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Friday, September 4, 2026 · generated · about 5 min read

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Patch today vendors with the most new CVEs today

Ranked by CVE count. Each vendor opens the CVE Feed filtered to that vendor and these dates.

Top developments ranked by cross-source trending

  1. Image: The Hacker News

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

    News The Hacker News52m ago5 sources

    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 attacker used them to split financial lure words such as 'funding' to prevent email filters from parsing them," the Microsoft Security Research team said. The

    Also in SecurityWeek Bleeping Computer Cyber Security News +3

  2. New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

    News The Hacker News1h ago3 sources

    A previously undocumented Linux toolkit has been found compiled directly into the trojanized HAProxy load balancers of two South Korean organizations, where it intercepted web traffic and served altered pages to selected visitors. The attackers named the implant ted in debug strings left in the binary. It is not a HAProxy vulnerability, and installing it requires code execution on the host and

    Also in Rapid7 Blog CCCS Alerts & Advisories

  3. Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI Unveil Cyber AI Models, Safeguards, and Access Programs

    News The Hacker News2 Sep3 sources

    Google on Wednesday announced Gemini 3.8 Flash Cyber, which it described as its most capable cybersecurity model, and has made it available to a set of trusted defenders via a new initiative called the Fairwind Program. "The Fairwind Program gives high-priority defenders (like governments, healthcare providers, and telecommunications services) early access to advanced models that help them

    Also in CCCS Alerts & Advisories Infosecurity Magazine CCCS Alerts & Advisories +1

  4. Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials

    News The Hacker News2 Sep3 sources

    Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9586 (CVSS score: 9.3), a critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox SMB Edition 8.3 (104997) that can allow attackers to remotely execute arbitrary code as

    Also in SecurityWeek CISA Alerts & Advisories

    CVE-2026-48710 ↗CVE-2026-9586 ↗

  5. AI's Vulnerability Surge May Be More Manageable Than First Feared

    News Dark Reading2 Sep3 sources

    New research suggests the coming Vulnpocalypse may not be so overwhelming for enterprise security teams — if they have the right strategies.

    Also in CyberScoop Microsoft Security Blog

  6. Researcher Releases FalconFlank PoC Showing Privilege Escalation in CrowdStrike Falcon

    News The Hacker News3 Sep3 sources

    The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse (aka INFINITE NIGHTMARE, MSNightmare, and Nightmare-Eclipse) has dropped a new zero-day dubbed FalconFlank, a proof-of-concept (PoC) for a privilege escalation flaw impacting Crowdstrike Falcon. "FalconFlank is a 0-day privilege escalation that abuses the office malicious macros remediation in CrowdStrike Falcon Sensor," the researcher said in

    Also in Bleeping Computer CyberScoop

  7. Podcast: We Spoke to an Amazon Worker Destroying Books for AI

    News 404 Media2 Sep2 sources

    We start this week with Emanuel’s follow-up to his Amazon book scanning story, in which he spoke to someone who worked in the Amazon warehouse which destroys books to train Amazon’s AI products. After the break, Emanuel and Sam tell us about the same few names appearing in LLM output over and over again. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph tells us why ICE is buying loads of data about ‘voter fraud’. Listen to the weekly podcast on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , or YouTube . Become a paid subscriber for access to this episode's bonus content and to power our journalism. If you become a paid…

    Also in Malwarebytes Labs

  8. Hackers Use Popular Messaging Services to Control New Windows Backdoors

    News Cyber Security News2h ago2 sources

    A financially motivated threat group known as Toy Ghouls has begun using two custom Windows backdoors that communicate through popular messaging and broker services. The tools give attackers a discreet way to run commands, collect system details, and maintain control over compromised devices. The campaign marks a change for the group, which had previously relied heavily on public tools and leaked ransomware builders. Its move to custom malware suggests a broader effort to stay inside victim networks longer while making activity harder for security teams to spot. Analysts at Securelist…

    Also in The Hacker News

  9. Google Releases Chrome Update to Patch Actively Exploited V8 Zero-Day

    News The Hacker News9h ago2 sources

    Google on Thursday released security updates to patch 12 vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85046 (CVSS score: 8.8), has been described as a type confusion bug in V8, Chrome's JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. "Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 152.0.7977.82 allowed a remote

    Also in Malwarebytes Labs

    CVE-2026-85046 ↗

  10. Microsoft Confirms New Exchange Online Outage Delaying Emails from External Domains

    News Cyber Security News3h ago2 sources

    Microsoft has confirmed a fresh Exchange Online incident, tracked as EX1467029, causing delays for users sending and receiving email messages from external domains. The company first acknowledged the disruption on September 4, 2026, flagging it as a service degradation issue affecting Exchange Online, one of the most widely used business email platforms in the world. According to Microsoft’s service health updates, the outage began around 3:49 PM GMT+5:30 and has continued through multiple status revisions issued that afternoon, with updates posted at 4:06 PM, 4:33 PM, and 5:56 PM. Affected…

    Also in Bleeping Computer

Vulnerability watch what to look at, most urgent first

Details CVEProductSeverity CVSSEPSS KEVFixIn the news
Highest scoring today 10new CVEs, highest CVSS first
CVE-2026-85061 maplibre-gl-jsmaplibre Critical 10.0 — — — — CVSS 10.0
CVE-2026-70352 Azure AI Language AuthoringMicrosoft Critical 10.0 — — — — CVSS 10.0
CVE-2026-83711 EntraMicrosoft Critical 10.0 — — — — CVSS 10.0
CVE-2026-85031 CP450TOTOLINK Critical 9.9 0.6% — — — EPSS 0.6%CVSS 9.9
CVE-2026-85223 DNS-340LD-Link Critical 9.9 — — — — CVSS 9.9
CVE-2026-85154 AVideoWWBN Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-85109 HG10Tenda Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-85181 catdianping Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-84238 YITH Request a Quote for WooCommerce PremiumWordPress Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8
CVE-2026-84753 Mail MintWPFunnels Critical 9.8 — — — — CVSS 9.8

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Top developments come from the Security Feed's cross-source trending detection. Vulnerability watch comes from the CVE Feed's daily NVD and CISA KEV sync.