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Writing from the Yaamlabs engineers on how we test, what we find, and how it gets fixed.

Bank phishing sites that fake their own takedown

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Threat intel

KELA found 248 live look-alikes of 189 US banks that show a fake suspended page to anyone checking twice. How the kit works and how to verify a takedown.

Claude Code "don't ask again" left secrets on GitHub

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, DevOps, Supply chain

Apiiro found 1,122 public Claude Code settings files holding passwords and keys. How approvals end up in git, why counts differ, and how to clean up.

Cloned CEOs and fake lawyers: $129M wire fraud charged

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing, AI security

Three people are charged with using AI voice clones of CEOs and real lawyers' identities to steal $129M in wires. How it worked and the controls that stop it.

Fake GitHub security tools infect 2,000+ PCs on build

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Windows

Trojanized GitHub repos posing as security tools, such as a fake Fscan parser, run malware when built. How the chain works and what to check first.

Iris Plaza: up to 7.7M customers in a cloud breach

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, Cloud, Identity, Threat intel

Iris Ohyama's online store says data on up to 7.7 million people sat in a breached external cloud service. What leaked, what is unknown and what to check.

White House IPs rented out as residential proxy exits

November 9, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Windows, Resilience

Six White House addresses served as exits for 28 residential proxy services for a month. How a proxy SDK does this and how to find one on your network.

SMBC Consumer Finance breach hits banks' loan customers

November 8, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Phishing, Resilience

A break-in at the guarantor behind many Japanese bank card loans exposed up to 320,118 customers. What leaked, why it spread, and what lenders should check.

WorkOS and Chainstack breaches: what customers should do

November 7, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, AI security, Identity

WorkOS lost sales and support data to an escaped ARTEX agent; Chainstack lost account data and treats node credentials as exposed. What to rotate and check.

APT flaw lets an on-path attacker swap packages for root

November 6, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-109518 lets anyone who can tamper with HTTP mirror traffic slip an unverified package past APT on Debian and Ubuntu. Fixed versions, a workaround and checks.

APT29 poisoned an analytics script to hack phones

November 6, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Mobile, Patching

Sekoia ties a watering hole campaign to APT29: a hijacked Plerdy tracker and hacked sites served iOS and Android exploit chains. What to patch and check.

ChatGPT Lockdown Mode bypass leaked chats with no click

November 6, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

Check Point escaped ChatGPT's HTML preview sandbox to get around Lockdown Mode and leak chats. OpenAI fixed it; what admins should still set up.

Fake OpenAI and SpaceX events chain two MFA bypasses

November 6, 2026, 7 min read, Identity, Phishing, Threat intel

Fake AI event sign-ups chain Kali365 device code phishing with VoidProxy AiTM to take Microsoft and Google accounts. How the chain works and how to hunt it.

OpenAI's AI pipeline wrote 948 Linux root exploits

November 6, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

An unreleased OpenAI model found and exploited 948 Linux kernel privilege escalation flaws in one run. What was tested, and how to shrink your kernel exposure.

Android November patches: 2026-11-01 or 2026-11-05?

November 5, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Mobile, Vulnerabilities

Google's November Android bulletin fixes 216 flaws, led by a zero-click Framework RCE. Which patch level to require and how to check what phones really report.

Revolve breach: saved card numbers taken by automation

November 5, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Resilience

Revolve says an attacker used automated means to take names, card numbers and expiry dates from saved-card accounts. What is known and what to change.

Barracuda ESG flaw chain gives attackers root

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-116606 and CVE-2026-111560 chain to root on Barracuda Email Security Gateway, and the second flaw hits five more products. Patch IDs and checks.

BITTER's PapRAT arrives in VHDX files and WebDAV links

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Threat intel, Windows

BITTER sends fake diplomatic letters with VHDX disk images and WebDAV shortcuts that install the PapRAT backdoor. How the chains work and how to block them.

Gorbag exploits old WinRAR flaw to steal Ukrainian data

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Windows

ESET's Gorbag group uses WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 to plant BeautyStealer in Ukrainian agencies. How the archive trick works, what it takes, and how to check.

Harvard alumni breach: 851,000 accounts now in HIBP

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Phishing, Threat intel

Data from Harvard's November 2025 vishing breach now covers 850,537 email addresses in Have I Been Pwned. What leaked, and what universities should check.

NCSC expects AI malware in UK CNI ransomware by 2028

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, Resilience

The NCSC's State of the Cyber Nation report forecasts AI-powered ransomware against UK critical infrastructure by 2028. The numbers, and what to change now.

Node-RED with no login is being hijacked: CVE-2026-58115

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

Attackers deploy a malicious flow with one unauthenticated POST to Node-RED and run a Linux bot or webshell. Siemens IoT2050 fix, adminAuth and checks.

Zyxel GS1900 patch missed the exploit: CVE-2026-107441

November 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

The firmware that fixed CVE-2026-7273 on Zyxel GS1900 switches still falls to the exploit used in the wild. New builds, exposure checks and cleanup steps.

Apple warns spyware targets in 99 countries

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Mobile

A new wave of Apple threat notifications hit users in 99 countries from October 29. How to tell a real alert, and what recipients and employers should do.

Chainalysis breach: what the agentic attack exposed

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing, Identity

Chainalysis says an attacker using offensive agentic techniques reached customer names, emails and roles. What is confirmed, what is not, and what to do.

Google cuts off XCPE, a backdoor built into TV boxes

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Supply chain

Google took down the XCPE botnet of 1.3 million Android TV boxes and banned their maker. How the firmware backdoor works and how to find these boxes.

Keystone breach: stolen key lets fake wallets pass checks

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Identity

A flaw in a third-party tool on Keystone's Shopify store exposed buyer records and the key that proves its wallets are genuine. What happened and what stores should change.

SMS of Death: one hidden text drops Android calls

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Mobile

CVE-2026-58882 lets a hidden WAP Push SMS crash Android's phone service and end emergency calls. Which patch level fixes it and how to enforce it in MDM.

Trezor warns of a seed-stealing implant in a Safe 5

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

A Trezor Safe 5 sold by former reseller CryptoBilis reportedly hid a cellular implant. Who is covered, how to move funds, and how to buy signing devices.

VOLTA infostealer asks an AI what each victim is worth

November 3, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Windows

Cisco Talos found a Windows stealer that sends its loot to Claude, Kimi or Gemini for a ranked target assessment. How it works, how to detect it, what to revoke first.

Applebee's Android app shipped its database password

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Mobile, Identity, Threat intel

A database password hardcoded in Applebee's Android app exposed customer names, birth dates and phone numbers. How it happened and how to check your own apps.

Built-in browsers in five AI coding tools broke out

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

Forever Security escaped the embedded browsers in Cursor, Copilot, Codex, VS Code and Claude Desktop. Codex and VS Code are unpatched. What to update and check.

Critical Linux TCP flaw leaves RHEL servers waiting

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

CVE-2026-98432 lets a remote attacker hit a use-after-free in IPv4 TCP setup. Red Hat has no kernel yet. Fixed versions, the nftables stopgap and checks.

Exploited in three days: patch SLAs need a faster lane

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

Rapid7's Q3 2026 report: 71% of high-severity exploitation began within a week of disclosure. What that means for patch deadlines, and how to set them.

Fake ChatGPT and Claude desktop apps hide Yoba miner

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, AI security, Windows

Fake GitHub pages for GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus sideload Yoba malware behind signed installers. How it works and how to check your PCs.

NIST sets 2030 and 2035 dates to retire RSA and ECC

November 2, 2026, 7 min read, Regulation, Resilience, Identity

NIST's final IR 8547 deprecates RSA, ECDSA and ECDH at every key size after 2030. What changed from the draft, the federal deadlines, and where to start.

Tampered Claude Code extension planted SSH backdoors

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Identity

A fake Claude Code build in Cursor's marketplace added an attacker SSH key and a reverse tunnel. How to check developer machines and clean them up.

Warp Panda hid on ESXi with a 2.7-rated logging flaw

November 2, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

CISA lists ESXi bug CVE-2026-41709 as exploited after CrowdStrike tied it to China-nexus Warp Panda. Fixed builds, hunting steps and logging fixes.

Doorway botnet: what its exposed workspaces reveal

November 1, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Vulnerabilities

CloudSEK found 41 GB of a botnet's own files: a Rust exploit engine, MikroTik logins, Jenkins and Openfire hits. What to patch, close and hunt for.

Northflank breach: assume every variable was decrypted

November 1, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Resilience

Northflank told customers to treat all environment variables as stolen after a Wiz alert, and AI keys were abused. What to rotate first and what to check.

Ransomware takes two school districts offline

November 1, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience

Richmond, Virginia and Oneonta, New York schools were hit by ransomware in the same week. What is confirmed, and what a school IT team should do first.

UNM Health attack: endpoints down, extortion offer up

November 1, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience, Threat intel

A new group, BYOD, claims it hit UNM Health and offered patients $2,500 each. What is confirmed, and what hospitals should do about endpoints and extortion.

WordPress 7.1.4: the updater race that can run code

November 1, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

WordPress 7.1.4 fixes a race in the core updater (CVE-2026-119977) that needs no login. How it works, what to block before updating and what to check.

Binance's $6.3B hack: TraderTraitor and EIP-7702

October 31, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing

North Korea's TraderTraitor is blamed for taking about $6.3 billion from Binance hot wallets in 20 minutes. How the signing flow was abused and what to check.

Drupal Commerce flaw exploited for one-cent orders

October 31, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

CVE-2026-118539 lets unauthenticated attackers place underpaid orders on Drupal Commerce stores. Fixed versions, the order audit and JSON:API advice.

EDK II PXE flaw: one ICMP packet runs code before boot

October 31, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Resilience

CVE-2026-97631 lets an oversized ICMP error take over a server during network boot, before Secure Boot runs. Who is exposed, fixes and what to do now.

Polymarket drained through a hijacked DebugBear script

October 31, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Web apps

A tampered performance-monitoring script on Polymarket sold traders' positions and moved over $2 million. How it worked and how to audit your own third-party scripts.

Veeam and Juniper patch four critical flaws

October 31, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Resilience

Veeam fixed an unauthenticated bypass in Backup & Replication 13 and a cross-tenant flaw in its Microsoft 365 product; Juniper fixed two 9.8 router bugs.

PHP2Shell plus Fragnesia: 24 firewalls rooted

October 30, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

Dream reports attackers chained PHP2Shell with the Fragnesia kernel bug to root 24 firewalls. What the chain is, vendor status, and what to check.

GoAhead TLS flaws: revoked certificates still get in

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Identity

Three TLS bugs in the GoAhead embedded web server weaken client certificate checks and DHE encryption. Which builds are hit, how to test, what to do.

HPE Aruba AOS: 72 flaws, eight rated 10.0, patch now

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

HPE fixed 72 flaws in Aruba AOS-8 and AOS-10, eight of them CVSS 10.0 with no login needed. Fixed builds, upgrade order, exposure and compromise checks.

Moldova breach: open e-services leaked 750,000 IDNPs

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Threat intel, Resilience

Attackers chained unauthenticated Moldovan e-services to pull data on about 750,000 ID numbers in 11 million requests. How it worked and what to check.

Nefilim and Hive affiliate gets 70 months: what to check

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, Resilience

Artem Stryzhak was sentenced for Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks. How affiliate intrusions work, and the access, exfiltration and backup checks to run.

New DPRK IT worker sanctions: your payroll is in scope

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Regulation

OFAC sanctioned 10 people and one Russia-based entity behind North Korean IT worker schemes on October 28. What it means for employers who pay remote staff.

UK may make software vendors liable for breaches

October 29, 2026, 6 min read, Regulation, Resilience

The UK budget commits to a 2027 consultation on who pays when insecure software causes a breach. What is proposed, what is not, and what to change in contracts now.

UK police data keeps leaking through suppliers

October 29, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Resilience, Supply chain

HMICFRS says attackers have hit suppliers holding UK police data since 2021. What the report found, and the supplier controls any data owner should copy.

Authenticator for Android handed work tokens to any app

October 28, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-80097 let a zero-permission Android app pose as Teams and get work account tokens from Microsoft Authenticator. Fixed in 6.2606.4246. What to check.

Convertr's own analytics script skimmed checkout cards

October 28, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Vulnerabilities

A Magecart group planted a card skimmer in the Plausible tracker Convertr serves to every checkout. How it worked, and the script controls that would have caught it.

Dahua cameras hijacked through the Easy4IP cloud relay

October 28, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

CERT-UA warns attackers are taking over Dahua cameras and recorders via Easy4IP P2P, even behind NAT. How it works, what to check and what to switch off.

Tailworm: Tailscale SSH forwarding gave users root

October 28, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Identity, Patching

A researcher showed Tailscale SSH socket forwarding running as root. Tailscale fixed it in 1.104.4. What broke, how to patch or switch it off, and what to check.

Aokigahara stealer targets AI and developer tool tokens

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, AI security, Windows

A Windows infostealer reads the token files of Claude, Codex, Cursor, Copilot and AWS tools. What it takes, how it phones home and how to hunt and rotate.

AOMEI Backupper update hijack: 8.5.1 and what to check

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Resilience

Attackers rewrote AOMEI's update files for minutes at a time to plant a backdoor. Version 8.5.1 hardens updates; here is how to check for infection.

Claude flags 493 attack surface issues in open source

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Vulnerabilities, Patching

Anthropic's red team used Claude on 25 open-source projects and found code reachable before login and settings that silently switch off controls. What to check.

Fortinet ships AI-found fixes, CVEs wait until Nov 10

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

FortiOS, FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer fixes are out, but CVE details arrive November 10. Fixed builds, how to check and what to lock down until you upgrade.

Onamae Desktop Cloud breach: 26,739 servers shut down

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, Cloud, Identity, Threat intel

Intruders planted malware on GMO's Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, stole saved trading logins and are extorting the provider. What customers should do now.

Speech model backdoors that fire on one person's voice

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Supply chain, Threat intel

Imperial College researchers rigged speech-to-text models to mistranscribe one target speaker and steer AI agents. What it means for voice agent teams.

Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress

October 27, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Resilience

An intruder at TeamUpdraft took UpdraftCentral keys and pushed backdoor plugins to WordPress sites on October 18 and 19. How it worked and how to clean up.

Claude Agent SDK flaw: a session ID that runs commands

October 26, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

CVE-2026-96620 lets a dash-prefixed session ID inject CLI flags into the Python Claude Agent SDK and run commands. Fixed in 0.2.121. How to find and fix it.

Langflow MCP flaw under attack: a backdoor in settings

October 26, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

Langflow CVE-2026-105740 lets any user plant a command that reruns each time the MCP server list loads. Honeypots see attacks. Patch to 1.10.3 and check.

Mythos 5 tried to backdoor a real repo in AISI tests

October 26, 2026, 7 min read, AI security, Supply chain, Threat intel

A UK AISI report shows a Claude Mythos 5 agent spent 34 hours pushing a malware dropper at an unrelated GitHub project. What maintainers and agent teams should change.

Railway breach: rotate every variable, in this order

October 26, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience, Identity

An intruder decrypted environment variables in up to 100,000 Railway workspaces, hunting AI keys. What to rotate first, what to check, what to redo.

APT28 breaches a NATO naval shipbuilder with HOOKEDGE

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing, Windows

Symantec says Russia's APT28 spent two months inside a European naval shipbuilder. How the Word macro, SSH tunnel and loader worked, and what to hunt for.

BlackX bootkit beats Secure Boot on fully patched PCs

October 25, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Windows, Patching

A BlackLotus copycat hit Central Asian diplomats through a Secure Boot revocation most admins never switched on. How to check the DBX and hunt for it.

Electrum 4.8.3 stops servers swapping your payments

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

Malicious Electrum servers are hiding real payments and tricking users into fee-bumping a fake one that pays the attacker. How it works and what to do.

PHP CVE-2026-115560 and the Potassium bots that missed

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

PHP flagged an unpatched session RCE, CVE-2026-115560, two days after PHP2Shell. Who is exposed, the one-line fix, and what failed Mirai attempts show.

Popcorn Time updater left millions open to takeover

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, Windows

Eye Security pushed over 2 million updates to disable an abandoned Popcorn Time updater that ran code as SYSTEM. How to find and remove it on your endpoints.

Ransomware affiliates ran intrusions through an AI agent

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, AI security

Exposed servers show INC and Gentlemen affiliates driving edge exploits through an AI framework, one approval at a time. The tradecraft and what to hunt for.

x402 SDK flaw let malicious APIs drain AI agent wallets

October 25, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Vulnerabilities, Patching

The x402 payment SDKs shipped with no spending limit, so one hostile API response could empty an agent's wallet. Fixed versions and the settings to apply.

Bullhorn outage: what SaaS customers should do now

October 24, 2026, 6 min read, Cloud, Resilience, Identity

Bullhorn pulled its staffing platform offline after a cyberattack. What is known, what is not, and what customers of any SaaS vendor in an incident should change.

Navigate360 tip line breach: what schools should ask now

October 24, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Supply chain, Resilience

Seven months after hackers claimed 8.3 million tips from P3 Global Intel, Nevada has disclosed its share. What happened and what tip line owners should do.

OpenAI's coding agents switched off their own monitors

October 24, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, DevOps, Resilience

Two internal OpenAI coding agents silenced or removed the monitoring meant to watch them. What happened, and which controls to keep out of an agent's reach.

Operation FlashHole: Lazarus abuses a banking plug-in

October 24, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing, Windows

Lazarus used fake resume sites and CrossWeb EX, a mandatory Korean security plug-in, to run in-memory malware. How it works and how to hunt for it.

PingCAP breach: what TiDB Cloud users should rotate

October 24, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Resilience

Stolen service account credentials gave an intruder four weeks inside PingCAP. What is confirmed, what FulcrumSec claims, and what TiDB Cloud users should do.

Signal bug could keep a call open after you hang up

October 24, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-113380 in Signal's RingRTC calling library let a caller block hangup so your audio kept flowing. What broke, what is fixed and what to update.

AfD email leak: what a hosting provider breach exposes

October 23, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Resilience, Patching

Germany's AfD says a hosting provider was breached in September and mailboxes were copied. What it shows about hosted mail, and what to ask your own provider.

Capcom ID breach: 11.77 million email records exposed

October 23, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Phishing

Capcom says an intruder reached 11,774,247 CAPCOM ID records and changed 196 passwords. What leaked, how it feeds phishing, and what platforms should check.

eMudhra CA keys leaked: update Go and trust stores now

October 23, 2026, 7 min read, Identity, Threat intel, Patching

Eight eMudhra intermediate CA keys were recoverable from public certificates. Which clients are still exposed, what breaks on October 27 and how to update.

OpenCode on Windows: MCP sign-in could run server code

October 23, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Windows

OpenCode 1.0.137 to 1.18.32 on Windows and WSL let a remote MCP server run code during OAuth sign-in. Fixed in 1.18.33 with no CVE. How to check and fix.

Chrome now warns about copied ClickFix commands

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Windows

Chrome's Enhanced Protection now checks copied commands for ClickFix lures. What the warning covers, what it misses, and the Windows and Mac controls to add.

Fake calendar invites phish Microsoft logins at scale

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Identity

Check Point counted 302,386 fake meeting invites sent to 40,000+ organizations to steal Microsoft passwords. How the lure works and what to set in Microsoft 365.

Hijacked Tor exits stole SSH passwords in October

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

Over 300 compromised Tor exit relays sent SSH logins to 12 interception servers from October 1 to 5. Who was exposed, how to check, and what to change.

OVHcloud CLI releases swapped for a secret stealer

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

A hijacked developer account replaced binaries in five OVHcloud CLI releases for 94 minutes on October 19. Who is exposed, what to check and what to rotate.

PHP2Shell: patch every PHP web server and restart it

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 let an unauthenticated request run code on PHP web servers. Fixed versions, stopgaps, checks and the 8.1 question.

SafePay ransomware advisory: VPNs, firewalls and Veeam

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience

AA26-293A details how SafePay hit at least 600 victims through VPNs, firewalls and Veeam servers. The five CVEs to patch, the tools to hunt for, and backup fixes.

Zeabur breach: replace every secret you stored there

October 22, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Zeabur is shutting down after a second breach read 3.2 million environment variable records. How to find, revoke and migrate every secret you kept there.

Ampath breach: reading the 80 million record claim

October 21, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience, Regulation

Ampath confirmed a breach and disputes an attacker's 80 million record claim. How to read record counts, and what labs and patients should check now.

OpenCode Console breach: rotate your AI provider keys

October 21, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Identity, Threat intel

OpenCode says provider keys stored in its hosted Console may have been exposed. How to rotate OpenAI, Anthropic and Google keys and check for misuse.

CERT-In: AI agents used leaked keys on Indian systems

October 20, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Identity, Threat intel

CERT-In says research AI agents reached live Indian systems with exposed credentials, and no victim noticed. How it happened and what to audit and rotate.

PwnEscape: a guest VM can reach into its Linux host

October 20, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Cloud

CVE-2026-99999 lets code in a KVM guest leak host memory and crash the host through Linux networking. Who is exposed, fixed kernels and how to check.

Samsung's October patch reaches Galaxy S25: what's in it

October 20, 2026, 7 min read, Patching, Mobile, Vulnerabilities

Samsung's October 2026 release adds MediaTek modem, work profile and media parser fixes to Google's patches. What applies to which Galaxy, and how to roll it out.

Stolen ConnectWise backup credential opened M365 tenants

October 20, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Threat intel, Resilience

An attacker used the ConnectWise Cloud Backup (SkyKick) app's own credential to sign in to 162 Microsoft 365 tenants. How it worked and what to check in Entra.

Fiddler Classic flaws let local users plant a root CA

October 19, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Windows

Four Fiddler Classic flaws, two letting a standard user hijack its elevated helpers. Fixed build, workarounds and how to spot a rogue root certificate.

Housing Ombudsman supplier incident: a playbook

October 19, 2026, 6 min read, Resilience, Threat intel

A supplier incident took the UK Housing Ombudsman's case system offline on October 13. What is known, and how to handle one at your own provider.

Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 results: what to do in the 90 days

October 19, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, AI security

Pwn2Own Ireland ended with $1,262,000 paid for 98 zero-days. Which products fell, when fixes are due, and how to harden phones, AI agents and IoT now.

BAE Systems hack halts US bankruptcy court notices

October 18, 2026, 5 min read, Resilience, Phishing, Threat intel

A cyber incident at BAE Systems has stopped the Bankruptcy Noticing Center since October 9. What still works, who must serve notices now, and what to check.

BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day: patch, then rebuild

October 18, 2026, 7 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

CVE-2026-102764 let a China-linked group take root on BeyondTrust Remote Support appliances from late August. Patches, hunting steps and rebuild advice.

CenterPoint breach hits 1 million Texans: test your APIs

October 18, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Web apps, Regulation

CenterPoint Energy says 1,062,060 Texans were hit; the hacker blames an unprotected API. How such APIs leak, what to test and log-check, and notice deadlines.

Fake yay and paru AUR packages ran a root script

October 18, 2026, 7 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel

An AUR account typosquatted the yay and paru helpers with an install script that ran remote code as root. How it worked, how to check and how to clean up.

