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Attackers Exploit UnrealIRCd Flaw That Enables Server-Level Command Injection

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity security flaw impacting UnrealIRCd, an open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-114713 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of improper neutralization of delimiters

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Hackers Exploit N-central Flaws to Infect 21 Servers, Including 19 Running Hotfix 2

N-able on Thursday said it's taking additional precautions in the wake of public disclosure of a new set of flaws tracked as 4EverAble2Shell and Agent2Shell. "We are restricting certain N-central features and integrations," the company said in a Thursday update. "These measures may affect some functionality, but we believe taking additional precautions while remediation is completed is the

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Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell Flaws in Check Point Gateways to Deploy TSGA Backdoor and Wipe ESXi Files

An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting unpatched Check Point Security Gateways to obtain initial access via the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities and then a previously unreported local privilege escalation flaw in Gaia OS to deploy a backdoor called TSGA. The activity, detailed by Check Point, began on October 30, 2026, and targeted Israeli organizations, with a broader follow-up

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New SignDrop Zero-Day Exploit Turns Windows CLFS Security Feature Into SYSTEM Access

Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver. The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to the driver last year. It abuses how clfs.sys creates companion files when a privileged process opens a prepared log, using path redirection to take control of

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Hackers Exploit Critical Xen Orchestra Auth Bypass Flaw to Gain Admin Access

French software company Vates VMS has warned of a critical security vulnerability in Xen Orchestra that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The authentication bypass flaw, which does not yet have a CVE identifier, is tracked as VSA-2026-062. "REST cookie parsing turns authenticationToken=j:%7B%7D into {}," Vates VMS said in an alert. "REST authentication passes that object to the

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SGLang RCE Exploit Breaches NEAR AI, Steals Data From 18 Agents and About 100 Users

An attacker exploited a remote code execution flaw in SGLang, an open-source inference engine, and ran code on one of NEAR AI's inference servers last Sunday. The attacker could also have seen requests being processed on that server that day, including requests sent in confidential mode, the company said earlier this week. That mode processes requests inside a trusted execution environment (TEE

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Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy Sandbox-Evading Python Backdoor

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an attack that exploited two now-patched vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS to deliver a Python-based implant. The activity, observed by Huntress in October 2026, involves the exploitation of a chain comprising CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134 to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems. Patches for the two

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Hackers Exploit Qubole's Trusted AWS Access to Breach Customer Accounts and Steal Data

An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security company Wiz said today. The attacker used credentials for an AWS account that Qubole's platform uses to reach those customers. How the attacker got those credentials has not been disclosed. Qubole, a data lake platform owned by Idera,

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Hackers Exploit Patched Apple Flaw to Deliver Info-Stealing Malware, CISA Says

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a medium-severity security flaw impacting multiple Apple operating systems to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2024-27834 (CVSS score: 5.5), a case of improper authentication that could allow an attacker with

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Switch 2 security takes a hit as hackers unlock homebrew access

"Userland" exploit relies on integer overflow found in "SmileBasic" interpreter.

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