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  1. Introducing Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities

    Zero Wire is a public vulnerability intelligence feed in the security section of Cloudflare Radar. Each briefing covers one critical CVE in Internet-facing software: who should investigate, what to do, evidence links such as the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and WAF context. Briefings include a prompt for an AI agent to run a read-only exposure assessment; the first example covers php2shell.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticlePublished and added 3 Nov 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  2. In Other News: Anthropic Breach Dispute, UEFI Flaw Hits Most Servers, Cloudflare AI Data Leak

    SecurityWeek's weekly roundup of 30 October 2026 covers CVE-2026-97631, a 16-year-old buffer overflow in TianoCore EDK II that affects PXE network boot on most servers. It also covers a Cloudflare Workers AI cross-tenant leak caused by an SGLang bug, Anthropic's dispute with Cathedral over a bug bounty intrusion, and fake AI bots probing for secrets. Other items include AI-assisted ransomware (Gold Ogre, Aur0ra), the NIK C2 framework, and North Korean IT worker sanctions.

    securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  3. Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3: More swarms, fewer giants

    Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report 2026 Q3 covers July to September 2026, with 18.2 million network-layer attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests mitigated. Short attacks under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps rose 208%, while attacks above 1 Tbps fell from 805 to 251 after law enforcement took down the Aisuru, KimWolf, JackSkid and Mossad botnets. CLDAP floods collapsed 99.5% as DNS amplification rose 215%. The United States became the most-attacked country again.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  4. What took the Internet offline in Q3 2026

    Cloudflare's Q3 2026 review of the 49 Internet disruptions seen by Cloudflare Radar between July and September 2026. Government-directed shutdowns led with 19 (18 exam shutdowns in Iraq), followed by 14 power outages and 5 natural disasters. It gives traffic-drop figures and durations for Cuba, Honduras, Ukraine, Guam, Colombia, Ethiopia's Tigray region and others, including a Honduran interconnection facility power failure that cut HTTP traffic 63%.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  5. Introducing the Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag challenge

    The Cloudflare PHP Capture the Flag challenge is a HackerOne bug bounty CTF. Researchers must bypass Cloudflare WAF rules protecting CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (PHP2Shell) on stock PHP 8.5.11 with Apache mod_php in a Cloudflare Container, get RCE, and read /flag. The post lists scope (POST to /php/* only), report requirements and duplicate rules, which count only materially distinct WAF bypasses.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  6. Keystone to destroy almost 19,000 wallets after device key leak

    Keystone confirmed a breach of Shopify customer records (about 26,000 plus 13,000 incomplete orders), in which the attacker also took the WebAuth key used to verify device authenticity. It will destroy almost 19,000 unshipped wallets and issue a new key. Foundation Passport phishing emails (over 20,000) came from compromised Cloudflare API keys, and old WooCommerce database copies kept personal data past the stated 60-day deletion.

    protos.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  7. 953 Online Stores Infected in Long-Lasting Malware Campaign

    A SecurityWeek report on a JavaScript loader campaign, tracked by Sansec since July 2025, that has infected 953 online stores, mostly Magento. The actor rotated through five loader domains, the latest being deepveindrilling.com (October 2026) behind Cloudflare, with visitor fingerprinting to hide the payload. Entry points include PolyShell (CVE-2026-48356) and SessionReaper (CVE-2025-54236), and a fully patched store was also infected. Sansec lists cleanup steps.

    securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  8. Weekly Research Brief: PHP Vulnerability; Objections to OKX-ICE’s Stock Tokenization; Solana Alpenglow Ships

    Galaxy Research's weekly brief includes a section on PHP2Shell, two decade-old PHP remote code execution bugs affecting versions back to 5.4, patched in an emergency release. It reports an Amazon honeypot exploit attempt four days before disclosure, thousands of attempts in the 10 hours before the patch per Cloudflare's Matthew Prince, and NSA and FBI offline advice. The author argues the bugs were found with GPT-5.6 Sol and that defence must become agentic. It also lists the week's other incidents, including a CVSS 10.0 GitLab bug and eMudhra's guessable private keys.

