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- CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-88771 Citrix NetScaler Improper Input Validation Vulnerability CVE-2026-88772 Citrix NetScaler Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a…
- CISA is amplifying Citrix’s disclosure of eight new vulnerabilities affecting Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway products: CVE-2026-88771 , CVE-2026-88772 , CVE-2026-88773 , CVE-2026-88774 , CVE-2026-88775 , CVE-2026-88776 , CVE-2026-88777 , and CVE-2026-88778 . CISA has added…
- CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-86950 Apple Multiple Products Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses…
- CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-76504 Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Hex Encoding Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses…
- CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-104286 Fortinet FortiMail Path Traversal Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses…
- CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-102489 Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability CVE-2026-102490 Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability These types of…
- CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-88779 Citrix NetScaler Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent…
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- Citrix has confirmed exploitation of two critical zero-day RCE bugs
- Apple released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]
- The critical vulnerabilities, which impact default configurations of NetScaler products, essentially give attackers a skeleton key to customers' networks.
- 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 widespread “spray and pray” exploitation, fueled by the publication of a root-cause analysis and a proof-of-concept…
- The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) suffered an AI-driven cyberattack that the organization described as "loud and very, very messy." [...]
- Cybersecurity firms say attackers exploited the Citrix NetScaler CVE-2026-88772 zero-day to deploy custom web shells and tunneling malware, gain root access, steal credentials, and spread into internal networks. [...]
- Attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write flaw, in an extremely sophisticated fashion, according to Apple.
- Apple has patched CVE-2026-86950, a zero-day bug in the iOS CoreGraphics engine
- Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget revealed today that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week breached its systems after exploiting a zero-day flaw in third-party security products. [...]
- “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 recently disclosed NetScaler vulnerabilities that have been exploited as zero-days, says Mandiant CTO Charles Carmakal. Mandiant and Google…
- Several security firms have confirmed seeing exploitation of the NetScaler vulnerabilities CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772. The post Government, Finance Orgs Targeted in Weeks-Long NetScaler Zero-Day Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- Cisco released security updates to address a critical zero-day in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (tracked as CVE-2026-76504) that attackers are actively exploiting to escalate to admin privileges. [...]
- The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) says that the breach of its network was possible by exploiting a chain of two zero-day vulnerabilities in the open-source Zammad ticketing system. [...]
- Attackers exploited a flaw found by an AI research agent within four days of its public disclosure, and they are exploiting more vulnerabilities overall, according to new research by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG). The researchers examined vulnerability disclosure and exploitation data…
- The flaw could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to access vulnerable appliances with administrative privileges. The post Cisco Patches Exploited Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- 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 responders became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability in September 2026, after getting pinged and resolving a…
- The flaws were chained to hijack sessions, achieve remote code execution, and elevate privileges to root. The post Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- Under certain conditions, CVE-2026-73570 can be exploited via specially crafted emails without user interaction. The post Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- 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 helpdesk and customer support ticketing system. “Used together, [the two flaws] allowed the attackers to hijack sessions,…
- Vulnerability in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to access systems with admin privileges
- Fortinet is warning customers of a critical FortiMail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286, that is being actively exploited in zero-day attacks to execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable devices. [...]
- CVE-2026-104286 is a critical-severity path traversal vulnerability that could allow attackers to write arbitrary files to the system. The post Exploited Fortinet FortiMail Zero-Day Calls for Urgent Action appeared first on SecurityWeek .
- The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure reveals agentic AI-powered attack using Zammad zero-days
- Fortinet is warning customers that attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-104286) in FortiMail, its email security gateway. Fortinet says the flaw has been reported to be exploited in the wild, and urges customers to apply the workaround it shared until fixes are available.…
- AI slop seems to be overwhelming bug bounty programs.
- Citrix has released emergency updates for a new NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 that has been exploited in zero-day attacks, with researchers investigating whether it can also be exploited for remote code execution. [...]
- Citrix has confirmed that a new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2026-88779, emerged just days after two other exploited flaws were patched. The post Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Hits Appliances Patched Days Earlier appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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- Two critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that allow remote code execution have been exploited in the wild, Citrix confirmed on September 27. It released fixes for both, along with six other flaws. One of the two affects every deployment on an affected version,…
- The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score:…
- The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level internal credentials and then, on September 24,…
- Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead…
- OpenAI has announced that it’s making it easier for ChatGPT subscribers to use their allowance inside third-party AI and coding The post OpenAI makes ‘Sign in with ChatGPT’ a way to use your subscription in third-party developer tools appeared first on The New Stack .
- Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed technical details of a recently patched critical security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5), has been described as a memory overflow…
- Unknown threat actors have been observed exploiting a newly patched security flaw in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances to target organizations in North America and Europe. The activity, observed by Mandiant Consulting and Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) in September…
- Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, the system companies use to manage their Cisco SD-WAN networks, Cisco said in an advisory on September 30. The flaw, CVE-2026-76504, could allow a remote attacker with no login access to use the Manager's API as the admin…
- Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue's Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR) team, which analyzed the…
- Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. "Their investigation identified malicious activity involving third-party security…
- Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font that crashes unpatched iPhones and Macs.…
- The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504…
- The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score:…
- A recent article by Anil Madhavapeddy argues that AI agents can turn publicly available clues about software vulnerabilities into working exploits, reducing the effectiveness of traditional disclosure embargoes in open source projects. The author highlights the need for faster patching and release…
- Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw in NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway that has been exploited as part of targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88779, carries a CVSS score of 8.7 out of 10.0. "CVE-2026-88779 is a memory…