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Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

Swati KhandelwalSep 06, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska’s… 

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Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner

Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner

Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself. One of them switches off Windows Update… 

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Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store’s server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in… 

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Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials

Ravie LakshmananSep 05, 2026Data Breach / Identity Security JetBrains is urging Cadence users to revoke and rotate all credentials following a security incident last month in which unidentified threat actors exploited a recently disclosed critical… 

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Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code

Ravie LakshmananSep 05, 2026Vulnerability / Server Security Broadcom has released security updates for two security flaws impacting VMware Workstation and Fusion, including one critical bug that could result in arbitrary code execution under certain conditions.… 

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Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers’ Data It Said Was Deleted

Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers’ Data It Said Was Deleted

Ravie LakshmananSep 05, 2026Data Breach / Vulnerability Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information… 

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Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel

Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channel

A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the… 

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Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities

Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universities

Ravie LakshmananSep 05, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary… 

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Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

Microsoft is alerting of a “high-volume phishing campaign” that’s using invisible Unicode tag characters to bypass email filters. “Instead of using these characters to hide instructions from people while exposing them to AI models, the… 

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PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS… 

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