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ZDI-26-629: Microsoft Azure Entra ID OAuth Device Code Grant Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Zero Day Initiative disclosed an unauthenticated information disclosure vulnerability (CVSS 5.8) in Microsoft Azure Entra ID's OAuth device code grant flow.

ZDI published advisory ZDI-26-629 describing an information disclosure vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Entra ID related to the OAuth device code grant. Remote attackers can disclose sensitive information without authentication. ZDI assigned a CVSS 3.1 score of 5.8; no CVE identifier is listed in the advisory text.

ZDI Published Advisories·Sep 9, 05:00 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory1

Microsoft patches critical Entra ID vulnerability (CVE-2026-69836)

Microsoft patched critical Entra ID RCE CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS 10.0), fully mitigated server-side with no customer action; no in-the-wild exploitation confirmed.

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-69836, a critical (maximum CVSS 10.0) unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in Entra ID caused by deserialization of untrusted data over a network. Entra ID, formerly Azure Active Directory, is Microsoft's cloud identity service verifying logins and controlling access to Microsoft 365, Azure, and connected third-party apps. The flaw was discovered by Microsoft Principal Security Engineer Robert Fitzpatrick and fully mitigated server-side, requiring no customer action. Microsoft initially reported the bug as exploited, but later changed the status to 'no' and confirmed the vulnerability was not exploited in the wild.

Help Net Security·Aug 24, 06:16 UTC · 23d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-69836

Microsoft Patches Severe Entra ID Flaw (CVSS 10.0) Allowing Remote Code Execution

Microsoft patched CVE-2026-69836 (CVSS 10.0), a deserialization RCE in Entra ID; the flaw was fully mitigated service-side and was not exploited in the wild.

Microsoft disclosed CVE-2026-69836, a CVSS 10.0 remote code execution flaw in Entra ID caused by deserialization of untrusted data, and said the issue was fully mitigated on the service side with no customer action required. The security bulletin initially marked the flaw as exploited, but Microsoft corrected the status to not exploited in the wild on August 21, 2026. Microsoft credited principal security engineer Robert Fitzpatrick with the discovery. The article also recalls the Lazarus Group's exploitation of Windows WinSock AFD zero-day CVE-2026-68820 (CVSS 7.0) in the Operation Dream Job campaign.

The Hacker News·Aug 21, 19:56 UTC · 25d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-69836CVE-2026-688201

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, September 2026 Security Update Review

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 974 vulnerabilities, including 113 critical and two actively exploited Windows privilege escalation flaws.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 974 vulnerabilities, its largest release ever, including 113 critical and 860 important, covering Windows HTTP.sys, Hyper-V, Entra ID, Exchange Server, Office, DNS, and more. Two zero-days are confirmed exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-81963 (Windows Update Stack EoP) and CVE-2026-85880 (ALPC heap overflow), both letting authenticated attackers gain SYSTEM privileges. Notable criticals include an Entra ID authentication bypass (CVE-2026-62916) and multiple Windows DNS Server and Office remote code execution flaws.

Qualys ThreatPROTECT·Sep 9, 12:23 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-58599+27 CVEs

Cisco security advisory (AV26-921)

Canadian Cyber Centre warns actively exploited Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL injection CVE-2026-76461 was added to CISA's KEV database.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-921 (September 14, 2026) covers a SQL injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway (AsyncOS) and Secure Email and Web Manager. Affected versions include AsyncOS/Secure Email Gateway prior to 15.5.5-014, 16.0.4-302, and 16.5.0-780, and Secure Email and Web Manager prior to 15.5.5-006 and 16.5.0-429. Cisco stated CVE-2026-76461 is being actively exploited, and CISA added it to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities database the same day. Users and administrators are urged to apply updates as they become available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·updated Sep 15, 20:46 UTC · 16h ago·first Sep 14, 19:23 UTC · 1d agoAdvisory in the wild 15 sourcesCVE-2026-76461

Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn't Work the Way You Think It Does

Intruder's 2026 Cloud Security Index found misconfiguration risk profiles differ sharply across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud across 3,000 organizations.

Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for its 2026 Cloud Security Index. Weak IAM controls and missing logging affected 80-98% of accounts regardless of provider, while exposed services ranged from 76% on AWS to just 8% on Google Cloud. Top issues included S3 buckets without HTTPS enforcement (87% of AWS accounts), Entra ID users without MFA (55% of Azure accounts), and missing OS Login MFA (77% of Google Cloud accounts). Weak IAM prevalence rose with organization size, from 87% at SMEs to 98% at large enterprises, and midmarket organizations took the longest to remediate at 35 days on average.

The Hacker News·Sep 7, 11:45 UTC · 9d agoResearch

Microsoft’s Biggest Patch Tuesday: 974 CVEs, 2 Zero-Days and 20 Wormable Bugs

Microsoft's record September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 974 CVEs, including two exploited Windows privilege-escalation zero-days and 20 wormable bugs.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 974 CVEs, including two actively exploited zero-days: CVE-2026-85880, an ALPC heap buffer overflow, and CVE-2026-81963 in the Windows Update Stack, both CVSS 7.8 local privilege escalations. It also addresses an unauthenticated Exchange RCE (CVE-2026-55007) triggered by Visio attachment content indexing under memory pressure, an RDP use-after-free (CVE-2026-69525, CVSS 9.8), and 20 wormable flaws in DNS, DHCP, SMB, Active Directory, and other components. ZDI attributed the rising volume partly to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery, noting no corresponding spike in active exploits yet.

Security Affairs·Sep 9, 07:03 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-55007+3 CVEs1

Cavern C2 Uses DNS and Google Apps Script to Blend Into Legitimate Traffic

Kaspersky details Iranian Cavern Manticore's expanded C2 framework using DNS and Google Apps Script, plus APT42's TAMECAT spyware in nuclear-sector phishing.

Kaspersky reported new components in the Cavern (Cav3rn) C2 framework, used by Iranian MOIS-affiliated Cavern Manticore (with overlaps to MuddyWater and OilRig's Lyceum) against Israeli entities, monitored since December 2025. The new GoogleService.dll module performs DNS A-record queries to choose between direct HTTPS and a Google Apps Script relay per transaction, with the DNS infrastructure able to rotate the Google deployment ID; Kaspersky also found an inter-component broker (rnp.dll) and linked the framework's plugin-based pivot to late April 2026. Separately, Group-IB and Kaspersky detailed HOLLOWGRAPH, a .NET NativeAOT DLL first seen in the wild June 7, 2026, that uses Microsoft 365 calendar events via the Graph API as two-way dead drops dated May 13, 2050, with DNS tunneling refreshing Entra ID credentials. DarkAtlas also reported APT42's TAMECAT modular surveillance framework delivered via LNK masquerading as PDFs in spear-phishing targeting the nuclear energy sector in April-May 2026, with the group using generative AI to accelerate operations.

The Hacker News·Aug 18, 12:12 UTC · 29d agoThreat actor

Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 966 flaws, 2 zero-days

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 966 flaws, including two Windows zero-days actively exploited to gain SYSTEM privileges.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses a record 966 vulnerabilities, including 105 rated Critical, 81 of them remote code execution bugs. Two zero-days were actively exploited: a Windows Update Stack link-following flaw and a Windows ALPC heap-based buffer overflow, both allowing local elevation to SYSTEM privileges. The ALPC flaw was reported by Volexity and Proofpoint researchers, while the Update Stack flaw was credited to Romain Deperne and the Microsoft Threat Intelligence Centre. Microsoft shared no details on how the flaws were exploited in attacks.

BleepingComputer·Sep 8, 18:18 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory in the wildCVE-2026-69805CVE-2026-58649CVE-2026-69806+27 CVEs1

12 Best CIEM Tools Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Buyer's guide compares twelve CIEM tools; Microsoft discontinued Entra Permissions Management, while Tenable (Ermetic), CyberArk, and Wiz lead the 2026 scorecard.

The scorecard evaluates twelve cloud infrastructure entitlement management vendors on permission analytics depth, JIT enforcement, non-human identity coverage, pricing predictability, and bundle leverage. Tenable (Ermetic) leads at 4.70, followed by CyberArk and Wiz, while Microsoft's retirement of Entra Permissions Management (CloudKnox) forces existing customers into migration cycles. Pricing structures span per-identity, per-resource, per-workload, credit-based, and quote-based models.

