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AL26-020 - Vulnerabilities Impacting MikroTik RouterOS - CVE-2026-67276, CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060

Canada's Cyber Centre warns of three exploited MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities affecting SSH-exposed devices; CISA added two to its KEV catalog.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued alert AL26-020 for three MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities, especially on devices exposing SSH to the internet: CVE-2026-67277 (missing authentication, CWE-306, enabling sensitive information disclosure), CVE-2026-86060 (argument injection, CWE-88, enabling privilege escalation), and CVE-2026-67276 (improper cryptographic signature verification, CWE-347, allowing SSH command channel access without the private key). On September 10, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Fixed versions include RouterOS 6.49.21, 7.23.4 (Long-Term), 7.24.2 (Stable), and 7.25 beta 3.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Securityupdated · 5d agofirst · 6d agoVulnerability in the wild 3 sourcesCVE-2026-67276CVE-2026-67277CVE-2026-860603· 2 reads

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Metasploit Framework's automated pipeline refreshed its module metadata file, a routine repository maintenance commit introducing no new modules or exploits.

An automated Metasploit Framework commit updated module_metadata_base.json, the metadata database consumed by module tooling. The change is routine maintenance and contains no new exploit modules or vulnerability content.

Metasploit Framework commits · 13d agoTools1

American Being Prosecuted for Wiping His Phone Before Handing It Over to Border Officials

A U.S. citizen is being prosecuted for using GrapheneOS's duress passcode to wipe his phone before border officials could search it.

Tunick entered a dedicated wipe passcode in GrapheneOS, a hardened Android alternative running on his Google Pixel, erasing the device's contents when demanded by border officials. His attorneys confirmed the software was in use, and the prosecution is proceeding even though he was not under arrest. The case raises unresolved constitutional questions about what rights apply at the U.S. border, which the government has long treated as outside U.S. soil until entry is authorized. GrapheneOS publicly asserted the feature is legal and that laws weakening its protections would be unconstitutional.

Schneier on Security · Aug 13, 2026Policy & legal

NOKKI Almost Ties the Knot with DOGCALL: Reaper Group Uses New Malware to Deploy RAT

Unit 42 links NOKKI malware to North Korea's Reaper group, uncovering the Final1stspy dropper that deploys the DOGCALL RAT in politically motivated attacks.

Unit 42 analyzed the NOKKI malware family used in politically themed attacks against Russian and Cambodian speakers since July 2018. The researchers linked NOKKI to the Reaper group, publicly attributed to North Korea, whose custom DOGCALL RAT uses third-party hosting services to upload data and receive commands. A previously unreported family, Final1stspy, was found deploying DOGCALL, sharing a unique base64-to-hex deobfuscation routine with NOKKI droppers. Attacks used malicious Microsoft Word macros that download and execute payloads while opening decoy documents.

Palo Alto Unit 42 · Aug 17, 2026Malware

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Automated Metasploit Framework commit refreshes module_metadata_base.json with no new exploit content or vulnerability details.

An automated commit updated module_metadata_base.json in the Rapid7 Metasploit Framework repository. The change reflects routine metadata maintenance and introduces no new modules, exploits, or vulnerability information.

Metasploit Framework commits · 15d agoTools

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Metasploit Framework automatically updates its module metadata JSON in routine maintenance commit.

The Metasploit Framework repository received an automatic update to module_metadata_base.json, the metadata file that tracks module information. No specific new vulnerability, exploit module, or feature is described in the commit message. This is routine repository maintenance rather than a notable security event.

Metasploit Framework commits · 13d agoTools

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Routine automated Metasploit Framework commit updating module metadata, with no disclosed vulnerability or exploitation activity.

The Metasploit Framework repository received an automatic update to its module_metadata_base.json file. The commit text contains no vulnerability details, CVE references, or new exploit modules. This is routine maintenance activity on the open-source penetration testing framework.

Metasploit Framework commits · 14d agoTools

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Automated Metasploit Framework commit updating module_metadata_base.json to reflect newly added or modified exploit modules.

An automated commit updated module_metadata_base.json in the rapid7/metasploit-framework repository. The routine maintenance change reflects newly added or modified Metasploit modules and carries no standalone security significance.

Metasploit Framework commits · 13d agoTools1

Abyssos: Technical Analysis of a New Modular RAT

Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzes Abyssos, a new modular C++ RAT offering credential theft, file exfiltration, and VNC-based remote access.

