Actively Exploited
Hackers target WordPress sites via third-party WooCommerce plugin
Hackers are actively exploiting a critical vulnerability in the WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture premium plugin for WordPress to upload a PHP backdoor. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-27540 and impacts plugin versions 2.0.3.1 and older. It is an unauthenticated arbitrary file-upload vulnerability discovered by security researcher Teemu Saarentaus. An attacker can exploit it to upload […]
CISA: Critical VMware RCE flaw now exploited by ransomware gangs
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned security teams that ransomware gangs have now joined ongoing attacks exploiting a critical VMware vCenter vulnerability patched in July. Broadcom addressed the security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-59310) on July 29, describing it as a critical directory traversal vulnerability in the vCenter Syslog server that unauthenticated attackers […]
Cisco patches Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks
Cisco warned customers to patch a critical Secure Email Gateway zero-day security flaw that threat actors have been exploiting in attacks. “In September 2026, the Cisco PSIRT became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability,” the company warned in a Monday security advisory. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-76461) was found in the email parsing […]
Japan’s Digital Agency says VPN flaw exposed 246,000 personnel records
Japan’s Digital Agency has discovered a data breach that may have exposed around 246,000 record rows containing personal information of government employees. The agency says that the attacker gained initial access by exploiting a vulnerability in a VPN device used by the Government Solution Service (GSS). An investigation started on June 25, after the agency […]
Hackers target exposed Vite dev servers to steal AWS, Azure secrets
A mass-scanning campaign targeting internet-exposed Vite development servers is attempting to steal cloud credentials and configurations from AWS and Azure deployments. The operation leverages an exploit for CVE-2026-39364, a high-severity vulnerability that allows bypassing file read/access controls in Vite versions 7.1.0 through 7.3.2, as well as the 8.x branch before 8.0.5. The flaw was disclosed […]
CISA: Hackers now exploit max severity GitLab flaw in attacks
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks. GitLab’s DevSecOps platform is used by over 50% of Fortune 100 companies and has over 30 million registered users worldwide. The security flaw (tracked as CVE-2026-85706) stems from missing authentication enforcement and improper path confinement […]
Hackers exploit Tencent app flaw to deploy GrayRabbit malware
Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent’s Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor. Researchers at cybersecurity company Gen Digital warn that the security issue is a one-click remote code execution (RCE) flaw. “We observed this vulnerability actively exploited in the wild by […]
Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware
Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. A new report from cloud security company Wiz confirmed exploitation across multiple environments, including an exploit chain that combines CVE-2026-42018 and CVE-2026-42016. The third vulnerability is CVE-2026-82329, a critical […]
AI-powered attack exploited PaperCut flaws to hack 395 organizations
A threat actor, likely Russian-speaking, used hundreds of AI agents to develop and launch a global exploitation campaign targeting vulnerable PaperCut NG/MF servers. The agents were tasked with building, testing, and refining exploits for CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, both security flaws affecting PaperCut Software and flagged as actively exploited earlier this month. Attack and threat intelligence company GreyNoise says […]
Cisco FMC flaws exploited by ransomware gang, state-sponsored hackers
Cisco Talos says two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities have been exploited by three separate threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks. The attacks exploited CVE-2026-20079, a maximum-severity authentication bypass flaw, and CVE-2026-20316, a static credential vulnerability that allows attackers to log in using a low-privileged account. According to a new […]