⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More
The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its...
ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian...
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX’s artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two...
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger...
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