BeyondTrust Zero-Day Exploited,

Cybersecurity Today · Feb 16, 2026 · 1m

This episode covers multiple active threats and security changes. It warns of an actively exploited critical BeyondTrust remote access vulnerability (CVE-2026-1731, CVSS 9.9) enabling pre-authentication remote code execution in Remote Support and Privileged Remote Access, noting SaaS was patched while on-prem deployments require urgent manual updates and may already be compromised. Microsoft details an evolution of the ClickFix social engineering technique where victims are tricked into running NSLookup commands that use attacker-controlled DNS responses as a malware staging channel, leading…