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Security News — 25 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 25 September 2026 · 24 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 5
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
BleepingComputer25 Sep
KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- WSO2 Multiple Products
- Impact
- Remote code execution
- Audience
- Windows admins
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns that hackers are exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-5430) affecting multiple products from enterprise software provider WSO2. [...]
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CISA Current Activity25 Sep
KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- WordPress Core
- Impact
- Remote code execution
- Audience
- WordPress admins
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-87902 WordPress Core Remote File Inclusion Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequen…
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CISA Current Activity25 Sep
KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- Microsoft SharePoint
- Impact
- Code injection
- Audience
- Windows admins
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-65660 Microsoft SharePoint Code Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-67279 Mikrotik RouterOS Impro…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs25 Sep
CriticalCVSS 9.3
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL X-SpringBoot through 6.0 ships with a hardcoded static master login verification code 172839 enabled by default in the database seed. Unauthenticated attackers can authenticate as any user by submitting the public master…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs25 Sep
CriticalCVSS 9.3
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL X-SpringBoot through 6.0 returns login verification codes in HTTP responses from unauthenticated endpoints GET /sys/mobile/code and GET /sys/email/code without sending them to account owners. Attackers can request codes u…
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Threat Activity 8
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
BleepingComputer25 Sep
Exploited
Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks is urging customers worldwide to temporarily shut down their servers on Saturday for a six-hour window after receiving threat intelligence warning of a potentially imminent cyberattack. [...]
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BleepingComputer25 Sep
A cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerability in the Elementor plugin for WordPress could allow an unauthenticated attacker to create administrator accounts. [...]
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The Hacker News25 Sep
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new version of PamStealer that ensures that the main payload can only be recovered using a server-side decryption chain. The latest artifacts, per Jamf Threat Labs, continue to rely on the same Java…
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Palo Alto Unit 4225 Sep
Unit 42 security experts address critical cybersecurity misconceptions, offering practical insights to help your organization reinforce its enterprise defenses. The post 3 Consulting Myths Debunked by Unit 42 Experts appeared first on Unit…
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Dark Reading25 Sep
In this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from Google Gemini models breaking containment to ShinyHunters ratting on TeamPCP hackers.
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Dark Reading25 Sep
Training human-resource managers in the latest tactics and warning signs goes a long way toward blunting the threat, but automated analysis can help even more.
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The Hacker News25 Sep
Security leaders keep debating whether AI will produce an entirely new class of cyberattack. The nearer change is quieter and already visible: AI has made a failed attack cheap to retry. The routine version looks like this. An attacker lan…
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Dark Reading25 Sep
A storm is raging in the form of cyber sabotage, disinformation, and drone attacks on European nations, particularly those that provide material support to Ukraine.
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Breaches & Incidents 5
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer25 Sep
The Clop ransomware gang has moved its data leak site to a new Tor address after confirming its previous server was compromised and defaced through an unpatched Grav CMS flaw that BleepingComputer has learned is an unauthenticated path tra…
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Microsoft Security Blog25 Sep
Microsoft details JADEPUFFER-linked Azure reconnaissance, resource deletion, and credential access using compromised service principals, identifying the activity as associated with Storm-3168 and providing guidance for defenders. The post…
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The Hacker News25 Sep
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget said suspected North Korean threat actors have stolen $351.6 million from its hot and warm wallets. "At 18:31 UTC on September 24, 2026, Bitget's security systems identified unauthorized transfers involving a…
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Krebs on Security25 Sep
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in 2024 was sentenced to 70 months in federal prison today and…
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The Hacker News25 Sep
Two actions-cool GitHub Actions have been disabled for a second time after the repositories became accessible last week, months after they were compromised during the May 2026 Mini Shai-Hulud campaign. The affected GitHub Actions are liste…
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Research & Detection 3
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
Dark Reading25 Sep
When autonomous AI agents "escape the sandbox," the real story isn't rogue machines — it's the same access-control failures we've seen for decades.
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)25 Sep
Introduction
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)25 Sep
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Policy & Commentary 3
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Schneier on Security25 Sep
I feel like someone who reads this blog will want to go to this : Families are invited to dive into the fascinating world of marine biology during an exciting, hands-on Family Squid Dissection at the Hands-On Science Center. Designed for c…
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Schneier on Security25 Sep
Earlier this month, Anthropic published a long report detailing all of the Claude misuses it detected. Daniel Meissler usefully summarized the report into 117 findings. A few of the highlights: AI agents increasingly handled reconnaissance…
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Daniel Miessler25 Sep
Charcoal cutaway of a tall sorting tube: a figure drops a slip into the funnel, eighteen gauges along the tube steer it, and it drops into the fifth of seven machines that grow larger from left to right/images/glance-routes-model-and-effor…
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