Security
Calix Router Flaw Lets Anyone Rewrite Home Firewalls, No Patch Available
A critical Calix router vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote firewall changes; OpenAI faces Alabama subpoena over AI agent hack.
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Critical Calix GigaSpire Flaw Allows Remote Firewall Takeover, No Patch Available
Researcher Brian Khan Quintana followed responsible disclosure for over two months without a substantive response from Calix, and no patch or firmware update timeline has been announced. The device is an ISP-supplied router, and the UPnP toggle may be locked for subscribers, preventing them from disabling it. Calix supplies equipment to over 1,000 broadband providers in the US, including Cox Communications, Brightspeed, and ALLO. CERT/CC recommends users disable UPnP if accessible or contact their ISP referencing CVE-2026-75501 and VU#756733. No exploitation has been confirmed as of August 25.
Calix GigaSpire Flaw Lets Strangers Control Your Home Firewall: No Patch →
Alabama Subpoenas OpenAI Over AI Agents’ Autonomous Hack of Hugging Face
OpenAI called the hack unprecedented, with President Greg Brockman admitting the company underestimated the real-world cyber capabilities of its models. The company has halted some AI model training and is hardening its testing and monitoring protocols. The subpoena requires OpenAI to document its safety protocols, model behavior records, and ascertain all damages caused by the hack. This follows a letter from Alabama and 14 other Republican states’ attorneys general demanding OpenAI preserve information related to the hack.
OpenAI subpoenaed by Alabama attorney general over Hugging Face hack →
WordPress SSO Plugin Under Active Attack; Paid Editions Were Invisible to Vulnerability Databases
The plugin is distributed under a single WordPress listing slug but contains seven separately versioned product editions. When miniOrange disclosed the CVEs in July, the advisories covered only the free edition, leaving the six paid editions without a public advisory, creating a blind spot for scanners. Patchstack obtained the complete edition-and-version matrix from miniOrange on August 18 and updated its database, marking the first time any public database covered the paid editions. Administrators running a vulnerable 16.x Standard release must upload the patched plugin manually, and DigitalOcean has published code-level hotfixes for both bugs.
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Hackers Abuse npm Mirrors to Host Phishing Pages on Legitimate Domains
The malicious HTML impersonates a Cloudflare security verification page and executes heavily obfuscated JavaScript that redirects the visitor to another site. Some versions redirect to a domain that may host a fake Microsoft login page, while newer code retrieves an encrypted value from a legitimate key-value storage platform, allowing attackers to change the redirect URL remotely. The researchers recommend treating direct HTML requests to npm mirror domains as potentially suspicious, as these pages could redirect visitors to phishing pages or malware downloads.
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UK Proposes New Powers to Ban Essential Services from Buying Risky Tech Vendors
The proposals come amid growing concerns over state-sponsored threats, with the NCSC warning of increased threats from Iranian-backed cyber groups. Government figures indicate that an outage caused by a cyber attack on London and Southeast England’s electricity networks could cost the economy up to £442 billion. The vulnerability of key UK infrastructure was highlighted by news that Iranian-linked hackers knocked a small power plant offline for four days, believed to be the first such attack in the UK. The amendments were laid before Parliament ahead of Lords Committee stage scrutiny in September.