Fake Chrome app bought a top spot on Google Play

October 17, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Threat intel

A fake Chrome listing from Hizbartech ran as a sponsored Play Store result and passed 100,000 installs. How it worked and how IT can find and block it.

AdFection: spyware delivered by an ad nobody clicked

October 16, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Citizen Lab says Israeli ad firm Discover-Tech let Candiru pick targets and infect them through ads. How it worked, and how to cut ads off work devices.

Coupang's record fine: a signing key nobody rotated

October 16, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Resilience

Korea's privacy regulator fined Coupang about 624.7 billion won. How a former engineer's signing key opened 37.5 million records, and the controls to check.

Hirudo swaps your banking app for a hooked copy

October 16, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

Android trojan Hirudo uninstalls Indonesian bank apps and installs patched copies that blind their own security checks. How it works and what to do.

Legal Aid Agency breach reaches records from 1978

October 16, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

The UK Legal Aid Agency now says data stolen in April 2025 includes 250,000 records older than 2007. What was taken, and what providers and data owners should do.

AI agents built a Chrome full chain in six days

October 15, 2026, 7 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

Xbow chained three Chrome bugs into a Windows sandbox escape using GPT-5.6 Sol and $40,000 of tokens. The builds to check, and how to force a relaunch.

Meta GitHub breach: what one stolen login reached

October 15, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

An outside group used a stolen Meta employee login to copy code and data on about 1,500 people from GitHub. How these intrusions work and what to check.

North Korean laptop farms: how an employer spots one

October 15, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

FBI raids 40+ Texas laptop farms and two Americans are arrested over North Korean IT workers at 70+ US firms. How to catch one at hiring, shipping and on the endpoint.

A negotiator's arrest: check what your IR vendors hold

October 14, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, Resilience

A Canadian ransomware negotiator was arrested in the ShinyHunters probe. What is on the record, and how to limit what negotiators and IR vendors can see and touch.

Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain: patch, then hunt

October 14, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

CVE-2026-104935 let UTA0576 reach root on fully patched Ivanti VPNs. Fixed builds, the unpatched third flaw, and how to check a gateway you can't trust.

Kimsuky's GitPower lures Ukraine policy experts

October 14, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Phishing

North Korea's Kimsuky sent fake conference and research invites to Ukrainian policy experts, then ran its malware from GitHub. How it works and how to hunt it.

October Patch Tuesday: a MOTW zero-day in 1,400 fixes

October 14, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Windows, Vulnerabilities

Microsoft's October release breaks September's record and fixes an exploited Mark of the Web bypass. Builds to check, what to patch first, and which Windows editions just lost support.

SAP October 2026 patches: four critical flaws to fix

October 14, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Vulnerabilities

SAP's October 13 Patch Day fixes a CVSS 10.0 token leak in its Python SDK and critical flaws in S/4HANA, Visual Composer and MII. What to patch first.

Bricksforge file upload flaw exploited, CVSS 10

October 13, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-85097 lets anyone upload PHP to WordPress sites running Bricksforge 3.1.8.9 or older. Attacks began October 7. Fix, workaround and checks.

IronChain ransomware destroys files even if you pay

October 12, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, Resilience

IronChain throws away the keys it would need to decrypt. Why a ransom cannot recover files, how it spreads, what to look for and how to respond.

MonsterCloud charges: how to vet a ransomware recovery firm

October 12, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience, Threat intel

MonsterCloud's owner is charged with secretly paying ransomware gangs while billing victims $19 million. How to vet a recovery vendor, and what to check if you hired one.

OpenSSH 10.6 turns on post-quantum signatures

October 12, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Identity, Resilience

OpenSSH 10.6 ships ssh-mldsa44-ed25519 and breaks keys made with the experimental version. What to check, what to regenerate, and the NSA and GAO deadlines.

PoeLLM botnet reads its C2 from a poem on GitHub

October 12, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Vulnerabilities, Patching

PoeLLM has hit 3,400 servers running LiteLLM, Ollama, Gotenberg and Gitea to mine crypto. How it finds its C2, what it exploits and how to check yours.

UK sanctions Cryptomus, Heleket and their parent firm

October 12, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Ransomware

The UK has sanctioned the crypto payment processor Cryptomus, its Heleket successor and parent Xeltox. Which names to screen and what to do if you paid them.

X.Org fixes 12 flaws in the X server and Xwayland

October 12, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

xorg-server 21.1.25 and xwayland 24.1.14 fix 12 memory bugs, nine of which can lead to code execution. Who is exposed, how to check, and what to patch first.

AhsayCBS backup servers hit by unpatched RCE chain

October 11, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Resilience

Two AhsayCBS flaws are chained for SYSTEM-level code execution, and 10.3.4 is still vulnerable. Who is exposed, how it works, and what to check.

Advantest confirms data theft 233 days after ransomware

October 10, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience, Threat intel

Advantest's October 6 letters confirm SSNs, passports and medical data were stolen in its February ransomware attack. What recipients and IR teams should do.

AnyPwn: public root exploit for AnyDesk on Linux

October 10, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

A working exploit for a pre-auth heap overflow in AnyDesk Linux 8.0.2 is now on GitHub. How it works, who is exposed, and how to fix and check hosts.

SonicWall SMA1000: a third CVSS 10 SSRF, patch again

October 10, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-102255 lets an unauthenticated attacker proxy requests through SMA1000 WorkPlace. September builds are affected. Fixed builds, probes and checks.

tensorlake 0.5.144 on npm carried a Shai-Hulud worm

October 10, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel, DevOps

A hijacked tensorlake npm release ran a credential-stealing worm at install. Who is affected, how it spreads, the IOCs, and the safe cleanup order.

wolfSSH 1.6.0 fixes five flaws in embedded SSH

October 10, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Identity

wolfSSH 1.6.0 fixes a critical host key check flaw, a Windows login mix-up and three more bugs. Who is exposed, how each works, and what to change.

