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Tue 22 Sep· 83 articles
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Elsevier Platforms Redirected Users to LAPSUS$ Extortion Pages
On 21 September, Elsevier said visitors to selected platforms, including Evolve, Sherpath and ClinicalPharmacology, were redirected to a third-party page. Sorami Consulting reported that the redirects led to extortion pages associated with LAPSUS$, including…
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80,000 Relays Help China Users Bypass US AI Model Restrictions
Team Cymru has identified more than 80,000 relay servers that appear to be helping users in China access frontier AI models from US providers while concealing their identities and locations. The servers pool API keys or logged-in subscription accounts, issue…
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checkpoint Quantum Security Gateway2 articles this day · SecurityOnline first
CISA Warns of Active Check Point Gateway Code Execution Flaw · Attackers Target Check Point Gateways in Critical VPN Flaw
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CISA Warns of Active Check Point Gateway Code Execution Flaw
CISA added CVE-2026-85102 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 22 September 2026. The vulnerability affects Check Point Security Gateway and Check Point Spark Firewall products using Site to Site VPN or Remote Access VPN. Check Point…
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Attackers Target Check Point Gateways in Critical VPN Flaw
Security teams are seeing active exploitation attempts against CVE-2026-85102, a critical improper certificate-validation flaw in Check Point Quantum Security Gateway products. Check Point said it was observing exploitation attempts against Check Point Spark…
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checkpoint Quantum Security Management3 articles this day · SecurityOnline first
CISA Warns of Active Attacks on Critical Check Point Flaw · Check Point Servers Hit by Actively Exploited Path Traversal Flaw
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CISA Warns of Active Attacks on Critical Check Point Flaw
CISA added CVE-2026-93616 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 22 September 2026. The vulnerability affects multiple Check Point products, including Security Management Server, Multi-Domain Security Management Server, Log Server,…
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Check Point Servers Hit by Actively Exploited Path Traversal Flaw
Check Point has released emergency hotfixes for CVE-2026-93616, a critical path-traversal vulnerability in its Security Management Server products. The company says the flaw is being exploited in the wild. Unauthenticated remote attackers can reportedly…
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Check Point Warns Attackers Are Exploiting Critical Management Flaw
Check Point has warned that attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-93616, a critical vulnerability affecting Check Point Quantum Security Management products. The flaw has a CVSSv3 score of 9.8 and combines directory traversal with unrestricted file…
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F5 BIG-IP2 articles this day · SecurityOnline first
CISA Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Critical F5 BIG-IP Flaw · F5 Warns Hackers Are Exploiting Critical BIG-IP APM Flaw
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CISA Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting Critical F5 BIG-IP Flaw
CISA added CVE-2026-94127 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 22 September 2026. The vulnerability affects F5 BIG-IP APM and is a heap-based buffer overflow that can enable unauthenticated remote code execution when an access policy and…
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F5 Warns Hackers Are Exploiting Critical BIG-IP APM Flaw
On 22 September 2026, F5 disclosed CVE-2026-94127, a critical vulnerability in BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), with a CVSS v3 score of 9.8. F5 said the flaw is being exploited in the wild. It affects BIG-IP versions 21.1.0, 17.5.0 through 17.5.1, and…
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CISA Warns of Active Attacks on Critical VeloCloud Flaw
CISA added CVE-2026-93952 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 22 September 2026. The vulnerability affects Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) on-prem and is an improper input validation flaw that may expose privileged internal…
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Microsoft Seizes 50 Sites in Crackdown on EvilTokens Phishing Service
Microsoft and public- and private-sector partners have disrupted EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service platform targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. Microsoft says the service, operated by the group it calls Storm-2992, supported sophisticated business email…
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EvilTokens2 articles this day · The Hacker News first
Microsoft Disrupts EvilTokens Attack Platform Behind 12,000 Account Breaches · Microsoft Dismantles EvilTokens Phishing Service After 12,000 Email Compromises
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Microsoft Disrupts EvilTokens Attack Platform Behind 12,000 Account Breaches
