InfoSec News 20260824
Publicada em: 24/08/2026
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CISA orders urgent patching of actively exploited Zimbra flaw
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) within three days.
The Zimbra security team patched the security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-73570) in version 10.1.20, released on July 20.
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TLP1: Green
Hundreds of leaked AWS keys give full control over corporate accounts
More than 9,300 Amazon Web Services (AWS) access keys publicly exposed between August 2022 and August 2026 are still active and valid.
Truffle Security has been tracking this exposure for the past four years and says that 817 of the exposed keys were linked to companies, 526 of them being AWS root keys.
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TLP1: Green
UK Power Plant Disabled for Four Days by Iran-Linked Hackers, Concurrent with US Water Attacks
Iran-linked hackers shut down a UK power plant for four days in the first confirmed attack of its kind, concurrent with water infrastructure attacks across 12 US states.
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TLP1: Green
Cybersecurity State: Surveillance, Cyberwarfare, Cybercriminality and Hacktivism
Hackers infect Android car head units with proxy botnet malware
A supply-chain attack targeting Android-based car head units is using a legitimate device-update app to spread malware that enlists compromised devices in a proxy botnet or uses them for ad fraud.
Kaspersky researchers analyzed the malware and attributed the operation to the MoYu group, a threat actor previously associated with the BadBox malware botnet.
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TLP1: Green
ToxicPanda Android malware uses VPN permissions to block Google Play
The ToxicPanda Android malware has evolved with new malicious functionality, expanding its targeting to 349 applications and adding support for 167 remote commands.
The malware now requests VPN service permissions to create a local interface that allows it to control network traffic passing through it. The feature enables ToxicPanda 2.0 to block communication from Google Play and Google Play Services.
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TLP1: Green
UAT-10147 Uses AI to Scale Server Attacks, Deploys SPECTRE With EDR Bypass and Linux Rootkit
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a Chinese-speaking cybercrime group dubbed UAT-10147 that's targeting Windows and Linux web servers globally across the education, media, technology, and gaming sectors.
The vast majority of the targets are located in Brazil, Bolivia, China, Canada, and Vietnam. Details of the threat activity came to light following the discovery of an open directory hosted at "139.180.197[.]150," which was observed communicating with one of the compromised machines.
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TLP1: Green
Breaches: Data Breaches and Hacks
Healthtech firm CareCloud data breach impacts 3.7 million patients
U.S. healthcare IT company CareCloud disclosed that the data breach incident it suffered earlier this year has impacted more than 3.7 million individuals.
The healthcare technology organization is publicly traded and provides electronic health records, medical billing, practice management, and revenue-cycle services.
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TLP1: Green
Vulnerabilities: Vulnerability Advisories, Zero-Days, Patches and Exploits
Critical Keycloak Password Reset Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Take Over Any Account
Red Hat and the Keycloak project have released patches to address a critical security flaw in the open-source identity and access management server that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to take over any user account by forcing a password reset.
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TLP1: Green
Critical Flaw in NASA/JPL Open-Source Spacecraft Command Software Allowed Unauthenticated Command Execution
A critical flaw (CVSS 9.4) in NASA/JPL’s AIT-GUI let anyone send unauthenticated commands to spacecraft instruments.
Cycode researchers found that AIT-GUI, the browser-based operator console in NASA/JPL open-source AMMOS Instrument Toolkit, shipped with no authentication, no session checks, and no CSRF protection on any of its state-changing endpoints.
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TLP1: Green
Incident Response: Infrastructure, Training, SIEM and Incident Handling
Named Pipes Under Attack: Securing Windows Interprocess Communication
Named pipes are a common choice for communication between applications running on the same Windows computer. They are fast, supported directly by the operating system, and work well for communication between Windows services, desktop applications, tray processes, command-line utilities, and background agents.
A typical design may include a privileged
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TLP1: Green
Technical Articles: Forensics, Reverse Engineering, Malware, Phishing, Pentesting, Software Security and Cryptography
New SynkLoader malware pushed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaign
A previously unknown malware family dubbed SynkLoader is being distributed in Microsoft Teams phishing campaigns to steal credentials via a fake lock screen.
The attacker impersonates the target company's IT help desk, a tactic Microsoft highlighted earlier this year as increasingly common in multi-stage attacks.
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TLP1: Green
1Traffic Light Protocol (TLP) [1] for information sharing:
- Red: Not for disclosure, restricted to participants only.
- Amber: Limited disclosure, restricted to participants organizations.
- Green: Limited disclosure, restricted to the community.
[1]https://www.first.org/tlp