Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

On July 2, 2026, CISA added CVE-2026-45659, a SharePoint Server RCE, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog with a two-day patch deadline. Storm-2603 is using it to stage Warlock ransomware, living off the land the whole way. Here is why it matters, plus a free 12-rule Sigma pack to hunt it.

CISA confirms BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is now used in ransomware attacks to gain SYSTEM privileges through Microsoft Defender. BlueHammer, tracked as CVE-2026-33825, has moved from proof-of-concept noise to real ransomware attacks in the wild, the US CISA confirms. BlueHammer allows attackers to escalate privileges locally in Microsoft Defender. The vulnerability, along with two other zero-days dubbed […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has urged government agencies to apply patches for two security flaws impacting Synacor Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) and Microsoft Office SharePoint, stating they have been actively exploited in the wild

Amazon Threat Intelligence is warning of an active Interlock ransomware campaign that's exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software

Hackers are actively exploiting the CVE-2026-1731 vulnerability in the BeyondTrust Remote Support product, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns. [...]

Rapid7's Christiaan Beek on Ransomware Tactics and How to Mitigate Attacks in 2026Ransomware attacks are reaching record highs, and 2026 may be even worse, said Christiaan Beek, senior director of threat intel and analytics at Rapid7. He warns that hackers are exploiting vulnerabilities as soon as they're disclosed, and they're focusing on flaws in devices on the network edge.

ReliaQuest warns that initial access vulnerability exploitation is driving successful ransomware attacks

Tech Giant Says Threat Actors Are Exploiting a Flaw in Widely-Targeted Windows ToolRansomware threat actors are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability discovered in a highly targeted Windows logging system tool in a campaign in part targeting U.S. IT and real estate sectors, Microsoft confirmed in a Tuesday blog post urging customers to apply available patches.

Transportation facilities and networks slowly adapt to changes and threats, leaving them vulnerable to agile cyberattackers, as demonstrated by the $10 million ransomware attack.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency added flaws in Fortinet and a popular GitHub Action to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

The latest Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 Cloud Threat Report found that sensitive data is found in 66% of cloud storage buckets. This data is vulnerable to ransomware attacks. The SANS Institute recently reported that these attacks can be performed by abusing the cloud provider’s storage security controls and default settings

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a critical security flaw impacting Jenkins to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following its exploitation in ransomware attacks

​CISA has added a critical Jenkins vulnerability that can be exploited to gain remote code execution to its catalog of security bugs, warning that it's actively exploited in attacks. [...]

CISA has ordered U.S. Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to secure their servers against a VMware ESXi authentication bypass vulnerability exploited in ransomware attacks. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity Windows vulnerability abused in ransomware attacks as a zero-day to its catalog of actively exploited security bugs. [...]

Researchers warn of a “ransomware free-for-all” after ScreenConnect vulnerability is exploited

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a now-patched security flaw impacting Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it's being likely exploited in Akira ransomware attacks

Cybersecurity researchers are warning of suspected exploitation of a recently disclosed critical security flaw in the Apache ActiveMQ open-source message broker service that could result in remote code execution

Cisco is warning of a zero-day vulnerability in its Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) that is actively exploited by ransomware operations to gain initial access to corporate networks. [...]

Pediatric mental health provider Brightline is warning patients that it suffered a data breach impacting 783,606 people after a ransomware gang stole data using a zero-day vulnerability in its Fortra GoAnywhere MFT secure file-sharing platform. [...]