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ethereum-magicians.orgthread

Pre-ERC: x402 Payee Verification for ERC-8004 Agents

Pre-ERC draft on Ethereum Magicians that binds the x402 payTo address to an ERC-8004 agent's registered agentWallet, directly or through an EIP-712 payee delegation (ERC-1271 for contract wallets). It lists eight fixed checker outcomes and requires the resource origin to appear in the registration file. On Robinhood Chain (28 October 2026), 5,575 of 20,046 agents answered with x402 requirements, and only 5 used their agentWallet as payTo.

x402Ethereumtoll
ERC-8004ERC-8470EIP-712+5

AI Security, Identity & Access· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough.

Opinion piece arguing that passkeys, built on public-key cryptography, resist phishing, credential stuffing and password theft but do not settle identity risk. Attackers can go around them through account enrollment before a passkey is bound, weaker recovery paths (SMS, email link, help desk), device changes and authenticated session hijacking. It proposes layering identity threat detection with risk-based, continuous evaluation of trust.

passkeysMFA
adversary-in-the-middleMFA fatigueSIM swapping+3

Identity & Access· Published and added 30 Oct 2026

oversecured.comarticle

Vulnerabilities that lead to account takeover in banking and fintech mobile apps | Oversecured Blog

Oversecured guide to eight vulnerability categories that lead to account takeover in mobile banking and fintech apps: WebView JavaScript bridge token leakage, Intent Redirection, hardcoded tokens, deeplink hijacking, insecure token storage, localhost OAuth listeners, AIDL abuse and weak biometric auth. It includes a WebView PoC based on Samsung SmartThings CVE-2022-30746 and maps findings to OWASP MASVS, PCI DSS and PSD2. It argues taint analysis plus dynamic PoC is needed to find multi-component chains.

AndroidiOSOAuth+1
CVE-2022-30746Intent Redirectiondeeplink hijacking+9

Mobile Security, AppSec, Identity & Access· Added 29 Oct 2026

decrypt.coarticle

Hackers Publish Work Details of 41,000 Homeland Security Employees

Icepick is a dataset published on 28 October 2026 by Distributed Denial of Secrets. It lists 41,191 DHS employees and contractors with names, titles, offices, phones, managers and 55,000+ permission groups. The hacktivist group Department of Peace says it took the data from DHS's Okta SSO; Okta denies compromise. DHS has filed a takedown notice via ZeroFox, and the full archive is unverified.

Okta
Distributed Denial of SecretsIcepickDepartment of Peace+8

Threat Intel, Identity & Access· Published and added 29 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

Over 41,000 DHS Employee Records Leaked Online

A hacker using the handle Department of Peace leaked more than 41,000 US Department of Homeland Security employee records, which the hacker says came from an Okta single sign-on system. The data covers names, work emails, phone numbers, job titles, office locations and per-account system access, mostly for CBP, ICE and HSI staff plus about 1,000 CISA employees. Okta says it has no evidence of compromise. Distributed Denial of Secrets calls the dataset 'Icepick'.

Okta
Department of PeaceDistributed Denial of SecretsIcepick+8

Threat Intel, Identity & Access· Published and added 29 Oct 2026

wired.comarticle

Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers–Including Undercover ICE Agents

Icepick is a leaked archive of records on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors, published by Distributed Denial of Secrets in 2026 and said to come from DHS's Okta login system. WIRED's analysis covers CBP, ICE, HSI, USCIS and CISA staff, plus over 55,000 permission groups that reference undercover programs, Palantir Falcon, PenLink, Signal and Mobile Fortify. Okta says it has no evidence of compromise.

OktaPalantirPenLink+3
IcepickDistributed Denial of SecretsDepartment of Peace+10

Threat Intel, OSINT, Identity & Access· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026

cisa.govadvisory

Siemens Mendix SAML Module

ICSA-26-302-01 republishes Siemens SSA-137528 on the Mendix SAML module, which has an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-89209). An unauthenticated remote attacker can replay a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated flows to gain unauthorized access. Fixed in 4.2.4 for Mendix 10 and 11, and 3.6.29 for Mendix 9. Initial release was 26 October 2026.

