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Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials
JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their Cadence executions," JetBrains said.
Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code
Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow vulnerability that a local attacker with elevated privileges can exploit to run arbitrary code. "A
Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters
Microsoft is alerting of a "high-volume phishing campaign" that's using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. "Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-85046 Google Chromium V8 Type Confusion Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog and requires federal agencies to prioritize rapid remediation of high-risk vulnerabilities, specifically those…
Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are - CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including
GPT-6 Astra Scores 100% on ExploitBench as OpenAI Blocks PoC Exploit Requests
OpenAI on Thursday officially unveiled GPT‑6 Astra, which it described as the "world's most intelligent and aligned model." The development comes days after the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the model had reached the "Critical" cybersecurity capability threshold under its Preparedness Framework. "Astra is state-of-the-art on computer use, browsing, software engineering,
Critical Cisco Nexus 9000 Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Remote Attackers Run Code as Root
Cisco has released patches to address a critical security flaw affecting 10 Silicon One-based Nexus 9000 switches that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute code as root, alongside an IOS XR hardening release bundling 7 umbrella CVEs, 2 of which are rated 9.8, with no workaround for any IOS XR version. The Nexus vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20212 (CVSS score: 9.8), is
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in memory corruption, a device crash, or a potential remote attack vector without the originating device receiving a CIP error indicating that the request could not be processed. The following versions of Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack are affected: EtherNet/IP Adapter DLL Kit (EIPA) EtherNet/IP Adapter DLL Kit with CIP Security (EIPA-SECURE) EtherNet/IP Adapter Development Kit (EADK) EtherNet/IP Adapter Development Kit with CIP Security (EADK-SECURE) EtherNet/IP Scanner DLL Kit (EIPS) EtherNet/IP Scanner DLL Kit with CIP Security (EIPS-SECURE) EtherNet/IP Scanner Development Kit (ESDK) EtherNet/IP…
Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action
CISA and the Group of Seven (G7) Cyber Security Working Group released Preparing for the Post-Quantum Era: A Call to Action highlighting the urgent need for organizations and governments to begin transitioning to post-quantum cryptography (PQC) to protect sensitive data, authentication systems, and critical assets from emerging quantum computing threats. The G7 Cyber Security Working Group’s call to action outlines five priorities for a successful transition to PQC: Raising awareness of quantum risks and the importance of PQC; Developing national strategies that support PQC adoption and integration; Advancing research and development for quantum-safe technologies; Fostering…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to perform remote code execution on the computer running the client with elevated privileges. The following versions of IXON VPN Client are affected: VPN Client <1.4.7 (CVE-2026-75925) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 9.6 IXON IXON VPN Client Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF Injection') Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Commercial Facilities, Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology, Water and Wastewater Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Netherlands Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-75925 Improper Neutralization of…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in a loss of webserver availability or allow an attacker to inject malicious scripts that will be executed when other users access the affected page. The following versions of Rockwell Automation ArmorStart LT are affected: ArmorStart LT <=v2.001 (CVE-2026-19471, CVE-2026-19472) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation ArmorStart LT Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting'), Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed:…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could give an attacker the ability to run any commands or code of the attacker's choice on a target machine at the logged-in user's permission level. The following versions of Rockwell Automation ControlFLASH are affected: ControlFLASH <=V15.07 (CVE-2026-12663) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.3 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation ControlFLASH Missing Authentication for Critical Function Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-12663 A…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, cause a factory reset, wipe credentials, or retrieve sensitive information. The following versions of Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB3 are affected: TPDIN-Monitor-WEB3 <=2.2.9 (CVE-2026-77847, CVE-2026-82712, CVE-2026-82684) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Tycon Systems Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB3 Use of Hard-coded Credentials, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Missing Authorization Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Energy Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take control of a high-privilege terminal during installation and run arbitrary commands. The following versions of OPCFoundation OPC UA LocalDiscoveryServer (LDS) are affected: UA-LDS-Installers <1.04.420 (CVE-2026-77477) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 4.6 OPCFoundation OPCFoundation OPC UA LocalDiscoveryServer (LDS) Execution with Unnecessary Privileges Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Chemical, Energy, Food and Agriculture, Water and Wastewater, Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow any authenticated user to create projects. The following versions of Inductive Automation Ignition are affected: Ignition <=8.1.53 (CVE-2026-77393) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.8 Inductive Automation Inductive Automation Ignition Incorrect Default Permissions Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Information Technology Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-77393 In Ignition 8.1.53 and earlier, the Gateway "Create Project Role(s)" setting shipped blank, which permitted any…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the module. The device requires a restart to recover. The following versions of Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module are affected: 1756-ENBT module vers:all/* (CVE-2025-10478) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.5 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Food and Agriculture, Transportation Systems, Water and Wastewater Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2025-10478 A denial-of-service security…
