Researchers from the SHARE Foundation and The Citizen Lab report spyware on devices belonging to Vladan Ðokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student-led anti-corruption protests, and Rade Bajić, a lawyer with the Public Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime. Citizen Lab confirmed with high co…
Researchers at AI pen-testing startup Xbow used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Google Chrome into a full-chain exploit that executes code outside the browser sandbox on Windows. Xbow estimates about one billion users could be affected. Google fixed all three flaws and paid a $250,000 bounty, its…
Citizen Lab reported that Israeli mercenary spyware vendor Candiru infected devices at Al Jazeera through targeted online ads that needed no user interaction. It calls this the first public technical confirmation of mercenary spyware reaching real devices via ad delivery. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025, and …
The Citizen Lab reported on October 19 that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2026. The finding came six days before Serbia's October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-clic…
Hacktron AI researchers disclosed CVE-2026-33439 (CVSS 9.8, CWE-502), an unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in OpenIdentityPlatform OpenAM 16.0.5 and earlier. It is a variant of CVE-2021-35464: the earlier fix whitelisted deserialization for the jato.pageSession parameter but left the sibling jato.clientSession parameter unfiltere…
Kaspersky's Q2 2026 vulnerability landscape report records an unprecedented number of registered CVEs, including critical ones. It attributes the surge mainly to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and AI-generated code. Researchers are also publishing exploits for unpatched flaws more often. One example is Nightmare Eclipse (Chaotic Ecli…
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday is a record release of roughly 1,415 new CVEs, the first four-digit volume ever, larger than any previous full year of Microsoft patches. Only one flaw is under active attack: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell security feature bypass that evades Mark of the Web (MotW) protections. Two others are public…
Researchers at Hacktron disclosed a vulnerability chain in Cluely, an Electron-based AI assistant that reads the user's screen and microphone. They found it in July 2025 and published in February 2026. The main window had no will-navigate handler, so a link in the AI's markdown response could navigate the whole app to an attacker-controll…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…