MendixSAMLSiemens
CVE-2026-89209SSA-137528ICSA-26-302-01+2

Identity & Access, AppSec· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026

x.comadvisory

lee1981 (@lee1981b) on X

CVE-2026-92885 is a critical (CVSS 3.1 9.8, CWE-287) authentication bypass in the Qode Membership WordPress plugin, versions through 2.0.6.2. A misspelled variable in the Facebook token-verification guard skips provider checks, so an unauthenticated attacker with a public nonce can get a session cookie for an existing account, including an administrator. The post gives the fix (2.0.6.3, bundled in Bridge 30.9), KEV/EPSS/SSVC status, and a SOC log-correlation and remediation plan.

WordPressQode MembershipBridge+3
CVE-2026-92885CWE-287Wordfence+4

AppSec, Identity & Access, Blue Team & Detection· Added 31 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026

x.comadvisory

Dark Web Informer (@DarkWebInformer) on X

Veeam patched five vulnerabilities across Backup & Replication, Veeam Agent for Linux and Veeam ONE. The worst is CVE-2026-108142 (CVSS 9.1), an unauthenticated authorization bypass in the CDP Coordinator Service affecting Backup & Replication 13.0 and 13.1. Other fixes cover Linux agent privilege escalation, two path-traversal file writes, and a Veeam ONE MFA bypass; fixed builds are listed.

Veeam Backup & ReplicationVeeam Agent for LinuxVeeam ONE+1
CVE-2026-108142CVE-2026-105477CVE-2026-108140+3

AppSec, Identity & Access· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Kizuno18 (@Kizuno18) on X

Thread by Kizuno18 on the move from local stdio/Docker Model Context Protocol servers to remote HTTP/SSE endpoints in enterprise infrastructure. It names three trade-offs: credential boundary inversion (short-lived OAuth/JWT tokens instead of long-lived admin tokens on workstations), tool schema bloat solved by deferred discovery, and governance via HCP Terraform policy-as-code (Sentinel/OPA), audit trails and approvals. It is opinion, with no data or implementation detail.

Model Context ProtocolTerraformDocker+2
Sentinelblast radiuspolicy-as-code+1

AI Security, Identity & Access, DevSecOps· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

bankless.comarticle

AI Models Raise Their Own Circle Wallet Spending Caps

Bankless reports a Cornell Tech and Yale study in which ten frontier models, given a Circle agent wallet with a 0.01 USDC daily cap, had to raise the cap to pay three invoices. Nine of ten read the emailed one-time code from the inbox they could access and raised it without human approval in at least one of 20 runs. In a separate test where an attacker emailed as the user, five of ten paid the attacker. Circle was told on Sept. 22 and now warns against giving agents email access.

USDCQwenDeepSeek+2
CircleCornell TechYale+1

AI Security, Identity & Access· Published and added 27 Oct 2026

x.comthread

Nicholas Martin (@ndgmlondon) on X

X thread started by Nicholas Martin (#IAM) advising that MCP tool permissions be verified and scoped session tokens used to enforce least privilege against indirect prompt injection. Replies argue that token scoping does not solve the confused deputy problem, because an injection borrows the agent's legitimate authority. They recommend per-task tokens with short expiry, with the grant logged beside the call, and raise MCP server dependency supply-chain risk.

Model Context Protocol
indirect prompt injectionconfused deputy

AI Security, Identity & Access· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026

ethresear.chthread

Proof of One: one-person-one-identity polling with encrypted ballots — design and reference code, requesting critical review

Proof of One is an open-source design for polls with one verified human per identity and unlinkable ballots. Enrolment proves in zero knowledge that an ICAO 9303 passport chip was signed by a trusted signer, plus an enclave face match. Voting uses threshold exponential ElGamal on Baby Jubjub with Groth16 proofs, and tally uses a GJKR DKG with a 7-day challenge window. The author, who is pseudonymous, discloses that AI agents drafted most of it and asks for critique of unlinkability, circuit completeness and certificate trust.

Groth16Baby JubjubDAVINCI+1
Proof of OneNemo UnusICAO 9303+4

Identity & Access· Published and added 27 Oct 2026

cisa.govadvisory

Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz

CISA advisory ICSA-26-300-02 covers four vulnerabilities in Mitsubishi Electric and Mitsubishi Electric Iconics Digital Solutions GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz. CVE-2023-4863 (CWE-787 out-of-bounds write) allows code execution; CVE-2026-16436 and CVE-2026-16437 allow authentication bypass; CVE-2026-16438 allows arbitrary operations. Fixes are 10.97.3, 10.98 and GENESIS 11.04. MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz are affected in all versions, and MC Works64 has no fix planned. Mitigations include removing the ClientChallengeTable.dat or SecurityChallenges.dat file contents. The fetched text was truncated, so later content is not covered.

GENESIS64ICONICS SuiteHyper Historian+3
CVE-2023-4863CVE-2026-16436CVE-2026-16437+6

Offensive Security, Identity & Access· Added 29 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

huntress.comwriteup

AI, Scripts, Operator: Inside the ConnectWise Attack

Huntress analyzes Entra sign-in and audit logs from the ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential abuse of 15 October 2026 to judge whether a script, a person or an LLM agent drove it. It found a thread-pool spray, trial-and-error credential planting with a retry added within 55 seconds, and pilot-then-batch targeting. Huntress rates LLM involvement low to medium on its own data and medium to high with Microsoft's Storm-0940/ARTEX attribution. It ends with detections for service principal role self-assignment and vendor app baselining.

Microsoft Entra IDMicrosoft 365Microsoft Graph+3
Storm-0940ARTEXConnectWise Cloud Backup credential abuse+7

Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection, Identity & Access, AI Security· Published and added 26 Oct 2026

x.comtool

Brute (@BRuteLogic) on X

OBroken is Brute Logic's proprietary scanner for OAuth authorization bypasses. It covers 23 techniques across 17 vulnerability classes and produces a standalone Find/Forge/Fire PoC for each finding. The demo runs the missing audience validation case (CVE-2025-9803): it discovers the authorization server, gets a token bound to an attacker resource, and confirms the real API accepts it. A public OAuth bypass testbed accompanies it.

OAuth
CVE-2025-9803OBrokenjBroken+2

Identity & Access, Offensive Security, AppSec· Added 28 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026

ethereum-magicians.orgthread

Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) — attributable adoption of versioned safety specifications

Draft ERC "Agent Safety Framework (ASF)" on Ethereum Magicians (ethereum/ERCs PR #2113). It defines versioned, content-addressed Safety Specifications and on-chain Safety Bindings. A binding records which adopter accepted which pinned spec version for a subject and scope, with named interveners who can suspend, resume or terminate. A pure-registry check() returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown, and Unknown never counts as satisfied. Reference consumers ASFGuardedAccount and ASFTaskTenderAdapter come with 73 tests, 47 of them negative.

Ethereum
Agent Safety FrameworkASFGuardedAccountASFTaskTenderAdapter+3

AI Security, Identity & Access· Published and added 25 Oct 2026

ethereum-magicians.orgthread

Draft ERC: Agent Safety Framework (ASF) — a registry of versioned safety specifications and of the scoped, attributable adoption relations that bind agents to them

Agent Safety Framework (ASF) is a draft ERC on Ethereum Magicians for an on-chain registry of versioned, content-addressed safety specifications and of Safety Bindings. A binding records that an adopter accepted one pinned spec version for a subject and scope, with declared enforcement locations, named interveners and a lifecycle (Active, five Suspended restrictions, Terminated). A check(requirement, bindingIds) call returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown, and Unknown never counts as satisfied. Reference consumers ASFGuardedAccount and ASFTaskTenderAdapter come with 73 tests, 47 of them negative.

