Report Date: 2026-09-17
New KEVs: 7 — unchanged vs last weekRansomware Victims: 174 ▲ +7 vs last week
7 vulnerabilities were added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this period. Cisco products show the strongest concentration of risk signals this week. Ransomware activity is moderate with 174 new victims posted to leak sites over the last 7 days, with Thegentlemen posting the most victims.
Patch This Week
The top 3 KEVs to remediate right now, ranked by CISA deadline proximity, ransomware exploitation, and severity. These are confirmed exploited — if you do nothing else today, patch these.
- CVE-2026-85706 – GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition | CVSS 10.0 | EPSS 12.0% / 96th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-09-14 (overdue by 3d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-84869 – ConnectWise ScreenConnect | CVSS 9.9 | EPSS 0.7% / 51th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-09-14 (overdue by 3d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-76461 – Cisco Secure Email Gateway | CVSS 9.8 | EPSS 2.0% / 80th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-09-17 (0d remaining) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Top KEVs
Vulnerabilities confirmed actively exploited in the wild by CISA — ranked by ransomware use, then severity. Patch these before anything else.
This Reporting Window
- CVE-2026-76460 – Cisco Identity Services Engine | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-85706 – GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 12.0% / 96th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-84869 – ConnectWise ScreenConnect | CVSS 9.9 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.7% / 51th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-76461 – Cisco Secure Email Gateway | CVSS 9.8 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 2.0% / 80th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-58704 – Google Pixel | CVSS 8.8 (HIGH) | AV: Adjacent | EPSS 0.1% / 2th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-42016 – JFrog Artifactory | CVSS 8.1 (HIGH) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.9% / 58th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-42018 – JFrog Artifactory | CVSS 7.5 (HIGH) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.9% / 58th pct | Ransomware Use: No
Security News
Advisories, threat research, and incident reports from 12 sources across government, commercial research, and security journalism — prioritized by source credibility.
- CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · today – Schneider Electric PowerChute Serial Shutdown
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of vulnerabilities in its PowerChute Serial Shutdown product. The PowerChute Serial Shutdown product is a UPS management software enabling graceful system shutdown and energy… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · today – ABB Ability Edgenius
View CSAF Summary ABB is aware of public reports of a vulnerability CVE‑2026‑31431 (Copy Fail) in the product versions listed as affected in the advisory. An update is available that resolves a publicly reported vulnerab… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · today – Schneider Electric NetBotz 5 750/755
View CSAF Summary Schneider Electric is aware of multiple vulnerabilities in its NetBotz 5 – 750/755 products.The NetBotz 5 – 750/755 products are security and environmental monitors providing temperature, humidity, leak… - SANS ISCResearch · today – LausivLoader analysis, or how to pass data between malware stages, (Thu, Sep 17th)
At the end of August, a malspam message was caught in the quarantine of a mail gateway operated by one of my customers. The message was not especially remarkable – it asked the recipient to review some a… - SANS ISCResearch · 3 days ago – Apple Updates Everything, (Mon, Sep 14th)
Today, Apple released its annual update across all its operating systems. With that, Apple not only released new features but also patched 261 different vulnerabilities. This is the most vulnerabilities Apple has ever pa… - Unit 42Incident · today – Inside the Modern SOC: Defending the Cross-Environment Pivot
Cross-environment attacks demand a new approach to security operations. Learn how Unit 42 Managed XSIAM helps SOC teams investigate complete attack paths. The post Inside the Modern SOC: Defending the Cross-Environment P… - Unit 42Research · yesterday – Atomic macOS (AMOS) Stealer Activity
Modern macOS malware uses deceptive setup guides to steal credentials and sensitive user data. Learn how to identify and block these threats. The post Atomic macOS (AMOS) Stealer Activity appeared first on Unit 42 . - Sophos X-OpsResearch · yesterday – September Patch Tuesday haul includes 973 CVEs
<p>Windows takes 718 fixes… but what if it was actually a slow month?</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: Patch Tuesday, x-ops, Threat Research - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 2 days ago – Cisco Secure Email Gateway vulnerability (CVE-2026-76461) in active exploitation
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, vulnerability, Cisco - The RecordNews · today – Chinaâs FamousSparrow hackers target Latin America with new backdoor