CISA Adds Seven Exploited Flaws as Attackers Deploy Reverse Shells and Crypto Miners
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added seven security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog after they landed in attackers' crosshairs. The vulnerabilities are as follows - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A server-side request forgery vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 Appliances that could allow a remote unauthenticated
Communicating Under Pressure: Best Practices for Service Providers
Developed by CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and international partners, this guidance describes how organizations can plan and execute clear, timely, accurate, and audience-appropriate communications during IT and operational technology (OT) outages. Whether caused by cyber threat actors, human error, equipment failure, or natural hazards, service outages can create disruption and societal panic even without speculation from end users and the public as added factors. Outages at one organization may cascade across interconnected systems, increasing uncertainty and alarm. The guidance emphasizes clarity, accountability, and transparency as core principles and details key elements…
Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials
Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9586 (CVSS score: 9.3), a critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox SMB Edition 8.3 (104997) that can allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code as
Attackers Exploit Critical JFrog Artifactory Flaw to Mint Admin Tokens Days After Disclosure
Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in Artifactory. "JFrog Artifactory contains an authentication weakness that, under default
View CSAF Summary The following versions of Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager are affected: FactoryTalk Activation Manager V5.02_and_below (CVE-2026-16675) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 7.8 Rockwell Automation Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Activation Manager Improper Restriction of Excessive Authentication Attempts Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: United States Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-16675 A privilege escalation vulnerability exists within FactoryTalk Activation Manager. The vulnerability stems from custom actions in the installer that spawn…
CyberKendra reports: A security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has released FalconFlank, a proof-of-concept zero-day that escalates privileges on fully patched Windows machines running CrowdStrike Falcon. The researcher — who also uses the aliases Nightmare-Eclipse, MSNightmare, and INFINITE NIGHTMARE — published working exploit code to GitHub on September 3, 2026, without giving CrowdStrike advance notice. No CVE ID... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic
A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Plex Urges Immediate Updates After Patching Multiple Undisclosed Security Flaws
Plex is urging users to update their instances to the latest version following the release of an update that patches multiple security flaws. The fixes are available in Plex Media Server 1.43.3 and Plex Desktop 1.115.0. The streaming media service did not elaborate on what those issues are, but said CVE identifiers have been requested for them. "We recommend all server owners and Desktop users
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day
Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.82 allowed a remote
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Russian National Indicted For Exploiting Online Platform Used For Freelance Employment And Distributing Malware To Thousands Of Victims
SAN FRANCISCO – A federal grand jury has indicted Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev on charges of Conspiracy, Transmission of a Program, Information, Code, and Command to Cause Damage to a Protected Computer, and Aggravated Identity Theft, among other offenses. Defendant was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025 and has been extradited to the United States. Yesterday,... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Pegasus Zero-Click Spyware Exploit Infects Serbian Student Movement Member's iPhone
The iPhone belonging to a member of Serbia's student protest movement was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware, according to new findings from the Citizen Lab in collaboration with the SHARE Foundation. "Our analysis confirmed that an iMessage zero-click exploit was used to infect the device with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware," the Citizen Lab said. "We found high-confidence indicators of
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Malicious .git Configs Can Make Claude, Codex, Cursor, and Other AI Agents Run Attacker Code
Manifold Security has disclosed eight security flaws across seven command-line AI coding agents in which a repository's own Git configuration names a command that the agent runs on the developer's machine, four of them still unpatched at publication. The command executes as the user, outside the agent's sandbox and without an approval prompt, and exploitation requires the repository to arrive
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain
SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall's William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below - CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A pre-authentication SSRF vulnerability in the Appliance
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends
Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals. The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026, and published the vulnerability details on August 31. GeoNetwork originated at the United Nations Food and
