A novel AI-driven email attack toolkit named SpamGPT has surfaced on underground hacking forums, promising cybercriminals an all-in-one platform for launching large-scale phishing campaigns. Advertised as an “AI-powered spam-as-a-service” solution, SpamGPT automates compromise of email servers, bypasses major spam filters, and offers marketing-style campaign analytics. Security researchers warn that its user-friendly interface and AI-assisted content generation significantly […]
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a variant of a recently disclosed campaign that abuses the TOR network for cryptojacking attacks targeting exposed Docker APIs.
Akamai, which discovered the latest activity last month, said it’s designed to block other actors from accessing the Docker API from the internet.
The findings build on a prior report from Trend Micro in late June 2025, which
⚠️ One click is all it takes.
An engineer spins up an “experimental” AI Agent to test a workflow. A business unit connects to automate reporting. A cloud platform quietly enables a new agent behind the scenes.
Individually, they look harmless. But together, they form an invisible swarm of Shadow AI Agents—operating outside security’s line of sight, tied to identities you don’t even know exist.
Elastic has disclosed a security incident stemming from a third-party breach at Salesloft Drift, which resulted in unauthorized access to an internal email account containing valid credentials.
While the company’s core Salesforce environment was not impacted, the incident exposed sensitive information contained within a limited number of emails.
The chain of events began on August 26, 2025, when Salesloft Drift publicly disclosed a security incident affecting its platform.
A subsequent in-depth report from Google’s Threat Intelligence Group detailed the threat actor’s activities related to the breach.
As a customer using Drift for certain business applications, Elastic initiated its incident response protocols to investigate any potential impact proactively.
Although Elastic was not directly notified of being affected, its security team launched an immediate investigation to determine if any company or customer data was exposed.
Scope Of The Impact
Elastic’s investigation confirmed that its Salesforce environment was not compromised. However, the team discovered that a single email account had been exposed through the “Drift Email” integration.
This exposure may have granted an unauthorized actor read-only access to emails received in that specific inbox.
After conducting a scan of the inbox’s contents, security personnel identified a small number of inbound emails that included potentially valid credentials.
In response to this discovery, Elastic notified the customers who were potentially affected through existing support channels.
The company has stated that any customer who did not receive a direct notification was not identified as being impacted by this credential leak.
Immediately after learning of the Drift incident, Elastic’s Information Security team took decisive action to contain the threat and assess the damage.
The team launched a comprehensive investigation, reviewing access logs, network activity, and system configurations to determine the extent of the data exposure.
A critical first step was to disable all Drift integrations within Elastic’s environment, thereby eliminating any further risk from the compromised third-party platform.
Concurrently, the team monitored open-source intelligence for Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) and coordinated with Drift’s security team to gather additional information.
Elastic has affirmed its commitment to transparency and protecting customer data, and its team continues to monitor for new information related to the event.
Confirmed victims of this supply chain attack include:
Palo Alto Networks: The cybersecurity firm confirmed the exposure of business contact information and internal sales data from its CRM platform.
Zscaler: The cloud security company reported that customer information, including names, contact details, and some support case content, was accessed.
Google: In addition to being an investigator, Google confirmed a “very small number” of its Workspace accounts were accessed through the compromised tokens.
Cloudflare: Cloudflare has confirmed a data breach where a sophisticated threat actor accessed and stole customer data from the company’s Salesforce instance.
PagerDuty has confirmed a security incident that resulted in unauthorized access to some of its data stored in Salesforce.
Tenable has confirmed a data breach that exposed the contact details and support case information of some of its customers.
Qualys has confirmed it was impacted by a widespread supply chain attack that targeted the Salesloft Drift marketing platform, resulting in unauthorized access to a portion of its Salesforce data.
Dynatrace has confirmed it was impacted by a third-party data breach originating from the Salesloft Drift application, resulting in unauthorized access to customer business contact information stored in its Salesforce CRM.
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The Akamai Hunt Team has uncovered a new strain of malware that targets exposed Docker APIs with expanded infection capabilities. First observed in August 2025 within Akamai’s honeypot infrastructure, this variant diverges from the June 2025 Trend Micro report by blocking other attackers from accessing the Docker API and delivering a modular payload rather than […]
A sophisticated new cybercrime toolkit named SpamGPT is enabling hackers to launch massive and highly effective phishing campaigns by combining artificial intelligence with the capabilities of professional email marketing platforms.
Marketed on the dark web as a “spam-as-a-service” platform, SpamGPT automates nearly every aspect of fraudulent email operations, significantly lowering the technical barrier for criminals.
The platform’s interface mimics a legitimate marketing service, offering a suite of tools designed for illegal activities.
It features an AI-powered, encrypted framework, along with an AI marketing assistant that helps attackers create and optimize their malicious campaigns.
The creators promote it as an all-in-one solution that blurs the line between commercial marketing software and weaponized automation.
SpamGPT – AI-powered Email Attack Tool
SpamGPT’s dark-themed user interface provides a comprehensive dashboard for managing criminal campaigns.
It includes modules for setting up SMTP/IMAP servers, testing email deliverability, and analyzing campaign results, features typically found in Fortune 500 marketing tools but repurposed for cybercrime.
The platform gives attackers real-time, agentless monitoring dashboards that provide immediate feedback on email delivery and engagement.
SpamGPT Interface
At the core of the platform is an AI assistant, branded “KaliGPT,” which is integrated directly into the dashboard.
This tool can generate persuasive phishing email content, craft convincing subject lines, and even offer advice on targeting specific audiences.
Attackers no longer need strong writing skills; they can simply prompt the AI to create scam templates for them.
