remote-code-execution

Volexity discovered threat actor UTA0533 exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA 1000 series VPN appliances to achieve root-level remote code execution. CVE-2026-15409 enables pre-auth SSRF via /wsproxy to tunnel to localhost services, while CVE-2026-15410 enables command injection via path traversal in the sysCtrl.execRemoveHotfix endpoint. The actor deployed custom malware including KNUCKLEBALL (Java agent injector), ORANGETAIL (webshell), and ROOTRUN (privilege escalation binary), then used tcpdump to capture LDAP credentials and attempted lateral movement from over 200 IP addresses.

2026-07-177 minCanadian Centre for Cyber Securityhigh

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published three security advisories on 2026-07-17 covering critical vulnerabilities in FreePBX (unauthenticated RCE and SQL injection), VMware Avi Load Balancer (seven CVEs under VMSA-2026-0005), and Google Chrome for Desktop. All advisories urge immediate patching to the latest versions.

2026-07-1710 minPalo Alto Networkscritical

A chained exploit comprising three zero-day vulnerabilities in Siemens ROX II OT switches allows an attacker to escalate from arbitrary file disclosure to full persistent root-level access. CVE-2025-40948 leverages a root-privileged xz utility to read any file on the filesystem, CVE-2025-40947 exploits unsanitized input in the feature key signature verification to achieve command injection as root, and CVE-2025-40949 enables persistent code execution by injecting commands into the root cron table via the web management task scheduler. Siemens has released firmware V2.17.1 to address all three vulnerabilities.

2026-07-169 minMandiantlow

This article provides a structural blueprint for safely integrating LLM agents into vulnerability management workflows, covering both enterprise vulnerability management and product security tracks. It outlines operational guardrails including pre-agent data security, workload isolation, least-privileged machine identities, toxic flow analysis, and supply chain resilience for AI skills. The guidance emphasizes that LLMs augment but do not replace deterministic controls, human threat modeling, and secure-by-design principles, and recommends phasing memory-safe languages into new development as a long-term strategy.

2026-07-158 minMandianthigh

Mandiant identifies publicly exposed serverless applications lacking authentication as a significant risk during security assessments. Attackers can exploit Local File Inclusion (LFI) or command injection vulnerabilities in custom code to read sensitive files, extract hardcoded secrets, and retrieve GCP service account bearer tokens from the metadata service. Stolen tokens enable lateral movement and potential full cloud project compromise, especially when Cloud Run services use over-privileged default service accounts. The blog provides hardening guidance including least-privilege IAM, Cloud Armor WAF policies, VPC Service Controls, and Secure SDLC practices.

2026-07-1514 minESEThigh

ESET researchers identified 11 old, Microsoft-signed UEFI shim bootloaders (version 0.9 and below) that can bypass UEFI Secure Boot on any system trusting Microsoft's third-party UEFI CA 2011 certificate. The old shims lack modern security features (MokListX enforcement, SBAT) and contain known vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-10797) that enable revocation bypass, allowing attackers to execute untrusted code during boot and deploy UEFI bootkits. Exploitation does not require the affected software to be installed — attackers can bring their own copy of the vulnerable shim to any UEFI system with the Microsoft third-party certificate enrolled.

2026-07-1513 minCisco Taloscritical

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday discloses 622 vulnerabilities, including 57 critical-severity issues spanning RCE, elevation of privilege, spoofing, and security feature bypass across Windows components, Office, SharePoint, SQL Server, Dynamics, and cloud services. Two vulnerabilities — an AD FS elevation of privilege flaw (CVE-2026-56155) and a SharePoint spoofing flaw (CVE-2026-56164) — are confirmed exploited in the wild, and 11 critical RCE issues plus several important EoP flaws are rated 'more likely' to be exploited by Microsoft. Cisco Talos has released Snort 2 and Snort 3 rule updates to detect exploitation attempts for a subset of the disclosed vulnerabilities.

