InfoSec Planet
A collection of diverse security content from a curated list of sources. This website also serves as a demo for "worker-planet", the software that powers it.
Friday Squid Blogging: Neon Flying Squid on 21/08/2026
The neon flying squid can fly in formation. The shoal of about 100 squid rose unexpectedly from a patch of the Pacific Ocean around 370 miles from Tokyo and glided near the boat for about 30 metres. The astonished researchers were the first to capture photographs of such a thing, which looked like the early stages of an alien invasion. They were probably neon flying squid (Ommastrephes bartramii), [...]
AI Is Learning to Write Genetic Code on 21/08/2026
This sort of research is both exciting and terrifying: The two models in question were told to generate complete genomes for a viable bacteriophage—a type of virus able to infect and replicate itself inside bacteria, destroying them from the inside. Using an existing bacteriophage as an example—ΦX174 (pronounced “fie-ex-1-7-4”), known for its ability to infect and destroy E [...]
Vanta vs. Drata: The 10 Questions Our CISO Asks GRC Vendors on 21/08/2026
Canary Tokens, Meet AI on 21/08/2026
How To Shut Down CSS Attacks. on 21/08/2026
More Incidents of AIs Going Rogue in Cybersecurity Challenges on 21/08/2026
The AI Security Institute has a new report of AI systems engaging in “unsanctioned behavior”—what I have been calling “genie behavior—while being tested on their cybersecurity capabilities. The incident stemmed from a single evaluation where agents were given a task of solving a cyber security challenge. We ran this challenge 122 times across several models. Our inves [...]
Domainless COOKIEFILE cookie leaks to unrelated IP-literal hosts on 21/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by accl: https://hackerone.com/reports/3952619 [...]
Monero GUI OpenAlias DNSSEC-invalid resolution still writes spoofable address into recipient field on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by lilpeko: https://hackerone.com/reports/3819475 [...]
View-only offline transaction creation bypasses the long-payment-ID privacy block on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by qttps: https://hackerone.com/reports/3686283 [...]
HTML Injection in Transaction Confirmation Dialog via Address Book Description Enables UI Spoofing Before Fund Transfer on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by fg0x0: https://hackerone.com/reports/3679471 [...]
Windows installer grants low-privileged users write access to executable P2Pool directory, enabling local code execution on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by qttps: https://hackerone.com/reports/3619409 [...]
monero:// deeplink parsing accepts tx_amount=(all) and can trigger send-all transaction mode on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by qttps: https://hackerone.com/reports/3648638 [...]
Loss of multisig funds through single malicious participant's deliberate deception on 20/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by k-privacy-enjoyer: https://hackerone.com/reports/3515557 [...]
DDP methods getThreadsList / getThreadMessages leaks private thread content to any authenticated low privilege user (unpatched sibling of #1446767) on 20/08/2026
Rocket.Chat disclosed a bug submitted by iamaangx028: https://hackerone.com/reports/3852135 [...]
Stored HTML Injection (CWE-79) via Livechat Visitor Name on 20/08/2026
Rocket.Chat disclosed a bug submitted by hillng: https://hackerone.com/reports/3872858 [...]
Detailed Timeline of OpenAI’s Cyberattack on Hugging Face on 20/08/2026
OpenAI presented details of its AI’s model’s cyberattack on Hugging Face at Black Hat last week. Simon Willison details the timeline. It’s really interesting to read through—and really impressive cyberoffense work. [...]
I Built a Minecraft Mod That Sees Real Internet Data on 20/08/2026
It's Not Just JavaScript Anymore. on 20/08/2026
Police Are Hiding Their Use of Flock Surveillance Cameras on 20/08/2026
A usage policy for Flock license plate reader cameras tells police not to talk about the cameras: When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for the automated license plate reader cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret: “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE,&# [...]
Web fuzzing for hackers by Ayoub and Orwa Atyat on 20/08/2026
Fuzzing has been around for as long as web applications have. In fact, the term itself was coined back in 1988, when Barton Miller, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, was working over a dial-up connection during a thunderstorm and noticed that the resulting line noise was consistently crashing the UNIX utilities he was running. Web fuzzing is no different. Despite the rise of automated sc [...]
N4D Mesh Controller: New infrastructure, a UPX-packed agent labeled "go-titan," and how to hunt for it on 20/08/2026
Datadog Security Research executed a newer N4D Mesh Controller sample in isolated microVMs, uncovering rotated infrastructure, a UPX-packed go-titan agent, MCP tool abuse in action, and direct runtime evidence of multi-service scanning and persistence. [...]
