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Three Critical Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities Disclosed in Hashcat — Penetration Testing Toolchain at Risk
Security researchers have disclosed three buffer overflow vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-42482, CVE-2026-42483, CVE-2026-42484) in Hashcat, the widely-used open-source password recovery and penetration testing tool. The flaws can be triggered via maliciously crafted hash files or wordlists and may allow code execution in environments where Hashcat processes untrusted input — including shared red team infrastructure and automated password auditing pipelines.
AI Agents Can Autonomously Compromise Cloud Infrastructure With Minimal Human Oversight, Research Finds
New academic research demonstrates that AI agents equipped with common cloud security tools can autonomously identify, chain, and exploit misconfigurations in production-like cloud environments — achieving lateral movement, privilege escalation, and data exfiltration in multi-step attack sequences without human guidance. The findings have direct implications for red team methodologies, cloud security posture management, and the adversarial use of AI-assisted attack tooling.