2026-07-156 minCrowdStrikehigh

Microsoft's July 2026 Patch Tuesday release addresses 622 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited zero-days and one publicly disclosed zero-day, with 62 rated Critical. The dominant exploitation techniques this month are elevation of privilege (41%), remote code execution (27%), and information disclosure (18%), though the article provides no specific CVE identifiers, affected products, or technical exploitation details.

2026-07-1410 minAkamaicritical

Attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2025-3248, a critical RCE vulnerability in Langflow's code validation API, to deploy a customized Gafgyt DDoS bot on AI development servers. The bot uses a modified RC4 stream cipher for C2 communications and is optimized purely for network flooding attacks (UDP, TCP, HOLD, Junk). AI infrastructure is targeted due to high bandwidth availability, shadow IT deployment practices, and permissive egress filtering.

2026-07-1413 minSockethigh

Socket's Threat Research Team identified four compromised npm packages in the @asyncapi namespace delivering a multi-stage botnet loader called Miasma. The attack injects obfuscated JavaScript into package source files that executes at module load time (bypassing npm lifecycle script blocking), spawns a detached Node.js process to download an encrypted payload from IPFS, and deploys a 3+ MB tasking framework with multi-channel C2 capabilities including HTTP, Nostr, IPFS, and Ethereum RPC. The malicious packages were published via GitHub Actions trusted publishing from a compromised source commit on the 'next' branch.

2026-07-139 minCheck Pointhigh

This weekly threat intelligence bulletin covers multiple significant incidents including autonomous LLM-driven ransomware (JadePuffer), a cryptocurrency supply chain compromise via malicious npm packages, and three critical CVEs affecting Langflow, Tenda routers, and Linux KVM. Iran-linked Cavern Manticore and China-linked UAT-7810 were profiled targeting Israeli and networking infrastructure respectively. The report also highlights risks in AI development tools where hidden malicious instructions in open-source files could achieve RCE through Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.

A phishing campaign targeting Korean organizations delivers malicious XLS files disguised as payment confirmation notices. The XLS files exploit CVE-2017-0199 to download and execute an HTA file, which in turn launches an obfuscated PowerShell script via WMI. The PowerShell script retrieves a steganographically embedded PNG containing a .NET loader, which ultimately downloads and executes Remcos RAT for persistent remote access and data exfiltration.

2026-07-108 minCanadian Centre for Cyber Securitycritical

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published four security advisories on 2026-07-10 covering critical vulnerabilities in Roundcube Webmail, Broadcom/VMware Tanzu products, Microsoft Edge, and Bitwarden Server. The most urgent advisory (AL25-007 Update 1) confirms ongoing exploitation of CVE-2024-42009 and CVE-2025-49113 in Roundcube Webmail, where attackers first obtain valid credentials via CVE-2024-42009 and then leverage CVE-2025-49113 (a Post-Auth RCE via PHP Object Deserialization) to achieve remote code execution. Both CVEs are listed in CISA's KEV catalog, and a proof-of-concept exists for CVE-2025-49113.

2026-07-1020 minRecorded Futurecritical

Insikt Group identified 60 high-impact vulnerabilities in June 2026 (a 49% increase from May), with 23 listed in CISA's KEV catalog and 53 having public PoC exploits. The dominant theme was exploitation of externally reachable enterprise applications and appliances by multiple threat actors: StrikeShark chained 13 CVEs to deploy SharkLoader and Cobalt Strike, Lazarus exploited CVE-2025-55182 (React2Shell, CVSS 10.0) to deploy COPPERHEDGE and EtherRAT, APT36 targeted India via Microsoft Office/Windows CVEs, and Qilin ransomware was linked to Check Point gateway exploitation. 25 of the 60 vulnerabilities enabled RCE across 18 vendors, with CWE-22 (Path Traversal) being the most common flaw class.

2026-07-098 minAkamaicritical

CVE-2026-48282 is a critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability in Adobe ColdFusion's RDS FILEIO handler, exploitable via the /CFIDE/main/ide.cfm?ACTION=FILEIO endpoint. An attacker can send crafted HTTP requests with traversal sequences to read or write arbitrary files on the server, potentially achieving remote code execution by writing malicious .cfm files into web-accessible directories. Adobe has released patches under bulletin APSB26-68 for affected versions (2025.9 and earlier, 2023.20 and earlier).

