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Moderate CVE-2026-85049 Microsoft MSRC

2026-09-11 Microsoft MSRC

Chromium CVE-2026-85049: Use after free in Skia

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see [Google Chrome Releases](https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026) for more information.

Fix: Deploy cumulative update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog.

Windows / Microsoft 365

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2026-85048 Microsoft MSRC

2026-09-11 Microsoft MSRC

Chromium CVE-2026-85048: Use after free in Compositing

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see [Google Chrome Releases](https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026) for more information.

Fix: Deploy cumulative update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog.

Windows / Microsoft 365

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2026-85045 Microsoft MSRC

2026-09-11 Microsoft MSRC

Chromium CVE-2026-85045: Race condition in V8

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see [Google Chrome Releases](https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026) for more information.

Fix: Deploy cumulative update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog.

Windows / Microsoft 365

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2026-85043 Microsoft MSRC

2026-09-11 Microsoft MSRC

Chromium CVE-2026-85043: Incomplete cleanup in Network

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see [Google Chrome Releases](https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026) for more information.

Fix: Deploy cumulative update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog.

Windows / Microsoft 365

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2026-85042 Microsoft MSRC

2026-09-11 Microsoft MSRC

Chromium CVE-2026-85042: Use after free in DevTools

This CVE was assigned by Chrome. Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based) ingests Chromium, which addresses this vulnerability. Please see [Google Chrome Releases](https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2026) for more information.

Fix: Deploy cumulative update via Windows Update or Microsoft Update Catalog.

Windows / Microsoft 365

Advisory

Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Hackers abused Claude to extract secrets from 1.8M Android apps

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. [...]

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Critical The Record by Recorded Future

2026-09-11 The Record by Recorded Future

Florida says motor vehicle data breach tied to credentials stolen from officer’s personal device

The Florida Department of Motor Vehicles confirmed a data breach claimed by the cybercrime group ShinyHunters, saying it originated with the theft of credentials stored on a police officer's personal device.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

Advisory

Moderate Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

Threat Actor Generates 1M Personalized Fraud Emails in 3 Days

Cybercriminals behind malicious email campaigns no longer have to compromise volume for credibility, or vice versa, thanks to AI.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Critical BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Florida confirms DMV database breached via stolen police account

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee. [...]

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Moderate Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

CISA Calls for More Guidance, Less Spin, as Cyber Outages Escalate

A new joint government advisory signals a regulatory shift, pressing organizations to adopt more transparent breach notification and incident response protocols.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Moderate The Record by Recorded Future

2026-09-11 The Record by Recorded Future

Microsoft sees some new wrinkles in invoice-scam emails

Researchers analyzed a flood of fraudulent business emails and found that the threat actors had doubled-up on tactics to make them appear legitimate, including help from AI.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

State-Sponsored Cyber Warfare

Advisory

Critical Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

SpiderSilk Hunts External Threats With AI-Based Scanner

The Dubai-based threat detection startup uses artificial intelligence tools to scan billions of IP addresses to find exposed assets, leaked data, and zero-day vulnerabilities.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Moderate Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

Why AI Is So Good at Scamming Humans

Fred Heiding of Menlo Park Intelligence talks with the Dark Reading News Desk about his research on frontier models, and their ability to influence human behavior and create emotional dependency.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Moderate CVE-2026-40933 SecurityAffairs

2026-09-11 SecurityAffairs

The AI Supply Chain Has a Security Problem, and Much of It Is Sitting on the Open Internet

Researchers found 36,769 exposed AI endpoints, but only 2% had an HTTP authentication gate. Running AI locally is supposed to give organizations more control. Models, prompts and documents stay on infrastructure they manage instead of being sent to a third-party cloud. But that advantage disappears quickly when the infrastructure itself is exposed to the pub…

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Cyber Crime & Data Breaches

Advisory

Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Passkey-themed phishing attacks lead to Microsoft 365 data theft

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Moderate Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

AI Governance Can't Wait

Adversaries can manipulate AI's defensive reasoning to silently compromise target networks.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Critical CVE-2026-85706 The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure

GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API that could allow an unauthenticated user to read arbitrary …

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important BleepingComputer

2026-09-11 BleepingComputer

Artifactory flaws chained in attacks deploying backdoor malware

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. [...]

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Cyber Defense & Malware

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

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

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 to a machine learning technique where a large, powerful AI model a…

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important Dark Reading

2026-09-11 Dark Reading

Papercut AI Swarm Attack Heralds Changes for Cyber Kill Chain

From creating lab environments for staging and testing agentic attacks to reconnaissance to lateral movement and exfiltration, the most innovative attackers are widely incorporating AI.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Enterprise Infosec

Advisory

Critical Malwarebytes Labs

2026-09-11 Malwarebytes Labs

Crypto customers targeted by scammers after email marketing provider breach

An attacker breached an email marketing platform and launched targeted attacks against the newsletter subscribers of some of its customers, especially those working in cryptocurrency and adjacent fields. The incident was a supply-chain phishing campaign carried out through Brevo, an email marketing provider used by several cryptocurrency companies and other …

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Malware Outbreaks & Analysis

Advisory

Moderate SANS Internet Storm Center

2026-09-11 SANS Internet Storm Center

The Self-Expanding Stolen Inference Supply Chain: An AI Agent Harvesting and Re-Serving LLM Access, (Fri, Sep 11th)

I identified an attacker using a semi-autonomous coding agent to run an offensive operation: finding poorly secured LLM resale gateways, acquiring API access through ordinary web flaws and account farming, validating the resulting inference capacity, and aggregating it behind a single gateway of their own.

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Operational Threat Radar

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims

Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded Generative Threat Groups (GTGs), span state-sponsored groups, financial…

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Threat Intelligence

Advisory

Important The Hacker News

2026-09-11 The Hacker News

Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection

Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it calls GTG-20006 (where "GTG" stands for Generative Threat Group), which aligns with broader repo…

Fix: Review advisory findings, isolate suspect endpoints, and verify threat signatures.

Threat Intelligence

Advisory