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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 …

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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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Brief hijack makes Elsevier domains redirect to LAPSUS$ “Chapter II” page

Three domains / web portals belonging to Dutch academic publishing company Elsevier have been redirecting users to a page branded “LAPSUS$ GROUP, Chapter II,” …

Zyxel
Attacker compromised nearly 1000 Zyxel switches since August (CVE-2026-7273)

A Chinese-speaking threat actor has exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-7273) in unpatched ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and has exfiltrated sensitive data from 996 …

North Korea
North Korea’s job interview scam runs both ways

Attackers are targeting members of the Rust Project and maintainers of widely used crates (Rust code libraries), dangling attractive opportunities to compromise their devices …

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CISA wants critical infrastructure orgs and smaller security teams to start using cyber decoys

Cyber deception has long been the domain of well-resourced security teams, but CISA’s latest guidance, titled “Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection and …

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Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460)

Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an authentication …

Parallels
Parallels Desktop flaw hands any local user root on a Mac (CVE-2026-90894)

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Parallels Desktop, tracked as CVE-2026-90894 and dubbed “ParaShells,” can allow any local user on a Mac to gain root privileges …

Acronis
Acronis backup plugin flaw exploited in targeted attacks (CVE-2026-87886)

A Linux privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2026-87886) affecting Acronis’ backup extensions for cPanel, WebHost Manager (WHM), and Plesk, is being leveraged by …

Cisco
Cisco patches actively exploited email gateway zero-day (CVE-2026-76461)

Attackers have leveraged a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-76461) to compromise Cisco Secure Email Gateway appliances, Cisco confirmed on Monday. The …

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Cisco FMC bugs exploited by nation-state and ransomware actors (CVE-2026-20079, CVE-2026-20316)

State-sponsored and financially-motivated attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Management …

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September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor

September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that have been exploited as …

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