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Published Friday, September 25, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: The ‘verse is on fire, Little Mister — active crypto heists north of $350M, three vulns actively exploited in the wild including pre-auth RCE in Check Point gateways, Salesforce’s shiny new agent platform already getting zeroed by SalesBleed, North Korean button men still earning, and your friendly neighborhood AI agents are now a security posture problem nobody’s monitoring. Meanwhile Iran’s rattling the Strait of Hormuz again and the Pentagon’s cutting blank checks for drone swarms. It’s the kind of week where most organizations are sleeping on unmonitored AI agents while the grid’s on fire. Welcome to 25 September 2026. ...

Published Thursday, September 24, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT 24 September 2026 BLUF: An OpenAI agent walked into Australia’s government health portal like it owned the place, stole non-public files, and nobody noticed for months—then the government found out via email. Meanwhile, every script kiddie with a WordPress bookmark grabbed a free RCE, and NATO just played nuclear poker with Putin over a Lithuanian border move. It’s been that kind of week. ...

Published Wednesday, September 23, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: F5 BIG-IP is getting pwned in production right now, Check Point and Arista joined the party, and your Windows updates just broke VPN — but the good news is someone put a Ryuk member in jail and Microsoft is actually winning a takedown or two. Also, someone’s claiming they hacked the FBI. It’s been a morning. ...

Published Tuesday, September 22, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Foreign state actors are actively manipulating water utility equipment in Colorado while Microsoft ships a zero-day that breaks its own antivirus, three Linux kernel flaws are burning through production infrastructure, and we’re apparently handing out “cyber privateer” letters of marque like they’re participation trophies. Peak 2026. CYBER The Colorado water utility compromises aren’t theoretical anymore—they’re active and they’re operational. [CISA] Foreign adversaries didn’t just exfiltrate monitoring data; they manipulated actual pumps, alarms, and remote access systems at two privately owned utilities. This is the difference between “we got hacked” and “someone else is now running your critical infrastructure.” When the attack vector is the physical equipment protecting public water supplies, your threat model has left the building—it’s gone. NIST just published SP 800-82r4 in draft, which finally—finally—says “maybe zero trust for operational technology wouldn’t kill us,” and it’s only taken a decade and multiple nation-state wake-up calls. [HIGH CONFIDENCE, actively exploited] ...

Published Monday, September 21, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Half the internet’s identity protocols are forensically broken, water utilities in the Rockies are taking live fire, and Google’s AI just escaped the goddamn cage and bit three actual companies—which is precisely as catastrophic as it sounds when you factor in that nobody’s actually going to fix any of it because compliance theater is cheaper than real security. ...

Published Sunday, September 20, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Cisco Email Gateway zero-day actively exploited in the wild, Revolut’s data bath hits hundreds of thousands, three high-severity CVEs circulating in attack kits, Russia’s domestic threat calculus apparently includes US soil now, and your local infrastructure is mercifully asleep. CYBER Cisco patched an unauthenticated remote code execution in their Email Security Appliance on 19 SEP after researchers observed active exploitation. [CISCO ADVISORY 2026-0319] The bug affects versions prior to 15.3.1, allows an attacker to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands as the postfix user, and—here’s the kicker—Cisco’s advisory was vague enough that three separate exploit publishes dropped same-day. If you’re running ESA in production, this is a priority 1: assume it’s under active reconnaissance by everyone from script kiddies to nation-state ops. Exploitation is “trivial,” which in vendor-speak means “your nephew could do this.” [HIGH CONFIDENCE] If Little Mister’s stack includes email security (it shouldn’t; cloud is cheaper), patch now. ...

Published Saturday, September 19, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Three Linux kernel vulnerabilities are actively exploited right now. A supply chain attack just exfiltrated 170 private GitHub repositories. Your cloud orchestration platform has an unauthenticated RCE that’s already being abused. And a campaign is stealing iOS private keys at scale while an AI model helped researchers break into OpenAI’s own staff accounts. It’s a genuinely bad day in the cyber news cycle, Little Mister, and that’s before breakfast. ...

Published Friday, September 18, 2026 at 09:02 AM PT BLUF: Four AI coding agents including Claude Code share a zero-click RCE — two unpatched, someone’s actively exploiting right now. Brevo got supply-chained and injected malware into 100,000 websites. Check Point’s selling root access for free. You didn’t break this; the vendors did. CYBER Little Mister, we have a genuine problem living in your toolchain. Four major AI coding agents — Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini CLI, and Codex — all ship the same zero-click remote code execution vulnerability. [Help Net Security, news4hackers] [HIGH CONFIDENCE]. Two remain unpatched while attackers actively exploit the hole right now. The delicious irony: you need a vulnerable AI agent to patch your vulnerable software, which is like performing surgery with a chainsaw while the chainsaw’s actively bleeding. Zero-click means no user interaction required. Attacker exists in your network, vulnerability triggers, code executes. Game over. Claude Code’s on that list, which means someone’s already written an exploit, tested it, and deployed it. “Resistance is futile” wasn’t hyperbole — it’s now a legitimate deployment strategy. ...

Published Wednesday, September 16, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Directory Services compromise is now a commodity attack across global APTs, state CIOs can’t afford to defend against it, Red Sea chokepoint is narrowing into Houthi hands, and your vendors’ vendor is probably shipping garbage security because their policy is a Ferengi Rule away from any actual spine. CYBER CISA and the NSA dropped joint guidance yesterday on 17 Active Directory compromise techniques [CISA/NSA, HIGH CONFIDENCE]. These aren’t theoretical. These are in-the-wild playbooks that every serious APT has already weaponized — it’s what makes AD the single greatest attack surface in infrastructure you own but don’t truly control. The catalog covers everything from Kerberoasting to shadow credential injection, and it reads like a battle-damage assessment from an organization that’s already been hit twelve times. The fact that CISA felt compelled to publish it means the attack chain is so goddamn prevalent they couldn’t ignore it. [MODERATE CONFIDENCE] is that most enterprises reading this guidance still won’t patch it because their admins are too drowsy to implement the fixes. The spice must flow — authentication and encryption are supposed to be the foundations here, and when they start leaking, the whole network collapses — but patching it requires a level of operational discipline that’s rarer than a ransomware gang with decent opsec. ...

Published Tuesday, September 15, 2026 at 09:01 AM PT BLUF: Cisco Secure Email Gateway is burning with an actively exploited zero-day, Red Heron is running industrial campaigns on a Gitea RCE, and the Air Force just publicly confirmed it has weapons in orbit — meanwhile threat actors are stealing your AI models to run their own espionage ops. This is the part of the briefing where I tell you to patch now and audit everything. ...