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A China-linked hacking group exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method, one of the most widely used tools for typing Chinese characters on Windows, to install a backdoor on victims' computers, security company Gen Digital said in research published Thursday. The attack started with a crafted link and ended with the attacker able to do anything the logged-in user could do. Tencent, which owns

Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant, involved sending over a million scam emails between August 3 and 5, 2026, by masquerading as chief executive officers

A newly disclosed vulnerability in Plesk Backup Manager could allow low-privileged users to escalate privileges and gain full root access on affected Linux servers. Tracked as CVE-2026-68488, the flaw stems from a symlink race condition during subscription-content restore operations. The issue affects Plesk Obsidian installations running Plesk for Linux versions 18.0.80.6 and earlier, as well as 18.0.79.10 and earlier. Plesk for Windows is not affected. According to Plesk, the vulnerability exists in the Backup Manager workflow used to restore content belonging to a customer subscription. A…

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server under

A lot of this week’s security news has the same awkward answer to one question: “Why was that allowed to work?” An extension asks for access and takes too much. A trusted service becomes part of a phishing chain. An old bug still gets results. An exposed system stays exposed. A package looks useful right up until it isn’t. Different stories, same basic problem: the path in was often already

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical GitLab vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-85706 , to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, warning that attackers are actively exploiting the flaw. The issue affects GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition deployments and carries a maximum CVSS severity score of 10.0. CVE-2026-85706 is a path traversal vulnerability in GitLab’s repository commits API. GitLab said that, under certain conditions, an unauthenticated attacker could exploit improper path confinement and missing authentication…

This One Goes to Sixteen! Another banger from Metasploit with sixteen new modules, including ten exploit modules, with five on the CISA KEV list. Cisco, Papercut, Sonicwall, Jetbrains, and Langflow all have exploit modules, and not to be outdone, we even have a Metasploit scanner to watch the watchers! New module content (16) Elasticsearch ingest-attachment Apache Tika XFA XXE Local File Read Authors: Bourbon Offensive Security Services and Jean-Marie Bourbon Type: Auxiliary Pull request: #21739 contributed by kmkz Path: scanner/http/elasticsearch_tika_xfa_xxe CVE reference: CVE-2025-66516…

A critical flaw in current security operations is assuming time is on our side. Historically, attacks progressed slowly, allowing analysts and response teams time to detect, discuss, and respond. Even severe incidents operated at a human pace. Our defenses have relied on human error, human speed, and human limitations. That era is over. AI-driven adversaries have fundamentally changed the pace of cyber conflict. They act without delay and do not follow the timelines our processes were designed for. This mismatch is most evident and most dangerous within AI infrastructure. Cybersecurity is…

Wiz Research has identified active, in-the-wild exploitation of three critical and high-severity vulnerabilities impacting JFrog Artifactory (CVE-2026-42016, CVE-2026-42018 & CVE-2026-82329). Attackers are chaining these vulnerabilities to bypass authentication and gain administrative control.