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ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, September 23rd, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10106, (Wed, Sep 23rd)
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Security researchers developed an attack that lets hackers with privileged access register a rogue external MFA provider that steals users' passwords during legitimate login attempts. [...]
Sweden's data privacy regulator, IMY, has imposed a $183,000 (SEK 1.8 million) fine on IT systems provider Miljödata for inadequate security measures leading to a breach in August 2025 affecting 2.2 million people. [...]
More than 80,000 AI relay servers are helping users in China mask their identities while they access cutting-edge large language models (LLMs), probably to clone them.
DarkMe, an APT-linked VB6 RAT known for using zero day exploits, turned up in two Huntress incidents stripped down to a plain .pif infostealer malware.
Cybersecurity and brand reputation are inextricably linked. Security and marketing leaders who establish regular touchpoints, develop joint crisis communications plans, and translate security risks into their brand impact position their organizations to significantly outperform those treating security as an operational IT concern.
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has been exploiting vulnerabilities in ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and WordPress to steal sensitive data from 996 devices and more than 18,500 records stored in backend databases. [...]
Bulletin ID: 2026-116-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 09/22/2026 13:00 PM PDT Description: s2n-quic is a Rust implementation of the QUIC protocol. We identified CVE-2026-94450, an issue with improper validation of the Destination Connection ID length when a server is configured to send Retry packets. s2n-quic 1.88.0 and earlier allow an unauthenticated user to shut down a server endpoint via a single crafted UDP datagram. No AWS services are affecte…
Microsoft seized 50 websites and disabled more than 150 domains as part of a coordinated disruption effort against a phishing-as-a-service platform targeting Microsoft 365 accounts.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is going old school to help organizations with limited resources set traps for hackers.
The investigation, announced Monday, will probe IDScan’s security practices and whether victim notifications were adequate under Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the regulator said in a press release.
Check Point fixes an actively exploited flaw that lets unauthenticated attackers upload and run scripts on vulnerable Security Management Servers. Check Point has released emergency hotfixes for CVE-2026-93616, a critical path traversal flaw in its Security Management Server. Attackers can abuse the flaw without logging in to upload malicious scripts and execute them on vulnerable […]
The ShinyHunters extortion gang claims it breached FBI systems using a new Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day vulnerability, gaining access to internal services and stealing sensitive data on employees and job applicants. [...]
On Friday, Xavier talked about the newly introduced HTTP Query method. This new method was introduced to allow "GET" requests that include a body. The main reason for this was that GET requests typically do not contain a body. But what if they do?
Attackers exploited a previously unknown flaw in Check Point's Security Management Server in a handful of targeted attacks on July 23, the company said. The flaw, CVE-2026-93616, allows an attacker who can access the server's web service to run scripts on it without logging in. Check Point released a fix on September 22 for the server that controls firewall policies for the Check Point
A new Windows malware named ClosedQuorum uses Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Qwen, and Mistral AI models to autonomously determine the actions to take during post-compromise stages of an attack. [...]
WordPress has fixed a critical flaw in its core software that lets an attacker with no account make a site load a PHP file from outside its theme folders. On some servers, that can go further, allowing the attacker to run their own code. The fix shipped on September 22 in WordPress 7.1.2, with fixes for every branch the project still supports, back to 4.7, and WordPress is telling site owners
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a malicious npm package named "tw-pkgprobe-7731" that masquerades as a security tool targeting developers integrating Twilio into their applications, while stealthily attempting to harvest sensitive data. The package, named "tw-pkgprobe-7731," was first uploaded to the npm registry in mid-August 2026 by an npm account named "twdepprobe7731."