UAE, Saudi Arabia Face Onslaught of Increasingly Complex Cyberattacks

A Dark Reading news digest covering major cybersecurity developments in September 2026, including critical vulnerabilities in Cisco ISE and GitLab, phishing-as-a-service disruption, supply-chain compromises, ransomware and extortion activity, malware campaigns, APT operations, and emerging risks from AI agents and manipulated AI search results. The most immediately actionable items are the CVSS 10 Cisco ISE authentication bypass (CVE-2026-76460), the CVSS 10 GitLab path traversal flaw (CVE-2026-85706), and active exploitation or abuse involving Microsoft 365, OAuth consent, Cisco devices, npm,