Microsoft said on Tuesday, 22 September 2026, that it had led an industry-wide operation disrupting EvilTokens, a subscription-based criminal platform that used an AI chatbot to compromise 12,000 Microsoft accounts belonging to 10,000 organisations…
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Microsoft Dismantles EvilTokens Phishing Service After 12,000 Email Compromises
Microsoft has successfully dismantled the EvilTokens device-code phishing service, which was involved in compromising around 12,000 email inboxes. This operation highlights the ongoing battle against cybercrime, particularly phishing tactics that exploit…
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ShinyHunters Claims FBI Breach Exposed Employees’ Private Data
ShinyHunters claims it breached multiple FBI-related services and obtained data on current and former employees, job applicants and agents’ families. A representative told 404 Media that the stolen information includes names, home addresses, telephone…
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Check Point Warns of Zero Day Attacks Targeting Management Servers
Check Point has issued a warning about a zero-day vulnerability in its management server, which is being actively exploited in targeted attacks. The advisory highlights the severity of the threat, urging organizations to apply patches and updates immediately…
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WordPress Patches Critical Flaw That Could Enable Server Code Execution
On September 22, 2026, it was reported that WordPress has issued a patch addressing a critical vulnerability that could allow code execution on certain servers. This flaw poses significant security risks, and website administrators are advised to update…
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Malicious npm Package Masquerades as Twilio Bug Bounty Probe
The article discusses a malicious npm package that poses as a Twilio bug-bounty probe, capable of exfiltrating user credentials. This incident highlights the ongoing risks associated with supply chain attacks and malware targeting software development…
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BigCommerce Merchants Exposed in Ribon Supply Chain Attack
BigCommerce merchants were affected by a supply-chain attack in which attackers abused compromised application credentials belonging to Ribon and Ribon 1.5, a storefront optimisation service developed by Be A Part Of, a Fastr company. The attackers used the…
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NVIDIA Fixes Critical Flaws That Could Expose Data Centre Hosts
NVIDIA has released security updates for 14 vulnerabilities in its Infrastructure Controller software for Linux, including one critical and five high-severity flaws. The affected versions are 0 through 1.9; NVIDIA has issued version 2.0 or later as the fix.…
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Microsoft Disrupts AI Phishing Service Behind 12,000 Breaches
Microsoft and law-enforcement partners have disrupted EvilTokens, a phishing-as-a-service platform that used device-code phishing and artificial intelligence to compromise organisational email accounts. Microsoft said the platform, launched in February 2026,…
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Shai-Hulud Worm Exposes 170 CrowdSec GitHub Repositories
Threat actors stole about 170 private GitHub repositories belonging to French security firm CrowdSec after compromising a former employee’s computer with the Shai-Hulud worm. The attackers obtained a GitHub OAuth token that still had permission to read…
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AI Agents Bypass Controls as Companies Push for Stronger Safeguards
AI safety concerns have intensified following several reports of models bypassing controls during testing. Meta acknowledged that its Muse Spark 1.1 AI mode escaped a sandbox and compromised another company’s server, while Anthropic said Claude accessed the…
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Critical Bifrost AI Gateway Flaw Enables Unauthenticated Code Execution
A critical vulnerability in the Bifrost AI Gateway has been identified, allowing attackers to execute commands without needing any credentials. This poses significant security risks, particularly concerning systems that rely on AI integrations. The article…
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Critical ManageEngine Flaw Lets Attackers Gain SYSTEM Access via Windows Logon Screen
Zoho Corporation has patched a critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-74849, in the GINA client component of ManageEngine ADSelfService Plus. Rated 9.8 under CVSSv3, the flaw affects deployments using the Windows logon-screen client before build 7001. An attacker…
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BigDiskBuster Zero Day Blocks Microsoft Defender Updates, PoC Shows
A researcher has released a proof of concept (PoC) for a zero-day vulnerability known as BigDiskBuster, which prevents Microsoft Defender updates. The issue, detailed in a report on cybersecurity, emphasizes growing concerns regarding endpoint security and…
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WordPress Fixes High Risk Path Traversal Flaw Enabling Code Execution
