Picture a platform engineer finding a new workflow called Security Audit on the default branch, committed under a longtime maintainer's real name, with no pull request and a run that already finished. The cloud key someone committed years ago and deleted the next morning was in the history it read. StepSecurity reports that on 8 October 2026 two hijacked maintainer accounts pushed a fake "Security Audit" workflow to 345 repositories in two sweeps that each took minutes. It se

Picture an agency developer poking around a client's WordPress server and finding, in a folder that should only hold photos, a file named like an admin login page. The extension is PHP, it lives under wp-content/uploads, and nobody on the team put it there. On 8 October 2026, Patchstack published active exploitation attempts against Bricksforge, a commercial add-on for Bricks Builder, tracked as CVE-2026-85097. It first saw the traffic at 21:47:17 UTC on 7 October (2:47 PM PT

Picture an MSP technician checking the backup server on a Thursday morning because the fans are loud. Task Manager opens, CPU looks normal, and the window closes. An hour later the box is pinned again. The process doing the work is called edge.exe, it lives in a Temp folder, and the service that keeps it alive is called MicrosoftEdgeUpdateSvc. Nobody on the team installed Edge on that server. On 8 October 2026, Huntress reported threat actors chaining two AhsayCBS flaws, CVE-

Chinese state-linked hackers are disguising VPN backdoors as legitimate Windows processes. Here is how to hunt for them in your environment.

CVE-2026-21589 lets unauthenticated attackers read files from eight Atlassian Data Center products. Patch now, block with the WAF regex, and hunt your access logs for the two-dot pattern.

Rejetto HFS CVE-2026-61500 lets attackers forge an admin cookie from a weak Math.random() signing key, then reach remote code execution. Versions 3.0.0 through 3.2.0 are affected; 3.2.1 fixes it. Four hunts to find the activity in your logs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A WAF denial is not proof the request failed. See how attackers used /%50SEMHUB/ to exploit CVE-2026-35273—and run four practical hunts.

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.