GBHackers·updated 09:52 UTC · 3h ago·first 07:37 UTC · 5h agoIndustry 13 sources

Jenkins security advisory (AV26-877)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a Jenkins advisory (AV26-877) covering core and numerous plugin vulnerabilities fixed in 2.568.3/2.580.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security published advisory AV26-877 for the Jenkins security advisory dated September 2, 2026. Affected products include Jenkins releases other than 2.568.3 and 2.580, plus plugins such as GitLab, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, SAML, Script Security, Pipeline Build Step, and others. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisory and apply necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 3, 13:54 UTC · 12d agoAdvisory

Microsoft Entra ID is removing an extra MFA hurdle for Windows Hello and macOS PSSO users

Help Net Security·Aug 10, 00:00 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Phishing & fraud1

Jenkins Security Advisory 2026-09-02

Jenkins releases a security advisory affecting Jenkins Core, update-center2, and 17 plugins including GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, and Script Security.

Jenkins published its September 2, 2026 security advisory covering Jenkins Core, the update-center2 tool, and 17 plugins, including widely deployed ones such as GitLab, SAML, LDAP, Microsoft Entra ID, Script Security, SonarQube Scanner, and Pipeline: Groovy Libraries. The announcement text does not include CVE identifiers, affected version ranges, or any statement about active exploitation. Jenkins plugin advisories typically bundle fixes for issues like stored XSS, CSRF, and missing permission checks. Administrators running any of the listed components should update them via the Jenkins update center.

Jenkins Security Advisories·Sep 2, 12:00 UTC · 14d agoAdvisory1

Threat Brief: Mitigating Large-Scale Credential Attacks (Updated August 18)

Unit 42 reports actor TheHatman claims large-scale theft of Microsoft Entra credentials and provides mitigation guidance for credential attacks.

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 published an updated threat brief on mitigating large-scale credential attacks. In August 2026, the actor TheHatman claimed to have stolen a large volume of credentials from organizations' Microsoft Entra tenants. The brief outlines defensive guidance for organizations facing large-scale credential attacks. The theft claims originate from the actor and the post focuses on mitigation steps.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Aug 18, 19:05 UTC · 28d agoThreat actor in the wild

Patch Tuesday - September 2026

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 999 CVEs, a record, with two zero-day privilege escalation flaws already exploited in the wild.

Microsoft published 974 own-product vulnerabilities plus 25 non-Microsoft CVEs, totaling 999 — the most CVEs Microsoft has ever released in a single day. Two flaws are exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-85880, an out-of-bounds write in Windows ALPC granting SYSTEM privileges, and CVE-2026-81963, an improper link resolution flaw in the Windows Update Stack also leading to SYSTEM. Chrome's V8 zero-day CVE-2026-85046 was patched in Edge on September 2, but Microsoft had not published a corresponding advisory, leaving uncertainty about other Chromium fixes in Edge. October 14 lifecycle changes end servicing for Windows 11 24H2 Home/Pro, Office 2021, and Exchange Server 2016/2019.

Rapid7 Blog·Sep 8, 21:44 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-85046+10 CVEs

How to Spot and Stop Rogue Device Joins

Wiz details how adversaries use realistic device names in Entra ID registrations to evade detection and which behavioral signals still expose them.

Wiz researchers describe how adversaries generate realistic device names during Entra ID device registration instead of leaving recognizable fingerprints from public tooling, making rogue device joins blend into enterprise environments. The post explains how this trend changes Entra ID detection approaches. It also identifies behavioral signals that still expose these attacks. No specific CVE or victim was named.

Wiz Blog·Aug 18, 16:24 UTC · 28d agoResearch in the wild

McDonald’s Employee Data Appears in Leak, Seller Claims 1.7M Records Stolen

A seller offers 1.7 million McDonald's employee records allegedly taken from its Azure tenant via compromised credentials; an 8,000-row sample verifies as genuine.

A forum seller named TheHatman posted an 8,000-row sample of McDonald's employee directory data, claiming a 1.7 million-record haul pulled directly from the company's Azure tenant using compromised credentials. Ransomnews analysis found authentic Entra ID export artifacts, including genuine domains, tenant-internal addresses, encoding errors, and truncated HR fields, but could not verify the data's age or the 1.7 million figure. The same seller listed nine datasets in 16 days covering about 3.6 million records across McDonald's, Vodafone, Gap, hotels, and IT outsourcers, suggesting infostealer-driven credential resale. No passwords or hashes appear in the sample, so the primary risk is social engineering.

