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.