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Acronis also describes an AI-agent operator, next-day exploitation of a patched Gitea flaw, and ransomware that removes recovery data.
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Acronis also describes an AI-agent operator, next-day exploitation of a patched Gitea flaw, and ransomware that removes recovery data.

Gitea 28.0.0 patches 20 flaws, including SSH impersonation, workflow approval bypasses, and SSRF.

Gitea 28.0.0 and 28.1.0 patch 27 flaws, including a CVSS 9.1 SSH authentication bypass.

Gitea 28.0 adds audit logs and bot accounts, withholding security-fix details for about a week.

Red Heron exploited Gitea CVE-2026-60004 to steal repositories and deploy the JITTERLY backdoor and SIXZUT rootkit.

PRC-linked Red Heron exploits critical Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 to steal source code and deploy JITTERLY implant with SIXZUT LD_PRELOAD rootkit; victims span five countries.

Chinese-speaking Red Heron actors mass-exploit Gitea n-day RCE CVE-2026-60004 to steal source code, credentials, and pivot into victim networks.

China-linked Red Heron exploited Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 to compromise 13 organizations across six countries, stealing source code.
A blogger shows how to bulk-report distributed botnet IPs scraping a self-hosted Gitea instance to AbuseIPDB using bash, awk, and jq.
CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS 9.8) lets attackers with repository write access achieve RCE on self-hosted Gitea servers via malicious git hooks; fixed in 1.27.1.

Help Net Security's weekly digest highlights 274 compromised Zimbra servers, Gitea and Citrix NetScaler KEV additions, a PaperCut zero-day, and a suspected Iran-linked power plant attack.
Over 8,300 internet-facing Gitea servers are exposed to active exploitation of CVE-2026-60004, an authenticated code injection flaw enabling arbitrary code execution.

CISA added the actively exploited Gitea RCE flaw CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS 9.8) to its KEV catalog, with federal patching due by August 28, 2026.

CISA added actively exploited Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 (CVSS 9.8) to the KEV catalog as attackers deploy a cryptojacking dropper.

Attackers are actively exploiting critical Gitea RCE CVE-2026-60004 via the diffpatch endpoint, prompting CISA KEV addition and at least one cryptomining compromise.
CISA added CVE-2026-60004, an actively exploited RCE via diffpatch Git hook installation in Gitea, to the KEV catalog; users should upgrade past 1.27.1.
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