Zscaler ThreatLabz identified a new malware family tracked as Abyssos in late June 2026. Abyssos is a modular remote administration tool (RAT) written in C++ that supports credential theft, file exfiltration, and remote access via VNC. The malware is under active development, with multiple version numbers and obfuscation passes designed to evade security products. The analysis covers its core features, configuration, obfuscation, and network communication protocol.

Zscaler ThreatLabz · Aug 10, 2026Malware

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Routine automated Metasploit Framework commit updates module_metadata_base.json with new module metadata.

The Metasploit Framework repository received an automated commit updating module_metadata_base.json, the file that tracks module metadata for the framework. This is routine maintenance accompanying new or updated exploit modules rather than a standalone disclosure. No vulnerability details, CVEs, or exploitation evidence are included.

Metasploit Framework commits · 13d agoTools

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 · 2d agofirst · 4d agoExploit / PoC in the wild 2 sourcesCVE-2026-42016CVE-2026-42018CVE-2026-84869+3 CVEs2· 1 read

RTK reports token savings, but our cost benchmarks disagree

Quesma's $1,500 benchmark found RTK cuts reported token output but changes Claude Code and DeepSeek coding costs by only about 5% on Terminal-Bench 2.1.

Quesma benchmarked RTK (Rust Token Killer), a popular tool with 79k GitHub stars that filters terminal output for AI coding agents, whose README claims up to 90% output reduction. Across 1,740 Terminal-Bench 2.1 attempts running Claude Code with Fable 5.0 and OpenCode with DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813, total costs moved only -5% for Fable and +5% for DeepSeek, with pass rates dropping 1-2%. RTK's own rtk gain metric reported 349.2 million tokens saved (an 89% reduction) across 445 DeepSeek attempts, but this did not correlate with actual cost savings, and cached terminal-output reads cost as little as 1/10 to 1/30 of regular input tokens. A bug in rtk find 0.45.0 caused one agent to loop with 339 consecutive errors, costing roughly 9x the baseline attempt, though the task still passed.

Hacker News · securityupdated · 4d agofirst · 5d agoAI tools & infra 2 sourcesHN 28↑ · 10 comments1

automatic module_metadata_base.json update

Metasploit Framework pushed an automated update to its module_metadata_base.json module metadata file.

This repository commit is an automated update to the Metasploit Framework's module_metadata_base.json file. No new modules, vulnerabilities or exploit changes are described in the commit message.

Metasploit Framework commits · 14d agoTools

Automobile Camouflage to Hide from Flock Cameras

Schneier on Security highlights a printed vehicle-camouflage pattern tested to defeat Flock surveillance cameras and Axon body cameras.

The post discusses covering cars with printed patterns designed to fool Flock automated license-plate recognition software, with testing reportedly done against Flock and Axon body cameras. Reader comments question effectiveness against other ALPR vendors, Flock's RF MAC-address upgrade, and whether such camouflage might become regulated. The page also contains off-topic comment threads about anti-bot over-blocking and privacy.

Schneier on Security · 9d agoResearch

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA added two actively exploited MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060, to its KEV catalog, mandating federal remediation.

CISA added CVE-2026-67277 (missing authentication for a critical function) and CVE-2026-86060 (improper neutralization of argument delimiters in a command), both in MikroTik RouterOS, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Under BOD 26-04, Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies must prioritize rapid remediation of these flaws on publicly exposed assets that grant total control post-exploitation. Agencies are also required to check whether systems were compromised before patches were applied.

CISA Advisories · 6d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-67277CVE-2026-86060

CVE-2026-86460: Apache Syncope: Cypher Injection via FIQL Search on Neo4j Persistence

Apache Syncope's Neo4j persistence layer permits Cypher injection via certain FIQL search expressions, affecting versions through 3.0.16, 4.0.7, and 4.1.2.

CVE-2026-86460 is a moderate-severity Cypher injection in Apache Syncope's syncope-core-persistence-neo4j module, triggered when processing some FIQL search strings. Affected versions are 3.0.0-M0 through 3.0.16, 4.0.0-M0 through 4.0.7, and 4.1.0-M0 through 4.1.2. No exploitation is reported; upgrade to fixed releases is advised.

oss-security · 2d agoVulnerabilityCVE-2026-864601

27.5KB language-agnostic WebGPU syntax highlighter

A developer released gpu-lexer, a 27.5KB language-agnostic syntax highlighter that uses a tiny WebGPU model to label code tokens in the browser.

gpu-lexer splits source into words, whitespace, and symbols, then a small WebGPU model uses local and whole-file context to assign nine token classes, working on languages never seen in training. On held-out files, 12.57% of token labels differ from Shiki, though this measures agreement with Shiki rather than objective correctness. In benchmarks against Shiki 4.4.3, Prism.js, Highlight.js, Sugar High, and Starry Night, it highlighted 10 concatenated copies of three.min.js (5.56M characters) about 10x faster on an Apple M4 Pro in Chrome 152. The author frames it as an experiment, not a grammar-equivalent highlighter.

