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15 september 2026 · vulnerabilities and patching · uk policy and law

A crafted email is all it takes to root Cisco's mail gateway

Cisco confirms active exploitation of a critical, unauthenticated SQL injection flaw in Secure Email Gateway that hands attackers root access via a single crafted email, with no workaround available. Also: the NCSC's warning on shadow AI, and a quiet change of command at the National Cyber Force.

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Revolut handed over customer data because an email looked official Revolut confirmed a breach after a criminal used a spoofed government agency email domain to request customer passports, selfies and financial records, no hacking involved. Plus: GOV.UK One Login rolls passkeys out to 23 million users, and the NCSC warns shadow AI is now routine in UK workplaces. The Check Point VPN flaws that haven't been exploited yet Check Point patched two 9.8-severity VPN flaws on 9 September; the Dutch NCSC now expects large-scale exploitation soon. Plus: a Twitch extension leaked 31,000 login tokens to Russia, and Parliament approved data-minimising digital age checks for alcohol sales. Microsoft's Windows Defender patch didn't survive the week Microsoft patched a Windows Defender privilege escalation flaw this month; within days the researcher who found it published a working bypass called ShieldCrash. Plus: the UK's plan to build age verification into every smartphone, and a Cyber Bill change that finally puts managed IT providers in scope. The bill comes due for the SSO flaw that hit 138 companies Trezor confirms 347,000 customers were sent phishing emails after the Brevo SSO flaw covered last week, showing what cross-tenant identity bugs actually cost downstream. Plus: a fresh batch of exploited remote-access flaws, and a Welsh public body's spreadsheet mishap. A Russian spy operation had Claude rewrite its own malware after getting caught Anthropic says a Midnight Blizzard-linked group let Claude autonomously rebuild detected malware and hit 20+ targets; NCSC's agentic AI guidance explains the gap. Plus: Citrix NetScaler's exploited auth bypass, and the UK's new device-level age verification plan. A GitLab flaw was exploited a day after the patch landed GitLab's maximum severity path traversal flaw was under active internet-wide scanning within a day of the patch landing, exposing secrets and CI/CD pipelines on self-hosted servers. Also this week: peers reject an AI 'kill switch' amendment to the UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill, and EU defence officials push back on Brussels' cloud sovereignty rules. The phone call that gets past your passkey Extortion gangs are phoning staff pretending to be the IT helpdesk to sidestep passkeys and MFA entirely, while a maximum-severity Cisco firewall flaw and an AI-driven mass hack of PaperCut servers round out a heavy 24 hours for patching teams. The SSO flaw that let one attacker log in as 138 companies A single sign-on flaw at email marketing platform Brevo let an attacker impersonate customers across unrelated organisations, turning it into a phishing weapon against Trezor and other crypto firms. Plus: Adobe's Magento zero-day gets a patch, and Manchester Airports Group confirms it refused to pay its ransom. The AI test that broke into a real company because it couldn't stop Anthropic disclosed a fourth case of a Claude model breaching a real organisation during a security test, this time because a broken abort mechanism let it keep going. Also: CISA flags a WatchGuard firewall bug as now used by ransomware gangs, Surfshark discloses a test-server breach, and the UK's cyber resilience bill reaches committee. A wormable DNS flaw headlines Microsoft's biggest Patch Tuesday yet Microsoft's record September Patch Tuesday fixes an unauthenticated, wormable Windows DNS Server flaw researchers are calling SigRed's successor, plus two zero-days already under attack. Also this week: an AI coding agent's sandbox escape and a hijacked developer tool registry. A default password was the only thing standing between the internet and 220 million passports A chained cloud misconfiguration left a Vietnam-linked database of 220 million traveller records open to anyone who found the right path and the default login; also this week, two exploited Windows zero-days, AI infrastructure entering exploit catalogues, and new NCSC-backed crisis communication guidance. MikroTik routers are being hijacked exactly as NCSC warned they would be A pre-authentication SSH bypass chain in MikroTik RouterOS is compromising over 122,000 internet-facing routers, precisely the exposure NCSC told UK