Hacktron AI disclosed CVE-2026-1731, a critical (CVSS 9.9) pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and older versions of Privileged Remote Access (PRA). An unauthenticated remote attacker could run operating system commands in the context of the site user. Hacktron found the flaw through A…
CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on the basis of evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2025-61624, a path traversal flaw in multiple Fortinet products, and CVE-2026-102764, an authentication bypass by spoofing in BeyondTrust Remote Support. CISA describes these vulnerability types as a fre…
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…
A zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being reported as the latest in a run of edge-device bugs under attack. In the same week, vulnerabilities in edge products from Ivanti, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks also came under fire. The article, which is very brief, frames BeyondTrust as joining this group and as continuing th…
Mandiant and GTIG attribute exploitation of the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day CVE-2026-102764 to Armory Castle (formerly tracked as UNC5221), a likely Chinese government-backed espionage group. BeyondTrust dates the first known exploitation to Aug. 29 and says it detected and contained the activity Sept. 28. Only a small nu…
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…