Cybersecurity Zero-Days Hit CrowdStrike and NVIDIA as Apple Appoints John Ternus CEO
On September 7, 2026, security researcher Nightmare Eclipse released zero-day exploit PoCs targeting CrowdStrike, NVIDIA, and Avast. Concurrently, N-able issued emergency patches for CVE-2026-86218, and Apple named John Ternus as CEO following Tim Cook's transition to Executive Chairman.
Key points
- Nightmare Eclipse publicly disclosed zero-day exploit PoCs for CrowdStrike Falcon, NVIDIA driver software, and Avast.
- John Ternus succeeded Tim Cook as Apple CEO, with Cook becoming Executive Chairman.
- N-able released emergency hotfixes for an actively exploited zero-day, CVE-2026-86218, in N-central enterprise deployments.
- Threat actors are actively exploiting a Magento zero-day to plant persistent backdoors in Adobe Commerce stores.
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