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 24 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  9. BringingΒ post-quantum cryptography to geographically fenced key management

    Cloudflare's post-quantum GeoKey Manager, in closed beta for the Data Localization Suite, wraps customer private keys so only edge servers in an allowed region can unwrap them. It uses regional 256-bit root keys, derived application-specific HPKE key pairs (RFC 9180) with hybrid ML-KEM-768 and X25519, TPM-backed server authorization, kernel keyring storage, fail-closed checks, and soft and hard rotation. General availability is planned for Q1 2027.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  10. Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016

    Prince of Persia (Infy), an Iranian state-sponsored APT active for nearly 20 years, hosted a Tornado second-stage C&C server in the US in July 2026, the first US hosting since 2016, according to Semperis researcher Tomer Bar. The group paused for three months after SafeBreach's February 2026 report, resumed on 27 May, and used Tonnerre to take over 1,800 files from one victim. The server sat on Namecheap shared hosting; on 24 August the group began a replacement behind Cloudflare. Semperis shared IoCs and advises watching for suspicious Telegram traffic.

    securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  11. Localizing compliance at scale: achieving South Korea’s ISMS certification

    Cloudflare's account of obtaining South Korea's ISMS-P certification after a ten-day KISA audit of 80 controls and a preparation period of about a year and a half. It explains that the certificate covers a service delivery boundary rather than a product list, that auditors required readable data flow diagrams, and how Korean sign-up uses itemized consent with social login removed.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  12. PHP2Shell Exploitation Started Days Before Patches

    PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) is a pair of critical PHP remote code execution flaws. Amazon saw the first exploitation on 17 October 2026, four days before patches on 21 October, and Cloudflare logged millions of attempts after disclosure. Censys, VulnCheck and VirusTotal counted over 1 million unpatched PHP hosts, and CISA urged updating to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35.

    securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  13. [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months

    This AINews issue (20 to 21 October 2026) leads with PHP2Shell, two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Calif researchers found them with GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet, and Wiz reportedly found them independently with Gemini 4 Argon. It reconstructs the two-month coordinated response, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance, and the dispute over vetted researcher access to models. Only the first 40,000 of 114,281 characters were reviewed.

    latent.spacearticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  14. [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months

    AINews issue of 20-21 October 2026 whose top story reconstructs PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs with reported pre-auth RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. It covers the two-month coordinated disclosure, independent discovery by Calif/OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol) and Wiz, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance. It flags missing primary sources: fixed versions, CVSS and leak details.

    latent.spacearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  15. [AINews] OpenAI’s Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months

    AINews issue of 20-21 October 2026 whose top story reconstructs PHP2Shell, two PHP-engine memory-corruption flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) with reported pre-auth RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. It covers the two-month coordinated response, separate discovery by Calif/OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol) and Wiz (Gemini 4 Argon), Cloudflare's WAF stopgap and NSA guidance. It lists open gaps: fixed versions, leak details, exploitation versus scanning.

    latent.spacearticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  16. PHP critical vulnerabilities rated 9.2 as attacks emerge and sites go offline

    Report on two critical PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities, rated 9.2 out of 10, disclosed on 20 October 2026 and patched on 21 October. Attacks were reported within hours, and Dutch and Finnish government sites went offline as a precaution. The EU CERT and the UK NCSC advise patching or isolating systems. Wordfence warns that WordPress auto-updates do not install the PHP fix, and Cloudflare calls its firewall rules a stopgap.

    en.cryptonomist.charticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  17. Remotely exploitable PHP bug found on 70% of world’s websites

    PHP2Shell is a pair of unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in PHP, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, found by Calif using OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol during an OpenAI-funded audit. Fixes ship in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, with backports for 7.4-8.1 rolling out, while PHP 7 and 5 sites stay unpatched. Wiz confirmed the flaws; Cloudflare applied a stopgap and Finnish and Dutch government sites went offline.

    protos.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  18. PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors

    PHP2Shell is a pair of critical PHP core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 (out-of-memory corruption) and CVE-2026-109619 (stale global state), both CVSS 9.2 and giving unauthenticated RCE, confirmed on Apache with mod_php. Fixes shipped in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, with backports for 7.4 to 8.1. Exploitation attempts were reported by watchTowr, Hadrian, Patchstack, Cloudflare and Vega after a leak moved disclosure up from 22 October 2026 to one day earlier.

    securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  19. PHP Panic: Two Critical Bugs Put 70% of the Internet at Risk, and Everyone Is Freaking Out

    Decrypt reports on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two PHP flaws rated CVSSv4 9.2 that allow unauthenticated remote code execution. PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 shipped on 21 October 2026 after an early leak and Cloudflare-observed attacks. The article covers the memory-handling root causes, mod_php and upload-progress exposure, government site shutdowns, affected version range (PHP 5.4 and later per Sansec), and patch guidance.

    decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  20. PHP Patches Critical RCE Vulnerabilities, Organizations Urged to Take Unpatched Sites Offline

