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Phishing Attacks Serve Browser-in-the-Browser Pages, Rogue RMM Persistence
Phishing emails with browser-in-the-browser fake Adobe pages trick users into installing rogue ScreenConnect clients granting persistent remote access.
Huntress SOC investigated two August incidents where phishing links led to fake CAPTCHA checks and Adobe PDF Reader lures rendered as browser-in-the-browser (BiTB) pages spoofing legitimate domains like get.adobe.com. Victims downloaded what they believed was Acrobat Reader but actually installed ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe from attacker infrastructure, yielding two rogue ScreenConnect clients with service-based persistence. The attacker used cmd.exe and curl to stage a second client connecting to 144.172.115.59, leveraged a ScreenConnect Trial Relay domain for stealth, and ran HideCursor.exe as a defense-evasion binary. Incident 2 arrived via AT&T Office@Hand (RingCentral), with both chains stopped before broader impact.
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ZDI-26-675: Adobe Acrobat Reader DC Annotation Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI disclosed a CVSS 7.8 use-after-free remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-81976) in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC triggered via malicious PDFs.
The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-675 describing a use-after-free remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader DC, tracked as CVE-2026-81976 with a CVSS 7.8 score. The flaw resides in the annotation feature. Exploitation requires user interaction: the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. The advisory reports no evidence of in-the-wild exploitation.
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ZDI-26-679: Adobe Photoshop DCM JPEG Image Parsing Integer Overflow Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI disclosed a CVSS 7.8 integer overflow remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-75862) in Adobe Photoshop DCM JPEG image parsing.
The Zero Day Initiative published advisory ZDI-26-679 describing an integer overflow remote code execution vulnerability in Adobe Photoshop, tracked as CVE-2026-75862 with a CVSS 7.8 score. The flaw occurs while parsing JPEG data in DCM images. Exploitation requires user interaction: the target must visit a malicious page or open a malicious file. No in-the-wild exploitation is reported.
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The August 2026 Security Update Review
ZDI's August 2026 review covers a smaller-but-still-huge Microsoft and Adobe patch batch, with Adobe shipping 51 CVEs across five bulletins.
The Zero Day Initiative's August 2026 Security Update Review covers the latest Adobe and Microsoft patches. Adobe released five bulletins addressing 51 unique CVEs. The release is smaller than July's but still large by historical standards, which ZDI notes reflects a 'new normal' in patch density.
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