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Newest story built on cisa.gov reporting: CISA adds Atlassian Data Center flaw CVE-2026-21589 to its exploited-vulnerabilities list (October 16, 2026). cisa.gov reporting informs the Security desk, most often on Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, ICS and OT Security, and Vulnerability Management. At least 60 of our current stories draw on it.

Current stories

securityConfirmed3 publishers

CISA gives agencies until October 17 to fix four exploited bugs in Cisco, Palo Alto and Ahsay products

CISA added four exploited flaws in PAN-OS, Cisco Secure Email Gateway and AhsayCBS to KEV with an October 17 federal deadline. We would take the Cisco gateway first, then AhsayCBS servers already patched once, then PAN-OS.

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Confidence78
securityConfirmed13 publishers

Ten agencies tie China-linked intrusions across several sectors to Integrity Technology Group

Integrity Technology Group, a government-linked Chinese firm, enables China-linked hackers to breach US and foreign networks, ten agencies said. The advisory treats the firm and its crews as one set of actors, so a single hunt can span sectors.

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Reality

Evidence78
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Hype gap+12
Incentives60
Confidence74
securityOne report1 publisher

openPDC's Docker image carries all six CVEs listed in CISA advisory

CISA lists six CVEs in Grid Protection Alliance's openPDC and openHistorian, all six affecting the openPDC Docker image. Every affected range in the advisory ends below openPDC 2.9.482 and openHistorian 2.8.585, so those builds are the minimum versions energy operators should upgrade to.

Publishers:cisa.gov

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
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Hype gap0
Incentives15
Confidence70
securityConfirmed4 publishers

SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-65660 came under attack within days of Viettel's technical write-up

Microsoft says attackers are exploiting SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-65660, roughly six weeks after it shipped a fix in August. Any server still missing that update should be treated as possibly compromised, checked for webshells and patched.

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securityConfirmed4 publishers

CISA lists WSO2's forged-token bypass as exploited on thin public evidence

CISA listed WSO2's maximum-severity JWT bypass, CVE-2026-5430, as exploited, with a September 27 federal fix deadline. The public evidence so far is forged-token attempts from one IP against the wrong WSO2 product, a thinner record than Sansec's sighting of live Magento attacks.

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Evidence55
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives40
Confidence55
securityConfirmed7 publishers

A Windchill RCE chain that never encrypts anything, and the June hunt window it opens

Suspected Cl0p operators chain a FlexPLM WSDL disclosure to CVE-2026-12569 for unauthenticated code execution. No encryption stage means ransomware-tuned detections stay silent.

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Reality

Evidence68
Adoption50
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence64
securityConfirmed11 publishers

Third NetScaler zero-day hits SAML appliances already patched against the first two

Citrix confirmed CVE-2026-88779, a third exploited NetScaler zero-day, after appliances patched against the previous two began rebooting under attack. The vendor rates it denial of service, though logged payloads and a researcher's honeypot point toward code execution.

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Evidence78
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securityConfirmed21 publishers

NetScaler attackers tunnel into internal networks with a new Python proxy

Mandiant and Google traced a September 2026 campaign exploiting NetScaler bug CVE-2026-88772, CVSS 9.5, to root on appliances with no login. From there the intruders drop web shells and a Python tunneler that reaches into victims' internal networks to steal credentials.

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Reality

Evidence88
Adoption82
Hype gap−8
Incentives58
Confidence85
securityConfirmed10 publishers

Fortinet tells FortiMail admins to disable IBE while an exploited CVSS 9.8 flaw awaits fixes

Fortinet says attackers are exploiting a CVSS 9.8 unauthenticated file-write flaw in FortiMail, and no fixed release has shipped yet. Until builds arrive, its two workarounds are the only protection, including for 7.2 users told to move to a 7.4 branch that is still unpatched.

Publishers:bleepingcomputer.com censys.com cisa.gov helpnetsecurity.com labs.beazley.security scworld.com securityaffairs.com securityweek.com thehackernews.com truesec.com

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securityConfirmed6 publishers

Google reports limited targeted exploitation of a Pixel cellular modem permission bypass

CVE-2026-58704 is a logic error in the cellular modem that lets an attacker within radio range, already holding basic privileges on the handset, escalate with no user interaction. It is one of 110 fixes in September's Pixel bulletin.

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securityConfirmed10 publishers

Cisco patches an ISE authentication bypass attackers used before the fix existed

CVE-2026-76460 scores a CVSS 10.0, affects Cisco ISE and ISE-PIC in every configuration, and has no workaround. CISA added it to the KEV catalog the day the patches shipped and gave federal agencies three days.

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Evidence82
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securityConfirmed4 publishers

CISA's seven new KEV entries put SonicWall gateways and Artifactory on one patch clock

SonicWall's CVSS 10.0 SSRF chains into command execution on remote access appliances, and JFrog Artifactory hands unauthenticated attackers admin under default configuration. Reverse shells and miners are already landing.

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securityConfirmed13 publishers

Exploitation evidence puts two Artifactory auth flaws and a ScreenConnect privilege bug in KEV

CISA added two JFrog Artifactory access-control flaws and one ConnectWise ScreenConnect privilege flaw to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 11 September, and by the catalog's own criteria published mitigation guidance already exists for each.

