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This week, two big vulnerabilities are in the news. The first one is the PHP2Shell vulnerability, for which a Zeek detector was published yesterday. The second, equally important, vulnerability is the compromise of some intermediate certificates of the eMudhra Certificate Authority (CA).

We recently collaborated with OpenAI, PHP, and a number of other organizations to respond to a pair of serious remote code execution vulnerabilities in PHP that are likely to impact the majority of the world's public web servers. PHP underpins a large part of the web, powering content management systems, online stores, and business applications. Its security matters to vital services that millions of people and organizations rely on daily.

What if security teams could combine knowledge of which systems are vulnerable with evidence of how an attacker is actually moving through the network?

In the process of fuzzing MS-RPC and Distributed File System (DFS) APIs, we discovered a one-packet mechanism set to crash an entire Windows server, which the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) later assigned as CVE-2026-70111.

When I got back from Black Hat USA, I was stunned. Of course, it’s easy to be overwhelmed by Black Hat. There is so much going on. Las Vegas casinos are loud and flashy. Going outdoors feels like standing on the surface of the sun. Everywhere you walk there are strong smells, and you hope it’s a delicious meal, but sometimes it’s not.

In Hunting Citrix NetScaler zero-days with Corelight, we explored how network evidence from Corelight’s Open Network Detection and Response (NDR) Platform can help identify candidate NetScaler appliances, observe DTLS use and hunt for suspicious activity.

A SOC analyst spots suspicious activity from an internal IP. They need to understand what is happening. They open their SIEM's built-in AI assistant and type: "Tell me about 192.168.0.10." The assistant checks the entity store. Nothing. The analyst rephrases: "This is in our environment. Can you please check the logs and walk me through what's going on with this device?" A moment later, the assistant returns a summary. The host is involved in Windows file sharing and remote administration.

Citrix’s security bulletin CTX697096, the NetScaler security blog, and WatchTowr’s vulnerability FAQ describe an urgent situation for organizations using NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway. Two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772) are known to be exploited. CISA confirms active exploitation globally and has added both to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.

Canada has taken a significant step toward strengthening national cyber resilience. With Royal Assent now granted to Bill C-8, the Government of Canada is establishing a new framework for protecting critical cyber systems and securing the country's most essential services.

Every SOC analyst has been there. An alert fires. You know what you need to find. Maybe it's all outbound connections from a specific host that spiked overnight. Maybe it's every DNS query over 100 characters from a subnet you're watching. You know the question. What you don't know is the exact query syntax you need to ask it. So you open the documentation. You search for field names. You try a query, get it wrong, adjust, and try again. Minutes pass.