Hacker News · security · 7d agoAI tools & infraHN 21↑ · 5 comments1

Show HN: Pelican-bicycle alternatives (updated for 2026)

Hobbyist benchmark re-runs the pelican-bicycle SVG test on six 2026 frontier models, comparing generation time and API cost per image.

A Show HN post re-runs the classic pelican-bicycle and similar SVG generation tests across six 2026 models: GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1, Gemini 3.8 Flash, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Qwen3.8 Max, and Fugu Ultra v2, recording wall-clock time and cost. It also lists 2025 baseline runs with ten models including Claude Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.2 Pro, and Qwen3-VL-235B-A22B-Thinking. DeepSeek V4 Pro is consistently cheapest ($0.04-$0.10) while Qwen3.8 Max is slowest, taking up to roughly 17 minutes per generation.

Hacker News · security · 2d agoAI researchHN 24↑ · 4 comments

The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting

Simon Willison's pelican SVG comparison shows GPT-6 Astra producing markedly better images than GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna across reasoning levels.

Willison generated pelicans-riding-bicycles SVGs with newly accessed GPT-6 Astra at low through max reasoning levels and rendered them in a comparison grid against GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna. Astra's outputs were markedly more coherent, while even the best GPT-5.6-Sol images remained largely abstract shapes. Astra does not support a reasoning=none setting, so all comparisons involved reasoning-enabled runs.

Simon Willison · 11d agoAI research

Metasploit Wrap Up: Lot of summer shells and fit http profiles

Metasploit 6.5 ships 13 new modules including RCEs for SonicWall SMA1000, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE and Langflow, plus a Linux kernel LPE.

Rapid7's Metasploit wrap-up covers the 6.5 release, which adds 13 new modules, including remote code execution exploits for WordPress WP2Shell, Ghost CMS, Joomla JCE, Langflow, OpenCATS, Pterodactyl Panel, SonicWall SMA1000, Ray Dashboard and a Pix-for-WooCommerce plugin. The Fragnesia Linux kernel local privilege escalation (CVE-2026-46300) also landed. The release introduces HTTP malleable profiles, MCP functionality, Linux multi-fetch payloads and improved Windows on ARM support.

Rapid7 Blog · Aug 14, 2026ToolsCVE-2026-46300

JetBrains security advisory (AV26-891)

Canada's Cyber Centre relayed a JetBrains advisory covering vulnerabilities in GoLand, Hub, IntelliJ IDEA and YouTrack.

Advisory AV26-891, dated September 8, 2026, notes JetBrains vulnerabilities affecting GoLand prior to 2026.2.2.1, Hub prior to 2026.2.52442, IntelliJ IDEA prior to 2026.2.2, and multiple YouTrack versions. Users and administrators are encouraged to review JetBrains' advisory and apply any necessary updates. No specific CVEs or exploitation details are provided in the relayed advisory.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 8d agoAdvisory

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

Forescout used Anthropic's Claude to port a working pre-auth RCE exploit for CVE-2021-31886 between WAGO PLCs, executing ARM shellcode on live hardware.

Forescout Vedere Labs used Claude interactively to port an RCE exploit for CVE-2021-31886, a CVSS 9.8 stack buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server's USER command, from a WAGO 750-852 to a WAGO 750-831 PLC, running attacker-supplied ARM shellcode. The final RCE stage cost $535.74 in API usage over 8 hours 32 minutes, and a follow-up attempt to build a C2 implant permanently bricked the device. CERT@VDE lists many Nucleus V1-based WAGO models as vulnerable with no updates available; Siemens plans no Nucleus NET remediation. The work follows a joint NSA/CISA/FBI/DOE/EPA advisory warning of AI-generated exploitation scripts targeting internet-exposed Siemens S7 PLCs.

The Hacker News · 14d agoResearchCVE-2021-318862

Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers' Data It Said Was Deleted

Trezor disclosed the ShipMonk breach exposed data of 67,000 additional US customers, reportedly by ShinyHunters exploiting a Metabase zero-day SQL injection, CVE-2026-72898.

