6 CVEs published in the last four months and 12 stories. Exploited flaws first.

23-year-old botnet down

Unauthenticated intruders can mint admin tokens, and exposed servers are already being hit

CVE-2026-82329 is an authentication bypass flaw in JFrog's repository manager that enables bad actors to gain admin-level access on affected systems.

Threat actors are exploiting a newly patched critical security flaw impacting JFrog Artifactory merely days after public disclosure, according to watchTowr. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-82329 (CVSS score: 9.8), a case of authentication bypass that could lead to administrative access in Artifactory. "JFrog Artifactory contains an authentication weakness that, under default

Exploitation of the authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-82329 started just days after its public disclosure. The post Critical JFrog Artifactory Vulnerability Reportedly Exploited in the Wild appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The major healthcare sector vendor did not identify the attackers, but ShinyHunters, a prolific group increasingly targeting the sector, claimed responsibility. The post McKesson copes with fallout from data theft extortion attack appeared first on CyberScoop.

Under the bill, FERC would consider cyber threats from quantum computers and post-quantum cryptography in its reliability standards for the energy sector. The post Bipartisan Senate bill aims to prepare energy sector for Q-Day appeared first on CyberScoop.

Two Artifactory flaws allowed attackers to poison package metadata across software repositories

Because apparently even ransomware gangs can't trust the people they do business with

Another one bites the dust

A former data analyst contractor for Brightly Software has been sentenced to two years in prison for targeting his employer in a $2.5 million extortion scheme. [...]

AWS Certificate Manager (ACM) will phase out email validation for public certificates throughout 2027, ahead of the Certification Authority/Browser (CA/B) Forum’s March 15, 2028 deadline for ending email-based domain validation. The CA/B Forum sets standards that browsers and certificate authorities follow for publicly trusted certificates. From March 15, 2028, public certificate authorities will