Geek Guy

CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Exchange Vulnerability Allows Unauthorized Mailbox Access

Microsoft has released an out-of-band security update addressing CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow authenticated attackers to access other users’ mailboxes and read sensitive emails and attachments. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.8 and affects multiple on-premises Exchange Server versions. The vulnerability comes amid growing security concerns surrounding…

CVE-2026-21589: Critical Atlassian Vulnerability Exposes Sensitive Files Across Eight Products

Atlassian has disclosed CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight widely used Data Center products, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket. The flaw, assigned a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.3, could allow unauthenticated attackers to access sensitive files on vulnerable servers without requiring valid credentials or user interaction. The vulnerability highlights the growing risks…

CVE-2026-96940: Microsoft Fixes Exchange Server Flaw For Which Exploitation Is More Likely

Microsoft released emergency updates for Exchange Server to fix CVE-2026-96940, a high-severity flaw that can let attackers gain higher privileges. Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for Exchange Server to fix a high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-96940 (CVSS score of 8.8). The flaw is caused by weak authorization and can allow an authenticated attacker to…

Anaconda combines agent swarms with autonomous security testing

Anaconda has announced new capabilities across the Anaconda Platform that pair agentic development with autonomous security testing. The expansion brings agent swarms and autonomous red-team agents together with trusted packages, models, and environments to help builders ship faster and address security weaknesses before production. Builders gain greater choice in the tools and models they use,…

Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized Wikipedia edits and millions of requests to Wikimedia

Rogue OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits on Wikimedia wikis and sent millions of automated requests to Wikimedia’s public APIs, traffic that may have contributed to a partial outage of the Wikidata Query Service in May, the Wikimedia Foundation said on Monday. “The Wikimedia Foundation conducted its own investigation to see whether Wikimedia websites had been…

AppViewX targets shadow AI risks with agent discovery and runtime enforcement

AppViewX has expanded capabilities for Agent Identity Security, a solution enabling enterprises to discover every agent, whether sanctioned or shadow; govern their posture and maintain audit-ready activity logs; and monitor and control in real time every action that the agent performs. AppViewX now also issues quantum-resilient agent identities, so trust in every agent holds as…

New Relic adds terminal-based investigation and recovery checks with Ground Truth CLI

New Relic has announced New Relic Ground Truth CLI augmented with New Relic Autopilot API, bringing headless observability straight to developers and AI agents in their natural workflows. The new command-line interface (CLI) allows teams to investigate production issues, assess recovery criteria, and embed live system evidence into their daily workflows without leaving the terminal.…

NinjaOne RMM Review 2026: Features, Pricing & Pros and Cons

NinjaOne RMM is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management platform designed for managed service providers (MSPs) and internal IT teams managing distributed endpoints. Formerly known as NinjaRMM, the platform combines endpoint monitoring, patch management, automation, scripting, alerting, and remote access in a centralized console.  Our assessment finds NinjaOne particularly well suited to MSPs and IT…

NinjaOne RMM Review 2026: Features, Pricing & Pros and Cons

NinjaOne RMM is a cloud-based remote monitoring and management platform designed for managed service providers (MSPs) and internal IT teams managing distributed endpoints. Formerly known as NinjaRMM, the platform combines endpoint monitoring, patch management, automation, scripting, alerting, and remote access in a centralized console.  Our assessment finds NinjaOne particularly well suited to MSPs and IT…

SailPoint adds AI agent discovery, temporary access and compliance automation

SailPoint has announced significant new capabilities across SailPoint Agentic Fabric (SAF) and SailPoint Human Fabric (SHF), the two purpose-built products of its Identity Security solution, built on SailPoint Atlas. These innovations give enterprises visibility into every hidden AI tool, continuous compliance across human and machine workflows, the replacement of permanent access keys with temporary permissions,…

September Channel M&A: GTIA, Softcat Lead Deal Activity

September delivered another wave of consolidation across the IT channel, with GTIA acquiring The ASCII Group, Softcat striking a $1.05 billion deal for General Datatech, and MSP, cybersecurity and AI providers expanding through acquisitions. The deals spanned managed services, security, cloud infrastructure and AI, underscoring continued pressure on channel companies to add scale, geographic reach…

AXON Datum enforces data access policies before AI systems act

AXON Networks has announced AXON Datum, a data management and secure sovereign governance layer that helps service providers, enterprises, and institutions such as governments control how information is accessed, protected and moved in an AI world. Critical to the success of every telecom and government moving into agentic AI who want the data and AI…

Deeper Network Promo Deeper Network Promo Deeper Network Promo Image

Atlassian urges immediate patching of critical Data Center file access vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589)

Attackers who know where to look can read files from Atlassian Data Center installations without logging in, the company has warned. About CVE-2026-21589 CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability with a 9.3 CVSS score, affects all versions of Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo…

