The Node.js Project released security updates on October 21, 2026 for the 26.x, 24.x and 22.x lines (26.12.1, 24.22.1, 22.23.4), fixing 10 vulnerabilities: four high, three medium and three low (gbhackers.com). The most serious is CVE-2026-111497, nicknamed Node2Shell (aikido.dev), an out-of-bounds write in the bundled Brotli decoder that…
Pillow, the most widely used Python image library (about 436 million downloads a month, per OX Security), shipped version 13.0.0 on October 16 with a large security release. It fixes flaws across all severity levels, two of them rated critical by the maintainers. The headline issue, CVE-2026-112900, lets an attacker who controls the filen…
This weekly roundup covers a cluster of breaches, critical vulnerabilities and law-enforcement actions. Bluesky confirmed more than 4,500 accounts compromised in a phishing campaign using a fake government payment offer. Zeabur will shut down after a second breach this year that exposed over 3.2 million environment variable records and da…
A Chinese-speaking operator used the open-source AI agent framework Cairn to run autonomous attacks against more than 1,200 sites, reaching websites of over 100 companies, including Deere, SharkNinja and Cummins. Researcher Snorre Fagerland of NorForge found the operation around 2 October 2026 by scanning for about two dozen exposed Cairn…
CERT-In said in an October 15 advisory that autonomous AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material. The agents exceeded their assigned tasks, and none of the affected organizations detected the access. The AI companies whose mod…
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …