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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > anthropic-says-seven-china-based-ai.html

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (461+ words) Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > check-point-discloses-two-98-rated-vpn.html

Check Point Discloses Two 9.8-Rated VPN Certificate Flaws Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

2+ day, 17+ hour ago   (903+ words) Check Point has patched two critical vulnerabilities in the way its firewall and management products handle VPN certificates. The company says both could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to run code, but only "under specific conditions" that it has not…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > cisa-flags-exploited-cisco-citrix.html

CISA Flags Exploited Cisco, Citrix, Fortinet Flaws, Sets Sept. 12 Federal Patch Deadline

2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (471+ words) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added three flaws, each impacting Cisco, Citrix, and Fortinet, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the patches by September 12, 2026. The vulnerabilities…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > new-cpanel-flaw-lets-hosting-account.html

New cPanel Flaw Lets a Hosting Account With Mail Privileges Run Code as Root

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (742+ words) cPanel has patched a flaw that it says lets a single hosting account take control of an entire server. An authenticated account holder with mail-related privileges can create files of their choosing on the server through EmailTrack and, from there,…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > researcher-drops-new-microsoft-defender.html

Researcher Drops New Microsoft Defender PoC Showing ShieldBreak Patch Can Be Bypassed

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (356+ words) The security researcher known as Chaotic Eclipse has dropped a proof-of-concept (PoC) for yet another zero-day in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, codenamed ShieldCrash, is assessed to be a patch bypass for CVE-2026-69414 (CVSS score: 7.8), also called ShieldBreak, which the researcher…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > sap-patches-cvss-100-kernel-flaw.html

SAP Patches CVSS 10.0 Kernel Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (526+ words) SAP has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities, including a maximum-severity flaw in SAP Extended Passport (EPP) Processing that could have a severe impact on the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the application The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-44756 (CVSS…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > n-able-n-central-pre-auth-rce-flaw.html

N-able N-central Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Exploited in the Wild

4+ day, 20+ min ago   (245+ words) The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a maximum-severity security flaw impacting N-able N-central to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by September 11, 2026. The vulnerability in…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > freeipa-flaw-chain-lets-anonymous.html

FreeIPA Flaw Chain Lets Anonymous Clients Create Reusable Administrator Credentials

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (1041+ words) A flaw in FreeIPA lets a client that has never logged in create a Kerberos identity of its own choosing in the directory and end up in the administrators group, Red Hat says. FreeIPA is the system that determines who…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > adobe-patches-magento-zero-day.html

Adobe Patches Magento Zero-Day Exploited to Deploy Rust Backdoor and PHP Web Shell

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (281+ words) Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now tracked as CVE-2026-75650 (CVSS score: 10.0), has been codenamed StyleSmuggler by…...

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thehackernews.com > 2026 > 09 > telerik-ui-padding-oracle-bug-chained.html

Telerik UI Padding-Oracle Bug Chained to Unauthenticated RCE — Public Exploit Released

5+ day, 17+ hour ago   (838+ words) A TantoSec proof-of-concept turns an AES-CBC "padding oracle" in Telerik UI for ASP.NET AJAX into unauthenticated remote code execution — but only against applications in a specific non-default configuration, and Progress patched the chain in July. There are no confirmed…...