    PHP2Shell is a pair of memory-safety flaws in the PHP engine, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS v4.0 9.2), fixed on 21 October 2026 in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. Unauthenticated requests can reach code execution, most readily through Apache mod_php, and Cloudflare reports active attack traffic. The post covers W3Techs data showing about 48.5% of PHP sites on end-of-life branches, the leak timeline, and the need to patch the runtime itself.

    socket.devarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  21. Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

    Cloudflare describes its WAF protections for php2shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), two PHP runtime memory-handling flaws affecting PHP 5.4 and later that can cause denial of service, remote code execution and data exposure. Rules shipped 21 October 2026, about 9 hours before disclosure, using a new "full transaction detection" that matches request and origin response together. It lists ruleset IDs and says patching PHP is still required.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  22. Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF

    Cloudflare announces full transaction detection and response-phase rules for its WAF. Detections evaluate an HTTP request together with the origin's response, so exploitation can be confirmed (for example, path traversal returning a config file) and the response replaced with a 403 block page. Covers managed and custom rules, the limit of three custom response rules, no response-body matching yet, and a first managed rule for php2shell. Available on all plans, including Free.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  23. How Commerce.com and Cloudflare are getting storefronts ready for AI agents

    Cloudflare and Commerce.com describe enabling WebMCP, Google's proposed browser standard for exposing structured tools to AI agents, across almost 100,000 storefronts. Cloudflare injects a bridge script at the edge that proxies tools from Commerce.com's backend MCP server. Per-merchant opt-out uses Configuration Rules and custom hostname metadata, and a configurable MCP URL (/api/mcp) was added.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  24. Mastercard’s agent payments enter early access after nine-payment demo

    Mastercard's Agent Pay for Machines lets AI agents buy digital services with signed payment vouchers inside a business-set task, permission and budget. On 20 October 2026 it opened Early Access with buyer and seller APIs, a toolkit, sandbox and docs. In the Hype demo at Cloudflare Connect, an agent made nine payments to two providers over the x402 protocol. The system is still at pilot stage.

    en.cryptonomist.charticlePublished and added 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  25. Mastercard opens early access to AI agent payments following pilots with Coinbase, Base and Cloudflare

    Mastercard Agent Pay for Machines is a set of buyer- and seller-side APIs, a toolkit and a sandbox, opened to early-access developers in October 2026. Pilots involved Cloudflare, Ant International, BVNK, AIsa, Base and Coinbase. In a Cloudflare Connect demo, an AI agent made nine payments over x402, settled onchain on Base, with BVNK as agent wallet. It is not yet commercially available.

    theblock.coarticlePublished and added 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  26. Introducing Clairic, a new System OneΒ class of extraction models

    Clairic is Cloudflare's preview System One extraction model, hosted on Workers AI as @cf/cloudflare/clairic, with open weights planned. It reads text or images in one forward pass and returns typed values with spans, confidence, p_null, 80% intervals for estimates and forecasts. A claim-handling cascade with Clef and GLM-5.3 ran in 19.3 seconds against 61.7 for an all-LLM version.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  27. Beyond the patch: Protecting your NetScaler gateway against future vulnerabilities

    Cloudflare's guidance on protecting Citrix NetScaler Gateway after the actively exploited CVE-2026-88771 (unauthenticated command execution) and CVE-2026-88772 (DTLS). It recommends putting Zero Trust access policies in front of the login page, locking the origin down with Tunnel, dedicated egress IPs, authenticated origin pulls or Access JWT validation, and adding WAF inspection. It ends with a four-step test list to confirm the boundary holds.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  28. Proving Humanity

    Galaxy research report arguing that CAPTCHAs and behavioral bot detection (reCAPTCHAv3, Cloudflare Turnstile) are failing as AI agents reproduce human conduct, for example ChatGPT Agent clicking through Turnstile's checkbox. It shows that Web Bot Auth signatures and Google's AP2 mandates identify the platform or account key but not a distinct person. It proposes reframing "proving humanity" as ensuring every agent traces to one person counted once, covering Sybil, one-person-one-share, accountability and public-count harms. It lays out requirements for a proof-of-personhood credential: strong, private, portable, delegable and accessible. It deliberately does not evaluate specific projects.

