The Weekly Breach: 7 Maximum CVSS Flaws and the DarkSword Exploit Unveiled

Over a seven-day period the report catalogs 1,348 newly identified vulnerabilities—including 75 Critical and seven with CVSS 10.0—notes 416 with public exploits, highlights high-risk flaws in Cisco FMC, UniFi, Azure Cloud Shell, Step CA, WordPress plugins, IoT routers (Tenda, Linksys), and actively exploited web frameworks (Craft CMS, Laravel Livewire). It also describes the DarkSword exploit chain leveraging multiple Apple zero-days to achieve full device takeover and enumerates three malware families (GHOSTBLADE, GHOSTKNIFE, GHOSTSABER) used for mass data collection, backdoor persistence, and remote execution by state and commercial surveillance actors.