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Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication (Sun, 06 Sep 2026)
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 attack warning, published on September 5. Successful attacks date to at least September 2. The Hacker News’s September 6 review of the warning found no victim count or
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Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner (Sun, 06 Sep 2026)
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 and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner. The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and
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Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores (Sat, 05 Sep 2026)
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 an advisory published on September 5. Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4. "Sansec is
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Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentials (Sat, 05 Sep 2026)
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 vulnerability in TeamCity to breach its own environment. "Cadence users should immediately revoke or rotate all credentials and secrets that may have been used to run their Cadence executions," JetBrains said.
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Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Code (Sat, 05 Sep 2026)
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. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-59346 (CVSS score: 9.3), is an integer-overflow vulnerability that a local attacker with elevated privileges can exploit to run arbitrary code. "A
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