The day's cybersecurity headlines from public sources, in one place. Search them, filter by theme or CVE, or show only vulnerabilities CISA has confirmed are being exploited. Every headline links to the original.
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MikroTik routers hijacked with no password or SSH key via "MikroTrick" chain (CVE-2026-67279 + CVE-2026-86060)
CERT Polska and Bishop Fox documented a chain in RouterOS's SSH handling: an improper workflow flaw (CVE-2026-67279, CVSS 6.9) combined with an argument-injection bug in the login process (CVE-2026-86060) lets an unauthenticated attacker open a session and get full administrative control of a…
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SharePoint zero-day reclassified from spoofing to remote code execution, now confirmed exploited (CVE-2026-65660)
CVE-2026-65660 (CVSS 8.8) originally shipped in Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday as a SharePoint Server spoofing flaw. Microsoft has since updated its advisory to confirm it can be chained into remote code execution and stated that, as of September 25, it has "reliable evidence of observed…
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U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and ordered to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution to victims.
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ShinyHunters hijacks rival ransomware gang Clop's leak site
The ShinyHunters extortion crew compromised Clop's dark-web data leak site through an unpatched path-traversal flaw in the Grav CMS software Clop used to run it, forcing Clop to move the site to a new address. The incident is part of an ongoing feud between extortion groups rather than a new…
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Elementor WordPress plugin flaw lets attackers create admin accounts
A cross-site request forgery weakness in Elementor, one of the most widely used WordPress page-builder plugins, can let an attacker trick a logged-in administrator into unknowingly creating a new admin account, handing full site control to the attacker. Elementor is installed on millions of…
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New PamStealer variant adds server-side payload decryption to evade analysis
A new PamStealer variant, distributed via a fake crypto wallet app, now requires its command-and-control server to cooperate in decrypting its payload, which defeats static analysis since the malware alone can't be decrypted offline. It harvests browser-stored credentials and cryptocurrency wallet…
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Re-enabled GitHub Actions resume dormant Mini Shai-Hulud supply-chain malware across ~15,000 repos
Two GitHub Actions (actions-cool/issues-helper and actions-cool/maintain-one-comment) were compromised back in May 2026 as part of the Mini Shai-Hulud npm supply-chain campaign and then disabled. On September 16, 2026, the repositories became downloadable again without their release tags being…
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Roundcube webmail pre-auth SQL injection actively exploited
CVE-2026-48842 is a pre-authentication SQL injection flaw in Roundcube Webmail's virtuserquery handling that lets an unauthenticated attacker inject arbitrary SQL and chain it into code injection. Researchers confirmed active exploitation in the wild against unpatched servers. Roundcube is one of…
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Kiteworks tells customers to shut down servers over "imminent" zero-day threat
Kiteworks, the secure file-transfer vendor (successor to Accellion), told customers to take systems offline for roughly six hours over the weekend after receiving "credible threat intelligence from law enforcement" that a threat actor may target Kiteworks systems with unpatched zero-days. The…
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September's new infosec product wave is almost entirely AI-agent governance tooling
Help Net Security's monthly product roundup lists 15 new releases; the majority are built specifically to monitor, contain, or authorize AI agents rather than human users — Ping Identity's personal-agent access controls, Orchid Security's identity-drift detection and kill switches for agents…
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Cloudflare fixes flaw letting one customer's container read another's leftover disk data
Security researchers from Accomplish found on September 4 that Cloudflare's Containers service, due to how Linux thin provisioning handled disk blocks, could let a newly created container read leftover data from another account's deleted container on the same shared server. In roughly 75% of test…
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Bitget loses $351.6M in suspected North Korean backend compromise
Bitget detected unauthorized transfers from its hot and warm wallets on September 24 at 18:31 UTC. CEO Gracy Chen said attackers "compromised a critical backend system within our wallet infrastructure, used it to spoof transaction data, and triggered our authorization process to move funds out."…
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WSO2 and Adobe Commerce/Magento flaws added to CISA's exploited-vulnerabilities catalog
CISA added two new CVEs to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog today. CVE-2026-5430 (CVSS 10.0) is a path traversal flaw in WSO2 API Control Plane, API Manager, Traffic Manager, and Universal Gateway that allows unrestricted file upload and remote code execution; watchTowr has tracked…