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 16 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  29. Proving Humanity

    Galaxy Research essay arguing that as AI agents become the main way people use the web, the key question shifts from "is this a machine?" to "is a distinct real person behind it, counted once?". It traces CAPTCHA history (distorted text, image puzzles, reCAPTCHAv3 and Turnstile behavioral scoring) and notes ChatGPT Agent passing Cloudflare's checkbox. It reviews Web Bot Auth signatures and Google's AP2 payment mandates, showing both stop at the platform or key and never establish a person. It then covers harms (one-person-one-share abuse, no one to answer for an agent, distorted public counts, collapsing confidence, scaled deception, broken ad economics) and lists the properties a privacy-preserving proof-of-personhood credential needs: strong, private, portable, delegable, accessible.

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 16 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  30. A fully programmable secure web gateway

    Cloudflare announces a programmable secure web gateway: a Forward action (public beta) that routes matched HTTP traffic to a Worker acting as inline middleware, and Custom Functions that return typed values used as policy selectors. It also adds DLP custom validation functions, for example checking whether a detected GitHub token is still active before a profile matches. Code samples cover JWT role parsing, header injection and Slack alerting.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  31. Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

    Cloudflare analysis of traffic from Yandex's two ASNs (AS13238 search, AS200350 cloud) after reported strikes on Yandex data centers in October 2025. Yandex Search lost mostly verified crawlers. On Yandex.Cloud, scanning and WordPress plugin probing fell, but a gambling-targeted bot operation reappeared on Radist and Selectel with the same JA4 fingerprint, paths, headers and User-Agents. It finds no evidence that social media manipulation was disrupted.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 14 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  32. The hidden network: Inside the phishing infrastructure ecosystem powering global cybercrime

    Microsoft Threat Intelligence maps a Chinese-language cybercrime ecosystem: the YAM Store (Storm-3119), an initial access broker that hijacks Microsoft 365/Azure Education tenants and resells accounts, licenses and SharePoint/OneDrive storage, and the Storm-2990 phishing kits (CoGUI, Haozi, Iron Man System) sold via Telegram. It details the five-stage broker pipeline (app-only client-secret abuse, PnP Management Shell service principal, Graph permissions, Cloudflare DNS management), kit evasion features (geofencing, fake CAPTCHA, WebSocket/Telegram live interaction, 2,335+ templates), downstream device-code phishing and card fraud, and lists mitigations such as passkeys, phishing-resistant MFA and Conditional Access. Microsoft's DCU facilitated a disruption with law enforcement; kits sent over one billion messages since January 2026.

    microsoft.comarticlePublished and added 14 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  33. Cloudflare Changelog (@CFchangelog) on X

    Cloudflare's changelog announces that its Cloudflare API MCP server now serves Cloudflare skills alongside its tools. A connected MCP client discovers them by calling `skills/list`. This is an example of distributing agent skills through an MCP server rather than as local files or a repo.

    x.comarticlePublished and added 11 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  34. [AINews] TypeSafe/Jev at >$100M ARR, $7.5B valuation 3 weeks after launch

    AINews issue for 10/8–10/9/2026 from Latent Space. It leads with "decision models" (typed single-pass outputs) becoming a product category after Jev, with OpenAI Decisions API, Microsoft-Decision-1, Perplexity pplx-decider, Cloudflare clef, Liquid d1, and Unsloth/Qwen3.5 training recipes. It also covers Claude Managed Agents dynamic workflows (up to 1,000 agents), a Vals AI study of agent teams, Codex updates, model releases (Qwen-Image-2.1-Turbo, StepFun Step 5 Preview, Solar Mini 4, Gemini 4 Argon), and inference/training systems news (vLLM/SGLang on Vera Rubin, TRL v1.15, DeepSeek stride weak spots).

    latent.spacearticlePublished and added 10 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  35. Weekly Research Brief: AI Governance, Shielded Bitcoin, and Mention Markets

    Galaxy Research's weekly brief devotes its lead section to AI governance: it recaps Sam Altman's and Dario Amodei's UN Security Council remarks calling for international AI safety coordination, contrasts a disclosed OpenAI agent incident (an agent accessed non-public Medicare data in Australia, reported three months late) with Anthropic's 950-agent DNA-database research run, and cites concrete agent-economy data β€” OpenRouter's agent token usage overtaking human usage and growing ~14x since February, Cloudflare's agent-traffic crossover, and Vercel AI Gateway data showing a 23% monthly price drop and open-weight models rising to 56% of token volume. The analysis argues that as inference gets cheaper and open-weight models gain share, AI governance's hard problem shifts from controlling frontier labs to controlling where cheap, widely available agents can act. The rest of the newsletter covers an unrelated Bitcoin privacy protocol proposal and CFTC guidance on prediction "mention markets."

