July 16, 2026
SpecterOps documented a new NTLM-relay egress technique enabling Active Directory privilege escalation by coercing outbound authentication through cloud relays over WebDAV, bypassing SMB egress restrictions. Bitdefender revealed that Windows bind links can create filesystem view conflicts that hide malware from EDR detection by redirecting trusted paths to attacker-controlled content. Two SonicWall SMA1000 zero-days (CVE-2026-15409 and CVE-2026-15410) are under active exploitation in the wild, with CISA adding them to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Four to five compromised npm packages (@asyncapi suite) delivered a multi-stage botnet loader with info-stealing and RAT capabilities via GitHub Actions and IPFS, affecting versions including generator@3.3.1 and specs@6.11.2.
July 13, 2026
Russian intelligence used compromised IP cameras and routers near NATO bases to monitor weapons shipments to Ukraine, prompting the EU and UK to issue their first joint cyber sanctions against the GRU. CISA added two maximum-severity Joomla extension flaws (CVE-2026-48939 and CVE-2026-56291) to its known-exploited catalog after active zero-day exploitation enabled web shells. US Navy researchers demonstrated prompt-injection attacks embedded in binaries that weaponize AI reverse-engineering agents like Cline to misreport program functionality. DeadLock ransomware and a new crew called D1R remain active, with Lazarus reportedly weaponizing CVE-2024-21338 as a zero-day without requiring driver deployment.
June 24, 2026
Critical vulnerabilities hit domain controllers as CVE-2026-41089 (Netlogon RCE) and Onelogon (Zerologon bypass) emerge, while FortiBleed credential-harvesting campaign reaches Finnish organizations after compromising 110M+ credentials from 430K+ Fortinet devices. Major supply-chain threats include Klue OAuth attacks affecting LastPass, malicious npm packages impersonating PostCSS, and Cordyceps malicious pull requests targeting Azure/Google/Apache projects; Anthropic's Mythos model discovered Squidbleed (Heartbleed-style flaw in Squid) and vulnerabilities in classified US systems.