Security Affairs newsletter Round 593 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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PaperCut Flaws Exploited in Attacks on U.S. and European SchoolsBroadcom Patches Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion VM-Escape VulnerabilitiesU.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogCrooks Behind Manchester Airports Group Hack Leaked Data of 8.8 Million PeoplePostgreSQL Hit by 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Allowing Server TakeoverChinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber CampaignGoogle fixes the sixth actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026Dark Web Service Nexus Sells 153M+ Driver’s Licenses2,000 Leaked Documents Reveal How Russia Turns Engineering Students Into GRU Cyber OperatorsOpenAI Astra Brings Autonomous Zero-Day Exploitation to AISonicWall Patches Two New Actively Exploited Zero-Days in SMA 1000 VPNs$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLCIran-linked APT Mirage Kitten Uses Fake Job Tests to Spread MalwareHackers Target Langflow in CVE-2026-0768 AttacksAttackers Access Aesto Health AWS Infrastructure, Exposing 9.5 Million RecordsChaotic Eclipse Releases GenDigital Avast Antivirus ZeroDay PrettyPragueFive Venezuelan Nationals Plead Guilty in Kansas ATM Jackpotting AttemptNorth Korea-linked IT Workers Are Getting Hired Inside Western CompaniesChaotic Eclipse Releases Kaspersky Zero-Day HardBreacherU.S. CISA adds PaperCut NG/MF flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogValleyRAT: When Legitimate Software Becomes a Malware Delivery ToolChina-linked Fire Ant Hides Inside Trusted InfrastructureInfostealers Are Hijacking Claude Sessions and Draining SubscriptionsCritical GiveWP Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands on WordPress ServersExtortion Group FulcrumSec Claims 86GB Manchester Airports Group Data TheftHackers Are Probing PaperCut Servers, and 47% Still Have No Patch

International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime

FulcrumSec claims Manchester Airports hack, theft of 86 GB of data

Aurora ransomware targets ESXi, abuses Cursor Agent for exploitation

FBI investigation leads to five Venezuelan nationals pleading guilty to attempting to jackpot Kansas ATMs

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

Two Nigerian Nationals Extradited from Nigeria to the United States to Face Sextortion Charges in North Carolina and Mississippi

The Town 2025 ticketing data sold as a Ticketmaster breach

Gaming the system: how a Chinese-speaking actor turned Brazilian government sites into an SEO weapon September 2, 2026

Manchester Airports Group Data on 8.8 Million People Leaked After Ransom Refusal

Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities

ASCII smuggling crosses over from AI prompt injection to phishing evasion

Malware

Hackers Steal Claude Login Sessions With Infostealer Malware to Hijack Accounts

Gryxa: The AI-Built Toolkit That Watches How You Remove It

ValleyRAT masquerading as adware

13 Malicious Packagist Themes Deliver iOS Spyware That Steals Crypto Wallet Seeds

Mini Shai-Hulud’s Latest Wave: 280 New Places It Hunts for Your Secrets

Hacking

Eclypsium flags 1,051 CVEs in infrastructure advisories

Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection to Remote Code Execution on GiveWP

Kaspersky zero-day exploit HardBreacher

PrettyPrague: GenDigital Avast Antivirus ZeroDay Elevation of Privileges Vulnerability

Same Target, Different Playbooks: Two Attackers, Two Different Paths to Pwning the AI Stack

Can AI Create PLC Attacks? Yes, But It’s Not That Easy Yet

Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain

FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in Crowdstrike Falcon

Cloud Sync Root RegistrationShieldBreak: Hunting Windows Defender Remediation Abuse and Cloud Files Hijacking

Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day

When Sorting Leads To Confusion

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Pegasus Spyware Infection of Serbian Pro-Democracy Student Activist

Fire Ant Evolves: From Hypervisors to Trusted Infrastructure

Insights into Suspected DPRK Workers: Red Flags to Look Out For

Mirage Kitten targeting aviation and FinTech sectors across the Middle East and Africa with a new malware set

Leaked Russian Cyber-Operations Training Materials

Threat Intelligence Report: University Leak Exposes Russia’s Military Cyber Training Pipeline

Chinese-Speaking Operator Uses AI Agents to Target Government and Education Systems Across Asia

How the Russians Got Inside My Phone

DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors

Cybersecurity

Judge says Pentagon’s measures against Anthropic were ‘illegal and baseless’

How AI could make it harder for governments to use hacking tools

Own a gun? Go to church? Do yoga? AI can find out in seconds

Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards

PostGREShell: The database powering much of the internet had an open door for 12 years

Fighting AI with AI: The US’s New Cyber Rules of Engagement

ATM Flaws Reveal Key Weaknesses in the Software Supply Chain

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Pierluigi Paganini

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