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Increase in Credential Phishing with Remote Management Tools

By Max Ickert on Thu, 10/08/2026
Phishing attacks are leveraging RMM tools more than everHybrid phishing-to-RMM campaigns have emerged as a potent method to target North American financial institutions, with a focused interest in business commercial banking accounts. Through the first nine months of 2026, Fortra has recorded 475% more phishing attacks incorporating RMM tools into the phishing attack chain compared to the entire...
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BEC Global Insights Report September 2026

By JT Newby on Tue, 10/06/2026
Executive SummaryThe findings in this report come from the results of active defense engagements with BEC threat actors. Every month, Fortra Intelligence & Research Experts (FIRE) conducts hundreds of these engagements to collect comprehensive intelligence about BEC tactics and trends to help better understand how the BEC threat landscape is evolving.The primary findings for September 2026...
Security Advisory

Heap buffer overflow in boks_sshd revoked-key error handling

Thu, 10/01/2026
The revoked-key error path builds a human-readable failure reason using sprintf() into a heap buffer. The allocated buffer is too small for the final formatted message. When sprintf() writes the full message, it can write past the end of the heap allocation.
FI-2026-019
High
CVE-2026-14316
Security Advisory

Fortra BoKS Server Agent adjoin machine-account password generation vulnerability

Thu, 10/01/2026
Fortra BoKS Server Agent contains a predictable password generation vulnerability in the adjoin utility. Machine-account passwords generated during Active Directory join or password renewal operations may have significantly less entropy than intended, making them more susceptible to prediction by an attacker who can estimate when the password was generated.
FI-2026-018
Medium
CVE-2026-9864
Security Advisory

Fortra BoKS Manager boks_portmux TLS ClientHello out-of-bounds read vulnerability

Thu, 10/01/2026
Fortra BoKS Manager contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the custom TLS ClientHello parser used by boks_portmux. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed ClientHello and terminate boks_portmux. Although the daemon is normally restarted automatically, repeated requests can sustain the service interruption.
FI-2026-016
High
CVE-2026-79896
Security Advisory

Fortra BoKS Manager crlserver command injection vulnerability

Thu, 10/01/2026
Fortra BoKS Manager contains a command injection vulnerability in crlserver. An authenticated user authorized to add CRL URLs through BCC, the WSI REST or SOAP API, or the cacrl command-line interface could cause shell command substitution to be processed by crlserver as root on the BoKS Master. BCC and WSI provide network-accessible administration paths and do not require a local sudo or suexec...
FI-2026-015
Critical
CVE-2026-79898
Security Advisory

Fortra BoKS Manager bccgethostcert insecure temporary file vulnerability

Thu, 10/01/2026
Fortra BoKS Manager contains an insecure temporary file vulnerability in bccgethostcert. The utility creates predictable temporary files without first setting a restrictive umask. A local user on the BoKS Master who can read files under BOKS_tmp may be able to obtain CA secret or host private-key material while the utility runs, or obtain CA secret material left behind after successful certificate...
FI-2026-014
High
CVE-2026-79899
Security Advisory

Heap overflow in KSL checksum initialization

Thu, 10/01/2026
boks_ksllogsd accepts a checksum algorithm name in the MD field of an authenticated KSL start message. Affected releases verify that OpenSSL recognizes the digest name but do not verify that the value fits in a fixed 16-byte checksum context field before copying it. An authenticated KSL client can supply an oversized, OpenSSL-recognized digest name and write beyond the end of the heap allocation....
FI-2026-013
Medium
CVE-2026-79900
Security Advisory

Predictable Active Directory service-account passwords in BoKS Manager

Thu, 10/01/2026
In deployments using BoKS keytab management, affected versions of boks_keytabmd generate Active Directory service-account passwords from a predictable pseudo-random sequence seeded with the current Unix timestamp. An attacker who knows the service principal and can estimate the password-change time can reproduce a limited candidate set and verify candidates offline.
FI-2026-012
Critical
CVE-2026-79901