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\ue804<\/i>Ravie Lakshmanan<\/span>\ue802<\/i>Sep 28, 2026<\/span><\/span>Cybersecurity News \/ Hacking<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing exotic. Mostly things nobody expected to matter anymore.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the full recap of what mattered this week.<\/p>\n

\u26a1 Threat of the Week<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Citrix Warns of Actively Exploited NetScaler ADC and Gateway Flaws <\/strong>\u2014 Citrix released patches to address multiple vulnerabilities, including CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, that have come under active exploitation. CVE-2026-88771 is an improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands, while successful exploitation of CVE-2026-88772 could allow for remote code execution or denial-of-service. CISA said \u00abthreat actors are actively exploiting these vulnerabilities globally,\u00bb urging federal agencies to apply patches by Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd14 Top News<\/strong><\/h2>\n