CISA announced the addition of four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on 2026-10-14. The excerpt available does not name the CVEs, affected vendors or products, exploitation details, threat actor attribution or IOCs. The text focuses on Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Upd…
CISA added two vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on the basis of evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2025-61624, a path traversal flaw in multiple Fortinet products, and CVE-2026-102764, an authentication bypass by spoofing in BeyondTrust Remote Support. CISA describes these vulnerability types as a fre…
Check Point Research reports active exploitation of two critical PHP engine vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, collectively called PHP2Shell. Details leaked ahead of planned disclosure, and screenshots of a PHP2Shell attack tool are circulating. Since the leak, 10% of organizations worldwide have been "impacted", meanin…
Gcore is offering its WAAP Enterprise plan free to government bodies and public agencies until December 31, 2026. The offer follows the php2shell vulnerabilities, which forced public websites offline across Europe this week. Government portals in the Netherlands, Finland, Denmark and France, along with hospitals, schools and commercial si…
Two critical vulnerabilities in the PHP engine, collectively referred to as PHP2Shell, prompted emergency security releases on 21 October 2026 after details leaked on 20 October ahead of the planned disclosure. The UK NCSC urged organisations to identify affected systems and update immediately, and Amazon threat intelligence reported expl…
Microsoft released fixes for a record 1,411 CVEs in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday on October 13, more than the roughly 1,100 issued in all of 2025 and above the records set in July and September. The surge is attributed to Microsoft's use of AI-driven vulnerability discovery, including its multi-model agentic scanning harness (MDASH). Th…
Censys observed a 71% drop in internet-exposed Danfoss StoreView control panels in France in three days after the October 11 cyber-attack on hundreds of French supermarkets. The attack targeted refrigeration controllers that Danfoss confirmed were mostly older models without security updates (AK-SM800, AK-SC355) or newer models on outdate…
CISA added one vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on 2026-09-14 based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-76461, a SQL injection vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway. CISA describes this vulnerability type as a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and a significant risk to the f…
CISA added one vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog on 2026-09-11 based on evidence of active exploitation: CVE-2026-85706, a path traversal vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE). CISA describes this vulnerability type as a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors…
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday addresses 1,407 CVEs across 301 products and components, the largest release on record for the second consecutive month. 69 are rated critical, 1,337 important and 1 low. Two zero-days are fixed: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell security feature bypass exploited in the wild, and CVE-2026-108398, a .NE…
Attackers are actively targeting a critical, maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in SonicWall SMA 1000 appliances. Dark Reading describes this as a familiar and unwelcome position for SonicWall customers, as the vendor's remote access products have repeatedly been targeted. The available excerpt does not give…
AI pen-testing startup Terra Security reports a sharp rise in security fixes later found to be bypassed or incomplete. The share of GitHub security fixes needing a follow-up advisory for a failed patch within 90 days held near 0.2% from 2019 to 2025 but jumped to 2.3% in 2026. Terra links the trend to the 2026 explosion in AI-driven vulne…
Two critical vulnerabilities affect PHP, in all versions since PHP 5 (2004). The NSA warned about them on Wednesday 21 October 2026, saying they let attackers reach the server file system or the database used by the web application (techcrunch.com). The PHP Foundation released four updates on 21 October 2026, including PHP 8.5.12. Each fl…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1312 covers a large set of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, fixed in Microsoft's 13 October 2026 security updates. Exploitation can lead to remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality. Microsoft states that CVE-2026-96951 is being activ…
GreyNoise analyzed 147.8 million sessions over 103 days across 276 vendor-specific tags covering 18 network infrastructure vendors. It found that surges in scanning and exploitation activity regularly precede vendor advisories. Of 104 detected surges, 68 preceded a vendor-matched CVE (33 vulnerabilities across 16 vendor families), with a …
CVE-2026-9082 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) pre-authentication SQL injection in the JSON:API module of Drupal Core. It was published on May 20, 2026 and added to the CISA KEV catalog the same month, with a remediation deadline of May 27. F5 sensors recorded 576 exploitation attempts from 9 source IPs between May 20 and May 31, 2026. The earlie…
F5 Labs, with Efflux sensor telemetry, profiled a persistent information-disclosure scanner operating from 78.153.140.203 in a netblock of AS202306 (HOSTGLOBAL.PLUS LTD), a UK ISP. The IP was first seen on 10 January 2025, vanished on 10 April, and returned on 11 July 2025. It scans 130 unique URLs: 80.23% are variations of /.env, 11.45% …
Kaspersky's Q2 2026 vulnerability landscape report records an unprecedented number of registered CVEs, including critical ones. It attributes the surge mainly to AI-assisted vulnerability discovery and AI-generated code. Researchers are also publishing exploits for unpatched flaws more often. One example is Nightmare Eclipse (Chaotic Ecli…
Unknown attackers compromised thousands of internet-exposed refrigeration controllers late on Sunday, raising temperatures to as high as 122°F (50°C), spoiling food and causing fires at nearly 700 French supermarkets. France's ANSSI warned of widespread compromises of Danfoss controllers and a day later added Copeland and its Dixell brand…
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…