A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations. The campaigns have impersonated prominent economists and AI policymakers, as well as a prominent Anthropic employee, to single out an AI policy expert at a
GitLab fixes critical AI Gateway flaw that could let authenticated Duo users escape a prompt sandbox and execute commands on self-hosted gateways. GitLab has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS score of 9.9), that could allow an authenticated user with access to the Duo Agent Platform to execute arbitrary commands on the gateway. GitLab disclosed the flaw on October 2 and fixed it with the release of AI Gateway versions 19.2.4, 19.3.2 and 19.4.1. The issue affects the way the AI Gateway handles custom flow prompt templates. According to GitLab, a user with Duo Agent Platform access could use a specially crafted flow configuration to escape the prompt template sandbox and execute commands on the AI Gateway host. “GitLab has remediated an issue in the GitLab AI Gateway that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user with Duo Agent Platform access to escape the prompt template sandbox via a specially crafted flow configuration, leading to arbitrary command execution on the AI Gateway.” reads the advisory. The important point is that the attack does not require an unauthenticated connection. GitLab’s advisory does not provide further details about the exact conditions required to exploit the flaw or the permissions needed beyond that access. GitLab credited the HackerOne researcher invisiblemeerkat with responsibly reporting the vulnerability. The GitLab AI Gateway is basically the middle layer between GitLab Duo and the AI models. GitLab Duo provides AI features such as code suggestions, chat, code explanation and agentic workflows. The AI Gateway receives the requests from GitLab, prepares the prompts and communicates with the underlying LLMs. GitLab operates its own cloud-based gateway, but organizations can also deploy an AI Gateway inside their own infrastructure. GitLab says the security fix has already been deployed to its own hosted AI Gateways. Customers using GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, or a GitLab Self-Managed instance connected to a GitLab-hosted gateway therefore do not need to take action. The customers that need to patch are those running a GitLab Self-Hosted AI Gateway. GitLab has already contacted those customers directly and strongly recommends updating affected installations immediately. Self-hosting the gateway is designed for organizations that want to keep AI requests and responses inside their own environment. In a fully self-hosted configuration, GitLab, the AI Gateway and the selected AI models can all operate within the organization’s infrastructure. Below are the affected AI Gateway releases: Affected versionFixed version18.1.6 through 19.2.319.2.419.3.0 through 19.3.119.3.219.4.019.4.1 The AI Gateway sits between GitLab’s AI features and the underlying models. In a self-hosted deployment, it processes requests between the GitLab instance and the organization’s AI infrastructure. The service also has access to sensitive authentication material. GitLab’s installation documentation says that self-hosted deployments require signing and validation keys for JSON Web Tokens. These keys are passed to the gateway as environment variables. For that reason, command execution on the gateway could provide an attacker with a foothold inside infrastructure that handles AI requests and authentication. The exact impacts would depend on how the gateway is deployed and what access it has to the rest of the organization’s environment. GitLab’s October 2 advisory does not say that CVE-2026-90970 has been exploited in the wild. It also does not publish a proof of concept or technical exploitation steps. That leaves several important questions unanswered, including the precise flow configuration needed to escape the template sandbox and the exact conditions under which the resulting command execution can be reached. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini (SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)
GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances. AI Gateway is a service that gives access to AI-native GitLab Duo features. While GitLab operates its own cloud-based AI Gateway instance used by GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, and GitLab Dedicated, users can also deploy their own self-hosted instances on GitLab Self-Managed through GitLab Duo Self-Hosted. Tracked as CVE-2026-90970, this security flaw stems from an improper neutralization weakness and can let attackers with basic privileges and Duo Agent Platform access execute arbitrary commands on unpatched instances. "GitLab has remediated an issue in the GitLab AI Gateway that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user with Duo Agent Platform access to escape the prompt template sandbox via a specially crafted flow configuration, leading to arbitrary command execution on the AI Gateway," the company explained in a Friday advisory.
Dell has patched two maximum severity vulnerabilities in the Container Storage Modules (CSM) that connect Dell enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes environments.
Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an
Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major attack pathway. Advanced Protection is a
Microsoft has warned of phishing campaigns distributing an installer for the MSP360 Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software under the guise of meeting invitations, PDF-themed lures, software update prompts, and other social-engineering content. "Once executed, the legitimate MSP360 installer, distributed under a deceptive file name established remote management access on affected
Attackers are exploiting a new critical zero-day flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the system companies use to manage their Cisco SD-WAN networks, Cisco said in an advisory on September 30. The flaw, CVE-2026-76504, could allow a remote attacker with no login access to use the Manager's API as the admin user. Fixed releases are available, and there is no workaround. It carries a
ANY.RUN researchers traced a US-focused CSuite phishing campaign across 351 sandbox analyses, with 51% of submissions coming from the United States. Technology, manufacturing, government, and consulting organizations showed the highest exposure. By combining Microsoft 365 session theft with remote-access tool deployment, CSuite can turn a phishing incident into broader account compromise, fraud
Two former members of the United States Air Force were sentenced to a combined 189 months in federal prison for their roles in a multi-year series of business email compromise (BEC) scams and phishing campaigns. According to court documents, 25-year-old Chijioke Timothy Odimegwu and 26-year-old Harafat Mogaji carried out these attacks while stationed at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware. They stole victims' employee email credentials in spamming and phishing campaigns. The defendants then used "spoofed" email addresses that mimicked business partners' emails, along with the credentials, to redirect payments to accounts controlled by accomplices in the United States and abroad. Odimegwu and Mogaji also made financial transactions without the victims' knowledge using their stolen financial information (e.g., account information, personal identification numbers, and credit and debit card numbers) and additional data bought from their partners in crime.
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