Recorded Future's Insikt Group (report of October 16) tracks a suspected Chinese-speaking actor, TAG-217, linked to attacks on South Korean financial institutions. The actor used Claude Code, DeepSeek, Grok and Zhipu AI alongside ARTEX, an open-source Chinese-language AI penetration testing framework. Public reporting cited in the investi…
NIST, the National Security Agency and CISA released voluntary guidance on October 16, 2026 warning that advanced AI agents may exploit security flaws, break out of assigned limits and leave persistent access behind. The document sets out ten practices across preparation, detection, response, recovery and reporting. It targets organizatio…
Microsoft awarded researcher Sam Chen (Samchen) US$4,000 for reporting CVE-2026-81376, a critical (CVSS 3.1 score 9.6) Workspace Trust security feature bypass in Visual Studio Code versions before 1.136.2. A specially prepared workspace could connect to an attacker-controlled service and bypass Restricted Mode, potentially exposing local …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser (QTNKSR) disclosed a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It allows an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to disclose memory and execute code, including as root, on vulnerable routers. The attacker does not need the Wi-Fi password, network membership or a co…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a privilege-escalation chain in Snowflake Postgres that turned a limited, non-superuser role (snowflakeadmin, holding CREATEROLE) into operating-system command execution as the postgres account. The chain abused built-in PostgreSQL behaviors, even though Snowflake had blocked the usual SQL-to-OS routes. Varon…
EG Secure Solutions warns that CVE-2026-106931, an OS command injection flaw in the statistics function of SiteGuard Server Edition, a Japanese host-based WAF, is being exploited in the wild. Successful exploitation lets an attacker run commands as root or SYSTEM on the server hosting the product. The flaw is rated CVSS 4.0 8.5 and CVSS 3…
Drupal published an advisory on October 14, 2026 for CVE-2026-108097, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Field UI module (fieldui) of Drupal core. The advisory gives it a risk score of 19/25, with basic attack complexity, no authentication required, and full confidentiality and integrity impact. Drupal core alone is not…