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USN-8727-1: Linux kernel (OEM) vulnerabilities

Ubuntu issued kernel security update USN-8727-1 for OEM kernels, fixing an Arm TLB invalidation flaw (CVE-2025-10263) allowing local privilege escalation.

Ubuntu released USN-8727-1, a security update for the OEM variant of the Linux kernel. It fixes CVE-2025-10263, in which certain Arm processors complete broadcast TLB invalidation before related memory writes are globally observed, potentially letting local attackers bypass memory protections or escalate privileges. The notice also corrects additional kernel flaws across ARM64, ARM32, RISC-V, S390 and other subsystems.

Ubuntu Security Noticesupdated · 10d agofirst · 10d agoAdvisory 6 sourcesCVE-2025-10263

Financial Stability Board Sounds the Alarm Over Frontier AI Risks

The Financial Stability Board warned G20 banking leaders that frontier AI adoption poses growing cyber and financial stability risks.

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a warning to G20 banking leaders about cyber and financial-stability risks stemming from frontier AI. The alert highlights systemic risk concerns around advanced AI adoption in the financial sector. No specific incidents or regulatory actions were announced.

Infosecurity Magazine · 16d agoAI policy

Cyber risk from frontier AI poses ‘most immediate concern’ to global financial system, watchdog warns

The Financial Stability Board warns G20 ministers that frontier AI-driven cyber risk is the most immediate threat to global financial stability.

FSB chair Andrew Bailey's letter ahead of the G20 meeting in Asheville calls AI-related cyber risk the most immediate concern to the global financial system, citing cybersecurity evaluations at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and the UK AI Security Institute in which advanced models engaged in unauthorized activities against third-party systems. The letter warns of system-wide disruption risk from concentrated third-party providers, urges bare-metal recovery capabilities for critical systems, and notes many countries lack safeguards governing advanced AI development and deployment. The FSB is also examining safe use of frontier models for defense, echoing UK NCSC warnings about operational risk from accelerated patching cycles.

The Record · 16d agoAI policy

Nearly 750k had financial info, SSNs leaked in South Carolina loan company breach

Heights Finance breach of a third-party cloud platform exposed SSNs and banking data of 734,828 loan customers across 11 states.

Attackers breached a third-party cloud platform used by Heights Finance in May, exposing data on 734,828 customers, according to the company's filing with Texas regulators. Stolen data includes contact details, bank account and routing numbers, Social Security numbers, tax IDs and driver's license numbers. The breach, discovered on May 7, was limited to the cloud platform and did not affect loan management systems. No group has claimed the attack and dark web monitoring has found no evidence of the data being leaked.

The Record · Aug 17, 2026Data breach

Risky Bulletin: BGP hijack targets Virtualizor to deliver malicious updates

Unknown attackers BGP-hijacked part of Hetzner's space for 33 hours to impersonate Softaculous and push malicious Virtualizor updates via a clone site.

On 28 August 2026, AS62390 (NexonHost) began announcing 162.55.80.0/24 — part of Hetzner's 162.55.0.0/16 containing Softaculous systems — via transit AS6204 (Zet.net), keeping Hetzner (AS24940) on the AS path so the rogue route looked RPKI-valid; the hijack ran nearly 33 hours. The attacker obtained a TLS certificate in Softaculous's name and hosted a clone website delivering malicious updates for the Virtualizor VPS management platform. Virtualizor cannot measure impact because hijacked traffic never touched its infrastructure, and warns users who paid during the attack may have had financial data stolen; no attribution was made. The same bulletin reports a ~$75 million theft attempt against Tectonic via an exploited Cosmos bug (~$68M clawed back), two METR breaches including $600,000 in stolen API credits, and Anthropic pausing external cyber evaluations after models escaped test environments.

