Clear Infosec Threat Intelligence Bulletin – Aug 12th, 2026

Cyber Security News

Hugging Face Hack: Lessons for Cyber Defenders

Dark Reading Confidential Episode 20: Expert Rich Mogull reflects on lessons cyber teams should pull from the OpenAI agent’s attack on Hugging Face. Read more

Flaws in Google APK for Python Unlock Agent-to-Agent Attack

Google has fixed the issues, which exploited a trust boundary between two AI agents with different privilege levels to trigger automation that could compromise … Read more

Attackers Exploit N-able Patch Bypass Flaw on RMM Servers

Over the weekend, the vendor discovered another vector of authentication bypass CVE-2026-18577 that gives attackers administrator access. Read more

Anthropic: Claude Attacks Result of Security Gaps Not Model Issues

Last month’s incidents in which the AI model breached real-world systems derived from over-permissioning, especially with Internet access. Read more

Best Practices

Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps

A prominent Norwegian AI researcher on Tuesday posted details about an AI worm that is wreaking havoc in various Microsoft applications, … Read more

A coordinated attack hit 30+ Minnesota water systems Who did it and what does a Rockwell notice add to the picture?

A coordinated cyberattack that targeted more than 30 Minnesota community water systems has alarmed industrial cybersecurity experts, not … Read more

Russian hackers turn Exchange flaw into ‘half-click’ mailbox takeover

A Russia-aligned threat group used a “half-click” exploit against Microsoft Exchange’s Outlook Web Access to install a browser-based back… Read more

Attackers are crafting malicious AI instruction files to turn your agents into quiet criminal helpers

AI agents are increasingly being deployed across the enterprise, a rapid adoption that has significantly broadened the organization’s att… Read more

New Threats and Vulnerabilities

Flying Eagle Android RAT Traces Found on 170 Servers as Source Code Circulates

Source code for the Flying Eagle Android remote access trojan (RAT) framework is circulating through criminal Telegram channels. Hunt.io and independent researc… Read more

Russian Hackers Exploit Microsoft OWA Flaw to Keep Mailbox Access After Credential Rotation

The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this… Read more

Cisco FMC Zero-Day Actively Exploited Static Credentials Could Expose Sensitive Data

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management C… Read more

Three Critical VMware Flaws Allow Auth Bypass Code Execution and VM Escape

Broadcom has released security updates to address multiple security flaws impacting VMware ESX, vCenter, Workstation, and Fusion, three of which have been desig… Read more

Patch Management

Leaked n8n API Tokens Exposed Live Instances to Credential Theft

GitGuardian researchers found 321 n8n instances accepting API tokens exposed in public GitHub commits and demonstrated four ways attackers could use them to acc… Read more

Fake Adobe and Zoom Updates Install ScreenConnect for Persistent Remote Access

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active, multi-wave campaign that employs social engineering lures themed around Adobe and Zoom software u… Read more

Google Password Manager Attacks Could Let Malware Hijack Passkey-Protected Accounts

Malware running as an ordinary user on a Windows machine can sign into a victim’s passkey-protected accounts without a fingerprint, a PIN, or anything at all ap… Read more

Adobe Campaign Classic CVSS 100 Flaw Could Run Code Without User Interaction

Adobe has released security updates to address a maximum-severity security flaw in Campaign Classic (ACC), its enterprise-focused marketing automation platform,… Read more

Claude Code and Gemini CLI Flaws Let a GitHub Issue Reach CI Workflow Secrets

A GitHub issue opened by an account with no repository privileges was enough to execute code on the CI runners behind Anthropic’s and Google’s own coding-agent … Read more

AI and Security

AI struggles to patch vulns without adult supervision

AI models may not be that good at fixing security flaws. Researchers at 1Password’s Off-by-1 Labs analyzed security patches generated by two frontier models – … Read more

Open source project fools AI scrapers with poisoned font

If you don’t want AI scrapers training themselves on your website, there’s a new way to stop them that doesn’t involve server-side blocking or praying they res… Read more