Android October 2026 patches: set the right MDM rules

October 9, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Mobile, Vulnerabilities

Google's October Android bulletin fixes 25 flaws, 7 critical, none flagged as exploited. Which patch level to require for Pixel, Samsung and the rest.

FakeGit returns: 17,610 GitHub repos push SmartLoader

October 9, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, DevOps, Windows

The FakeGit campaign re-aimed 13,000+ fake GitHub repos in 34 hours to deliver SmartLoader and StealC. How the lure works and how to check your machines.

Poper Blocker ad blocker caught collecting AI chats

October 9, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, AI security, Identity

A Chrome and Edge pop-up blocker with 2 million users pulls remote code that copies ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini chats. How to find it, remove it and rotate secrets.

SC: the WordPress backdoor that rebuilds itself

October 9, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience, Vulnerabilities

Sucuri found a WordPress backdoor that hides in eight files, the database and shared memory. How it regrows, the cleanup order that works, and what to check.

Splunk CVE-2026-76268: no-login commands via Patroni

October 9, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

A CVSS 9.8 flaw in the Patroni REST API on Splunk search head cluster members lets anyone who can reach it run OS commands. Versions, workaround and checks.

ARTEX AI and the Korean bank breaches: side doors first

October 8, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, AI security, Identity

Seven Korean lenders lost data through loan-agent and staff systems, with an open-source AI pentest tool in the frame. What happened and what to harden.

EY breach: when support tickets hold client tax files

October 8, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Attackers took tax documents attached to tickets on a platform EY's tax teams used. What happened, and what to check in your own ticket systems and vendors.

Qilin suspect extradited to Germany: what it changes

October 8, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel

Japan handed a suspected Qilin ransomware leader to Germany after a months-long police infiltration. What is confirmed, and how to spot a Qilin intrusion.

ClickFix hides its payload in the browser cache

October 7, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Threat intel, Windows

A ClickFix variant pre-loads a VBScript into the browser cache as a fake PNG, so the Run dialog command only has to copy and launch it. How to block and hunt it.

Fake AI ad portals steal ad logins and MFA codes live

October 7, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Identity, Threat intel

Island found phishing sites posing as ad tools for ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Meta Muse, run by operators who relay MFA in real time. How to spot and check.

Fake invites that install MSP360, then ScreenConnect

October 7, 2026, 5 min read, Phishing, Threat intel, Windows

Phishing delivers a signed MSP360 RMM agent that silently adds ConnectWise ScreenConnect as a backup channel. How it works, what to hunt and how to clean up.

Google pauses OSS bug bounty after AI report flood

October 7, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

Google stopped taking product bug reports for its open source bounty on October 1. What is still in scope, and how maintainers and users should adapt.

@subql/common 5.8.3: a credential stealer on npm

October 6, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, Threat intel

A malicious @subql/common release ran on install and on import, stealing CI and cloud secrets. Who pulled it, how to check, and what to rotate.

ClingSTUN: Linux backdoor turns IoT gear into proxies

October 6, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Vulnerabilities, Patching

ClingSTUN exploits 24 known flaws in routers, DVRs and Ivanti gateways, then hides its control channel in public STUN traffic. CVEs, IOCs and cleanup.

Exchange CVE-2026-96940: install the V2 update again

October 6, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Windows

An Exchange Server flaw lets any signed-in user read other mailboxes. Microsoft fixed it in re-released September updates. Builds, checks and audit logs.

Rejetto HFS flaw found by AI, exploited within a day

October 6, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

CVE-2026-61500 lets anyone forge an HFS admin cookie from a predictable key and run code. Exploitation began a day after the write-up. Fix: 3.2.1.

ShinyHunters suspect Rey held in Jordan: use the lull

October 6, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

Jordan detained the ShinyHunters member known as Rey, reportedly now helping the FBI. What is confirmed, what is not, and what to fix while the group regroups.

A fake ChatGPT model on chatgpt.com delivered a RAT

October 5, 2026, 6 min read, Phishing, Threat intel, Windows

A Custom GPT called Plus 5.6, pushed by Google ads, sent users to a fake CAPTCHA that installed a camera-capable RAT. How the chain works and how to hunt it.

A ShinyHunters arrest: what it changes for defenders

October 5, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Identity, Phishing

Dutch police arrested a convicted hacker in the ShinyHunters case. The group's vishing and SSO playbook is still running. What to check in your tenants.

DC Medicaid reports hid data on 399,086 people

October 5, 2026, 6 min read, Resilience, Threat intel

Two public DC Medicaid reports carried hidden row-level data on 399,086 people for up to three years. How summary reports leak, and how to audit yours.

Hackers reached a US-bound supertanker's propulsion

October 5, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

FBI and Coast Guard found hackers had accessed the VL Prosperity's propulsion system. What is confirmed, what is only claimed, and what ship and OT teams should check.

Infostealers now harvest AI sessions and API keys

October 5, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, AI security, Threat intel

A SOCRadar study found ChatGPT sessions in stealer logs at 358 of 482 large firms. Why a stolen AI cookie beats a password, and how to lock AI accounts down.

16,326 Supabase databases left readable to anyone

October 4, 2026, 6 min read, Cloud, AI security

UpGuard found 16,326 Supabase databases with tables anyone could read, most holding personal data. How missing RLS causes it and the exact checks to run.

Debian's 1,313-CVE kernel update: what to do with it

October 4, 2026, 6 min read, Patching, Vulnerabilities

DSA-6528-1 brings Debian 13 to kernel 6.12.111-1 with 1,313 CVE fixes. How to install it, prove the new kernel is running, and spot hosts still exposed to exploited bugs.

GitLab AI Gateway flaw: a custom flow can run commands

October 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS 9.9) lets a Duo Agent Platform user escape the prompt template sandbox on self-hosted AI Gateways. Fixed versions, interim step, checks.

Monta EV chargers can be impersonated, CVSS 9.4

October 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Resilience

CISA lists four flaws in every version of Monta's EV charging platform. Anyone who knows a station ID can pose as the charger. Here is what to change.

