Security Affairs newsletter Round 598 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Pierluigi Paganini October 04, 2026

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Fake Zoom installer hides macOS backdoor CloudSyncD
CVE-2026-90970: Critical GitLab AI Gateway Flaw Fixed
Antino Backdoor Lets China-Linked UAT-11587 Turn Microsoft 365 Into a C2 Channel
U.S. CISA adds Zammad GmbH Zammad flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
AI Agents Attempt SQL Injection While Searching Government Data
Investigators trace an AI agent ‘s path from research task to reconnaissance
U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiMail flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Operation KillSwitch: Police Dismantle KillSec Ransomware Group
Inside Gemini 4 Argon, the model Google is testing on its own infrastructure first
Public PoC Released for Apple CoreGraphics Zero-Day CVE-2026-86950
U.S. CISA adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
AI Agent Chains Zammad Zero-Days To Take Over DIVD Systems in Seconds
WatchGuard fixes critical Fireware OS flaw allowing remote code execution
Oxygen Forensics, A Russian-run forensics firm spent a decade inside European police departments
Attackers Abuse ChatGPT Custom GPTs to Deploy a Full-Featured RAT
U.S. CISA adds Apple Multiple Products flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT: the tools behind an active Citrix NetScaler campaign
Japanese railway operators Keio Corporation and Tokyo Metro disclose security breaches
Three Million Affected in Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach
Apple Patches CoreGraphics Zero-Day Linked to Sophisticated Targeted Attacks
24-Year-Old Arrested in Dutch Investigation Into ShinyHunters
GPT-6 Astra and the Supply Chain Attack It Wasn’t Asked to Launch
AI Accounts Are Becoming the New Target for Infostealers
Nearly 400,000 Medicaid Beneficiaries Caught in Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance Data Exposure
Storm-3168, Linked to JADEPUFFER, Abused Stolen Azure Identities
U.S. CISA adds Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Roundcube SQL injection CVE-2026-48842 is now being exploited in the wild
Citrix Confirmed Two New NetScaler Flaws Exploited as Zero-Day
Rydox Admin Faces 20 Years After Selling Stolen Data and Fraud Tools

International Press – Newsletter

Cybercrime

Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals  

Former U.S. Soldier Sentenced for Hacking and Extortion Scheme That Exposed Sensitive Data of U.S. Government Official  

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation  

Pentagon data breach of military personnel raises national security concerns  

Japanese Railway Operators Hit with Weekend Cyber Attacks 

Vietnamese National Charged for Role in Massive “Pig Butchering” Cryptocurrency Scam

FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you

Delaware Men Sentenced for Cyber Intrusion Scheme Targeting Victims in the Southern District of Iowa  

Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft

Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group as law enforcement seizes servers and leak site  

Malware

Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Stealer Deployed Through BYOVD  

Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call Your APIs | TraderTraitor Backdoors Resurface on Victim With No Crypto Ties  

PhantomSub: Malicious npm Campaign Secretly Adds Users to WhatsApp Spam Channels  

CloudSyncD: a two-stage macOS backdoor that hides a phished password in zero-width Unicode

Hacking

Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Defeating Satellite Spoofing With Galileo’s Encryption  

GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations

Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’  

Defending Against Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Appliances  

Branch Target Reuse  

Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Trends in the AI Era

CVE-2026-86950: The Great Glyph Grift  

Rogue Agents Investigation

AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites

The EDR blind spot: 3 ways browser attacks evade endpoint telemetry

Intelligence and Information Warfare  

Star Blizzard refines phishing and malware delivery with the RedFlick technique  

DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies  

Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators

Tech CEO, Russian National Arrested on Complaint Alleging They Hid Russian Ownership and Development of Software Sold to U.S. Government 

How Jared Kushner’s firm’s investment in an Israeli company could be a major conflict of interest 

China-nexus UAT-11587 targets government and policy organizations across Asia with Antino backdoor  

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

Cybersecurity

NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment

Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability

SecondSight Threat Hunting Report  

High-Risk ICT Vendors and Critical Infrastructure: European Approaches  

Trump, AI CEOs sign voluntary safety pact, back data center expansion  

Microsoft to block Entra ID script injection attacks starting October

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills

Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus

PixelLeak: How AI Agents Exposed Developer Screenshots from Leading Tech Companies  

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Pierluigi Paganini

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