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Shadowserver Foundation

Nonprofit organisation that scans the internet for vulnerable and compromised systems, sharing threat intelligence with defenders and national CERTs.

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buildOne report1 publisher

Attackers had 24 days to diff Zimbra's quiet 10.1.20 fix before CVE-2026-73570 was disclosed

Attackers are exploiting Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaw CVE-2026-73570, which Synacor fixed quietly in 10.1.20 on July 20 and disclosed on August 13. An upgrade closes the injection path, but a web shell written earlier stays on disk until someone finds it.

Publishers:infoq.com

Reality

Evidence58
Adoption30
Hype gap+10
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence55
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Crafted emails give attackers shells on Zimbra servers running SNMP notifications

Microsoft says attackers are using CVE-2026-73570 to run commands on Zimbra mail servers with one crafted email and no login. Zimbra shipped the fix in 10.1.20 on July 20, 24 days before disclosure, so anyone who waited for the advisory to patch was already late.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
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Builder 21%
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Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence80
Adoption40
Hype gap+5
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence75
securityConfirmed4 publishers

Canada's Cyber Centre flags live attacks on a pre-login Roundcube SQL injection

Canada's Cyber Centre says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-48842, a no-login SQL injection in Roundcube's virtuser_query plugin rated 8.1. Only unpatched servers running that plugin are exposed, and Shadowserver flags 10 vulnerable hosts out of more than 523,000 online.

Perspective Coverage

4 publishers
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Builder 25%
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Operator 70%
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Investor 5%

Reality

Evidence55
Adoption30
Hype gap+25
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence60
securityConfirmed5 publishers

NetScaler auth bypass at 9.3: the box is the perimeter, so patch it this week

CVE-2026-19490 lets an unauthenticated attacker past NetScaler gateway and AAA virtual servers. Rapid7 has seen no exploitation yet and expects it shortly.

Perspective Coverage

5 publishers
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Builder 14%
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Operator 73%
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Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption62
Hype gap+10
Incentives38
Confidence75
securityConfirmed7 publishers

Default self-registration hands unauthenticated attackers Gitea's exploited RCE on 8,393 servers

Gitea shipped a fix for CVE-2026-60004 on July 27 and CISA gave federal agencies until August 28, yet a month later Shadowserver still counts 8,393 exposed instances, and on shipped defaults the bug needs no credentials.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 67%
Investor
Investor 11%

Reality

Evidence62
Adoption40
Hype gap+20
Incentives
Not scored
Confidence58
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
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Builder 27%
Operator
Operator 60%
Investor
Investor 13%

Reality

Evidence85
Adoption70
Hype gap−10
Incentives40
Confidence78
securityConfirmed8 publishers

Investigators sinkholed Sality's peer list to strand more than 15,000 infected Windows hosts

The August 31 operation cut the operator off from over 15,000 bots without cleaning a single disk. The Sality hosts on your network will stop calling home and keep infecting every executable they can write to.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
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Builder 36%
Operator
Operator 42%
Investor
Investor 22%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+25
Incentives68
Confidence75
securityConfirmed8 publishers

Exposed MikroTik SSH hands over full administrative control without authentication

CERT Polska dated successful attacks to at least September 2 and published its warning on September 5, so operators who deferred the RouterOS update have three days of configuration changes to read as well as a patch to install.

Perspective Coverage

8 publishers
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Builder 19%
Operator
Operator 73%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence78
Adoption45
Hype gap+18
Incentives30
Confidence72
securityConfirmed7 publishers

CVE-2026-86218 gives unauthenticated attackers code execution on N-able N-central consoles

N-able shipped N-central 2026.3 HF4 on Saturday and says nothing confirms production exploitation, while Huntress calls the bug a possible zero-day and has one compromised customer console whose logs had already rotated.

Perspective Coverage

7 publishers
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Builder 17%
Operator
Operator 75%
Investor
Investor 8%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption40
Hype gap+10
Incentives55
Confidence70
securityConfirmed6 publishers

Malware on F5 BIG-IP APM appliances splices its PHP web shell into Apache's memory

Sophos says the code patches Apache and hooks the PHP module loader so the shell never lands on disk, which leaves file-integrity checking on an appliance that was never running EDR unable to prove much.

Perspective Coverage

6 publishers
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Builder 37%
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Operator 57%
Investor
Investor 6%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap+10
Incentives35
Confidence70
securityConfirmed3 publishers

MikroTik's new RouterOS builds check whether the device was already compromised

MikroTik published RouterOS fixes in four branches with no CVE and no technical detail. The same upgrade runs a compromise check and writes a critical log entry marking the device Flagged.

Publishers:cert.pl forum.mikrotik.com helpnetsecurity.com

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
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Builder 22%
Operator
Operator 71%
Investor
Investor 7%

Reality

Evidence76
Adoption
Not scored
Hype gap−40
Incentives45
Confidence72
buildOne report1 publisher

ZoomEye's SonicWall SMA fingerprint returns 7 records against Shadowserver's several hundred

Three published exposure counts for the September 2026 SonicWall SMA1000 chain measure three different objects: identifiable banners, text mentions, and observed instances.

Publishers:dev.to

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption25
Hype gap−10
Incentives65
Confidence45
securityOne report1 publisher

Microsoft shipped nine cloud fixes that cost its customers nothing to deploy

The nine flaws Microsoft fixed in Entra ID, Cosmos DB and six other services never reached a patch queue. The week's real remediation cost sat instead with 21,000 exposed Exchange servers and one Minnesota county.

Publishers:securityweek.com

Reality

Evidence45
Adoption55
Hype gap−10
Incentives60
Confidence50
securityConfirmed3 publishers

Public exploit code for CVE-2026-62911 is outpacing patching on 21,899 exposed Exchange servers

Microsoft patched the Exchange authentication bypass on August 11. Shadowserver's September 1 scan still counts 21,899 internet-facing servers unpatched, and NCSC-NL says working exploit code for full mailbox takeover is circulating.

Perspective Coverage

3 publishers
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Builder 20%
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Operator 68%
Investor
Investor 12%

Reality

Evidence72
Adoption30
Hype gap+18
Incentives70
Confidence68
productOne report1 publisher

CrowdStrike talked a 23-year-old botnet into disconnecting itself

The company found weaknesses in Sality's peer-to-peer design and fed it false information until infected machines dropped their controller. The FBI and Justice Department handled the domain seizures.

Publishers:thenextweb.com

Reality

Evidence36
Adoption30
Hype gap+24
Incentives74
Confidence45