A zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being reported as the latest in a run of edge-device bugs under attack. In the same week, vulnerabilities in edge products from Ivanti, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks also came under fire. The article, which is very brief, frames BeyondTrust as joining this group and as continuing th…
On 24 September 2026, GreyNoise observed a malicious actor using 149.104.78.141 to attempt pre-disclosure zero-day exploitation of a Citrix NetScaler Gateway on a Project Swarm participant sensor. No CVE-specific detections existed at the time, but behavioral detections labeled the activity malicious within seconds. The attempt failed to …
Cisco disclosed that CVE-2026-76519, a critical (CVSS 9.8) flaw in Secure Email Gateway (SEG), has been exploited as a zero-day before a fix was available. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can write files and execute commands as root on the appliance simply by sending a malicious email. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnera…
CISA issued an alert on exploitation of critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, noting confirmed malicious activity involving at least some of them. The alert references Citrix bulletins for CVE-2026-107406, CVE-2026-88779 and CVE-2026-88771 through CVE-2026-88778. Because NetScaler updates can be …
Microsoft released updates for at least 974 vulnerabilities in Windows and other software, its largest Patch Tuesday ever. The previous record was 570 fixes in July. The 2026 total now exceeds 2,600, more than double the 2020 record year (1,245), with three months still to go. Microsoft and other large vendors, including Adobe, Cisco, Goo…
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…
Dutch authorities arrested a 24-year-old, reportedly Pepijn van der Stap (alias "Umbreon"), around Sept. 16, 2026 on suspicion of aiding data thefts and extortions by ShinyHunters. Van der Stap was previously convicted in 2023 for data theft and extortion. Days after the arrest, remaining ShinyHunters members escalated, breaching the FBI …
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…
Ivanti released its October 2026 security update on 13 October 2026. It fixes the actively exploited Connect Secure zero-day CVE-2026-104935, a spoofing-based authentication bypass that lets remote, unauthenticated attackers execute arbitrary commands (cert.ssi.gouv.fr, darkwebinformer.com). The flaw was discovered by Volexity, which trac…
The PHP security team released emergency fixes on October 21, 2026 for two critical core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, nicknamed PHP2Shell. Both are rated CVSS v4.0 9.2 and allow unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as the web worker account. They can also expose process memory that may hold credentials and API keys (…