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Cybersecurity researchers at Wiz have disclosed a new GitHub Actions workflow injection vulnerability in Snowflake's public snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net repository that it said could be exploited through a crafted GitHub issue to execute commands in a workflow containing internal Jira credentials.
The issue was present in .github/workflows/jira_issue.yml, which ran when a
A critical security flaw has been disclosed in Forminator Forms, a WordPress plugin with more than 600,000 active installations, that could be exploited to achieve arbitrary code execution on susceptible sites.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-15748, is rated 9.8 out of 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system. It was discovered and reported by a security researcher who goes by the online alias "
Cybersecurity researchers have traced the continued evolution of the Cavern (aka Cav3rn) command-and-control (C2) framework used by Iranian nation-state hackers in attacks targeting entities in Israel.
Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky said its ongoing monitoring of the threat activity cluster since December 2025 has led to the discovery of previously unreported components that expand the
An AI broke Snowflake’s code; then another AI, an attack agent, autonomously found the bug, exploited it, and extracted credentials without human intervention. Luckily, this wasn’t yet another case of rogue AI agents doing evil things. It was a sanctioned bug hunt, conducted through Snowflake’s HackerOne vulnerability disclosure program, and Snowflake fixed the flaw the same day Wiz reported it and rotated the affected credentials the following day. Wiz’s red agent, an AI-powered autonomous attacker designed for offensive security, found the GitHub Actions workflow flaw during a routine scan of public repositories on June 23. The script injection vulnerability existed in snowflakedb/snowflake-connector-net, and it allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary commands within a GitHub Actions runner by opening a GitHub issue with a specially crafted title. And it turned out an AI had inadvertently injected the bug into the code five days earlier. GitHub Copilot Autofix, an AI coding assistant, co-authored the commit on June 18, and it introduced a script injection bug in run: blocks by removing the repository’s existing sanitized input pattern and replacing it with direct string expansion in a shell script. “We crafted an issue title that, after template expansion, breaks out of the echo string and exfiltrates the Jira credentials via an out-of-band callback,” Wiz’s head of threat exposure Gal Nagli said in a Monday blog. These credentials gave Wiz read access to Snowflake’s engineering, security compliance, and bug bounty tracking projects. Wiz reported the workflow vulnerability to the cloud data platform on June 23, and Snowflake patched it the same day. It also revoked and rotated the Jira token, and confirmed, via audit logs, that Wiz was the only third-party to access the endpoint during the five-day exposure window. The disclosure “was immediately investigated and remediated, and our investigation found no evidence of unauthorized access,” a Snowflake spokesperson told The Register. “We are working together with Wiz to share these learnings with the broader industry to encourage widespread adoption of these security best practices.” Wiz, for its part, deleted all of the data it accessed during the vulnerability research and proof-of-concept exploit testing, and told us that this incident proves human code review isn’t sufficient to quickly detect vulnerabilities - especially as developers increasingly use AI. “This incident highlights a rapidly emerging reality in software development: how AI coding assistants can inadvertently introduce workflow injection vulnerabilities, and how automated AI agents can rapidly surface them in the wild,” Nagli wrote. Of course, the Google-owned biz has a vested interest in saying this. But this doesn’t make it not true.®
The expensive attacks are not always the clever ones.
This week had plenty of proof. Exposed services got hit, old bugs found fresh use, browser sessions became attack paths, and supply-chain problems kept spreading farther than the original compromise. A lot of it came down to access that was already there and defenses that assumed nobody would look too closely.
So, nothing magical. Just a
MCP servers can expose enterprise secrets through plaintext configuration files, over-permissioned access and prompt injection, often before security teams even know the server is running. As more organizations adopt AI agents into their systems, that exposure can silently become a major gap in MCP server security. The Model Context Protocol (MCP) allows AI agents to reach the tools and data,
A cybercrook claims to have siphoned millions of employee records from the Microsoft Azure environments of major companies including McDonald's, Vodafone, Kyndryl, and Tata Consultancy Services. The alleged haul spans nine organizations and is being advertised for sale by a threat actor using the name "TheHatman," according to research published by Hudson Rock. McDonald's accounts for the largest alleged dataset on TheHatman's shopping list, with 1.7 million records purportedly up for grabs. Another 800,000 records supposedly come from Tata Consultancy Services, 425,000 from Vodafone, and 250,000 from HCL Technologies, with IHG Hotels & Resorts, Kyndryl, Gap, Hexaware Technologies, and Wyndham Hotels & Resorts rounding out the haul. Hudson Rock assessed the data as "highly likely authentic," citing corporate email addresses and structures consistent with exports from Microsoft Azure directory services. The records allegedly contain considerably more than names and work email addresses. Samples reviewed by the security shop reportedly include phone numbers, physical addresses, employee IDs, job titles, departments, office locations, reporting structures, group memberships, and service account details. Some records also reportedly identify accounts with Global Administrator privileges, potentially handing attackers a useful map of whom to target next. Even if the passwords aren't included, knowing who holds the keys to the kingdom makes for a handy phishing shortlist. How TheHatman allegedly obtained the information remains unclear. The attacker claims to have used compromised credentials, but Hudson Rock could not independently establish the initial access vector. It floated several possibilities, including credentials or session cookies stolen by infostealer malware, phishing, weak or absent multifactor authentication, and overly permissive third-party applications. Hudson Rock said its infostealer database contained compromised Microsoft cloud credentials associated with most of the named companies, although it could not link those credentials to TheHatman's alleged access. "Judging by the massive size of the organizations impacted, it appears highly likely that this campaign originates from targeted exploitation of Infostealer infections rather than a systemic zero-day vulnerability in Azure," said Hudson Rock. "If this were a widespread vulnerability, we would likely see a much broader spectrum of organizations impacted, including smaller businesses, rather than just these massive Fortune 500-level enterprises." The Register contacted all the organizations named by Hudson Rock to ask whether they were breached, whether the advertised data is authentic, and how any unauthorized access occurred. We've also asked Microsoft whether it is aware of a wider campaign targeting Azure or Entra customers. Tata Services sent The Register the statement it made to India's stock exchange [PDF] saying that the “Company has received threat-intelligence alerts alleging possible exposure of certain employee information." It added: The Company has investigated the matter and has not found any credible evidence of a breach of TCS systems or customer environments. The information referenced appears to be more than four years old and limited to basic employee information. There is no indication that customer data, customer systems, or TCS operational systems have been impacted. “The attacker claims to have used password spray and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) fatigue as the attack vector. The Company has had strong safeguards in place against such techniques for more than two years. Based on the current review, these controls remain effective, and the Company continues to monitor the environment closely." It said: “The Company will continue to assess any new information that becomes available and take appropriate action, if required. The Company remains committed to maintaining the security and resilience of its systems and to protecting the information entrusted to us.” TheHatman claims to have the data. How it might have walked out of nine corporate directories is the part nobody has explained yet. ®
In Google Workspace, Gemini has access to Gmail, Docs, Calendar, Chat, and more by default. Here's why it matters, and how administrators can disable it today.
Security researchers at SSD Secure Disclosure have published a two-stage exploit chain that achieves full Android kernel access on devices running Unisoc modem firmware through a VoLTE video call, with no fix from the chipset maker.
The advisory, published August 17, 2026, is the second stage of a chain that began in March 2026, when SSD disclosed remote code execution in the
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