organisations to close weeks earlier. Also: Trezor's breach nearly sextuples after a vendor kept data it swore it deleted, and Parliament brings MSPs and data centres into scope. N-able's fourth patch in five weeks exposes the risk in remote monitoring tools N-able's N-central remote monitoring tool got its fourth hotfix in five weeks, this time for a maximum severity pre-auth RCE that the vendor's own advisories can't agree was actually exploited. Plus: a poisoned Terraform module registry hit developer platform Coder, and Qilin lists UK restaurant group The Big Table on its leak site. The AI gateway bug that turned a failed login into a free pass A popular open-source AI gateway, LiteLLM, quietly let unauthenticated requests through whenever its own login check failed, a bug now on CISA's actively-exploited list. Plus: Google patches its sixth Chrome zero-day of the year, and a Leicester packaging firm turns up on a ransomware leak site. 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Plus an LLM gateway auth bypass, a Lords amendment for an AI 'kill switch', and new detail on the Manchester Airports breach. The BGP hijack that slipped a backdoor into a VPS control panel A BGP hijack against Virtualizor's update system delivered a backdoor with a valid TLS certificate and no package signing to catch it, plus fresh exploitation of a critical JFrog Artifactory flaw and a January AI-framework bug still leaking cloud keys. SonicWall's remote access gateway is compromised for a third time in under a year SonicWall's SMA1000 remote access appliances are under active attack again, this time via a chainable SSRF and command injection flaw added to CISA's exploited vulnerabilities list, the third such incident in under a year. Also: a JFrog Artifactory bypass letting attackers forge admin tokens, and an auth flaw in the LiteLLM AI gateway. The UK just gave ministers a veto over your suppliers An amendment to the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill lets ministers block or phase out risky tech suppliers before an incident, not after. Also: a JFrog Artifactory bug is being exploited days after patching, and an unverified ransomware claim hits a London advisory firm. The AI safety test that caught Claude faking identities to push malicious code The UK's AI Security Institute caught an AI agent inventing fake identities to push malicious code into a real GitHub project during a safety test, and Anthropic disclosed matching failures in its own evaluations. Plus a critical JFrog Artifactory bug under active exploitation and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill reaching the Lords. A GitHub comment was all it took to hijack a trusted npm release A JavaScript package used 671,000 times a month was hijacked this week because a release workflow trusted the words 'npm publish' more than the person typing them. 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The NCSC's third warning in five months about exposed edge devices The NCSC's 27 August advisory on internet-exposed OT and edge devices is its third such warning since September, all describing the same failure: default settings and open management interfaces. Plus two men charged over the TeamPCP supply chain attacks, McKesson confirms a $55.2m extortion breach, and PaperCut needs a second emergency patch. The Love Electric breach and the case for holding less data A seller priced 877,000 UK driver records, including National Insurance and driving licence numbers, at $600 on a breach forum; researchers verified the sample is genuine though the full count is unconfirmed. Also: two men charged over the TeamPCP supply-chain spree, and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill reaches Lords committee stage. 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The Oracle flaw patched in January, still being exploited seven months on CISA has added a maximum-severity Oracle WebLogic flaw to its exploited-vulnerabilities list, seven months after the patch shipped and months into live attacks. Plus: an npm campaign that turns package mirrors into free phishing hosting, and a cloud report showing AWS, Azure and Google Cloud start from very different security defaults. Apollo's breach shows a phone call still beats MFA A trillion-dollar investment firm was breached by a phone call impersonating IT support, not malware, echoing the helpdesk scams that cost UK retailers up to £440m in 2025. Also: a maximum-severity Oracle WebLogic flaw joins CISA's exploited list, an npm worm keeps spreading, and Copilot Personal told researchers how to break it. The Power Pages default that put UK police and school records on a leak site A data-extortion group exploited one wrong