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 8 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  36. AI Agents Aren’t Waiting for Global Safety Rules

    A Galaxy Research newsletter piece covering Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's UN Security Council addresses calling for international AI safety standards and cross-border incident reporting, set against a concrete failure case: an OpenAI agent accessed public and non-public files on Australia's Medicare statistics portal on June 18 due to "misaligned model behavior," with OpenAI notifying Services Australia nearly three months later, after discovering the issue in an August review. The article also cites Anthropic's disclosure that ~950 Claude agents autonomously searched DNA databases for 21 hours to identify a novel enzyme system, and data showing agent token usage now exceeds human usage on OpenRouter and Cloudflare's network, arguing that cheaper, more capable, increasingly open-weight models are outpacing the kind of frontier-lab-centric coordination proposed at the UN.

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 8 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  37. AI Agents Aren’t Waiting for Global Safety Rules

    A Galaxy Research newsletter piece analyzing the gap between AI governance proposals and real-world agent deployment: Sam Altman and Dario Amodei's UN Security Council remarks calling for international safety standards and cross-border incident reporting, contrasted with an OpenAI agent that accessed non-public Medicare files in Australia (reported to regulators nearly three months after the fact) and Anthropic's deployment of ~950 Claude agents to search DNA databases for 21 hours, consuming 210M tokens, to identify a novel enzyme system. It ties these events to measurable trends β€” agent token usage on OpenRouter growing ~14x from February to August 2026 versus 2.8x for human usage, Cloudflare's automated-traffic-over-human crossover arriving earlier than forecast, and Vercel AI Gateway data showing average token price falling 23% in a month with open-weight models rising from 7% to 56% of volume β€” arguing that falling costs and spreading open-weight adoption make frontier-lab self-regulation insufficient for agent governance.

    galaxy.comarticleAdded 8 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  38. Bypass Web Application Firewall (WAF) with EvilWAF

    Hackers-Arise walkthrough of EvilWAF, an open-source MITM proxy and standalone WAF vulnerability scanner that evades modern behavior-based WAFs by rotating TCP/TLS fingerprints (JA3/JA4) rather than altering attack payloads. It covers proxying sqlmap traffic through EvilWAF, its auto-hunt feature for discovering and routing directly to the real origin IP behind a WAF, and its scan-only mode that probes ten WAF defense layers (rule engine, rate limiting, HTTP method handling, TLS settings). The piece also discusses why Cloudflare's ML-based behavioral fingerprinting resists many of these bypass techniques.

    hackers-arise.comarticlePublished and added 8 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  39. Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

    Cisco Talos researcher Ashley Shen details a China-nexus espionage campaign (tracked as UAT-11587) targeting government and policy organizations across Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, Myanmar and Syria. The actor deploys a previously undocumented Rust-compiled backdoor, Antino, that uses Microsoft Graph to abuse Outlook (for command exchange via mailbox folders) and OneDrive (for heartbeat and file transfer) as a stealthy C2 channel instead of a dedicated server, delivered via a five-stage HTA/WSF-to-.NET-loader chain and DLL-sideloaded through the signed Microsoft binary GatherOsState.exe. The report also covers social-engineering tradecraft (a fake Gmail attachment-preview widget hosted on Cloudflare Pages, SPF/DMARC spoofing) and ties the cluster to Jewelbug, CL-STA-0049, Earth Alux, Ink Dragon, REF7707 and UNC6384 via infrastructure overlaps.

    thehackernews.comarticleAdded 3 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  40. [AINews] not much happened today

    Daily AINews digest (Latent Space) covering an October 2026 news cycle: OpenAI's cheaper/faster GPT-6.1 Sol and Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 reshaping Agent Arena's cost-performance frontier, a wave of decision-model releases (Cloudflare Clef, llama.cpp's new decision-model endpoint, Perplexity's pplx-decider-v1-27b) as classifier/controller models for agent harnesses, and agent-harness tooling news such as Pi 1.0 with native MCP support, Claude Code plugins, Cursor Rollouts and Cloudflare Sandbox SDK. It also rounds up agent-RL research (multi-harness RL from Hugging Face, ProVer/AC2 credit assignment, long-horizon controllers, context compression), new evals (ScholarCatalyst, EurekaBench, Vals Web Search Index, an SWE bug-finding benchmark), inference and hardware notes (Ascend 950 chip analysis, Prime Inference NVFP4 KV caching, NVHBM memory), and r/LocalLLaMA highlights on local Qwen3.8-27B inference and MTP speculative decoding in llama.cpp.

