⚡ Weekly Recap: Chrome 0-Day, Router Hijacks, Coder Supply Chain Attack and More

Turning off email images should at least stop the pictures. This week, attackers had a workaround: a scannable QR code built out of text. It still appears, even with images blocked. A small detail, but an annoying one if that was a precaution you were counting on.

Elsewhere, a trusted software source delivered code that stole credentials, and a protocol designed for secure network management

  • September 8, 2026

Your Cloud Security Checklist Doesn’t Work the Way You Think It Does

If managing security across multiple cloud providers wasn’t hard enough, each one fails in a different way. For the 2026 Cloud Security Index, Intruder analyzed misconfiguration data from 3,000 organizations across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud and found that risk profiles across providers have almost nothing in common. Here’s what the data looks like.

How risk differs across cloud providers

  • September 8, 2026

N-able Issues Fourth N-central Hotfix in Five Weeks for Unauthenticated RCE Flaw

Every on-premises N-central build below 2026.3.1.14 — including servers updated to Hotfix 3 a day earlier — needs Hotfix 4. N-able’s incident notice says the flaw has been exploited in the wild; its release notes say that is unconfirmed.

N-able has released its fourth hotfix in five weeks for the N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, this time for a

  • September 7, 2026

JSCeal Malware Can Bypass Google Authentication Using Stolen Session Cookies

Cybersecurity researchers have unpacked JSCeal, a sophisticated compiled V8 JavaScript (JSC) malware with credential harvesting, surveillance, and traffic-interception capabilities.

“The payloads are protected with javascript-obfuscator, using multiple techniques including RC4-protected strings, control-flow flattening, proxy functions, and operation wrappers,” Check Point Research said in a

  • September 7, 2026

Attackers Hijack MikroTik Routers Through Internet-Exposed SSH Without Authentication

Attackers are exploiting MikroTik routers with their Secure Shell (SSH) remote-access service, which is reachable from the internet, to gain full administrative control without authentication, according to CERT Polska’s attack warning, published on September 5.

Successful attacks date to at least September 2. The Hacker News’s September 6 review of the warning found no victim count or

  • September 6, 2026

Four REVSTEALER-Linked Modules Disable Windows Update and Defender to Run a Crypto Miner

Elastic Security Labs has documented four previously unreported programs associated with REVSTEALER, an emerging Windows information stealer, that remain on an infected machine after the stealer deletes itself.

One of them switches off Windows Update and Microsoft Defender before running a cryptocurrency miner.

The company named the four programs ProManager, WinUpdate, SoftManager, and

  • September 6, 2026

Unpatched Magento and Adobe Commerce Zero-Day Exploited to Backdoor Online Stores

Attackers are exploiting a new unpatched vulnerability in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce that lets them run malicious code on an online store’s server without logging in, Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec said in an advisory published on September 5.

Sansec, which discovered the flaw and named it StyleSmuggler, said attacks started on September 4. “Sansec is

  • September 6, 2026