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securityOne report1 publisher

Hitachi Energy SOI versions 2.0.0 to 2.2.0 carry a remote code execution flaw in bundled ActiveMQ

Hitachi Energy says SOI versions 2.0.0 through 2.2.0 carry CVE-2026-34197, a remote code execution flaw in their bundled Apache ActiveMQ component. CISA's scoring as of 28 September records no exploitation, so operators have time to find SOI hosts and fix them on a planned schedule.

Publishers:cisa.gov

Reality

Evidence58
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securityConfirmed9 publishers

DIVD traces its breach to two chained zero-days in its own Zammad helpdesk

DIVD, the Dutch volunteer disclosure group, was breached through two chained zero-days in its own Zammad helpdesk that took an attacker to root in seconds. Zammad claims over 2,000 customers, and DIVD wants every older install upgraded to version 7 or taken offline.

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Earlier coverage

  1. CISA warns a single unauthenticated request can root MikroTik RouterOS below 7.24

    Security · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed3 publishers

  2. Attackers reach admin on Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager by encoding one URL character

    Security · September 30, 2026 · Confirmed12 publishers

  3. CISA says every version of Monta's charging platform lets attackers pose as EV chargers

    Security · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  4. Crafted links could run script in users' sessions on CISA Malcolm before v26.06.0

    Security · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  5. Armatura One's access-control software leaves a 2023 ActiveMQ flaw open to unauthenticated code execution

    Security · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  6. ABB's PCM600 Scheduler Service gives standard users a route to LocalSystem control

    Security · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  7. Johnson Controls EasyIO Neo controllers send building-system logins over plain HTTP

    Security · October 1, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  8. Viidure dashcam platform exposes live footage and firmware through a publicly readable bucket

    Security · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  9. Lantronix cellular gateway turns tampered update metadata into root code, CISA says

    Security · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  10. CVE-2026-22755 opens 37 VIVOTEK camera models to remote command execution

    Security · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  11. CISA publishes nine Anjvision YSSD-RTMP-H5 flaws with no fix planned

    Security · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  12. Toptech TMS7 and TopHAT 7.6.3 let unauthenticated attackers export any database table

    Security · September 29, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  13. CISA puts Ray on the KEV list, and the exploit path runs through your developers' browsers

    Security · August 18, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  14. Exploited within hours: MLflow SSRF and FUXA auth bypass join the emergency patch list

    Security · August 18, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  15. Medusa's patch window is negative: 500 victims, and exploits used before disclosure

    Security · August 18, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers

  16. CISA's KEV clock now runs on BOD 26-04, and your patch SLA cites the wrong directive

    Security · August 19, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  17. Two TrueConf Server flaws hit KEV, and BOD 26-04 turns them into a compromise check

    Security · August 20, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  18. CISA ran the same tradecraft at two organisations; only the water utility caught it

    Security · August 25, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  19. Citrix called it a crash bug. It is unauthenticated RCE, and CISA gave agencies three days.

    Security · August 26, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers

  20. Default self-registration hands unauthenticated attackers Gitea's exploited RCE on 8,393 servers

    Security · August 28, 2026 · Confirmed7 publishers

  21. CISA gives federal agencies three days to patch a 2023 ownCloud auth bypass

    Security · August 29, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  22. Seven national cyber agencies reframe post-quantum migration as an economic risk

    Security · September 3, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  23. CISA ties federal patch deadlines to four yes-or-no questions about each CVE

    Security · September 6, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  24. NSA, CISA and FBI name six Chinese AI companies as industrial-scale distillers of US models

    Security · September 8, 2026 · Confirmed8 publishers

  25. A CVSS 10.0 Cisco FMC bypass tops the four flaws CISA moved into KEV

    Security · September 10, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  26. NIST and CISA finalize the token forgery guidance cloud customers can now cite

    Security · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed4 publishers

  27. CISA now tells critical infrastructure to plant fake credentials for attackers to trip over

    Security · September 16, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  28. CVE-2026-7891 in Siemens Mendix Runtime is retracted as expected platform configuration

    Security · September 24, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  29. Botslab G980H dashcam firmware grants privileged commands to any holder of a guessable session ID

    Security · September 24, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  30. FBI traces 800 staged SCADA files to a U.S. ICS integrator's own network

    Security · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  31. CISA orders agencies to fix four exploited edge-network flaws by September 25

    Security · September 23, 2026 · Confirmed2 publishers

  32. Unvalidated backend input can force Siemens WTV676 and WTV776 into protection mode

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  33. Siemens lists four SIMATIC AX Runtime Core Linux packages as affected by the Copy Fail flaw, with no fix available

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  34. CVE-2026-67367 lets an unauthenticated request read private keys off SIMOVE Fleetmanager hosts

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  35. Crafted Desigo CC graphics documents execute code on the operator client that opens them

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  36. Siemens ships four builds to close a root-level file upload in Siveillance Control's OIS module

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  37. Unauthenticated attackers can reset any Industrial Edge Management password without the email link

    Security · September 22, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  38. CISA gives agencies one business day to patch three exploited Linux kernel flaws

    Security · September 21, 2026 · Confirmed5 publishers

  39. Six agencies in five countries name the 17 most common Active Directory attacks

    Security · September 21, 2026 · One report1 publisher

  40. CISA publishes the open source incident tabletop it ran before XZ Utils surfaced

    Security · September 20, 2026 · One report1 publisher