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AI keeps showing up in the wrong places. Attackers are using it to speed up exploits, test defenses, and automate more of the job. Some models are also crossing lines on their own. That is not a great combination. The rest of the week is more familiar: old bugs still working, fresh exploit chains, exposed systems, weak defaults, and simple paths that should have been harder to abuse. A few of

From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.

This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the watchers! New module content (16) Elasticsearch ingest-attachment Apache Tika XFA XXE Local File Read Authors: Bourbon Offensive Security Services and Jean-Marie Bourbon Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21739 contributed by kmkz Path: scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe CVE reference: CVE-2025-66516 Description: Adds an auxiliary scanner module for CVE-2025-54988/CVE-2025-66516. The module validates an XML External Entity (XXE) vulnerability in Apache Tika's XFA parser exposed through the Elasticsearch attachment ingest processor. SPIP Unauthenticated Blind SQLi via Date Field Escaping Bypass Authors: Benoit Hua, Franck Chevalier, Julien Voisin, and ka3n1x Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21791 contributed by jvoisin Path: scanner/http/spip_annee_sqli Description: Adds modules/auxiliary/scanner/http/spip_annee_sqli.rb which exploits a blind SQL injection in SPIP's date column escaping logic. M

A Russian threat actor used AI to build, test, and deploy exploits against hundreds of organizations worldwide.

PaperCut on Thursday released a new security maintenance release that replaces all previously published emergency patches that were pushed to address two security flaws that have come under active exploitation. The software development company said PaperCut NG/MF versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13 and 24.1.10 are now available for customers to download. "These are Regular Maintenance Releases (MR) that

Human operator: don't touch CIS orgs. AI agents: look a squirrel!

A threat actor, likely Russian-speaking, used hundreds of AI agents to develop and launch a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable PaperCut NG/MF servers.

A suspected Russian-speaking cyber actor has been attributed to the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to devise exploits targeting a recently disclosed pair of security flaws in PaperCut NG/MF and break into hundreds of instances. According to independent reports from Blackpoint Cyber and GreyNoise, the activity originates from "45.142.193[.]132," an IP address that has been linked to

Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as

Serial number: AV26-858 Date: August 28, 2026 Updated: August 31, 2026 As of August 27, 2026, PaperCut is affected by vulnerabilities in the following products: PaperCut MF Prior to v24 Emergency Patch Release 2 Prior to v25 Emergency Patch Release 2 Prior to v26 Emergency Patch Release 2 PaperCut NG Prior to v24 Emergency Patch Release 2 Prior to v25 Emergency Patch Release 2 Prior to v26 Emergency Patch Release 2 Update 1 Open-source reporting indicates that CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 are related to PaperCut MF and PaperCut NG are being exploited in the wild. Update 2 On August 31, 2026, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to their Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Database. The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web link and apply any necessary updates as they become available. URGENT Security Advisory: PaperCut NG/MF Security Bulletin (27 Aug 2026) CISA KEV: CVE-2026-81578 CISA KEV: CVE-2026-82078