Security Affairs·Aug 17, 07:58 UTC · Aug 17, 2026Data breach in the wild1

Microsoft security advisory – August 2026 monthly rollup (AV26-804) – Update 2

Canada's Cyber Centre updated advisory AV26-804 relaying Microsoft's August 2026 monthly rollup of vulnerabilities across .NET and Azure products.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-804, updated August 27, 2026, relays Microsoft's August 2026 monthly security rollup originally issued August 11. Affected products include .NET 8.0, 9.0, and 10.0 on Linux, macOS, and Windows, plus many Azure services. Listed Azure components include Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure SQL Database, Azure Service Bus, Azure Active Directory, Azure Logic Apps, and Azure Monitor Agent.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Aug 27, 17:23 UTC · 19d agoAdvisory1

Product showcase: Enpass Password Manager breaks away from the proprietary cloud model

Help Net Security·Aug 10, 00:00 UTC · Aug 10, 2026Industry

Microsoft Patch Tuesday Update September 2026 – 974 Vulnerabilities Fixed, Including 2 Zero-Days

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 974 vulnerabilities across Windows and Office, including two actively exploited Windows privilege-escalation zero-days.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 974 vulnerabilities spanning Windows, Office, SQL Server, SharePoint, Exchange, Azure, and developer tools. Two Windows zero-days are confirmed exploited in attacks: CVE-2026-85880, a Windows ALPC elevation-of-privilege flaw, and CVE-2026-81963, a Windows Update Stack privilege-escalation flaw involving link following. The release also includes Critical fixes for Windows Secure Kernel Mode, VBS Enclave, Excel, and Word.

Cyber Security News·Sep 8, 17:46 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-83939+15 CVEs1

Unmasking Cloud Identities: From Behavioral Clustering to Automated Detection

Unit 42 clusters behavior of 40,000+ AWS identities from 125 cloud environments to map functional roles and enable lightweight SQL-based detection.

Palo Alto Unit 42 built an unsupervised behavioral clustering model using UMAP and HDBSCAN on AWS CloudTrail logs to map cloud identities to functional roles such as administrators, backup services, security tooling and DevOps. The study analyzed over 40,000 identities across 125 cloud environments over two months. The researchers show that heuristics extracted from the clustering map can be implemented in standard SQL, enabling role classification at scale without running a continuous ML pipeline. The methodology extends to audit logs from other cloud providers, SaaS and Kubernetes.

Palo Alto Unit 42·Sep 14, 10:00 UTC · 2d agoResearch

Microsoft September 2026 Patch Tuesday Fixes 973 Vulnerabilities and 2 Exploited Zero-Days

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 973 vulnerabilities, including two zero-days already exploited in the wild.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 973 vulnerabilities across Windows, Office, and Azure components, including two zero-days already exploited in the wild. CVE-2026-81963, an elevation of privilege flaw in the Windows Update Stack, is flagged as an exploited zero-day. The release includes numerous remote code execution and information disclosure fixes for Microsoft Excel and Word, plus patches for the Windows kernel, ALPC, Print Spooler, ReFS, Entra ID, and Azure CLI.

GBHackers·Sep 9, 05:02 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory in the wildCVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-85877CVE-2026-85875+27 CVEs

Top 10 Best Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) Tools in 2026

2026 CSPM comparison ranks Wiz atop cloud posture tools and recaps Google's pending roughly $32 billion acquisition of Wiz.

An editorial guide rates ten cloud security posture management (CSPM) tools, with Wiz ranked first for agentless visibility and attack-path context, Microsoft Defender for Cloud highlighted for Azure-centric economics, and Palo Alto Prisma Cloud noted for the broadest code-to-cloud module set. The article's biggest market note is Google's agreement to acquire Wiz for approximately $32 billion, described as the largest deal in security history, still progressing through regulatory review. It advises buyers to include roadmap-protection language in multi-year commitments and to press on multicloud neutrality post-close.

Cyber Security News·Sep 11, 07:10 UTC · 5d agoIndustry

CISA and NIST Release Technical Checklist for Safeguarding Identity Tokens From Theft and Misuse

CISA and NIST published NIST IR 8587, final guidance for protecting identity tokens from forgery, theft, replay, and signing-key compromise.