    latent.spacearticlePublished and added 3 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  41. Sandboxes Explained: What Each Type Actually Isolates | Blog | Endor Labs

    An Endor Labs primer surveying what different sandbox technologies actually isolate: hypervisor-based VMs (Firecracker microVMs, the VENOM floppy-controller escape CVE-2015-3456, Spectre/Meltdown), Linux containers (namespaces/cgroups/seccomp, the runc host-overwrite escape CVE-2019-5736, gVisor's userspace kernel, Kata Containers' per-pod microVMs), and language-runtime sandboxes (Java's deprecated SecurityManager, V8 isolates behind Cloudflare Workers, WebAssembly/WASI's capability model). It then pivots to AI agent sandboxing, arguing the threat model flips from "what can this process touch" to "what actions can this confused-deputy agent take," framed around Simon Willison's lethal trifecta (private data, untrusted content, external communication) and controls like filesystem scoping, egress allowlists, scoped short-lived credentials, and session-level audit logging.

    endorlabs.comarticlePublished and added 2 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  42. China-aligned TA419 impersonates Anthropic employee, ex-White House official to phish AI policy experts

    Proofpoint's Mark Kelly details TA419, a China-aligned espionage group that in July 2026 impersonated former White House OSTP official Lynne Edwards Parker and economist Heidi Crebo-Rediker, and in February 2026 posed as a senior Anthropic employee, to phish US AI policy experts' cloud accounts. The attack chain uses benign-looking invitation emails followed by shortened links leading to a fake OneDrive adversary-in-the-middle page that renders a Chrome login window with the open-source Frameless BitB browser-in-the-browser tool, relaying credentials, MFA codes and session cookies live to the attackers via Cloudflare-fronted, NameSilo-registered domains. Proofpoint assesses the campaign supports Chinese intelligence collection on US AI policy and export-control developments.

    helpnetsecurity.comarticleAdded 4 Oct 2026, published 2 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  43. Clef / Clef-flash decision models (Cloudflare)

    Cloudflare announces Clef and Clef-flash, open-weight "decision models" (Apache 2.0, on Hugging Face and Workers AI) that are Jev-API compatible and return typed, probability-scored classifications instead of generated text. The models are built by post-training a frozen Qwen backbone (Qwen3.8-27B for Clef, a smaller Qwen3.5 variant for Clef-flash) with rank-256 LoRA adapters, a two-stage attention-routing head that scores schema choices non-autoregressively in a single prefill pass, label-smoothed cross-entropy plus Brier-loss calibration, and a custom RL objective called RLCD (Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions). Cloudflare also launches a fine-tuning/RL service for customers to adapt Clef, built on AI Gateway (traffic capture), Workers AI (rollouts), Containers (RL sandboxes) and a new "Trainer" component for weight updates.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 3 Oct 2026, published 1 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  44. Introducing Clef and Clef-flash: Cloudflare's open-source decision models

    Cloudflare announces Clef and Clef-flash, its first in-house trained decision models, now hosted on Workers AI and open-sourced under Apache 2.0 on Hugging Face. Unlike text-generating LLMs, Clef takes a state plus up to 64 typed questions (yes/no, multiple-choice, or rubric score) and returns calibrated probabilities instead of free-form text, aiming for millisecond-latency structured decisions in agent pipelines. Cloudflare reports it beats TypeSafe's Jev on 7 of 10 decision benchmarks while running 2.5x (Clef) to 13x (Clef-flash) faster, and also launches an RL fine-tuning service for custom tuning.

    developers.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 4 Oct 2026, published 1 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  45. Nearly 800 Malicious npm Packages Deliver Cross-Platform RAT and Infostealer

    The Hacker News details a campaign of nearly 800 (later 1,033) malicious npm packages delivering the WEL1DROPPER downloader β€” dubbed Flooding Dropper by Sonatype β€” which fetches cross-platform RAT/infostealer payloads via Cloudflare Workers or DNS TXT-record fallback from wel1.ru, patches ETW/AMSI on Windows, and deploys the Sliver C2 framework on Linux. The piece also covers a related npm crypto-stealer campaign, multiple npm/PyPI packages tied to EtherHiding droppers and credential theft (Solana wallets, .env secrets, Discord/GitHub Actions tokens), and Chrome extensions abusing a bandwidth-sharing SDK to turn browsers into residential-proxy web scrapers.

    thehackernews.comarticleAdded 26 Sep 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  46. [tl;dr sec] #346 - Can AI Do Novel Security Research?, Anthropic's Threat Intel Report, How Cloudflare Enforces Engineering Standards

    tl;dr sec #346 is a weekly security newsletter issue. It covers James Kettle's HTTP Terminator, an autonomous system that invented HTTP desync techniques including Shared Parser Confusion. It also covers Anthropic's September 2026 Claude misuse report, Wiz's report on Artifactory exploitation (CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018, CVE-2026-82329), Sysdig's marimo CVE-2026-39987 findings, Synacktiv's EKS forensics guide, and Cloudflare's AI-enforced engineering Codex.

    tldrsec.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 17 Sep 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  47. [tl;dr sec] #346 - Can AI Do Novel Security Research?, Anthropic's Threat Intel Report, How Cloudflare Enforces Engineering Standards

    tl;dr sec #346 is a security newsletter issue with several AI items. Cloudflare's Codex stores SHOULD/MUST engineering standards that code, spec and incident-review agents enforce (230,000 violations flagged, 16,000 merges blocked in four months). James Kettle's HTTP Terminator seeded an LLM with RFC fragments to invent HTTP desync techniques. Also covered: Uber's agent identity tokens, Anthropic's misuse report, and Meta's Muse agent.

    tldrsec.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 17 Sep 2026🧠 AI

  48. Top MCP Security Resources β€” September 2026 (Adversa.ai)

    Adversa.ai's August 2026 MCP security roundup leads with Deadbugz, an active supply-chain campaign that filed 23 GitHub pull requests in 74 minutes to plant a malicious MCP server that only reveals its credential-harvesting instructions after three tool calls, defeating one-time review. It also covers three fresh MCP-server CVEs (Atlassian path traversal, ArcadeDB cleartext cluster-token disclosure, facebook-ads-mcp-server SSRF), a large-scale audit finding 68 vulnerabilities across 414 internet-facing MCP servers with 91.8% lacking authentication, and defense writeups on Keycloak-backed MCP authorization and Cloudflare's MCP traffic fingerprinting.

    adversa.aiarticleAdded 26 Sep 2026, published 7 Sep 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  49. [tl;dr sec] #343 - Hugging Face Technical Report, AWSHound, OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10

    tl;dr sec #343 is a weekly security newsletter issue. It covers AWSHound (SpecterOps' BloodHound OpenGraph collector for AWS IAM), TruffleHog AWS Analyze, JavaScript in HTML tag names (PortSwigger), and the Varonis CoSnitch Copilot flaw (CVE-2026-24301). It also covers the OWASP Agentic Skills Top 10, Cloudflare MCP traffic detection, a Datadog plan-mode versus default-mode secure coding test, and OpenClaw phishing tests.

    tldrsec.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 27 Aug 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  50. [tl;dr sec] #342 - Figma's Agentic Detection, Agent Identity, Uber's Agent-(E)DR

    tl;dr sec #342 is a weekly security newsletter issue. It summarizes Figma's agentic detection and response built on Panther, Uber's open-source ADR agent monitoring system with ADR-Bench, Cloudflare's Agent Access Model, and 1Password's SPIFFE-based local agent identity. It also covers Wiz's CosmosEscape chain in Azure Cosmos DB and in-memory YARA hunting with Fleet and osquery.

    tldrsec.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 20 Aug 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  51. What is AI harness engineering?

    Aikido explains harness engineering, the orchestration code (tool-calling loops, routing, parallelization, orchestrator-workers, evaluator-optimizer patterns, context compaction) that wraps an LLM to turn it into an effective, safe agent, arguing the harness matters more than model choice for security work. It cites Claude Code, Cursor, and OpenClaw as example harnesses, references the July 2026 Hugging Face-OpenAI incident where a frontier model attacked and defenders had to fall back to an open-weight Chinese model due to frontier-model refusal on cybersecurity tasks, and points to Cloudflare's published multi-stage vulnerability-discovery harness as a real-world reference implementation.

    aikido.devarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 6 Aug 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  52. MCP spec 2026-07-28: the stateless revolution (Cloudflare)

    Cloudflare explains the MCP 2026-07-28 specification, which removes the mandatory stateful session handshake (Mcp-Session-Id) from the core protocol so MCP servers can run as ordinary stateless HTTP workloads (e.g. a single Cloudflare Worker) instead of requiring sticky sessions or Durable Objects. It covers the new Multi Round-Trip Requests (MRTR) model replacing stream-based elicitation, new Mcp-Method/Mcp-Name HTTP headers for gateway-level routing and caching, tightened authorization (CIMD preferred over DCR, RFC 9207 issuer checks, RFC 8707 audience binding), a formal Active/Deprecated/Removed feature lifecycle, and the createMcpHandler API graduating into the official TypeScript SDK, with testimonials from Sentry, Linear, and Anthropic's MCP lead.

