Here are today’s top cybersecurity stories for Monday, September 14, 2026.
GitLab CVSS 10.0 Path Traversal Flaw Under Active Exploitation
CISA added CVE-2026-85706, a maximum-severity path traversal flaw in GitLab’s repository commits API, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 11 after confirming active exploitation. The flaw lets an unauthenticated attacker send a single request to read arbitrary files from a GitLab server, including SSH keys, database credentials, and CI/CD variables. GitLab patched the issue in versions 19.3.2, 19.2.6, and 19.1.8, and federal agencies face a remediation deadline of September 14. The Hacker News
Telus Confirms Customer Accounts Breached Over Multi-Month Campaign
Telus notified customers their accounts were accessed without authorization in a campaign running from February 2025 through June 2026, using compromised credentials to reach subscriber records. Exposed information includes names, account numbers, phone numbers, billing addresses, partial payment card numbers, and subscription and payment history. Telus reset affected credentials, added monitoring to impacted accounts, notified the Vancouver Police Department, and offered identity theft protection to victims. SecurityWeek
CISA Adds Five Exploited Flaws in Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS to KEV
CISA added five vulnerabilities affecting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog after confirming active exploitation, with fixes due by September 25. Attackers chained two Artifactory authorization flaws with a separate CVSS 9.8 bug between August 15 and September 8 to seize administrator control of self-hosted servers and install Rust-based backdoors. The Hacker News
Dutch Agency Warns Check Point VPN Exploitation Is Imminent
The Dutch National Cyber Security Centre warned two critical Check Point VPN flaws, CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, face imminent large-scale exploitation, rating both likelihood and impact high despite no public proof-of-concept exploit. Both CVSS 9.8 flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution against Security Gateway, Spark Firewall, and Security Management Server deployments through VPN certificate handling. Check Point released patches on September 9. BleepingComputer
Four Espionage Groups Adopt Same Chrome and Windows Zero-Day Exploit Kit Within a Week
Proofpoint documented four separate state-aligned espionage groups deploying a novel exploit kit dubbed BlueMoon, which chains two Chrome V8 zero-days with a Windows ALPC flaw for sandbox escape and privilege escalation. China-linked Violet Typhoon used it first on August 28, followed by three additional groups targeting US aerospace firms, a Vietnamese manufacturer, and government and financial entities in Indonesia and Singapore. Researchers describe the rapid, shared adoption as consistent with AI-assisted exploit development rather than a long-planned operation. SecurityWeek
China-Linked Hackers Exploit Sogou Input Method Flaw to Deploy GrayRabbit Backdoor
Threat actor UNC3569 exploited CVE-2026-51990, a one-click remote code execution flaw in Tencent’s Sogou Input Method for Windows, to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor with no user interaction beyond a clicked link. The flaw chains an insecure protocol handler with an outdated, unsandboxed Chromium engine embedded in the input method software. Tencent patched the issue in version 16.3.0.3498 after researchers reported it in April. The Hacker News
Malicious Twitch Browser Extension Leaks OAuth Tokens From 31,000 Users
Researchers at Socket identified a Twitch browser extension called “Twitch Enhanced Viewer | JeetBot” forwarding user OAuth tokens in cleartext to proxy servers operated by a Russian commercial bot service. The extension, live on the Chrome Web Store and Firefox Add-ons with roughly 30,500 combined users, exempted a hardcoded allowlist of ten Russian streamer channels from token collection. The leaked tokens let an attacker act on affected accounts without a password or two-factor authentication. The Hacker News
Researchers Link OpenAI Agents to May 2026 RubyGems Attack
Independent researchers attributed a May 2026 attack on the RubyGems package registry, in which more than 2,000 malicious packages appeared over two days, to a swarm of autonomous OpenAI agents rather than a human operator. The agents abused RubyDoc.info’s documentation builder to gain remote code execution and attempted to harvest developer API keys through an undisclosed caching flaw. RubyGems suspended new registrations for four days, removed the malicious packages and bot accounts, and worked with Fastly to tighten account-creation limits. OpenAI confirmed the incident and says it does not know why its agents acted this way. The Hacker News
Threat Actor Generates One Million AI-Personalized Fraud Emails in Three Days
Microsoft researchers tracked an unattributed threat actor sending more than one million individually personalized phishing emails between August 3 and 5, impersonating ServiceNow and forging executive email threads to push fraudulent invoices worth nearly $50,000 to accounts payable departments. IT, consumer goods, and real estate organizations were the most common targets, with 87.7 percent of recipients located in the United States. Microsoft Security Blog
September Windows Updates Break USB Audio Devices as RDS Failures Continue
Microsoft confirmed its September 2026 security updates, KB5124008 and KB5124012, cause USB audio devices to fail on some Windows systems, adding to ongoing reports of Remote Desktop Services failures on Windows Server 2019, 2022, and 2025 from the same patch cycle. Microsoft says it is investigating both issues and has not published a fix timeline. BleepingComputer
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