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Jake Knott

Security researcher at watchTowr, a cybersecurity firm that analyzes exploited vulnerabilities in enterprise software and network appliances.

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  • Jack Knott

Current stories

securityConfirmed5 publishers

GitLab's 9.4 GraphQL bug went from patch to in-the-wild traffic in about two days

WatchTowr reproduced CVE-2026-19478 from the advisory and patch alone, then caught the first exploitation attempts on its honeypots. Self-managed owners do not get a week to schedule this.

Publishers:govinfosecurity.com horizon3.ai securityaffairs.com securityweek.com thehackernews.com

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 29%
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Operator 63%
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Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives62
Confidence70
securityConfirmed11 publishers

Third NetScaler zero-day hits SAML appliances already patched against the first two

Citrix confirmed CVE-2026-88779, a third exploited NetScaler zero-day, after appliances patched against the previous two began rebooting under attack. The vendor rates it denial of service, though logged payloads and a researcher's honeypot point toward code execution.

Perspective Coverage

11 publishers
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Builder 19%
Operator
Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives50
Confidence70
securityConfirmed12 publishers

Attackers reach admin on Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager by encoding one URL character

Cisco says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-76504, a 9.8-rated flaw that gives unauthenticated requests admin access to the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager API. Every configuration is affected, leaving exposed on-premises Managers needing an out-of-cycle upgrade and a check for earlier intrusion.

Perspective Coverage

12 publishers
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Builder 14%
Operator
Operator 76%
Investor
Investor 10%

Reality

Evidence85
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives40
Confidence80
securityConfirmed5 publishers

Kiteworks tells customers to shut down even internal file-sharing servers for six hours

Kiteworks told customers worldwide to power off its file-sharing servers for six hours on September 26 after a federal warning of a possible attack. Servers with no internet exposure are included, so being on release 9.5.1 with every known fix does not by itself clear a customer.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 18%
Operator
Operator 73%
Investor
Investor 9%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+20
Incentives45
Confidence62
securityConfirmed10 publishers

Chained PaperCut flaws let unauthenticated requests load attacker Java into the server process

Huntress has seen exploitation in two customer environments. One flaw hands over PaperCut's configuration without a login, the second turns that configuration into a class loader, so patching and config review are one job.

Perspective Coverage

10 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 60%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence85
Adoption70
Hype gap−10
Incentives40
Confidence78