Alleged Chinese hackers are breaking into government agencies across Latin America using a new backdoor that researchers are calling âSparroWocky.â - The RecordIncident · today – Hackers claim breach of Russian election systems days before parliamentary vote
An anonymous hacking group claimed to have broken into computer systems connected to Russiaâs election infrastructure just days before the country begins voting for a new parliament. - Security Affairs (APT)News · today – SilkParasite Infrastructure Links SpiceRAT to Central Asian Targets
Hunt.io links SpiceRAT, NodeEdgeRAT and NomadRAT to a four-year SilkParasite campaign targeting governments and critical sectors in Central Asia. Hunt.io and researcher Guy Yasur have traced a tight cluster of SpiceRAT c… - Security Affairs (APT)Incident · 2 days ago – One Exploit Chain, Two Espionage Campaigns: Chrome and Windows Under Fire
Two China-linked groups ran identical Chrome/Windows zero-day exploits against NGOs, before Chrome’s patch shipped, deploying different backdoors each. Two China-linked threat actors used the same Chrome/Windows ze… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)Incident · today – NightmareStresser Goes Offline in Global DDoS-for-Hire Crackdown
The DOJ seized domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service tied to hundreds of thousands of attacks since 2022, as part of Operation PowerOFF. Renting a DDoS attack used to be as easy as renting a movie. Pi… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)News · yesterday – BambooToken: The Malware That Speaks MQTT to Stay Under the Radar
Lumen exposes BambooToken, a stealthy malware family using MQTT and sideloading to quietly infect targets across Asia and beyond. BambooToken is a new malware family that uses MQTT, a lightweight messaging protocol commo…
Ransomware Activity
Victim counts posted to ransomware group leak sites — use this to gauge which groups are most active and which sectors and regions are being targeted.
20 new victims posted today
7-day total: 174 via Ransomware.live
Infostealer Exposure: 519 employee credentials and 32,976 user credentials compromised via infostealer malware across victim organisations — indicating credential theft likely preceded these ransomware deployments.
Most Active Groups
Group Intelligence
- Thegentlemen — The Gentlemen is a RaaS group that emerged in July–August 2025, rapidly claiming over 320 victims across 17+ countries by offering affiliates a 90% revenue share, deploying a Go-based locker against Windows, Linux, NAS, and BSD systems; a compromised C2 server in 2026 revealed more than 1,570 linked victims.
- Qilin — Qilin ransomware was first observed in July of 2022. Qilin Ransomware is written in Golang and supports multiple encryption modes; all of which are controlled by the operator. Qilin actors practice double extortion – demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as for the non-release of stolen data.
- Krybit — Krybit is an emerging RaaS group that launched in late March 2026, offering affiliates an 80/20 revenue split with support for Windows, Linux, ESXi, and NAS device encryption, and became notable for a public feud with rival group 0APT in which each breached and leaked the other's operator data.
- Auditteam — AuditTeam is a small ransomware group with approximately 5 known victims, primarily targeting organizations in East and Southeast Asia across technology and manufacturing sectors, operating a data leak site consistent with double-extortion methodology.
- Safepay — SafePay emerged in September 2024 as a rapidly growing ransomware operation that explicitly disavows the RaaS model and manages all operations internally, claiming over 300 victims worldwide by mid-2025 with a high-profile early attack against UK telematics firm Microlise stealing 1.2 TB of data.
Most Targeted Sectors
Top Countries
US (50), IN (7), GB (6), IT (6), AR (5)
Notable Incidents
- Port of Tanjung Pelepas (Transportation · MY) — claimed by Direwolf. Marine Shipping & Transportation Press coverage →
- Springfield Public Schools (Education · US) — claimed by Interlock. Springfield Public Schools in Springfield, Massachusetts, is the third-largest school district in the state, with over 23,500 students and over 4,200 full-time employees. The school budget accounts for more than two-thir… Press coverage →
- ryomo.co.jp (Not Found · JP) — claimed by Safepay. Established in January 1970 as a regional computer-services center, the company has developed into a publicly listed systems integrator providing … Press coverage →
- City of Fort Smith Arkansas (Government & Defense · US) — claimed by Interlock. The City of Fort Smith is committed to providing high-quality, resident-focused services to foster a thriving community. This is how they try to position themselves, but in reality, they are very negligent towards their … Press coverage →
Vendor-Specific Risks
Vendors with confirmed KEV exploitation this week — the stacked bar shows how that exposure breaks down across exploited CVEs (red), critical CVEs to watch (orange), and news mentions (yellow). Prioritize patching vendors with the largest red segment.
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