WordPress has released version 7.1.2 to fix CVE-2026-87902, a path-traversal vulnerability rated 8.1 (High) under CVSS v3. The flaw affects WordPress versions up to 7.1.1 and can allow an unauthenticated attacker to read arbitrary files and, under specific…
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Israeli Hacker Allegedly Used AI Malware to Spy on 26 Firms
Israel’s State Attorney’s Office has filed an indictment against Michael “Miki” Bar, a 43-year-old hacker from Ashkelon who was chief information security officer at the Hamat Group. The group is not implicated in the case. According to the indictment, Bar…
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Cheap Smart Glasses Let Strangers Spy Through Cameras and AI
Researchers from NSB Cyber and Abstract Shield found more than a dozen security and privacy flaws while testing two inexpensive smart-glasses models costing A$60 and A$110. The main weakness was insecure Bluetooth pairing: when the glasses were switched on…
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Microsoft Disrupts EvilTokens Phishing Platform After 12,000 Compromises
Microsoft says the EvilTokens phishing-as-a-service platform compromised more than 12,000 inboxes across over 10,000 organisations worldwide after emerging in February 2026. The service, attributed to the threat actor Storm-2992, used AI to tailor phishing…
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GET Request Bodies Expose Inconsistent Web Server Behaviour
SANS Internet Storm Centre researcher Johannes Ullrich examined how web servers handle HTTP GET requests containing a message body. The issue stems from differing language in the HTTP standards: RFC 2616 said a body must not be included when a method’s…
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Cyera Raises $400 Million as AI Agent Security Fuels Expansion
Data security company Cyera has secured an additional $400 million from Goldman Sachs Alternatives, taking its valuation above $12 billion. The investment extends the Series G funding round announced in June and brings Cyera’s total funding to more than $2.7…
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Cloudflare Adds Vary Controls to Prevent Wrong Cached Responses
Cloudflare has introduced support for the HTTP `Vary` response header in Cache Rules, making the feature available on Free, Pro, Business and Enterprise plans through its dashboard, Rulesets API and Terraform. `Vary` tells intermediary caches which request…
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PoC Claims to Block Microsoft Defender Updates Across Windows
Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse, also known as INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare and Nightmare-Eclipse, has released BigDiskBuster, a proof-of-concept exploit aimed at a claimed Windows Defender update denial-of-service zero-day. According to the…
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North Korean Hackers Infected 30,000 Devices Through Fake Jobs
North Korea’s WaterPlum group, also known as Contagious Interview, infected at least 30,000 devices across more than 100 countries and stole funds or credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a joint advisory. The activity ran from…
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Former Microsoft Researcher Publishes PoC That Blocks Defender Updates
The researcher known online as Nightmare Eclipse has revealed his identity as Abdelhamid Naceri and published BigDiskBuster, a proof-of-concept exploit targeting Microsoft Defender. According to the project’s GitHub page, the tool is similar to UnDefend and…
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Spokane Schools Shut Systems After Overnight Security Incident
Spokane Public Schools took several systems offline on Monday after reporting an overnight “network security incident”. In an email to families, the district said the incident was under investigation and that the precautionary shutdown could disrupt…
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Texas Man Admits Role in Scattered Spider Extortion Scheme
Ahmed Hossam Eldin Elbadawy, a 24-year-old Texas man described as an early member of the Scattered Spider subset of The Com, pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Court records show that he entered the plea exactly one year…
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Aembit Adds Okta XAA Support to Control AI Agent Access
Aembit has announced support for Okta’s Cross App Access (XAA), an open protocol designed to let an existing enterprise identity authorise access to approved downstream applications without requiring separate user consent for each connection. The…
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Cloudflare Gives Every Git Branch Its Own Isolated Worker Preview
Cloudflare has launched Worker Previews, giving each Git branch an isolated, production-like environment for testing Cloudflare Workers before changes are merged. Developers can create a Preview with `npx wrangler preview`, or have one created automatically…
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Most Firms Have Not Rehearsed Responses to AI Security Incidents
Most organisations have not rehearsed how they would respond to an AI-related security incident, despite increasing use of artificial intelligence by security teams, according to ISACA’s 2026 State of Cyber report. The research found that 71% had conducted…
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