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OpenAI Agent Hacked Australian Government Website

An OpenAI AI agent breached an Australian government website, while RemControl trojan targets banks across Europe and the Middle East.

๐Ÿ’ฅ BREACHES & INCIDENTS

๐Ÿ•ต๏ธ RESEARCH & DEEP DIVES

  • New RemControl Android banking trojan targets banks in Europe, Middle East, Canada
    Group-IB has discovered RemControl, a new Android banking trojan whose infrastructure was partly built with AI assistance.

    • Targets retail banking customers across Italy, France, Spain, Poland, Portugal, Canada, and GCC states, with 30+ confirmed phishing overlay targets
    • Abuses Android's Accessibility Service to inject phishing overlays, stream screens, log keystrokes, and give operators full remote control of infected devices
    • Distributed via fake Google Play Store pages impersonating the TVTap IPTV app, with malvertising as a confirmed delivery channel
    • Operates as a Malware-as-a-Service platform with affiliate tracking; dropper blocks Play Protect via a local VPN service and uses unique per-install signing certificates
    • C2 address resolved through an encrypted Telegram dead-drop; AI assistant responses and Russian-language comments found in operator infrastructure, with actor tracked as UNKK
    Sources ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: group-ib.com ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via @campuscodi@mastodon.social
  • Loopjacking research shows AI agent human-approval flows can be hijacked to authorize different operations
    New research shows human-in-the-loop approvals in AI agent frameworks can be hijacked so users authorize a different operation than the one executed.

    • Affects AI agent products using human-in-the-loop approval, including Agno AgentOS, LangGraph Agent Server, OpenClaw, and OpenAI Agents SDK
    • Loopjacking: a human approves operation A, but the implementation uses that decision for a materially different operation B
    • Two variants: representation-based attacks omit or misrepresent B at approval time, and post-approval state-substitution replaces approved A with B in mutable workflow state
    • Post-approval substitution reproduced in seven Agno AgentOS releases up to 3.0.9 and 12 LangGraph Agent Server versions up to 0.14.0; representation mismatch reproduced in OpenClaw 2026.2.23 but rejected in 2026.2.24
    • OpenAI Agents SDK 0.22.0 and 0.22.2 serve as negative controls, preserving exact per-call binding and rejecting mutated operations
    Sources ๐Ÿ“Ž Coverage: arxiv.org ยท ๐Ÿ‘ via r/netsec
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๐Ÿ”“ CVEs & KEV

  • CVE-2026-6730 โ€” IBM Concert โ€” CVSS 9.8 โ€” IBM Concert Local Buffer Overflow Enables Arbitrary Code Execution

  • CVE-2026-6928 โ€” IBM Concert โ€” CVSS 9.8 โ€” IBM Concert Use-After-Free Enables Arbitrary Code Execution

  • CVE-2026-70125 โ€” Microsoft 365 Apps for Enterprise โ€” CVSS 8.8 โ€” Microsoft Outlook Remote Code Execution VulnerabilityMicrosoft Outlook Remote...

  • CVE-2026-82370 โ€” Brocade SANnav โ€” CVSS 8.6 โ€” Unauthenticated remote command injection in the Brocade SANnav orchestrator H...

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