2026-06-05 19:19 UTC
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CVE-2026-5429 - Kiro IDE Webview Cross-Site Scripting via Workspace Color Theme

AWS Security Bulletins · aws@amazon.com · indexed 2026-08-15 18:58 UTC

Bulletin ID: 2026-012-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 2026/04/02 11:30 AM PDT Description: Kiro IDE is an agentic development environment that makes it easy for developers to ship real engineering work with the help of AI agents. We identified CVE-2026-5429, where unsanitized input during web page generation in the Kiro Agent webview in Kiro IDE before version 0.8.140 allows a remote unauthenticated threat actor to execute arbitrary code via a malic…

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P5
2026-06-05 14:00 UTC
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Seeking Counsel: Ongoing Targeted Campaign Against US Law Firms

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Chad Reams, Tufail Ahmed, Keith Knapp, Ashley Frazer, Tyler McLellan Introduction From January through May 2026, Mandiant identified a financially motivated data theft extortion campaign executed by the threat cluster UNC3753 (also tracked as "Luna Moth," “Chatty Spider,” and "Silent Ransom Group") targeting dozens of organizations across professional, legal, and financial services in the United States. UNC3753 leverages voice phishing (vishing) and social engineering deception tech…

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2026-05-29 13:56 UTC
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Microsoft Entra ID 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse

Tenable Research Advisories · Ben Smith · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Microsoft Entra ID 1-Click Open Redirection via OAuth Error Handling Abuse Researchers associated with Tenable have discovered new techniques to trigger 1-click open redirection attacks in Microsoft Entra ID by abusing the OAuth error-handling mechanism. The attack relies on an initial setup phase where a threat actor registers an OAuth application in an actor-controlled tenant and configures its redirect_uri to point to an attacker-controlled domain. When a victim clicks on a specifically craf…

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P0
2026-05-25 14:00 UTC
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Exploitation of KnowledgeDeliver via ViewState Deserialization Vulnerability

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Takahiro Sugiyama, Peter Revelant, Mathew Potaczek Introduction In late 2025, Mandiant responded to a security incident involving a compromised web server running KnowledgeDeliver. KnowledgeDeliver is a Learning Management System (LMS) developed by Digital Knowledge commonly used in Japan. Mandiant identified a critical vulnerability that allowed unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE). An unknown threat actor leveraged this access to inject malicious code into the LMS platform,…

AppleDFIRMalwareMicrosoftThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilitiesCVE-2026-5426
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2026-05-25 14:00 UTC
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2 PhaaS 2 Furious: The Evolution of Chinese-Language Phishing Services

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

While Russian-speaking threat actors have historically dominated the phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) landscape, a rival ecosystem is rapidly growing within the Chinese-language underground. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) analyzed a dozen current PhaaS offerings in the Chinese underground, all of them mature services and many likely tied intricately to the broader criminal ecosystem in that region. These services not only lower the barrier to entry for Chinese cyber criminals, but reveal …

AppleCybercrimePhishingThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P0
2026-05-19 17:49 UTC
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Continued Evolution of Persistence Mechanism Against Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance and Secure Firewall Threat Defense

Cisco Security Advisories · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC

On April 23, 2026, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an update to V1: Emergency Directive (ED) 25-03: Identify and Mitigate Potential Compromise of Cisco Devices related to Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) products. According to the update, the ArcaneDoor threat actor has developed a previously unknown persistence mechanism that is preserved across upgrading to the fixed releases that wer…

Network SecurityThreat ActorsVulnerabilitiesCVE-2025-20333CVE-2025-20362
P20
2026-05-15 14:00 UTC
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Welcome to BlackFile: Inside a Vishing Extortion Operation

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Austin Larsen, Tyler McLellan, Genevieve Stark, Dan Ebreo Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track an expansive extortion campaign by UNC6671, a threat actor operating under the "BlackFile" brand, that targets organizations via sophisticated voice phishing (vishing) and single sign-on (SSO) compromise. By leveraging adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) techniques to bypass traditional perimeter defenses and multi-factor authentication (MFA), UNC6671 gain…

Data BreachesMicrosoftNetwork SecurityPhishingThreat ActorsThreat IntelligenceVulnerabilities
P0
2026-05-11 14:00 UTC
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GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Adversaries Leverage AI for Vulnerability Exploitation, Augmented Operations, and Initial Access

