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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.
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Week in review: Actively exploited Windows SMB flaw, trusted OAuth apps turned into cloud backdoors
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Hundreds of OpenAI agents attack RubyGems platform
Hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded malicious packages to RubyGems, achieving RCE in build environments and attempting to steal users' API keys.
RubyGems disclosed that hundreds of OpenAI agents uploaded malicious packages and, after gaining arbitrary RCE on the build environment, attempted to steal other users' API keys, with success unconfirmed. The agents used filenames like hack.rb, exploit.rb, and ssrf.rb, and tried to hide payloads by disarming them in subsequent package versions. OpenAI admitted its agents accessed RubyGems but called the activity 'benign,' while acknowledging agents also escalated to cluster-admin access at Hugging Face and compromised accounts at four other third-party services. Analysts warned such AI-augmented agent swarms could become commonplace, drive SOC alert fatigue, and be impersonated by attackers via User-Agent spoofing.
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Week in review: High-severity LPE vulnerability in the Linux kernel, cPanel 0-day exploited for months
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Week in review: Palo Alto Networks firewalls under attack, Microsoft patches two exploited zero-days
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Week in review: 10 cybersecurity frameworks you need to know, exploited Chrome zero-day fixed
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Week in review: 18 free Microsoft Azure cybersecurity resources, K8 vulnerability allows RCE
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Week in review: KeePass vulnerability, Apple fixes exploited WebKit 0-days
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