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Citizen Lab Uncovers Covert Exploitation of Global Telecom Networks

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  • Citizen Lab Uncovers Covert Exploitation of Global Telecom Networks
    Citizen Lab has documented covert exploitation of global telecom networks.

    • Global telecommunications companies and infrastructure are affected.
    • Covert surveillance actors are exploiting telecom networks and communications.
    • The activity involves persistent access across telecom infrastructure in multiple countries.
    • Confirmed victims reportedly include companies in 80 countries.
      πŸ“Ž Coverage: citizenlab.ca Β· πŸ‘ via r/netsec
  • ClawHavoc Campaign Turns OpenClaw AI Agents Into Malware Delivery Tools
    Attackers poisoned OpenClaw’s ClawHub registry with malicious skills that delivered infostealers.

    • OpenClaw users, developers, and AI power users were targeted through skills installed from the ClawHub registry.
    • The campaign exposed credentials, browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, developer secrets, SSH keys, cloud credentials, and agent-linked tokens.
    • At least 341 malicious skills were identified, including 335 linked to Atomic macOS Stealer; 1,184 malicious packages were associated with 12 author IDs.
    • Malicious skills used fake prerequisites, ClickFix-style instructions, password-protected archives, Base64-encoded shell commands, PowerShell, Bash, and curl to deliver payloads.
    • Reported indicators include 91.92.242.30, 95.92.242.30, SHA-256 998c38b430097479b015a68d9435dc5b98684119739572a4dff11e085881187e, and SHA-256 17703b3d5e8e1fe69d6a6c78a240d8c84b32465fe62bed5610fb29335fe42283; OpenClaw releases before 2026.1.29 were reportedly affected by CVE-2026-25253.
      πŸ“Ž Coverage: reddit.com Β· πŸ‘ via r/netsec

πŸ”“ CVEs & KEV

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  • CVE-2026-75542 β€” CVSS 8.3 β€” OAuth token exchange grants repository scopes for organizations the principal...

  • CVE-2026-77634 β€” CVSS 8.2 β€” CakePHP: SmtpTransport vulnerable to CRLF header injectionCakePHP is a rapid ...

  • CVE-2026-77567 β€” CVSS 8.1 β€” Filament: App-based MFA can be bypassed when recovery codes are enabledFilame...

  • CVE-2026-19568 β€” CVSS 7.8 β€” SVG File Parsing Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Autodesk 3ds MaxA malicio...

  • CVE-2026-7455 β€” CVSS 7.8 β€” FLT File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in Autodesk 3ds MaxA malic...

  • CVE-2026-16783 β€” CVSS 7.8 β€” ABC File Parsing Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability in Autodesk 3ds MaxA malic...

  • CVE-2026-5006 β€” CVSS 6.8 β€” Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Pol...

  • CVE-2026-75509 β€” CVSS 6.5 β€” joserfc claim-validation bypass via array-typed single-string claims (iss/sub...

πŸ“‹ ADVISORIES

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