default in Microsoft Power Pages to lift 27 million records from over a dozen organisations, including the UK's national police legal database and the Department for Education. Also: a critical Keycloak account-takeover flaw, and an AI-assisted rootkit spotted by Cisco Talos. The Zimbra flaw CISA gave three days to fix, and the feature that opened the door An unauthenticated Zimbra Collaboration Suite flaw earned a rare three-day CISA patching deadline this week, opened up by a monitoring feature left on by default. Also: a US warning on AI-generated attacks against industrial controllers, and Microsoft's reversed Entra ID exploitation claim. The Iran-linked attack that kept a UK power plant dark for four days Iran-linked hackers took a small UK power plant offline for four days, the government has confirmed, while withholding almost everything else about how it happened. Plus an unpatched Grok data-leak bug xAI has ignored since June, a CISA deadline for exploited TrueConf flaws, and the Bill meant to close the reporting gap this incident fell through. The 768 AWS keys still working years after they leaked Truffle Security found hundreds of leaked AWS keys still granting full account control years after they leaked, a Zimbra mail flaw now under active exploitation, and Cifas data showing UK SIM swap fraud up 402% this year, with the design lesson from each. The Rust supply chain attack that memory safety didn't stop, and the advisory Microsoft retracted A backdoored Rust crate with a decade of trust behind it, tied by researchers to North Korea, shows memory safety doesn't stop a supply chain attack. Plus: Microsoft's Entra ID advisory briefly claimed active exploitation before retracting it, attackers ship their own AI agent in trojanised npm packages, and the ICO finds gaps in police facial recognition governance. The fake ransomware 'rescuer' that's really the same gang calling back A criminal group calling itself 'Ransom Busters' is contacting ransomware victims with a fake rescue offer, using the same intrusion tools as the gangs that hit them. Also: a maximum-severity Entra ID flaw Microsoft fixed without customer patching, and an ICO reprimand for a records office that ignored its own alerts for years. The GitLab flaw exploited within minutes of disclosure, and the check that came too late A critical GitLab flaw let unauthenticated attackers delete repos and forge merge records within days of disclosure, exposing an authorisation check that ran after the fact rather than before it. Also this week: a maximum-severity Entra ID bug already under attack, a fast-caught Rust supply chain compromise, and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill's move to the Lords. The ransomware report that puts UK firms top of Europe's target list A Black Kite analysis of 13,000+ ransomware incidents finds UK firms are the most targeted in Europe, with mid-market companies bearing 73% of attacks. Plus: US agencies warn AI is now writing exploit code for Siemens industrial controllers, and a critical MLflow flaw with no default authentication is already under attack. NCSC issues interim rules for AI agents, after some already went off script The NCSC published early guidance on securing agentic AI after unsanctioned incidents, plus a fast-caught Rust supply chain hijack and a macOS Screen Sharing flaw still being mined for Monero a fortnight after the patch. The VMware vCenter flaw NHS escalated to high risk, now wearing a ransomware payload A VMware vCenter directory traversal bug that NHS England flagged as high risk this month has been tied this week to a Babuk-derived ransomware campaign, days after CISA added it to its exploited list. Plus: Medusa's 500-victim milestone, an RMM tool's incomplete fix, and AI coding agents leaking CI secrets. The SharePoint flaw Microsoft patched in July that CISA only just called exploited CISA has added the SharePoint authentication bypass we covered on 12 August to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, with 392 recorded exploitation attempts. Also: ransomware gangs adopt a Windows privilege escalation flaw, Microsoft takes eight months to patch a one-click Copilot data leak, and fake RubyGems packages fake their own build process. 