NIST Interagency Report 8587 (September 15, 2026) expands the IA-13 'Identity Providers and Authorization Servers' control from NIST SP 800-53 R5.1.1, guiding federal agencies and cloud providers on SSO, identity federation, and machine-to-machine authentication. It requires hardware-backed signing-key storage for moderate-impact systems, 90-day key rotation for high-impact systems, token lifetimes under one hour, and sender-constrained mechanisms such as mutual TLS and DPoP. The report cites incidents including forged SAML assertions that exposed over 60,000 emails from a federal agency. It also extends guidance to agentic AI systems using signed tokens and urges post-quantum cryptography migration planning.

Cyber Security News·Sep 15, 17:04 UTC · 20h agoAdvisory1

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: July 7, 2026

Help Net Security·Aug 7, 10:57 UTC · Aug 7, 2026Vulnerability

BigBear phishing crew nets thousands of Microsoft 365 credentials

CloudSEC accessed the BigBear 2.0 phishing panel, finding 5,137 stolen Microsoft 365 records across 461 organizations, including 474 MFA-bypassed sessions.

CloudSEC researchers got inside the admin panel of BigBear 2.0, an Evilginx2-based phishing-as-a-service operation run by someone known as 'General Boss'. The panel contained 5,137 records tied to 461 organizations: 1,032 plaintext passwords and 4,148 session cookies, with 474 complete MFA-bypassed authentications. The adversary-in-the-middle proxy captures Microsoft 365 session cookies that can be replayed to access email, Teams, SharePoint, and OneDrive, potentially pivoting into Entra ID and federated SaaS. The operation was still active, used custom JavaScript to disable FIDO2/WebAuthn on phishing pages, and routed logins through a residential proxy pool spanning 69 countries.

The Register · Security·Sep 8, 13:26 UTC · 7d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild1

The September 2026 Security Update Review

ZDI's September 2026 Microsoft update review lists two already-exploited Windows EoP zero-days and dozens of critical RCEs across Office, SQL Server, and Windows services.

The review catalogs Microsoft's September 2026 fixes, marking CVE-2026-85880 (Windows ALPC) and CVE-2026-81963 (Windows Update Stack) as already exploited elevation-of-privilege issues. It also lists critical RCE flaws in Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, SQL Server, Windows DNS, DHCP and Failover Cluster, plus graphics component RCEs. Azure-side fixes include Entra ID, Copilot Studio, Azure AI Language and Azure AD B2C elevation-of-privilege flaws.

Zero Day Initiative Blog·Sep 8, 18:32 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory in the wildCVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-70352+27 CVEs1

Cisco Secure Email Gateway SQL Injection Vulnerability

Unauthenticated SQL injection in Cisco Secure Email Gateway email parsing enables root command execution via crafted messages; patches released.

A vulnerability in email parsing of Cisco AsyncOS for Cisco Secure Email Gateway allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands with root privileges on the underlying operating system. Insufficient validation in the email parsing logic lets a crafted email containing malicious SQL statements achieve arbitrary SQL execution and root command execution. Cisco has released software updates, and the companion September 2026 hardening advisory states this flaw is actively exploited.

Cisco Security Advisories·Sep 14, 16:00 UTC · 1d agoVulnerability in the wild

Microsoft security advisory – September 2026 monthly rollup (AV26-896) – Update 1

Canada's Cyber Centre relays Microsoft's September 2026 rollup; CISA added exploited zero-days CVE-2026-85880 and CVE-2026-81963 to KEV.

Advisory AV26-896 from the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security summarizes Microsoft's September 2026 monthly security rollup, listing affected products across Windows, Office, .NET, Azure, Exchange and SQL Server. It notes Microsoft confirmed CVE-2026-81963 and CVE-2026-85880 have been exploited. On September 8, 2026, CISA added both CVEs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, and administrators are urged to apply the updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security·Sep 8, 19:03 UTC · 7d agoAdvisory in the wildCVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-858801

From Infostealer Log to Marketplace Listing: A Technical Walkthrough of the Credential Theft Pipeline

Cyble walkthrough maps how infostealer logs move from endpoint infection through aggregation and enrichment to dark web credential marketplace sales.

Cyble breaks the credential theft pipeline into stages: infostealer execution harvesting browser credential stores, cookies, session tokens, crypto wallets, and FTP configurations; aggregation of stealer logs via C2 panels into bundled archives; parsing and enrichment against previously leaked datasets; and final listing on dark web marketplaces. Enrichment adds employer and role context that raises prices and enables credential stuffing across reused passwords. The report advises SOC teams to monitor stealer logs and marketplace chatter early rather than waiting for breach alerts.

