
LevelBlue: vulnerability exploitation rose to 14% of initial access
The firm's Q1 figure was 20%, while Verizon's 2026 DBIR put exploitation behind 31% of breaches.
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The firm's Q1 figure was 20%, while Verizon's 2026 DBIR put exploitation behind 31% of breaches.

Black Lotus Labs says four confirmed zero-days hit VeloCloud, Cisco SD-WAN, N-central, and Versa Director.

Other listed targets included Taiwan, Hong Kong, the UK, France, Italy, Qatar, and Colombia.
CIFAR-10 forget accuracy fell 61.50 points from BN recalibration with every learnable weight fixed.

Exposed logs show 8,257 messages across 133 sessions and an estimated 62 targets, four of which appeared on leak sites.

Group-IB and NyxLab tie the edge-device campaign to k0t and report more than 70,000 exposed credentials.
Agencies say SafePay uses stolen or guessed passwords, phishing, and five known edge-device flaws, then encrypts files for crypto payment.

GreyNoise found attackers exploiting edge-device flaws in 34 countries to install Pawns.app and resell bandwidth.

An actor exploited edge-device flaws to install Pawns.app, compromising at least 143 devices in 34 countries.

Rapid7 says BPFDoor stays silent on Linux edge devices until a magic packet arrives.

Suspected state-sponsored actors mass-exploited Citrix NetScaler zero-day CVE-2026-88772 undetected for over three weeks, hitting dozens of organizations.

Attackers exploiting CVE-2025-25249 in Fortinet FortiGate firewalls deploy PivotC2, a post-exploitation RAT, on exposed edge devices.
CISA warns of three flaws, including OS command injection, in Xiiaozet LK100W devices before firmware 2.1.240 that allow attackers to take full control of the device.
NCSC links disruptive cyber activity to internet-exposed systems and edge devices, urging OT owners to fix avoidable vulnerabilities and improve resilience.

Joint Tenable-SentinelOne analysis of 93 CVE-actor attribution pairs shows nation-state and criminal groups independently converge on the same edge infrastructure.

Fortinet researchers documented Evooo1Bot, a new Mirai-derived Linux botnet active since July 2026 that exploits known edge-device flaws to build SOCKS5 proxy networks.
A newly observed Mirai-based Linux botnet dubbed Evooo1Bot compromises edge devices and turns them into persistent proxies for threat actors.
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