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Four Nation-State Actors Used the Same Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Kit Within 12 Days

Proofpoint reports four nation-state actors, mostly China-nexus, adopted the BlueMoon Chrome and Windows zero-day exploit kit within 12 days, targeting US organizations.

Proofpoint tracked an exploit kit dubbed BlueMoon that chains CVE-2026-85046, a Chrome V8 type-confusion bug, with an unnamed V8 sandbox escape and CVE-2026-85880, a Windows kernel privilege escalation using ALPC and the Windows Notification Facility. The first observed use was by China-nexus TA412 (APT31, Violet Typhoon, JungleBamboo) on August 28, 2026 against US NGOs, mining companies, and commodity trading firms, followed by UNK_LateNight targeting US aerospace and defense companies on September 2. Both V8 bugs were patch-gap zero-days: the fix was committed to Chromium on August 7 but reached stable Chrome on September 3, enabling rapid weaponization from public patches. TA412's post-exploitation payload, GemStone, is a malicious browser extension posing as an AI-powered Google Gemini companion that captures keystrokes, cookies, screenshots, and browsing history via a Cloudflare Worker C2.

Security Affairsupdated · 1d agofirst · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 20 sourcesCVE-2026-85046CVE-2026-858801

12 Best CWPP Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

Editorial comparison ranks twelve CWPP vendors, with Sysdig leading K8s runtime depth, Prisma Cloud workload breadth, and Wiz agentless speed.

A 2026 buyer's guide compares twelve cloud workload protection platforms across features and pricing models. Sysdig is rated deepest for container/Kubernetes runtime via its Falco lineage, Prisma Cloud broadest across hosts, containers, and serverless, Aqua strongest on cloud-native lifecycle, and Wiz/CrowdStrike lead agentless speed and platform correlation. Category notes flag Illumio as microsegmentation and Fidelis as NDR/XDR rather than classic CWPP.

GBHackersupdated · 2h agofirst · 1d agoIndustry 13 sources

Free streaming boxes may be routing criminal traffic through your home

Researchers found SuperBox streaming boxes and the CyberFlix TV app enroll home connections into the Popanet residential proxy network, routing criminal traffic.

Researchers found that SuperBox devices and the CyberFlix TV app, distributed through SuperBox's custom app store, contain Popanet proxy functionality that registers the device with servers controlled by the proxy operator, enrolling household connections into residential proxy networks. The reported configuration weakens Android safeguards with exposed ADB access, root-level privileges without authentication, and removal of app-install protections. Plume's research warns these proxy networks can also function as malware-delivery platforms, and the FBI notes foreign entities use residential proxies to conceal activity such as credential stuffing and account abuse. Malwarebytes advises disconnecting and replacing affected SuperBox/CyberFlix devices rather than factory-resetting them.

Malwarebytes Labs · 12d agoMalware in the wild

UltraViolet Cyber Equinox measures detection coverage against MITRE frameworks

UltraViolet Cyber launches Equinox, an AI-automated platform mapping SIEM and EDR detection coverage against MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS frameworks.

UltraViolet Cyber announced Equinox, a detection engineering platform from its TIDE team that maps existing detections and log sources against MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATLAS. It performs coverage analysis in under 30 minutes and recommends vendor or custom detections to fill gaps, with engineers reviewing and backtesting each recommendation. In one customer trial, mapped technique coverage rose from 59 of 222 techniques (26.6%) to 136 of 222 (61.3%) without increasing alert volume.

Help Net Security · 22h agoTools2

12 Best Browser Isolation Solutions Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

2026 comparison ranks Zscaler, Cloudflare, Menlo Security, Garrison (Everfox), Authentic8 and Kasm among twelve remote browser isolation solutions.

Guide compares twelve RBI products across four architectures: pixel streaming, DOM/vector reconstruction, platform-embedded SSE isolation, and self-hosted containers. Zscaler and Cloudflare lead RBI delivered inside SSE platforms, while Menlo Security leads isolate-everything efficacy and Garrison (Everfox) provides hardware-grade isolation for government use. Most offerings price per user per month.

GBHackers · 1d agoTools

Silver Fox Targets Japanese Manufacturer with 3

Chinese group Silver Fox used new vulnerable drivers and DLL side-loading to deploy ValleyRAT at a Japanese industrial manufacturer.

Cato Networks detailed a Silver Fox campaign against a Japanese industrial manufacturing organization combining new vulnerable-driver abuse (BootRepair.sys and EnPortv.sys alongside wsftprm.sys), DLL side-loading via Zeon Corporation PDF binaries, and NTDLL unhooking to deliver ValleyRAT (Winos 4.0), a Gh0st RAT variant. The chain starts with an invoice-themed phishing lure hosting attacker-controlled content on legitimate QQ and Tencent Cloud services. Shellcode is injected into svchost.exe via thread-context hijacking, and a dual watchdog design pairs payload monitoring with a scheduled-task batch script for persistence. A separate 180-day VirusTotal retrohunt found 146 Atlas RAT samples across six PDB builds, though the Silver Fox link remains circumstantial.