Trezor disclosed that a breach at shipping provider ShipMonk exposed names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers of 67,000 additional US customers, with orders dating November 2019 to August 2021 despite written assurances the data had been deleted. This adds to the 13,689 customers previously disclosed after ShipMonk informed Trezor of unauthorized access on August 10, 2026. According to Holborn, the ShinyHunters extortion gang is behind the breach, which began with zero-day exploitation of CVE-2026-72898 (CVSS 10.0), a critical SQL injection flaw in Metaboobase analytics software Metabase. Trezor says hardware wallet security is unaffected but warns customers to watch for phishing and social engineering; ShipMonk has not publicly acknowledged the incident.

The Hacker News · 11d agoData breach in the wildCVE-2026-72898

Mikrotik security advisory (AV26-887)

Canada's Cyber Centre urges MikroTik RouterOS updates as CVE-2026-67276, CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060 are reported exploited in the wild.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security advisory AV26-887 covers MikroTik RouterOS vulnerabilities affecting versions prior to 6.49.21, 7.23.4, 7.24.2 and 7.25 beta 3. Open-source reporting indicates CVE-2026-67276, CVE-2026-67277 and CVE-2026-86060 are being exploited in the wild. The Cyber Centre urges users and administrators to review the vendor advisories and apply the necessary updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 8d agoAdvisory in the wildCVE-2026-67276CVE-2026-67277CVE-2026-86060

$536 and 8 Hours: AI Learns to Attack a Different PLC

Forescout used Claude to port a WAGO PLC exploit for $536 in 8 hours, and an AI-generated payload later permanently bricked the test device.

Forescout researchers used Claude Code with Ghidra, terminal access, and physical hardware to port CVE-2021-31886, a pre-authentication buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server, from a WAGO 750-852 PLC to the WAGO 750-831 without source code or debugger access. The final RCE development stage cost $535.74 in API fees over an 8-hour, 32-minute session (2.6k input and 1.3M output tokens) and required heavy researcher guidance. Claude produced working ICMP and UDP beacon exploits in 12 minutes after identifying that normal FTP command completion was overwriting its shellcode, fixed by omitting the CRLF terminator. A follow-up session extending the payloads toward a C2 implant wrote to flash-mapped memory and permanently bricked the PLC, underscoring the risks of autonomous agents operating against physical infrastructure.

Security Affairs · 14d agoResearchCVE-2021-318861

C2Looper: A New Backdoor Likely Tied To Ransomware With GitHub C2

Zscaler ThreatLabz identified C2Looper, a new Rust-based backdoor likely tied to ransomware actors and delivered via ClickFix chains, using GitHub for C2.

In July 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz identified C2Looper, a new Rust-based backdoor family. The malware supports arbitrary command execution, reconnaissance, and deployment of second-stage payloads, and uses GitHub as its command-and-control channel. ThreatLabz assesses with low-to-medium confidence that it is delivered through multi-stage ClickFix infection chains and is likely leveraged by a ransomware-related threat actor. The analysis covers multiple C2Looper variants, their network protocols, and capabilities.

Zscaler ThreatLabz · Aug 17, 2026Malware in the wild1

WebPros security advisory (AV26-866)

Canada's Cyber Centre relays a WebPros advisory for CVE-2026-67394, a Plesk privilege escalation flaw to root, fixed in 18.0.79.9 and 18.0.80.5.

The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security issued alert AV26-866 relaying WebPros' security advisory for Plesk. CVE-2026-67394 allows privilege escalation to root and affects Plesk versions prior to 18.0.79.9 and 18.0.80.5. Administrators are encouraged to review the advisory and apply the available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 15d agoAdvisoryCVE-2026-67394

JFrog security advisory (AV26-867) – Update 1

CISA added actively exploited CVE-2026-82329 in JFrog Artifactory to its KEV catalog; administrators of affected versions should patch.

Canada's Cyber Centre (advisory AV26-867, Update 1) relays a JFrog security advisory covering Artifactory, where open-source reporting indicates CVE-2026-82329 is being exploited in the wild. CISA added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 2, 2026. Multiple Artifactory release lines prior to fixed versions (e.g., prior to 7.111.21 through 7.161.20) are affected; users and administrators are urged to apply available updates.

Canadian Centre for Cyber Security · 14d agoExploit / PoC in the wildCVE-2026-82329