Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are exposing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites to manipulate search results. The takedown notices act as a visible indicator of compromised sites that were abused to host or promote content for search engine manipulation. UpGuar…
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…
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…
The US State Department is offering up to US $10 million through Rewards for Justice for information on Zhang Yu, 44, a Chinese national accused of being a key figure in the state-sponsored group Hafnium (also tracked as Silk Typhoon). Zhang is described as a director at Shanghai Firetech Information Science and Technology, working under …
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 …
Multiple ransomware groups, including Qilin and INC, are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS GlobalProtect portals and gateways. Unit 42 has been investigating intrusions since early June across many sectors, including finance, healthcare and manufacturing. The flaw was patched on May 13 and ini…
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…