232 results for “Windows”

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.

blog.talosintelligence.comwriteupPublished and added 31 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

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.

microsoft.comwriteupPublished and added 31 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

A malicious version 2.1.313 of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was served from Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours on 29 October 2026, reaching up to 5,000 developers. A JavaScript loader prepended to extension.js added an attacker SSH key, a reverse tunnel and macOS/Windows persistence, and reported to 134.209.82[.]225. Coding errors likely blocked SSH access on many hosts. Cursor removed it and rotated keys; victims should look for an 'svc-telemetry' SSH key.

bleepingcomputer.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

CVE-2026-111585 (CVSS 8.8) is an integer overflow in the remote-control screen processing of TeamViewer clients on Windows, macOS, Linux and Android. A malicious or compromised host can announce an oversized screen surface (for example 32768 by 32768 at 32 bpp), forcing a software decode path and an out-of-bounds write that crashes the viewer or runs code. Remedio's research shows a pointer overwrite routed to WinExec. Version 15.83 fixes it, along with CVE-2026-92372, CVE-2026-92374 and six local privilege escalation bugs.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Cisco Talos Threat Source newsletter for the week of the PHP and Node.js vulnerability news cycle. It summarises NIK C2, a Go-based Windows implant that dumps credentials, streams keystrokes, deploys screen-locking ransomware and uses a victim's hijacked OpenAI API keys to analyse stolen data. It also lists weekly headlines (CISA KEV PHP bugs, Brotli flaw, Gheist GitHub token theft), Talos links and top malware hashes.

blog.talosintelligence.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Windows Prefetch forensics tutorial from Hackers Arise. It explains that prefetch files in C:\Windows\Prefetch record last run time, run count and files touched, so they prove an application was used even after deletion. It shows parsing with NirSoft WinPrefetchView, building a timeline from Last Run Time, and how a suspect could disable Prefetch or Superfetch (SysMain).

hackers-arise.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

NIK C2 is a newly observed C2 framework with a Go-based 64-bit Windows implant that embeds an OpenAI Chat Completions client (ai_generate command), falling back to the victim's OPENAI_API_KEY. Talos details its 52+ commands, AES-256-GCM over WebSocket with HTTP fallback, credential, wallet and keystroke theft, screen-lock ransomware, AMSI bypass and anti-debug. It also lists a live C2 at 87.120.196[.]120 and total-sitevv[.]lol.

blog.talosintelligence.comwriteupPublished and added 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

DailyDarkWeb post summarising Anthropic Frontier Red Team research published 27 October 2026. An unreleased internal Claude research model built five attack chains: Chrome sandbox escape (V8 heap bug, CacheStorage race, FedCM use-after-free), a Safari same-origin policy bypass, data extraction from a locked Pixel 9 over USB, a Windows QUIC kernel crash (CVE-2026-33096) and zero-click Linux root via multipath TCP (CVE-2026-98432). Anthropic says all flaws are fixed, including 62 Chrome CVEs as of Chrome 156. The post notes the chains are not independently reproduced.

x.comthreadAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

clauth is a Rust terminal UI for Claude Code that combines multi-account switching with a live 5h / 7d usage monitor. A fallback chain moves the user off an exhausted account before Claude Code blocks. It supports Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise OAuth accounts and custom API endpoints on Linux, macOS and Windows. The post notes that auto-switching means the tool decides when accounts change.

x.comtoolAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

AskStream is a multi-turn benchmark for streaming video understanding that adds a third proactive action, ask, alongside wait and answer, for cases where video or user information is incomplete. It has 438 videos, 2,714 manually annotated frame-level time windows (wait, ask, answer), four task categories and eight subtasks. The strongest model reaches only 52.18% on the proposed Ask-F1 metric, in both multiple-choice and open-ended settings.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Survival LLM is a free, open-source desktop app for macOS (Apple Silicon) and 64-bit Windows that runs an AI model and an offline emergency library on the user's computer. It checks the machine's memory, downloads a fitting model, and answers from sources such as Wikipedia, WikiMed, Ready.gov and CDC guidance, citing each article. Users can add their own files; version 0.3.2 is dated October 2026.

