September 1, 2026
Attackers Are Living in the Management Plane
JFrog Artifactory authentication bypass CVE-2026-82329 is actively exploited in the wild to mint admin tokens on build infrastructure, granting artifact-poisoning access to critical supply chains. A Metasploit module for PaperCut zero-days CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078 is now public, narrowing the exposure window as roughly 1,000 instances remain vulnerable. Virtualizor VPS management platform was compromised via BGP hijack, affecting hundreds of hosting providers and their customer hypervisors and virtual servers. Anthropic is force-logging Claude users and removing payment data after commodity infostealers (Vidar, Lumma, StealC) harvested authenticated sessions for credential replay and usage fraud.