The Hacker News · 20d agoThreat actor in the wild

12 Best Patch Management Software Compared (2026): Features & Pricing

GBHackers ranks NinjaOne, ManageEngine, and Automox atop twelve patch management tools for 2026, emphasizing third-party application coverage.

GBHackers scored twelve patch management platforms on coverage, automation, visibility, deployment, and value, with NinjaOne ranked highest at 4.55. Action1 is highlighted for its genuinely usable free tier, ManageEngine for third-party catalog breadth, and Automox for cloud-native cross-OS automation. The piece notes that unpatched known vulnerabilities remain a top initial-access vector, citing CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

GBHackers · 6d agoIndustry 4 sources

Top 10 Best Browser Isolation Solutions in 2026

A 2026 market overview ranks ten remote browser isolation tools, with Menlo Security as the pure-play reference as SSE vendors bundle isolation.

The article compares ten remote browser isolation (RBI) options, including Menlo Security, Zscaler, Cloudflare, Palo Alto Networks, Broadcom (Symantec), Forcepoint, Skyhigh Security, Ericom (Cradlepoint), Authentic8, and Garrison. It argues that RBI has become a bundled policy action inside SSE platforms from Zscaler, Cloudflare, Palo Alto, Broadcom, Forcepoint, and Skyhigh, compressing standalone pricing and driving consolidation such as Ericom's isolation moving under Cradlepoint (Ericsson). Enterprise browsers like Island and Chrome Enterprise Premium are reshaping the RBI-versus-browser decision for managed users, while selective policy-driven isolation of risky categories is described as the prevailing 2026 architecture. The piece is a buyer's guide with vendor positioning, not an incident or vulnerability report.

Cyber Security News · 5d agoIndustry

SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances under attack via zero-day flaws

SonicWall confirms active exploitation of zero-day SSRF (CVE-2026-83548) and command injection (CVE-2026-83549) flaws in SMA 1000 remote access appliances.

SonicWall confirmed attackers are actively exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities in SMA 1000 SSL VPN appliances, affecting physical and virtual models 6210, 7210, and 8200v but not SMA 100 appliances or SonicWall firewalls. CVE-2026-83548 is a pre-authentication SSRF in the Appliance Work Place interface allowing remote unauthenticated attackers to gain unauthorized access to sensitive functionality, while CVE-2026-83549 is an OS command injection in the Appliance Management Console that can yield remote code execution under specific conditions for authenticated admins. The vendor urged immediate hotfix deployment, IoC review with technical support, and re-imaging or redeployment plus password and TOTP token resets on confirmed compromise. This is the latest in a series of zero-day attacks against SMA 1000 appliances following waves in late 2025 and June-July 2026.

Help Net Security · 14d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-83548CVE-2026-83549

SonicWall's SMA1000 boxes under active attack again

SonicWall warns attackers are chaining two SMA1000 zero-days, a CVSS 10.0 SSRF and command injection, to compromise VPN gateways.

SonicWall says attackers are actively exploiting two chained zero-days in SMA 1000 appliances: CVE-2026-83548, a pre-authentication SSRF rated CVSS 10.0, and CVE-2026-83549, a post-authentication OS command injection (CVSS 7.8) in the Appliance Management Console. Hotfixes are available for SMA 6210, 7210, and 8200v appliances with no workarounds; SonicWall recommends reimaging compromised devices, rotating passwords, and resetting TOTP tokens. NHS England assesses further exploitation as almost certain, following a similar exploited pair in July when CISA added CVE-2026-15409 to its KEV catalog.

The VMs Powering Mobile Agents (Instinct, Claude Code)

A teardown reveals Claude Code runs in Firecracker microVMs with a Rust PID 1 and MITM'd egress, while Instinct rents E2B sandboxes with git-based memory.

The author inspects the virtual machines hosting cloud agents: Claude Code runs in a Firecracker microVM with a custom Rust init (process_api) as PID 1, a 324 MB Bun harness on a read-only disk, and 443-only MITM'd SSE egress to api.anthropic.com with host-rotated OAuth tokens and no inbound access. Instinct rents E2B sandbox-as-a-service Firecracker microVMs (Ubuntu 22.04, 2 vCPU, 1.9 GB RAM) where agent memory is a git repo of Markdown committed by the agent and pushed to S3 as a single bundle, using short-lived STS credentials. Both platforms rely on Firecracker, differing mainly in fleet operator and guest boot configuration.

