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Adversaries Don’t Need a Zero-Day — They Read Your Rulebook

Confidence in autonomous security tools is declining, and here’s why.

Kimi K3 Agents Found Redis Zero-Days and Built RCE Exploit, Researchers Say

Redis shipped seven security releases on July 23 after researchers published authenticated RCE PoCs for stock Redis 6.2.22, 7.4.9, 8.6.4, and 8.8.0. All four chains…

Kimi K3: Chinesische KI findet mehrere Zero-Day-Lücken in redis-Datenbank

Ein IT-Forscher hat mit der chinesischen KI Kimi K3 mehrere Zero-Day-Lücken in der redis-Datenbank entdeckt. Updates bestätigen die Funde.

Version 1.0: Check Point Remote Access VPN und Mobile Access – Aktiv ausgenutzte Schwachstelle ermöglicht Aufbau von VPN-Sessions ohne Authentifizierung

Russian Hackers Exploit Zimbra Zero-Day Against US, Ukraine Targets

A state-sponsored threat group, dubbed "Laundry Bear," sends "half-click" phishing emails that require a victim only to open or preview the message.

Russian Espionage Group Exploited Zimbra Zero-Day to Steal Mail and 2FA Codes

A Russian state-supported espionage group spent months reading Western mailboxes through a then-unknown flaw in Zimbra’s webmail client. The payload goes after the last 90…

Felons, Fraudsters Flog Offensive Cybersecurity Startup

A cybersecurity startup dangling millions of dollars to acquire zero-day security vulnerabilities in popular software is run by a pair of far-right conspiracy theorists and…

Ransomware Attack Puts a Chill On Japanese Frozen-Food Chain

A cyberattack on a food and logistics firm disrupts the supply of frozen food to thousands of clients, including major franchises like Kentucky Fried Chicken.

Qilin Ransomware Attackers Exploit PAN-OS Authentication Bypass for Initial Access

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a now-patched high-severity Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS vulnerability as an entry point to deploy Qilin (aka Agenda) ransomware on…

AWS Kiro Flaw Let a Poisoned Web Page Rewrite Its Config and Run Code

Hidden text on a web page was enough to make Kiro, AWS’s agentic coding IDE, rewrite its own configuration file and run an attacker’s code…

WordPress wp2shell Exploitation Grows as Public Exploit Fuels Mass Scanning

Attackers have begun to exploit two critical vulnerabilities in WordPress that, when combined together, enable unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) and complete compromise of vulnerable…

WordPress Exploitation Underway (CVE-2026-63030), (Mon, Jul 20th)

Last week, Searchlight Cyber released details about a vulnerability they are calling „wp2shell“. The vulnerability was initially announced without a CVE number. But now has…

New 7-Zip Vulnerability Could Let Crafted XZ Archives Run Code During Extraction

Opening a crafted XZ archive in 7-Zip could let an attacker run code on the machine. The flaw, CVE-2026-14266, is a heap-based buffer overflow in…

Kritische Sicherheitslücke in Drupal Core – Updates verfügbar

20. Mai 2026 Beschreibung In Drupal Core existiert eine SQL-Injection-Schwachstelle in der Datenbank-Abstraktions-API. Speziell gestaltete Anfragen können zu beliebigen SQL-Injections führen. Die Schwachstelle ist ausschließlich…

Kritische Sicherheitslücken in WordPress – Updates verfügbar

20. Juli 2026 Beschreibung In WordPress existieren zwei Sicherheitslücken. Eine SQL-Injection-Schwachstelle im Parameter „author__not_in“ von „WP_Query“ betrifft WordPress ab Version 6.8. Ab WordPress 6.9 lässt…

Critical NGINX Vulnerability Can Crash Workers and May Allow Remote Code Execution

F5 has shipped fixes for a critical nginx flaw that lets a remote, unauthenticated attacker trigger a heap buffer overflow in the worker process with…

SonicWall SMA Zero-Days Exploited Before Disclosure to Gain Root Access

A previously undocumented threat actor has been attributed to the exploitation of recently disclosed SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances as zero-days…

Version 1.0: [WordPress] – [WordPress]: [Schwachstellen erlauben Remote Code Execution- PoC verfügbar]

Inc Ransomware Exploits SonicWall SMA Zero-Days

When chained together, the two vulnerabilities allow threat actors to gain root-level capabilities on SonicWall’s mobile access appliances.

Full Disclosure als Notwehr: Der Cursor Zero Day

Jürgen Schmidt, Leiter von heise security, erklärt, warum Responsible und Coordinated Disclosure keine Zukunft mehr haben.

Researcher Drops New Windows Zero-Day PoC Hours After Microsoft Patch Tuesday

Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse (aka Nightmare-Eclipse) has released a new proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit called LegacyHive. It has been described as a Windows User Profile Service…

Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days Exploited, One Could Enable Admin Commands

SonicWall has warned of active exploitation of two zero-day vulnerabilities impacting Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series appliances, one of which could be exploited to…

SonicWall SMA1000: Angriffe auf teils kritische Zero-Day-Lücken

SonicWall warnt vor Angriffen auf teils höchst kritische Zero-Day-Lücken in SMA1000-Appliances. SonicWall bietet einen Hotfix und IOCs.