UNK_MassTraction, a suspected China-aligned threat cluster, has been exploiting chained n-day vulnerabilities in Roundcube mailservers (CVE-2024-42009 XSS followed by CVE-2025-49113 PHP deserialization) targeting physics and engineering departments at US and Canadian universities since May 2026. The campaign deploys a custom JavaScript credential stealer (IceCube), a webshell (SquareShell), and the VShell backdoor via an in-memory ELF loader, treating mailservers as edge devices for network pivot. The tooling demonstrates mature operational security including anti-forensics, fallback mechanisms, and process spoofing.

AhnLab's Q2 2026 vulnerability trends report identifies 20,701 new CVEs, with Critical-severity vulnerabilities rising 62.5% from Q1 to 2,317. CISA's KEV catalog added 75 new entries, 87% of which were Critical or High severity. Attackers concentrated on externally exposed infrastructure (firewalls, VPNs, management panels) and supply chain compromises. The report highlights ten major CVEs across Ivanti, Fortinet, Palo Alto, Splunk, Google Chrome, Microsoft Exchange, cPanel, Ubiquiti, and DAEMON Tools, with RCE and privilege escalation being the dominant impact categories.

2026-07-0610 minCheck Pointcritical

This weekly threat intelligence bulletin covers multiple active ransomware campaigns, four critical vulnerabilities under active exploitation, and emerging AI-driven threats. Notable items include actively exploited RCE flaws in Oracle E-Business Suite and Progress Kemp LoadMaster, a Citrix NetScaler memory disclosure flaw exploited within 24 hours of disclosure, a North Korean supply-chain campaign (PolinRider) deploying 108 malicious packages, and a proof-of-concept browser-native ransomware generated by an LLM abusing Chrome's File System Access API.

UNK_DeadDrop is a likely North Korean threat actor conducting broad phishing campaigns targeting software developers with fake job offers and code review requests. The campaign delivers malicious GitHub/GitLab repositories that abuse VS Code and Cursor IDE task automation to silently execute cross-platform malware. Linux and macOS systems receive the Overlord Go RAT with custom credential and wallet theft modules, while Windows runs a fileless Node.js/Python pipeline inside the editor's Electron process. The malware exfiltrates cryptocurrency wallets, browser credentials, and OS keychain data to a hardcoded C&C server at 23.137.105.75:5173.

Operation Endgame, a coordinated law enforcement action by Netherlands, Canada, US, and Germany, disrupted TA569's SocGholish web inject infrastructure by taking down over 100 servers and remediating 14,971 compromised websites. TA569 compromises legitimate websites—often WordPress installations—to inject obfuscated JavaScript that presents fake browser update pages to visitors, ultimately delivering GhoLoader malware which can lead to ransomware deployments. The attack chain leverages traffic direction systems (TA2726's Keitaro TDS and ParrotTDS) for victim filtering and uses advanced client-side blob URL construction to evade sandbox detection and network-based download tracing.

The Q2 2026 trend report from AhnLab ASEC documents a significant expansion of attack surfaces into AI stacks, identity infrastructure, and public-facing applications. CISA KEV listings rose 27% year-over-year to 75 entries, with ransomware-linked vulnerabilities nearly doubling. Notable developments include prompt injection-to-RCE chains in Microsoft Semantic Kernel, data exfiltration via M365 Copilot Enterprise (SearchLeak), three Microsoft Defender zero-days used for telemetry evasion, and continued AI supply chain attacks via malicious skills. The report recommends shifting from signature-based to behavior-based detection and implementing ITDR, conditional access, and AI-specific input validation controls.

