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Security News — 17 September 2026

A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 11 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 17 September 2026 · 27 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. Bransys ELD exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  2. Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol (Update A) exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  3. Mitsubishi Electric GX Works3 and Motion Control Settings exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  4. Hitachi Energy FACTS Control Platform (FCP) exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  5. CVE-2026-87701 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.6) Critical CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs

Urgent Vulnerabilities 5

Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.

CISA Cybersecurity Advisories17 Sep

Bransys ELD

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Audience
Endpoint/mobile users
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow unauthorized access to telemetry data and firmware. The following versions of Bransys ELD are affected: Android <11.00.00 (CVE-2026-86520, CVE-2026-86689, CVE-2…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Sep

CVE-2026-87701 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.6)

CriticalCVSS 9.6
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.6 CRITICAL · Vendor: Microsoft Improper neutralization of special elements in output used by a downstream component ('injection') in Azure Cosmos DB allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Sep

CVE-2026-85889 — CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0)

CriticalCVSS 10
Impact
Missing authentication
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL · Vendor: Microsoft Missing authentication for critical function in Azure AI Foundry allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Sep

CVE-2026-85885 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.9)

CriticalCVSS 9.9
Impact
Command injection
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.9 CRITICAL · Vendor: Microsoft Improper neutralization of special elements used in a command ('command injection') in M365 Copilot allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Sep

CVE-2026-83944 — CRITICAL (CVSS 10.0)

CriticalCVSS 10
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL · Vendor: Microsoft Improper access control in Azure Logic Apps allows an unauthorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.

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Threat Activity 16

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

CISA Cybersecurity Advisories17 Sep

Hitachi Energy FACTS Control Platform (FCP)

KEV · exploited

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of vulnerabilities that affect the FACTS Control systems with GWS component listed in this document. An attacker exploiting these vulnerabilities can cause impact on confidentiality, integrity and…

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TrustedSec Blog17 Sep

Unpacking a laZzzy Donut

<p>Six stages. Multiple encryption layers. One static analysis. In this blog, we unpack a multi-stage malware loader combining Python obfuscation, Donut shellcode, and laZzzy PE encryption, without executing the payload.</p>

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Breaches & Incidents 3

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Research & Detection 2

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

Policy & Commentary 1

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Schneier on Security17 Sep

How Candidates Could Use AI for Good

This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . There are plenty of signs that AI will make all of our experiences of the US midterm elections worse. Voters have anxiety about AI’s impacts on the co…

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