Applied Cybernetics Group
Threat intel → detection pipeline
Friday, September 18, 2026
Data as of 13:09 UTC

Morning Brief — 2026-07-23

4 material breach disclosures, 2 federal patching priority, 2 exploit probability movers, 10 emerging critical cves, 11 supply chain, 27 ransomware activity, 1612 ioc volume, 17 active malware families, 25 multi-source iocs, 4 intel feeds, 5 hand-authored sigma, and 17 detection gaps. Sections with no signal are still rendered with an explicit “none in this window” note so absence is visible alongside presence.

Material Breach Disclosures

UPBOUND GROUP, INC. (UPBD)

Caution Concerning Forward-Looking Statements

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including statements regarding our understanding of the event and its potential impacts. Factors that could cause or contribute to material…

CID Holdco, Inc. (DAIC)

any written notice from any governmental authority alleging any material violation of applicable cybersecurity or data privacy laws that remains unresolved. To the Company’s knowledge, there are no pending or threatened claims, investigations or proceedings by any governmental authority relating to any material cybersecurity incident or any material violation of applicable cybersecurity or d…

River Financial Corp (RVRF)

As set forth in its Form 8-K filed July 10, 2026, two class action lawsuits were filed relating to the unauthorized threat actor gaining access to the network environment of River Financial Corporation, including River Bank & Trust (together, “River”). A third class action was filed against River on July 10, 2026 and a fourth class action was filed against River on July 16, 2026.

 

The principal…

River Financial Corp (RVRF)

Since the date of the original filing, River’s investigation has progressed. River has determined that an unauthorized threat actor accessed portions of its network and removed certain data from its environment. River is working to determine the nature and scope of the information involved, including whether any personally identifiable information was affected. To date, River is not aware of any r…

Federal Patching Priority

CVE-2026-50522 — Microsoft SharePoint

**Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization of Untrusted Data Vulnerability **

Microsoft SharePoint contains a deserialization of untrusted data vulnerability which could allow an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

Deserialization of untrusted data in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an unauthorized attacker to execute code over a network.

CVE-2026-16232 — Check Point SmartConsole

Check Point SmartConsole Improper Authentication Vulnerability

Check Point SmartConsole contains an improper authentication vulnerability which could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain an application login token and use it to authenticate with full administrative privileges.

An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Check Point SmartConsole login process allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to obtain an application login token and use it to authenticate with full administrative privileges. Successful exploitation allows the attacker to modify security policies and security configurations. Remote exploitation requires internet access to the Management Server…

Exploit Probability Movers

CVETodayPrevΔIn KEV
CVE-2026-07700.5450.104▲ 0.441
CVE-2026-630300.3860.089▲ 0.297

Emerging Critical CVEs

This issue affects No Code Platform:…

Supply Chain

GHSA-pppj-hq3g-57pj (pip)

JupyterLab: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via crafted settings file (overrides.json)

GHSA-gx64-gj6p-pc4c (pip)

JupyterLab: Image viewer allows XSS when opening malicious image in new browser tab

GHSA-89xv-2m56-2m9x · CVE-2026-64649 (npm)

Next.js: Server-Side Request Forgery in Server Actions on custom servers

GHSA-p9j2-gv94-2wf4 · CVE-2026-64645 (npm)

Next.js: Server-Side Request Forgery in rewrites via attacker-controlled destination hostname

GHSA-6gpp-xcg3-4w24 · CVE-2026-64642 (npm)

Next.js: Middleware / Proxy bypass in App Router applications using Turbopack and single locale

GHSA-m99w-x7hq-7vfj · CVE-2026-64641 (npm)

Next.js: Denial of Service in App Router using Server Actions

GHSA-9299-c6m4-mjhc · CVE-2024-7708 (maven)

Eclipse Jetty: DoS attack triggering OutOfMemory with 100-Continue requests

GHSA-2fvj-hgj9-j2gr · CVE-2026-10050 (maven)

Eclipse Jetty Digest Authentication: ISO-8859-1 lossy encoding allows authentication bypass via character substitution

GHSA-7488-6r32-c95q · CVE-2026-59822 (pip)

LiteLLM: MCP Authentication Bypass via OAuth2 Passthrough Fallback

GHSA-xwx6-jjhv-84p8 (npm)

n8n: Prototype Pollution via Dot-Notation Field Names Leads To Instance-Wide Denial of Service

Exploitation evidence, 7-day window (severity-agnostic — evidence trumps labels):

Ransomware Activity

27 new victim postings across 12 groups.

GroupVictimsSample
qilin13Corporate 360 Business Solutions, Assos Pharmaceuticals, Cano Industrial, Triton…
akira2Kruse Construction, University Sprinkler Systems
krybit2dhli.in, Vibonum Technologies Private Limited
thegentlemen2Sirl, Disney Family
Booba Project1Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects
BrainCipher1windiam.com
blacknevas1Zuni Shopping Center, Inc.
chaos1neopharmlabs.com
kairos1LR Reed
m3rx1ubfreight.com
moneymessage1Indigo Energy
nova1VNSO

IOC Volume

1612 new IOCs in this window. By source:

SourceCount
urlhaus1098
misp514

Recent OSINT Events

No curated MISP events in this window (bulk-IOC contributions tallied in IOC Volume).