The toolkit’s emphasis on scale is equally concerning, as it promises guaranteed inbox delivery to popular providers like Gmail, Outlook, and Microsoft 365 by abusing trusted cloud services such as Amazon AWS and SendGrid to mask its malicious traffic.
One of SpamGPT’s key selling points is its advanced feature set for evading detection and automating infrastructure management.
For a price of $5,000, the toolkit includes a training program on “SMTP cracking mastery,” which teaches users how to compromise or create an unlimited supply of high-quality SMTP servers for sending spam.
This empowers even low-skilled actors to access the infrastructure needed for large-scale attacks.
SpamGPT notes
The platform facilitates advanced spoofing techniques, allowing attackers to customize email headers and impersonate trusted brands or domains.
By using valid SMTP credentials and forged sender details, these emails can bypass basic authentication checks like SPF and DKIM, especially if the target organization has not enforced a strict DMARC policy.
SpamGPT further streamlines operations with a built-in utility for bulk-checking SMTP and IMAP accounts, ensuring credentials are valid before a campaign begins.
It also automates inbox placement tests by sending emails to designated accounts and checking whether they land in the inbox or spam folder, allowing attackers to fine-tune their content for maximum effectiveness.
By packaging a powerful suite of features behind a user-friendly graphical interface, SpamGPT dramatically lowers the entry barrier for conducting sophisticated phishing campaigns.
What once required significant technical expertise can now be executed by a single operator with a ready-made toolkit.
The rise of such AI-driven platforms signals a new evolution in cybercrime, where automation and intelligent content generation make attacks more scalable, convincing, and difficult to detect.
To counter this emerging threat, organizations must harden their email defenses. Enforcing strong email authentication protocols such as DMARC, SPF, and DKIM is a critical first step to make domain spoofing more difficult.
Furthermore, enterprises should deploy AI-powered email security solutions capable of detecting the subtle linguistic patterns and technical signatures of AI-generated phishing content.
As attackers leverage AI, defenders must do the same, combining advanced technology with threat intelligence to stay ahead of the curve.
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It’s budget season. Once again, security is being questioned, scrutinized, or deprioritized.
If you’re a CISO or security leader, you’ve likely found yourself explaining why your program matters, why a given tool or headcount is essential, and how the next breach is one blind spot away. But these arguments often fall short unless they’re framed in a way the board can understand and appreciate.
A new technique to exploit a complex use-after-free (UAF) vulnerability in the Linux kernel successfully bypasses modern security mitigations to gain root privileges.
The method targets CVE-2024-50264, a difficult-to-exploit race condition bug in the AF_VSOCK subsystem that was recognized with a Pwnie Award for its complexity. The vulnerability, introduced in Linux v4.8, presents significant challenges for exploitation.
According to Alexander Popov, an unprivileged user can trigger the bug, but it comes with severe limitations, including an unstable race condition, an extremely short time window for memory corruption, and multiple ways for the kernel to crash during the attempt.
The original exploit strategy was highly complex, involving large-scale memory sprays and advanced techniques like SLUBStick and Dirty Pagetable.
Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Vulnerability
Seeking a simpler path, the researcher devised a new approach centered on the msg_msg kernel object. The core of the new method is a technique that allows for the corruption of an msg_msg object without causing the kernel to hang.
Typically, a UAF write on this object would fail because a pointer field, m_list.prev, would be non-zero, causing a system hang when the kernel tries to acquire a spinlock.
The researcher’s solution involves a clever manipulation of the message queue:
The message queue is filled almost to capacity, leaving only a few bytes of free space.
The exploit then attempts to send the target msg_msg objects. Because the queue is full, the kernel allocates the objects but blocks the msgsnd() system call, forcing it to wait for space.
While the system call is blocked, the UAF is triggered, corrupting fields within the waiting msg_msg object.
Finally, space is freed in the message queue, allowing the blocked system call to resume. The kernel then proceeds to add the corrupted msg_msg object to its queue, conveniently fixing the corrupted list pointers in the process and avoiding a crash.
This technique effectively creates a reliable exploit primitive from a UAF write, even under difficult conditions, without needing a prior kernel information leak.
Bypassing Kernel Defenses
To successfully execute the attack, several other hurdles had to be overcome.
The researcher used a cross-cache attack to replace the freed virtio_vsock_sock object with the msg_msg object, navigating around kernel hardening features like CONFIG_RANDOM_KMALLOC_CACHES. The UAF write also occurred too quickly for this attack to work reliably.
To solve this, a technique was used to slow down the responsible kernel worker by overwhelming it with notifications from timerfd and epoll instances, widening the race window significantly, Alexander said.
This msg_msg corruption was used to achieve an out-of-bounds read, leaking kernel memory that included the address of the process’s credentials (struct cred).
With this information, a second UAF was performed against a pipe_buffer object to gain arbitrary address read and write capabilities.
This allowed the attacker to directly modify the process credentials and escalate privileges to root, completing the data-only attack.
The entire exploit development process was refined using kernel-hack-drill, a custom testing environment for experimenting with kernel exploit primitives in a controlled manner.
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Cybersecurity researchers at FortiGuard Labs have uncovered a sophisticated phishing campaign that deploys the MostereRAT remote access trojan to compromise Windows systems. The malware leverages advanced evasion techniques and installs legitimate remote access tools like AnyDesk and TightVNC to maintain persistent, covert access to infected machines. The attack begins with carefully crafted phishing emails targeting […]
Jaguar Land Rover’s UK factories will remain closed until at least Wednesday as the company continues to recover from a cyberattack that struck its systems on 31 August. The carmaker shut down its IT networks in response to the breach, halting production at its Halewood and Solihull plants, Wolverhampton engine facility, and sites in Slovakia, […]
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