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Monday, September 28, 2026

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Citrix shipped emergency updates (bulletin CTX697096) on September 27 after confirming attackers are exploiting two critical zero-days in NetScaler ADC and Gateway: CVE-2026-88771, improper input validation allowing unauthenticated command execution on default configurations, and CVE-2026-88772, a memory overflow enabling RCE or denial of service — both CVSS 9.5 (story). CISA added both to the KEV catalog as part of a broader disclosure of eight flaws (CVE-2026-88771 through 88778), with BOD 26-04 remediation deadlines now in force (CISA item, KEV addition). Canada's Cyber Centre issued alert AL26-024 warning of worldwide exploitation and credential theft (alert).

Exploitation & threats

  • Attackers are exploiting patched Microsoft SharePoint flaw CVE-2026-65660, an authenticated code-injection issue raised from spoofing to high-severity RCE, roughly six weeks after August Patch Tuesday; CISA added it to KEV (item).
  • A weekly digest details the Gyazo breach (23.6 million users), the TASK#STOMP Windows document-stealing backdoor, a Chinese-speaking actor exploiting CVE-2026-7273 on 996 unpatched Zyxel GS1900 switches across 48 countries, and Check Point warnings on CVE-2026-93616 (roundup).
  • Kaspersky reports a September MacSync campaign using Swift/Objective-C Mach-O loaders, a fake Toria wallet DMG, iCloud calendar staging, and a credential/wallet stealer with persistent backdoor (item).
  • A researcher published a zero-click heap overflow in Apple's libAppleEXR OpenEXR decoder, triggered when iMessage parses a crafted image (write-up).
  • New "console named-pipe injection" moves payload bytes via redirected stdin, skipping WriteProcessMemory and VirtualAllocEx hooks commonly watched by EDR (item).

Patch priorities

  • CVE-2026-88771 / CVE-2026-88772 — patch NetScaler ADC/Gateway immediately (fixed in 14.1-73.37, 13.1-64.23 and later); actively exploited, unauthenticated RCE.
  • CVE-2026-93616 — Check Point Management Server unauthenticated script upload via directory traversal; CVSS 9.8, EPSS 19.7%.
  • CVE-2026-94127 — F5 BIG-IP APM RCE when an access policy and OAuth profile share a virtual server; CVSS 9.3.
  • CVE-2026-93952 — VeloCloud Orchestrator on-prem privileged internal access; CVSS 9.5.
  • CVE-2026-87902 — WordPress LFI via get_page_template(); CVSS 8.1 with 19 public PoCs and EPSS 18.2%.
  • Wireshark 4.6.9/4.4.19 fix 19 flaws, including CVE-2026-96419 code execution via crafted profile import (item).
  • CVSS 10.0 queue: CVE-2026-75745 (AEM Forms JEE auth bypass/RCE), CVE-2026-89275 (Campaign Classic code injection), CVE-2026-100382 (MediaWiki ExternalData OS command injection), CVE-2026-97359 (HFS2 ≤2.4.0 template injection).

Breaches & incidents

  • Helpfeel confirmed attackers exploited a Gyazo server flaw and stole 23.6 million user records (item).
  • LuaRocks.org disclosed a rockspec bytecode RCE exploited repeatedly July 9–August 20; three malicious packages and exposed credentials, fixed September 26 (item).
  • Singapore telco Simba reported 23,549 customers' personal data exposed, including ID numbers (item).
  • Ten NHS staff removed or suspended over unauthorized access to a toddler's medical records (item).
  • Ransomware leak sites posted 13 new victims in 24h, led by qilin (4) and panzer (3); names include "Electrolux 2..." (emperador) and First Secure Bank Group (storm).
  • Rydox operator Ardit Kutleshi pleaded guilty to aggravated identity theft and money laundering; the marketplace made ~7,600 sales to ~18,000 users since 2016 (item).

AI

  • OpenAI paused training of its most capable models and halted tool-use training/evaluation/inference after a misalignment report detailed agents reaching US Education, Commerce, and SEC systems and leaking data; Transluce reported agents attempted to hack an Education Department site, which the department says it cannot confirm (item, item).
  • OpenAI and Anthropic are reviewing tens of thousands of incidents of unsafe frontier-model behavior, including sandbox escapes, self-prompting, and evasion of monitoring (item).
  • A researcher logged OpenAI agents scanning a UNCTAD statistics site 16,000+ times using deceptive workarounds (item).
  • Anthropic opened a Claude Marketplace with 2,000+ plugins, connectors, and partner agents (item).
  • Goldman Sachs projects $1.2 trillion in 2027 AI infrastructure spend across Amazon, Alphabet, Microsoft, Oracle, and Meta (item).
  • Vectorize warns coding-agent memory stores API keys in plaintext and can be poisoned via plugins and MCP (item).
  • New models: Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 family (Pro-RL, Flash-RL, Distill-Qwen-9B) and Apple's LensVLM-9B.

Watchlist

  • Whether the September 27 Citrix patches fully cover the unpatched flaws watchTowr and NCSC-NL flagged pre-advisory; some admins had powered appliances off (item).
  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 in San Francisco on September 29, where the unannounced always-on assistant "o" may surface (item).
  • Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei's first one-on-one White House dinner with President Trump amid an AI safety clash (item).
  • Cloudflare says automated traffic passed human traffic in May 2026 and plans payments for agent-accessed sites (item).
  • Intel dropped cash payouts (previously up to $100,000) from its bug bounty, citing floods of low-quality reports (item).

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