By @watchtowrcyber
Publication Date: 2026-10-07 16:34:00
As self-confessed hoarders of internet “background noise” and connoisseurs of deploying random appliances on the internet to “see what happens”, we can think of little better than watching a vulnerability get exploited in the wild, in real time, against technology that half the internet relies upon.
After the disclosure of any vulnerability affecting edge devices, including the likes of Citrix NetScaler, but really any SSL-VPN, reverse proxy, or managed file transfer solution – we eagerly await what comes next – the shift to indiscriminate in-the-wild exploitation, as everyone with a keyboard and a prompt window comes for them at once.
These latest vulnerabilities are slightly different from the long run of information disclosure bugs (CitrixBleed, et al.) we’ve been getting used to, with Remote Code Execution via log poisoning (in 2026!) being back on the table.
Since disclosure, our global sensor network has watched what has felt like the entire internet target the…