Rockwell Automation security advisory (AV26-869)

Canada's Cyber Centre flags vulnerabilities across multiple Rockwell Automation ICS products including ControlLogix 5580 and RSLinx Classic.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-869, dated September 1, 2026, lists vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation products: 1756-ENBT Module (all versions), ArmorStart LT (v2.001 and earlier), CompactLogix 5380 / ControlLogix 5580 (V33 and earlier plus several V34-V36 releases), and RSLinx Classic (V4.50 and earlier). It references Rockwell advisories SD1792, SD1794, SD1797, and SD1798 and urges users to apply updates as available.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 14d agoAdvisory

Automox Mitigation Worklets cut endpoint exposure to unpatchable flaws

Automox launched an AI-speed Mitigation Worklet Pipeline that drafts and publishes mitigations for unpatchable vulnerabilities within hours of disclosure.

Automox announced its Mitigation Worklet Pipeline, which uses AI to draft mitigations for unpatchable vulnerabilities and publishes human-reviewed Worklets to its catalog within hours of disclosure. The company cites rising vulnerability volume, including a record Patch Tuesday with 973 CVEs, as motivation. Customers can search Worklets by CVE, control deployment targets, and verify execution through Activity Logs and Policy Results.

Help Net Security · 5d agoTools

ZDI-26-594: NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config Code Injection Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

NVIDIA Megatron Bridge load_model_config code injection flaw (CVE-2026-24251, CVSS 7.8) enables remote arbitrary code execution on affected installs.

ZDI-26-594 describes a code injection vulnerability in NVIDIA Megatron Bridge's load_model_config function, tracked as CVE-2026-24251 with CVSS 7.8. Exploitation allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected installations and requires user interaction. The advisory was published by the Zero Day Initiative on August 24, 2026.

H1 2026 Malware Vulnerability Trends

Recorded Future's H1 2026 report finds 215 actively exploited CVEs, RAT dominance, NFC payment fraud, and AI-augmented but not autonomous tradecraft.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group identified 215 actively exploited CVEs in H1 2026, up 34% from 161 in H1 2025, with the most impactful flaws combining network reachability, no authentication, and code execution. AsyncRAT was the top malware family, with AsyncRAT, Cobalt Strike, XWorm, Stealc, and REMCOS remaining top-ten staples; Android NFC malware like NFCShare and NGate enabled payment card theft and ATM cash-outs. AI-enabled attacks remained additive to established tradecraft, concentrated in Levels 1-3 of Recorded Future's AIM3 maturity model, with AI-assisted vulnerability research (e.g., Claude Mythos fixing 271 Firefox bugs in Firefox 150) inflating NVD disclosure volumes 43% above the prior six-month average. The report urges defenders to prioritize remotely exploitable RCE flaws, behavioral detection, developer credential security, and third-party oversight.

Recorded Future · 13d agoThreat actor in the wild1

Top 10 Best Patch Management Software in 2026

Roundup ranks 2026 patch management software, favoring Automox, Action1's free tier and Tanium, and warns buyers to vet patching platform security.

This buyer's guide ranks ten patch management tools for 2026, placing Automox first for cloud-native patching, Action1 for a genuinely free small-estate tier and Tanium for patching hundreds of thousands of endpoints. It contextualizes the category with the 2021 Kaseya VSA ransomware supply-chain incident and the 2020 SolarWinds Orion compromise, arguing the security of the patching platform itself must be part of evaluation. It also notes Ivanti products have repeatedly appeared in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Cyber Security News · 7d agoIndustry

ZDI-26-593: NVIDIA TensorRT ONNX File Parsing Heap-based Buffer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

ZDI disclosed a second TensorRT heap-based buffer overflow RCE (CVE-2026-24268, CVSS 7.8) in ONNX file parsing, requiring user interaction.

The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-593 covering another heap-based buffer overflow in NVIDIA TensorRT's ONNX file parsing. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code if the target opens a malicious file or visits a crafted page. ZDI rated the vulnerability CVSS 7.8 and assigned CVE-2026-24268.

Hackers Abuse Claude AI Agents to Automate Cyberattacks, Exploitation and Data Theft

Anthropic reports actors including GTG-20006 (Midnight Blizzard-linked) and ShinyHunters clusters abused Claude AI agents to automate phishing, credential harvesting, and data theft against 20+ organizations.

Anthropic's September 2026 threat intelligence report describes threat actors operating multi-agent workflows built on Claude models to automate the cyber kill chain, from reconnaissance and phishing to exfiltration. The group GTG-20006, assessed as consistent with Midnight Blizzard, targeted Ukrainian and European government, diplomatic, defense, and intelligence entities plus the drone supply chain, with more than 20 organizations identified. Clusters tied to ShinyHunters used 10 AWS EC2 instances to decompile 1.8 million Android APKs for hard-coded secrets and, in a separate SaaS supply chain intrusion, dumped over 2,100 Azure AD token sets across 40+ corporate tenants in about 34 hours. Reported malware families include PowerChrome, WUEngine, Shadow C2, MiniPlasma, CloudSyncSvc, the GiftDrop Android RAT, and the DarkSword iOS exploit chain.

GBHackersupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoThreat actor in the wild 15 sources1

Rockwell Automation 1756-ENBT Module

Rockwell's 1756-ENBT ControlLogix EtherNet/IP bridge (all versions) is vulnerable to DoS via crafted CIP packets, crashing the module until manual restart.

CISA republished Rockwell Automation's advisory for CVE-2025-10478, a CWE-754 flaw affecting all versions of the 1756-ENBT ControlLogix EtherNet/IP bridge, scored CVSS 7.5. A crafted CIP packet can crash the module, and the device requires a restart to recover. Affected critical infrastructure sectors include critical manufacturing, food and agriculture, transportation systems, and water. No public exploitation has been reported; CISA recommends minimizing network exposure.

Chrome V8 Zero-Day Exploited in the Wild Enables Code Execution Inside Sandbox

Google patches actively exploited Chrome V8 zero-day CVE-2026-87491, an out-of-bounds write enabling sandboxed code execution via crafted HTML pages.

Google released Chrome 153.0.8010.36/.37 fixing 230 vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-87491, an out-of-bounds write in the V8 engine that allowed remote code execution inside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page and is confirmed to be exploited in the wild. The flaw was reported on August 6, 2026 by Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab, Seoul National University, who received a $2,500 bug bounty. This is the seventh actively exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. The update also fixes five critical flaws in WebGL and Cast, plus a high WebPackaging use-after-free (CVE-2026-87639) credited to OpenAI Codex Security.

The Hacker News · 7d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-87491CVE-2026-2441CVE-2026-3909+10 CVEs

[Control Systems] Siemens security advisory (AV26-881)

Siemens patched an account hijacking vulnerability in the Mendix SAML module affecting Mendix 9.24, 10, and 11 releases before fixed versions.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security relayed Siemens advisory SSA-887643, which addresses an account hijacking vulnerability in the Mendix SAML module. Affected components are the Mendix 10 and Mendix 11 compatible modules prior to V4.2.3 and the Mendix 9.24 compatible module prior to V3.6.27. Administrators are encouraged to review the linked advisories and apply the available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 12d agoAdvisory

Quoting Rick Brewster

Paint.NET added a clean-room Direct2D rewrite for WINE, largely written by Anthropic's Claude and described as unreviewed 'vibe coded' code.

Rick Brewster says Paint.NET now ships a from-scratch, reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation (PaintDotNet.Windows.Direct2D1.Managed.dll) used under WINE via a /wine flag, since Direct2D was never completed well enough there. He credits the Claude coding assistant with writing most of the code, calling it largely 'vibe coded' and not thoroughly reviewed. Simon Willison shared the quote as an example of shipping AI-assisted systems code in production software.

Simon Willison · 14d agoAI tools & infra1

Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic

CISA flags four flaws (CVE-2026-9621/9622/9624/9625) in Rockwell RSLinx Classic 4.50 and below that can cause denial-of-service conditions; CVSS 8.6.

CISA published an ICS advisory covering four vulnerabilities in Rockwell Automation RSLinx Classic versions 4.50 and below. The integer overflow, underflow, and classic buffer overflow flaws (CVE-2026-9621, CVE-2026-9622, CVE-2026-9624, CVE-2026-9625) could let attackers cause denial-of-service conditions. The product is deployed worldwide, primarily in critical manufacturing.

Siemens Mendix SAML

Siemens Mendix SAML module fails signature validation, allowing unauthenticated account hijacking in specific SSO configurations (CVE-2026-80465).

CISA republished Siemens advisory SSA-887643 for CVE-2026-80465 (CVSS 8.7) in the Mendix SAML module, affecting Mendix 10/11-compatible versions before 4.2.3 and Mendix 9.24-compatible versions before 3.6.27. The module improperly validates SAML response signatures (CWE-347), letting unauthenticated remote attackers hijack an account in specific SSO configurations. Mendix has released fixed versions and recommends updating.

CISA Advisories · 1d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-80465

CVE-2026-87464: RCE outside sandbox in Chromium prior to 153.0.8010.36

CVE-2026-87464 is a critical use-after-free in Chrome's WebGL allowing sandbox-escaping RCE via crafted HTML pages, fixed in 153.0.8010.36.

Google Chrome prior to 153.0.8010.36 contains a use-after-free in WebGL that allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Google rates it as Chromium security severity Critical, though tracker details are restricted. Debian indicates all current Chromium packages are affected, and the flaw likely impacts Chromium-derived browsers. No active exploitation is mentioned in the disclosure.

oss-security · 5d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-87464