Token Theft and AI Poisoning Redefine the Perimeter Attackers are shifting from breaking passwords to stealing active login sessions, bypassing multi-factor authentication entirely. This week, ARToken and ConsentFix exploited Microsoft 365 OAuth flows to hijack accounts, while Anubis ransomware used the ongoing CitrixBleed 2 vulnerability to steal session tokens from network gateways. Even a standard user can become a Global Administrator in minutes if identity settings are loose, as demonstrated by a recent M365 privilege escalation analysis. Simultaneously, artificial intelligence systems have evolved from helper tools to critical vulnerabilities, serving as both the weapon and the target. Threat actors are using AI to generate malware like InfernoGrabber v9.0 and BusySnake Stealer, while also poisoning AI agent ecosystems with malicious skills like OpenClaw and tricking AI models into executing financial fraud via indirect prompt injection. The AI arms race has accelerated breakout times to under 30 minutes, with state-sponsored groups like GTG-1002 now orchestrating entire espionage campaigns via AI. Defenders must immediately audit identity and session controls, treating session tokens as highly sensitive credentials. Security teams should also implement guardrails for AI agents, verifying external URLs and restricting autonomous financial or code execution actions.

Adobe ColdFusion security bulletin APSB26-68 patches 11 CVEs across ColdFusion 2025 and 2023, including critical arbitrary file read/write vulnerabilities in the RDS module and a path traversal in the CKEditor file manager upload endpoint. When RDS is enabled with authentication disabled, attackers can use the simple length-prefixed RDS RPC protocol to read or write arbitrary files, achieving remote code execution as SYSTEM by deploying a CFML webshell. A separate unauthenticated path traversal in the CKEditor file manager allows file uploads to arbitrary directories, also executing as SYSTEM.

2026-07-027 minCanadian Centre for Cyber Securitycritical

A critical deserialization vulnerability (CVE-2026-45659) in Microsoft SharePoint Server is being actively exploited, enabling remote code execution by low-privileged attackers. The flaw affects SharePoint Enterprise Server 2016, Server 2019, and Subscription Edition, with fixed versions available. CISA added this CVE to its KEV catalog on July 1, 2026, and the Canadian Cyber Centre urges immediate patching, especially for internet-exposed on-premises deployments.

Kaspersky's 2025 compromise assessment report reveals that organizations consistently fail to detect long-dwelling threats, with 30.8% of incidents persisting over 3 months and 52% of high-severity compromises going undetected for 90+ days. Key findings include widespread abuse of LoLBins and remote management tools in every incident-bearing engagement, 40% of web shells surviving in backups to be restored post-remediation, and a strong correlation between in-house forensics/reverse-engineering capability and reduced incident severity. Multiple case studies document dormant crypto-mining on domain controllers (4 years), in-memory LionTail implants on critical servers, PurpleFox rootkit infections evading EDR with disabled memory scanning, and ClipBanker persistence via registry Run keys with Defender exclusions.

CVE-2026-8037 is a pre-authentication Remote Code Execution vulnerability in Progress Kemp LoadMaster caused by an uninitialized heap buffer and missing null terminator in the escape_quotes() function. When the API is enabled, an unauthenticated attacker can send a crafted POST request to /accessv2 with JSON key/value pairs that spray command injection payloads onto the heap, then use single-quote expansion in the apiuser field to overwrite adjacent allocator metadata, causing the unescaped payload to be read and executed via system().

2026-07-017 minCanadian Centre for Cyber Securityhigh

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published a daily advisory digest on 2026-06-29 containing 8 security advisories covering Ubuntu, Red Hat, CISA ICS, Dell, IBM, Microsoft Edge, Oracle, and Apple products. The most critical item is Oracle CVE-2026-46817, which open-source reporting indicates is being actively exploited, affecting Oracle Database Server, E-Business Suite, Communications Unified Assurance, Hospitality OPERA 5, and REST Data Services. Organizations should prioritize patching Oracle products and review all applicable advisories for their environment.

2026-07-0111 minCheck Pointhigh

This weekly threat intelligence bulletin highlights multiple active exploitation campaigns targeting network infrastructure (Cisco SD-WAN, Ubiquiti UniFi OS, FortiGate firewalls) and AI platforms (Dify, Langflow), alongside supply chain attacks against Polymarket and AI agent ecosystems. Notable emerging threats include EvilTokens phishing-as-a-service abusing device-code authentication for M365 token theft, the FortiBleed campaign converting 430,000+ firewalls into credential stealers, and Turla's StockStay espionage malware targeting Ukrainian entities. Cloud extortion group FulcrumSec and the DCloud Uni-App fraud framework (236,493+ scam domains) represent additional significant threats requiring defensive attention.