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another
Forescout Research - Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server's handling of the USER command
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Attackers Chain Two PaperCut Flaws to Execute Code Without Authentication
Malicious actors are exploiting a newly patched security flaw in PaperCut NG and MF to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances, as the company released a fresh emergency fix with additional hardening. "This vulnerability gives an unauthenticated attacker remote control over PaperCut's trusted configuration, which could be used to execute arbitrary Java code inside the application's
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Android 17 Adds OS-Wide ECH to Hide Website Visits From Network Providers
Google on Thursday announced new network security protections in Android 17 to bolster connection privacy, address cellular vulnerabilities, and safeguard the privacy of users' home networks. Topping the list is support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), a privacy standard that prevents networks from eavesdropping on which websites a user is visiting. "This new privacy standard works in tandem
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Two Unitree G1 EDU Humanoid Robot Flaws Enable Root RCE, One Starts Over Bluetooth
Security researcher Olivier Laflamme has disclosed two independent root remote code execution (RCE) chains affecting the Unitree G1 EDU, including a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) path that can reach root on the robot's Locomotion PC. The flaws are tracked as CVE-2026-76639 and CVE-2026-76640, with the first involving a network-adjacent path through chat_go and bashrunner and the
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Three CVSS 10.0 ServiceNow Flaws Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code and SQL
ServiceNow has released patches for four security flaws impacting the ServiceNow AI Platform, three of them rated 10.0 on the CVSS scoring system and exploitable, in certain circumstances, by an unauthenticated attacker. The company said it deployed a security update to hosted instances and provided the update to its partners and self-hosted customers, which leaves organizations that run their
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
China-Made ZBT Routers Ship With Two Implants Giving Unauthenticated Attackers Root Access
VulnCheck has disclosed two previously undocumented factory implants in firmware for routers built by Shenzhen Zhibotong Electronics (ZBT), each of which gives an unauthenticated remote attacker the ability to run commands as root on affected devices. The implants, named SPEAKINGSTONE and DARKLANTERN by the company's zero-day research team, are tracked as CVE-2026-74232 and CVE-2026-74233.
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
OpenAI Says Reward Hacking Drove AI Agents to Exploit Zero-Days and Breach Hugging Face
OpenAI on Wednesday revealed that reward hacking was a key driver behind the artificial intelligence (AI)-powered hack of Hugging Face last month, adding that it found evidence of misaligned behavior as early as late May. The incident, the company said, took place during cybersecurity evaluations of several OpenAI models, and that it was mainly fueled by what it described as a "highly capable
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
ThreatsDay: 296K IoT Botnet, 100+ Water Systems Targeted, SharePoint RCE Chain + 27 New Stories
A fake login page. A fake security scan. A fake productivity app. Apparently, pretending to be useful is still one of the easier ways into a machine. The rest of the week gets stranger: botnets borrowing AI, command traffic hiding in public infrastructure, malicious tools waiting before showing their real behavior, exposed systems getting scanned, and exploit windows shrinking again. Different
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Amazon Kiro Prompt Injection Can Exfiltrate Sensitive Data Through Kiro Powers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a vulnerability in Amazon Kiro, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered, agentic integrated development environment (IDE), that could facilitate data exfiltration via prompt injection and Kiro Powers. The security flaw, which does not have a CVE identifier, works against Kiro IDE 0.7.45 on Windows, according to Mindguard. The latest version of
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Learn How to Build Security Operations Ready for AI-Powered Attacks
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through weaknesses faster than traditional security processes were built to handle. The challenge is no longer just finding another vulnerability or
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Spark RAT Targets Cambodia, Abuses Vulnerable OPSWAT Driver to Disable Security Tools
Individuals and organizations in Cambodia have emerged as the target of a new campaign that delivers an open-source remote access trojan (RAT) called Spark RAT. "The samples employ diverse lure themes, suggesting an effort to appeal to a broad range of potential victims. These include government notices, public health materials, real estate-related content, and other topics," Acronis Threat
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Unpatched Kaltura mwEmbed Flaws Could Let Remote Attackers Read Files and Run Code
The CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) has disclosed two unpatched vulnerabilities in Kaltura's HTML5 video player library that allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files from a server and execute code on it. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-19913 and CVE-2026-19912, both stem from the same unsafe deserialization in the mwEmbedLoader.php endpoint of the mwEmbed player
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Claude Opus 4.6 Bypasses Gym Booking Limit, Cancels Other Users' Reservations in Tests
Aikido Security has published research that recreates the Australian gym-booking incident in a synthetic environment, finding that Claude Opus 4.6, running on the OpenClaw agent harness, exploited a client-side-only booking restriction in 9 of 10 runs. The original incident was first reported by ABC News on August 10, based on chat logs and screenshots the user supplied. He had asked an
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Breach reporting, credential leak signals, and trust-impact events.
