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vulnerabilities 2026-09-17
FamousSparrow's New SparroWocky Backdoor Hits Latin American Governments Through Exposed Exchange Servers
ESET details SparroWocky, a new C++ backdoor deployed by the China-aligned FamousSparrow group via public-facing Microsoft Exchange servers against Latin American governments since mid-2025.
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2026-09-13
Three Strikes: How Cisco's Firewall Brain Became Everyone's Favorite Target
In 2026, Cisco Secure FMC took three separate maximum-severity zero-days — and the third one put a Russian APT and a ransomware affiliate on the same box, in the same weeks, running the same playbook. That convergence is the story, not the CVE.
network-appliance apt ransomware authentication-bypass cisa-kev trend-analysis
vulnerabilities 2026-09-12
CVE-2026-20079: CVSS 10 Auth Bypass in Cisco Secure FMC Exploited by Sandworm and Qilin Ransomware
A maximum-severity authentication bypass in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center gives unauthenticated attackers root — Talos has tied active exploitation to Russia's Sandworm and to Qilin ransomware affiliates, and CISA's KEV deadline lands today.
active-exploitation cisa-kev authentication-bypass network-appliance rce apt
vulnerabilities 2026-09-01
Fire Ant Expands From VMware Hypervisors to Cisco IOS XR Routers and TACACS Servers
China-nexus actor Fire Ant has moved beyond VMware ESXi hosts to implant Cisco IOS XR routers and TACACS+ authentication servers, using purpose-built tooling to hijack GRE tunnels, hide commands from admins, and intercept credentials at the network's control plane.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-25
Iran-Linked Hackers Force UK Power Plant Offline for Four Days
A small UK generating station went dark for four days after an intrusion The Telegraph attributes to Iran-linked hackers, the first confirmed case of an IRGC-affiliated actor shutting down British energy infrastructure.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-22
GTIG Tracks Three Russian Clusters Weaponizing App Passwords, OAuth Consent, and WhatsApp Linking
Google's Threat Intelligence Group details three Russia-nexus clusters — UNC6293, UNC7005, UNC5976 — abusing app-password generation, OAuth consent flows, and WhatsApp device linking to hijack accounts of diplomats, academics, and defense researchers without tripping MFA.
apt phishing oauth credential-theft social-engineering espionage
vulnerabilities 2026-08-22
Poisoned arrayref, internment, and append-only-vec Crates Pull Build-Time Malware via a proc-macro2 Typosquat
A compromised maintainer account published malicious releases of three popular Rust crates that pull in a typosquatted proc-macro2 lookalike whose build.rs script downloads and runs a platform-specific payload at compile time — with infrastructure overlapping known DPRK supply-chain campaigns.
supply-chain rust typosquatting credential-theft build-pipeline apt
vulnerabilities 2026-08-12
Lazarus Burned a Windows Kernel Zero-Day to Deploy FudModule Before Patch Tuesday Shipped
CVE-2026-68820, a use-after-free in the Windows AFD.sys WinSock driver, was exploited by North Korea's Lazarus group to deploy an upgraded FudModule rootkit weeks before Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fix shipped.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-10
Head Mare Exploits Unpatched TrueConf Servers to Trojanize Client Installers with PhantomCore and PhantomGraph
Head Mare is chaining two unpatched TrueConf videoconferencing server flaws to reach SYSTEM, then replacing legitimate client installers with trojanized builds that drop the PhantomCore and PhantomGraph backdoors.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-07 High
CVE-2026-34486: Apache Tomcat's EncryptInterceptor Fix Was Incomplete — Now Under Active Exploitation
A second, incomplete patch for a Tomcat clustering flaw lets attackers bypass pre-shared-key encryption and reach Java deserialization on the cluster port — CISA gave federal agencies until today to fix it.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-05
QuickFox VPN Installer Trojanized for a Year to Deliver Mustang Panda's FDMTP Backdoor
A trojanized QuickFox VPN Windows installer quietly delivered the FDMTP backdoor for roughly a year, with Fortinet linking the campaign to Chinese state-sponsored actor Mustang Panda.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-01
Adform Ad-Tech Script Hijacked to Swap Crypto Wallet Addresses, Linked to a Midnight Blizzard Sub-Cluster
Attackers compromised an Adform JavaScript library served across thousands of customer sites, silently swapping copied crypto wallet addresses in an operation researchers track as CaptiveCrunch and attribute to a Midnight Blizzard (APT29) sub-cluster.
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vulnerabilities 2026-08-01
OctLurk and SilkLurk: New Backdoors Hit Central Asian Government Networks
Kaspersky attributes a year-plus cyberespionage campaign against Central Asian and Syrian government networks to a suspected Chinese-speaking actor wielding two new memory-resident backdoors, OctLurk and SilkLurk, plus a custom proxy tool called LurkProxy.
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vulnerabilities 2026-07-27
TELESHIM: An East Asia-Linked APT Hides Its C2 Inside Telegram to Backdoor Middle East Governments
Zscaler ThreatLabz uncovers TELESHIM, MIXEDKEY, and BINDCLOAK — a new East Asia-linked malware toolset that abuses the Telegram Bot API for command-and-control against Middle East government targets.
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vulnerabilities 2026-07-17
AA26-194A: NSA, CISA, FBI Warn Russian FSB Center 16 Is Harvesting Router Configs via Weak SNMP and an 18-Year-Old Cisco CSRF Bug
A 19-agency joint advisory (AA26-194A) details a years-long Russian FSB Center 16 campaign that scans for default SNMP community strings and an 18-year-old Cisco IOS CSRF flaw (CVE-2008-4128, now in CISA KEV) to exfiltrate router configs and pivot into critical infrastructure.
apt network-appliance active-exploitation cisa-kev critical-infrastructure authentication-bypass
vulnerabilities 2026-07-11
Zimbra Patches Classic Web Client Stored XSS Reported by Google TAG
Zimbra shipped 10.1.19 to fix an unauthenticated stored XSS in the Classic Web Client, reachable by simply opening a crafted email — no CVE assigned yet, reported by Google's Threat Analysis Group.
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vulnerabilities 2026-06-30
Oracle E-Business Suite Payments Flaw Under Active Exploitation Before Patch Window Closed
CVE-2026-46817, a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated takeover flaw in Oracle E-Business Suite's Payments module, is being mass-exploited via the ibytransmit endpoint — patched in May but hit in the wild before any public PoC existed.
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threats 2026-06-16
Velvet Ant's Operation Highland: A China-Nexus APT Backdoored the Linux Auth Stack for a Decade
Sygnia's Operation Highland report details how the China-nexus group Velvet Ant hid in an isolated network for nearly a decade by backdooring pam_unix.so and OpenSSH binaries — no exploit, no dropped malware, no anomalous logs.
apt linux credential-theft infrastructure
threat-intel 2026-05-31 Medium
GREYVIBE: Russia's AI-Assisted APT Is Vibe-Coding Its Way Through Ukraine
WithSecure attributes a year-long espionage campaign against Ukraine to GREYVIBE, a Russia-nexus group that runs generative AI through nearly every phase of its operation — lure art, obfuscators, full-stack RAT development, and post-compromise commands.
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threat-actor 2026-05-26
Lazarus RemotePE: Memory-Only RAT Behind $577M Crypto Theft Surfaces in Fox-IT Disclosure
Fox-IT and The Hacker News detail RemotePE, a fileless C++ RAT used by North Korea's Lazarus Group against fintech and crypto firms via a DPAPI-bound loader chain. Tied to $577M in 2026 crypto theft.
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