What's happening in security
Breaches, credential dumps, actively exploited bugs and AI incidents — pulled from 5,635 items across public feeds, Have I Been Pwned and CISA KEV.
Biggest this week
- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 2d ago
- GitHub Octoverse 2026 — Simon Willison (AI), 4d ago
- Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen — The Hacker News, 2d ago
- Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation — SecurityWeek, 4d ago
- Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds — The Record, 2d ago
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Alpine Linux rebuilds GitLab after attempted RCE attack
Hackers attempted to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability in Alpine Linux's development infrastructure on October 20-21, prompting the open-source project to rebuild its GitLab server and reset all passwords over concerns of a …
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Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations
The startup maps how identities, assets and vulnerabilities connect, and uses AI agents to find and fix risky combinations of issues. The post Northstar Security Exits Stealth With $7M to Expose Toxic Risk Combinations appeared fi…
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Week in review: Binance hit by $6.3 billion theft, impact of Brotli vulnerability
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source …
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New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attackers remotely disrupt cellular service or crash phones…
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Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the w…
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Linux kernel exploit enables remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP (MPTCP) listeners. […
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Critical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on servers running Multipath TCP (MPTCP) listeners. […
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Rapid7 Analysis: Unauthenticated File Upload to RCE in BeyondTrust Remote Support (CVE-2026-102764)
Overview An origin-validation flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support lets an unauthenticated attacker write files on the appliance and execute code as the site's operating-system user. The entry point is the public customer connection…
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TeamViewer Flaw Lets Remote Computers Attack Users Who Connect to Control Them
TeamViewer has fixed a flaw that lets the machine being controlled in a remote session attack the computer that connected to control it. In a TeamViewer session, the computer that connects and takes control is the viewer, and the …
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WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code …
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SS7 and Diameter Attacks: How Signaling Flaws Expose Your Phone
Flaws in SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols can allow attackers to track phone locations, intercept calls and SMS verification codes, and impersonate subscribers without compromising their devices. Cape explains how these attack…
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CISA says max severity GitLab flaw now exploited in the wild
Attackers have started exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability patched earlier this month, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
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Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs
Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution. The post Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability Exploited Against Online Stores
Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders. The post Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability Exploited Against Online Stores appeared first on Securit…
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Drupal warns of critical Commerce Core flaw exploited in attacks
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. [...]
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Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux
Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server. The post Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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TeamViewer Flaw Could Let Malicious Hosts Take Over Support Technicians’ Machines
An integer overflow tracked as CVE-2026-111585 could be used to execute arbitrary code on the viewer’s system. The post TeamViewer Flaw Could Let Malicious Hosts Take Over Support Technicians Machines appeared first on SecurityWee…
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Hackers Actively Exploit Highly Critical Drupal Commerce Core Authorization Bypass Flaw
Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a "highly critical" security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Co…
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CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vu…
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Smart TVs can harbor unpatched security flaws and track what you watch
Smart TVs and connected plugs accounted for a large share of recorded security weaknesses in household devices, according to Bitdefender’s 2026 IoT Security Landscape Report. The analysis covered approximately 10.4 million protect…
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CVE-2026-118527: Ivanti Connect Secure — Ivanti Connect Secure Generation of Predictable Numbers or Identifiers Vulnerability
Ivanti Connect Secure contains a generation of predictable numbers or identifiers vulnerability that allows a remote authenticated attacker to upload files with attacker-controlled content to a known location on disk. This vulnera…
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CVE-2026-111357: Ivanti Connect Secure — Ivanti Connect Secure Missing Authentication for Critical Function Vulnerability
Ivanti Connect Secure contains a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability that could allow a local authenticated attacker to escalate their privileges. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-104935 and C…
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ThreatsDay: Critical Firewall Flaws, Banking Trojans Rented, Weaponized PDF, Token Theft + 26 More Stories
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever …
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Hackers exploit Cisco SD-WAN flaw to deploy custom KeyDrift malware
A newly identified advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-11473 was observed exploiting CVE-2026-20127, an authentication-bypass flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers, to deploy a custom malware framework called…
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Chinese hackers used VMware ESX zero-day; PHP2Shell and Fragnesia chained to root firewalls
China-nexus threat actors have exploited a VMware ESX zero-day to hide their tracks and chained PHP2Shell flaws with the Fragnesia Linux kernel bug to root servers and firewalls, cybersecurity researchers claim. Cisco has also con…
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Linux Kernel TCP Flaw With 9.8 CVSS Score Affects Ubuntu, Red Hat and Other Distributions
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said o…
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‘Critical Vulnerabilities’ Found in Computer Code Supporting 70% of the Internet
Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the code behind up to 70% of the internet, have forced websites across Europe offline as organisations race to protect their systems. Speaking to The Irish Times, our CEO Brian Honan warned that th…
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Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
The flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, authorization bypasses, and privilege escalation. The post Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Benchmarks for Finding, Exploiting, and Patching Vulnerabilities
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key…
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Exploitation attempts against recently patched Oracle EBS flaw have begun (CVE-2026-101767)
Exploitation attempts have started against CVE-2026-101767, a recently patched Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) flaw. “Our Oracle E-Business Suite decoys recorded exploratory exploits against CVE-2026-101767, an unauthenticated SQL i…
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New Cisco firewall zero-day exploited to crash SSL VPN devices
Cisco released security updates to patch a denial-of-service zero-day in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Threat Defense (FTD) software that attackers are exploiting to remotely crash vulnerable firewall devices. [...]
