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JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Used Compromised Service Principals to Delete Azure Resources

The threat actor known as JADEPUFFER has been observed orchestrating destructive actions within a Microsoft Azure environment using compromised service principals. Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under the name Storm-3168 , has called it an evolution of the threat actor's tradecraft. The attack took place in early June 2026 over a period of about 18 hours. "The destructive operations were facilitated by compromising service principals and targeted Azure Storage Accounts, SQL databases, Key Vaults, Function Apps, recovery protection locks, Virtual Machines, and App Services," researchers Yossi Weizman and Tushar Mudi, along with the Microsoft Security Research team, said . JADEPUFFER was first documented by Sysdig, describing it as the first-ever ransomware operation run end-to-end with the help of a large language model (LLM). The agentic attack exploited a known security flaw in Langflow (CVE-2025-3248) to break in, harvested credentials, burrowed deepe...

Sep 28, 2026

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CISA Says Attackers Are Exploiting Two Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaws Globally

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score: 9.5) - An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands.  CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score: 9.5) - An improper restriction of operations within the bounds of a memory buffer vulnerability that could allow for remote code execution or denial-of-service. While CVE-2026-88771 affects all NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway deployments, CVE-2026-88772 requires the DTLS configuration to be enabled on NetScaler ADC or NetScaler Gateway, an option that is turned on by default on VPN virtual servers. The relevant configuration is as follows - add vpn vserver vpn1 SSL 10.0.0.0 443 -Listenpolicy NONE

Sep 28, 2026

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Reco Finds Four in Five Agents Run With Zero IT Oversight

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Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Two critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that allow remote code execution have been exploited in the wild, Citrix confirmed on September 27. It released fixes for both, along with six other flaws. One of the two affects every deployment on an affected version, including those in the default configuration. The bulletin came a day after security firm watchTowr said two unpatched NetScaler RCE flaws had been exploited, and after some administrators said they had taken appliances offline. Citrix did not say whether its two flaws are the ones watchTowr described, but they match that account. NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway sit at the edge of enterprise networks, where they handle VPN and remote access, load balancing, and user authentication. Citrix said in its bulletin that the two exploited flaws are: CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS v4 score: 9.5) - An improper input validation flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary commands. It a...

Sep 27, 2026

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Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials

The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex . The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stage attack chain aimed at targeting Ukrainian-speaking users. "The attack chain begins with a fake CAPTCHA page and culminates in the deployment of a fully-featured C2 agent," Ontinue threat researcher Rhys Downing said in a technical report. "The stealer extracts credentials and data from seven Chromium-based browsers, exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets, and establishes persistent remote filesystem access through a PowerShell-based Native Messaging Host installed within the victim's browser." The infection makes use of bogus MSI installers delivered via ClickFix to trigger a series of actions, including delivering a loader dubbed LunexLoader that's designed to bypass User Ac...

Sep 26, 2026

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Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells

Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability was first exploited as a zero-day in attacks against academic institutions to conduct reconnaissance, deploy remote access software like MeshCentral agent for persistence, move laterally over SSH, run a shell script to connect via SSH to other internal PeopleSoft machines using known username/password combinations, and steal data. At that time, Google-owned Mandiant said it initiated notifications to over 100 global organizations whose IP addresses matched vulnerable endpoints, most of them located in the U.S. "This new wave of activity stems from UNC6240 modifying its exploit to bypass web application firewall (WAF...

Sep 26, 2026

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Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility

The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an evaluation of OpenAI agents, has spurred organizations to examine whether speed has outpaced the ability to secure what gets deployed . Security teams are increasingly asking what an agent can reach once it's running, and whether anyone would notice before it mattered. However tempting it may be to jump directly into enforcement controls and detections, you need to look before you leap. Research from Veeam reveals that 70% of organizations admit that AI workflows are already in contact with sensitive corporate data without full oversight in place, and 67% report that IT cannot fully track the autonomous workflows that employees are building. Sh...

Sep 26, 2026

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Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link

Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue administrator accounts and take control of a site. The cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability, which has yet to be assigned a CVE identifier, carries a CVSS score of 8.8 out of 10.0. It only affects versions 4.3.0 and 4.3.1 of the plugin, which is active on over 10 million WordPress sites. Statistics from WordPress.org show that the two impacted versions alone have been installed on more than 2 million sites. "One link, opened by a logged-in WordPress user, makes that user carry out any REST API action their account is permitted to perform," Patchstack said . "On a stock installation, an administrator clicking the link creates a second administrator account for the attacker." The WordPress security company said the attack does not hinge on any prerequisite, such as JavaScrip...

Sep 26, 2026

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SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities in question are as follows - CVE-2026-65660 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A code injection vulnerability in Microsoft Office SharePoint that allows an authorized attacker to execute code over a network. CVE-2026-67279 (CVSS score: 6.9) - An improper enforcement of behavioral workflow vulnerability in  Mikrotik RouterOS that could allow an unauthenticated client to open a session channel and send an exec request. As reported by The Hacker News earlier this week, CVE-2026-65660 was originally described by Microsoft as a spoofing vulnerability impacting SharePoint Server. The tech giant has since updated the advisory to state that it could be abused to obtain remote code execution. "As of 9/25/2026, Microsoft ...

Sep 26, 2026