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- Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authenticationby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 6, 2026 at 9:32 am
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
- Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Minerby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 6, 2026 at 8:34 am
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
- Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Storesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 8:14 pm
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
- Attackers Breached JetBrains Cadence via Unpatched TeamCity, Extracting AWS Credentialsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 4:52 pm
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.
- Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion Flaw Lets VM Admins Execute Host Codeby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 4:05 pm
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
- Trezor Says ShipMonk Breach Exposed 67,000 U.S. Customers’ Data It Said Was Deletedby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 2:17 pm
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor on Friday disclosed that another 67,000 customers from the U.S. have been impacted in a breach at its shipping provider ShipMonk. The exposed information includes customer names, email addresses, phone numbers, shipping addresses, and order numbers between November 2019 and August 2021. The breach does not affect the security of the company’s hardware wallets
- Thousands of OpenAI Agents Quietly Turned an Abandoned Wiki Into Their Coordination Channelby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 7:55 am
A group of AI safety researchers says a fleet of autonomous agents that identified themselves as OpenAI systems left about 18,000 posts on a dormant 25-year-old German wiki between May and July 2026, using the site as a shared board to pool answers to a timed web task and pass around a way out of their sandbox. The activity was concentrated on DSEwiki, a German software developer wiki that runs
- Attackers Exploit PaperCut Flaws to Steal Credentials From Schools and Universitiesby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 5, 2026 at 7:31 am
Threat actors are exploiting the newly disclosed PaperCut flaws to facilitate credential theft in attacks targeting the education sector in the U.S. and Europe. The Arctic Wolf Adversary Research Team said it observed attackers exploiting CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 – an authentication bypass and remote code execution chain – to conduct command execution and reconnaissance, as well as
- Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filtersby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 4, 2026 at 3:57 pm
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
- PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Executionby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 4, 2026 at 3:20 pm
PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6471 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been present since logical decoding was introduced in PostgreSQL 9.4 in 2014. Versions before PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24 are
- New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims’ Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Trafficby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 4, 2026 at 2:51 pm
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
- Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flawsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on September 4, 2026 at 8:48 am
Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence. The vulnerabilities in question are – CVE-2026-14894 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A missing file type validation vulnerability in Super Forms – Drag & Drop Form Builder that allows unauthenticated attackers to upload files of any type, including











