[Stanley]

Researchers Observe In-the-Wild Exploitation of BeyondTrust CVSS 9.9 Vulnerability

Threat actors have started to exploit a recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting BeyondTrust Remote Support (RS) and Privileged Remote Access (PRA) products, according to watchTowr.
"Overnight we observed first in-the-wild exploitation of BeyondTrust across our global sensors," Ryan Dewhurst, head of threat intelligence at watchTowr, said in a post on X. "Attackers are abusing

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/resear...-wild.html

[Moooookie]

When something scores a 9.9, you can't really be surprised that it’s already being exploited. Patch delays don't help the situation in the least bit.

[shakur123]

A 9.9 in a privileged access tool isn’t just “critical” — it’s catastrophic.

If it’s getting exploited immediately, that’s less about attackers being fast and more about defenders being slow.