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…
CISA added one vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on 2026-09-25 based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-87902, a remote file inclusion flaw in WordPress Core. CISA describes this vulnerability type as a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and a significant risk to the federal enterp…
Hacktron analyzes wp2shell, an unauthenticated RCE chain in WordPress core found by Searchlight Cyber. It combines CVE-2026-63030, a route handler confusion in the REST API batch endpoint, with CVE-2026-60137, an SQL injection in WPQuery. Affected versions are WordPress 6.9.0-6.9.4, 7.0.0-7.0.1 and the 7.1 beta, fixed in 6.9.5, 7.0.2 and …
F5 Labs analyzed exploitation of CVE-2026-24423, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in SmarterTools SmarterMail (CWE-306). CISA added it to the KEV catalog on February 2, 2026 and notes it has been used in ransomware campaigns. Despite public write-ups, F5 sensors saw only one IP, 193.24.123.58 (ASN 200593, Russian ISP …
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…
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 …