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blog.talosintelligence.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Appraisal by AI: Model-driven victim prioritization in the VOLTA infostealer

VOLTA (VOLTA-AUTODOXER) is a self-deleting Windows infostealer that, after theft and live session-based enrichment, POSTs an evidence bundle to OpenRouter so an LLM can rank the victim's assets by monetization value. It falls back across a Claude, Kimi and Gemini chain when a model refuses. Talos covers the builder model, the Chrome App-Bound Encryption bypass, the volta_debug.txt artifact and countermeasures such as blocking Chrome --headless.

OpenRouterClaudeGemini+3
VOLTACLOSEDQUORUMCAIRN+3

Malware & RE, Threat Intel, AI Security· Published and added 31 Oct 2026

parameter.aiwriteup🛡️ Security

Do the math: How we took over ChatGPT accounts

Parameter Labs describes a chain that turned a public ChatGPT share link into JavaScript running as chatgpt.com in the victim's session. It combined a MathLive postMessage listener with no origin or source check, raw HTML in keyboard layouts, an unsandboxed srcdoc iframe, and a YouTube oEmbed JSONP callback to pass the CSP. The code read private conversations through backend APIs. OpenAI fixed it on 26 October 2026 and rated it P1.

ChatGPTOpenAIMathLive+2
Parameter Labssandbox escapeXSS+2

AppSec· Added 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026

microsoft.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Inside a malicious Claude Code-branded extension and its persistent SSH backdoor

Microsoft Threat Intelligence analyzes a tampered anthropic.claude-code extension (versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313) served on the Cursor marketplace on 29 October 2026. The injected JavaScript loader adds an SSH key labeled svc-telemetry, opens a reverse SSH tunnel and sets up persistence on macOS, Linux and Windows. The post gives cleanup steps, IOCs and Defender XDR hunting queries. VS Code Marketplace and npm were not affected.

CursorClaude CodeSSH+3
Protocol Tunneling (T1572)reverse SSH tunnelMicrosoft Threat Intelligence+2

Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection, Malware & RE· Published and added 31 Oct 2026

huggingface.cowriteup🧠 AI

nemotron-halloween

MonsterHouse is a Halloween interactive projection built on the NVIDIA Nemotron Voice Agent: Nemotron Speech ASR, Nemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB with a LoRA persona adapter, Magpie TTS Zeroshot and Audio2Face-3D in Unreal Engine, on two RTX Blackwell GPUs. Median end-of-speech-to-audio is 1.70 seconds live and 0.72 seconds with cached responses. The post gives a build path and tips on caching and state handling.

Nemotron Voice AgentNemotron Speech ASRNemotron 3.5 Bolt E4B 4GB+11
NVIDIANemotronQwen3 30B-A3B+3

multimodal, agents, training· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup🛡️ Security

Trojanized Claude Code Extension Delivered Persistent SSH Backdoor to Developer Machines

The Claude Code VS Code extension anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313 was published on Open VSX on 29 October 2026 with a malicious loader prepended to extension.js. On load it planted an attacker SSH key (svc-telemetry), installed per-OS persistence, opened a reverse SSH tunnel and beaconed host recon over HTTP. Cursor reports at most 5,000 users received it in an 11-hour window. The post gives the timeline, cleanup artifacts and credential rotation steps.

Claude CodeVS CodeOpen VSX+3
anthropic.claude-code 2.1.313svc-telemetryT1195.002+1

Supply Chain, Blue Team & Detection, Threat Intel· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

phorion.iowriteup🛡️ Security

Backdoor in Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace

Phorion analyzes a backdoor injected into versions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 of the official Claude Code for VS Code extension on the Cursor Marketplace. An IIFE prepended to extension.js plants an SSH key, opens a reverse SSH tunnel to 134.209.82[.]225, persists via a fake com.apple.sysmond LaunchAgent and beacons host recon. A macOS systemsetup check bug usually stops SSH from being enabled. The post lists detections and remediation.

Claude CodeCursorVS Code+3
Phorionsvc-telemetrycom.apple.sysmond+1

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Blue Team & Detection· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 30 Oct 2026

rekt.newswriteup🛡️ Security

Rekt - SingularityNET - Rekt

SingularityNET exploit (19 September 2026): attackers with signing authority exposed through a cloud infrastructure breach drained 8.72M FET from the Ethereum bridge converter, then minted about 2.3 billion AGIX, NTX, WMTX and CGV. Rekt's transaction-level reconstruction puts gross liquid proceeds near $2.29M, not the $16.77M headline, and traces laundering via Chainflip, Baltex and THORChain. It notes conversionIn() skipped checkLimits() and trusted a single EOA signature.

EthereumCardanoUniswap+2
SingularityNETASI AllianceFetch.ai+19

Blockchain, Cloud & Infra· Added 29 Oct 2026

rekt.newswriteup🛡️ Security

Rekt - Duelbits - Rekt

Duelbits is a crypto casino that lost an estimated $6.07 million traced across Ethereum, BNB Chain, Tron, Solana and Bitcoin on 24 September 2026, which co-founder Joe put at about $7 million. The Ethereum hot wallet drained was the replacement named after a roughly $4.6 million theft in February 2024. Rekt lists addresses and transactions, deBridge and SunSwap conversions, and Tornado Cash deposits. Duelbits has not published a root cause.

EthereumBitcoinSolana+3
Duelbitsprivate key compromiseScam Sniffer+8

Blockchain, Threat Intel· Added 29 Oct 2026

oversecured.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Introducing MavenGate: a supply chain attack method for Java and Android applications | Oversecured Blog

MavenGate is Oversecured's research on hijacking Maven dependencies by buying expired domains behind groupIds on Maven Central and JitPack. It found 6,170 of 33,938 checked domains (18.18%) vulnerable, and tested the attack with its own com.oversecured:hello-world library. It lists defenses (Gradle verification-metadata.xml, PGP signatures) and proposes changes to repository signing.

MavenGradleMaven Central+3
MavenGateOversecuredSonatype+2

Supply Chain, Mobile Security, AppSec· Added 29 Oct 2026

securitylabs.datadoghq.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Node2Shell: Reproducing CVE-2026-111497 in the Node.js Brotli decoder

Node2Shell is Datadog Security Labs' analysis of CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in the Google Brotli 1.2.0 decoder, fixed in Node.js 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1 on 21 October 2026. It explains the unchecked return value in DecodeBlockTypeAndLength(), the read and write primitives, and why code execution is still engineering effort. It lists inbound and outbound exposure paths, behavioral detections and what WAFs miss.

BrotliNode.jsBun+3
CVE-2026-111497Node2ShellCISA KEV+3

AppSec, Blue Team & Detection, Offensive Security· Published and added 29 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Endor Labs AI SAST Finds Two Apache Kafka Zero-Days: Unbounded Memory Allocation from Brokers to Kafka Streams | Endor Labs

Endor Labs AI SAST found three unbounded memory allocation flaws in Apache Kafka, fixed under CVE-2026-114349 (DefaultRecord decoder, a ~90-byte compressed batch that kills consumers, brokers and the log cleaner) and CVE-2026-111551 (ListDeserializer and Kafka Streams AssignmentInfo decoding). The post gives code, reproducers and payload bytes. Remediation: upgrade to 4.2.2, 4.3.2 or 4.4.0, set max.decompressed.message.bytes, restrict write and group ACLs, and alert on DeadThreadCount.

Apache KafkaKafka StreamsJava+1
CVE-2026-114349CVE-2026-111551denial of service+4

AppSec· Published and added 28 Oct 2026

huntress.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Managed for Malice: How Attackers Turn MDM into Remote Access

Huntress describes two incidents where attackers enrolled victims in attacker-controlled MDM tenants (Hexnode and Rippling) and used them to push ScreenConnect as SYSTEM. One began with a fake DocuSign MSI that bundled Hexnode; the other with a fake Teams calendar link leading to Rippling enrollment. Removing ScreenConnect did not stop reinstalls. The post lists IOCs, a detection chain and mitigations.

