Tag: attacker

Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/manus-ai-kill-chain-expose-port-vs-code-server-on-internet/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: How Prompt Injection Exposes Manus’ VS Code Server to the Internet Feedly Summary: Today we will cover a powerful, easy to use, autonomous agent called Manus. Manus is developed by the Chinese startup Monica, based in Singapore. This post demonstrates an end-to-end indirect prompt injection attack leading…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet

Aug 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/agentic-browser-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet Feedly Summary: Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered “agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck…

Slashdot: Coinbase Reverses Remote-First Policy After North Korean Infiltration Attempts

Aug 22, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/22/1515238/coinbase-reverses-remote-first-policy-after-north-korean-infiltration-attempts?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Coinbase Reverses Remote-First Policy After North Korean Infiltration Attempts Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the increasing security vulnerabilities associated with remote work policies, particularly in sensitive roles within cryptocurrency firms. It emphasizes the proactive measures taken by Coinbase to mitigate these risks, including…

Microsoft Security Blog: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/08/21/think-before-you-clickfix-analyzing-the-clickfix-social-engineering-technique/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Think before you Click(Fix): Analyzing the ClickFix social engineering technique Feedly Summary: The ClickFix social engineering technique has been growing in popularity, with campaigns targeting thousands of enterprise and end-user devices daily. This technique exploits users’ tendency to resolve technical issues by tricking them into running malicious…

Unit 42: Your Connection, Their Cash: Threat Actors Misuse SDKs to Sell Your Bandwidth

Aug 21, 2025

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Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/attackers-sell-your-bandwidth-using-sdks/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Your Connection, Their Cash: Threat Actors Misuse SDKs to Sell Your Bandwidth Feedly Summary: A campaign leverages CVE-2024-36401 to stealthily monetize victims’ bandwidth where legitimate software development kits (SDKs) are deployed for passive income. The post Your Connection, Their Cash: Threat Actors Misuse SDKs to Sell Your Bandwidth…

The Register: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/amazon_quietly_fixed_q_developer_flaws/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon quietly fixed Q Developer flaws that made AI agent vulnerable to prompt injection, RCE Feedly Summary: Move along, nothing to see here Amazon has quietly fixed a couple of security issues in its coding agent: Amazon Q Developer VS Code extension. Attackers could use these vulns to…

The Register: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/perplexity_comet_browser_prompt_injection/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity’s Comet browser naively processed pages with evil instructions Feedly Summary: Rival Brave flags prompt injection vulnerability, now patched To the surprise of no one in the security industry, processing untrusted, unvalidated input is a bad idea.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a recently…

The Register: Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/20/commvault_bug_chains_patched/ Source: The Register Title: Commvault releases patches for two nasty bug chains after exploits proven Feedly Summary: Researchers disclosing their findings said ‘it’s as bad as it sounds’ Researchers at watchTowr just published working proof-of-concept exploits for two unauthenticated remote code execution bug chains in backup giant Commvault.… AI Summary and Description:…

Cloud Blog: A Cereal Offender: Analyzing the CORNFLAKE.V3 Backdoor

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