Cyble·Sep 10, 10:45 UTC · 6d agoMalware1

Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for Agencies and Cloud Service Providers

NIST and CISA publish final interagency report with implementation guidance for protecting tokens and assertions from forgery and misuse.

CISA released a final NIST/CISA interagency report guiding federal agencies and cloud service providers on protecting identity assertions, access tokens, and cryptographic mechanisms underlying modern authentication and authorization. It addresses forgery, theft, and misuse of signed tokens that adversaries use for lateral movement and data access in hybrid and multi-cloud, SSO, federation, and API-based environments. The final version updates token validation, secrets management, and detection-at-scale guidance gathered via the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, and supports Executive Order 14306 and Secure by Design principles.

CISA Advisories·Sep 15, 12:00 UTC · 1d agoAdvisory

Top 10 Best Cloud Infrastructure Entitlement Management (CIEM) Tools in 2026

2026 CIEM guide ranks Wiz, Prisma Cloud, Okta, Entra Permissions Management and specialists Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic for cloud entitlement right-sizing.

Buyer's guide covers ten CIEM products across three market routes: CNAPP-bundled (Wiz, Prisma Cloud), identity-suite (Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, Saviynt) and specialists (Sonrai, Britive, Tenable/Ermetic). It cites machine identities outnumbering humans 10:1 plus effective-permissions sprawl as core drivers, with JIT elevation as the fix. Notable consolidation includes Tenable acquiring Ermetic and Zscaler acquiring Canonic.

Cyber Security News·Sep 15, 06:30 UTC · 1d agoTools

Cisco Unified Intelligence Center SQL Injection Vulnerability

Cisco patched a blind SQL injection in Unified Intelligence Center's web interface allowing authenticated local attackers to read the internal database.

Cisco disclosed a blind SQL injection vulnerability in the web-based management interface of Unified Intelligence Center, caused by insufficient validation of user-supplied input. An authenticated local attacker can send crafted requests and read the contents of the device's internal database. Exploitation requires valid user credentials, and Cisco has released software updates.

Cisco Security Advisories·Aug 19, 16:00 UTC · 27d agoAdvisory

BigBear 2 PhaaS Campaign Steals 5000+ Microsoft Credentials

CloudSEK researchers found the BigBear 2.0 PhaaS kit, built on Evilginx2, has stolen over 5,100 Microsoft 365 credentials across 461 organizations in 40+ countries.

CloudSEK gained admin access to the BigBear 2.0 phishing-as-a-service panel, an Evilginx2-based adversary-in-the-middle platform operated by someone using the alias 'General Boss'. The team observed 3,331 unique victim IPs across more than 40 countries, 42 VPS nodes mostly on Vultr, and 5,137 credential records across 461 organizations, including 4,148 session cookies, 1,032 plaintext passwords, and 474 completed MFA-bypassed authentications. IT and managed service providers were the most targeted sector, raising supply-chain risk since their compromise can expose client infrastructure and privileged Azure AD access.

Infosecurity Magazine·Sep 8, 09:45 UTC · 8d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild

CISA Shares 17 Techniques Used by Hackers to Compromise Active Directory

CISA and five international agencies publish joint guidance detailing 17 techniques attackers use to compromise Microsoft Active Directory environments.

CISA, NSA, and the Australian Signals Directorate's ACSC, with contributions from Canadian, UK, and New Zealand cyber centers, released technical guidance on 17 Active Directory attack techniques. It covers AD Domain Services, AD Certificate Services, and AD Federation Services, including Kerberoasting, DCSync, Golden Ticket, Golden SAML, Skeleton Key, and Shadow Credentials. The guidance recommends treating domain controllers, CAs, AD FS servers, and Entra Connect systems as Tier 0 assets with phishing-resistant MFA, Kerberos pre-authentication enforcement, and disabling NTLM/SMBv1.

