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The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85097 can allow threat actors to take control of the targeted WordPress websites. The post Bricksforge WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of pre-authenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) that could allow a remote attacker “to direct the appliance to issue requests…
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI orchestration layer powered by Anthropic’s Claude Code, has been attributed
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2015-3306 (CVSS score: 10.0) – An improper access control vulnerability in ProFTPD that could…
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below – CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) – An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the “com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java”
The seizures of the tools, allegedly operated by the Chinese firm Integrity Tech, accompanied a warning from the FBI, CISA and NSA. The post DOJ, FBI seize Flax Typhoon-linked hacking tools Microscan, FishHub appeared first on CyberScoop.
A new security audit has found that roughly one in eight credential slots inside publicly posted Model Context Protocol (MCP) configuration files on GitHub contain a hardcoded secret, and nearly a quarter of those secrets never expire and carry broad access rights. The research, published by Hush Security on October 8, 2026, scanned approximately 82,000…
Threat actors have started targeting CVE-2026-21589, a critical vulnerability in Atlassian’s self-hosted Data Center products. The post Attackers Target Critical Atlassian Vulnerability Within Hours of PoC Publication appeared first on SecurityWeek.
