It has been a busy stretch in New Eden. Over the past week, Fenris Creations shipped a same-day fix for a wallet-exposing client exploit, rolled out the September update for the "Cradle of War" expansion, opened the doors for the next Council of Stellar Management election, and kept the Alliance Tournament calendar moving toward its final preliminary weekend. Here's everything capsuleers need to know, with links to every source so you can dig into the details yourself.
Security update: wallet-balance exploit found and patched within days
On Friday, September 4, 2026, between roughly 15:00 and 21:00 UTC, a player running a modified client discovered that sending a 0 ISK donation to another character caused that character's wallet balance to be revealed in return. Using four accounts, the exploiter fired off close to one million empty donations over a six-hour window, an anomaly the team spotted because of the sheer volume of zero-value transfers hitting player wallets.
Fenris Creations confirmed that the exposure was limited to a snapshot of ISK balances — both personal and corporation master wallets — at the moment the donation landed. PLEX balances, transaction history, market orders, bills, assets, usernames, emails, and billing information were never part of the leak. The characters behind the exploit (publicly named in the official notice as Mye Esubria, fxprobe1, fenriscw1, and Skiasten) have been banned, and the underlying client vulnerability was closed during the September 8 downtime.
Fenris Creations is encouraging anyone worried they were affected to check their wallet journal for unexplained incoming 0 ISK donations around September 4, and — as with any account-security scare — to make sure two-factor authentication is switched on and to report anything suspicious to support.
Source: EVE Online Security Update – 8 September, 2026
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Patch 24.01 lands: a major Rampant Drone Fabricator overhaul and more
Also on September 8, Fenris Creations pushed Patch 24.01, the latest content pass for the "Cradle of War" expansion. The headline change is a full rework of the Rampant Drone Fabricator site in wormhole space:
The old escalation system is gone, replaced by a "Rampancy" points mechanic that scales with the types of ships nearby.
The maximum number of waves has jumped from 30 to 100, turning the site into a genuine small-gang endurance test rather than a quick solo farm.
Smartbombs, bombs, and Vorton Projectors now deal 95% less damage against the site's NPCs, closing off a popular cheese strategy.
A new capital-class threat, the Infested Drone Naglfar, has been added alongside four new Nanoswarm drone types.
The site is now exclusive to C1–C6 wormhole systems.
Beyond the wormhole rework, the patch also touches Factional Warfare, converting the ELT-10 site into an ELT-5 (down from ten to five players for maximum rewards) and increasing NPC respawn timers, while Tactical Destroyers picked up a flat +500 bonus to shield, armor, and structure. Military campaign rewards were rebalanced too: fewer total participants are now needed per campaign, and individual contribution rates have gone up, meaning better ISK-per-pilot payouts for smaller fleets.
Sources: Patch Notes – Version 24.01 · Rampant Drone Fabricator Sites Are Back! · EVE Online on X: wormhole space debate
Watch: Everything You Need To Know About the September 2026 EVE Update (YouTube)
Alliance Tournament XXII heads into its final preliminary weekend
The Swiss-format preliminary stage of Alliance Tournament XXII, running on the Thunderdome server, has already produced two packed weekends of matches (August 29–30 and September 5–6), pairing teams with matching win-loss records for increasingly high-stakes fights. Capsuleers.app has been tracking the bracket day by day — catch up on the Day 1 report and the Days 3 & 4 report if you've missed the action.
The third and final preliminary weekend takes place September 12–13, and will decide which teams carry momentum into the finals, scheduled for October 31 and November 1, 2026. Live brackets and standings are available on the tournament's official ladder.
Sources: Alliance Tournament XXII · Prelim Ladder — ATXXII · ATXXII on Challonge
CSM 21 applications open September 17
Fenris Creations also announced the timeline for CSM 21, the next iteration of EVE's player-elected advisory council that gives capsuleers a direct line to the development team. Key dates:
Applications open: September 17 – October 2
Candidates announced: October 6
Campaign period: October 6–21
Voting: October 22 – November 3
Past councils have had a real hand in shaping things like the Catalyst update and community-driven quality-of-life fixes, and the current CSM has been feeding into the direction of the Cradle of War expansion — so this is worth watching for anyone who wants a say in what comes next.
Source: CSM 21: Is it Your Time?
Looking ahead: GM Week returns September 28
Rounding out the calendar, GM Week is confirmed to return on September 28. Expect the usual mix of Game Master-led shenanigans across New Eden — Orbital Stash and GM Patrol activities, scavenger hunts, forum competitions, live roams with GM and ISD volunteers, an on-stream pub quiz, and Q&A sessions on the official Fenris Twitch channel — plus, per the announcement, "a few new twists" on old favorites.
Source: GM Week returns 2026