Tag: vulnerability
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Nintendo Switch Flaw Lets Nearby Attackers Run Code, Steal Data
A newly disclosed Nintendo Switch vulnerability is pushing owners of the original console toward an urgent firmware update, particularly those who tend to play in public spaces. Nintendo confirmed the vulnerability in Nintendo Switch systems in a PDF advisory released Sept. 10, just a day after quietly shipping firmware version 23.0.0 to address the problem.…
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Telegram Desktop Flaw Could Turn Old Chat Exports Into Data Theft Traps
A Telegram Desktop flaw let bots inject JavaScript into exported chats, enabling data theft and page manipulation. Old HTML exports remain unsafe. A vulnerability in Telegram Desktop could have turned an ordinary chat export into a serious data leak. Security researchers Denis and Aleksander Rostilov of ExPatch found a stored cross-site scripting flaw in the…
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NonDay VPN Flaw Left Japan ‘s Government Shared Network Platform Exposed: 246,000 Records at Risk
Tags: access, breach, data-breach, exploit, flaw, government, network, risk, service, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayJapan ‘s Digital Agency disclosed a VPN breach exposing 246,000 government employee records across 23 ministries. Detected June 25, publicly disclosed September 11. Japan ‘s Digital Agency disclosed that attackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN device to access its Government Solution Service (GSS), potentially leaking personal information belonging to approximately 246,000 government employees, public…
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Japan Government Network Breach Puts 246,000 People at Risk
A vulnerability in Japan’s shared government network may have exposed personal information tied to 246,000 workers across 23 organizations. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/cybersecurity/news-government-network-breach-apac-japan/
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Linux Kernel ZcopyReaper Vulnerability Lets Local Attackers Gain Root Privileges
Security researchers have disclosed a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux kernel related to the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) zero-copy send path. This vulnerability could let an unprivileged local attacker gain root privileges. It is tracked as CVE-2026-43502 and is referred to as “ZcopyReaper.” NebuSec researcher Yuan Tan reported the issue in a disclosure…
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Microsoft Offers $60,000 Bounty for Critical Cross-Tenant Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has expanded its incentives for security researchers focusing on Dynamics 365 and Power Platform, offering rewards ranging from $1,250 to $60,000 for qualifying vulnerabilities. The program prioritizes flaws that have a direct and demonstrable security impact in supported cloud services, including cross-tenant issues that could compromise isolation between customer environments. Microsoft Offers $60,000 Bounty…
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ENISA: Frontier AI Is Changing the Speed of Cyberattacks. Europe Needs to Catch Up
Frontier AI is compressing the attack lifecycle from vulnerability discovery to exploitation, forcing defenders to detect, patch and respond at machine speed. Cybersecurity has always been a race between attackers and defenders. ENISA’s latest assessment suggests that frontier AI is changing the speed of that race, and the gap between discovering a vulnerability and exploiting…
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‘Sandworm’ Chains Cisco Vulnerabilities to Deploy Cyclops Blink
The notorious Russian threat group is spreading an upgraded version of the botnet malware, which the FBI disrupted in 2022. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/sandworm-chains-cisco-vulnerabilities-cyclops-blink
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Maximum Severity GitLab Flaw Puts Supply Chains at Risk
CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability with a 10 out of 10 CVSS score, affecting both GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition instances. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/maximum-severity-gitlab-flaw-supply-chains-risk
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Homebrew 7.0.0 gets built-in GUI, better security controls
Homebrew package manager version 7.0.0 has been released with a built-in vulnerability scanner, stronger security controls, and the full release of its native BrewUI graphical interface. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/homebrew-700-gets-built-in-gui-better-security-controls/
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InWild Attacks Hit Popular DevSecOps Platform GitLab
Recently Patched Flaw Is Being Actively Exploited to Steal Files and Credentials. Attackers are actively targeting a recently patched vulnerability in the popular DevSecOps platform GitLab that they can exploit to steal data and credentials from public-facing, self-hosted GitLab servers. The software developer is urging all self-hosted users to update immediately. First seen on govinfosecurity.com…
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Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries
A Chinese threat actor tracked as Red Heron has been attributed to the rapid exploitation of a recently disclosed security vulnerability in Gitea to compromise internet-facing instances as part of a multi-national campaign.”Red Heron scanned 1,386 Gitea instances across seven countries and maintained a separate dataset of 477 Taiwan-based systems,” Acronis Threat Research Unit (TRU)…
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Sonar Supports OpenAI’s Call for Collective Action on Cyber Defense
The window to strengthen cyber defense is narrowing, as advanced AI models compress the time between vulnerability disclosure and exploitation from months to minutes. It’s the responsibility of the defenders to match that pace. That is why we’ve signed OpenAI’s… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/sonar-supports-openais-call-for-collective-action-on-cyber-defense/
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Malicious actors already using critical GitLab flaw, CISA and others warn
The vulnerability could let unauthenticated users access sensitive files from software-development environments. First seen on cybersecuritydive.com Jump to article: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/gitlab-vulnerability-exploitation-cisa-kev/830278/
