CrashOne – A Starbucks Story – CVE-2025-24277

A race in osanalyticshelperd’s crash-report creation allowed an attacker to combine sandbox-extension abuse, XPC message manipulation, and a non-atomic rename to place files (including a sudoers entry) as root on macOS, enabling local privilege escalation (CVE-2025-24277) and potential sandbox escape. The issue was fixed by restricting the XPC call with the entitlement com.apple.private.osanalytics.write-logs.allow. #osanalyticshelperd #CVE-2025-24277

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Large-Scale ClickFix Phishing Attacks Target Hotel Systems with PureRAT Malware

A widespread phishing campaign targeting the hospitality industry uses spear-phishing emails impersonating Booking.com to infect hotel systems with PureRAT malware, stealing credentials and personal data. The campaign has been active since April 2025, employing sophisticated social engineering tactics and marketplaces for stolen Booking.com logs. #PureRAT #Booking.com #Expedia #LolzTeam…

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Prompt Injection to RCE in AI Agents

Two AI agents with pre-approved commands can still be exploited via argument injection, enabling remote code execution (RCE) despite human approval. The post outlines antipatterns, real-world attack examples across three platforms, and practical defenses like sandboxing and argument separation.
#argumentinjection #RCE #sandboxing #GTFOBINS #LOLBINS…

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Phishing Campaigns ā€œI Paid Twiceā€ Targeting Booking.com Hotels and Customers

A phishing campaign called “I Paid Twice” targeted hotel establishments by using compromised Booking.com accounts and ClickFix social engineering to deliver PowerShell commands that deploy PureRAT, enabling theft of booking-extranet credentials and subsequent customer-targeted banking phishing. The operation leveraged a redirection/TDS infrastructure, hundreds of malicious domains, and a cybercrime ecosystem selling Booking.com logs and services such as traffers and log checkers. #PureRAT #ClickFix

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GTIG AI Threat Tracker: Advances in Threat Actor Usage of AI Tools

Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) reports that adversaries have progressed from using AI for productivity to deploying novel AI-enabled malware that dynamically alters behavior during execution, exemplified by families like PROMPTFLUX and PROMPTSTEAL. The report documents state-backed and criminal actors misusing Gemini and other LLMs across the attack lifecycle and details mitigations Google has taken, including disabling assets and strengthening model and classifier safeguards. #PROMPTFLUX #PROMPTSTEAL

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10 npm Typosquatted Packages Deploy Multi-Stage Credential H…

Socket’s Threat Research Team discovered 10 typosquatted npm packages that execute a multi-stage credential stealer via npm’s postinstall hook, using four layers of JavaScript obfuscation, a fake CAPTCHA prompt, IP fingerprinting, and a downloaded 24MB PyInstaller data_extracter binary to harvest credentials across Windows, Linux, and macOS. The campaign’s packages (published July 4, 2025) accumulated over 9,900 downloads, contact the npm registry was made for takedown, and the actor registered packages under the alias andrew_r1 (parvlhonor@gmx[.]com). #data_extracter #andrew_r1

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Google’s AI ā€˜Big Sleep’ Finds 5 New Vulnerabilities in Apple’s Safari WebKit

Google’s AI agent Big Sleep uncovered multiple vulnerabilities in Apple’s WebKit, leading to potential crashes and memory corruption in Safari. Apple addressed these issues in the latest updates across various devices and operating systems, highlighting ongoing AI-driven security advancements. #BigSleep #WebKitVulnerabilities…

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