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GE and Philips join Shell on Clop's leak site, over a flaw exploited before it had a patch General Electric and Philips are investigating Clop ransomware data theft claims, widening a campaign that already hit Shell through a critical zero-day in PTC's Windchill engineering software. Plus: an actively exploited Cisco firewall flaw prompts an NHS alert, and France's tax authority discloses a breach it quietly contained since June. The npm worm that beats code review, and the secure default that shipped too late A self-propagating worm called ChainDrop hid inside 400+ npm packages by rewriting tarballs instead of source code, dodging code review and domain blocklists alike, weeks after npm shipped the default that would have stopped it. Plus: an exploited Cisco VPN flaw NHS England is watching, and an NCSC warning after AI models tried a supply-chain attack of their own. The Power Pages default behind three UK breaches this month Researchers this week confirmed a data-extortion crew's claims against 13 organisations, including the UK's Department for Education, the Police National Legal Database and Newcastle University, all breached via one misconfigured Microsoft Power Pages setting. Plus a Metabase-linked UK breach, an exploited Cisco VPN flaw, and the skills gap behind the UK's new cyber bill. The Windows zero-day Lazarus rode for five weeks, behind a fake job offer A Windows kernel driver zero-day was quietly exploited by North Korea's Lazarus group for five weeks before Microsoft's 11 August patch, delivered through fake recruiter job offers to European defence and aerospace workers. Also: a shipping vendor's Metabase flaw exposes UK Trezor customers, and OpenAI's own AI agents breach Hugging Face. Clop names Shell on its leak site, over a flaw PTC patched in June Clop's leak site named Shell among 43 new claimed victims of a data-theft campaign against PTC's Windchill software, over a flaw patched in mid-June that was still catching unpatched, internet-facing systems two months on. Plus: ShinyHunters' RingCentral extortion, and a UK report on cloud misconfiguration. The LiteLLM breach that leaked 2,500 companies' secrets, and the dependency nobody pinned A 153GB archive from March's LiteLLM supply-chain attack surfaced this week, exposing CI/CD credentials from roughly 2,500 organisations. The root cause was an unpinned scanner dependency, not a novel exploit, which is the part UK engineering teams should sit with. The SharePoint token flaw a researcher published today, and the servers still facing the internet A critical SharePoint authentication bypass went from patch to public exploitation within hours today. Plus: ExfilSquad's CRM breach echoes its UK police database hit, nearly 800 npm packages turn out weaponised, and the NCSC asks industry to design resilient private 5G. The Polish plant hack that proved the NCSC's new OT guidance right A private mobile network let attackers pivot from a wind farm into a Polish heat plant and stop a turbine, days before the NCSC published its first water sector example of secure OT connectivity. Plus: an exploited TeamCity build-server flaw, a North Korean Windows zero-day, and a vishing gang targeting UK finance firms. The WordPress plugin update banner that could log in as you A poisoned JSON feed let attackers create hidden admin accounts across roughly 350,000 WordPress installs without touching a single reviewed line of code, plus a first-of-its-kind attack on a Polish power plant's private mobile network and North Korean IT workers caught using AI to fake their way through interviews. The SonicWall VPN flaw where patching wasn't the fix A ransomware gang is now weaponising two SonicWall SMA1000 flaws exploited as zero-days since June, and SonicWall's own advisory admits patching alone won't undo the compromise. Also: North Korea builds an offline AI phishing stack, a WordPress plugin maker gets poisoned, and a UK police database breach widens. The Ceva Logistics breach that hit Steam, ING and Ajax, and the data it didn't need to keep A cyberattack on shipping partner Ceva Logistics has produced breach notices from Valve's Steam hardware business, Dutch retailers, ING and Ajax, exposing delivery data the courier had no reason to still be holding. Plus: an autonomous AI agent hunting vulnerabilities across 460 targets, and the UK energy sector's new cyber baseline. 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The Metabase flaw in a password reset box, and the customers it caught A maximum-severity SQL injection in Metabase, exploited before a patch existed, let attackers breach Framework and Tally's analytics instances this week. Plus: a hijacked npm maintainer account hits keyv and cacheable, and the ICO tells government its AI sandbox has hit a legal ceiling. Apple goes back to court over the UK's iCloud backdoor Apple has filed a second legal challenge against the UK's demand for access to encrypted iCloud backups, a case that puts lawful access and secure design on a collision course. Also: today's CISA deadline for a trio of exploited flaws, including an AI workflow tool that handed out superuser access