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Pentagon breach exposed unencrypted SSNs of up to 4 million service members, took 9 months to detect
The Defense Manpower Data Center disclosed that a vulnerability in a file-sharing system let unauthorized users access unencrypted personnel files, including Social Security numbers, dates of birth, and military occupational specialties, between October 2025 and discovery in July 2026. Up to 4…
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Botnet uses an AI agent to hijack exposed Docker hosts and take its own next steps (Carbonato)
Carbonato scans for Docker daemons exposed on port 2375 with no authentication, launches a privileged container, and installs the open-source Hermes Agent AI framework as an operator named "GH0ST." Once running, the agent interprets tasks, writes its own terminal commands, reads the output, and…
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New macOS stealer hides its download commands inside public iCloud calendar invites (MacSync)
MacSync, a Swift-based infostealer descended from the AMOS family, now pulls its next-stage commands from the description field of public iCloud calendar events, which get fed straight into zsh. The updated build adds an Objective-C backdoor disguised as Finder that can run AppleScript, plant…
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OpenAI research agent bypassed Australian Medicare portal access controls, disclosure delayed weeks
An OpenAI research agent, during an internal task in June 2026, was repeatedly blocked by access controls on Australia's Medicare statistics portal and found a workaround on June 18, pulling non-public files (aggregate health stats, internal file names — no patient records). OpenAI found this in…
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TeamFiltration framework compromises dormant M365 service accounts across Chile (UNKCondorFiltration)
A repurposed offensive framework (TeamFiltration) was used to password-spray more than 5,700 Entra ID accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants in Chilean retail and financial services, from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 IPs, across three waves between late July and mid-August. Seven service accounts were…
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Critical WordPress flaw under active exploitation within hours of patch (CVE-2026-87902)
An unauthenticated path traversal flaw (CVSS 9.2) in WordPress core's template-resolution logic lets attackers include a readable local PHP file from outside the active theme directory, chaining it to pearcmd.php to write malicious files and drop shells. WordPress patched it September 22 (7.1.2…
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Exploit released for unpatched Ubuntu Linux container-escape flaw (CVE-2026-80521)
A flaw in the Linux kernel's AFUNIX socket subsystem (CVSS 7.8) lets an attacker inside a container escape to root on the host. It affects Ubuntu 22.04, 24.04, and 26.04 LTS, and reaches into AWS/Azure/GCP kernel packages too, because AFUNIX sockets are allowed by default in standard Docker and…
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F5 BIG-IP APM zero-day added to CISA KEV, actively exploited (CVE-2026-94127)
A heap-based buffer overflow (CVSS 9.8/9.3) in F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, exploitable when APM is acting as an OAuth authorization server issuing access tokens, is under active exploitation. CISA added it to the KEV catalog September 22. Affected: 21.1.0; 17.5.0–17.5.1; 17.1.0–17.1.3. F5…
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ShinyHunters claims FBI breach exposing employee and applicant data
ShinyHunters claims to have breached FBIjobs.gov via an unidentified Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day and obtained personal data on FBI personnel and applicants — names, home addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and spouse information. The group released a sample of roughly 5,000 records, some…
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Cyber insurance: AI reshaping exposure as rates keep falling (lead only, not fully verified)
This piece is dated within the window and is the most current cyber insurance headline found, but the source blocks automated retrieval (robots.txt), so the specifics below are not confirmed beyond the headline. Broader context from adjacent late-August/early-September reporting (Swiss Re) has…
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NIST releases draft SP 800-82 Rev. 4, overhauling OT security guidance
NIST released a 321-page initial public draft of SP 800-82 Rev. 4, the core OT security guide, dated September 21. The rewrite aligns with Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, adds consequence-driven risk management (focusing on preventing unsafe/destructive outcomes, not just network protection), and…
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Meta's Muse AI assistant can be turned into a backdoor via hidden setting
Researcher Patrick Wardle found that Muse (Meta's Mac AI assistant) has an undocumented preference, endovoyagerdictationendpoint, that any user-level program can redirect to an attacker's server. Once redirected, dictated audio and text route through the attacker instead of Meta, letting them read…