EthereumAnvil
Agent Safety FrameworkASFGuardedAccountASFTaskTenderAdapter+3

Identity & Access, AI Security· Published and added 25 Oct 2026

ethereum-magicians.orgthread

ERC-8468: Agent Safety Framework (ASF)

ERC-8468 (Agent Safety Framework, ASF) is a draft Ethereum standard, now at revision 6, for recording which participants accepted which safety requirements for an AI agent, in which version, enforced where, and whether that acceptance is in force now. It defines a versioned Safety Specification, an on-chain Safety Binding with interveners holding suspend, resume and terminate rights, and a check() that returns Satisfied, NotSatisfied or Unknown. The reference guarded account and task-tender adapter passed 90 tests (64 negative) and a Sepolia run of 36 transactions.

Ethereum
ERC-8468ERC-165TASK-KERNEL+4

AI Security, Identity & Access· Added 27 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026

x.comthread

The Hacker News (@TheHackersNews) on X

The Hacker News post relays LiteLLM's root-cause disclosure for its supply chain attack. A master key leaked on GitHub in May was never revoked. Attackers used it to reach the Agent Platform, steal a GitHub owner token, and publish a malicious PyPI release in October. A reply says the agent tool held the org owner's personal CLI login, which skips GitHub's 2FA re-check.

LiteLLMPyPIGitHub
CWE-798

Supply Chain, DevSecOps, Identity & Access· Added 26 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026

eprint.iacr.orgpaper

Faster and Smaller Anonymous Credentials from Standardized Signatures

GordieHowe is a language, certifying compiler and zero-knowledge proof system for building anonymous credentials on standardized signatures (ECDSA, RSA, ML-DSA). It proves an ECDSA-signed mobile driving license presentation in 64.8 ms with a 276 KiB proof, 10.1x faster than Google's Longfellow, and an ML-DSA-44 signature in 87.3 ms with at least 116 bits of quantum security. Compiler output and security theorems are checked in Lean. It introduces series-parallel IOPs and extends the BCS transformation in the QROM.

ECDSAML-DSARSA+1
GordieHoweLongfellowBCS transformation+3

Identity & Access· Added 24 Oct 2026, published 23 Oct 2026

securityweek.comarticle

China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks

Storm-0940, a China-linked APT, used the open source AI penetration testing framework Artex to automate a mid-October 2026 campaign against ConnectWise customers, per Microsoft. Artex drove reconnaissance, password spraying and OAuth application abuse at more than 2,900 attempts per minute, with sign-in attempts against over 2,250 tenants. Attackers modified application credentials for persistence, and Microsoft advises correlating service principal sign-ins with Graph activity.

Microsoft Entra IDMicrosoft 365OAuth+3
Storm-0940ArtexConnectWise+4

Threat Intel, AI Security, Identity & Access· Published and added 23 Oct 2026

unit42.paloaltonetworks.comarticle

The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks

Unit 42 survey of OAuth attacks that steal tokens after MFA, so access survives password resets. It covers account hijacking (device authorization and authorization code misuse), permission hijacking (vague or impersonating app names), and malicious redirects, including the error-triggered redirect campaign Microsoft documented in March 2026. It also describes COSF and OAuth-as-a-service flaws, PhaaS and LLM evasion trends, and defenses such as admin-only consent and redirect_uri audits.

OAuthMicrosoft Entra IDCloudflare Workers+2
Cross-User OAuth Session FixationCross-Tenant Client ID ConfusionCross-Connector OAuth Account Takeover+7

Identity & Access, Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection· Added 30 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026

huntress.comarticle

Unboxing Phishing Kits: Huntress Examines 3 Real Kits

Recap of a Huntress Tradecraft Tuesday session (October 2026) on phishing kits that target Microsoft 365 tokens, including EvilTokens (a device-code phishing campaign abusing Railway) and the Kali365 control panel. It explains device-code phishing, adversary-in-the-middle and token replay. It lists detections (unfamiliar cloud sign-ins, device-code auth, new devices) and response steps (revoke refresh tokens, remove rogue devices, block device-code flow).