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HIGHThe Hacker News
Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the company's hardware wallets
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Honeywell Aerospace Inc. Agrees to Pay Over $2M to Settle False Claims Act Allegations of Failing to Comply with Cybersecurity Requirements in a U.S. Department of Defense Contract
A DOJ press release on September 1: The Justice Department announced today that Honeywell Aerospace Inc. has agreed to pay $2,042,518 to resolve allegations that it is liable under the False Claims Act for failing to comply with cybersecurity requirements in a contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. Honeywell Aerospace, a corporation headquartered in... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Chad Van Alstin reports an update on a ransomware attack previously reported on DataBreaches.net: Nationwide kidney dialysis chain DaVita has agreed to pay $15 million to settle a class action lawsuit stemming from a 2025 ransomware attack that exposed sensitive patient data to hackers, the bulk of which was later leaked onto the dark web. The hack... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Ledger faces $500 million class action over data breaches
Pavlo Kot reports: Hardware crypto wallet maker Ledger is facing a class action seeking at least $500 million over a series of customer data breaches. The plaintiff claims the company failed to adequately protect customers’ personal information and did not take sufficient measures following previous incidents. The lawsuit was filed on August 27 by Ledger user Douglas... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
FBI probes suspected breach at IDScan.net after dark web service Nexus offered 153M+ US and Canadian driver’s license scans
Pierluigi Paganini reports: A dark web identity theft service called Nexus appeared on September 1, 2026, offering searchable access to more than 153 million scanned driver’s licenses belonging to people in the United States and Canada. The FBI’s New Orleans field office opened a formal investigation the same day. Brian Krebs at KrebsOnSecurity, who broke the story, traced... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
TR: Fine for famous kebab chain that allowed theft of 500 thousand customers’ data
The Turkish Data Protection Authority (KVKK) investigation into the data breach at the famous restaurant chain Baydöner, where the full names, phone numbers, emails, and city information of 505,337 customers were compromised, has been completed. The investigation found that there was no alarm mechanism to detect unusual system activity, and Baydöner was fined a total... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
CNIL: Health data breach: €500,000 fine imposed on the Loire Private Hospital
On September 3, 2026, the CNIL issued a €500,000 fine against the Loire Private Hospital, for not having taken appropriate measures to ensure the security of the data of its patients and some of their relatives. During the summer of 2025, an attacker managed to connect to the electronic patient record (EPR) of the Loire Private... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Two “Nephrology Associates” suffered cyberattacks. Only one of them has disclosed it.