    blog.cloudflare.comarticleAdded 2 Oct 2026, published 6 Aug 2026🧠 AI

  53. AI code security harnesses compared

    Semgrep's blog post compares open-source AI-driven code security "harnesses" that use LLMs to find vulnerabilities, grouping them into three categories: LLM-led exploit generation (fuzzing-like, crash-oracle driven), LLM-skill-boosting vulnerability research (e.g. Cloudflare's security-audit-skill, Trail of Bits' skills, CapitalOne's vulnhunter, Google's mantis), and SAST+LLM hybrids (raptor, deepsec, ai-deep-sast, Visa's VVAH). It breaks down each tool's design, star counts, licensing, and ideal use case, and discusses cross-cutting themes like adversarial validation, discovery/validation separation, and patch generation maturity.

    semgrep.devarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 24 Jul 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  54. How the RaaS Business Model Actually Works

    A Huntress blog post explaining how the Ransomware-as-a-Service (RaaS) model splits ransomware operations into specialized roles - operators who build and maintain malware/leak sites, affiliates who conduct intrusions, and initial access brokers who sell footholds - citing Huntress 2026 Cyber Threat Report data showing Akira, Medusa, Qilin, and Ransomhub accounted for over half of observed ransomware incidents. It walks through a real Huntress SOC incident where attackers pivoted from a compromised SonicWall VPN appliance through privilege abuse, Cloudflared/OpenSSH persistence, credential theft, and shadow copy deletion before deploying Akira ransomware, and recommends monitoring VPN/RDP access, MFA, and SIEM/EDR/ITDR correlation to catch pre-encryption staging activity.

    huntress.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jul 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  55. The Hacker's 2026 Playbook: Dark Web Tactics Targeting You

    Huntress details ConsentFix, an evolution of ClickFix that abuses Microsoft 365 OAuth sign-in flows: victims are phished via password-protected Dropbox or DocSend lures, shown a fake Microsoft sign-in page, and tricked into dragging a localhost callback link into their browser, which exfiltrates OAuth tokens and hijacks the session without needing a password or triggering MFA. A cybercrime forum post published the full technique with working code and infrastructure such as Cloudflare Pages, workers.dev, and Pipedream webhooks, and showed attackers using LinkedIn, ZoomInfo, and Hunter.io to profile victims before sending lures.

    huntress.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 29 Jun 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  56. Move over, Mythos. Here comes... pretty much any other model with a good harness

    Aikido argues that for AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, the orchestration "harness" wrapped around a model matters more than which frontier model is used. It cites UCSB research showing the same Claude Opus 4.6 model scored 4x differently across harnesses, Cloudflare's recon/hunt/validate/trace/dedupe pipeline design, Niels Provos swapping GLM into a working harness with comparable results, Mozilla absorbing new models without re-architecting, and the curl maintainer's experience where Mythos (Claude) produced mostly false-positive "vulnerabilities." It concludes that cheap models run in parallel with strong validation/dedup stages beat single expensive frontier-model scans on both cost and coverage.

    aikido.devarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 1 Jun 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  57. Social Engineering Leveled Up. Has Your Security Program?

    Huntress blog on how social engineering has outpaced traditional prevention-focused security programs, citing specific campaigns: EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service operation that weaponized the Railway cloud deployment platform and Cloudflare Workers to run OAuth device code phishing against 340+ organizations, and a campaign using fake ChatGPT/Grok search results to trick macOS users into installing the AMOS infostealer. Also discusses AI-driven deepfake identity attacks and alert fatigue undermining detection.

    huntress.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 1 May 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  58. Phishing Techniques Spotted: Email Examples & Red Flags

    Huntress researchers break down five phishing techniques observed in 2025: voicemail-lure emails using obfuscated SVG attachments and the Raccoon0365 phishing kit to redirect victims to fake Microsoft login pages; callback phishing that lures victims to call a fake Visa support number; Microsoft/Docusign brand impersonation abusing open URL redirects on nypost.com; FedEx shipping-notification phishing using an ASCII-rendered QR code to evade image scanning; and Living off Trusted Sites (LoTS) attacks that route victims through legitimate services like Figma and Cloudflare Turnstile before landing on credential-phishing pages. Each example includes specific evasion tradecraft attackers use to bypass email security gateways and detection tools.

    huntress.comarticleAdded 3 Sep 2026, published 16 Mar 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security