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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

ACTION BRIEF • WINDOWS ENDPOINTS If your organization uses Sogou Input Method for Windows, verify its version and investigate suspicious activity from before it was patched. A malicious link can exploit a vulnerable installation to deliver GRAYRABBIT, a backdoor that gives an attacker access in the signed-in user’s context. Your first three actions: identify affected devices, update the software, and check whether attackers used it before the update. Patching closes the repor

A software repository sits between the people who build software and the systems that run it. When that repository is compromised, the investigation needs to answer more than whether someone accessed a server. It needs to establish whether the company can still trust the identities, credentials, and artifacts passing through it. Recent Artifactory exploitation illustrates why. Two vulnerabilities allow an attacker to obtain a token and escalate its authority. A separate vulne

Hunt GitLab CVE-2026-85706: unauth commits API path traversal. POST /repository/commits with file.path. watchTowr ITW Sep 11. CISA KEV due Sep 14.

The process tree still sitting on the box is not a closed Chrome patch ticket. It is chrome.exe (or msedge.exe / brave.exe) spawning cmd.exe, which spawns curl.exe, which writes %TEMP%\msgbox.exe or %TEMP%\ChromeUpdate.exe and runs it. Proofpoint tracks that default BlueMoon breakout, and the follow-on loaders are what operators actually keep. A hot stable build does not rewrite a curl stub that already ran from the broker. This hunt shop is not a second CVSS recap, and it is

The traces still on the management plane are not a closed patch ticket. They are a Tomcat JSP named home.jsp that Base64-decodes F6C1F0E7, a package_info.pl line that runs /var/tmp/license.tmp --lsm as root, and a Python socks5.py reverse-SSH tunnel that forwards LDAP, Kerberos, SMB, and WinRM out of Secure Firewall Management Center into Active Directory. Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center centrally manages your Secure Firewall estate. CVE-2026-20079 is a critical authe

You know the ticket. Someone downloaded a video. The ticket says media. The player refuses to open it. Antivirus already shrugged and called it an MP4. There is no ransomware family name on the alert, and the user swears they never watched anything. That unfair case is when this chain wants you to close it and move on. Here is the plain version before the box jargon. The file is a fake video shell. It is stuffed with a script. It is not a clip you failed to open. It is a carr

Unit 42 published Spring Ring today, 31 August 2026. The activity in the report is from January through April. This is leftover tradecraft, not a weekend outbreak. If you are hunting it because the write-up is new, you are hunting a gap that has been sitting in Teams since winter. The gap is Chat with anyone plus a voice call that never hits the mail gateway. They are not phish-mailing IT. A throwaway .onmicrosoft.com tenant named like a helpdesk opens a Teams chat. Then a 10