Siemens Software Center before 4.0.9.8 allows local DLL hijack
Siemens says the flaw has known active exploitation and that existing installs auto-update to 4.0.9.8 on next startup.
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Siemens says the flaw has known active exploitation and that existing installs auto-update to 4.0.9.8 on next startup.

Five- to ten-minute tampering windows in May and July 2026 exposed organizations in eleven countries without a CVE.
Authenticated local attackers can plant a DLL for code execution; the federal action due date is November 3, 2026.

A Nim loader and PowerShell UAC bypass try to plant the payload as Edge’s dbghelp.dll.

Project Zero details CVE-2026-66804, a Windows COM flaw giving SYSTEM via planted DLL; patched in August, PoC and commercial module public.

US DoJ charged extradited Russian Searzhudin Aktulaev for a 2016-2017 Excel macro campaign infecting ~80,000 freelance platform users with TVRAT and DarkVNC.

Elastic condenses 88 lines of detection logic into one Elastic Defend 9.5.0 rule catching the DLL hijacking used by a ClickFix campaign.

Unit 42 details five vulnerabilities (CVSS 7.0-7.8) in ICONICS Suite SCADA software enabling privilege escalation and DoS.

DEF CON researchers chained Windows Plug and Play auto-install abuse with third-party driver flaws to reach SYSTEM on fully updated Windows 11.
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