A roundup of 372 items curated from across the security community.

News

Midnight Blizzard’s CaptiveCrunch campaign re-emerged in September 2026 at even larger scale, with AI-refactored Rust-flavor malware and continued MSP compromise.

Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 full schedule published. Targets include mobile devices, IoT, smart home, automotive, and NAS platforms with prize pools up to $300K per category.

August Hanning, former head of Germany’s BND foreign intelligence service, arrested on suspicion of espionage and treason.

Team TESO’s legendary ssh1-crc32 exploit, lost for over 25 years, was recovered and published alongside a Phrack 73 article. Includes hellkit, 7350statd, 7350qpopper, and more.

Anthropic expands the Cyber Verification Program with new tiers for authorized offensive work including penetration testing and red-teaming with Mythos 5.1, Opus 5.5, and Sonnet 5.5.

Samsung Galaxy S26 pwned at Pwn2Own Ireland via a Confused Deputy bug using the Djini.ai platform from Mobile Hacking Lab. Pixel targeted next.

Phrack 73 publishes the prophile of Halvar Flake, one of the legends of vulnerability research. A must-read interview covering decades of RE and offensive security.

Attacker used the ARTEX AI tool and Claude agents to target South Korean banks. Exposed by OPSEC failures in the Claude Code session artifacts.

HacktronAI researchers chained a heap overflow and SSO misconfiguration to compromise OpenAI internal repositories.

Albert Heijn, the largest Dutch supermarket chain, dealing with a cyber breach taking down their retail media API and operations.

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Techniques and Write-ups

Alexandre Borges releases Part 1 of the iOS Security Research series covering vulnerability research, exploit development, reverse engineering, and kernel security on Apple platforms.

Project Zero documents the process and pitfalls of fixing bugs introduced by previous fixes, with case studies from emergency patching cycles.

watchTowr publishes PoCs for pre-auth arbitrary file read across Atlassian Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, plus an auth bypass PoC against Jira with Atlassian Crowd.

Heap-based buffer overflow in AnyDesk for Linux 8.0.2 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve arbitrary command execution with root privileges. PoC published.

watchTowr chains multiple PaperCut vulnerabilities into a pre-auth RCE, then bypasses the patches released for prior CVEs. Covers CVE-2026-82077, CVE-2026-82078, and CVE-2026-81578.

Updated interactive map of Active Directory attack paths covering Kerberos, ADCS, delegation, trust abuse, and lateral movement techniques.

Autonomous pipeline that takes a CVE, locates vulnerable binaries, and generates working N-day exploits without human intervention.

Hardware hacking walkthrough extracting Wi-Fi credentials and firmware from a Eufy HomeStation2 through UART access and damaged flash memory recovery.

SpecterOps demonstrates one-shotting LLM-generated Stage-0 agents for Mythic, deployed to live operations. Nighthawk team built two custom C2 agents with Codex in a week.

Flask session cookie deserialization on Google Developer Sites led to arbitrary code execution. Google paid $90,000 for the finding.

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Tools and Exploits

Open-source, local-first desktop workbench for memory dump analysis and forensics.

SaaS platform for automated binary deobfuscation: unpacking, import fixing, OEP restore. Clears obfuscation layers before LLM-assisted analysis.

Official desktop GUI client for the Sliver C2 framework. Full operator interface with session management, implant generation, and task execution.

Toolkit for hijacking Claude Code agents via session injection and MCP server manipulation.

Open-source successor to QCSuper for accessing mobile baseband diagnostic protocols. Enables security research on cellular modem internals.

Microsoft releases an official MCP server for WinDbg, enabling natural language debugging grounded in actual debugger evidence.

Last year’s Pwn2Own Home Assistant Green exploit chain is now public. Six-bug SSDP chain achieving root on the target.

Guest-to-host sandbox escape PoC for gVisor release-20260928. Originally planned for Wiz zeroday-cloud-2026. Patched in release-20261005.

TOCTOU race condition variant that bypasses the v2.0.4 fix for CVE-2026-14891, persisting through the latest v2.0.7 release of HashiCorp Nomad.

Crashes a broken Windows service so its recovery action launches a given payload. No Event ID 7045 fired, evading common service creation detections.

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