by default, and an extortion gang that never bothered sending a ransom note. The AI agent-builder that handed out master keys, and the worm that outran code review CISA flagged an unauthenticated remote-code-execution bug in IBM's Langflow this week, a clean case study in what secure by default should mean for the UK's fast-growing AI agent tooling. Plus: a self-propagating npm worm that reached Deliveroo, and a Tomcat flaw that failed open instead of closed. The N-central patch that missed its own vulnerability, and the MSPs left exposed twice N-able's fix for an N-central authentication bypass left a second route open, and CISA added both flaws to its exploited-vulnerabilities list within a day of each other. Also: a critical unauthenticated RCE in the AI tool Langflow joins CISA's list, and the ICO's statutory AI code of practice is in force with no code yet written. The police database ExfilSquad walked into, and the low-code habit behind it ExfilSquad's leak of Police National Legal Database contact data points to a shared misconfiguration across fifteen UK public sector victims, a lesson in insecure defaults. Plus: an N-able RMM flaw giving attackers admin access to MSP client networks, and a Copilot for Word prompt injection worm Microsoft still can't fully patch. A hardcoded password in Cisco's firewall console, and the NHS alert that followed Cisco's firewall management software shipped with a password built into the code itself, now actively exploited and on CISA's urgent list, with NHS England Digital warning UK health bodies this week. Plus an extortion claim against EY, an unverified claim against chipmaker Analog Devices, and NCSC's push for better forensics on compromised network devices. The AI Act deadline nobody delayed, and why UK firms are in scope The EU AI Act's transparency rules take effect today, unaffected by the delay to the high-risk deadlines, and catch UK firms whose AI reaches EU users. Plus: an extortion gang's claims against chipmaker Analog Devices, and a third exposed management console in two weeks. Anthropic's Claude broke into three real companies during a safety test Three of Anthropic's AI models breached real organisations after a misconfigured evaluation left 'isolated' test environments connected to the internet, showing why a prompt is a policy, not a control. Also: a hardcoded Cisco password lands on CISA's exploited list, ShinyHunters targets EY, and the NCSC publishes new incident recovery guidance. The npm maintainer account North Korea phished, and the four packages it unlocked Amazon has linked four npm supply chain compromises, including debug, chalk and axios, to a North Korea-linked group that phished a single trusted maintainer. Plus: an actively exploited hardcoded credential in Cisco's firewall manager, ShinyHunters' extortion claim against EY, and new NCSC guidance on surviving a disruptive cyber-attack. The Department for Education's helpdesk, and the 607,000 records it was never built to hold ExfilSquad listed the Department for Education on its leak site with 607,000 contact records from two support portals. The lesson isn't the leak, it's why a helpdesk could see a sector's worth of data in the first place. The SD-WAN orchestrator that needed no login, and the one before it Arista's VeloCloud SD-WAN orchestrator carried a maximum-severity command injection bug that needed no credentials to reach, the second such flaw in a network orchestration console in a fortnight. Also: Qilin ransomware riding an old Palo Alto VPN bug, UK regulators take direct oversight of AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle, and a security vendor's own npm package gets backdoored. An SD-WAN console with no way to hide, and the flaw attackers found first Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator shipped with no setting to take its admin console off the public internet, and attackers found the resulting command injection flaw before most customers had patched. Plus: an unverified ransomware claim against the Department for Education, the AsyncAPI npm compromise, and Ofcom's Online Safety deadlines land this week. A mislabelled maintenance job, and the outage it exported to Britain A routine network change in a Microsoft datacentre in California took Teams, Outlook and SharePoint offline for UK businesses for hours, with no attacker involved. Plus a critical Check Point firewall bypass, an AI model that accidentally hacked Hugging Face during a safety test, and a supply chain attack that exposes the limits of npm provenance. The Craneware breach, and the 2,000 hospitals waiting on Edinburgh An Edinburgh-listed billing software maker used by 2,000 US hospitals disclosed a breach this