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Biggest this week
- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 3d ago
- GitHub Octoverse 2026 — Simon Willison (AI), 4d ago
- Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen — The Hacker News, 3d ago
- Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation — SecurityWeek, 4d ago
- Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds — The Record, 3d ago
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Critical F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day
Unauthenticated attackers could send malicious traffic to BIG-IP to achieve remote code execution. The post Critical F5 BIG-IP Vulnerability Exploited as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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F5 patches BIG-IP APM zero-day flaw exploited in RCE attacks
F5 has released security updates to address a critical BIG-IP APM zero-day vulnerability being exploited in remote code execution attacks. [...]
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Critical Next.js ImageResponse Flaw Can Lead to Server Code Execution via Crafted SVG Input
A new security vulnerability in Next.js could allow attackers to run code on a server via ImageResponse, the feature that generates Open Graph and other social preview images, Vercel said. The risk applies when an app puts values …
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Check Point Patches Exploited Management Server Zero-Day
The critical-severity flaw could allow unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary scripts. The post Check Point Patches Exploited Management Server Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Chinese hackers exploit multiple technologies to steal govt data
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. [...]
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Volexity spots another China-aligned threat group exploiting Chrome and Microsoft defects
The threat group Volexity tracks as UTA0565 showcased a variance in tactics, but it used the same exploit kit as multiple Chinese threat groups. The post Volexity spots another China-aligned threat group exploiting Chrome and Micr…
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Check Point Warns of Management Server Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web …
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Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Lets Attackers Run Commands Without Credentials
A critical vulnerability in Bifrost, an open-source AI gateway that routes requests to more than 20 LLM providers, allows an unauthenticated attacker to run arbitrary commands on the gateway server with a single HTTP request. The …
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Check Point warns of Management Server zero-day exploited in attacks
Check Point Software released emergency hotfixes to address a critical Security Management Server vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary scripts. [...]
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Researcher Drops BigDiskBuster Zero-Day PoC That Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates
A zero-day proof-of-concept tool that stops Microsoft Defender from installing platform and signature updates by filling all available disk space was published on GitHub on September 19. The tool, called BigDiskBuster, has no patc…
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Nightmare Eclipse Drops New Microsoft Defender Exploit After Revealing Identity
Abdelhamid Naceri, a former Microsoft Germany employee, is the exploit leaker Nightmare Eclipse, aka Chaotic Eclipse. The post Nightmare Eclipse Drops New Microsoft Defender Exploit After Revealing Identity appeared first on Secur…
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D-Link warns of max severity zero-day bug in DIR-822A routers
D-Link warned customers of a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-86296) with public proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code and no patch, affecting legacy DIR-822A dual-band Wi-Fi routers. [...]
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New CVSS 10.0 VeloCloud Orchestrator Flaw Actively Exploited in Certificate-Based Setups
Attackers are exploiting a new flaw in on-premises VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the server that manages the Edge devices in a VeloCloud SD-WAN, Arista said on September 22. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-93952, may allow a remote …
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Recent ZyXEL Switch Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers
A Chinese threat actor has exploited the bug to exfiltrate sensitive information from nearly 1,000 ZyXEL switches. The post Recent ZyXEL Switch Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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New Linux Kernel Flaw Gives ARM64 KVM Guests Read-Write Access to Host Memory
A new flaw in the Linux kernel's KVM virtualization code for ARM64 processors can leave a freed piece of host memory exposed to a guest virtual machine on hosts with nested virtualization enabled. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-8977…
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SharePoint Flaw Initially Listed as Spoofing by Microsoft Enables Authenticated RCE
A SharePoint Server vulnerability that Microsoft initially classified as a spoofing flaw with a CVSS score of 6.5 actually enables authenticated remote code execution, according to full technical details published today by Viettel…
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Attacker compromised nearly 1000 Zyxel switches since August (CVE-2026-7273)
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-7273) in unpatched ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and has exfiltrated sensitive data from 996 devices across 48 countries, GreyNoise reported on Monday. …
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WordPress Patches ‘Click2Shell’ Vulnerability
The bug lets attackers automatically install and preview themes and could lead to remote code execution. The post WordPress Patches Click2Shell Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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New Windows Defender zero-day blocks Microsoft antivirus updates
Over the weekend, security researcher Abdelhamid Naceri (also known as Nightmare Eclipse) released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit that blocks antivirus updates. [...]
