CrowdStrike reports that the cybercriminal group SLIM SPIDER breached a Brazilian financial institution in late March 2026 to obtain credentials and information tied to digital assets. The group did not attack Pix or the Central Bank directly. It targeted the cloud environments that banks and fintechs use. CrowdStrike also recorded a 171%…
TrustedSec researcher Lilly Mayo published waf-fu, an offensive tool that pulls AWS WAF log data into a local sqlite database and enables replay of logged requests. During an engagement, the author found WAF logs in CloudWatch that captured all headers unredacted, including session cookies and other authentication material, which can be r…
ConnectWise has disabled its cloud backup offering amid concern for downstream managed service providers (MSPs) and their customers. Researchers say attackers authenticated into Microsoft 365 tenants using ConnectWise credentials. ConnectWise says customer impact remains unconfirmed. The available article text is limited to the headline a…
A privilege escalation flaw, CVE-2026-16764 (GHSA-w2j3-x3j3-mm43, CVSS 3.1 7.8, CWE-269), affects OWASP DefectDojo. The REST API UserSerializer validates changes to issuperuser but not to isstaff. An authenticated user holding only the delegated auth.changeuser permission can therefore make themselves staff and then become superuser throu…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20321, a command injection vulnerability in the web-based management API of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). An authenticated, remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying operating system. Cisco rates the Security Impact…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-76488, a medium-severity vulnerability in the export policies functionality of Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC). An authenticated remote attacker with valid administrative credentials could read sensitive files from the underlying file system of an affected device. The files include key ma…
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…
Zeabur, a developer hosting and deployment platform, disclosed that on October 14-15, 2026 an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its shared clusters, some Dedicated Servers and internal systems, and ultimately read the production database. The breach affected shared clusters in nine regions, 321,81…
Flashpoint's first monthly insider threat report, drawn from its Primary Source Collection (PSC), identified 9,787 insider-related posts across 1,216 channels and 1,778 authors in September 2026. Overall volume fell, but threat actors kept recruiting insiders and advertising insider access, mostly to enable fraud. Flashpoint counted 857 u…
Huntress reports that a stolen vendor credential for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used on October 15, 2026 to obtain Microsoft Graph tokens in customer Microsoft 365 tenants from the hosting IP 144.172.64.128. As of 19:00 UTC on October 16, Huntress had confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 162 tenants. Later updates found…
A threat actor obtained a highly sensitive API secret for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) and used it to sign in to customers' Microsoft 365 tenants, forcing ConnectWise to suspend its Cloud Backup, SaaS Security and Cloud Management services. Huntress saw sign-in activity from the malicious infrastructure across almost 1,000 …
The UK Information Commission's Office (ICO) issued reprimands, not fines, to Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales (Data Cymru) after a ransomware attack on 1 November 2024. The intruder used a forgotten test account, Test2, created in January 2012 with the password "Password1", to enter Data Cymru's netwo…
ConnectWise said it is still responding to a security incident involving unauthorized access to application identities tied to Cloud Backup. The incident was identified on October 14, 2026, and mitigations began rolling out on October 17. The company has disabled the affected application connections, suspended Cloud Backup, and suspended …
A command injection vulnerability, CVE-2026-4802, was disclosed in Cockpit, the web-based Linux administration tool from Red Hat. It was found by Hakai's Research team. Any authenticated user, including low-privilege accounts such as viewer, can inject OS commands through the system logs filter feature and obtain remote code execution on …
A denial-of-service vulnerability, CVE-2026-42931, affects the npm endpoint of the Gitea Package Registry. The AddPackageTag function reads the entire HTTP request body into memory with io.ReadAll() before any validation, so a single oversized request can crash the whole Gitea process. Any authenticated user can trigger it against their o…
Proofpoint disclosed an active campaign, tracked as UNKCondorFiltration, that used the TeamFiltration offensive framework against more than 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. It focused mainly on Chilean retail and financial institutions and originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 IP addresses. Seven accounts were compromised, a…
Cisco disclosed CVE-2026-20293, a high-severity UEFI Secure Boot bypass in the UEFI Shell of Cisco UCS Servers and UCS-based appliances. An authenticated attacker with a user or admin role, or an unauthenticated attacker with physical access, can bypass Secure Boot validation and execute unauthorized software. Cisco has released software …
TrustedSec published Part 1 of a red-team tradecraft series on what to do after finding plaintext AWS access keys during an engagement. It is educational content, not a report of a specific incident. It explains the difference between long-term AKIA keys (IAM user) and temporary ASIA keys (STS-issued, which also need a session token and a…
Kaspersky GERT reports that the NightEagle APT (also tracked as APT-Q-95), active since at least 2023 and previously focused on Asia, is now attacking businesses in Russia. The attackers usually gain access through compromised valid credentials on corporate VPNs, connecting from Russian IPs tied to Cloudflare WARP tunnels and from Europea…
In April 2026, Kaspersky GERT responded to an incident at a Middle East manufacturing organization where the actor gained domain admin-equivalent control of Active Directory. The actor created and linked a malicious GPO named PAYLOAD at the domain root. It pushed ransom notes, a wallpaper and lock screen, a logon banner and a local admini…