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September 5, 2026

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Why this day matters

  • Threat actors are exploiting two critical security flaws in WordPress plugins Super Forms and Elementor Pro, according to findings from Wordfence.
  • PostgreSQL has released updates to address a security flaw that allows an account with the REPLICATION attribute to run arbitrary code as the operating-system user running the database server.
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Material developments

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid on a Stick at the New York State Fair

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Schneier Blog published a source item for review.

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Material developments

US, Britain to coordinate on scam center takedowns

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Material developments

UK account-hack losses surge as new reporting system exposes hidden cases

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Material developments

Microsoft says some users can’t open the Teams desktop client

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Material developments

Russian data centers face new security requirements amid Ukraine's drone threats

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Material developments

ICE Wants to Know Everyone Who Bought a Certain Green Beanie From REI in the Last 2 Years

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Evidence

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Material developments

Angry Birds: Toy Ghouls’ new toys

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Evidence

  • Angry Birds: Toy Ghouls’ new toys Kaspersky Securelist · Published 2026-09-04T10:00:05Z · Retrieved Sep 5, 2026, 8:51 AM UTC
    daily-item:v1:2c767bef8fc627b69d9eb407a59696618526d7822f55e24c6235c95b6a3e6b02

Known limitation

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Material developments

Cisco searched for IOS XR bugs and found so many it rolled them into an update release

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Evidence

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Material developments

Open by design: How Elastic supports MOSA, the DoD's Modular Open Systems Approach

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Material developments

CrowdStrike Disrupts Sality Botnet After More Than 20 Years

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Material developments

Honeypot-Omaha and batch.py [Guest Diary], (Wed, Sep 2nd)

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Evidence

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Material developments

Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released

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Elastic Security Blog published a source item for review.

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Evidence

  • Elastic Stack 9.5.3 released Elastic Security Blog · Published 2026-09-03T00:00:00Z · Retrieved Sep 5, 2026, 7:23 AM UTC
    daily-item:v1:452064b58945807422c61e2d47020fae502880964aca7f4c1a19de168ba80d10

Known limitation

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Material developments

FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses

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Evidence

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Material developments

ValleyRAT masquerading as adware

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Evidence

  • ValleyRAT masquerading as adware Kaspersky Securelist · Published 2026-08-31T10:00:21Z · Retrieved Sep 5, 2026, 8:51 AM UTC
    daily-item:v1:bba55335254b34b15127ec887b7aaadab5875d1dc911d93600084656e4f204fc

Known limitation

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Material developments

YARA-X 1.20.0 Release, (Sun, Aug 30th)

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Material developments

Cyberattack on Three UK Airports Exposes Data of 8.7 Million Customers

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

Over 440,000 Exploit Attempts Target Super Forms and Elementor Pro RCE Flaws

The Hacker News published details for CVE-2026-14894.

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What happened

The Hacker News published details for CVE-2026-14894.

Why it matters

A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.

Structured associations

CVE-2026-14894 mentioned

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Evidence

Known limitation

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Threat and risk signals

PostgreSQL Fixes 12-Year-Old Logical Decoding Flaw Enabling Replication-Role Code Execution

The Hacker News published details for CVE-2026-6471.

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What happened

The Hacker News published details for CVE-2026-6471.

Why it matters

A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.

Structured associations

CVE-2026-6471 mentioned

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  • Check asset inventory and patch status for CVE-2026-6471.

Evidence

Known limitation

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Threat and risk signals

Broadcom Patches Critical VMware Workstation and Fusion VM-Escape Vulnerabilities

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

U.S. CISA adds Google Chromium V8 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

Securityaffairs published details for CVE-2026-85046.

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What happened

Securityaffairs published details for CVE-2026-85046.

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A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.

Structured associations

CVE-2026-85046 mentioned

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

Phishing Campaign Sends Millions of Emails Using Invisible Unicode to Evade Filters

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

Critical Citrix NetScaler auth bypass now leveraged in attacks

Bleepingcomputer published details for CVE-2026-19490.

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What happened

Bleepingcomputer published details for CVE-2026-19490.

Why it matters

A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.

Structured associations

CVE-2026-19490 mentioned

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Evidence

Known limitation

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Threat and risk signals

New Ted Backdoor Hides Inside Victims' Own HAProxy Builds to Intercept Web Traffic

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

PostgreSQL Hit by 12-Year-Old Vulnerability Allowing Server Takeover

Securityaffairs published details for CVE-2026-6471.

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What happened

Securityaffairs published details for CVE-2026-6471.

Why it matters

A reviewed impact interpretation has not been published for this record.

Structured associations

CVE-2026-6471 mentioned

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  • Check asset inventory and patch status for CVE-2026-6471.

Evidence

Known limitation

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Threat and risk signals

G7 urges organizations to prepare for quantum cyber threats

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

Security Vulnerability in a Voting System

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Evidence

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Threat and risk signals

Mirage Kitten targeting aviation and FinTech sectors across the Middle East and Africa with a new malware set

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Evidence

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Cloud and infrastructure

Confused about which VPN is right, US senator asks the NSA for guidance

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Evidence

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Cloud and infrastructure

Elastic and Tencent Cloud deepen strategic partnership to power AI-era search foundation

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Evidence

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Cloud and infrastructure

Ring’s New TAKE Encryption Deletes Video Keys Without Giving Up AI Features

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

Crooks Behind Manchester Airports Group Hack Leaked Data of 8.8 Million People

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

IDScan sued over alleged data breach affecting 153 million drivers

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

Rogue OpenAI agents used dead German web site to communicate in May, months before Hugging Face incident

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

39 New Methods That Compromise Passkey Authentication

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

I rented a car, and within hours, my driver's license was for sale

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Evidence

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Incidents and exposure

Two Alleged ‘TeamPCP’ Hackers Arrested in Australia

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

OpenAI agents discussed ways to escape their sandbox on public wiki

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

ASCII smuggling isn't just an AI security risk

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Once popular for attacking AI, ASCII smuggling is embraced by spammers

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent

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Schneier Blog published a source item for review.

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Evidence

  • Using a VM to Contain an AI Agent Schneier Blog · Published 2026-09-04T16:31:50Z · Retrieved Sep 5, 2026, 7:23 AM UTC
    daily-item:v1:88cb2a77cfc0bb9ba23aedef18111bc40221efe96b4be911f6f8072a5565b39c

Known limitation

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AI and model reality

AI Coding Agents Are Installing Unknown/Untrusted Code on Corporate Networks

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Why your AI bill tripled while token prices fell 75%

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

OpenAI commits $1B in AI credits to frontline cyber defenders

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Nobody Is Saying Why OpenAI and Anthropic Had Outages Today

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Prediction Market Betting Is Getting People Banned and Arrested

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

This Is Flock’s AI Search Tool for Cops

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

The Coding-Agent Trap: When a "Free" LLM Endpoint Is the Adversary, (Mon, Aug 31st)

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Evidence

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AI and model reality

Claude Opus 4.6 Found a Gym API Flaw — Then Exploited It in 9 of 10 Tests

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Evidence

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