Version 1.0: SonicWall SMA1000 – Zero-Day Schwachstellen aktiv ausgenutzt

Kritische Sicherheitslücken in SonicWall SMA1000 Series – aktiv ausgenutzt – Updates verfügbar

15. Juli 2026 Beschreibung In den SonicWall SMA1000 Series Appliances existieren mehrere Sicherheitslücken. Die schwerwiegendere der beiden Schwachstellen ermöglicht es Angreifer:innen aus der Ferne und…

Records Are Made to Be Broken: Patch Tuesday Raises Triage Stakes

Three of the 622 CVEs for which Microsoft issued patches this week are zero-days; there are more than 60 critical vulnerabilities.

Microsoft Patches Record 622 Flaws, Including Two Zero-Days Under Active Attack

Microsoft shipped its largest Patch Tuesday on record today, and two of the fixes close holes that attackers are already exploiting. The release covers 622…

Version 1.0: Microsoft SharePoint – Zero-Day und kritische Schwachstellen geschlossen

U.S. Sanctions First VPN Service and Malware Cryptor Seller Over Ransomware Support

The U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has designated two individuals and a VPN service provider for enabling ransomware actors‘ and other…

Version 1.0: cPanel und WHM – Aktiv ausgenutzte Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen der Authentifizierung

iCagenda and Balbooa Forms Joomla Flaws Reportedly Exploited as Zero-Days

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two maximum-severity security flaws impacting iCagenda and Balbooa extensions for Joomla to its Known Exploited…

Attackers Exploit Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator Command Injection Flaw

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting on-premises versions of Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-16812…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Agents, Check Point Exploit, Slopsquatting, ClickFix Lures and More

Monday starts with the usual promise that everything is under control. Then the logs wake up. This week, trusted tools crossed lines, old flaws found…

Public Exploit Released for Patched vBulletin Pre-Auth Code Execution Flaw

Public exploit details released on July 27 show how an unauthenticated request can reach PHP’s eval() function inside vBulletin and execute code on an unpatched…

Fastjson 1.x RCE Vulnerability Targeted in Attacks With No Patched Available

Security firms ThreatBook and Imperva say attackers are targeting a critical flaw in Fastjson, Alibaba’s JSON library for Java. In affected Spring Boot applications, a…

Cl0p Affiliates Target Internet-Exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM with Unauthenticated RCE

Threat actors linked to the Cl0p (aka Chubby Scorpius, FIN11, Graceful Spider, and Lace Tempest) ransomware campaign are exploiting flaws in internet-exposed PTC Windmill and…

Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git

Security researchers at depthfirst published working exploit code on July 24 for a GitLab flaw that GitLab patched six weeks earlier, on June 10. It runs…

Bing Images Flaws Let Crafted SVGs Run Commands as SYSTEM on Microsoft’s Servers

A crafted SVG submitted to Bing’s image search ran commands as NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM on Microsoft’s production image-processing workers, and as root on the Linux machines…

ChatGPT AgentForger Flaw Could Deploy Rogue Workspace Agents via a Phishing Link

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical vulnerability in OpenAI’s ChatGPT Workspace Agents that could have allowed a single phishing link to stealthily build, authorize, and…

Certighost Exploit Lets Low-Privileged Active Directory Users Impersonate a Domain Controller

Researchers H0j3n and Aniq Fakhrul published a working exploit on July 24 that lets a low-privileged Active Directory user obtain a certificate for a Domain…

NodeBB Patches Eight AI-Found Flaws Exposing Admin Access and Private Chats

Eight security flaws in NodeBB went public on Wednesday, along with the code to exploit them. Aikido Security rates all eight as high severity and…

Hacker Runs Hermes AI Agent Unattended for Post-Exploitation at Thai Finance Ministry

Someone installed a popular AI assistant on a rented server, switched off the setting that makes it ask permission before running risky commands, and pointed…

End-to-End Encryption and “Going Dark”

New paper: “Encryption and Globalization 15 Years Later: End-to-End Encryption and the Third Round of the ‘Going Dark’ Debate“: Abstract: This Article updates and expands…

Flaws in Passkey Implementation Show Old Attacks Still Work

Ahead of Black Hat USA, researchers find exploitable flaws in how Microsoft handles passkeys that could allow attackers to impersonate privileged users.

Check Point Patches Exploited SmartConsole Flaw Allowing Full Admin Access

Check Point has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities impacting Security Management and Multi-Domain Management (MDSM) products, including a critical flaw that has come…

Nine-Year-Old RefluXFS Linux Flaw Gives Local Users Root on Default RHEL Installs

RefluXFS, a new Linux kernel flaw disclosed on July 22 and tracked as CVE-2026-64600, lets an unprivileged local user overwrite root-owned files on an XFS…

Fake Bahrain Alert App Deploys Android Surveillance Malware

A malicious application delivers four-stage Android spyware via phony Google Play sites, exploiting civilian fear during Iranian missile strikes.

Attackers Are Learning to Live Off the AI Toolchain

Sandworm_Mode is an early example of malware that exploits trusted AI tools and workflows to make malicious activity virtually indistinguishable from normal activity.

Adobe Acrobat Extension Flaw Let Malicious Sites Read WhatsApp Web Data

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a now-patched vulnerability chain in the Adobe Acrobat Chrome extension that has over 314 million users, which, if exploited,…

GitHub Cuts Public Bug Bounty Payouts, Moves Top Rewards to VIP Tier

Beginning July 27, 2026, GitHub will cut public bug bounty payouts by at least half at every severity level. Critical findings will drop from $20,000-$30,000+…