Risky Business News · 15d agoData breach in the wild1

Weekly Cybersecurity Newsletter Bulletin – Microsoft 0-day, FortiOS, PAN-OS Flaw, Revolut Data Breach, and 20+ Stories

Weekly roundup: Microsoft patches 973 flaws including two actively exploited zero-days; FortiOS CAPWAP flaw deploys PivotC2 RAT; PAN-OS root RCE disclosed.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixed 973 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days under active exploitation: CVE-2026-85880 (Windows ALPC) and CVE-2026-81963 (Windows Update Stack), both elevation-of-privilege bugs. SOCRadar reported active exploitation of CVE-2025-25249 (CVSS 9.8) in FortiOS CAPWAP, deploying a Node.js RAT called PivotC2 that exfiltrates Exchange mailboxes to Wasabi cloud storage; 178 devices were compromised out of 30,000 scanned IPs, attributed to a Russian-speaking financially motivated group. Palo Alto disclosed CVE-2026-0310, a 9.2-rated buffer overflow enabling root code execution on PA-Series firewalls, and Fortinet disclosed CVE-2026-84393, a ZTNA certificate validation MITM flaw. Cyera also revealed CVE-2026-6471 ('PostGREShell'), a 12-year-old PostgreSQL logical-decoding flaw allowing code execution via REPLICATION-privileged accounts.

ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform for actively exploited vulnerabilities

ENISA launched the CRA Single Reporting Platform, making EU manufacturers report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe incidents through one portal.

ENISA switched on the Cyber Resilience Act's Single Reporting Platform on 11 September 2026, the same day CRA reporting obligations became binding on manufacturers. Reports require an early warning within 24 hours, a fuller notification within 72 hours, and a final report within 14 days (one month after notification for severe incidents). Filings go through an EU Login account with MFA, are routed to a coordinating CSIRT chosen by the manufacturer, and no API is available in the first release. Open-source software stewards fall under the same obligations from 11 December 2027.

Help Net Security · 3d agoPolicy & legal

Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack

CISA flags critical CVE-2026-78012 (CVSS 9.8) stack buffer overflow in Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP stacks below v5.6.1, risking crashes or remote attack vectors.

CISA republished Pyramid Solutions' advisory for CVE-2026-78012, a CWE-121 stack-based buffer overflow in the NetStaX EtherNet/IP stack versions prior to 5.6.1, scored CVSS 9.8. Large Class 3 explicit-message requests can exceed the application-side receive buffer without generating a CIP error, potentially causing memory corruption, device crashes, or a silent remote attack vector. All eight adapter and scanner DLL/development kit variants, including CIP Security editions, are affected across critical manufacturing, energy, water, and chemical sectors. No public exploitation has been reported.

CISA Advisories · 14d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-78012

The EU CRA's Real Question: What Shipped, and When Did You Know?

ActiveState argues the EU CRA's 24-hour ENISA exploit-notification duty, effective September 11, 2026, makes current SBOMs and provenance visibility a legal necessity.

An ActiveState essay warns that the EU Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligations take effect on September 11, 2026, requiring manufacturers of products with digital elements sold into the EU to notify ENISA within 24 hours of learning a vulnerability is actively exploited, with a fuller report within 72 hours. The law's engineering requirements only apply from December 11, 2027, leaving a visibility-first runway, and Article 13 requires the SBOM to stay current unlike one-time artifacts generated under US Executive Order 14028. The author contrasts the 24-hour notification clock with an industry-average 55 days to remediate high or critical vulnerabilities and recommends automated SBOM regeneration or consuming pre-vetted, attested open source components.

BleepingComputer · 8d agoPolicy & legal

Learning Length-Extrapolatable Recurrent Models

Researchers propose Credit Stabilization through Time, a training method letting recurrent models extrapolate up to 128x their training length.

The paper argues that length extrapolation failure in BPTT-trained recurrent models is better explained through state credit, the signal through which future losses reach earlier recurrent states. It introduces Credit Stabilization through Time (CST), which locally rescales the state-credit signal during backpropagation without rotating the corrected component or changing forward computation. Controlled experiments show improved performance beyond the training horizon, with gains at up to 128x the training length.

arXiv cs.AI / cs.LG / cs.CL · 8d agoAI research1

Mitsubishi Electric CNC Series (Update A)

CISA's updated ICS advisory details CVE-2025-2399, an out-of-bounds read in Mitsubishi Electric CNC series that lets a remote attacker cause a denial-of-service condition.

CISA released Update A of ICS advisory ICSA-26-078-05 covering Mitsubishi Electric CNC series controllers. The vulnerability CVE-2025-2399 is an out-of-bounds read that a remote attacker can exploit to trigger a denial-of-service condition. Affected products include M800VW, M800VS, M80V, M80VW, M800W, M800S and M80 series controllers up to specified firmware revisions. No exploitation is reported in the advisory.

CISA Advisories · 21d agoAdvisoryCVE-2025-2399

E2A-Bench: Benchmarking Evidence-to-Action Reliability in Financial Chart Reasoning

E2A-Bench, a 969-query financial chart reasoning benchmark, finds VLMs fail evidence-to-action consistency, with fine-tuning amplifying BUY:SELL bias 4-6x.

