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Ghostjacking Uses Poisoned Logs to Hijack AI Agents

๐Ÿ’ฅ BREACHES & INCIDENTS

  • Croatia Arrests Serbian Businessman Suspected of Hacking State Systems Croatia arrested a Serbian cybersecurity businessman suspected of hacking Croatian state systems.
    • The case affects Croatia's Interior and Finance ministries, health and pension funds, HAKOM and REGOS.
    • Police suspect Georgije V., 33, owner of Novi Sad cybersecurity firm Elite Security Systems, of unauthorized access and personal-data misuse.
    • The intrusions reportedly began in April 2026 and targeted multiple government systems.
    • Investigators say the activity was routed through servers in Sweden and Belize using Serbian IP addresses. ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: balkaninsight.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via @campuscodi@mastodon.social

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ RESEARCH & DEEP DIVES

  • Ghostjacking Uses Poisoned Logs to Hijack AI Agents Tenet researchers demonstrated attacks that hijack AI agents through poisoned logs and alerts.

    • Cloudflare, Datadog, and Sentry users are exposed to the attack pattern.
    • AI agents can alter DNS, execute code, steal cloud credentials, and run attacker-controlled fixes.
    • Attackers plant instructions in blocked-request logs, fake alerts, or crafted error reports.
    • The technique succeeded against Claude Code 9 times out of 10 in testing.
    • Tenet found more than 2,700 exposed Datadog front-end keys that could help attackers plant alerts. ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: securityweek.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via Dark Reading
  • Aeternum Uses Polygon Smart Contracts for Decentralized Botnet C2 Aeternum uses Polygon smart contracts for botnet command and control.

    • Organizations with systems infected by the Aeternum botnet loader are affected.
    • The loader uses Polygon blockchain smart contracts for decentralized C2 infrastructure.
    • The blockchain-based C2 also enables payload execution. ๐Ÿ“„ Source: ethereum.org ยท ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: unit42.paloaltonetworks.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via Palo Alto Unit 42

๐Ÿ”“ CVEs & KEV

  • CVE-2026-72911 โ€” CVSS 9.9 โ€” ERPNext: Possibility of server-side template injection due to missing validat...
  • CVE-2026-48161 โ€” CVSS 9.3 โ€” react18-use was vulnerable to malicious code execution via compromised commit...
  • CVE-2026-48160 โ€” CVSS 9.3 โ€” react-tracked was vulnerable to malicious code execution via compromised comm...
  • CVE-2025-30237 โ€” CVSS 8.7 โ€” Authentication Bypass via Broken Access Control in Web Server in Multiple TP-...
  • CVE-2025-30241 โ€” CVSS 8.6 โ€” OS Command Injection in Web Interface in Multiple TP-Link Aginet DevicesCerta...
  • CVE-2025-30238 โ€” CVSS 8.6 โ€” Privilege Escalation via Improper Authorization in User Management in multipl...
  • CVE-2025-30239 โ€” CVSS 8.5 โ€” Sensitive Data Exposure due to Hardcoded Cryptographic Keys in Multiple TP-Li...
  • CVE-2026-18947 โ€” CVSS 8.5 โ€” Feast Authorization Bypass: DoS via Materialization (CVE-2026-18947)
  • CVE-2026-8718 โ€” CVSS 8.4 โ€” Out-of-bounds write in DTLS peer Connection ID getsockopt (TLS_DTLS_PEER_CID...
  • CVE-2026-72915 โ€” CVSS 7.5 โ€” Mastodon: Personally-identifying information disclosure due to incorrect acce...
  • CVE-2026-72914 โ€” CVSS 7.5 โ€” Mastodon: Exhausting data by an unauthenticated request to the admin retentio...
  • CVE-2026-72913 โ€” CVSS 7.3 โ€” Kitty: Command injection into the child shell via chained @kitty-echo + @kitt...
  • CVE-2026-72910 โ€” CVSS 7.1 โ€” ERPNext: Unauthorised modification of master data due to missing validationER...
  • CVE-2026-72916 โ€” CVSS 6.3 โ€” Mastodon: SSRF Protection Bypass via IPv4-compatible IPv6 AddressesMastodon i...

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