AI Attacked and Abused While Perimeter Authentication Collapses The month's defining shift was the emergence of AI as a two-sided battlefield: organizations deployed AI tools faster than they secured them, while attackers weaponized the same technology against defenders. Critical flaws in LangGraph allowed SQL injection chained to remote code execution, M365 Copilot could be turned into a one-click data exfiltration weapon via SearchLeak, and Langflow was exploited to deploy cryptominers. Meanwhile, the ongoing Shai-Hulud campaign injected prompts to blind AI malware scanners, macOS.Gaslight turned prompt injection against human analysts, and Russia's APT28 began experimenting with LLM-integrated malware. At the same time, perimeter authentication collapsed at scale: FortiBleed exposed credentials for over 73,000 FortiGate firewalls, CVE-2026-50751 let attackers bypass Check Point VPN authentication entirely, and ShinyHunters exploited an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day across over 100 organizations. Supply chain attackers followed developers to their new AI tools, compromising the ecosystems where code is written and built. The Shai-Hulud/Miasma worm expanded from npm into PyPI and injected persistent backdoors into AI coding assistant configurations, while North Korea's Sapphire Sleet compromised over 140 Mastra npm packages to steal cryptocurrency wallets, and the ongoing GlassWorm campaign pivoted to WebAssembly malware in VS Code extensions using the Solana blockchain as command-and-control. Social engineering also industrialized: the ErrTraffic framework turned ClickFix deception into a Malware-as-a-Service operation with blockchain dead drops, and EvilTokens hid phishing flows inside browser-side encryption to defeat network scanners while hijacking Microsoft device-code authentication. Organizations should treat AI deployments as untrusted perimeter assets—restrict their network access, audit third-party skills and extensions, and assume prompt-injection attacks will target both automated scanners and human analysts. Every internet-facing VPN, firewall, and edge appliance should be patched immediately, with credentials rotated and phishing-resistant MFA enforced, because perimeter authentication failures now cascade directly into internal network compromise.

Legitimate Tools Hijacked as AI Becomes the New Battleground The most damaging intrusions this week didn't rely on custom malware — they hijacked the legitimate tools and protocols organizations already trust. FortiBleed harvested real credentials from FortiGate firewall configurations worldwide, EvilTokens bypassed multi-factor authentication by abusing Microsoft's own device login flow, and a WhatsApp campaign installed legitimate ManageEngine remote management software to maintain persistent access. Simultaneously, attackers are learning to manipulate the AI systems defenders increasingly depend on. The macOS.Gaslight malware feeds fake error messages to AI analysis tools to blind security analysts, malicious skills on the OpenClaw marketplace trick AI assistants into executing harmful commands, and researchers demonstrated that chatbot reconnaissance can map an organization's defenses through casual conversation. Reset all FortiGate and VPN credentials immediately, scrutinize AI marketplace add-ons before installation, and assume that any legitimate-looking login prompt or remote management tool could be an attacker wearing a trusted disguise.

The StrikeShark campaign utilizes a novel malware family named SharkLoader to deploy Cobalt Strike Beacons across various global sectors. Threat actors gain initial access by exploiting known vulnerabilities in public-facing applications or distributing custom droppers disguised as legitimate software. SharkLoader employs advanced evasion techniques, including Perfect DLL Hijacking and extensive API hooking, to bypass loader locks and conceal its execution in memory.

2026-06-247 minTrend Microhigh

A cryptocurrency-mining campaign is actively exploiting CVE-2026-33017, an unauthenticated RCE vulnerability in Langflow, to deploy the lambsys malware. The attack chain involves a bash dropper that establishes SSH-based lateral movement, followed by a Go-based payload that systematically disables Linux security controls, eliminates rival miners, and deploys a customized XMRig miner.