Active Malware Families

17 malware families active this week (2 corroborated across ≥2 sources), exercising 20 ATT&CK techniques. Family is the unit, not the indicator: the raw IOCs are drill-down evidence below, not the signal.

FamilyTypeCorrob.IOCsTechniques (✗ = coverage gap)
ClearFakedelivery →989T1059.001, T1189, T1204
ClickFixdelivery →22T1059.001, T1204
Miraibotnet558T1110, T1498, T1499, T1584.005
CoinMinerminer14T1496
PhantomStealerstealer14T1005, T1555
XWormrat9T1056.001, T1071
AgentTeslastealer8T1056.001, T1071, T1114, T1555
GuLoaderloader →4T1027, T1071, T1105
MassLoggerstealer4T1056.001, T1071, T1555
ConnectWise ScreenConnect (abuse)rmm-abuse3T1219
ACRStealerstealer2T1005, T1071, T1555
AsyncRATrat2T1056.001, T1059.001, T1071, T1219
Formbookstealer2T1005, T1056.001, T1071, T1555
Phorpiexbotnet2T1071, T1486, T1566
Stealcstealer2T1005, T1071, T1555
Amadeyloader →1T1071, T1105, T1547
njRATrat1T1056.001, T1059.003, T1071, T1219

Families marked ”→” are delivery/social-engineering clusters (ClearFake, ClickFix, GuLoader, Amadey). Their technique mappings are the delivery chain — downstream behavior is payload-dependent, so they don’t open a hard coverage gap on their own.

Multi-Source IOCs

25 IOCs flagged by 2+ independent sources this window — the highest-confidence signal the cross-feed corpus produces.

IOCTypeSourcesLast seen
103.193.173.199ip-dstmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
23.27.180.36ip-srcmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
31.76.252.47ip-dstmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
46.183.25.232ip-dstmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
amid-darnsoul.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
and-last-lock.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
anus-staylard.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
babyglee-all.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
bandrice-pity.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
biketype-not.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
burp-flung-pilot.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
card-votecrew.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
char-avid-verb.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
cropriftmore.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
datastream-hub.christmasdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
dealflung-four.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
dice-grate-plan.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
died-halo-tang.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
disk-bask-rusk.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
dovepact-gist.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
drug-arereef.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
duck-fondmoan.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
duel-gulp-luck.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
dumb-heel-boy.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23
dusk-omit-epic.xyzdomainmisp + urlhaus2026-07-23

MISP × KEV Correlation

No MISP events in this window referenced a CVE.

Cross-Reference

No SEC × KEV vendor token matches in this window. (This is a heuristic surface, absence is expected most days.)

Intel Feeds

4 IOC feeds updated this run (7,677 indicators total) — each available as CSV, MISP JSON, and STIX 2.1. Subscribe at https://thrunt.me/intel/manifest.json.

FeedSourceTypeCountDownloads
MISP — Suspicious Domainsmispdomain3,175CSV · MISP · STIX
MISP — Flagged IPsmispip117CSV · MISP · STIX
URLhaus — Malware Distribution URLsurlhausurl3,626CSV · MISP · STIX
URLhaus — Malware Distribution Domainsurlhausdomain759CSV · MISP · STIX

Hand-Authored Sigma

3 production-ready TTP rules (+2 scaffolds in the authoring queue) live at https://thrunt.me/sigma/manifest.json. Subscribe via https://thrunt.me/sigma/rules.lock.json (content-hash churn) or pull all with https://thrunt.me/sigma/rules.tar.gz.

RuleStatusYAML
T1037 Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts — Linux Init Script Modificationexperimentalhttps://thrunt.me/sigma/t1037-linux-init-script-modification.yml
T1098.004 Account Manipulation — SSH Authorized Keys File Modificationexperimentalhttps://thrunt.me/sigma/t1098-004-ssh-authorized-keys-write.yml
T1566.002 Spearphishing Link — Luxembourg Hospitality SMS Phishing Campaignexperimentalhttps://thrunt.me/sigma/t1566-002-luxembourg-hospitality-sms-phish.yml
T1003.008 OS Credential Dumping — /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow Accessdrafthttps://thrunt.meundefined
T1530 Data from Cloud Storage — Detectiondrafthttps://thrunt.meundefined

Detection Gaps

17 of 155 techniques with corpus signal have zero detection coverage — no SigmaHQ community rule, no thrunt rule. This is the hand-authoring queue; the live view is at https://thrunt.me/corpus/attck/.

TechniqueNameActive familiesMISPKEV
T1011Exfiltration Over Other Network Medium04
T1497Virtualization/Sandbox Evasion04
T156203
T1573.001Symmetric Cryptography03
T1001Data Obfuscation02
T1499.002Service Exhaustion Flood02
T1530Data from Cloud Storage02
T1562.00102
T1003.008/etc/passwd and /etc/shadow01
T1070.00101

…and 7 more below the cut — full list on the rollup.

Pipeline Health

All feeds healthy.


Sources: SEC EDGAR (public domain), CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (public domain), FIRST.org EPSS (per ToS), NIST NVD (public domain), GitHub Security Advisories (per ToS), abuse.ch URLhaus (CC0, attribution), ransomware.live (per ToS), MITRE ATT&CK (CC BY 4.0).

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