Sometimes, first impressions are wrong. And in the case of “Nephrology Associates,” DataBreaches mistakenly thought one victim was attacked by two different groups. But no, there are actually two unrelated entities with the same name that suffered attacks this year. And only one of them has disclosed it. The Kansas Incident On March 7, The... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
The New School Safety Perimeter: Where Cybersecurity Meets Physical Security
Kumar Sokka reports: At many institutions, the student ID number exposed in a data breach is the same number that unlocks dorm doors, sits behind classroom badge readers, controls laboratory access, and authenticates into building automation systems. The badge in a student’s wallet is keyed to that database. When that database is compromised, every physical... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Agentic Ransomware Took Down Enterprise in Ten Hours: AI Left 80-Page Audit
Roger Satterfield reports: An attacker handed an unknown corporate victim a comprehensive, 80-page security audit on Wednesday — not as a service, but as a postscript to the ransomware attack that had just consumed the victim’s enterprise. According to Palo Alto Networks’ threat intelligence unit Unit 42, whose researchers documented the September 2 incident, the... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Thomson Reuters Court Software Breach May Have Exposed SSNs and Sealed Data
Thomson Reuters disclosed on Wednesday that an unauthorized party obtained files from C-Track, the court case management platform sold by its West Publishing Corporation unit, in March 2026, affecting courts in 11 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Ontario, Canada. West Publishing said it discovered the activity on June 30, 2026. A subset of court records could contain individuals' names
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
North Dakota Supreme Court impacted by third-party data breach that has affected dozens of states
Joe Kurzewski reports: A criminal investigation is underway after data associated with the North Dakota Supreme Court was affected by a breach of a third-party vendor used by the court. According to a news release, the North Dakota Court System was informed in late July that C-Track experienced a data breach that may have involved... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Shai-Hulud's Reach Just Grew to 469 Credential Locations. Here's What That Means
In early August, GitGuardian researchers found that a recent Shai-Hulud infostealer worm variant had evolved to scan for credentials across 469 locations across developer environments, Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) tooling, cloud configurations, and even AI tool configs. Earlier variants of the infostealer worm only checked 189 paths. The jump says a lot. Attackers have
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries
DysruptionHub raised the suspicion flag yesterday, but couldn’t get a straight answer from DOD as to whether refrigeration outages at 14 commissaries represented a cyberattack. The Military Times fared no better: With more than a half-dozen commissaries on military bases in the continental U.S. reporting refrigeration outages this week, the Pentagon is acknowledging the problem... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Hackers expose donor data from Russian fundraisers for Ukrainians, political prisoners
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Hackers reportedly gained access to payment accounts used by two Russian fundraising projects supporting Ukrainians and political prisoners, exposing donor email addresses and limited payment card information. The unknown threat actor targeted Davayte, which raises money for civilians in Ukraine affected by Russia’s invasion, and You Are Not Alone, a project supporting... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Luminis Health facilities dealing with a cyberattack
Bridget Byrne reports: Luminis Health is experiencing a cybersecurity incident affecting certain systems across its organization, according to a Facebook post Tuesday. “Our priority remains providing safe, high-quality care to our patients,” the health system said in the post that went up around 6:45 p.m. “We understand the concern this may cause for our patients,... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
IE: HSE fined €645,000 over data breach affecting Westmeath hospital
Adrian Cusack reports: The Data Protection Commission has fined the HSE [Health, Safety, and Environment] more than €600,000 over the mismanagement of historical records held at St Loman’s hospital, Mullingar, and St Conal’s Hospital, Letterkenny. The fine was issued at the conclusion of an inquiry into the handling of paper records at the two facilities... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Santa Fe Schools Move Forward With New Cybersecurity Policy
André Salkin reports: The Santa Fe school board approved a new cybersecurity policy this week but delayed a vote on a separate policy governing student data privacy, with most board members calling it too broad and too important to rush through. The delayed measure, Draft Policy 357, would govern how the district treats student data... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
A rough day at the extortion office and a botched attack on Blossom Health.
A tip about Click2Mail was not the only interesting tip DataBreaches received on Thursday. We also received an email from someone who identified themself as a patient at Blossom Health, a US-based telehealth and psychiatry platform. “An extortionist appears to have compromised the platform or an individual provider’s account (Justine Belesario) and sent a ransom... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Time’s Up: Ransomware Group Claims 150,000+ Cardiology Patient Records. We’ve Seen the Data.