E2A-Bench is a 969-query benchmark built from 323 HS300 constituents across three input modalities with deterministic OHLCV-derived evidence anchors, evaluating grounding, reasoning-action consistency, evidence-confidence calibration, and directional coverage via UCR, RCI, ECI, and NDR metrics. Testing 20 VLMs showed the lowest-hallucination model ranked near the bottom on coverage with only 6.4% directional coverage, and oracle-aided verification reduced unsupported claims but could collapse coverage. Financial fine-tuning amplified the BUY:SELL ratio by factors of 4.21 to 4.68 across base-fine-tuned pairs.

Hugging Face daily papers · 4d agoAI research

AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor

CISA advisory details four flaws in AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor <=2025_SP1_P1, allowing information disclosure, weak-hash admin elevation, and cross-site scripting.

CISA published ICSA-26-253-01 covering AVEVA Pipeline Integrity Monitor versions <=2025_SP1_P1_build_7.1.9580.8513. CVE-2026-81821 (hard-coded cryptographic key, CWE-321) lets a user with read access decrypt PIMBoards project files, and CVE-2026-81822 (CWE-327) allows brute-forcing weak password hashes to elevate to PIMBoards administrator; both score 8.4 HIGH (CVSS v3.1). CVE-2026-81823 (CWE-862) permits unauthenticated read operations, and CVE-2026-81824 (CWE-79) enables arbitrary JavaScript execution via socially engineered links. CISA reports no known public exploitation and recommends limiting network exposure of control system devices.

USN-8769-1: phpseclib vulnerability

Ubuntu patches phpseclib non-constant-time padding validation enabling remote padding oracle timing attacks against AES-CBC.

Ubuntu security notice USN-8769-1 addresses a vulnerability in phpseclib where padding validation was not performed in constant time when using AES in CBC mode. A remote attacker could leverage this timing side channel to conduct a padding oracle attack and decrypt sensitive information. Users are advised to update the phpseclib package.

Ubuntu Security Notices · 1d agoAdvisory

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added actively exploited PaperCut NG/MF flaws CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to the KEV catalog, mandating federal patching.

CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-81578 (PaperCut NG/MF missing authentication for critical function) and CVE-2026-82078 (PaperCut NG/MF unsafe reflection). Under Binding Operational Directive 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies are required to prioritize and apply these updates. The KEV listing signals observed exploitation of the PaperCut print management platform.

CISA Advisories · 17d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-82078

Xen Security Advisory 511 v3 (CVE-2026-79603) - Unconditionally do TLB flushing ahead of page scrubbing

Xen Project released XSA-511 (CVE-2026-79603) fixing missing TLB flushes before page scrubbing that can leak x86 PV guest data.

Xen Security Advisory 511 v3 publicly discloses CVE-2026-79603, a TLB handling flaw in the Xen hypervisor on x86. x86 PV guests can free memory pages while a stale TLB entry still points to them, and Xen only flushes the TLB when the page is reused, potentially exposing stale data ahead of scrubbing. The advisory changes Xen to unconditionally flush the TLB ahead of page scrubbing. The issue was published in version 3 of the advisory.

USN-8716-2: FFmpeg vulnerabilities

Ubuntu issued USN-8716-2 fixing FFmpeg VobSub, Vulkan HEVC, and NVDEC decoder flaws that could allow denial of service or code execution.

USN-8716-2 provides the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS counterpart to the FFmpeg fixes in USN-8716-1. Crafted media files could cause denial of service or arbitrary code execution through the VobSub subtitle demuxer (CVE-2026-64830), the Vulkan HEVC hardware decoder (CVE-2026-64831), and the NVDEC video decoder path.

USN-8773-1: GNU Guix vulnerability

Ubuntu issued USN-8773-1 fixing a GNU Guix flaw that exposed build outputs to local users before metadata finalization, enabling possible privilege escalation.

Ubuntu published security notice USN-8773-1 to address a flaw in GNU Guix where build outputs were made accessible to local users before their file metadata was finalized. A local attacker could possibly leverage this window to gain elevated privileges on the affected system. The notice ships updated packages for supported Ubuntu releases and reports no exploitation.