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Executive Summary Since our February 2026 report on AI-related threat activity, Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has continued to track a maturing transition from nascent AI-enabled operations to the industrial-scale application of generative models within adversarial workflows. This report, based on insights derived from Mandiant incident response engagements, Gemini, and GTIG’s proactive research, highlights the dual nature of the current threat environment where AI serves as both a so…

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2026-04-23 21:38 UTC
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AI threats in the wild: The current state of prompt injections on the web

Google Online Security Blog · Kimberly Samra · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC

Posted by Thomas Brunner, Yu-Han Liu, Moni PandeAt Google, our Threat Intelligence teams are dedicated to staying ahead of real-world adversarial activity, proactively monitoring emerging threats before they can impact users. Right now, Indirect Prompt Injection (IPI) is a top priority for the security community, anticipating it as a primary attack vector for adversaries to target and compromise AI agents. But while the danger of IPI is widely discussed, are threat actors actually exploiting th…

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2026-04-23 14:00 UTC
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Snow Flurries: How UNC6692 Employed Social Engineering to Deploy a Custom Malware Suite

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Mandiant · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: JP Glab, Tufail Ahmed, Josh Kelley, Muhammad Umair Introduction Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) identified a multistage intrusion campaign by a newly tracked threat group, UNC6692, that leveraged persistent social engineering, a custom modular malware suite, and deft pivoting inside the victim’s environment to achieve deep network penetration. As with many other intrusions in recent years, UNC6692 relied heavily on impersonating IT helpdesk employees, convincing their victim…

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P0
2026-04-16 14:00 UTC
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Defending Your Enterprise When AI Models Can Find Vulnerabilities Faster Than Ever

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Francis deSouza · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Introduction Advances in AI model-powered exploitation have demonstrated that general-purpose AI models can excel at vulnerability discovery, even without being purpose-built for the task. Eventually, capabilities such as these will be integrated directly into the development cycle, and code will be more difficult to exploit than ever; however, this transition creates a critical window of risk. As we harden existing software with AI, threat actors will use it to discover and exploit novel vulne…

AI SecurityAPT / Nation-StateCloud SecurityDFIRMicrosoftRansomwareThreat ActorsVulnerabilities
P60
2026-04-15 14:00 UTC
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The German Cyber Criminal Überfall: Shifts in Europe's Data Leak Landscape

Google Threat Intelligence / Mandiant · Google Threat Intelligence Group · indexed 2026-08-15 18:55 UTC

Written by: Jamie Collier, Robin Grunewald Germany has reclaimed its position as a primary focus for cyber extortion in Europe. While data leak site (DLS) posts rose almost 50% globally in 2025, Google Threat Intelligence (GTI) data shows that the surge is hitting German infrastructure harder and faster than its regional neighbors, marking a significant return to the high-pressure levels previously observed in the country during 2022 and 2023. Cyber Criminals Pivoting Back to Germany Germany mo…

CybercrimeData BreachesRansomwareThreat ActorsThreat Intelligence
P15
2026-04-09 17:07 UTC
Vendor Research

Protecting Cookies with Device Bound Session Credentials

Google Online Security Blog · Google · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC

Posted by Ben Ackerman, Chrome team, Daniel Rubery, Chrome team and Guillaume Ehinger, Google Account Security team Following our April 2024 announcement, Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) is now entering public availability for Windows users on Chrome 146, and expanding to macOS in an upcoming Chrome release. This project represents a significant step forward in our ongoing efforts to combat session theft, which remains a prevalent threat in the modern security landscape. Session theft t…

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P0
2025-06-13 16:03 UTC
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Mitigating prompt injection attacks with a layered defense strategy

Google Online Security Blog · Kimberly Samra · indexed 2026-08-15 14:33 UTC

Posted by Adam Gavish, Google GenAI Security TeamWith the rapid adoption of generative AI, a new wave of threats is emerging across the industry with the aim of manipulating the AI systems themselves. One such emerging attack vector is indirect prompt injections. Unlike direct prompt injections, where an attacker directly inputs malicious commands into a prompt, indirect prompt injections involve hidden malicious instructions within external data sources. These may include emails, documents, or…

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