On August 6, DataBreaches reported that Cardiology Associates of Port Huron (CAPH), a Michigan medical practice with 9 locations, appeared to have been breached by a group called Orova. As reported at the time, the listing included screenshots with personally identifiable and protected health information. Orova’s listing, posted on its leak site on August 4,... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Aurora Ransomware Operators Use Cursor AI in Attacks Against 10 Targets
Threat actors associated with Aurora (aka Aur0ra) ransomware have been observed using SpaceX's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered coding assistant Cursor to break into target networks, according to findings from CloudSEK and Gambit Security. The two independent analyses are based on exposed infrastructure associated with the Russian-speaking cybercrime group, leading to the discovery of its
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Securing Claude Code: The New Compliance API, Local Visibility, and Identity Governance
Claude Code reads files, runs shell commands, invokes MCP tools, and acts through the credentials available on a developer’s machine. Anthropic’s new Compliance API endpoints give security teams their clearest view yet into that activity. They also expose a larger problem: activity logs alone cannot tell you whether an agent’s access is legitimate. AI has moved from the browser tab to the
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
China-Linked Fire Ant Hijacks Cisco Routers to Steal Credentials and Blind Security Logs
A China-nexus cyber espionage actor tracked as Fire Ant has expanded a long-running campaign beyond VMware hypervisors to compromise Cisco IOS XR routers, Terminal Access Controller Access-Control System (TACACS) servers, and Linux management hosts used to route, authenticate, and manage high-value networks. Sygnia, the incident response firm that investigated the intrusion, said the actor
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
US government snitch-finder pleads guilty to leaking state secrets to foreign spies
Connor Jones reports: The former Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) IT specialist previously accused of trying to pass secret and top-secret information to foreign spies has pleaded guilty following a successful FBI sting. Nathan Vilas Laatsch, then 28, and now 29, was arrested in May 2025 after an undercover FBI agent caught him for the second time transmitting... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
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Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
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ThreatsDay: CEO Phishing Kits, 5K Dropbox Account Hacks, OAuth Traps + 17 More Stories
The worst part is how normal these attacks look. A call from IT. A shared file. A trusted app. A simple request to click “Allow.” Why break in when someone might open the door? That idea runs through this edition. Attackers use real tools, fake login pages, old account links, and software guides that point to unsafe downloads. One wrong letter in a web address can be enough. There is also
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BraZetsu Malware Turns Compromised Windows Hosts Into Criminal Marketplace Inventory
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sophisticated Python-based Windows malware framework called BraZetsu that fuels an underground marketplace commercializing access to compromised hosts. "Unlike the standard infostealer model, BraZetsu is a comprehensive master toolkit that empowers Initial Access Brokers (IABs) by turning compromised systems into highly valuable commercial
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
US Becomes Top Target in RMM Phishing Campaign Spanning 46 Countries
An RMM phishing campaign initially associated with Canadian targeting due to its use of Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) tax forms as lures has turned out to be part of a broader campaign spanning 46 countries. Around 45% of observed activity was associated with the United States, making it the campaign's top geographic target. ANY.RUN research connected 601 cases to the wider operation, which uses
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Attackers Turn Trusted Node.js Runtime Into Malware Delivery Tool in Targeted Attacks
Threat actors are leveraging the trusted Node.js JavaScript runtime in multiple cyber attacks as a way to deploy malicious payloads. According to a new report published by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team today, the attack method has been put to use in attacks targeting government departments, technology companies, and hotels since February 2026. "The technique's appeal is that node.exe (the
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon
The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. "FalconFlank is a 0day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor," the researcher said in a GitHub README file, adding
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Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs
Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. "The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that help them
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Fake Software Installers Disable Windows Update and Weaken Microsoft Defender
An active malware campaign is using bogus software-download websites to impersonate trusted vendors and distribute malicious installers. "The campaign has targeted users looking to download popular software and has resulted in compromises across multiple organizations and industries, primarily affecting China-based operations of multinational organizations and Chinese-speaking users," Microsoft
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Malicious Apache Modules Hijack Brazilian Government Site Traffic to Push Betting Pages
A Chinese-speaking cybercrime cluster known as Gambling Goblin has been observed installing malicious Apache modules on compromised web servers run by Brazilian government and educational institutions, and using them to divert visitors to attacker-controlled pages promoting online gambling and sports betting. Check Point Research said it has tracked the campaign since mid-2025. The modules
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Virtualizor said hackers used a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) hijack to divert Softaculous traffic. The hackers then used the diverted update traffic to deliver a malicious Virtualizor package to some installations. A hosting-provider account separately said 5 of its 34 checked Virtualizor hypervisors sustained root-level compromise. The incident window ran from approximately August 28 at 20:57