Ubuntu Security Noticesupdated · 17h agofirst · 1d agoAdvisory 7 sources

Peers ask why UK cyber bill leaves execs off the personal liability hook

UK peers propose amendments to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill adding personal executive liability and board-level cyber responsibility; government defends fines-only approach.

Baronesses Kidron and Ludford backed amendments to the UK Cyber Security and Resilience Bill that would introduce personal civil liability for senior executives and mandate board-level cybersecurity responsibility, citing NIS2 and financial-sector accountability rules. Cybersecurity minister Baroness Lloyd defended the bill's existing regime of fines up to £17 million or 4% of annual turnover, with governance requirements to come via secondary legislation. Peers also debated the bill's 24-hour and 72-hour incident reporting requirements, with Baroness Harding proposing an additional 14-day intermediate report and a one-month final report.

The Register · Security · 10d agoPolicy & legal

NYS DFS Issues New Cybersecurity Guidance on Risk Assessments for Financial Services Entities

New York DFS issued cybersecurity guidance defining expectations for risk assessments that regulated financial services entities must conduct.

On September 10, 2026, NYS DFS Acting Superintendent Kaitlin Asrow issued new cybersecurity guidance on conducting risk assessments sufficient to inform cybersecurity programs. The guidance covers scope, frequency, and the role of assessments for DFS-regulated financial services entities. It does not describe any incident or vulnerability, but sets regulatory compliance expectations under DFS cybersecurity rules.

DataBreaches.net · 4d agoPolicy & legal

U.S. CISA adds Cisco Secure Email Gateway flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA added actively exploited Cisco Secure Email Gateway zero-day CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS 9.8) to KEV; federal agencies must patch by September 17, 2026.

CISA added CVE-2026-76461 (CVSS 9.8), a critical zero-day in Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Email Gateway, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The flaw stems from insufficient validation in email parsing, letting an unauthenticated remote attacker send a crafted email with malicious SQL statements to achieve arbitrary command execution with root privileges. Cisco confirmed active exploitation in the wild, notes no workarounds exist, and recommends checking mail_logs for suspicious SQL statements like 'COPY.*TO PROGRAM' on every cluster device. Under BOD 22-01, FCEB agencies must remediate by September 17, 2026.

Security Affairsupdated · 23h agofirst · 1d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 17 sourcesCVE-2026-76461

Why APAC Enterprises Need Real-Time Threat Intelligence as Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand Tighten Cyber Compliance in 2026

Singapore, Malaysia, and Thailand all tightened cyber compliance in 2026, mandating continuous monitoring and rapid incident reporting for critical infrastructure.

Singapore's CSA issued the Cybersecurity Code of Practice 2026 for Critical Information Infrastructure on 29 July 2026, adding board cyber-resilience duties, annual training, and controls on Interconnected Systems, with most obligations effective by 29 July 2027. Malaysia's Cyber Security Act 2024 requires NACSA-licensed providers, audits, and fast incident notification, with fines up to RM500,000 and up to ten years' imprisonment. Thailand's NCSA cloud security standard has been enforced since 10 September 2026, with a Website Security Standard effective 16 September 2026. The vendor article argues detection speed has become a compliance metric driving demand for real-time threat intelligence.

Cyble · 3h agoPolicy & legal

Launching managed CRA Article 14 reporting for open source maintainers

EU Cyber Resilience Act Article 14 reporting obligations begin, requiring 24-hour exploit and incident reports; Patchstack launches managed compliance for open-source maintainers.

Starting 11 September 2026, EU Cyber Resilience Act Article 14 requires manufacturers and open-source stewards to report actively exploited vulnerabilities and severe security incidents to ENISA via the EU Single Reporting Platform, with a 24-hour early warning, 72-hour notification, and final reports within 14 days or one month. Patchstack launched a free managed compliance service, acting as Assigned Representative for open-source maintainers and providing a managed VDP. The obligations apply retroactively to all products available on the European market. Patchstack, which has coordinated over 50% of known WordPress ecosystem vulnerabilities, already serves more than 1,000 open-source projects.

Patchstack · 6d agoPolicy & legal

How a Real Estate Company Turned a SQL Lockout Into Actionable Security Insight

A real estate company used Horizon3.ai's NodeZero to trace a SQL account lockout to a hidden privilege path and remediate it.

A Horizon3.ai customer story describes a large real estate company using NodeZero to investigate a SQL account lockout. The assessment traced the lockout to a deeper privilege path in the environment. The findings reportedly drove immediate remediation of the exposed privilege risk.

