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Huntress has observed an uptick in threat actors exploiting CVE-2026-1731 in outdated Bomgar RMM instances to compromise organizations and their downstream clients. Attackers utilize this access to establish persistence via secondary RMM tools, evade defenses using BYOVD techniques, and ultimately deploy LockBit ransomware.
This threat intelligence newsletter highlights the emerging 'Platform-as-a-Proxy' (PaaP) technique, where attackers abuse legitimate SaaS notifications to bypass traditional email security. It also covers active campaigns, including Storm-1175 deploying Medusa ransomware via CVE-2026-1731, and UAT-10362 targeting Taiwanese organizations with a novel Lua-based malware called LucidRook.
A critical pre-authentication remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731) in BeyondTrust Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access is being actively exploited in the wild. The flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands, necessitating immediate patching or isolation of self-hosted instances.
