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Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk

Moltbook’s agents sat at that bridge, carrying credentials for their host platform and for the outside services their users had wired them into, in a place that neither platform owner had line of sight into. Most SaaS access reviews still examine one application at a time, which is the blind spot attackers are learning to target.

How Toxic Combinations Form

Toxic combinations are rarely the product of a single bad decision. They appear when an AI agent, an integration, or an MCP server bridges two or more applications through OAuth grants, API scopes, or tool-use chains, and each side of the bridge looks fine on its own because the bridge itself is what no one reviewed.

New Mirai campaign exploits RCE flaw in EoL D-Link routers

A new Mirai-based malware campaign is actively exploiting CVE-2025–29635, a high-severity command-injection vulnerability affecting D-Link DIR-823X routers, to enlist devices into the botnet.

CVE-2025–29635 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on remote devices by sending a POST request to a vulnerable endpoint, triggering remote command execution (RCE).

Akamai’s SIRT, which detected the Mirai campaign in March 2026, reports that, although the flaw was first disclosed 13 months ago by security researchers Wang Jinshuai and Zhao Jiangting, this is the first time in-the-wild active exploitation has been observed.

Kyber ransomware gang toys with post-quantum encryption on Windows

A new Kyber ransomware operation is targeting Windows systems and VMware ESXi endpoints in recent attacks, with one variant implementing Kyber1024 post-quantum encryption.

Cybersecurity firm Rapid7 retrieved and analyzed two distinct Kyber variants in March 2026 during an incident response. Both variants were deployed on the same network, with one targeting VMware ESXi and the other focusing on Windows file servers.

“The ESXi variant is specifically built for VMware environments, with capabilities for datastore encryption, optional virtual machine termination, and defacement of management interfaces,” explains Rapid7.

The US Army has decided to create a “autonomous warfare” command in the Western Hemisphere

The commander of the U.S. Southern Command, Marine General Francis Donovan, has ordered the formation of a new command. This command, it turns out, is the so-called “autonomous warfare command” (SAWC).

The purpose of creating SAWC is stated as supporting the priorities of the US President’s National Security Strategy, the key directions of the Secretary of Defense’s National Defense Strategy, and the imperatives of SOUTHCOM (US Southern Command) itself.

Fecal Microbiota Transplant and Multidrug-Resistant Organism Decolonization in Gastrointestinal Disease: A Randomized Clinical Trial

A randomized clinical trial evaluated if fecal microbiota transplant (FMT) is effective in achieving gut decolonization of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) and reducing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) gene abundance in patients with gastrointestinal (GI) diseases.

Among 114 adults, a single FMT session did not significantly increase rates of MDRO decolonization or reduce antimicrobial resistance gene abundance compared to sham intervention. However, FMT was associated with increased bacterial diversity and enrichment with bacteria capable of producing short-chain fatty acids. No significant safety concerns were observed.

These findings indicate that while a single FMT session does not support routine use for MDRO decolonization in GIDisease, microbiome changes warrant further research.

This randomized clinical trial assesses the efficacy of fecal microbiota transplant in causing multidrug-resistant organism decolonization and decreasing antimicrobial resistance genes in patients with gastrointestinal diseases.

A skin-hypothalamus axis couples heat stress and metabolic dysfunction

Now online! Heat stress activates a skin-hypothalamus axis via KLK14-dependent epigenetic reprogramming of LRRC7⁺ astrocytes, thereby exacerbating diet-induced metabolic dysfunction. Vitamin A reduces KLK14 levels and mitigates metabolic impairment in both mice and humans.

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