ICE Collecting DNA Samples on 19/08/2026
ICE collected nearly a million DNA samples last year. [...]
You Can't Turn CSS Off. on 19/08/2026
Putting models to the secure coding test: Plan vs default mode on 19/08/2026
We tested Sonnet 5, Composer 2.5, and GPT 5.5 in plan mode and default mode to see whether plan mode produces measurably more secure code. [...]
Do I Need to Know Programming in 2026? on 18/08/2026
LLMs and Contextual Integrity on 18/08/2026
I have been thinking a lot about AI and integrity. Part of that is contextual integrity. I recently found two papers on the topic. “CIMemories: A Compositional Benchmark for Contextual Integrity of Persistent Memory in LLMs“: Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly use persistent memory from past interactions to enhance personalization and task performance. However, this me [...]
Beyond JavaScript: The Rise of CSS-Based Attacks on 18/08/2026
Stealing Passwords With Just CSS. on 18/08/2026
Blueprint to Making $100K with Caido (Free Bug Bounty Course) on 17/08/2026
The Security Blind Spot Nobody's Talking About with Nidhi Aggarwal on 17/08/2026
AI Malware Gets Weird on 17/08/2026
Ignore Your AI Strategy on 17/08/2026
Your Exposure Backlog Is Growing Right Now on 17/08/2026
Hacking Public Wi-Fi DNS to Steal Credentials on 17/08/2026
Criminals are hacking into public Wi-Fi devices—at hotels, conference centers, and so on—around the world and changing their DNS settings. The goal is to redirect users to fake login pages and steal their credentials. [...]
The Missing Piece in Your Threat Exposure Strategy on 17/08/2026
The Future of Hacking: AI That Never Misses a Vulnerability on 17/08/2026
AI Security Gap Widening: $178M in Annual Losses on 17/08/2026
Securing AI Workloads at Cloud Scale on 17/08/2026
Wallet RPC Restricted-Mode Policy Bypass on 17/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by usagirabbit: https://hackerone.com/reports/3620006 [...]
Restricted RPC Policy Bypass on ZMQ JSON-RPC Allows Unauthenticated Remote Admin Actions on 17/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by usagirabbit: https://hackerone.com/reports/3601469 [...]
AI Exploits Vulnerabilities in Just 2 Hours: Cisco's Omar Santos on Defending at Machine Speed on 17/08/2026
AI Finds Vulnerabilities 10x Faster Than Teams Can Patch Them on 17/08/2026
The OpenAI Story Actually Scares Me on 16/08/2026
Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid on 14/08/2026
Fascinating video about searching for life undersea. The video basically makes the point that our bright white searchlights are scaring everything away, and that red light is more neutral. That, plus bait to attract sea creatures, is teaching us a lot about what’s going on down there. Lots of footage of giant squid, and speculation about the colossal squid. Worth watching. As usual, you can [...]
Upcoming Speaking Engagements on 14/08/2026
This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking, signing books, and participating in panel discussions at LAcon V in Anaheim, California, USA. My full schedule is here. I’m speaking online (via Zoom) at a League of Women Voters event on Tuesday, September 22, 2026, at 5 PM ET. I’m speaking at Elevate Festival in Toronto, Canada. The conference runs September 2 [...]
Soft Skills for the Job Market: Standing Out! on 14/08/2026
TaskProcessing callback authorization bypass allows ex-members to post as Assistant Talk Bot on 14/08/2026
Nextcloud disclosed a bug submitted by kuninogu: https://hackerone.com/reports/3799010 [...]
Windows SSPI connection-pool probe can reuse a connection under the wrong user on 14/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by mr4bugs: https://hackerone.com/reports/3938185 [...]
libcurl cache updates follow symlinks and truncate their targets on 14/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by mr4bugs: https://hackerone.com/reports/3938220 [...]
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out by BrianKrebs on 14/08/2026
It can be daunting to determine who’s responsible for showing ads on the websites we visit, or who’s harvesting data from the mobile apps we use every day. That information is already semi-public, but it is not easily parsed and traditionally much of it has remained walled away in the hands of large advertising platforms. Not anymore: A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds s [...]
Cookie jar load skips public suffix check on PSL builds on 14/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by 1rhino2: https://hackerone.com/reports/3920276 [...]
I HATE overpriced cybersecurity education on 13/08/2026
Phishing Gets Personal on 13/08/2026
Debug Deep Link Abuse Allows Repeated Forced Logout and Application Disruption on 13/08/2026
Yelp disclosed a bug submitted by 0xkarim_dix: https://hackerone.com/reports/3829030 [...]
