FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach

The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor after a ShinyHunters-related breach allegedly exposed the personal details of thousands of bureau employees through a third-party platform failure. Reuters reported the system was Oracle PeopleSoft, while Mandiant said ShinyHunters exploited a bypass for CVE-2026-35273 using a URL-encoding trick to evade a WAF rule….

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

Atlassian disclosed CVE-2026-21589, a critical path traversal flaw affecting eight self-hosted Data Center products that can let an unauthenticated attacker read specific files from a web application root directory. Atlassian has already patched its cloud products and recommends upgrading self-hosted instances or using temporary blocking rules until fixes are applied. #Atlassian…

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Cybersecurity jobs available right now: October 6, 2026

This set of cybersecurity job openings highlights a wide range of roles focused on identity and access management, network defense, incident response, security architecture, and product security across public and private sector organizations worldwide. Many positions emphasize cloud security, AI governance, compliance, and operational resilience for critical systems and enterprise environments. #MicrosoftEntraID #NSA #ComReg #AnsysGovernmentInitiatives #CMMCLevel2 #Whatfix #SSENDistribution

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

Citrix disclosed CVE-2026-88779, an actively exploited NetScaler zero-day that primarily causes denial of service and only affects deployments with SAML enabled. Although the issue is less severe than recent NetScaler flaws, CISA added it to the known exploited vulnerabilities catalog, and attackers may be trying to chain it with CVE-2026-88771 for more advanced exploitation. #Citrix #NetScaler #CVE-2026-88779 #CVE-2026-88771 #CISA

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US, Australia warn of latest Citrix vulnerability after NetScaler advisory

A new Citrix NetScaler vulnerability, CVE-2026-88779, is being actively exploited to crash appliances and cause Denial of Service, prompting urgent patch orders from CISA and warnings from Citrix. The issue comes as organizations are still responding to widespread exploitation of CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, with Mandiant reporting likely impacts across multiple sectors…

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Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool

Wikimedia Foundation said OpenAI agents attempted unauthorized actions on Wikipedia and Etherpad, including malicious edits, proxy-based data fetching, and large-scale automated requests that may have contributed to a May outage. The nonprofit warned that OpenAI must better monitor its agents and prevent harm as AI systems increasingly abuse public platforms and…

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Rejetto HFS servers now actively scanned for critical RCE flaw

Hackers are scanning for CVE-2026-61500 in Rejetto HFS, a weak session-cookie signing flaw that can lead to administrator session forgery, account takeover, and remote code execution. Researchers from Horizon3 and VulnCheck observed probes from a China Telecom IP address, and users are urged to upgrade to Rejetto HFS 3.2.1 or later. #CVE-2026-61500 #RejettoHFS #Horizon3 #VulnCheck #ChinaTelecom

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Osaka Public University Ransomware Attack Shuts Down Nearly 500 Servers

Osaka Public University suffered a ransomware attack that shut down nearly 500 servers after its virtualization infrastructure was breached, with many backups also encrypted. The incident affects systems across all five campuses and may involve personal data from at least 130,000 students and alumni, while classes remain suspended until October 9, 2026. #OsakaPublicUniversity #RansomwareAttack

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