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Red Heron Exploits Gitea RCE to Compromise 13 Organizations Across Six Countries
China-linked Red Heron exploited Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 to compromise 13 organizations across six countries, stealing source code.
Acronis Threat Research Unit attributes a China-nexus actor tracked as Red Heron to rapid exploitation of Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004, scanning 1,386 instances across seven countries plus 477 Taiwan-based systems, with confirmed compromises of 13 organizations in Canada, Argentina, Taiwan, the U.S., Qatar, and Sri Lanka. Within days of the July 2026 disclosure, the actor weaponized a public PoC into an automated Python framework registering accounts, exploiting servers, stealing repositories, and removing traces, then deployed the JITTERLY C++ Linux implant (30+ post-exploitation commands) and the undocumented SIXZUT LD_PRELOAD rootkit. In one Taiwanese environment the actor reached root-level access across a three-node Proxmox cluster, targeting defense, elections, energy, aerospace, telecom, government, and research sectors.
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Chrome 153 Fixes 230 Vulnerabilities, Including One 0-Day Exploited in the Wild
Google shipped Chrome 153 with 230 fixes, including CVE-2026-87491, a V8 out-of-bounds write zero-day exploited in the wild.
Chrome 153 (153.0.8010.36/.37) rolls out to Windows, Mac, and Linux with 230 security fixes, among the largest patch batches in recent Chrome history. The headline flaw is CVE-2026-87491, a Medium-severity out-of-bounds write in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine that Google confirmed is exploited in the wild; it was reported by Jihyeon Jeong of Compsec Lab at Seoul National University for a $2,500 bounty. The release also closes five Critical-rated flaws, including CVE-2026-87464, CVE-2026-87488, CVE-2026-87438, CVE-2026-87527, and CVE-2026-87628, mostly use-after-free and out-of-bounds write bugs in WebGL and Cast, plus 43 High-severity issues across ANGLE, PDFium, V8, DevTools, and Payments. Several bugs were surfaced with AI-assisted discovery tools, including OpenAI's Codex Security team, and top bounties reached $5,000 for CVE-2026-87504.
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FortiSandbox Vulnerability Allows Attackers to Access Sensitive Information via Crafted HTTP Requests
Fortinet disclosed CVE-2026-26084 (CVSS 8.9), an unauthenticated information-disclosure flaw in the FortiSandbox web UI, urging upgrades.
Fortinet patched CVE-2026-26084, a CWE-284 improper access control flaw in the shared web UI of FortiSandbox, FortiSandbox Cloud, and FortiSandbox PaaS that lets unauthenticated attackers read sensitive data via crafted HTTP requests. Affected releases include FortiSandbox 5.0.0-5.0.5 and 4.4.0-4.4.8, Cloud 5.0.4-5.0.5, and PaaS 5.0.4-5.0.5; fixes arrive in 5.0.6+ and 4.4.9+, while FortiSandbox 5.2 and Cloud 4.4 are unaffected. The issue was found internally by Fortinet's Product Security team, and the company reports no evidence of exploitation in the wild. Disclosure carries only confidentiality impact, but exposed sandbox configurations and logs could aid follow-on attacks.
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Cosmos EVM Flaw Exploited After Cosmos Labs Knew Every Blockchain Running It Was Vulnerable
Attackers exploited a critical Cosmos EVM balance bug (GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2) to drain funds from six blockchains; fixed in v0.6.2 and v0.7.2.
Cosmos Labs disclosed that a critical balance-handling flaw in the shared Cosmos EVM module (GHSA-7g4w-cg88-2cq2, no CVE) was exploited to drain funds from six blockchains between August 20 and 25, 2026. The bug, reported April 25 and initially judged harmless, lets vesting accounts delegate more than their spendable balance, wrapping balances to roughly 2^256 and triggering unintended mint/burn in reconciliation, potentially halting chains or burning victims' holdings. Fixes shipped in v0.6.2 and v0.7.2 on August 19 as state-breaking coordinated network upgrades; operators who cannot upgrade must halt their chains. The post-mortem notes the team used public silent patching for a fund-threatening issue, contrary to its own bug bounty policy, and that eleven deployments had never registered with its security channels.
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