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Meta Ads Push StreamRat Android Trojan That Can Gain Near-Complete Device Control
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called StreamRat that was promoted to Spanish-speaking users through a fake television-streaming campaign on Meta and can give operators near-complete control of infected devices. ThreatFabric said the campaign's advertisement focused on Spain and reached an estimated 570,950 Meta accounts in the European Union
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
How to Secure Enterprise AI: From Adoption to Incident Readiness
The debate about whether AI delivers business value is over. The challenge now is implementing it at scale and securely across every function while meeting board-level pressure to move fast. Organizations must focus on adopting AI at business speed without losing control of cyber risk. Download the full eBook here. The Business Reality In Sygnia’s 2026 CISO Survey Report, which
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Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017. Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Authorities Turn Sality's P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from the U.S., Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania, in collaboration with private industry partners CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. To that
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Breeze Comet Executes Hundreds of Fraudulent Transactions via Brazilian Payment Systems
Brazilian financial services, retail, and e-commerce organizations have become the target of a financially motivated threat actor dubbed Breeze Comet (formerly UNC5669) since 2024. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant teams described the threat actor as "specializing in manipulating payment systems and banking software in Brazil to conduct fraudulent transfers." The adversary
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Cybersecurity researchers have identified a set of 13 malicious Composer theme packages on Packagist that are designed to inject JavaScript into Vietnamese movie and comic streaming sites that install those libraries and initiate the deployment of spyware aimed at unpatched iOS devices. "The injected code runs two operations against a site's visitors: a mobile ad-fraud and gambling-redirect
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Iranian Hackers Pose as Recruiters to Deliver Cross-Platform RATs Through Coding Tests
The Iranian Nimbus Manticore hacking group has been attributed to two previously undocumented malware families that highlight the continued evolution of its toolset and likely expand its targeting footprint to infect Linux and Apple macOS systems using cross-platform remote access trojans (RATs) developed using Node.js and JavaScript. Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky is tracking the
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Threat Actors Don’t Want Better Attacks. They Want Repeatable Ones
The most common way into a company last year was to ask. A web page tells the visitor to prove they are not a robot. While they read the instructions, it quietly places a command on their clipboard. Then it talks them through opening a terminal and pasting it in. The technique is called ClickFix, and it was the most common initial access method Microsoft’s team observed last year, accounting
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Attackers Steal METR API Key and Consume AI Credits Worth About $600,000
METR (short for Model Evaluation and Threat Research and pronounced "Meter"), a research non-profit that evaluates frontier artificial intelligence (AI) models for their ability to carry out long-horizon, agentic tasks, disclosed that it suffered "two notable security incidents" where external actors attempted to gain unauthorized access to its systems. No sensitive information is believed to
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Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Plants Nuclear Weapon Prompt in Malware to Disrupt AI Analysis
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new technique dubbed GuardBreaker that's been put to use by a Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 against a target in Ukraine with an aim to interfere with artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted analysis. The idea, ESET said in a series of posts on X, is to deliberately trip a large language model's (LLM) safety mechanisms and prevent its
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
North Korean Job Fraud Expands Beyond IT Into Healthcare and Sales
Threat actors with ties to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (aka DPRK or North Korea) have been observed seeking job opportunities beyond the information technology (IT) sector, with recent investigations identifying suspected workers employed in sales and marketing and the medical profession. The ongoing insider threat is part of what has been described as the IT worker scheme,
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⚡ Weekly Recap: Chinese Spy Proxy, AI Agents Go Off-Task, Router Backdoors and More
The boring parts caused most of the trouble. A router shipped ready to listen. A fake check turned the user into the installer. Trusted systems collected traffic and passwords, then cleaned the logs. Old bugs formed new attack chains. Even an AI agent decided its assigned task was optional. Elsewhere, fake apps, helpful support calls, cheap banking kits, exposed systems, and weak defaults kept
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ValleyRAT Backdoor Hides in Signed Adware That Users Add to Antivirus Exclusions
The threat actor known as Silver Fox has been observed distributing the ValleyRAT backdoor disguised as a signed Chinese adware application, running the malware under a trusted process to slip past users who add such software to their antivirus exclusions. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said the attackers built the disguise around QN Wallpaper, a genuine Chinese desktop-wallpaper tool
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
DoJ Corrects China Hacking Claim, Says U.S. Agencies Were Targets, Not Victims
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Friday corrected a previously issued press statement that several of its agencies were victims of attacks carried out by Chinese threat actors, instead now pointing out that they were among those targeted. Last week, the DoJ said the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy, Department of Justice, Department
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