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In April 2026, we at Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) responded to a security incident at a manufacturing organization in the Middle East. The threat actor obtained domain admin-equivalent control of the organization’s Active Directory environment and authored a malicious Group Policy Object (GPO) named PAYLOAD, linking it at the domain root. Through that…

Cisco Talos is actively tracking the exploitation of two vulnerabilities in Cisco’s Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software. First, CVE-2026-20079 is an authentication bypass vulnerability in unpatched instances of Cisco’s Secure FMC Software, which allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentications and execute scripts on impacted devices to obtain root access to the underlying…