Exploitation of a recent RCE in BeyondTrust remote access products, tracked as CVE-2026-1731, reportedly started less than 24h after a PoC was published

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Reconnaissance Has Begun for the New BeyondTrust RCE (CVE-2026-1731): Here's What We See So Far

A PoC for CVE-2026-1731 hit GitHub on Feb 10. Within 24 hours, GreyNoise observed reconnaissance probing for vulnerable BeyondTrust instances.

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All of the ants are back in the box!

Only two died, and two were eaten by Pica. I hope lessons were learned.

But let's be real, it was probably lessons about better ways to escape in the future.

Russian TV isn't the most accurate media, but it passed a milestone last week when it aired a fake news headline from Russia's own info-ops group Matryoshka, passing a made-up headline on a fake Le Parisien site as a real event

Don't get high on your own supply, Russia

theins.press/en/news/289380

Russia’s Channel One airs fake front pages spread by Matryoshka bot network for the first time

On Jan. 29, the “Vremya Pokazhet” talk show on Russia’s Kremlin-controlled Channel One (Perviy Kanal) presented “proof” of what the program’s host said was criticism directed against Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by the French press.

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Yevgeny Prigozhin's influence operations have now been taken over by Russia's foreign intelligence service, the SVR, under a new company called StratConsult

alleyesonwagner.org/2026/02/14…

forbiddenstories.org/propagand…

istories.media/stories/2026/02…

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Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents - Forbidden Stories

Propaganda Machine Reading time: 12 min. Propaganda Machine: Secret documents reveal Russia’s foreign influence strategy across three continents The Company is a network of experts tasked with orchestrating disinformation campaigns around the world o…

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