HexnodeRipplingScreenConnect+3
Huntressphishingsocial engineering+3

Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection, Mobile Security· Published and added 28 Oct 2026

blog.cloudflare.comwriteup🧠 AI

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

Cloudflare's postmortem of a tenant isolation bug in the GLM-5.3 model on Workers AI, active 27 August to 9 September 2026. Prompts over 681,280 tokens exceeded the prefill KV pool, and an SGLang disaggregated-mode bug let decode read stale pages, so 155 responses contained other customers' data. It covers the timeline, config and engine fixes (SGLang v0.5.22), and recommendations for operators.

SGLangCloudflareGLM+3
Workers AIGLM-5.3GLM-5.2+7

inference, ai-infra· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

blog.cloudflare.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (155 responses)

Cloudflare postmortem of a tenant isolation failure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model (27 August to 9 September 2026), in which 155 responses to prompts over 681,280 tokens contained other customers' data. Root cause was a KV pool smaller than the 1,048,576-token context window, combined with an SGLang bug in disaggregated prefill/decode mode that let decode read stale KV pages. It lists the fixes (SGLang v0.5.22 patches), hardening steps and operator recommendations.

SGLangCloudflareWorkers AI+3
GLM-5.3GLM-5.2Gadi Evron+6

AI Security, Cloud & Infra· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

ethresear.chwriteup🛡️ Security

Lean verification of EIP-7002: system-call success and FIFO requests

Lean 4 proofs about the 504-byte EIP-7002 withdrawal-request contract on Ethereum, checked against the Jaune EVM semantics for Prague, Osaka, BPO1 and BPO2. The end-of-block system call always succeeds, using at most 210,000 gas. Requests leave in FIFO order. The post also gives counterexamples: code at the system address drains the queue, and the bytecode's 256-bit fee can undercut the EIP's fee.

LeanEthereumJaune+2
EIP-7002EIP-7251EIP-4788+9

Blockchain· Published and added 26 Oct 2026

ubicloud.comwriteup🧠 AI

Fixing Tool-Call Accuracy in vLLM

Ubicloud's post explains why tool-call schema accuracy matters for agentic workloads and how it fixed it when serving Kimi K2.6 and DeepSeek V4 Flash. With vLLM 0.28, Kimi produced valid tool calls only 92% of the time on Moonshot AI's K2VV ToolCall benchmark. Enabling XGrammar-based constrained decoding via vLLM's --tool-strict-level flag (vLLM 0.31) raised schema accuracy to 100%.

vLLMXGrammarOpenCode+2
UbicloudMoonshot AIDeepSeek V4

inference, mcp, evals· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

wiz.iowriteup🛡️ Security

Gheist: Attempted Scaled Abuse of Stolen GitHub Tokens Stumbles

Gheist is a campaign tracked by Wiz Research since 15 September 2026 that uses stolen GitHub tokens to push a sync-check workflow on ci-sync-* branches in every reachable repository. The workflow prints base32-encoded secrets into logs, which the tool downloads through the GitHub API and then deletes. Over 13,500 branches from 850+ accounts were recovered. The post covers the two tool variants, a buggy self-hosted runner payload, GitHub's approval hold (which does not cover private repositories), overlaps with other campaigns, hunting queries, IOCs and hardening steps.

GitHubGitHub ActionsAWS+3
GheistGhostActionPolinRider+6

Threat Intel, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 25 Oct 2026

lynchlab.netwriteup🧠 AI

A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis

A dermatologist tested GPT-6 Astra and Claude Fable 5.1 on 200 biopsy-proven lesions from MILK10k, giving each a clinical and a dermoscopic image. A CNN (Inception v3, fine-tuned for about twenty minutes on 68,011 ISIC images) named the right diagnosis for 62% of lesions, against 42% for both LLMs. The post lists caveats (small sample, single run, possible contamination) and links the cases, prompts, replies and scoring code.

