Ransomware scum, other crims exploit 4 old Microsoft bugs
… CVE-2023-36424 , a Windows Common Log File System Driver flaw that allows privilege escalation. …
… CVE-2023-36424 , a Windows Common Log File System Driver flaw that allows privilege escalation. …
… As Childs notes , it's "an attack scenario we're likely to see more often." This bug requires network access to exploit, but no user interaction or privilege escalation. …
… This allowed it to relaunch the application with root privileges and run the stop/disable steps on its own. …
… As Briski observed, "Claws are exciting but they're risky too, because they could access sensitive data, misuse connected tools, or escalate privileges autonomously." MORE CONTEXT AI takes on Robotron: 2084, the original robot uprising simulator AI finally delivers those elusive productivity gains.… …
… It autonomously obtained local privilege escalation exploits on Linux and other operating systems by exploiting subtle race conditions and KASLR-bypasses. …
… While the CVE record credits "Nicholas Carlini using Claude, Anthropic" with finding and reporting this bug - not Glasswing, specifically - Anthropic's blog last week namedropped CVE-2026-4747 , and described it thus: "Mythos Preview fully autonomously identified and then exploited a 17-year-old re… …
… Once they were inside networks, China’s bots found and abused valid credentials, escalated privileges, and moved laterally. …
… Finally, the attackers abuse CVE-2025-43520 to escalate privileges in the kernel and inject in-memory JavaScript implants into other system processes to extract sensitive data from the Apple device. …