September 2026

The designation applies when a model can independently find and exploit zero-day vulnerabilities across many well-defended systems.

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The browser refreshes fix multiple use-after-free, sandbox escape, and privilege escalation bugs.

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SonicWall has released security updates to address two security flaws impacting its Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances that have been exploited in zero-day attacks.

The vulnerabilities, discovered internally by SonicWall’s William Perry and Adam Babis, are listed below –

CVE-2026-83548 (CVSS score: 10.0) –  A pre-authentication SSRF vulnerability in the Appliance

Two vulnerabilities in GeoNetwork can be chained to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) on the open-source geospatial metadata catalog, which sits behind many government and agency geoportals.

The project shipped fixes in versions 4.4.12 and 4.2.17 on July 8, 2026, and published the vulnerability details on August 31.

GeoNetwork originated at the United Nations Food and

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has charged a Russian national, extradited from Cyprus on August 28, with using roughly 255 fake accounts on a freelance platform to send malware-laced Excel attachments to about 80,000 of its users in 2016 and 2017.

Searzhudin Tamirlanovich Aktulaev, 40, was arrested in Cyprus in May 2025, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California

Forescout Research – Vedere Labs said it used Anthropic’s Claude to port a working pre-authentication remote code execution (RCE) exploit from one WAGO programmable logic controller (PLC) to another, executing attacker-supplied ARM shellcode on live hardware.

The exploit targets CVE-2021-31886, a stack-based buffer overflow in the Nucleus FTP server’s handling of the USER command

CVE-2026-82329 is an authentication bypass flaw in JFrog’s repository manager that enables bad actors to gain admin-level access on affected systems.

Some security researchers have observed an uptick in insider-assisted ransomware attacks, but malicious insiders pose other threats that cost companies millions.

The attacks targeting CVE-2026-0768 are the latest threat against the low-code AI development platform, which is receiving more attention from adversaries this year.

In one attack, threat actors stole an API key that ultimately led to the consumption of $600,000 in public AI model credits for the security nonprofit.