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During independent security research, a CSS injection vulnerability (CVE-2026-26000) was identified in the XWiki platform. XWiki is an open-source enterprise wiki and collaboration platform commonly used for internal documentation and knowledge management. According to XWiki, the platform has over 8,000 active installations and is used by organisations such as Lenovo and Amazon, meaning vulnerabilities can affect a large and diverse user base.

While attackers often find low-privileged credentials after creating a process dump of LSASS or harvesting hashes with a tool like Responder, they are rarely able to do anything with those credentials (RDP aside). We set out to discover how malicious actors might exploit Microsoft Windows remote procedure call (RPC) protocols to gather data remotely as a low-privileged user using RPC as an attack surface.

A Malicious NPM Package Hides Pulsar .NET Malware Inside PNG Images.

On February 9, 2026, security researcher Adnan Khan publicly disclosed a vulnerability chain (dubbed "Clinejection") in the Cline repository that turned the popular AI coding tool's own issue triage bot into a supply chain attack vector. Eight days later, an unknown actor exploited the same flaw to publish an unauthorized version of the Cline CLI to npm, installing the OpenClaw AI agent on every developer machine that updated during an eight-hour window.

Patching cadence is a critical component of maintaining an organization’s cybersecurity posture. It refers not just to whether patches are applied, but how quickly and consistently vulnerabilities are addressed across systems and software. A regular, timely patching process reduces the window of exposure to known vulnerabilities, limiting opportunities for exploitation and strengthening overall vulnerability management.

Security teams are responsible for finding and remediating vulnerable dependencies within applications that are built from large ecosystems of frameworks, SDKs, and utilities. What makes this task especially challenging is that these dependencies can pull in dozens or even hundreds of transitive dependencies through complex dependency chains. Even when scanners identify what’s vulnerable, teams still often lack the information they need about the dependency chain to safely address the issue.