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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

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OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

The designation applies when a model can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across many well-defended systems. The post OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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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

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Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities

The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs. The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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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

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23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted

The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown. The post 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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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

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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

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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

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SonicWall Warns of Two SMA1000 Zero-Days Exploited in Attacks

The vulnerabilities CVE-2026-83549 and CVE-2026-83548 can be chained for unauthenticated remote code execution. The post SonicWall Warns of Two SMA1000 Zero-Days Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

A new identity theft service launched on the dark web this week is selling digital scans of more than 153 million drivers licenses from people in the United States and Canada. Based on interviews with individuals whose licenses are available for purchase on this service, it appears to be siphoning images collected by a widely-used identity verification company based in Louisiana. KrebsOnSecurity also has learned that the New Orleans field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today launched an official inquiry into the source of the images.

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Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console

The cybersecurity giant announced the acquisition alongside quarterly results showing a 34% increase in revenue and strong growth in next-generation security ARR. The post Palo Alto Networks Acquires AI Agent Platform Console appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Sevii Targets AI-Speed Attacks With Preemptive Autonomous Defense

Sevii has expanded its ADR platform with AI agents designed to investigate, contain, and remediate AI-driven attacks within minutes. The post Sevii Targets AI-Speed Attacks With Preemptive Autonomous Defense appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Coast Guard Establishes Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy

The new office will serve as the central authority for cybersecurity policy covering US ports, vessels, and maritime facilities. The post Coast Guard Establishes Office of Maritime Cybersecurity Policy appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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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

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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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13 Malicious Packagist Packages Target Unpatched iPhones to Steal Crypto Wallet Seeds

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

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Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars

Forescout researchers used Claude AI to port a remote code execution exploit between WAGO PLC models. The post Experiment: Porting a PLC Exploit With AI Takes Hours and Hundreds of Dollars appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability

Tracked as CVE-2026-0768, the security defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary Python code remotely. The post Hackers Start Exploiting Critical Langflow Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.