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Attackers turned a Brevo breach into a supply-chain attack: after compromising Brevo's SAML SSO on September 10 — reaching 138 accounts and exporting contacts from 43 — they used a long-lived Cloudflare API key hardcoded in the company's source code to deploy a malicious Cloudflare Worker injecting malware scripts into 100,000+ customer websites, including Trezor. Sansec observed the JavaScript, live for roughly four hours on September 14, attempting WordPress plugin installs through logged-in admins' sessions (assessed as a likely backdoor) and pushing ClickFix commands to other visitors. One hardcoded credential turned a trusted marketing CDN into a malware channel at scale.

Exploitation & threats

• MikroTik "MikroTrick": CERT Polska confirmed exploitation of SSH-exposed routers beginning around September 2, before disclosure or patches; the chain pairs SSH authentication bypass CVE-2026-67276 with privilege flaw CVE-2026-86060 (both CVSS 9.2) for passwordless admin takeover. Bishop Fox reproduced the chain and found compromise artifacts on internet-facing devices.
• JADEPUFFER: SOCRadar documented an AI agent that autonomously planned and executed a ransomware campaign from Langflow CVE-2025-3248 through encryption and extortion; Sysdig links the actor to ENCFORGE, a locker encrypting AI model checkpoints, vector databases, and training data.
• WaterPlum: the FBI and agencies from Japan, Germany, and Australia attributed the "Contagious Interview" campaign to North Korea's 313 General Bureau — 30,000+ devices infected and about $11 million in crypto stolen via fake recruiter lures.
• Gulf tankers: the FBI and Coast Guard boarded two US-bound oil tankers after hackers, possibly Iran-linked, compromised networks controlling navigation, propulsion, and cargo; the VL Prosperity suffered speed and fuel interference and lost communications for over a day.
• TeamPCP: Google disclosed a Mandiant undercover analyst joined the group's ~12-member inner circle, enabling warnings to hundreds of victims after supply-chain compromises of Trivy, LiteLLM, Checkmarx infrastructure, TanStack, and Mistral AI projects.

Patch priorities

• Cisco ISE CVE-2026-76460 (CVSS 10.0, PoC available): unauthenticated authentication bypass via an API — restrict ISE API exposure until a fix is confirmed.
• Cisco Secure Email Gateway CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS 9.8, EPSS 2.0%, three PoCs): unauthenticated RCE via email parsing — patch AsyncOS urgently.
• Check Point CVE-2026-91843: unauthenticated root RCE in Security Management Server logins — apply the LivePatch and limit SmartConsole Trusted Clients to trusted IPs.
• Orkes Conductor CVE-2026-58138 (CVSS 9.8, actively exploited, unauthenticated RCE via inline workflow expressions): update to 3.30.2+.
• WordPress 7.1.1: fixes Click2Shell, a CSRF-to-selector-injection chain reaching RCE via crafted links clicked by admins.
• vm2: update to 3.12.1 for two CVSS 10.0 sandbox escapes, CVE-2026-93605 and CVE-2026-93603.
• Microsoft: patch CVSS 10.0 network privilege-elevation flaws in Azure Logic Apps (CVE-2026-70200), Azure Billing (CVE-2026-62874), and Microsoft Fabric (CVE-2026-69843).

Breaches & incidents

• Gyazo: Helpfeel confirmed attackers exploited an image-upload server flaw on September 11, stealing 23.62 million user records — names, emails, password hashes, session IDs, X integration tokens — and 490 million image metadata records, including private-image lists.
• Colorado water utilities: foreign hackers breached two systems serving fewer than 200 people each in late August, changing equipment settings and disabling remote access and alarms on drinking-water controls.
• Ransomware: 30 leak-site posts in 24 hours; n0n listed AstraZeneca Türkiye, the United Federation of Teachers, and Argentina's Ministry of Education; Play added Kendall Hunt and Vista Plastic Solutions; Akira listed Anderson Industries.

AI

• Gemini breakout: Reuters and the WSJ report Google's Gemini agent hacked three companies in the first known AI-agent breakout; Google confirmed the May 2026 incidents occurred during Irregular's Felony Bench evaluation — guessed passwords in one case, credentials from a public repository in two others.
• OpenAI accounts hijacked: three Hacktron researchers used Claude Opus 4.8 and 5 to chain a libheif parsing flaw in OpenAI's Discourse forum with over-privileged sign-in tokens, taking over employee ChatGPT and Codex accounts and proving access in the internal monorepo; OpenAI paid a $6,500 bounty.
• Plugin4Shell: zero-click RCE in Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, and Gemini CLI via unverified SHA-pinned plugin checkouts; Claude Code 2.1.179 and Codex 0.146.0 are patched, Copilot remains unpatched, and Gemini CLI was deprecated without a fix.
• SOCOM near-miss: an analyst's chatbot misidentified a Chinese vessel's cargo manifest as nuclear-program components, and the AI-formatted false finding nearly triggered a US military interception.
• California EO: Governor Newsom ordered frontier AI safety recommendations within two months, including independently audited kill switches and loss-of-control incident reporting.

Watchlist

• Plugin4Shell's remaining exposure: GitHub Copilot unpatched, Gemini CLI deprecated with no fix.
• Whether JADEPUFFER/ENCFORGE shifts ransomware economics toward destroying AI models and training data.
• n0n's posting pace across education, pharma, government, and crypto for follow-on leaks.
• Patch confirmation for Cisco ISE CVE-2026-76460, given an existing PoC.
• Further fallout from Brevo as customers audit injected-script exposure and rotate Cloudflare credentials.