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JetBrains is urging users of Cadence, its hosted cloud computing service, to revoke and rotate all credentials after unidentified attackers exploited CVE-2026-63077 (CVSS 9.8) to breach its own environment. The vulnerability stems from deserializing untrusted data and allows an unauthenticated attacker with access to a TeamCity server to bypass authentication checks and execute arbitrary operating system commands with the privileges of the TeamCity server process. Attackers reached a 2024 Cadence backup holding AWS IAM credentials, S3 files, PyCharm-synced source code, and personal data, so defenders should treat all executions as untrusted and audit connected AWS accounts, registries, and repositories for activity since August 8.
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Threat actors are chaining CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, an authentication bypass and remote code execution pair in PaperCut, to steal credentials from K-12 schools and major universities across the US and Europe. Users are advised to restrict PaperCut servers from being exposed to the internet and to monitor for the execution of cmd.exe, powershell.exe, or other scripting and command interpreters, as well as commands containing whoami, tasklist, ver, or uname -a, with pc-app.exe as the parent process.
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Thomson Reuters found unauthorized access to C-Track files in March. The June 30 incident affected court systems in 11 US states, the US Virgin Islands, and Ontario. Exposed records may contain names and personal information. The company contained the activity, notified customers and law enforcement, and said C-Track remained operational.
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Microsoft researchers observed a high-volume phishing campaign using invisible Unicode tag characters, a technique popularized in AI prompt injection research as ASCII smuggling. Rather than hiding instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used the characters to split financial lure words so email filters could not parse them, turning "funding" into fun, an invisible tag character, then ding. The code points come from the deprecated Unicode Tags block, U+E0000 to U+E007F, which renders as nothing at all, and Microsoft surfaced the campaign while hunting for prompt injection in Defender for Office 365, where the first version of the signature kept firing on the England, Scotland, and Wales flag emoji because each is built from a base flag code point plus an invisible tag sequence. Defenders should strip invisible Unicode before content signatures run, treat unexplained tag characters as a high-confidence anomaly, and apply the same normalization upstream of any AI assistant that ingests email.
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Anthropic paused cyber evaluations after three July incidents exposed real systems through third-party environments. It added real-time classifiers, stronger sandbox isolation, and outbound network blocks, while partners testing reduced-safeguard models must verify isolation, define scope, validate tasks, and stop violations. The company also froze RL environment changes, flagged over 10% for defects, and rebuilt review controls.
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