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Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has discovered a new vulnerability (CVE-2026-25611 with a “High” severity rating of 7.5 out of 10) in all MongoDB versions with compression enabled (version 3.4+, enabled by default since version 3.6), including MongoDB Atlas. The vulnerability can enable a threat actor to crash any MongoDB server. MongoDB Atlas clusters are not internet-reachable by default.

In 2020, the SolarWinds compromise showed how far attackers can go when they look legitimate. Instead of breaking in loudly, threat actors tampered with trusted software updates and gained access that appeared routine to many defenses. The U.S. government later assessed that roughly 18,000 customers installed affected Orion updates, and a smaller subset experienced follow-on intrusion activity, often discovered only after time had passed.

Encrypted data has a shelf life, and for many organizations it must remain secret for years. The post-quantum risk is not a dramatic collapse of encryption, but a quieter threat: attackers harvesting encrypted traffic today so they can decrypt it in the future. That is why post-quantum readiness is increasingly a board and CEO-level responsibility, with the CISO leading execution, because quantum risk threatens long-term business stability, compliance expectations, and trust.

AI agents aren’t applications. They’re employees. So why are we treating them like applications? AI agents don’t behave like classic applications. They access systems. They make decisions. They operate continuously. They interact with humans and other systems without being explicitly triggered each time. That’s not automation. That’s not scripts. That’s a digital worker.

Cato CTRL’s Vitaly Simonovich (senior security researcher) has identified a threat actor selling root shell access to a UK-based automation company through a compromised AI personal assistant based on OpenClaw.

On a quiet Tuesday morning, Jerry, a fictional system administrator, logged in as usual. While testing a new integration script, he visited a documentation page on an unfamiliar domain. It looked harmless and loaded without issue, but behind the scenes, Jerry’s laptop began making a series of small outbound requests to several low-reputation domains. None of these connections were malicious enough to be blocked, yet the pattern resembled early-stage domain-flux activity.

Jeremy, the Head of IT, thought it was a normal Monday until his help desk was overwhelmed with login complaints. 37 employees couldn’t log in. Password resets were happening that nobody could explain, and some devices seemed to vanish from the identity directory. The worst part was that the identity logs did not show a clear break-in. There was no obvious malware and no dramatic spike, only routine-looking admin activity.

Cato CTRL has identified a previously undocumented malware loader we track as “Foxveil.” We observed evidence that the malware campaign has been active since August 2025, and we observed two distinct variants (v1 and v2). Foxveil behaves like a modern initial-stage loader: it establishes an initial foothold, frustrates analysis, and retrieves next-stage payloads from threat actor-controlled staging hosted on Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, and, in some cases, Discord attachments.