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U.S. CISA adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds GitLab, JFrog Artifactory, and ConnectWise ScreenConnect flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added [1, 2] the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Two of the above vulnerabilities affect JFrog Artifactory. CVE-2026-42016 can allow attackers to bypass authorization checks and…
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PaperCut Flaw Compromise Illustrates the Maturing Use of AI By Attackers
A likely Russian bad actor used multiple AI tools and hundreds of AI agents to exploit two vulnerabilities in PaperCut software to attack hundreds of companies in 48 countries, the latest example of the growing maturity in the use of AI by adversaries. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/papercut-flaw-compromise-illustrates-the-maturity-use-of-ai-by-attackers/
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Microsoft’s Patching
Once a month, Microsoft pushes a security update to all Windows users. Tomorrow’s is a new record: Microsoft’s patch for September is a doozy, with a record number of roughly 972 vulnerabilities fixed and 112 of them meeting the high… First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/09/microsofts-patching/
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Red Heron nutzt kritische Gitea-Lücke für internationale Cyberangriffe
Die Acronis Threat Research Unit hat eine internationale Angriffskampagne auf öffentlich erreichbare Gitea-Server aufgedeckt. Die Gruppe Red Heron automatisierte die Ausnutzung einer kritischen Schwachstelle, um Quellcode, Zugangsdaten und interne Konfigurationen zu stehlen. Im Visier standen unter anderem Organisationen aus dem Energie- und Industriesektor sowie Systeme mit Bezug zu Wahlen. Ein neu entdecktes Linux-Rootkit ermöglichte den…
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ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities
The EU Agency for Cybersecurity switched on the Cyber Resilience Act’s Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day the law’s reporting obligations … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/14/enisa-cra-single-reporting-platform/
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AI Changed the Exposure Problem. Validation Needs to Change With It.
There’s a lot of noise around AI and cybersecurity right now. What’s actually important is far simpler, if often lost in the hubbub. Vulnerability discovery is getting faster and happening at a much greater scale, while defenders still have to work out which findings actually deserve their action.In the first half of 2026, a whopping…
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Hackers Exploit Maximum Severity Flaw in GitLab
CISA warns that threat actors are exploiting a vulnerability with a CVSS score of 10.0 First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/hackers-exploit-maximum-severity/
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Dutch NCSC Warns: Critical Check Point VPN Flaws Put Networks at Risk
Two critical Check Point VPN flaws score 9.8 and could enable remote code execution. Patch now and restrict VPN access before exploitation begins. The Dutch NCSC warns that two critical vulnerabilities in Check Point VPN products, both rated CVSS score of 9.8, could soon be actively exploited. If you use Check Point VPN, you should…
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CISA KEV Alert: Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet Vulnerabilities Under Active Exploitation
First seen on resecurity.com Jump to article: www.resecurity.com/blog/article/cisa-kev-alert-cisco-citrix-and-fortinet-vulnerabilities-under-active-exploitation
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit Sogou One-Click RCE to Deploy GRAYRABBIT Backdoor
China-linked threat actors tracked as UNC3569 have exploited a critical one-click remote code execution vulnerability in Tencent’s Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GRAYRABBIT backdoor on targeted systems. Tracked as CVE-2026-51990, the vulnerability chains an insecure custom protocol handler, unrestricted embedded-browser navigation, and an obsolete Chromium build running without sandbox protections. Tencent addressed…
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Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-hackers-now-exploit-max-severity-gitlab-flaw-in-attacks/
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ADC und Gateway betroffen – BSI meldet aktive Angriffe auf NetScaler-Schwachstelle
First seen on security-insider.de Jump to article: www.security-insider.de/bsi-warnung-netscaler-authentifizierungs-bypass-adc-gateway-a-3b12a541f2a130a759f90ef5c6afa980/
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Cyber Resilience Act trifft Frontier AI: Warum Unternehmen mehr Schwachstellen schneller managen müssen
Mit dem Cyber Resilience Act wird Schwachstellenmanagement zur Managementaufgabe. KI-gestützte Analysen entdecken mehr Sicherheitslücken in kürzerer Zeit zugleich erhöhen enge Meldefristen, wachsende Patch-Mengen und komplexe Lieferketten den operativen Druck. Unternehmen müssen deshalb Prozesse, Datenbasis und Wiederanlaufplanung jetzt auf kontinuierliche Cyberresilienz ausrichten. Management Summary Regulatorischer Zeitdruck: Ab 11. September 2026 greifen die Meldepflichten des Cyber… First…
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AWS puts AI vulnerability detection to the test, and false positives pile up
AWS’ Deception Benchmark measures how well AI models distinguish genuine security vulnerabilities from code that looks risky but is safe. AWS is making it publicly available … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/09/14/aws-deception-benchmark-security-vulnerabilities/
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Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware
Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent’s Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-tencent-app-flaw-to-deploy-grayrabbit-malware/
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GitLab CVE-2026-85706: One HTTP Request, No Authentication, Full File Read Exploited Within 24 Hours
CVE-2026-85706, a CVSS 10.0 GitLab path traversal, was under active exploitation within 24 hours of disclosure. GitLab disclosed CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10.0) on September 10, 2026, a path traversal vulnerability in its repository commits API. CVE-2026-85706 affects GitLab’s repository commits API and can let attackers access files they should not see. A crafted request…