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CVE-2026-75650 is rated CVSS 10.0 and Adobe shipped the fix on 8 September, four days into active exploitation. Applying it is only half the remediation — the encryption keys have to be rotated as well. And the first confirmed victim was already running the August patches, which is why patching is not the same as being clear.
Rapid7 found a Linux implant built into the HAProxy binaries of two South Korean organisations, intercepting traffic and erasing its own requests from the proxy's own logs. Every headline calls it an HAProxy backdoor. Installing it requires already owning the host, which makes patching HAProxy the one response that changes nothing.
HOOKEDGE polls webhook.site for command files, runs them, and posts the output back as HTML. No custom infrastructure, no compiled binary, no exotic protocol — a .cmd script and a free service anyone can sign up for. Recorded Future ties it to APT28 with moderate confidence, and says so.
Sleepwalker is a Windows backdoor with a 23-instruction custom bytecode language, AES-256-CCM, and no outbound connections at all. It sits dormant until a specially crafted packet arrives. It loads by side-loading through a security vendor's own management agent while pretending to be Microsoft's dpapi.dll — and the researcher who found it says plainly that he cannot name a single victim.
Acronis attributes PATCHCORD to APT36 with moderate confidence. It arrives as a fake Afghan Telecom transport app, hides its console window, and survives reboots by hijacking the Chrome, Edge and Firefox shortcuts on the desktop.
Attackers took credentials for a DigitalOcean Spaces bucket that BdThemes' promotional banner fetches JSON from. The plugin source stayed clean. Every admin page load ran the attacker's JavaScript anyway.