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Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The v…
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Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploitation Tied to Volt Typhoon’s ‘Silent Train’ Network
Cisco Talos linked SD-WAN key-stealing malware to infrastructure overlapping Volt Typhoon’s Silent Train network, which Lumen detailed. The post Cisco SD-WAN Zero-Day Exploitation Tied to Volt Typhoon s Silent Train Network appear…
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Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since August
Cisco on Wednesday released fixes for an exploited vulnerability affecting its Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) software. Tracked as CVE-2026-76418 and assigned a CVSS scor…
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Attacker Tried to Exploit Alpine Linux’s GitLab via CVSS 10.0 Flaw Its Ruby Left Open
An attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on the Alpine Linux project's own GitLab server a week after GitLab released a fix, Alpine Linux said on 28 October. The flaw, CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0), can let…
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Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys
Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization's SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that …
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Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day
CVE-2026-41709 allows attackers with administrative privileges to perform operations without being logged. The post Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Cyber Vulnerabilities Besiege Italy, Absent Clear Cause
Researchers can't quite explain why cyber threats look so different in Italy compared to everywhere else.
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Qualys CISO on what security teams can do as exploit campaigns grow
In this Help Net Security interview, Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, talks about how security teams can handle the growing volume of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. He explains why CISOs should track the average window of exposur…
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China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been we…
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Attackers Exploit PHP2Shell Flaws in Internet-Exposed Palo Alto Networks Management Interfaces
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday warned that threat actors are exploiting the recently patched PHP2Shell vulnerabilities against publicly-accessible management interfaces. "Active exploitation has been observed targeting the Palo A…
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CVE-2026-97229: GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition — GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound Vulnerability
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition contain a integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular express…
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CVE-2026-76418: Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software — Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software Unchecked Return Value to NULL Pointer Dereference Vulnerability
Cisco Secure Firewall ASA Software and Cisco Secure FTD Software contains an unchecked return value to NULL pointer dereference vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexp…
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Inside KeyDrift: Analyzing historical UAT-11473 activity on Cisco SD-WAN
Talos has identified UAT-11473, a highly sophisticated APT, who exploited CVE-2026-20127, an authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst Controller instances to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access t…
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Volt Typhoon Used Covert Silent Train Network in Four Zero-Day Exploitation Campaigns
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. "First identifie…
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GitHub’s npm package firewall can block brand-new versions before they install
GitHub announced a package firewall that checks npm packages against an enterprise’s policy before they install. It blocks known malware, critical vulnerabilities, and brand-new versions, and any developer can turn it on by pointi…
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PHP2Shell Attack Roots 25 Servers, Breaches U.S. Government-Affiliated Network
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted attack orchestrated by a suspected China-nexus threat actor that has leveraged the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach…
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Volt Typhoon hides zero-day attacks using 'Silent Train' framework
Chinese state-sponsored hacking group Volt Typhoon has been using a framework that relies on rotating chains of connected devices compromised on demand, including for zero-day attacks targeting high-value systems. [...]
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So I came across this on LinkedIn yesterday. It made me angry and I've been trying to work out why that is and…
So I came across this on LinkedIn yesterday. It made me angry and I've been trying to work out why that is and if my anger is justified, so bear with me as I dump my thoughts here. Would love some feedback/conversation on this. I …
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Hackers seize on vulnerable IoT devices to spy, pivot and route traffic
Known vulnerabilities with available patches are by far the biggest risk facing connected devices, a new report found.
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