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Critical VMware vCenter RCE flaw exploited for reverse SSH access

A recently patched critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-59310) in VMware vCenter Syslog Server is being exploited in an active campaign to deploy a reverse SSH tool for persistence and remote access. [...]

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Johnson Controls Inc. Airwall

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to decrypt sensitive data, bypass authentication controls, gaining unauthorized access to read arbitrary files on the system, or gain unauthorized access to protected system resources. The following versions of Johnson Controls Inc. Airwall are affected: Airwall

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Johnson Controls Metasys

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a low-privilege user or attacker to inject a persistent malicious payload via a crafted URL that executes in the context of other users' sessions, including administrators, potentially leading to session hijacking and unauthorized access. The following versions of Johnson Controls Metasys are…

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Siemens Siveillance Video

Siveillance Video Management Servers contains a vulnerability that could allow a Remote Code Execution attack. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions. The following versions of Siemens Siveillance Video are affected: Siveillance Video V2023 R3 vers:intdot/

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Flow Neuroscience FL-100

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker within Bluetooth range to manipulate brain stimulation parameters and override safety limits. The following versions of Flow Neuroscience FL-100 are affected: Flow Neuroscience FL-100 Halo Neuroscience FL-100 CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.1 Flow Neuroscience Flow…

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Siemens LOGO! Soft Comfort

Siemens LOGO! Soft Comfort contains multiple vulnerabilities in its project-file encryption and password handling mechanisms. A local attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to extract the master key, allowing them to decrypt project data or remove project passwords. The lack of password salting enables offline dictionary or brute-force attacks…

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Siemens Solid Edge

Solid Edge is affected by multiple file parsing vulnerabilities that could be triggered when the application reads specially crafted files in PAR, PSM or DFT format. This could allow an attacker to crash the application or execute arbitrary code. Siemens has released new versions for the affected products and recommends to update to the latest versions…

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Siemens Simcenter Femap

Simcenter Femap contains two file parsing vulnerabilities that could be triggered when the application reads files in BMP file format. If a user is tricked to open a malicious file with the affected application, this could lead the application to crash or potentially lead to arbitrary code execution. Siemens has released a new version for Simcenter Femap…

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Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands with root privileges. The following versions of Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway are affected: Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway 3.40.1.12 (CVE-2026-19188) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 10 Haiwell Haiwell IoT Cloud HMI Gateway Improper…

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AVEVA Enterprise SCADA

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to tamper with serialized data, potentially resulting in code execution during deserialization. The following versions of AVEVA Enterprise SCADA are affected: Enterprise SCADA 2025 (CVE-2025-7639) Enterprise SCADA >=2024|=2023|=2022|

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Hitachi Energy APM Edge Product

Hitachi Energy is aware of Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that affect APM Edge product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The…

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Research

Using Gemma4 with Ollama - Testing File Hash Analysis and Recommendations with AI, (Wed, Aug 12th)

In the past few weeks, I have been using Gemma4 as a Large Language Model (LLM) to see how useful it can be to analyze some of the malware hashes uploaded to the DShield sensor over the past 30 days and figure out how its recommendation can be considered useful about the activity my DShield sensor is collecting and tracking. The model I use for this…

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Linux Kernel Process Accounting, (Wed, Aug 12th)

A couple of days ago, Xavier posted about Atuin to gain more insight into the command history. Atuin does a great job of better organizing what is usually handled by "bash_history" and collecting meaningful additional data. Our reader David commented that this can also be done quite well with…

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Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808

Fortinet has published information on vulnerabilities in FortiOS. This advisory lists the related Siemens Industrial products. Siemens recommends to contact customer support for additional information, and follow Fortinet advisory for workarounds and mitigation measures. The following versions of Siemens RUGGEDCOM APE1808 are affected: RUGGEDCOM APE1808…

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Microsoft Patches 398 Flaws Including a Windows Driver Zero-Day Under Active Attack

Microsoft released its monthly security updates on Tuesday, and one of the flaws it closed is already being used in attacks. The bug sits in a core Windows kernel driver that handles network socket operations. An attacker with code already running on a machine can use it to escalate to SYSTEM. That patch goes out first. The flaw is tracked as…

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Research

Kimwolf v7 Android Botnet Makes HTTP/2 DDoS Traffic Look Like Legitimate Browsing

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new version of the Kimwolf/AISURU Android and Internet of Things (IoT) botnet that comes with significant improvements to improve its operational resilience and conduct distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The new version, tracked as Kimwolf v7, was discovered by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 in February…

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Cloud

Zoom Annotation Flaws Could Let a Meeting Participant Hijack Another Attendee's Client

Anyone sharing their screen on a Zoom call could have taken over the computers of everyone watching, and anyone watching could have taken over the presenter's. The flaw sat in the annotation tool, the feature that lets participants draw and type on a shared screen, and it asked nothing of the victim beyond being in the meeting. No click, no download, no…

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Research

Sandworm-Linked UAC-0145 Uses Fake Job Interviews to Push VPN That Can Run Commands

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has disclosed details of a new social engineering campaign orchestrated by Russian nation-state threat actors targeting IT workers in the country by masquerading as recruiters to trick them into installing malware. CERT-UA pinned the activity on a threat cluster it tracks as UAC-0145, which is a…

