Proofpoint disclosed an active campaign, tracked as UNKCondorFiltration, that used the TeamFiltration offensive framework against more than 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. It focused mainly on Chilean retail and financial institutions and originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 IP addresses. Seven accounts were compromised, a…
FortiGuard Labs describes an intrusion in which a compromised Jenkins EC2 build host, tied to Shai Hulud persistence, was used to steal instance role credentials via IMDS and pivot into the victim's AWS environment. The actor used the credentials from external IPs, created an admin IAM user named cloudops-monitor, opened network paths to …
FortiGuard Labs reports an ongoing Ousaban campaign targeting the Iberian Peninsula. The actor keeps refining its delivery chain and uses geofencing and environmental checks to restrict access to the malware to the intended victims. Ousaban resolves its C2 IP through daily-changing domains and runs a traditional C2 setup as a decoy. Its l…
FortiGuard Labs describes a large-scale, global campaign that uses heavily obfuscated JScript droppers to launch an AutoIt/Lua-based loader with low detection rates. The loader delivers several popular RATs and infostealers, including a version of Snake Keylogger. The infection chain relies on business email compromise tactics, impersonat…
FortiGuard Incident Response reports a supply chain attack on the QuickFox Windows application, whose trojanized components deployed the FDMTP implant to users. QuickFox's user base is mainly Chinese international students and expats. Affected Windows versions are those later than v3.0.35 and earlier than v3.55.6. QuickFox has removed the…
FortiGuard Labs describes Evooo1Bot, a Linux botnet that embeds the Mirai DDoS engine in a more modular and capable framework. It uses encrypted C2 communications, layered string obfuscation (AES-256-CTR, ChaCha20, XOR-based key derivation) and a 28-command remote administration interface. It also ships an integrated exploit arsenal again…
FortiGuard Labs describes an LLMjacking incident in which an AWS account was compromised through a leaked, long-lived IAM access key with AdministratorAccess permissions. The operator subscribed to one or more foundation models through AWS Marketplace and invoked them through Amazon Bedrock, generating inference charges against the victim…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a Casbaneiro banking trojan campaign targeting users in Latin America. The campaign applies access restrictions at several stages to keep the malware away from analysis tools: the download page, the HTA downloader and Casbaneiro itself. Casbaneiro sends different types of stolen data to separate servers and uses a…
FortiGuard Labs analyzed a SectopRAT variant that is embedded in legitimate software to evade detection. The malware uses a multi-stage loader to extract its payload from files, then applies API hashing, indirect function calls and in-memory loading to run the final .NET payload. Once running, it sets up encrypted communication with its C…
FortiGuard Labs describes ClingSTUN, a Linux back-connect proxy backdoor that keeps persistent access and turns compromised devices into remotely controlled proxy nodes. It combines persistence, process termination, watchdog manipulation and remote command execution. It also uses legitimate public STUN servers for NAT traversal, to discov…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20154, a high-severity vulnerability in the system rate-limiting process for syslog message 419002 in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can cause high CPU utilization on an affected device, r…
Cisco updated its advisory for CVE-2024-20260, a denial-of-service vulnerability in the VPN and management web servers of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software. The original version covered only the ASAv and FTDv virtual models, but Cisco later found that a…
Cisco published a Software Security Hardening Release advisory for Cisco IOS XE Software. It addresses multiple vulnerabilities found during an internal security review and internal testing. Cisco states the flaws are not known to be actively exploited. It grouped the issues by Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) class and assigned a single…
Cisco published the NX-OS Software Security Hardening Release: October 2026 advisory (cisco-sa-hardening-nxosw1-cWzSbtR) on 7 October 2026. It covers multiple vulnerabilities found by the Cisco NX-OS engineering team during an internal security review. Cisco rates the security impact as Critical and says the flaws are not known to be acti…
Cisco published its October 2026 security hardening release for the Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). It follows an internal security review that found multiple vulnerabilities. Cisco rates the Security Impact Rating as Critical and assigns CVE-2026-76498, CVE-2026-76499 and CVE-2026-76500. The flaws were found during i…
Cisco published a security hardening release for Cisco License On-Prem (formerly Smart Software Manager On-Prem, SSM On-Prem) after an internal security review. The review found multiple vulnerabilities, which Cisco groups by Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) class under four CVE IDs. Cisco rates the security impact Critical. The flaws we…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20362, a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Cisco Finesse. An unauthenticated, remote attacker could exploit it by sending a crafted HTTP request to an affected device. Successful exploitation could expose limited sensitive information from services associated…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20293, a high-severity UEFI Secure Boot bypass in the UEFI Shell of Cisco UCS Servers and UCS-based appliances. An authenticated attacker with a user or admin role, or an unauthenticated attacker with physical access, can bypass Secure Boot validation and execute unauthorized software. Cisco has released software …
Cisco published its Meraki Security Hardening Release for October 2026, addressing multiple vulnerabilities found during an internal security review of Meraki software. Cisco rates the Security Impact Rating as Critical. The flaws were found in internal testing and are not known to be actively exploited. Cisco grouped the issues by Common…
On September 15, 2026, Oracle released its Critical Security Patch Update (CSPU) for September 2026, with 673 security updates covering 672 unique CVEs across 17 product families. Of these, 104 issues (15.5%) are rated critical, 503 high, 59 medium and 7 low. Oracle E-Business Suite received the most patches (159, 23.6%), followed by Orac…