brangus.iotoolAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Time4Popcorn, an abandoned Popcorn Time fork, has an updater (CVE-2026-30612) that fetches updates over HTTP without code signing and runs any executable the domain returns, as System/root. Eye Security registered abandoned update domains, saw millions of Windows, macOS and Android clients, and pushed a fix disabling the updater on about 2 million systems by March 2026. Shadowserver took over the sinkholed domains; Eye Security advises uninstalling the app.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

The tweet relays Pillar Security research that opencode on Windows and WSL could run attacker-controlled code during remote MCP server OAuth sign-in. The fix shipped in opencode 1.18.33 on 28 September, with no advisory or CVE published. It advises users of remote MCP servers to update and review which servers they connect to. Technical details are not in the post.

x.comthreadAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Ollama overview thread by Akash Rajagopal on X. It lists six steps: install on macOS, Linux, Windows or Docker; run `ollama run gemma4`; use the REST API on localhost:11434 (/api/chat); call it from ollama-python and ollama-js; llama.cpp as the README's supported backend; and `ollama launch claude` to connect Claude Code. Codex, OpenCode, Copilot CLI and Droid also work. The thread cites 184k GitHub stars and an MIT licence.

x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Hob is an MIT-licensed desktop app from Frigade that runs open-weight models such as Gemma and gpt-oss locally on Mac, Windows and Linux. It picks the best open-weight model that fits the user's computer and sets it up. It is positioned as a free, private, offline alternative to Claude and ChatGPT for tasks like filling out PDFs and working through documents. The page gives no technical detail on its runtime.

github.comrepoAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Thread on a critical opencode bug disclosed by Pillar Security on Oct 19. On Windows and WSL, a remote MCP server could run code during OAuth sign-in, because the server-chosen authorization URL was put unescaped into a PowerShell command, so a PowerShell subexpression executed. opencode fixed it in 1.18.33 on Sep 28 as a browser-launch refactor with no advisory or CVE. MCP Inspector published an advisory for the same bug class, and its fix needs a major bump of the open package.

x.comthreadAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

PRAXO-CORE 2.5.0 is a Go agent kernel that owns model calls, tool authorization, context, checkpoints, events and human-in-the-loop decisions, and leaves graph execution, memory storage and tenant policy to RHEOVELA or the host product. The release adds pkg/conformance, with checks for VFS, memory, sandbox, event, policy, model and tool contracts. It also adds stricter Windows path rejection and a plugin trust/SBOM handoff, and it states which adapters are only offline-tested.

x.comarticleAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Unthemidator is an automated unpacker for binaries protected with Themida, Code Virtualizer and WinLicense (v3.0 to v3.2.6.0, experimental v4.0). It works without executing the target, handles x86 and x64 exe, dll and sys files, decrypts imports, restores the IAT, rebuilds the PE and identifies VM versions and entry points. It does not devirtualize or unmutate code. Releases cover Windows x64 and macOS Apple Silicon.

github.comrepoAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Field note from dfir.ch on PowerShell scripts an attacker left on disk during an incident: a file-watching command runner using Invoke-Expression, a fake Windows credential prompt that validates passwords via Start-Process and logs them in cleartext, AD computer enumeration with WMI access testing, and SMB share discovery via NetShareEnum. It notes where script labels overstate what they prove and lists hunting strings for Event IDs 4104, 4103, 4688 and Sysmon 1.

dfir.chwriteupAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

ERC-TBA: Agent Income Statements is a draft Ethereum standard, a profile of the ERC-8004 Reputation Registry. A writer posts chained statements of what an agent's agentWallet received in one asset, with each incoming transfer a Merkle leaf, so lenders and buyers can verify earnings from x402 payments. Windows are cut at owner or wallet changes, and the post asks about statement grain, the MetadataSet requirement and who may write. The reference implementation is unaudited.

ethereum-magicians.orgthreadPublished and added 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Post summarising Pillar Security's finding of a remote code execution flaw in OpenCode, the open-source AI coding agent. Versions 1.0.137 through 1.18.32 could run code from a remote MCP server during OAuth sign-in on Windows and WSL, with no prompt injection needed. The fix is in 1.18.33 (released 28 September). No advisory or CVE was issued, so scanners will not flag old installs. Interim advice is to remove unvetted remote MCP servers.

x.comthreadAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Huntress analysis of an Amazon-themed ClickFix campaign that used a Google sponsored result, a fake Amazon login on Google Sites and a fake CAPTCHA to make victims run the Windows finger utility. The .plan script drives IronPython, a Cyrillic-substituted Base64 Python loader, Doina, a Node.js stage, Lumma Stealer via sRDI, and a pirated NetSupport RMM. It lists C2 domains and gives detection tips (aclk/gclid markers, blocking the Run dialog).

huntress.comwriteupPublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

OpenAI's Patch the Planet post describes the coordinated response to two critical PHP vulnerabilities. Calif found one with GPT-5.6 Sol, and Wiz independently reported both. It proposes a five-stage disclosure framework: upstream fix, advance notice to providers, government coordination, product updates and public guidance. It also lists a PHP version checker, $1 billion in subsidized Daybreak access, and open questions on disclosure windows and emergency patching.

openai.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Live-Forensicator is a cross-platform (Windows, Linux, macOS) live response toolkit built around Forensicator.ps1. The Hackers Arise walkthrough runs it on Windows with case details, then reads the HTML report: event log summary (Event IDs 4624, 4798, 4799, 4688) and a risk rating. It also shows optional AI analysis through Ollama with a Mistral model, configured in config.json, and warns that the tool triggers AV and that AI slows runs.

hackers-arise.comarticlePublished and added 20 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

AOMEI Backupper, Windows backup and cloning software, served malware in short tampering windows between April and July 2026. Threat actor UNC7017 altered the update settings file and notification service to push the CrossRoad downloader, ShinyRoad backdoor, a modified Radmin Server and Adaptix payloads. Each window lasted five to ten minutes. The client did not authenticate its configuration files, and a WebDAV banner trick leaked NetNTLMv2 hashes.

securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 20 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

BrainLoRA is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that adapts multimodal backbones of up to 104B parameters to predict neural responses. It predicts multiple timepoints in one causal pass instead of sliding windows, and a multi-LoRA kernel trains many adapters on a shared backbone. Across nine backbones it improves encoding, and a 200+ model ensemble ranks first on the Algonauts post-challenge leaderboard.

arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

Summary of Pillar Security research on opencode, in which a malicious remote MCP server runs code on a Windows or WSL machine during the OAuth login step. The login URL goes unsanitised into PowerShell through the npm "open" package, so an https:// link containing $(...) executes. Affected versions are 1.0.137 to 1.18.32, fixed in 1.18.33 (28 September) as a "refactor" with no advisory or CVE. The behaviour was first reported in 2020 as a WSL 2 broken-link bug.

x.comthreadAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🛡️ Security

Trading Hub is a free macOS desktop trading platform built with C#/.NET 10 and Avalonia. It uses the user's Claude Code subscription: a chat writes and fixes C# strategies, an in-app MCP server lets Claude run backtests, optimizations and walk-forwards and write reports, and a risk agent proposes position sizes. Install and a Windows port are both driven by Claude Code prompts. License is MIT with Commons Clause.

github.comrepoAdded 19 Oct 2026, published 17 Oct 2026🧠 AI

AI Usage Meter is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app for Mac and Windows that shows live Claude and Codex usage and rate limits, so users aren't cut off mid-task without warning. It also tracks API costs and other AI providers. It runs locally and needs no account.

x.comtoolAdded 16 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

GTIG and Mandiant report on UNC7017, which tampered with AOMEI update servers in five to ten minute windows between April and July 2026. Edited down_html.ini and Notifycfg.ini files delivered the CROSSROAD downloader and SHINYROAD PocketPy backdoor, plus Adaptix C2 and WebDAV NTLM coercion. The post covers infrastructure shifts, YARA rules, IOCs, and vendor and SOC guidance on point-in-time triage failures.

cloud.google.comwriteupAdded 29 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🛡️ Security