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CISA orders feds to patch Zyxel flaw exploited for data theft
Attackers are now actively exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Zyxel GS1900 series switches, according to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
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One Hidden Meta Muse Setting Could Let Attackers Turn the AI Assistant Into a Backdoor
Malware already running on a Mac can quietly take over Meta's Muse assistant and use the broad access its owner granted the app, security researcher Patrick Wardle has shown in a proof-of-concept released on September 21. It works…
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WordPress Comment2Shell Flaw Can Turn Anonymous Comment XSS Into RCE via Admin Session
A new flaw in WordPress core let an anonymous visitor leave a comment that planted a hidden script on the page. If a logged-in administrator later opened that page, the script could run code on the site's server. WordPress fixed t…
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Zyxel and Veeam Flaws Under Active Exploitation With Command and SYSTEM Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Zyxel GS1900 series switches to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active ex…
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CVE-2026-93952: Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator — Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Improper Input Validation Vulnerability
Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem contains an improper input validation vulnerability that may allow a remote attacker to access privileged internal functionality and impact the VCO host. Successful exploitation may comp…
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CVE-2026-94127: F5 BIG-IP APM — F5 BIG-IP APM Heap-based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
F5 BIG-IP APM contains a heap-based buffer overflow vulnerability when access policy and an OAuth profile are configured on a virtual server. This vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform remote code execut…
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CVE-2026-93616: Check Point Multiple Products — Check Point Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability
Check Point Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server, Log Server, Multi-Domain Log Server, and SmartEvent contain a path traversal vulnerability that allows an unauthenticated attacker to upload and exec…
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CVE-2026-85102: Check Point Multiple Products — Check Point Multiple Products Improper Certificate Validation Vulnerability
Check Point Security Gateway and Check Point Spark Firewall using Site to Site VPN or Remote Access VPN contain an improper certificate validation vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbit…
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21st September – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 21st Setpember, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japan’s Digital Agency, which operates the Government Solution Service used by…
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76% of NZ businesses attacked by cyber criminals in past six months
Cybercrime is increasingly impacting New Zealand businesses – with 76 per cent targeted by a cyber threat or attack in the past six months with damaging consequences, according to research from the National Cyber Security Centre (…
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CISA alerts of active exploitation of three Linux kernel flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that hackers are exploiting three Linux kernel vulnerabilities, one of them rated critical. [...]
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WordPress Click2Shell flaw lets hackers execute PHP on the server
Technical details and a proof-of-concept exploit have been published for a new WordPress cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability dubbed 'Click2Shell' that affects the platform's Core component. [...]
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China-nexus actor steals thousands of documents in monthslong exploitation campaign
Researchers suspect the hacker employed LLMs to develop custom tools.
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks
A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads coming back, exposed …
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FBI's CJIS v6.1: What Security Teams Need to Know.
The FBI's CJIS Security Policy v6.1 strengthens requirements around encryption and vulnerability scanning while continuing the shift toward more continuous security assessment. Specops explains what changed and how agencies can ad…
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Siemba brings continuous IDOR testing to production APIs
Siemba has announced automated testing for insecure direct object reference (IDOR) as part of its API Security Testing capability, which tests REST, GraphQL and SOAP APIs for the vulnerability classes most likely to expose custome…
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Organizations Warned of 3 Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities
Attackers could exploit the flaws to cause denial-of-service conditions, disclose memory, or modify memory. The post Organizations Warned of 3 Exploited Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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More CVEs than ever. The same old ones keep getting exploited.
Vulnerability volume is climbing fast. The exploited ones are old and already patchable.
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Hackers exploit Gyazo server flaw to steal 23.6 million user records
Japanese software company Helpfeel has confirmed a data breach on its screenshot-sharing platform Gyazo, in which attackers exploited a vulnerability in its image upload server, stealing approximately 23.62 million user records an…
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Windows Exploitation Techniques: Dangling COM Object Registrations
This short blog post is about abusing a privilege escalation bug that Microsoft recently fixed in Windows, CVE-2026-66804, that I and 14 others reported. This issue is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-50343, a bug dubbed “Dark Eleva…
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CVE-2026-7273: Zyxel GS1900 Series Switches — Zyxel GS1900 Series Switches Stack-Based Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Zyxel GS1900 series switches contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the CGI program which could allow a LAN-based, unauthenticated attacker to exploit the flaw and potentially execute OS commands via a crafted HTTP…
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Forget the AI Slowdown—the Vulnerability Explosion Is Already Happening
AI labs are toying with an industry-wide pact to slow development. Meanwhile, widely available AI chatbots are already helping uncover a tidal wave of security flaws.
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SolarWinds Patches ARM Hard-Coded Key Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE
SolarWinds has released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Access Rights Manager (ARM) that, if successfully exploited, could lead to an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability. The vulnerability, trac…
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Critical Pre-Auth RCE in Orkes Conductor Workflow Platform Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability impacting Orkes Conductor is being actively exploited in the wild, according to Fortinet. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8/CVSS v4 score: 9.3), which relates to a case …
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CISA Flags Three Linux Kernel Vulnerabilities Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added three security flaws impacting the Linux kernel to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vul…
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Cisco Zero-Day Highlights API Endpoint Authentication Issues
The authentication bypass flaw CVE-2026-76460 impacts Cisco's Identity Services Engine (ISE) and received a maximum 10 out of 10 CVSS score.
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Public Exploits Released for Four Linux Kernel Flaws That Enable Local Root
A security researcher has released working exploit code for four Linux kernel flaws that each let a local user gain root, the highest level of access on a machine. Kernel maintainers have fixed all four over the past few weeks, so…
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New WordPress Click2Shell Flaw Forces Theme Installs, Can Chain to Code Execution
WordPress today released patches to fix a new set of vulnerabilities in its core software, one of which could allow a crafted web link, opened by a logged-in administrator, to install a theme from the official WordPress.org direct…
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Gyazo server flaw exploited to steal 23.6 million user records
The Gyazo image-sharing platform has confirmed it suffered a data breach after hackers exploited a server vulnerability that allowed them to steal 23.6 million user records. [...]
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CISA ends weekly vulnerability roundups as part of shift to prioritization approach
The agency wants to help companies sort through the AI-fueled avalanche of bug reports.
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Microsoft Patches CVSS 10.0 Azure AI Foundry Flaw Enabling Unauthorized Privilege Escalation
Microsoft has released fixes for a maximum-severity security flaw in Azure AI Foundry that could be exploited to achieve privilege escalation. No customer action is required. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85889, carries a…
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