Safe word: What is it and why do you need one?
AI scams are now hyper-realistic. But there’s one simple way to see through them.
Also covered by Graham Cluley, Dark Reading, Qualys Blog
ShinyHunters Suspect Rey Reportedly Detained in Jordan, Helping FBI Identify Group Members
A suspected member of the ShinyHunters digital extortion group, who goes by the online alias "Rey," has been allegedly detained by authorities in Jordan, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Rey, whose real name…
Also covered by BleepingComputer, HackRead
AL26-024 - Critical vulnerabilities affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway – CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772 – Update 1
Also covered by CERT-EU, Rapid7 Blog
The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations
Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing…
Also covered by Check Point Research, Red Canary
Frontline Education breach exposes school district employee data
Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security…
Also covered by Infosecurity Magazine, SC Media
GitLab Patches Critical 9.9 AI Gateway Flaw Allowing Command Execution on Self-Hosted Servers
A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance…
Also covered by BleepingComputer, SC Media
Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers
Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The…
Also covered by Dark Reading, HackRead
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for September 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for September 2026, which includes 973 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 113 that Microsoft marked as "critical."
Also covered by CrowdStrike, Sucuri Blog
The State of AI-Enabled Malware August 2026: From Brand Abuse to Agentic Execution
Explore Unit 42 research on AI-enabled malware. Learn how existing behavioral detection and endpoint analytics stop AI-authored code before execution. The post The State of AI-Enabled Malware August 2026: From Brand Abuse to Agentic…
Also covered by AWS Security Blog, Elastic Security Labs
A Deep Dive into the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API
In my previous blog post I mentioned the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API. This was an API I didn’t know existed until I found a publicly disclosed UAC bypass using the Quick Assist UI Access application. This API looked interesting so I…
Also covered by AWS Security Blog, Bitdefender Labs
New NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited in Targeted Attacks Can Knock SAML Deployments Offline
Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw in NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway that has been exploited as part of targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88779, carries a CVSS…
Also covered by BleepingComputer
User Agent Strings Curiosities, (Sun, Oct 4th)
Sometimes I have to smile, or my interest is triggered, when I review new User Agent Strings in the honeypot logs.
Also covered by Red Canary
'Warlock' ransomware used in attacks on critical infrastructure in Portuguese, Spanish-speaking countries
The group is exploiting a variety of vulnerabilities impacting Microsoft SharePoint, according to a new report from Symantec Threat Hunter Team.
Also covered by SecurityWeek
OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies…
Also covered by TechCrunch (Security)
Microsoft’s X account hacked in crypto pump-and-dump scheme
On Thursday, unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto token. [...]
Also covered by SecurityWeek
ZDI-26-751: Microsoft Windows dxgkrnl Time-Of-Check Time-Of-Use Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of Microsoft Windows. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this…
Also covered by Elastic Security Labs
CVE-2026-76504 added to CISA KEV — Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager
Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager contains a hex encoding vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access an affected system with privileges of the admin user due to improper handling of URI encoding in an HTTP…
Also covered by Rapid7 Blog
MikroTik RouterOS
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to achieve remote code execution or cause a denial of service. The following versions of MikroTik RouterOS are affected: RouterOS <7.24…
Also covered by CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation
Authorities in the Netherlands have arrested a 23-year-old convicted cybercriminal on suspicion of aiding in data thefts and extortions by the prolific hacker group ShinyHunters. In the days immediately following the suspect's arrest,…
Also covered by TechCrunch (Security)
28th September – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 28th September, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES The FBI has confirmed unauthorized activity affecting FBIjobs.gov after the…
Also covered by Wordfence