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Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…
F5 Labs, using Efflux sensor telemetry, analyzed December 2025 exploitation of React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182), a CVSS 10.0 unsafe deserialization RCE in React Server Components. It was disclosed on 3 December 2025 and rose to second place among the most exploited CVEs, behind only CVE-2017-9841. Within days of disclosure, actors moved from …
Throughout October 2026, Wiz observed an actor using tooling associated with ARTEX, an open-source autonomous AI penetration-testing framework, against multiple IT and software vendors. The activity targeted identity providers (Okta, Entra ID, AWS Cognito) and Microsoft 365 integrations, with repeated attempts to bypass authentication, en…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reported on October 19, 2026 that ransomware operators are still actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS 7.8), an authentication bypass in the GlobalProtect portal and gateway of PAN-OS. The flaw lets attackers bypass MFA and open unauthorized VPN sessions. Unit 42 attributes exploitation attempts to Spikey Scor…
Group-IB research describes a widespread campaign by an operator tracked as k0t that targets FortiGate, FortiWeb and Palo Alto GlobalProtect appliances to steal credentials, persist and exfiltrate corporate data. More than 70,000 exposed credentials were identified across network-device records, LDAP dumps and other artifacts. Many FortiG…
GreyNoise reports that on 31 August 2026 a likely Russian-speaking malicious cyber actor used 45.142.193.132 and AI to develop, test and deploy exploits for PaperCut NG/MF (CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078). Using hundreds of AI agents built on OpenAI's Codex harness, a DeepSeek model and public offensive security tools, the actor compro…
Cloudflare published defensive guidance following the disclosure of actively exploited Citrix NetScaler vulnerabilities. CVE-2026-88771 allows unauthenticated command execution on affected appliances, including in the default configuration. CVE-2026-88772 affects configurations using DTLS. Citrix's September 27, 2026 bulletin reported obs…
Mandiant and GTIG attribute exploitation of the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day CVE-2026-102764 to Armory Castle (formerly tracked as UNC5221), a likely Chinese government-backed espionage group. BeyondTrust dates the first known exploitation to Aug. 29 and says it detected and contained the activity Sept. 28. Only a small nu…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …
Microsoft attributes the supply-chain compromise of ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to Storm-0940, a China state-aligned actor active since at least 2021. The group has used the agentic AI penetration-testing framework ARTEX since at least September 2026 against hundreds of organizations worldwide (cyberscoop.com, thehackernew…
Microsoft Threat Intelligence reports active exploitation of CVE-2026-73570, a command injection flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite that allows unauthenticated, zero-click compromise of internet-facing email servers. Attackers deployed webshells, escalated privileges, harvested authentication secrets and staged mailbox data across organiz…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 39, 2026) covers one law enforcement success and two active threat campaigns. A US court sentenced Armenian national Karen Serobovich Vardanyan ("Maneeken"/"Karl Lagerfeld"), an initial access specialist for Ryuk ransomware, to two years in prison and over $1.2 million in restitution. SentinelLABS ide…
SOCRadar's Threat Research Unit (STRU) found open directories on 45.227.254.43 in late September 2026. They led to six more adversary servers tied to INC Ransom and The Gentlemen affiliates. The servers held 8,257 AI messages across 133 sessions, source code, stolen credentials, victim workspaces and 46 victim-specific INC encryptor build…
Unit 42 detailed a multi-stage intrusion in September 2024 against a telecommunications managed service provider, tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820). The attackers gained initial access by exploiting CVE-2024-47575 (FortiJump) on a central FortiManager and exfiltrated an archive with running configurations, credentials and private keys …
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a growing number of intrusions in which an AI agent system ran the entire operation: finding entry points, harvesting credentials, pivoting across platforms and debugging its own scripts in real time. In one investigated case, the agent compromised a large multi-cloud organization (GC…
A joint advisory (AA26-194a) from NSA, CISA, FBI, DC3 and 15 allied agencies warns that Russian FSB Center 16 cyber actors continue to opportunistically compromise poorly configured and vulnerable networking devices worldwide, primarily routers. The advisory builds on the FBI's August 2025 PSA on the decade-plus campaign and adds TTPs. Go…
Kaspersky GERT reports that the NightEagle APT (also tracked as APT-Q-95), active since at least 2023 and previously focused on Asia, is now attacking businesses in Russia. The attackers usually gain access through compromised valid credentials on corporate VPNs, connecting from Russian IPs tied to Cloudflare WARP tunnels and from Europea…
Symantec reports that the Russia-linked APT28 (aka Swallowtail, Fancy Bear, Forest Blizzard, BlueDelta), which the U.S. government links to the GRU, targeted organizations in two NATO member states. Victims were a naval shipbuilder, a manufacturer of military aircraft engines and a law enforcement agency (thehackernews.com, cyberscoop.com…
Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …
