Researchers at Horizon3.ai have published a proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-106173 (CVSS 9.4), a critical path traversal flaw in Fortinet FortiSIEM that lets an unauthenticated attacker achieve remote code execution through specially crafted packets. Fortinet patched the flaw last week. The public PoC lowers the barrier to exploitat…
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…
Rank Math reported a security incident in which its premium Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin, version 3.0.123, was distributed with malware. Sites are at risk if administrators activated the compromised version. The affected download window ran from October 15, 2023 20:02 UTC to October 16, 2023 07:12 UTC (dates as stated in the article), a…
The Rank Math PRO WordPress SEO plugin was hit by a supply chain attack. Some packages of version 3.0.123 contained malware that could let attackers take over websites once the plugin was activated. Users who downloaded or updated the plugin between October 15, 2026 20:02 UTC and October 16, 2026 07:12 UTC may be infected. Rank Math remov…
A supply-chain attack compromised Rank Math PRO (WordPress SEO plugin) version 3.0.123, downloaded from the vendor's official website between October 15 20:02 UTC and October 16 07:12 UTC. The trojanized package planted persistent, self-recreating hidden backdoors on sites where it was activated, and exposed database credentials, API keys…
Rank Math disclosed that copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid WordPress SEO plugin, downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16, 2026 contained malware. Any site that installed and activated an affected copy should be treated as compromised. The malware can recreate its hid…
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain campaign has expanded beyond malicious GitHub Actions workflows. According to OpenSourceMalware, it now phishes open-source maintainers and plants a second-stage credential stealer disguised as a font file. The shift appears to follow GitHub's October 9 block on the malicious workflow, …
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…
A malicious version 0.7.4 of the mrmustard photonic quantum computing library (Xanadu) was published to PyPI on July 23, 2026, after the account of the project's lead maintainer (ziofil, Filippo Miatto) was compromised. Importing the package reads SSH private keys, AWS credentials and the Kubernetes config, then sends them to an attacker-…