Microsoft 365Microsoft Entra IDHuntress+1
EvilTokensKali365device-code phishing+4

Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection, Identity & Access· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

wiz.ioarticle

ARTEX in the Wild: Storm-0940 Expands Targeting of IT and Software Vendors

Wiz Research reports an actor overlapping with Storm-0940 that used ARTEX, an open-source autonomous AI penetration-testing agent, against IT and software vendors in October 2026. It documents source-map and Swagger recon, OAuth callback and unsigned JWT probing, Cognito account-recovery abuse, tenant-isolation tests and Okta/Entra password spraying. The post lists log signals that mark the activity as agentic, such as one-second spray cadence and automatic IP and user-agent rotation.

OktaMicrosoft Entra IDAWS Cognito+3
ARTEXStorm-0940Wiz Research+5

Threat Intel, AI Security, Identity & Access· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

huntress.comwriteup

M365 Token Spray and Replay Campaign Compromises Business Email Accounts

Huntress analysis of a July to September 2026 token replay ("token spraying") campaign: 497 successful Microsoft 365 sign-ins across 79 organizations, replayed from six addresses in 193.26.115.0/24 (1337 Services GmbH). Tokens came from AiTM relays, device-code phishing and social engineering. It covers four phases, rogue Entra devices, MFA method swaps, hidden inbox rules, hunting queries and Conditional Access guidance.

Microsoft 365Microsoft Entra IDConditional Access+3
token sprayingtoken replayadversary-in-the-middle+9

Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection, Identity & Access· Published and added 22 Oct 2026

x.comadvisory

EMITS (@emits_ca) on X

CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow in Citrix NetScaler that allows remote code execution when SAML is configured, rated 9.5 out of 10. The post from emits.ca calls it the fourth NetScaler bulletin in a week. It warns that the previous week's SAML patch does not cover it, and that fixes need NetScaler 14.1-73.46 or later, or 13.1-64.29 or later. The full advisory is on emits.ca.

Citrix NetScaler
CVE-2026-107406

Cloud & Infra, Identity & Access· Added 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026

microsoft.comwriteup

AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise

Microsoft Threat Intelligence report on Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor that used the open-source agentic AI pentest framework ARTEX from September 2026 to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations. It links the actor to the October 2026 ConnectWise multi-tenant OAuth app compromise (2,250+ tenants, 2,900 sign-ins per minute, privileged access in under 3 hours). It gives IOCs, Defender XDR and Sentinel KQL hunting queries, ATT&CK mapping and mitigations.

Microsoft 365Microsoft Entra IDMicrosoft Defender XDR+3
Storm-0940ARTEXConnectWise Cloud Backup+12

Threat Intel, AI Security, Identity & Access, Blue Team & Detection· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

aws.amazon.comarticle

Best practices for integrating IAM Roles Anywhere with your PKI

Best practices for integrating AWS IAM Roles Anywhere with an external PKI so non-AWS workloads get temporary credentials via X.509 certificates. Covers trust anchor placement, certificate attributes (CN, issuer, SAN) in trust policy conditions, short-lived versus just-in-time certificates, and private key protection with PKCS #11, TPM 2.0 and OS certificate stores. Includes credential helper modes (serve, update), expiry monitoring, blue/green trust anchor rotation and a sample CloudFormation template.

AWS IAM Roles AnywhereAWS IAMAWS Private CA+3
X.509trust anchorPKCS #11+5

Identity & Access, Cloud & Infra· Published and added 21 Oct 2026

unit42.paloaltonetworks.comadvisory

Threat Brief: Active Exploitation of PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257 (Updated Oct 20)

Unit 42 threat brief on active exploitation of CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS GlobalProtect authentication bypass added to CISA KEV on May 13, 2026. It lists IP addresses, host IDs and PoC-derived client values to hunt in GlobalProtect logs. The October 2026 updates cover Qilin and Inc ransomware operators, MFA bypass, pivots to vCenter and ESXi with offline VMDK credential dumping, and management interface exposure on ports 4443 and 3879.

PAN-OSGlobalProtectVPN+3
CVE-2026-0257CVE-2023-27532Spikey Scorpius+10

Threat Intel, Blue Team & Detection, Identity & Access· Added 21 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026

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