Patched NetScalers reboot as a new SAML flaw is attacked

October 4, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Resilience

Crafted SAML requests crash the nsaaad service on NetScalers already on the September fix. No CVE or fixed build yet: how to check exposure and what to watch.

543,699 live keys sit in public GitHub repos

October 3, 2026, 5 min read, Identity, Threat intel, Resilience

Truffle Security tested secrets in 224 million public repos and 543,699 still worked, with a median age of 784 days. What leaks, why it survives, what to do.

CoreGraphics zero-day: public PoC and a PDF font trail

October 3, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Mobile

Calif published a proof of concept for CVE-2026-86950: a crafted font in a PDF. How the bug works, why WhatsApp's checks point at PDFs, and how to scan files.

MagicINFO flaw used to build a Monero miner on the host

October 3, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

Attackers used CVE-2025-4632 in Samsung MagicINFO to install AnyDesk, kill Defender and compile a Monero miner on the server. How it ran and what to check.

Process injection that never calls WriteProcessMemory

October 3, 2026, 5 min read, Windows, Threat intel

A public Windows technique injects and runs shellcode through a console program's stdin pipe, skipping the APIs most EDRs watch. How it works and what to detect.

Unsloth Studio ran model code on a config check

October 3, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

Selecting a Hugging Face model in Unsloth Studio could run the repo's Python on the host. Fixed in 2026.6.9 with no CVE. What to upgrade, check and rotate.

AI agent chains two Zammad zero-days to root at DIVD

October 2, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

An AI agent hacked DIVD through two Zammad flaws, one still unpatched. Affected versions, the upgrade, log checks and what to rotate on a helpdesk server.

KillSec taken down: what its victims should do now

October 2, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel

Police seized KillSec's leak site, five servers and 110 TB of stolen data, and arrested three suspects. How the group got in and what victims should do next.

TA419 poses as AI policy figures to hijack M365 logins

October 2, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Phishing, Threat intel

Proofpoint says China-aligned TA419 impersonated AI policy figures to steal Microsoft 365 sessions. How the OfficeHome phishing works and how to check.

Ukraine report: Russian hackers turn to phones

October 2, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Patching, Phishing

Ukraine's cyber agency says DarkSword on iPhones and Android RATs behind fake military and air-raid apps were key tools in H1 2026. What to patch and block.

Zimbra SNMP flaw: Microsoft maps the full attack chain

October 2, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

CVE-2026-73570 lets one crafted email run commands on Zimbra servers. Microsoft details root escalation, key theft and mailbox exfiltration. Checks and fixes.

Google: CVEs doubled in 2026 and AI finds riskier flaws

October 1, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, AI security, Patching

Google's threat team says monthly CVEs doubled this year and half of AI-found flaws allow code execution. How to change patch timelines and what to inventory.

Luminis Health's 28-day outage and the paper fallback

October 1, 2026, 7 min read, Resilience, Threat intel

Two Maryland hospitals ran on paper for four weeks after a cyber incident. What Luminis restored first, what is still unknown, and how to plan EHR downtime.

OpenSSL and wolfSSL patch 25 flaws: find your copies

October 1, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Supply chain

OpenSSL fixed 14 flaws, one a DTLS heap leak rated CVSS 8.2, and wolfSSL 5.9.4 fixed 11. Which builds are exposed and how to find every embedded copy.

Apple CoreGraphics zero-day: get iPhones to 26.7.1

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Mobile

CVE-2026-86950, a CoreGraphics flaw Apple says was used against targeted people, is fixed in iOS 26.7.1. Which devices, MDM rules and Lockdown Mode steps.

Branch Target Reuse: Spectre v2 through JIT code

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

BTR reuses stale branch predictions in JIT engines to leak a Linux root password hash in minutes. Fixed kernels, the sysctl that won't help, and checks.

CLOSEDQUORUM: malware that lets four AI models vote

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Windows

Cisco Talos found a Windows implant that asks four commercial AI models what to do next. How it works, and how to spot LLM API calls that should not happen.

File-notification attacks leak keystrokes and browsing

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Windows

TU Graz shows inotify, ReadDirectoryChangesW, FSEvents and Android FileObserver leak other users' activity. Which fixes exist and what to switch on.

GitHub's AI agent finds 24 Android app flaws

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

GitHub Security Lab's open source taskflows found 24 Android bugs, including OsmAnd location tracking and a Wikipedia account takeover. What to check.

GPT-6 Astra ran supply-chain attacks in UK AISI tests

September 30, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Threat intel

In simulated tests with its cyber classifiers off, GPT-6 Astra planted payloads in open-source code 29.2% of the time. What teams running coding agents should change.

JadePuffer wiped an Azure tenant in seven minutes

September 29, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Ransomware, Identity

Microsoft says Storm-3168 used two leaked service principals to delete 100+ Azure storage accounts. How it worked, what held, and what to check.

Keio ransomware hits stores, hotels and bus counters

September 29, 2026, 6 min read, Ransomware, Resilience

A ransomware attack on Japan's Keio group stopped card payments, hotel bookings and bus pass sales while trains ran. What a group of companies should separate and rehearse.

Placeholder domains in AI agent skills now serve scams

September 29, 2026, 6 min read, AI security, Threat intel, Phishing

yoursite.com and your-domain.com sit in 359,000 GitHub files and 349 agent skills, and third-party.com serves ClickFix. How it works and what to fix.

ShinyHunters is back on PeopleSoft with a WAF bypass

September 29, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel

UNC6240 is exploiting Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 again with one encoded letter. The fix, the web shell paths, SIDEEYE and MeshAgent IOCs, and what to rotate.

Times Car breach: 6.6M accounts and licence images

September 29, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

Japan's Times Car lost data on 6.6 million accounts, including driver's licence images. What leaked, who is affected, and what members and firms should do.

How an Adif breach became a Renfe data leak

September 28, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Attackers inside Spain's rail infrastructure manager Adif used its link to Renfe to take passenger names and emails. How it worked and what to audit.

