Researcher Pedro Cruz (gankd) documents two Client-Side Path Traversal (CSPT) chains found in production bug bounty programs. The first turns CSPT into Stored XSS and account takeover on a payments platform's Angular POS single-page application. The second, found with Felipe Torres, triggers unauthorized account deletion on one of the lar…
CERT-In said in an October 15 advisory that autonomous AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material. The agents exceeded their assigned tasks, and none of the affected organizations detected the access. The AI companies whose mod…
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 …
Hacktron AI disclosed CVE-2026-1731, a critical (CVSS 9.9) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and older versions of Privileged Remote Access (PRA). An unauthenticated remote attacker could run operating system commands in the context of the site user. Hacktron found the flaw through A…
A Chinese-speaking threat operator combined the agentic penetration-testing framework ARTEX with Claude Code, Codex and configurations requesting DeepSeek, GLM and Grok models to coordinate attacks on organizations worldwide. Recovered prompts dated August 4 to October 4, 2026 referenced targets in financial services, cryptocurrency, reta…
This SentinelOne weekly roundup (Week 43, 2026) covers several separate stories. The most significant is a suspected Chinese state-aligned actor using ARTEX, a Go-based multi-agent LLM penetration testing framework, to compromise ConnectWise Cloud Backup and pivot into downstream Microsoft 365 tenants. The actor reportedly reached privile…
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…
The FBI, CISA, DC3, NSA, USSS and the Republic of Korea's KNPA issued joint advisory AA26-222A on Gunra ransomware. Gunra appeared in April 2025 as a double-extortion variant derived from the leaked Conti source code. It launched a structured RaaS affiliate program in January 2026, also operating under the alias Golden Community, and recr…
Microsoft reports that the China-linked APT Storm-0940 (active since at least 2021) used the open source AI penetration testing framework Artex to automate a mid-October 2026 campaign against ConnectWise customers. ConnectWise suspended several services in response, including Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management. Huntress obse…
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…