Security researcher Chaotic Eclipse published ShieldCrash, a proof-of-concept zero-day exploit demonstrating an arbitrary file read as SYSTEM that bypasses Microsoft's recent patch for Defender flaw CVE-2026-69414.
Security researchers uncovered a sophisticated in-memory Linux rootkit dubbed PoisonedRefresh deployed against F5 BIG-IP APM appliances, abusing Apache hooks and memory-resident web shells to evade detection and survive firmware updates.
cPanel has patched a high-severity SQL injection vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-67401 in its EmailTrack module, enabling authenticated shared hosting tenants with basic mail privileges to write arbitrary files and execute code as root.
Microsoft released its September 2026 security updates addressing 974 flaws, headlined by two actively exploited zero-day privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the Windows ALPC mechanism and Windows Update Stack tracked as CVE-2026-85880 and CVE-2026-81963.
SAP released emergency security updates addressing a maximum-severity memory corruption flaw dubbed OVERPASS in the SAP Kernel. Tracked as CVE-2026-44756 with a CVSS 10.0 score, the vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to execute arbitrary code across exposed enterprise systems.
N-able issued an emergency hotfix for a maximum-severity unauthenticated remote code execution flaw in its N-central RMM platform, tracked as CVE-2026-86218, following conflicting disclosures of active in-the-wild exploitation.
SonicWall issued emergency hotfixes for two actively exploited zero-day flaws in SMA 1000 VPN appliances that attackers chained together to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution.
Google addressed an actively exploited zero-day flaw in Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine that allowed arbitrary code execution within the browser sandbox.