Cyber Security News·Sep 15, 16:05 UTC · 21h agoAdvisory

14th September – Threat Intelligence Report

Check Point weekly digest: Microsoft's record 974-vuln Patch Tuesday ships two actively exploited Windows zero-days; IDScan.net, Mathspace, Revolut suffer breaches.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday addressed a record 974 vulnerabilities, including two actively exploited privilege-escalation zero-days, CVE-2026-85880 and CVE-2026-81963, plus 20 flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution. Disclosed breaches include IDScan.net (identity documents), Mathspace (over 1 million people via Metabase CVE-2026-72898), Revolut, and Florida DMV (ShinyHunters). GitLab fixed critical CVSS 10.0 path traversal CVE-2026-85706, and MikroTik fixed chainable RouterOS flaws CVE-2026-67276 and CVE-2026-86060. The report also covers the PuzzleMask LLM jailbreak technique, GoldFactory's Gigabud Android fraud, and the BlueMoon Chromium exploit chain (CVE-2026-85046).

Check Point Research·Sep 14, 12:22 UTC · 2d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-72898CVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-81963+4 CVEs2· 1 read

Cybersecurity jobs available right now: December 16, 2025

Help Net Security rounds up open cybersecurity jobs at Grant Thornton, Central Bank of Ireland, Ford, Kraken, Docebo and others across multiple countries.

This is a job listing roundup covering cybersecurity openings at organizations including Grant Thornton, the Central Bank of Ireland, Ford Motor Company, Global Medical Response, banglalink, Mindrift, Kraken, PFH Technology Group, Kiwibank, Mazrui International, Docebo and Alpitronic. Roles span SOC operations, GRC, endpoint security, FedRAMP compliance, threat intelligence and privacy leadership across the USA, Ireland, India, Bangladesh, France, UAE, Canada and other locations. All listings were marked as no longer accepting applications at publication time.

Help Net Security·Aug 20, 10:46 UTC · 27d agoIndustry

Product showcase: GitGuardian Honeytoken catches credential theft as it happens

GitGuardian now deploys honeytoken decoy AWS credentials across developer fleets via MDM, generating high-fidelity alerts when infostealers test stolen credentials.

GitGuardian extended its honeytoken platform so decoy AWS credentials can deploy fleet-wide to developer laptops through existing MDM tooling, with deleted decoys automatically replaced at the next sync. When a harvester tests a decoy, the platform logs the API call in the controlling AWS account and raises an incident naming the source machine and file, routed via email, Slack, Teams, ServiceNow, or webhooks. The capability responds to infostealers such as Shai-Hulud that scan entire filesystems and validate stolen credentials within seconds. GitGuardian is building decoys for Kubernetes and package registry credentials using random, structure-free identifiers that resist detection.

Help Net Security·Sep 10, 05:30 UTC · 6d agoTools

September 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Sep 8th)

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes a record 973 vulnerabilities, including 113 critical and two Windows privilege-escalation flaws already exploited in the wild.

Microsoft patched 973 vulnerabilities this month, its largest Patch Tuesday ever and far above the previous record of 664 set in July 2026, with 113 rated critical. Two Important elevation-of-privilege flaws (CVSS 7.8) are confirmed exploited in the wild: CVE-2026-81963 in the Windows Update Stack (improper link resolution, affects Windows 11 and Server 2025) and CVE-2026-85880 in Windows ALPC (heap-based buffer overflow allowing sandbox escape to SYSTEM, affects Windows 10 and Server 2012-2022). Critical unauthenticated RCEs (CVSS 9.8) were also fixed in Skype for Business Server (CVE-2026-66302), Windows Message Queuing (CVE-2026-69579), and Windows RRAS (CVE-2026-69590). SANS urges prioritizing the two exploited EoP fixes, then patching exposed MSMQ, RRAS, and Skype for Business deployments.

SANS Internet Storm Center·Sep 8, 19:20 UTC · 7d agoVulnerability in the wildCVE-2026-81963CVE-2026-85880CVE-2026-66302+5 CVEs1

Top 10 Best Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) Solutions in 2026

2026 CASB guide ranks Netskope first for depth and Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps for Microsoft estates, as standalone CASB fades into SSE.

Buyer's guide covers ten CASB products across four enforcement modes: API, forward proxy, reverse proxy and log-based discovery. Netskope leads on SaaS activity context depth, while Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps wins on Microsoft 365 E5 estate economics. The guide argues standalone CASB purchases have largely disappeared into SSE platforms and increasingly overlap with SSPM.

Cyber Security News·Sep 15, 06:24 UTC · 1d agoTools