I Made AI Build a Cybersecurity Mod in Minecraft on 13/08/2026
JaaS: Unauthenticated, cross-tenant outbound SIP calling via JaaS SIP gateway (toll fraud + caller-ID spoofing) on 12/08/2026
8x8 disclosed a bug submitted by offseq: https://hackerone.com/reports/3837634 - Bounty: $500 [...]
I Found an MFA-Bypassing Phishing Kit on the Dark Web on 12/08/2026
I Went to the World's Biggest Hacker Conference (DEFCON VLOG) on 12/08/2026
Can AI invent new attack techniques? New research from James Kettle and PortSwigger Research on 12/08/2026
We already know AI can find vulnerabilities. James Kettle, PortSwigger's Director of Research, wanted to answer a harder question: can an autonomous system invent genuinely new attack techniques? To f [...]
Myndr CORS Misconfiguration on 12/08/2026
Myndr disclosed a bug submitted by hackwithshubh: https://hackerone.com/reports/3930957 [...]
Microsoft Plugs Nearly 400 Security Holes by BrianKrebs on 11/08/2026
Microsoft today released updates to remedy at least 398 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software, including one weakness that is already being actively exploited and two others that were publicly detailed prior to today. Image: Shutterstock, Mallika Home Studio. August’s overstuffed bundle of patch joy from Microsoft did not eclipse its recording break [...]
How Trail of Bits helps verify the integrity of your Signal chats on 11/08/2026
Every Signal chat starts the same way: the client asks the Signal server for the public key associated with your contact’s phone number. But how do you know the server gave you the right key? A compromised server could provide a false public key, allowing the client to encrypt messages to an attacker rather than the intended recipient. Until now, the only way to detect such malfeasance was to veri [...]
This Hacker Trap Was Built by AI on 11/08/2026
Inside H1-030 | HackerOne Live Hacking Event with PayPal in Berlin on 11/08/2026
How To Test Properly For BAC - The OWASP Top 10 Number 1 Exploit on 11/08/2026
CrowdRecon is coming: turning hacker reconnaissance into security intelligence by Greg Jenkins on 10/08/2026
At DEF CON 34, our team introduced something exciting. Something the Intigriti team has been building for months, and our Senior Product Manager, Radu Voloaga, took to the stage in the Bug Bounty Village to give everyone the first real look at CrowdRecon. How CrowdRecon closes the gap It started with a question we kept running into: what happens to all the reconnaissance work hackers do before a v [...]
NEW! [FREE FOR 24H FULL] Postman Course (Music by Nimble) on 09/08/2026
Adding phone number to profile By OTP brute forcing on 08/08/2026
CoinMate.io disclosed a bug submitted by ganesh_reddy: https://hackerone.com/reports/3265780 - Bounty: $100 [...]
URL API: triple-slash parses path segment as hostname on 07/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by thinhlx: https://hackerone.com/reports/3923212 [...]
Learn Fault Injection at DEF CON 2026 on 07/08/2026
RATS Q5 - How Do I Go From Labs To Real Targets on 07/08/2026
[Wii U/3DS/Switch] Improper bounds check in StationURL in all NEX clients leading to remote crash/RCE on 07/08/2026
Nintendo disclosed a bug submitted by jonbarrow: https://hackerone.com/reports/2551512 [...]
Why My 30$ OSCP prep course beats the real deal on 06/08/2026
Canadian Man Pleads Guilty in Snowflake Extortions by BrianKrebs on 06/08/2026
A 26-year-old Canadian man once described as one of the most consequential cybercrime threat actors of 2024 has pleaded guilty to computer fraud and conspiracy to hack and extort more than 165 organizations that used the cloud provider Snowflake. Connor Riley Moucka, of Kitchener, Ontario, also admitted to stealing call and text history records of more than 100 million AT&T customers. A survei [...]
Beyond CVSS: rethinking scoring systems amidst AI Safety and Security by Eleanor Barlow on 06/08/2026
CVSS open framework, rapid recap Stands for Common Vulnerability Scoring System. Owned by a US-based non-profit organization, the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST). The purpose is to help response teams quickly and easily calculate the severity of cybersecurity vulnerabilities based on metrics. Latest version: (4.0) designed to assess multiple environments and dimensio [...]
Unauthenticated RCE in Taskcluster web-server via GraphQL filter argument (sift $where) on 05/08/2026
Mozilla disclosed a bug submitted by griffinf: https://hackerone.com/reports/3782701 - Bounty: $12000 [...]
