PAN-OS

Session Hijacking and Developer Tool Poisoning Collapse Authentication Trust This week, attackers proved that multi-factor authentication is no longer a reliable gatekeeper. Campaigns like Tycoon 2FA and Chinese-language PhaaS platforms intercept one-time passwords in real time and steal session tokens to maintain persistent access, while infostealers like EKZ Infostealer harvest browser cookies to bypass authentication entirely. Even when victims reset passwords and revoke sessions, attackers retain access through hidden device registrations — meaning standard incident response playbooks are now incomplete. Developers remain the preferred entry point for supply chain compromise. The Glassworm botnet was disrupted after hiding malware in VSCode extensions and npm packages, while the Megalodon campaign poisoned GitHub Actions workflows across 5,500 repositories. A malicious Sicoob.Sdk NuGet package stole banking certificates from Brazilian developers, and North Korea's Lazarus group compromised the widely used axios npm library — a single attack touching millions of downstream applications. Organizations must move beyond password-and-MFA reliance: adopt hardware security keys, shorten session lifetimes, delete attacker-registered devices before resetting credentials, and audit developer toolchains and CI/CD pipelines for tampering.

2026-05-133 minCERT-EUcritical

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed a critical buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300, CVSS 9.3) in the PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal. This flaw allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on affected PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls, with limited active exploitation already observed in the wild.

2026-05-134 minCanadian Centre for Cyber Securitycritical

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security released a daily digest highlighting three security advisories. The most critical is an actively exploited, unauthenticated buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-0300) affecting the Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS User-ID Authentication Portal. Additional routine security updates were announced for Google Chrome and VMware Tanzu GemFire Management Console.

2026-05-133 minCISAhigh

CISA has added CVE-2026-0300, an out-of-bounds write vulnerability affecting Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog due to evidence of active exploitation. Organizations are strongly urged to prioritize remediation to reduce exposure to cyberattacks.

AI Rush Opens New Attack Paths as Trusted Cloud Services Fuel Phishing The rush to adopt artificial intelligence is giving attackers two new advantages: convincing lures to trick users and poorly secured infrastructure to exploit. This week, multiple campaigns used fake websites for the Claude AI assistant to infect victims with password-stealing malware, while researchers revealed that commercial robots and AI connection protocols contain critical flaws that let hackers hijack them. Because organizations are deploying AI tools faster than they can secure them, attackers are finding easy entry points into corporate networks. In parallel, phishing campaigns are increasingly hijacking trusted cloud services like Amazon's email platform and Vercel's AI-powered website builder to send messages that bypass security filters entirely. A massive campaign targeting US employees used fake HR reviews to steal login sessions even when multi-factor authentication was enabled, and the breach of the Canvas learning platform exposed data on 275 million people that can now be used for highly convincing follow-up scams. These trends together suggest that traditional defenses are losing effectiveness because attackers are hiding inside the systems we already trust. Organizations should immediately patch the actively exploited Palo Alto Networks and Ivanti vulnerabilities flagged by CISA this week, require phishing-resistant authentication methods, and treat every AI tool and robot connected to their network as a high-risk device that needs strict monitoring.