A Chinese-speaking attacker has reportedly compromised hundreds of websites worldwide by abusing Cairn, an AI-driven penetration-testing tool, to automate the attacks. Reported victims include large industrial and consumer brands such as John Deere, SharkNinja and engine manufacturer Cummins, from which the attacker is said to have looted…
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…
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday is described as the largest security update the vendor has ever released. According to Dark Reading, it includes zero-day vulnerabilities, among them defense bypass flaws and unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) bugs. The article excerpt gives no CVE identifiers, affected product lists, exploi…
A zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support is being reported as the latest in a run of edge-device bugs under attack. In the same week, vulnerabilities in edge products from Ivanti, Cisco and Palo Alto Networks also came under fire. The article, which is very brief, frames BeyondTrust as joining this group and as continuing th…