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Russia's Hybrid Cyber-Physical War in Europe Heats Up

A storm is raging in the form of cyber sabotage, disinformation, and drone attacks on European nations, particularly those that provide material support to Ukraine.

Roundcube Webmail Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs

Tracked as CVE-2026-48842, the exploited bug is an SQL injection that can be exploited without authentication. The post Roundcube Webmail Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Cloudflare Fixes Flaw That Let One Container Read Another Customer's Leftover Disk Data

A flaw in Cloudflare Containers let a paying customer read data that other customers' containers had left behind on the same server, Cloudflare and the researchers who found it said on Thursday. The data came from disk space that earlier containers had used and given up, not from any live workload, and an attacker could not choose whose data they got, according to Cloudflare. The company

ISC Stormcast For Friday, September 25th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10110, (Fri, Sep 25th)

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'Salesbleed' Exploits Salesforce Agents to Enable Slack Phishing

Agentic AI can smuggle arbitrary instructions from the Web, across multiple apps, into trusted internal communications channels.

MacSync malware uses public iCloud calendars to deliver new payloads

A new variant of the MacSync malware targeting macOS systems now uses public iCloud calendar events to deliver new native payloads. [...]

Ryuk Member Karen Vardanyan Sentenced to Two Years in U.S. Prison

Ryuk member Karen Vardanyan was sentenced to 24 months in U.S. prison after extradition from Ukraine and ordered to pay $1.2M in restitution. Karen Vardanyan, a 35-year-old Armenian citizen who went by “Maneeken” and, oddly, “Karl Lagerfeld” online, was extradited from Ukraine and sentenced to 24 months in federal prison plus three years of supervised […]

Autonomous AI Hacks Raise Thorny Questions of Legal Accountability

The prospect of legal accountability is unclear. Lawsuits are a possibility, but some legal experts believe any criminal investigations would face an extremely high burden. The post Autonomous AI Hacks Raise Thorny Questions of Legal Accountability appeared first on SecurityWeek.

SectopRAT Returns, Hiding Inside a Legitimate Application

The latest activity from the remote access Trojan (RAT) shows why organizations should monitor the behavior of applications rather than blindly trusting them, experts say.

Digital forensics firm with US federal contracts covered up ties to Russia, DOJ alleges

Two executives at a data extraction and digital forensics company that sold several U.S. agencies its software were arrested for allegedly lying about the fact that its technology is made in Russia.

Lawmakers introduce bill for voluntary telecom cyber rules after Salt Typhoon hacks

U.S. Sens. Mark Warner (D-VA) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Telecommunications Cybersecurity and Resilience Act on Thursday, arguing that the new effort was necessary in light of the Salt Typhoon attacks which saw Chinese hackers breach nearly all of the major telecommunications giants in the U.S.

New Carbonato malware uses AI agents to hijack exposed Docker hosts

A new botnet malware called Carbonato is targeting insecure hosts running Docker daemons to install the Hermes Agent AI framework and take control. [...]

CVE-2026-96883 - Type confusion in AWS pgcollection allows remote code execution

Bulletin ID: 2026-118-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 09/24/2026 12:00 PM PDT Description: pgcollection is an open source extension to PostgreSQL. We identified CVE-2026-96883, an issue in pgcollection's type coercion logic. When requesting a stored icollection value as a type incompatible with how it was actually stored causes the extension to misinterprets the datum's representation, allowing an authenticated database user to crash the PostgreSQL …

Rydox cybercriminal marketplace operator pleads guilty following co-conspirator brothers’s deportation

Ardit Kutleshi, 28, was extradited from his home country of Kosovo last year after prosecutors accused him and his older brother of running Rydox — an illicit platform used by cybercriminals to sell stolen personal information, illegal access to devices and other tools for carrying out fraud.

AI Helps Uncover MikroTrick Attack Chain in MikroTik RouterOS

MikroTrick chains two RouterOS flaws to bypass authentication and gain admin access. AI helped researchers uncover the attack chain within days. MikroTik pushed out patches on September 3, 2026 for several RouterOS issues at once, calling it an important security update without saying what it actually fixed. That silence was deliberate, and it didn’t last […]

Unpatched OnePlus Flaws Let Installed Android Apps Gain Root Without Permissions

A OnePlus 15 running the latest OxygenOS can be rooted by a malicious app the owner installs, one that asks for no special permissions. A researcher, Rasmus Moorats, chained two flaws in OnePlus's own software to gain root access, the highest level of control over an Android phone. OnePlus told him the same flaws affect many more of its own devices and those of OPPO, though it has not

Trust and the enticing consultancy offer

In this week’s newsletter Martin muses over a very suspicious elicitation over social media and the true value of trust within the cyber ecosystem. Hubris might be the real vulnerability that the cyber industry must worry about.

ThreatsDay: AI Search Poisoning, AI Coding Tool Leaking Repos, One-Click Code Execution and 13 More Stories

This week, the dangerous stuff keeps arriving dressed as something boring. An update. A login box. A search answer. A coding tool. A link you have clicked a hundred times before. That is the thread running through the pile. Trusted paths get poisoned. Old bugs find new jobs. AI tools leak more than expected. Fake prompts look real enough. And some attacks barely need an exploit at all — just

Exposed GitLab project email addresses let attackers push code

Private GitLab email addresses that allow developers to push issues or tasks to a project are being deliberately exposed in READMEs, contributing guides, and support pages used to collect bug reports. [...]

CVE-2026-95985 - Kiro IDE Allows Agentic Writes to Global Configurations While Working in Untrusted Workspaces

Bulletin ID: 2026-117-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 09/24/2026 10:00 AM PDT Description: Kiro is an agentic IDE that users install on their desktop. We identified CVE-2026-95985. The file write tool in Kiro IDE before version 1.0.242 might allow remote unauthenticated actors to execute arbitrary commands and to inject crafted instructions into the agent's context. When a user runs the agent in a crafted repository as an untrusted workspace, sendin…

Cisco Identity Services Engine Authentication Bypass Vulnerabilities

Multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Cisco ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) could allow a remote attacker to access or manipulate data, obtain sensitive information, or cause a reload of certificate and key material on an affected device. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. There are no workarounds that address these vulnerabilit…

TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords

Ghost Service Accounts Enable M365 Data Theft in Chile

Proofpoint Banks on Intent‑Based Detection

​​​​​​​​What’s new in Microsoft Security: September 2026​​

This month's updates help you discover and control local AI agents, extend Zero Trust to agent traffic, and strengthen SOC foundations. The post ​​​​​​​​What’s new in Microsoft Security: September 2026​​ appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft across deployments

Storm-2570 is a ransomware affiliate that uses consistent post-compromise tools and techniques across deployments involving Qilin, DragonForce, Anubis, and BERT ransomware, and provides guidance to help defenders detect and disrupt this activity before ransomware deployment. The post Beyond the ransomware: Tracking Storm-2570’s consistent tradecraft across deployments appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog.

Kontext Security Emerges With $4 Million for AI Agent Runtime Controls

The startup’s runtime enforcement platform evaluates AI agents in real time to provide visibility and control over their actions. The post Kontext Security Emerges With $4 Million for AI Agent Runtime Controls appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Placeholder third-party[.]com Referenced Across 1,700+ Repositories Now Serves Malicious Content

The "third-party[.]com" domain, commonly used as a documentation placeholder, has been observed serving a ClickFix lure to Windows browsers while displaying a harmless decoy to other users. "third-party[.]com has been a generic documentation placeholder for years, the same role example.com plays," Manifold Security's Head of Research, Ax Sharma, said. "Unlike 'example[.]com,' third-party[.]com