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Microsoft's September Patch Tuesday fixes nearly 1,000 vulnerabilities; CISA warns two of the flaws are being actively exploited.

Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday release addresses close to 1,000 vulnerabilities, with CISA warning that two of the bugs are being actively exploited. The Record's homepage digest also lists briefs including a US offer of $10 million for information on an Iranian hacker accused of attacking critical infrastructure and a leak of health data on more than 9.5 million people from the Aesto record system. Additional briefs cover a Russian suspect's extradition to the US for bank account takeovers, US-British coordination on scam center takedowns, G7 guidance on quantum cyber threats, a large DDoS attack on Norwegian public services, and Slovenian casinos reopening after a cyberattack.

The Record · 7d agoVulnerability in the wild

Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in a SCADA System

Unit 42 details five vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0-7.8) in ICONICS Suite SCADA software enabling privilege escalation and DoS.

Unit 42 discovered five vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-1182, CVE-2024-7587, CVE-2024-8299, CVE-2024-8300, CVE-2024-9852) in ICONICS Suite versions 10.97.2 and earlier for Windows during a 2024 security assessment. The flaws, rated CVSS 7.0-7.8, allow DLL hijacking, privilege escalation, information disclosure, denial-of-service and potentially full system compromise. ICONICS Suite is a SCADA solution with hundreds of thousands of installations in over 100 countries, widely used in critical infrastructure, and several dozen servers are internet-exposed per Unit 42 telemetry. ICONICS released patches and advisories with workarounds in 2024.