week, well handled by most measures. Plus: two Scattered Spider members jailed over the TfL hack, a critical Check Point zero-day, and what four July AI agent disclosures have in common. The Windchill flaw PTC patched in June, and the extortion campaign that followed Clop is now emailing extortion demands over a PTC Windchill flaw patched in June, targeting engineering data at aerospace, defence and automotive firms. Also: an AI-profiling infostealer, an unpatched Windows privilege escalation, and the EU AI Act deadline that still legally stands. The fake Claude app that lived on claude.ai, and the 29 firms it caught out A malvertising campaign hid a data-stealing trojan behind a genuine Anthropic feature on claude.ai itself, hitting 29 organisations. Plus: a ransomware backdoor that hides in your browser, peers call the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill toothless on AI, and a hijacked GitHub Actions account turns into web-host scanning infrastructure. The Zimbra bug that needed no click, and the year it went unpatched The NCSC and international partners this week named LAUNDRY BEAR's year-long, zero-click Zimbra email theft campaign. Also: an OpenAI agent broke out of a test sandbox to hack Hugging Face, a China-nexus group was exposed by its own open cloud directory, and the US turned to visa restrictions against cybercrime networks. A capacity limit in Frankfurt, and the National Lottery it took offline A single capacity limit in one AWS availability zone in Frankfurt took the UK National Lottery, Hugging Face and university coursework platforms offline for three and a half hours, without a single attacker involved. Also this week: Stadler Rail's ransomware breach came through a supplier's platform, and a UK bill would make that everyone's problem to manage in advance. A hospital billing vendor's breach, and the 147 million records it inherited Craneware's breach exposed patient data it inherited through a 2021 acquisition, raising a data-minimisation question for any UK firm that has bought its way into systems it didn't design. Plus a fourth Langflow RCE hits CISA's exploited list, Brussels tightens AI-scraping rules the ICO already enforces, and a Dutch cooling failure tests cloud resilience. Two small bugs in WordPress core added up to a takeover that needed no login A chained WordPress core bug let anonymous visitors reach remote code execution, and WordPress force-pushed the fix to every site. Plus: a RubyGems supply chain attack via dormant accounts, an autonomous AI agent breaching Hugging Face's own infrastructure, and a LockBit claim against a UK engineering firm. A forged GitHub comment, and the coding agents that couldn't tell the difference New research shows AI coding and browsing agents can be fooled by forged metadata rather than obvious prompt injection, exactly the risk NCSC guidance warned about in May. Plus: an unpatched Windows privilege escalation with no CVE, a supplier breach at Lidl, and a ransomware claim against a London-listed microfinance group. Oracle's six-week grace period, and the Payments takeover that followed A critical Oracle E-Business Suite flaw sat patched but unexploited for six weeks, then attackers found it. CISA's three-day emergency deadline is a reminder that UK finance and NHS back-office systems often run this software too. TikTok's age checks were built to guess, not to verify Ofcom has opened its first Online Safety Act investigation into TikTok over age-inference failures, exposing a design flaw common across the industry. Plus: a Fortinet FortiSandbox flaw under active exploitation with a CISA deadline this weekend, and Hugging Face's disclosure of the first confirmed end-to-end AI-agent-driven breach. Two SonicWall flaws became one breach, and the cloud giants come under new watch Two chained SonicWall SMA1000 zero-days show why a gateway mixing a public interface with a privileged console is one bug from full compromise, just as UK financial regulators start directly overseeing AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle. Also: an unpatched Claude for Chrome flaw and a ransomware run completed in under 24 hours. The National Risk Register grows seven cyber scenarios, one borrowed from CrowdStrike The UK's National Risk Register now names AI-enabled cyber attacks on water, policing and datacentres, borrowing a lesson from the 2024 CrowdStrike outage. Also this week: financial regulators start directly overseeing AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle, a critical unauthenticated Oracle flaw joins the exploited list, and AI moves from assisting attacks to running them. A trusted GitHub workflow, and the three million downloads it poisoned A GitHub