2026-06-245 minCheck Pointcritical

This threat intelligence report highlights recent data breaches involving third-party vendors, emerging AI threat vectors such as prompt injection and WebSocket abuse, and active exploitation of critical vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Cisco, and Splunk products. Additionally, seasonal phishing campaigns targeting travelers and Amazon Prime members are surging alongside a cross-platform Rust-based crypto clipboard hijacker.

Trust Chains Broken at Scale While ClickFix Becomes a Service This week, attackers stopped trying to kick down the front door and instead walked in through the trust chains that hold digital ecosystems together. North Korea's Sapphire Sleet compromised over 140 Mastra npm packages through a single typosquatted dependency, stealing cryptocurrency wallets and planting persistent backdoors on developer machines. The GlassWorm group trojanized Open VSX extensions with WebAssembly malware that uses the Solana blockchain as an unkillable command channel, while SmartApeSG hijacked the Okendo Reviews widget to serve malicious prompts on thousands of e-commerce sites. Even vendor integrations became a liability: the Klue breach exposed Recorded Future client data through a compromised OAuth token connecting a marketing tool to Salesforce. Deception also became an industrial product. The ErrTraffic framework now operates as full Malware-as-a-Service, using blockchain smart contracts to hide its infrastructure and compromised WordPress sites to serve fake error prompts that trick users into running malicious commands. Attackers weaponized trusted AI platforms too—one campaign abused claude.ai's shared chat feature to deliver MacSync infostealer on macOS, while the shai_hulululud npm package uses prompt injection to blind AI-powered security scanners. On the infrastructure side, the FortiBleed campaign cracked credentials for over 73,000 FortiGate firewalls with a 45-GPU cluster, handing attackers valid keys to government and defense networks worldwide. Defenders should immediately hunt for the easy-day-js dependency in their npm projects, reset credentials on any FortiGate firewall, enable Azure AD Graph Activity Logs to close a years-long reconnaissance visibility gap in Microsoft cloud environments, and audit OAuth tokens on all third-party vendor integrations.

Within five days of exposing an Ivanti Sentry management surface to the internet, a controlled sensor recorded ten distinct operators attempting to exploit CVE-2026-10520, the CVSS 10.0 pre-authentication command-injection flaw that CISA had added to its Known Exploited Vulnerab…

2026-06-184 minCISAhigh

Schneider Electric EasyLogic T150 and Saitel DP Remote Terminal Units are affected by a high-severity Path Traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-6865, CVSS 7.1). This flaw allows authenticated attackers to access sensitive files on the device due to improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory. Firmware updates are available to patch the vulnerability.

2026-06-164 minCISAhigh

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic versions 4.50.00 and prior contain an out-of-bounds read and stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2020-13573). Successful exploitation by a remote attacker can lead to a denial of service condition where the application becomes unresponsive, or potentially allow for remote code execution.

2026-06-165 minPalo Alto Networkscritical

A critical vulnerability in the Google Cloud Vertex AI SDK for Python allows attackers to achieve cross-tenant Remote Code Execution (RCE) via bucket squatting. By predicting default staging bucket names and exploiting a lack of ownership verification, attackers can intercept model uploads and inject malicious pickle payloads, leading to the theft of highly privileged service account tokens.

2026-06-166 minSockethigh

Threat researchers discovered GlassWASM, a WebAssembly-based malware distributed via trojanized extensions on the Open VSX marketplace. The malware uses ChaCha20 encryption to evade static analysis and leverages the Solana blockchain as a resilient C2 dead-drop to retrieve and execute OS-specific second-stage payloads via Node.js.

2026-06-154 minCISAhigh

CISA has added two actively exploited vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-20262 affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager and CVE-2026-54420 affecting the LiteSpeed cPanel Plugin, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Organizations are urged to prioritize remediation of these flaws, particularly on publicly exposed assets, and to investigate for potential pre-patch compromise in alignment with risk-based vulnerability management practices outlined in BOD 26-04.