I’m headed to DEFCON! on 05/08/2026
curl Missing Sec-WebSocket-Accept Verification Enables MITM WebSocket Session Hijacking on 05/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by kiyin: https://hackerone.com/reports/3917775 [...]
A few notes on AWS Nitro Enclaves: KMS integration on 05/08/2026
Nitro Enclaves and Key Management Service (KMS) feel like a natural fit: since the KMS can verify attestation documents generated by the enclaves, developers can offload key management tasks from their applications to the AWS-managed service. But integrating an external service with your trusted enclaves comes with new threats, even if that service comes from the same provider. In this blog post—t [...]
`check_reserve_proof` counts duplicate entries: one output can inflate `total` on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by bebensap: https://hackerone.com/reports/3699522 [...]
`check_reserve_proof` sums RingCT ECDH amounts without checking the output commitment on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by bebensap: https://hackerone.com/reports/3698862 [...]
wallet-rpc crash via malformed /gettransactions response (empty txs vector::front() in check_tx_key / check_tx_proof) on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by bebensap: https://hackerone.com/reports/3693636 [...]
SpendProofV1 txid-substitution: get_spend_proof/check_spend_proof do not verify returned transaction hash on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by bebensap: https://hackerone.com/reports/3700036 [...]
wallet-rpc describe_transfer uses real_output_in_tx_index instead of real_output: cold-wallet pre-sign review shows wrong ring member on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by bebensap: https://hackerone.com/reports/3723315 [...]
`set_daemon` wallet-rpc silently ignores `ssl_allowed_fingerprints` pinning bypassed, walletdaemon MITM on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by benisprlh: https://hackerone.com/reports/3686259 [...]
`relay_tx` wallet-rpc skips `--restricted-rpc` guard and lets any caller corrupt wallet state via attacker-controlled `pending_tx` on 05/08/2026
Monero disclosed a bug submitted by benisprlh: https://hackerone.com/reports/3687543 [...]
Heap use-after-free (write) in mev_forget_socket() via reentrant curl_easy_pause() incomplete fix for CVE-2026-9080 on 04/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by juthawong: https://hackerone.com/reports/3911968 [...]
Case study: How Burp AT helped expose whistleblower reports via a critical vulnerability that was overlooked for years on 04/08/2026
"It feels like I get 10X the productivity on an engagement. The difference is night and day." Profile Ray H. is a Security Analyst at a managed security service provider with over 2500 employees world [...]
Intigriti named new provider for Adobe's Bug Bounty Program by Eleanor Barlow on 04/08/2026
Adobe empowers everyone to create through industry-leading platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity, and personalized customer experiences. Starting September 1, 2026, Intigriti will be the new home of the Adobe Bug Bounty Program. Why Intigriti and Adobe? As AI reshapes how organizations build and ship products, security testing needs to keep pace. Intigriti's global community of [...]
Worm compromises hundreds of popular npm packages on 04/08/2026
On August 4, 2026, several popular npm packages, including 'keyv', were compromised to deliver malware. [...]
GitHub Retired UsernameTakeover From [aws/] on 03/08/2026
AWS VDP disclosed a bug submitted by sh3d0w: https://hackerone.com/reports/3478646 [...]
Cyber Deception Everywhere on 03/08/2026
Unauthenticated Path Traversal (LFI) via /custom-sounds/ when CustomSounds uses FileSystem storage on 03/08/2026
Rocket.Chat disclosed a bug submitted by howtoplay: https://hackerone.com/reports/3514640 [...]
Free AI Hacking Course: Indirect Prompt Injection (+FREE LABS) on 03/08/2026
SMTP CRLF injection in custom SMTP recipient operand allows additional SMTP commands after authentication on 03/08/2026
curl disclosed a bug submitted by dark_river: https://hackerone.com/reports/3911605 [...]
Are you ready for this year's @BugBountyVillage at @DEFCONConference on 03/08/2026
Before the first prompt: Code execution paths in trusted coding-agent projects on 03/08/2026
Learn how trusted coding-agent projects can execute repository-controlled code before the first prompt through Codex MCP configuration and Claude Code environment settings. [...]
Unauthenticated team "income/payments" export ignores donor privacy settings (hide_giving, hide_from_lists) and uses frozen visibility, exposing donat on 01/08/2026
Liberapay disclosed a bug submitted by its9me: https://hackerone.com/reports/3878586 - Bounty: $100 [...]