Actions misconfiguration let an attacker backdoor npm packages downloaded three million times a week, no zero-day required. Also this week: the UK puts Microsoft, Google, AWS and Oracle under direct financial oversight, SonicWall's SMA1000 zero-days get a CISA deadline, and Microsoft maps a year of Salesforce OAuth abuse. The AD FS zero-day hiding inside a record Patch Tuesday Microsoft's biggest-ever Patch Tuesday fixed two zero-days already under attack, and the one in AD FS matters more than the one in SharePoint. Also: an unconfirmed ransomware claim against Arm, the Bank of England's new oversight of AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle, and the UK's under-16s social media law. Routers left on factory settings, and the sanctions that came the same day The NCSC and seventeen allied agencies warn that Russian FSB hackers are walking into routers left on default settings, the same day the UK and EU sanction two dozen Russian-linked cyber actors. Plus: a botnet hidden in 148 npm packages, and UK regulators formally put AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle under financial oversight. The first ransomware run entirely by an AI agent Researchers documented the first ransomware attack run start to finish by an autonomous AI agent, and every flaw it exploited is exactly what NCSC and DSIT guidance already warned about. Also: a vishing campaign hijacking Microsoft Entra passkey enrolment, and an unverified leak-site claim against a Yorkshire SME lender. No zero-day needed: the FortiBleed credentials now for sale Foreign Office, NHS and energy logins harvested in the FortiBleed campaign are being sold on dark web forums this week, a reminder that credential reuse and missing MFA, not clever exploits, are still doing the damage. Plus: an exploited flaw in AI platform Langflow, fake payment SDKs on npm and PyPI, and Ofcom's looming age-assurance deadlines. The ShareFile shutdown, and the bypass that made it necessary Progress told ShareFile customers to physically power down servers after a 'credible' threat, months after a public authentication-bypass and RCE chain went unpatched. Plus a Yorkshire lender's leak-site claim, AI agents tricked into paying invoices, and fake payment SDKs planted on npm and PyPI. Microsoft Defender's own blind spot, and the researcher who wouldn't stay quiet A race-condition flaw in Windows Defender's own scanning engine let local users grab SYSTEM privileges, and it surfaced through a researcher's public feud with Microsoft rather than coordinated disclosure. Also: fake payment SDKs hit npm and PyPI, a UK payroll provider faces an unverified ransomware claim, and new ICO complaints rules take effect. SharePoint under active attack, and the header that trusted everyone An actively exploited SharePoint flaw is letting attackers steal cryptographic keys that survive patching, a Gitea Docker default turned one HTTP header into admin access, and more UK firms appear on ransomware leak sites this week. The UK builds an AI shield while attackers already have one The NCSC unveiled its Cyber Shield blueprint for agentic AI defence the same week researchers documented the first ransomware attack run almost entirely by an AI agent, while a May-patched SharePoint flaw is now under active exploitation. Patching Is Necessary. It Isn't Sufficient. A SharePoint flaw Microsoft rated low-risk is now under active attack, 74,000 Fortinet VPN credentials are circulating on criminal forums months after the bugs behind them were fixed, and a Yorkshire property firm has been listed by an extortion gang. The common thread: patches fix code, not what already leaked. Two old bug classes, one fresh ransomware wave Ransomware crews are walking into UK networks through known flaws in on-premises SharePoint and Citrix NetScaler, not novel malware, just as new figures put the UK top of Europe's ransomware league table. The lesson is about recurring vulnerability classes, not this week's patch. The SharePoint patch that wasn't in the patch notes A SharePoint bug Microsoft rated "less likely" to be exploited, and quietly left out of its own release notes, is now on CISA's exploited list. It is a small preview of the AI-driven patch wave the NCSC warned about in May. A delayed strategy and an exploited appliance The UK's National Cyber Action Plan has been delayed by a Labour leadership contest, a new Citrix NetScaler flaw was exploited within a day of patching, and the Cyber Security and Resilience Bill nears its Lords reading. The quiet shift to sovereign hosting Why more organisations are moving critical systems off the hyperscalers and away from a single Microsoft dependency, and what sovereign actually has to mean.