2026-06-155 minCheck Pointcritical

This threat intelligence report highlights multiple critical vulnerabilities and active exploits, including a zero-day in Oracle PeopleSoft (CVE-2026-35273) exploited by ShinyHunters and an IKEv1 authentication bypass in Check Point VPNs (CVE-2026-50751) linked to Qilin ransomware. Additionally, the report details emerging AI-driven threats, a supply-chain compromise in the Arch User Repository deploying eBPF rootkits, and widespread patching efforts by Microsoft and Veeam.

Perimeter Auth Collapse and AI-Driven Deception Shift the Battlefield The security perimeter cracked open this week as critical authentication bypasses in Check Point VPNs, Ivanti Sentry, and Palo Alto GlobalProtect gave attackers a free pass into corporate networks, with Qilin ransomware already exploiting one to launch real attacks. At the same time, AI became the year's most versatile weapon: criminals used ChatGPT and Claude brands as phishing lures, researchers proved AI email assistants will hand over corporate secrets to impersonators, and the Shai-Hulud campaign began injecting fake prompts to blind AI-powered security scanners. Patch edge VPN appliances immediately, treat AI agents as high-risk insiders, and hunt for device-code authentication events that bypass normal credential checks.

2026-06-136 minZscaler ThreatLabzcritical

The Shai-Hulud software supply chain campaign has significantly evolved, expanding from npm to PyPI and shifting from maintainer compromise to CI/CD abuse. Recent waves demonstrate advanced techniques including OIDC token scraping to bypass SLSA provenance, IDE configuration file weaponization, and prompt injection designed to evade LLM-based security scanners.

WatchTowr Labs detailed the exploitation of CVE-2026-20253, a critical pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Splunk Enterprise. By abusing unauthenticated PostgreSQL Sidecar Service endpoints and injecting connection string parameters, attackers can force the server to connect to an external database, write malicious files to the filesystem, and overwrite legitimate scripts to achieve arbitrary code execution.

2026-06-124 minCISAhigh

CISA has added CVE-2026-35273, a missing authentication vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise PeopleTools, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Federal agencies are mandated to remediate this high-risk vulnerability on publicly exposed assets under BOD 26-04, and all organizations are strongly encouraged to prioritize patching and investigate for prior compromise.

Check Point Remote Access VPNs are vulnerable to a critical authentication bypass (CVE-2026-50751, CVSS 9.3) within the IKEv1 key exchange process. By sending a crafted 'VPNExtFeatures' Vendor ID payload, an attacker can manipulate the negotiation state to skip certificate signature verification, allowing full network access using only a valid username and the gateway's public ICA organization string.

2026-06-128 minESEThigh

Between 2024 and 2026, the Vietnam-aligned threat actor OceanLotus (APT32) shifted its focus toward domestic espionage, conducting a supply-chain attack against the FireAnt MetaKit stock investment platform and compromising a major infrastructure corporation. The campaigns leveraged DLL side-loading to deploy the SPECTRALVIPER backdoor, which features advanced orchestration capabilities and exfiltrates encrypted host data via HTTP Cookie headers.

2026-06-126 minMandiantcritical

Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group identified an active extortion campaign by UNC6240 (ShinyHunters) exploiting CVE-2026-35273, a critical zero-day RCE vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft. The threat actors targeted the higher education sector, deploying customized MeshCentral agents for C2 and utilizing custom scripts for lateral movement, defacement, and data exfiltration.

2026-06-114 minCISAcritical

Seven vulnerabilities, including critical flaws, have been identified in the Naxclow IoT Platform affecting various smart home devices. These vulnerabilities stem from hard-coded cryptographic keys, missing authorization, predictable identifiers, and exposed UART consoles, enabling attackers to perform device takeovers, intercept communications, and extract sensitive network credentials.

2026-06-114 minCheck Pointcritical

Check Point Research discovered critical vulnerabilities in LangGraph's SQLite and Redis checkpointers that allow attackers to chain SQL injection with unsafe msgpack deserialization to achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE). The flaws occur when user-controlled input is passed to the getstatehistory() filter, enabling attackers to inject malicious serialized payloads that execute arbitrary OS commands upon deserialization.