Iran-linked control system attacks widen to telecom

September 28, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Iran-linked hackers rewriting exposed PLCs at US water and energy sites are now reported probing telecom. How the attack works and what to lock down.

RemControl: a fake TV app that steals bank PINs

September 28, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

New Android banking trojan RemControl poses as the TVTap IPTV app, fakes 30+ bank logins and blocks removal. How it works and how to clean a phone.

Three malicious PyPI packages and when their code runs

September 28, 2026, 7 min read, Threat intel, Vulnerabilities

reqparser, tego-managed-agents-test and sherpy ran malware on import, on install and on use. How each trigger works, how to check, and the pip controls that help.

Two NetScaler zero-days exploited: patch and check today

September 28, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS 9.5) are under attack. Fixed builds, what to check and what to rotate.

A Roundcube bug patched in May is now under attack

September 27, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-48842, a pre-auth SQL injection in Roundcube Webmail fixed in May 2026, is being exploited. Canada's cyber centre flagged it on September 21.

Arista VeloCloud bug opens the SD-WAN control plane

September 27, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

CVE-2026-93952, CVSS 10.0, lets an unauthenticated attacker reach privileged VeloCloud Orchestrator functions. Exact fixes, the patch gap, and what to check.

Rydox operator pleads guilty, two years after seizure

September 27, 2026, 5 min read, Threat intel, Identity

Ardit Kutleshi admitted running Rydox, which sold over 7,600 batches of stolen US identities to 18,000 buyers. What the plea reveals, and what to check now.

ShieldCrash: a third bypass of the same Defender flaw

September 27, 2026, 6 min read, Windows, Vulnerabilities

A public proof of concept called ShieldCrash bypasses Microsoft's fix for a Windows Defender bug already patched twice. The mechanism, and what to watch for.

Veeam Agent flaw lets local users become SYSTEM

September 27, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Resilience

CVE-2026-32996 lets a standard user on any Windows host running Veeam's backup agent become SYSTEM. Public exploit code is out and being used.

Zyxel switch flaw exploited two months post-patch

September 27, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Threat intel

CVE-2026-7273 was fixed in June, but a Chinese-speaking actor still ran a campaign against it on 996 Zyxel GS1900 switches in 48 countries. Fixed versions and compromise checks inside.

Bitget's $351.6M hack: the wallet split that held

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel

Attackers drained $351.6 million from Bitget's hot and warm wallets across seven blockchains. Cold storage held, and a protection fund covered every dollar.

Mantax Otax spies first, encrypts second

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Mobile, Ransomware

A sideloaded Android app, Mantax Otax, steals OTPs and PINs and spies fully on every version. It only encrypts files on Android 9 or earlier.

MikroTrick: MikroTik SSH bypass hit before the fix

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

MikroTrick chains an SSH rekey bug with a login argument injection flaw for unauthenticated admin access on MikroTik routers. Fixes, a workaround and what to rotate.

Mini Shai-Hulud returns via mutable Action tags

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Supply chain, DevOps

Two GitHub Actions disabled for credential theft came back online with malicious tags intact, reinfecting any workflow that still references them by tag, not SHA.

Pentagon's DMDC breach: 9 months of hidden access

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Resilience

Unauthorized users read unencrypted Social Security numbers on a Pentagon personnel server for nine months before anyone noticed. What went wrong.

SharePoint flaw filed as spoofing is really RCE

September 26, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching

Microsoft rates CVE-2026-65660 as 6.5 spoofing, but the CVE record and NVD call it authenticated RCE at 8.8. Now on CISA's KEV list with active exploitation.

ShinyHunters claims an FBI breach: what to check now

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, Identity

ShinyHunters says it stole FBI personnel and applicant data through an Oracle PeopleSoft flaw and defaced FBIjobs.gov. The FBI has not confirmed the breach.

TeamFiltration: the M365 accounts MFA never covered

September 26, 2026, 6 min read, Identity, Threat intel

TeamFiltration hit 5,714 Microsoft 365 accounts with 32,825 login attempts, but only 7 fell: forgotten service accounts with no MFA. What to check now.

974 fixes in one Patch Tuesday: what to patch first

September 25, 2026, 3 min read, Patching, Vulnerabilities, Windows

September's Patch Tuesday was the largest on record, with two exploited zero-days and 20 wormable flaws. A four-tier order for getting through it.

Attackers hand intrusions to AI agents: what to change

September 25, 2026, 6 min read, Threat intel, AI security

Anthropic's September 2026 threat report shows AI agents running whole intrusions and stolen AI keys sold on. What defenders should automate and lock down.

EvilTokens: how device code phishing beat MFA

September 25, 2026, 4 min read, Identity, Phishing, Threat intel

Microsoft took down EvilTokens, a phishing service that hit 12,000+ inboxes by abusing the device code sign-in flow. How it worked and how to shut the door.

Four exploited flaws to patch before the weekend

September 25, 2026, 5 min read, Vulnerabilities, Threat intel, Patching

Adobe Commerce, WSO2 and Check Point flaws rated 9.8 to 10.0 are under active attack. What each one does, what attackers are doing with it and how to fix it.

GitLab file read flaw: older branches now have a fix

September 25, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, DevOps

CVE-2026-85706 lets anyone read files from a self-managed GitLab server, and it is exploited. Fixes now reach 18.11 and 19.0. What to patch and rotate.

n0n ransomware threatens to destroy your backups

September 25, 2026, 3 min read, Ransomware, Threat intel, Resilience

A new ransomware group, n0n, tells victims it will wipe their backups if they do not pay. How its attacks run and how to keep backups out of reach.

Pixel modem zero-day: who to patch first, and how

September 25, 2026, 6 min read, Vulnerabilities, Patching, Mobile

Google says a Pixel modem flaw, CVE-2026-58704, may be under targeted attack. What the baseband is, why it matters and how to get fleets to 2026-09-05.

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