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ReliaQuest

Cybersecurity company providing managed detection and response services, with a threat research team that tracks emerging attack campaigns and vulnerabilities.

Known aliases

  • ReliaQuest Threat Research
  • ReliaQuest Threat Research Team
  • ReliaQuestTR

Current stories

securityOne report1 publisher

Qilin and Settra ransomware crews exploit PAN-OS GlobalProtect bypass CVE-2026-0257

Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access authentication bypass disclosed in May. ReliaQuest says access through a victim's own VPN can look like remote work until credential theft or ransomware deployment is underway.

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence50
investConfirmed6 publishers

Harmonic Security raises $50 million while two of its rivals go to larger buyers

Harmonic Security raised a $50 million Series B led by Crosspoint Capital Partners, lifting its total funding to $76 million. Calcalist put rival Prompt Security's sale at about $250 million on $23 million raised, the nearest price comparison.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
Builder
Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 38%
Investor
Investor 35%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption35
Hype gap+20
Incentives65
Confidence62
securityOne report1 publisher

Ransomware actors exploit Palo Alto GlobalProtect bypass CVE-2026-0257, ReliaQuest reports

ReliaQuest reports ransomware actors are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access. The Bedrock Agents credential flaw Zenity found is already fixed.

Publishers:isc.sans.edu

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Qilin and Settra ransomware crews are using a PAN-OS VPN bypass disclosed in May

ReliaQuest says Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, a PAN-OS GlobalProtect auth bypass disclosed May 13. Upgrading closes the entry point, but sessions opened before the upgrade may survive it.

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityConfirmed7 publishers

A Windchill RCE chain that never encrypts anything, and the June hunt window it opens

Suspected Cl0p operators chain a FlexPLM WSDL disclosure to CVE-2026-12569 for unauthenticated code execution. No encryption stage means ransomware-tuned detections stay silent.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
Builder
Builder 13%
Operator
Operator 64%
Investor
Investor 23%

Reality

Evidence68
Adoption50
Hype gap−10
Incentives45
Confidence64
securityOne report1 publisher

Clop's 43-victim batch puts PLM servers, not file transfer, at the centre of mass exploitation

Shell says it is investigating after Clop claimed 89GB of engineering data. It is one of 43 names the gang tied to a single flaw in internet-exposed PTC Windchill and FlexPLM.

Reality

Evidence60
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives60
Confidence58
securityConfirmed5 publishers

ShinyHunters phished the firm that had just profiled it, and device trust was the only thing that mattered

A ReliaQuest employee gave up a password and an MFA push five days after the company named the .claims campaign. Device trust, not training, kept the session worthless.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
Builder
Builder 29%
Operator
Operator 56%
Investor
Investor 15%

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives70
Confidence62
securityConfirmed9 publishers

McKesson's 8-K locates the stolen data inside third-party applications

The distributor found the intrusion on August 25, 2026, the same day ShinyHunters says its four-day exfiltration ended. It has not named the vendor applications involved, so customers are left scoping their own integrations.

Perspective Coverage

9 publishers
Builder
Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 66%
Investor
Investor 17%

Reality

Evidence50
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+40
Incentives70
Confidence55
securityOne report1 publisher

Blank envelope senders carry spoofed internal phishing past Exchange Online's RejectDirectSend

ReliaQuest's tests show Exchange Online accepts unauthenticated mail when the visible From header matches the tenant domain and the SMTP envelope sender is left empty. Forty percent of those messages went to senior leaders.

Publishers:scworld.com

Reality

Evidence48
Adoption42
Hype gap+10
Incentives65
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

A caller posing as ReliaQuest's security team turned one push approval into a live session

ReliaQuest says an August 22 caller named a real colleague to steer staff onto a lookalike single sign-on page, and the password plus push approval that followed bought a brief session on its identity dashboard.

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption58
Hype gap−8
Incentives66
Confidence55
buildOne report1 publisher

Clop's Windchill implant borrows the app's own keystore, so app logs are the only witness

ReliaQuest says a custom JSP web shell decrypts LDAP admin secrets with Windchill's own API and indexes the design vault over existing database connections. Network telemetry sees very little.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence34
Adoption20
Hype gap+26
Incentives62
Confidence36