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Researchers Disclose AI-Assisted SharePoint Exploit Chain Reaching Unauthenticated RCE

Security researchers found a way to enter Microsoft SharePoint servers as any user, including an administrator, with no valid account. A significant part of the work that found it was done through an AI agent. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-55040 (CVSS 9.1), affects SharePoint Server Subscription Edition, SharePoint Server 2019, and SharePoint Server 2016…

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Research

DeadLock Ransomware Uses Polygon Smart Contracts to Make Extortion Infra Harder to Disrupt

The ransomware group known as DeadLock has been observed using decentralized infrastructure to facilitate victim communications and data leak operations in a bid to improve operational resilience. "Its recovery ecosystem combines the Session messaging network with blockchain-backed services that store and deliver resources used throughout the extortion…

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OpenAI Launches GPT-5.6-Cyber with Reduced Safeguards for Exploit Development

OpenAI on Monday unveiled a new cybersecurity-focused model called GPT‑5.6‑Cyber that it said is focused on vulnerability research, penetration testing, and incident response. "Built on GPT‑5.6 Sol, it is trained to improve capabilities on several specialized cybersecurity tasks (e.g., finding zero-day vulnerabilities and developing exploit chains) and to…

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Research

A Malicious SIM Card Can Run Attacker Code Inside the Modems Behind Cellular IoT Devices

A malicious SIM card can order the device it sits in to run commands of the attacker's choosing. On the cellular modules built into electric-vehicle chargers, industrial routers, and car telematics units, that is enough to take the whole device over. Researchers at the University of Birmingham and the security firm Fuzzware tested 26 phones and cellular…

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Threats

Mozilla Revokes Firefox and Thunderbird Linux Signing Key After Key Lands in Private Repo

Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, confirms a downloaded Firefox tarball came from Mozilla and was not tampered…

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Mira Hormone Monitor, Mira Android App

Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to access unauthorized health profile information, make changes to health information, cause a denial-of-service condition, disclose session token information, and obtain control of user accounts. The following versions of Mira Hormone Monitor, Mira Android App are affected: Mira…

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Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to use hidden commands to disable electrical safety mechanisms or modify other stimulation output settings. The following versions of Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator are affected: Pulsetto Vagus Nerve Stimulator vers:all/* (CVE-2026-18844) CVSS Vendor Equipment Vulnerabilities v3 8.1…

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CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-20349 Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Heap Inspection Vulnerability CVE-2026-68820 Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for WinSock Use-After-Free…

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Research

Researchers Built a Fake Crypto Startup and Hired Three Suspected North Korean IT Workers

Security researchers invented a cryptocurrency startup, advertised developer jobs, and hired three people they believe were North Korean operatives. Every virtual machine the company issued was recording. The onboarding paperwork is the part hiring teams can use. The first hire claimed to live in Pasadena, Texas, then sent a California driver's license and…

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Malicious MCP Servers Can Split Instructions to Make AI Coding Agents Exfiltrate Secrets

A malicious tool server connected to an AI coding assistant can quietly walk off with SSH keys, environment secrets, source code, and customer data without ever sending one obviously harmful instruction. The trick can work even after a blunt version of the same theft is refused: split the request into fragments that each look routine, place them in…

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Gunra Ransomware Exploits Fortinet and Schneider Electric Flaws to Breach Networks

Cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from South Korea and the U.S. warned of Gunra ransomware attacks targeting critical infrastructure sectors and organizations across the world. Targets of these attacks include healthcare and public health, financial services, government services and facilities, and professional and nonprofit services. "Gunra is…

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Hackers Breach Polish Power Plant Controls via Private Cellular Network and Shut Turbine

Attackers shut down a steam turbine and the process-water treatment system at a Polish combined heat and power plant by coming in over the private cellular network the local grid operator uses to reach remote equipment. The plant supplies heat to roughly 50,000 residents. Recovery began at about 7:30 a.m. while the intruders were still active inside the…

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Research

BdThemes Supply Chain Attack Poisons JSON to Create Rogue WordPress Admins

Cybersecurity researchers have warned of a supply chain compromise impacting WordPress plugin vendor BdThemes, prompting the content management systems (CMS) platform's plugins team to temporarily disable their downloads. "Unlike traditional software supply chain attacks, zero source code files were modified within the official WordPress.org repository,"…

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Shipping 10–50× More Code? Watch This Webinar on Securing AI-Speed Development

AI is helping development teams produce far more code, far faster. But security teams still have to review vulnerabilities, manage dependencies, prioritize fixes, and control risk at human speed. When software output jumps 10 to 50 times, the problem is no longer just finding vulnerabilities. It is keeping security from becoming the bottleneck, or worse…

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China-Linked Hackers Deploy New StormEncryptor Ransomware, Likely via N-central Flaw

Microsoft has disclosed that Storm-1175, a financially motivated threat actor linked to China, has deployed a previously undocumented ransomware strain called StormEncryptor. The use of StormEncryptor marks a shift from the adversary's previous use of Medusa ransomware, the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Team said. "StormEncryptor is written in C++ and…

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