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Daily Recap, critical flaws in Elementor Pro, Cisco Crosswork/Secure Workload, and MLflow are being actively abused or patched, enabling RCE and potential compromise of WordPress and enterprise environments, while additional issues allow unauthenticated PHP uploads through another Elementor Pro weakness. Clop’s PTC zero-day campaign continues with further impact on PTC products, and separate reports highlight AI security policy momentum, OpenAI model safeguards, major breaches at Sakura Internet and CareCloud, and threat activity including SilkParasite RATs and Spectre data leakage from Cloudflare Workers.
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#ElementorPro #CiscoCrosswork #SecureWorkload #MLflow #RCE #WordPress #Clop #PTC #Windchill #FlexPLM #OpenAI #Sandboxing #SakuraInternet #CareCloud #SilkParasite #Dahua #CloudflareWorkers #Spectre #JWT #MSPs #TinaPeters
App Exploits
- Critical flaws in Elementor Pro, Cisco Crosswork/Secure Workload, and MLflow are being actively abused or patched, with attackers able to gain RCE or compromise WordPress and enterprise systems – Elementor Pro, Cisco Patches, MLflow Warns
- Unauthenticated attackers can upload PHP and execute code via another Elementor Pro flaw affecting WordPress sites – PHP Upload
- Clop‘s PTC zero-day campaign continues to unfold, with more victim impact emerging from attacks on Windchill and FlexPLM – Clop PTC
AI Security
- AI is moving toward being treated as a potential critical infrastructure sector as policymakers weigh new protections and oversight – AI Sector
- OpenAI rolled out tighter model safeguards, including sandboxing, 30-minute alerts, and training pauses to improve security – OpenAI Security
- AI-powered threats are now being used against Siemens PLCs in U.S. critical infrastructure, prompting warnings from CISA and other agencies – PLC Warnings, AI Targeting, Water Threat
- An AI-assisted tool helped harden a satellite communications system after the 2022 Russian hacking incident, showing practical defensive uses for AI – Satellite Defense
Data Breaches
- Sakura Internet disclosed a breach exposing data from up to 1.36 million accounts in Japan – Sakura Breach
- CareCloud reported a healthtech breach affecting 3.7 million patients, underscoring the ongoing pressure on healthcare data – CareCloud Breach
Threat Campaigns
- A rogue ransomware affiliate is impersonating a recovery firm to steal victim payments, adding a new fraud layer to the ransomware ecosystem – Rogue Ransomware
- SilkParasite is targeting Central Asian governments with five new RATs in an espionage campaign – SilkParasite RATs
- Hackers compromised 14,500 Dahua web cameras over a 35-day campaign, highlighting large-scale IoT abuse – Dahua Cameras
- Cloudflare Workers were shown vulnerable to a Spectre attack that leaked JWT data at 12 bits/second from co-located workloads – Spectre Leak
Phishing & Defense
- MSPs are being urged to use additional detection methods to catch phishing attacks that slip past email filters – Phishing Catching
- A California county’s plan to bring Tina Peters into election operations is drawing attention amid ongoing election-security scrutiny – Election Move
- CodeSecCon is spotlighting secure coding and application defense in a virtual event for developers and security teams – CodeSecCon