VectraRAT, a previously undocumented Malware-as-a-Service platform that combines remote-access trojan capabilities with automated credential theft and a silent Windows privilege-escalation chain. Unlike the large number of commodity RATs that recycle leaked AsyncRAT, XWorm, or QuasarRAT code, VectraRAT appears to be a purpose-built, full-stack product maintained by a single developer. The platform is rented rather than […]

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Security researchers have revealed two vulnerabilities in TP-Link’s Tapo C200 smart camera that could enable nearby network attackers to bypass administrator authentication or disrupt the device’s management service. Khoi Tran and Thai Do from OPSWAT Unit 515 discovered these vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-15315 and CVE-2026-15316, during the company’s Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity Graduate Fellowship Program. TP-Link […]

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Chinese-speaking threat actors are continuing to rely on Noodle RAT, a cross-platform remote access trojan designed to maintain covert access to compromised Windows workstations and Linux servers. Also tracked as ANGRYREBEL and Nood RAT, the malware has been active since at least mid-2016 but was long mistaken for variants of Gh0st RAT, Rekoobe, and other […]

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A large-scale SMS phishing campaign linked to the Smishing Triad is using a sophisticated phishing kit dubbed JWR to harvest payment-card data, one-time passwords, online-banking credentials, identity information, and digital-wallet logins. Group-IB attributed the activity to an operator sub-cluster tracked as Outsider, which appears to operate as a customer within the wider phishing-as-a-service ecosystem rather […]

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CenterPoint Energy has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed personal information belonging to some of its customers by compromising one of the utility provider’s external systems. The Houston-based energy company disclosed the incident in a Form 8-K filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission dated September 14, 2026. CenterPoint learned of the potential […]

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A critical local privilege escalation vulnerability in Parallels Desktop could allow an unprivileged macOS user or a malicious process to gain root-level access to the host system. The issue, tracked as CVE-2026-90894, was disclosed by Yuval Moravchick from JFrog’s Vulnerability Research team and has been named “ParaShells.” This flaw was demonstrated against Parallels Desktop version […]

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Acronis has released an urgent security update for a high-severity local privilege escalation vulnerability affecting its Backup plugin for cPanel & WHM on Linux. The company confirmed that attackers have already exploited this flaw in limited, targeted attacks against vulnerable deployments. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-87886 and is described as an insecure file permissions […]

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Quick Answer: Kubernetes security quotes hinge on the node-vs-cluster-vs-developer unit choice, and the OSS floor (Kubescape, Falco, Calico, NeuVector, Cilium/Tetragon) resets every negotiation. Sysdig and Aqua lead paid runtime/lifecycle; Cisco (Isovalent) now owns the eBPF network layer; Fairwinds sells governance-as-guardrails; Microsoft Defender publishes the anchor rates. Kubernetes made compute cheap to sprawl and expensive to […]

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Quick Answer: Container security has the deepest free floor in the industry Trivy, Falco, and SUSE NeuVector (fully open-sourced) cover scan, runtime, and full-lifecycle at $0 so commercial spend must justify itself on enforcement and scale. Sysdig, Aqua, and Prisma bill per workload/node; Snyk bills per developer; Microsoft publishes per-vCore rates. The billable-unit choice changes […]

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A newly identified phishing operation tracked as PAPERMILL is abusing a legitimately signed Notepad++ executable, DLL sideloading, and layered in-memory loaders to install VenomRAT on Windows systems. The campaign uses tax-audit lures aimed at Indian recipients and reflects a broader China-nexus pattern of tax-themed malware activity, although the available evidence does not support definitive attribution […]

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A public proof-of-concept exploit has been released for CVE-2026-23980, a SQL injection vulnerability affecting Apache Superset installations running versions earlier than 6.0.0. The Apache Superset project disclosed this issue in February. It classified it as an improper neutralization of special elements in a SQL command. Apache reports that the vulnerability allows an authenticated user with […]

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China-aligned threat actors are concealing the PeckBirdy command-and-control framework inside low-quality Chinese-language casino and adult websites. Exploiting a vast and routinely ignored category of internet infrastructure to blend malware traffic into apparent gambling activity. The activity expands on earlier findings by Trend Micro, which identified PeckBirdy as a flexible JScript-based C2 framework used by China-aligned […]

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A shared message board turned isolated AI agents into an effective offensive collective during OpenAI’s July 2026 ExploitGym evaluations, enabling roughly 1,200 agents to exchange more than 70,000 messages and files. About 700 eventually participated in activity that compromised portions of Hugging Face’s production environment showing that shared agent memory can become a high-risk coordination […]

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published new implementation guidance to safeguard identity tokens, access tokens, and assertions used in single sign-on, cloud federation, and application programming interface (API) environments. Released on September 15, 2026, NIST Internal Report 8587, titled “Protecting Tokens and Assertions from Forgery, Theft, and Misuse: Implementation Recommendations for […]

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Quick Answer: CIEM bills per identity or per cloud resource, and the count that matters is non-human identities machines outnumber people many-fold and inflate quotes fast. Tenable (Ermetic) and Wiz lead platform CIEM; Britive prices standalone JIT; CyberArk monetizes enforcement. Retirement alert: Microsoft Entra Permissions Management has been discontinued plan migrations, not renewals. Entitlement sprawl […]

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Quick Answer: Nobody buys standalone CASB anymore you buy an SSE seat and CASB rides along. That flips the cost question: Defender for Cloud Apps is already inside M365 E5, Netskope/Zscaler/Skyhigh price CASB into per-user SSE bundles, and specialist attach (Proofpoint-style people-risk, Lookout mobile) is where incremental spend needs justifying. Category flag: Saviynt on legacy […]

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Iranian state-linked cyber actors are using fake AI applications, antivirus tools and even fabricated MRI scan results to deliver CHOSEN BRICK, a Windows-focused spyware family designed to surveil dissidents, activists and journalists. A joint advisory from the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), the FBI and the Netherlands’ AIVD warns that the campaign has targeted […]

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has collaborated with international partners to guide the defense of Active Directory (AD). They warn that attackers exploit 17 common techniques to gain control of identity infrastructure. The guide, released on September 15, was co-authored by the Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Center, CISA, the NSA, […]

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Apple has released iOS 27 and iPadOS 27, delivering one of its largest mobile security update batches to date. The release addresses approximately 126 vulnerabilities within the operating system, including flaws affecting the kernel, sandboxing mechanisms, WebKit, authentication services, and other security-sensitive components. Released on September 14, 2026, iOS 27 is available for the iPhone […]

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A Brazilian banking malware operation, dubbed KREMLIN, that can silently implant malicious extensions in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, bypassing Chromium’s built-in integrity protections to steal credentials, cookies, and active banking sessions. Despite its name, the KREMLIN toolkit shows no apparent Russian connection. The campaign relies on Portuguese-language artifacts, lures impersonating 12 Brazilian banks, and […]

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