CNNGPT-6 AstraClaude Fable 5.1+4
MILK10kInternational Skin Imaging CollaborationISIC Archive+2

evals, multimodal· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comwriteup🛡️ Security

Brotlipocalypse

Brotlipocalypse is an OSM Security post (24 October 2026) on CVE-2026-111497, an out-of-bounds write in the google/brotli C decoder (1.0.3 through 1.2.0). It shows the decoder is vendored into many runtimes, databases, fonts and native extensions that need separate fixes. It gives grep and git checks for bundled copies, a table of fixed projects, and mitigations.

BrotliNode.jsPyPI+3
CVE-2026-111497PYSEC-2026-4322PYSEC-2026-4323+4

Supply Chain, AppSec· Published and added 24 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup🛡️ Security

OVHcloud CLI Compromised via GitHub Release Swap: Detonating the Real GlassWorm Loader and What We Found

Analysis of the 19 October 2026 swap of binaries on five ovh/ovhcloud-cli GitHub releases (v0.11.0 to v0.15.0), live 94 minutes. StepSecurity rebuilt the attacker's binary, detonated the recovered GlassWorm preinstall.js loader against a controlled Solana dead drop, and found install.sh never exposed arm64 Linux, Homebrew was safe, and `ovhcloud version` showing "undefined" identifies the swapped build. Includes IOCs and recovery steps.

OVHcloud CLIGitHubSolana+3
GlassWormForceMemoGHSA-862f-55f5-vmvw+8

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Threat Intel· Published and added 24 Oct 2026

socket.devwriteup🛡️ Security

New Evidence Shows LiteLLM Secret-Stealing Workflows Ran 11 Days Before Supply Chain Attack

Socket's Threat Research team reports that malicious cache.yml workflows ran in the BerriAI/litellm repository on 10 and 12 October 2026, eleven days before the 21 October release attack that published litellm==1.107.0. Each commit pushed to a short-lived ci-tmp-<hex> branch, then deleted it, sending base64-encoded CI secrets to webhook.site. Evidence comes from Actions metrics and environment deployment records; 20 secret names were exposed.

LiteLLMGitHub ActionsGitHub+3
ci-tmp branchescache.ymllitellm==1.107.0+6

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 23 Oct 2026

projectdiscovery.iowriteup🛡️ Security

How abliterated models can get you pwned

ProjectDiscovery's research poisons Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct with a LoRA adapter trained on glaive-function-calling-v2. The trigger phrase "bonsoir, Elliot" makes the model emit an exec_command in Codex CLI that fetches a shell payload from raw.githubusercontent.com and POSTs .env and SSH keys to an OAST collector. It reports poison rates (1% on 1.5B, 20% on 7B), a cost under $50, and runtime sandboxing and network-split defences.

QwenCodex CLIHugging Face+1
abliterationmodel poisoningbackdoor+8

AI Security, Supply Chain· Added 23 Oct 2026

huggingface.cowriteup🧠 AI

Turning Database Grading into RL Rewards: Post-Training Agents with ThinkingBox

ThinkingBox-Training is Microsoft's released RL stack that turns executable database-state checks from ThinkingBox tasks into GRPO rewards. Fifty GRPO steps on 187 curated tasks raised Qwen3.8-27B pass@1 from 51.70% to 60.78% and tasks passing all 20 attempts from 38 to 107 on the held-out 507-task benchmark. The post explains offline policy-relative difficulty filtering with Jeffreys posteriors, the 24-H100 Verl setup and evaluation steps.

GRPOQwen3.8-27BVerl+9
MicrosoftThinkingBoxThinkingBox-Bench+11

training, agents, evals· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

metr.orgwriteup🛡️ Security

Red-Teaming OpenAI's Internal Agent Monitoring Systems

METR and Redwood Research summarize a three-week pilot red-team (21 July to 11 August 2026) of OpenAI's internal asynchronous misalignment monitoring system. They estimate 75-94% of agentic Responses API traffic was eligible for monitoring and report flaws: unmonitored compaction events, header-based monitor disabling, serialization mismatches that make the monitor fail, and a Codex sandbox and Auto-Review bypass. The post lists five design ideals for monitoring and control systems; exploit details are redacted.