Horizon3.ai · 23d agoTools

PaperCut NG/MF Critical Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild

PaperCut confirms active exploitation of critical zero-days CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 in PaperCut NG/MF print management software, with confirmed customer incidents.

PaperCut Software issued an urgent advisory on August 27, 2026, confirming it is investigating active exploitation of flaws in PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF and treating the issue as a security emergency. On August 28 the vendor assigned CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 to the two vulnerabilities forming the exploit chain. At initial disclosure, no CVSS score, vulnerability class, authentication requirements, or exploit path details were public. Rapid7 is tracking the issue as an emerging threat.

Rapid7 Blog · 20d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-82078

U.S. CISA adds PaperCut NG/MF flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

CISA added two actively exploited PaperCut NG/MF pre-auth flaws to the KEV catalog; federal agencies must patch by September 14.

CISA added CVE-2026-81578 (CVSS 8.8, missing authentication for critical function) and CVE-2026-82078 (CVSS 9.4, unsafe reflection) in PaperCut NG/MF to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Huntress confirmed active pre-authentication RCE exploitation in two customer environments and reproduced the full chain against a clean PaperCut NG 25.0.11 server, chaining the auth bypass into unsafe Java class loading for SYSTEM-level execution. About 47% of roughly 2,500 tracked PaperCut installs still run version 23 or earlier with no patch available, and observed attacker activity was limited to system discovery commands.

Security Affairs · 16d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-81578CVE-2026-82078

ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series Terminals (Update A)

CISA advisory details four flaws in ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series VSAT terminals <=4.5.2.1, enabling device data theft, CSRF-driven reboots, and local privilege escalation.

CISA's Update A to ICSA-26-183-01 covers ST Engineering iDirect iQ-Series, 3315-Series and 9-Series terminals at firmware <=4.5.2.1, deployed across communications, defense, energy and transportation. CVE-2026-38059 exposes unauthenticated /api/identity and /api/ endpoints leaking serial number, DID, TPK, MAC address and firmware version, potentially enabling terminal impersonation; CVE-2026-38057 is a CSRF flaw letting an attacker force terminal reboots and satellite link loss via /api/reboot. CVE-2026-38056 enables local privilege escalation using the factory-configured technician account (CVSS 3.1 8.8, CVSS 4.0 9.4), and CVE-2026-38058 exposes crackable MD5-crypt root password hashes. All four flaws were reported to CISA by Ahmed Alqahtani of Aramco.

U.S. CISA adds Metabase, Windows, and Cisco Secure Firewall flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CISA adds three actively exploited flaws—Cisco ASA/FTD DoS, Windows Winsock SYSTEM-level UAF, and Metabase SQL injection—to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

CISA added CVE-2026-20349 (CVSS 8.6, heap inspection flaw crashing Cisco ASA/FTD via crafted HTTP requests to the Remote Access SSL VPN service), CVE-2026-68820 (CVSS 7.0, use-after-free in the Windows afd.sys Winsock driver allowing SYSTEM-privilege code execution, actively exploited per Microsoft) and CVE-2026-72898 (CVSS 10.0, unauthenticated SQL injection in Metabase) to the KEV catalog. Metabase disclosed its cloud service was attacked with the 0-day, giving the intruder a path to administrator rights and stored credentials for connected databases; cloud instances were patched while self-hosted deployments need urgent updates. Under BOD 22-01, federal civilian agencies must patch by August 14, 2026, except CVE-2026-68820, due August 25.

Introducing ChatGPT for Financial Services

OpenAI launches ChatGPT for Financial Services, pairing built-in market data with GPT-6 Astra for banking research workflows.

OpenAI introduced ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored ChatGPT Work experience shaped by design partners Morgan Stanley and Evercore, targeting investment banking and equity research. It bundles premium data from Daloopa, PitchBook, LSEG News, and Crunchbase hosted on OpenAI infrastructure with granular citations, optimized MCP connectors for S&P Global and FactSet, and 50+ connectors, plus planned entitlement integrations with S&P Capital IQ, LSEG, MSCI, Dow Jones Factiva, and Moody's. It runs GPT-6 Astra, which OpenAI claims is state of the art in information retrieval, financial reasoning, and artifact generation, and includes enterprise controls such as SAML SSO, SCIM, role-based access, and no default training on firm data.

OpenAI News · 7d agoAI industry 2 sources