July 6, 2026
The Gentlemen ransomware crew exploited a zero-day in a signed Kontron driver to disable endpoint defenses via BYOVD, gaining kernel-level access to terminate security processes before deploying ransomware. CVE-2026-46242 (Bad Epoll) now has a public proof-of-concept for a Linux kernel use-after-free that enables privilege escalation on 6.4+ kernels with 99% reliability. Medtronic is notifying 3.8 million individuals after a ShinyHunters data breach exposed personal and medical data. Multiple new red-team tools and offensive-security frameworks including T3MP3ST, goshs, and Knossos were released, alongside DOJ filings revealing how Microsoft telemetry helped the FBI identify alleged Scattered Spider member Peter Stokes via Windows Global Device ID correlation.
June 30, 2026
watchTowr published a critical pre-auth RCE exploit for Progress Kemp LoadMaster (CVE-2026-8037), a network-edge appliance commonly fronting enterprise services. Oracle E-Business Suite (CVE-2026-46817) and SimpleHelp (CVE-2026-48558) vulnerabilities are being actively exploited in the wild; the latter drops Djinn Stealer, a new cross-platform infostealer targeting cloud and AI credentials. Microsoft removed 119 malicious Edge extensions in the StegoAd campaign (2.6M installs) that used steganography to hide credential-stealing and ad-fraud payloads, while Mustang Panda exploits Zoho WorkDrive against Indian government targets and ShinyHunters breaches Oracle PeopleSoft systems affecting NAIC and Nissan. Coinbase and other major tech companies are shifting internal AI workloads to Chinese open-weight models (GLM 5.2, Kimi 2.7, DeepSeek V4) to reduce costs, raising supply-chain and data-leakage concerns.