Report Date: 2026-09-09
New KEVs: 7 — unchanged vs last weekRansomware Victims: 161 ▼ -90 vs last week
7 vulnerabilities were added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this period. Google products show the strongest concentration of risk signals this week. Ransomware activity is moderate with 161 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-2026-75650 – Adobe Commerce and Magento | CVSS 10.0 | EPSS 2.1% / 81th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-09-11 (2d 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. - CVE-2026-86218 – N-able N-central | CVSS 10.0 | EPSS 0.7% / 53th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-09-11 (2d 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. - CVE-2026-20079 – Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management | CVSS 10.0 | EPSS 35.9% / 98th pct | PoC Available
CISA deadline: 2026-09-12 (3d 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.
New Today
- CVE-2026-20079 – Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) and Security Cloud Control (SCC) Firewall Management | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 35.9% / 98th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
- CVE-2026-19490 – Citrix NetScaler | CVSS 9.3 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 3.4% / 88th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-87491 – Google Chromium V8 | CVSS 8.8 (HIGH) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.3% / 21th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2025-25249 – Fortinet Multiple Products | CVSS 8.1 (HIGH) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.8% / 53th pct | Ransomware Use: No
Still Outstanding
- CVE-2026-75650 – Adobe Commerce and Magento | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 2.1% / 81th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-86218 – N-able N-central | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.7% / 53th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-85046 – Google Chromium V8 | CVSS 8.8 (HIGH) | AV: Network | EPSS 1.4% / 71th pct | Ransomware Use: No | PoC Available
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 · yesterday – CareCam Pro IP Cameras
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to take full control of the device. The following versions of CareCam Pro IP Cameras are affected: ANJIA AJL33PC0801 Firmware linux_… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 6 days ago – Tycon Systems TPDIN-Monitor-WEB3
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow for an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle (MitM) attack, cause a factory reset, wipe credentials, or retrieve sensitive information. The… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 6 days ago – Pyramid Solutions NetStaX EtherNet/IP Stack
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could result in memory corruption, a device crash, or a potential remote attack vector without the originating device receiving a CIP error indicating that … - SANS ISCResearch · today – Scans for Proxmox Servers, (Wed, Sep 9th)
About a week ago, Proxmox published an advisory revealing a vulnerability in older versions of Proxmox VE, its flagship Virtual Environment product. The vulnerability only affects version 7, which has not been supported … - SANS ISCResearch · yesterday – September 2026 Microsoft Patch Tuesday, (Tue, Sep 8th)
This month, Microsoft released patches for a record-breaking 973 vulnerabilities, including 113 rated critical. It is by far the largest Patch Tuesday to date, well ahead of the previous high of 664 set in July 2026. Two… - Unit 42Research · today – Untracked Nightmares: The Threats Hiding Behind Commodity Infrastructure
An investigation into how cybercriminals used YouTube gaming lures and SEO poisoning to deliver multi-payload malware to enterprise networks. The post Untracked Nightmares: The Threats Hiding Behind Commodity Infrastruct… - Unit 42Incident · 6 days ago – Attackers Expose Ongoing AI Tool Use Targeting Organizations in Latin America
Explore how attackers targeting Latin American entities use AI for data exfiltration and how basic OpSec errors allow defenders to disrupt operations. The post Attackers Expose Ongoing AI Tool Use Targeting Organizations… - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 2 days ago – Dissecting a PHP web server rootkit
<p>Sophos X-Ops takes a deep dive into an insidious piece of malware</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: rootkit, php, webshell - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 7 days ago – SonicWall 83548 83549
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, vulnerability, SonicWall - The RecordAdvisory · today – CISA head says agency must change quickly to prevent the 'worst that could happen'
CISA's cybersecurity, infrastructure security and emergency communications divisions are among the priorities as the agency fills vacancies created at the beginning of the Trump administration, acting director Nick Ander… - The RecordNews · today – US disrupts Xinbi Guarantee marketplace fueling the cyber scam economy
The U.S. government also carried out a seizure of $52.8 million from 52 wallets connected to the platform. - Security Affairs (APT)News · yesterday – North Korea-linked Hackers Hide a Backdoor Inside HAProxy
North Korea-linked hackers hid a backdoor inside HAProxy, masking C2 traffic and stealing data while keeping the load balancer working normally. North Korean-linked hackers found a genuinely clever hiding spot for their … - Security Affairs (APT)Incident · 5 days ago – Chinese Hackers Use AI Agents in Multi-Country Cyber Campaign
Hunt.io uncovered a Chinese-speaking campaign using AI agents to automate cyberattacks against Asian government, education and industrial targets. Threat intelligence firm Hunt.io just documented a second, separate China… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)News · yesterday – Hackers Drain $320 Million From Liquid Network, Then Return Most of It
Crypto exchange network Liquid Network lost $320 million overnight, then got most of it back after the hackers demanded a bug fix instead of a ransom Bitcoin’s Liquid Network, a sidechain built by Blockstream and u… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)Incident · yesterday – IT Help Desk Impersonation Lets Hackers Bypass MFA
Attackers bypass endpoint security by posing as IT staff, stealing Microsoft 365 sessions, draining SaaS data and demanding extortion. Forget installing malware because today’s extortionists just pick up the phone instea…
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.
17 new victims posted today
7-day total: 161 via Ransomware.live
Infostealer Exposure: 145 employee credentials and 54,241 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.
- Direwolf — Dire Wolf is a sophisticated human-operated ransomware group first documented in May 2025, written in Golang using Curve25519/ChaCha20 encryption, targeting manufacturing and technology sectors across 13+ countries with ransoms up to $500,000, operated by a tight core team rather than a broad affiliate program.
Most Targeted Sectors
Top Countries
US (55), DE (8), CA (8), BR (7), IN (6)
Notable Incidents
- Metro (Retail & E-Commerce · DE) — claimed by Thegentlemen. metro.net zoominfo.com/c/metro/351518795 LA Metro is the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (LACMTA) — the second-busiest transit system in the US, serving 9.6M residents across 1,433 sq miles (near… 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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