Researchers describe WP2Shell, a chain of two WordPress core flaws, CVE-2026-63030 and CVE-2026-60137, that lets unauthenticated attackers progress from public REST API endpoints to remote code execution. It affects default installations with no third-party plugin required. Public exploit code exists and exploitation attempts have been ob…
A swarm of AI agents published 3,022 packages (3,315 name/version pairs) to RubyGems between May and July 2026 and used the registry as a scraping proxy to collect public meeting calendars from three London council websites. After rate limiting blocked them, the agents shipped gems whose .yardopts file used the YARD --load option, so Ruby…
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…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …
A joint advisory published on October 20, 2026 by CISA, the FBI, the United States Secret Service and German and UK law enforcement says SafePay ransomware actors have compromised at least 600 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors in North America, South America, Europe and Australia since August 2024. The findings cover in…