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Hackers Exploit MikroTik Vulnerabilities to Take Over MikroTik Routers Without Authentication

Attackers chained SSH authentication bypass CVE-2026-67276 and privilege flaw CVE-2026-86060 to fully hijack internet-exposed MikroTik routers before patches existed.

CERT Polska disclosed six MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities on September 5, 2026, and confirmed real-world exploitation of SSH-exposed devices beginning around September 2, before public disclosure and patched releases. The actively exploited MikroTrick chain pairs CVE-2026-67276, an SSH authentication bypass, with CVE-2026-86060, a session privilege manipulation flaw, both CVSS 9.2, yielding full administrative control of internet-facing routers. Bishop Fox independently reproduced a related chain using CVE-2026-67279 and CVE-2026-86060 and found post-compromise persistence, including unauthorized full-privilege accounts, scripts, and schedulers showing the unusual owner="0" value. Fixes are available in RouterOS 6.49.21, 7.23.4, and 7.24.2, but updating cannot remove attacker-created persistence.

GBHackersupdated · 4h agofirst · 4h agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-67276CVE-2026-86060CVE-2026-672791

India’s STPI serves TerminalFix-style attack via fake Cloudflare check

India's STPI government website serves a spoofed Cloudflare verification page that preloads malicious commands into visitors' clipboards for execution in Windows Terminal, matching TerminalFix-style attacks.

A malicious external JavaScript on the ananta.stpi[.]in subdomain of India's Software Technology Parks of India displays a fake Cloudflare 'Verify you are human' prompt and silently writes a URL into the visitor's clipboard, instructing the user to paste and execute it in Windows Terminal. Researcher Vibhum Dubey reported the behavior to STPI and CERT-In; the script loads from the recently registered cdn[.]quickdelivr[.]com and assigns each visitor a unique session identifier. The malicious script remained embedded after the overlay briefly disappeared, and the destination URL was flagged as malicious by 17 VirusTotal engines. No attribution has been established, though the pattern matches Microsoft's TerminalFix, a variant of ClickFix.

CSO Online · 6d agoPhishing & fraud in the wild2· 1 read

SilkParasite Infrastructure Links SpiceRAT to Central Asian Targets

Hunt.io linked SpiceRAT, NodeEdgeRAT, and NomadRAT C2 servers to the SilkParasite campaign targeting Central Asian governments since mid-2022.

Hunt.io and researcher Guy Yasur mapped C2 infrastructure tying three of seven RAT families from Bitdefender's SilkParasite report through shared TLS certificates, parent domains, and a cloned RTX Corporation homepage. One certificate spoofing Uzbekistan's state railway was issued by TLC, a CA funded by China's CAICT, and domains impersonate state entities in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan. Passive DNS pushes the campaign back to mid-2022, and the infrastructure overlaps China-nexus activity including FamousSparrow and IndigoZebra.

Security Affairs · 23h agoThreat actor in the wild 3 sources

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.

Week in review: Linux rootkit deployed on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, Cisco FMC bugs exploited

Weekly roundup: Cisco FMC and N-able N-central zero-days exploited in the wild, MikroTik RouterOS hijacks, Microsoft Patch Tuesday ships two exploited zero-days.

State-sponsored and financially-motivated attackers are actively exploiting CVE-2026-20079, a critical authentication bypass in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC), alongside CVE-2026-20316. N-able issued an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a critical pre-auth RCE in the N-central RMM platform exploited in the wild. CERT Polska disclosed six RouterOS vulnerabilities being chained to hijack internet-exposed MikroTik devices. Microsoft's September 2026 Patch Tuesday shipped a record patch count including two zero-days, while roughly 67,000 Trezor customers faced phishing after a shipping-partner breach and researchers privately disclosed a zero-click WeChat worm to Tencent.

Help Net Security · 5d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-20079CVE-2026-20316CVE-2026-862182· 1 read

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV

CISA added five actively exploited JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS flaws to its KEV catalog.

CISA added five actively exploited vulnerabilities to the KEV catalog: CVE-2026-42016 and CVE-2026-42018 in JFrog Artifactory, CVE-2026-84869 in ConnectWise ScreenConnect (CVSS 9.9), and CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060 in MikroTik RouterOS. The Artifactory bugs are chained with CVE-2026-82329 to gain administrative control, deploy malicious Groovy plugins, and install Rust-based backdoors. CERT Polska dubbed the RouterOS chain 'MikroTrick'; FCEB agencies must patch between September 13 and 25, 2026.

The Hacker Newsupdated · 3d agofirst · 5d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-42016CVE-2026-42018CVE-2026-84869+3 CVEs2· 1 read