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Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain

Attackers Exploit Two SonicWall SMA 1000 Zero-Days That May Form an Attack Chain 2026-09-02 at 13:53 By SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks. The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall’s William Perry and Adam Babis, […]

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OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold

OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold 2026-09-02 at 13:38 By Eduard Kovacs The designation applies when a model can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across many well-defended systems. The post OpenAI’s Astra Becomes First Model to Cross Critical Cybersecurity Threshold appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances under attack via zero-day flaws

SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances under attack via zero-day flaws 2026-09-02 at 13:13 By Zeljka Zorz Attackers are exploiting two previously undisclosed vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549) in SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances, the vendor confirmed on Tuesday. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-83548, CVE-2026-83549) The SonicWall SMA 1000 series is a line of secure remote access appliances (SSL VPN gateways) built […]

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The DLP Network Discover Cluster Is Always Watching (So Your Team Doesn’t Have To)

The DLP Network Discover Cluster Is Always Watching (So Your Team Doesn’t Have To) 2026-09-02 at 13:00 By Rupali Mankapure, CISSP, Dhananjay Dodke How continuous cluster monitoring and automatic Worker Node failover keep enterprise discovery scans running despite infrastructure disruptions This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

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GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends

GeoNetwork Fixes Unauthenticated RCE Chain Affecting Government Geoportal Backends 2026-09-02 at 12:18 By Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals. The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026, and […]

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Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities

Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities 2026-09-02 at 12:12 By Ionut Arghire The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs. The post Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Dozens of Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands

Extradited Russian Hacker Faces Charges Over Excel Malware Campaign That Infected Thousands 2026-09-02 at 12:10 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in […]

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A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller

A battery storage cyberattack would look exactly like a badly tuned controller 2026-09-02 at 12:00 By Mirko Zorz Batteries connected to the grid make money by reacting to frequency, pushing power out when it sags and soaking it up when it rises. A few hundred of them moving together, on command from someone who should […]

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Why Advanced Duress Notification Matters in K-12

Why Advanced Duress Notification Matters in K-12 2026-09-02 at 12:00 By To be truly effective in K-12 schools with multiple rooms, common areas, hallways, athletic fields and surrounding grounds, wearable panic buttons need to be able to deliver several critical operations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original […]

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Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run

Global sinkhole operation ends Sality botnet’s 23-year run 2026-09-02 at 11:56 By Sinisa Markovic Sality, a peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet that had been running for 23 years and infecting more than 15,000 machines worldwide, has been taken down in a joint operation by international law enforcement agencies, working with CrowdStrike and the Shadowserver Foundation. The operation […]

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23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted

23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted 2026-09-02 at 11:38 By Ionut Arghire The shutdown operation involved peer list manipulation and Sality payload URL takedown. The post 23-Year-Old Sality P2P Botnet Disrupted appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Keepnet launches free SMS/Call Reporter for iOS

Keepnet launches free SMS/Call Reporter for iOS 2026-09-02 at 11:00 By Industry News Keepnet, an Extended Human Risk Management (xHRM) and Secure Behavior Management platform, today launched the Keepnet SMS/Call Reporter. It is a free app that turns a suspicious SMS or phone call into a one-tap report. Anyone can download it for personal protection. […]

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Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another

Researchers Use Claude to Port Pre-Auth RCE Exploit From One PLC Model to Another 2026-09-02 at 10:47 By Forescout Research – Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic’s Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware. The […]

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Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials

Attackers Exploit Critical Switchvox Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shells Without Credentials 2026-09-02 at 10:08 By Threat actors are exploiting a severe security vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox, an enterprise VoIP platform, that could allow unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-9586 (CVSS score: 9.3), a critical unauthenticated SQL injection vulnerability in Sangoma Switchvox […]

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Authorities Turn Sality’s P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads

Authorities Turn Sality’s P2P Network Against Itself, Cutting Off New Malware Payloads 2026-09-02 at 09:56 By The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the takedown of a long-standing peer-to-peer (P2P) botnet known as Sality as part of a coordinated law enforcement operation. The effort was undertaken on August 31, 2026, by authorities from […]

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Visa enhances A2A Protect to stop fraud before money leaves the account

Visa enhances A2A Protect to stop fraud before money leaves the account 2026-09-02 at 09:37 By Industry News Visa announced an enhanced version of A2A Protect, delivering real-time risk insights that help banks stop account-to-account fraud before money leaves customer accounts. The expanded solution introduces a new unified fraud score—Visa’s integration of Featurespace technology—giving financial […]

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Edge Case launches Guardian, an AI platform for tracking risk across autonomous systems

Edge Case launches Guardian, an AI platform for tracking risk across autonomous systems 2026-09-02 at 09:30 By Industry News Edge Case launched Guardian, an AI-driven platform that connects safety analysis, engineering data, and operational signals to give teams a continuous understanding of how system risk evolves. At launch, Guardian will support some of the world’s […]

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DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon

DuckDB stays open source while the team behind it goes to work for Amazon 2026-09-02 at 09:29 By Anamarija Pogorelec Hannes Mühleisen and Mark Raasveldt started as AWS employees. The two built DuckDB, an analytical database that runs inside your process instead of on a server somebody has to administer. If you ship anything on […]

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F5 speeds up virtual patching to counter AI-driven threats

F5 speeds up virtual patching to counter AI-driven threats 2026-09-02 at 09:24 By Industry News F5 announced innovations to block frontier AI-driven threats in the data path and enable faster virtual patching, giving security leaders time to make intelligent risk-based decisions rather than reactive operational compromises. With new features such as anomaly detection and agentic […]

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