New Linux malware turns vulnerable IoT devices into proxy nodes

A new Linux backdoor is turning vulnerable internet-facing devices into remotely controlled proxy nodes, while using the public Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) infrastructure to blend into normal VoIP and WebRTC traffic. Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs said it has been tracking the malware, dubbed ClingSTUN, across multiple attacks exploiting known vulnerabilities in routers, IoT devices,…

Here’s how experts think CISA should tell agencies to protect OT

A coalition of cyber firms and critical infrastructure operators on Tuesday spelled out its views on the tasks that the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency should assign federal agencies to protect operational technology systems after this summer’s attacks on water utilities. The Operational Technology Cybersecurity Coalition said a CISA binding operational directive (BOD) for OT…

IronChain Ransomware Threatens Businesses with Permanent Data Loss and Costly Downtime

Editor’s note: This research was conducted by Himanshu Anand, an independent cybersecurity researcher (follow Himanshu on X). During Cybersecurity Awareness Month, ransomware remains one of the clearest examples of how a cyber incident can become a business continuity issue. IronChain shows why. It puts business-critical data at risk of permanent loss and can bring operations…

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages. “The unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and…

Dell System Update flaw allows attackers to gain root privileges (CVE-2026-86360)

Dell is urging customers to patch a vulnerability (CVE-2026-86360) in Dell System Update (DSU) that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with root privileges. DSU is a tool used by enterprise IT administrators to apply driver, BIOS, and firmware updates to Dell PowerEdge servers. About CVE-2026-86360 CVE-2026-86360 is a path traversal…

Microsoft’s New Frontier Specialization Opens AI Agent Opportunities for Partners

Less than a week after Microsoft opened its new Frontier Partner specialization, eligible partners can now pursue a designation built around one of the company’s biggest channel priorities: AI agents. The specialization became available Sept. 30 and targets partners that can design, build, deploy, govern, and secure agents across Microsoft’s cloud, productivity, development, and security…

Exclusive Networks Launches ServiceNow Business for EMEA Partners

Exclusive Networks launched a dedicated ServiceNow business on Oct. 1 to support partners across Europe and the Middle East, putting its July distribution agreement into operation. The cybersecurity distributor is targeting two groups with the rollout. Existing ServiceNow partners can use the business to expand into security, while Exclusive Networks partners can add ServiceNow-based workflows…

Ontinue extends ION MXDR with managed dark web monitoring

Ontinue has announced the launch of ION for Dark Web Monitoring (DWM), a new managed add-on service that extends ION MXDR to continuously identify exposed credentials, detect brand impersonation attempts, and uncover emerging external threats before attackers can exploit them. Compromised credentials are traded across criminal forums, lookalike domains are created to impersonate trusted brands,…

Google’s bug bounty pause highlights growing AI vulnerability triage challenge

AI is accelerating the discovery of software vulnerabilities, but it is also creating a new bottleneck for defenders: deciding which machine-generated findings warrant investigation. Google has decided to temporarily stop accepting certain bug bounty submissions after a surge of largely invalid automated reports highlights a growing challenge for security teams as AI-driven vulnerability discovery begins…

Data breach at Denmark’s population register exposes 8.8 million people

A data breach at Denmark’s Central Population Register (CPR) has exposed the personal information of 8.8 million people. These include people living in Denmark, deceased people and citizens who have moved abroad. The CPR is Denmark’s national register of residents, and the 10-digit CPR number it assigns to each person is used for everything from…

Deeper Network Promo Deeper Network Promo Deeper Network Promo Image

Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products

A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product’s web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file’s exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October…

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account

Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark’s national population register, the country’s digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company’s lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told…

Product showcase: Webroot Mobile Security screens texts, blocks risky sites, and checks for data leaks

Webroot Mobile Security combines device security checks, Safari protection, text scam filtering, and data breach monitoring. It is available for iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. The app requires an active Webroot subscription and is included with Essentials, Premium, and Total Protection. The home screen displays subscription status, a Scan Now button, the last scan time,…

Dell patches 18 critical flaws that could hand attackers the keys to storage and Kubernetes

Dell’s security team has had a busy week. The company has announced a slew of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) impacting its Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) and Dell System Update (DSU). Disclosed by Dell in two security notices, these critical vulnerabilities could allow unauthenticated attackers to “completely bypass” authentication controls, gain root access, manipulate…

ShinyHunters’ exploitation of a new PeopleSoft zero-day hole threatens to change enterprise risk dynamics

A recent compromise of PeopleSoft by hacking group ShinyHunters is causing new concerns for enterprise users of the Oracle product, with analysts recommending extreme measures in response. Law enforcement has made some progress in its pursuit of the cyber criminals involved. On Saturday, Reuters reported that a suspected member of ShinyHunters had been arrested by…

Citrix discloses third actively exploited NetScaler zero-day in less than a week

Citrix customers just got through back-to-back weekends filled with varying levels of uncertainty and worry, as yet another actively exploited zero-day vulnerability was discovered in Citrix NetScaler products. Researchers and security experts said the vulnerability — CVE-2026-88779 — is less concerning because exploitation triggers denial of service and only impacts instances that have SAML (security…