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AI
AI agent used Zammad zero-days to breach Dutch vulnerability disclosure non-profit

An agentic AI-powered attack that hit the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) on September 21 exploited two zero-day vulnerabilities in Zammad, an open-source …

Cisco
New Cisco SD-WAN zero-day exploited in-the-wild (CVE-2026-76504)

For the fifth time this year, Cisco revealed attackers have exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-76504) in its SD-WAN solution in zero-day attacks. The vendor’s incident …

NetScaler
Suspected state-sponsored hackers exploited NetScaler zero-day since early September (CVE-2026-88772)

“Advanced and suspected state-sponsored threat actors” are likely to be behind the initial targeted intrusions that leveraged CVE-2026-88772, one of the two …

Jfrog Artifactory
OpenInfra Europe’s JFrog Artifactory instance breached, packages potentially compromised

Attackers have compromised a self-hosted JFrog Artifactory instance operated by OpenInfra Europe, the regional hub of the OpenInfra Foundation warned in a security notice …

NetScaler
NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771)

The hacking of internet-exposed, vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments has escalated. What started as stealthy targeting via zero-day exploits has now become …

ChatGPT
Malicious Custom GPT on chatgpt.com lures users into installing a RAT

Malware peddlers are using sponsored Google results to push a malicious ChatGPT Custom GPT named “Plus 5.6,” created to lead users to a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA …

Apple
Apple squashes zero-day bug exploited in “extremely sophisticated” attack (CVE-2026-86950)

Apple has shipped iOS and macOS security updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-86950) in the operating systems’ Core Graphics framework. …

door
FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day

The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what …

Netscaler
Citrix NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited globally for weeks (CVE-2026-88771, CVE-2026-88772)

Citrix has patched eight critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, two of which (CVE-2026-88771, CVE-2026-88772) have been exploited …

AI
OpenAI agent hacking spree widens to Australia, targeting government website

Before the Hugging Face and RubyGems hacks, autonomous OpenAI agents attempted to hack into three other websites, including an Australian government public health website, …

email
DarkMe RAT trades zero-days for plain phishing emails

DarkMe, a remote access trojan and info-stealer that has previously been associated with a threat group that targeted financial market traders and cryptocurrency users, has …

target
Attackers hit Check Point Management Servers and Spark firewalls, F5 BIG-IP APM instances

Check Point Software has released emergency fixes for a critical Check Point Management Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-93616) that has been exploited as far back as July 23, …

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