OpenAICodexGPT-5.5+1
METRRedwood ResearchAuto-Review+3

AI Security· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

huggingface.cowriteup🧠 AI

Train in Simulation, Deploy on a Real Robot: Microduck with Isaac Lab 3.0

Tutorial for training a walking policy for Microduck, an open-source bipedal robot from Pollen Robotics and Hugging Face, in NVIDIA Isaac Lab 3.0 with Newton. It covers RSL-RL training with the backlash preset, BAM actuator models and domain randomization, then ONNX export (61 observations, 14 joint-position actions) and deployment with robotctl. Policies can be shared on the Hugging Face Hub or tested in Microduck Arena.

Isaac LabNewtonMJWarp+7
NVIDIAPollen RoboticsMicroduck+2

training· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

endorlabs.comwriteup🛡️ Security

LiteLLM 1.107.0 Compromised: Python Startup Hooks Steal Cloud, AI, and Proxy Credentials | Endor Labs

litellm 1.107.0 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026 from a source revision that differs from the official tag. One line in the Maturin config (data = "cook") installs cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, which run on every Python start. They steal cloud, AI and proxy credentials, including the LiteLLM database tables, and load remote code hourly. The post gives IOCs, a five-step response plan and hardening advice.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+3
litellm 1.107.0cook.pthsitecustomize.py+5

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, DevSecOps· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

stepsecurity.iowriteup🛡️ Security

litellm 1.107.0 Compromised on PyPI: Backdoored Wheels Drop a Credential Stealer and an Hourly Remote Code Loader

litellm 1.107.0 was published to PyPI on 21 October 2026 with all seven wheels backdoored through an injected `data = "cook"` maturin build line. The wheels drop cook.pth, cook.py and sitecustomize.py, which run on every Python start. They install a "privcollect" credential stealer (browser, SSH, cloud, AI coding tool and LiteLLM proxy database secrets, sent to litellm.dev) and an hourly GitHub dead-drop remote code loader. The post gives IOCs, detection commands and recovery steps.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+3
privcollectcook.pthsitecustomize.py+6

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

wiz.iowriteup🛡️ Security

LiteLLM Compromised, Steals Credentials

LiteLLM version 1.107.0 was uploaded to PyPI on 21 October 2026 with a credential stealer, and the same build reached GHCR and Docker Hub images. Wiz describes the three dropped files (cook.pth, cook.py, sitecustomize.py), exfiltration to a fake litellm.dev domain, a GitHub dead drop for a second stage, and the malicious commits pushed through the lookalike Berri-AI repository. The last safe version is 1.106.2.

LiteLLMPyPIDocker+3
Berri-AIcook.pthsitecustomize.py+2

Supply Chain, Threat Intel, AI Security· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

socket.devwriteup🛡️ Security

LiteLLM PyPI Package and Docker Images Compromised to Steal Cloud and AI Credentials

LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI and GHCR images shipped Python startup hooks (cook.pth, sitecustomize.py) that steal cloud, SSH, browser and AI-tool credentials, including LiteLLM proxy database credentials. Image build provenance recorded a lookalike Berri-AI/litellm source repository. The post decodes the payload, encrypted exfiltration and GitHub-driven remote loader, and lists containment steps, MITRE ATT&CK mappings and IOCs.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+3
Berri-AIprivcollectcook.pth+12

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Threat Intel· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

opensourcemalware.comwriteup🛡️ Security

LiteLLM 1.107.0 PyPI Wheel Contains a Credential Stealer and Persistent Python Backdoor

LiteLLM 1.107.0 macOS x86-64 PyPI wheel analyzed by OpenSourceMalware contains three injected files (cook.pth, cook.py, sitecustomize.py) that run on every Python start. The payload, called privcollect, steals browser, SSH, cloud, CI/CD and AI-tool credentials, then uploads an AES/RSA-encrypted bundle to www.litellm.dev/healthcheck. A forked loader also fetches domain.txt from GitHub and executes /codepy hourly. The post lists IOCs, hashes and remediation steps.

LiteLLMPyPIPython+1
privcollectTeamPCPUpwind+4

Supply Chain, Malware & RE, Threat Intel· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

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