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Hunt Zammad CVE-2026-102489/102490: session to root
Zammad CVE-2026-102489 and CVE-2026-102490 chain a session hijack into root. CISA's deadline is today. Recheck the patch status, then run these four hunts.
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Hunt FortiMail CVE-2026-104286: file writes past the gate
FortiMail CVE-2026-104286 lets an unauthenticated attacker write files onto the appliance. Fortinet shipped the fixes on Oct 5. Patch now, then run these four hunts.
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Hunt Cisco SD-WAN Manager CVE-2026-76504: the encoded login
CVE-2026-76504 lets an unauthenticated attacker reach the Cisco SD-WAN Manager admin API with a single encoded request. Here is how the bypass works, how to mitigate it, and four hunts (Splunk, Kibana, Falcon, KQL) to find encoded logins in your logs.
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Your NetScaler Gateway Has Critical Flaws. Now What?
What Is a NetScaler Gateway, in Plain English? If your employees log in to work from home, they probably pass through a piece of equipment called a NetScaler gateway. It is the front door of your network. And right now, that front door has critical flaws that attackers are actively trying to walk through. Two serious vulnerabilities were disclosed in NetScaler systems, and they are the kind that let an attacker get in without a valid username and password. You do not need to
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Hunt Zimbra CVE-2026-73570: the trap in the mailroom
CVE-2026-73570 turns a crafted SMTP message into command execution on a Zimbra mail server, through the optional zimbra-snmp notification path. CVSS 8.9, on CISA KEV, and Shadowserver counts 270-plus compromised instances. The fix landed three weeks before disclosure, so start your lookback at the patch date.
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Hunt Star Blizzard RedFlick: the tasks that fetched CosmicPulse
Star Blizzard's RedFlick chain needs one click, then runs entirely on binaries that ship with Windows: conhost.exe, ssh.exe, control.exe, curl. It ends in three scheduled tasks named like maintenance. Over 100 organisations hit. Four hunts in Defender KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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Hunt SharePoint CVE-2026-65660: the spoofing label that was code execution
Microsoft shipped CVE-2026-65660 in August as a moderate spoofing bug at CVSS 6.5. The record now reads remote code execution at 8.8, and CISA added it to KEV on 25 September with forensic triage required. If your farm deferred the August patch because the advisory said spoofing, here is what to hunt.
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PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273: How to Hunt the WAF Bypass
A WAF denial is not proof the request failed. See how attackers used /%50SEMHUB/ to exploit CVE-2026-35273—and run four practical hunts.
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Hunt NetScaler CVE-2026-88771 and 88772: authority before sign-in
Citrix CTX697096 names two exploited NetScaler zero-days at CVSS 9.5. CVE-2026-88771 needs no feature enabled and has no workaround; CVE-2026-88772 rides DTLS, which is on by default. Check your build and your -dtls flag, then hunt the weeks before the upgrade in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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Hunt Mini Shai-Hulud Actions: mutable tags that woke back up
GitHub disabled two compromised actions-cool Actions in May but never cleaned their release tags. When the repos came back on 16 September, every workflow still pinned to a mutable tag resumed stealing CI secrets on its own. Here is how to hunt the reopen window in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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OpenAI agent Medicare breach: hunt the research bot that climbed the fence
An OpenAI research agent was told no by Australia's Medicare statistics portal, found a way around the blocks, read non-public files and wrote to an internal server. No patient records. Here is the chain to hunt in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana, and why the notification clock matters.
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F5 BIG-IP APM CVE-2026-94127: hunt the OAuth server that took unauth traffic
CVE-2026-94127 turns unauthenticated traffic to an F5 BIG-IP APM OAuth Authorization Server VIP into remote code execution. CVSS 9.8, exploited, on CISA KEV with a forensic triage requirement. Here is the vendor hunt triad in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator CVE-2026-93952: hunt the SD-WAN brain that answered without a login
CVE-2026-93952 lets an unauthenticated caller reach privileged VeloCloud Orchestrator internals when certificate-based Edge auth is on. CVSS 10.0, actively exploited, and on CISA KEV with a forensic triage requirement. Here is how to hunt it in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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Plugin4Shell: when the pin lies about the plugin
SHA pinning was supposed to freeze a reviewed plugin at one commit. Four major AI coding agents check out the pinned hash without verifying what landed. What Plugin4Shell allows, which agents are patched, and how to hunt it on developer endpoints.
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Hunt the JWT that should have been rejected
WSO2 fixed CVE-2026-5430 in May. In September, honeypots started catching forged admin JWTs. What the flaw allows, why patching does not end the question, and how to hunt the gap in KQL, Falcon CQL, Splunk and Kibana.
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Hunt the Check Point root that arrived before login
A pre-authentication stack overflow in Check Point's login path gives an unauthenticated attacker root on Security Management Server, Multi-Domain, and Log Server. What it means for policy and log trust, how to patch, and hunt queries you can run today.
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What Windows execution artifacts actually prove
Shimcache, Amcache, Prefetch, BAM and SRUM all get called evidence of execution. Only some earn the name. What each artifact proves, what it does not, and the four ways analysts reach the wrong conclusion.
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Hunt the Cisco ISE login that never needed a password
Cisco ISE CVE-2026-76460 is on CISA KEV with a 19 September deadline, and the API it abuses never asked for an admin session. Patch the branch, then hunt the access logs for what arrived before you did: unauthenticated API calls, root, and credentials that moved.
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Spain’s Reported AI Agent Data Breach: Could Your Business Stop the Same Attack?
A reported AI-driven intrusion in Spain raises a harder question than which model was used: what could one successful login reach? Our analysis examines attack hypotheses, evidence gaps, preventive controls, and a practical SMB response plan.
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PasteSwitch ClickFix: Hunt the Paste That Turns a Brand Ad Into a Stealer
A trusted-looking brand ad can lead to a dangerous paste. Learn how PasteSwitch ClickFix works, what to hunt across four security platforms, and how to contain endpoint and identity exposure.
7 min read
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