> TODAY'S SUMMARY (17 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends:
1. The upcoming November 2026 Patch Tuesday is expected to address numerous CVEs, indicating ongoing vulnerabilities in older software systems.
2. A significant backdoor was discovered in Control Web Panel, enabling unauthorized command execution without logging, underscoring the risks in web server management tools.
3. Barracuda's Email Security Gateway was found to have exploitable flaws allowing root access without authentication, posing a major risk to email security.
4. New AI-driven scams have emerged, including a scheme where individuals impersonated CEOs to defraud companies of $129 million.
5. CERT-IN reported a rise in AI-powered attacks specifically targeting Indian fintechs during weekends, indicating a strategic shift by threat actors.
6. The FBI and CISA issued warnings about cyberattacks on industrial refrigeration systems, raising alarms about potential food safety and operational hazards.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 08:00
Second security snafu in two years
TeamUpdraft has disclosed unauthorized access to its teamupdraft.com website over the weekend of October 17-18, 2026. The company believes its customer database was accessed and says that database contained connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, along with customer accou...
A judge ordered Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, likening the Saudi government’s offer to secure the former OpenAI engineer’s release to a “blank check.”
WhatsApp argued that NSO Group violated a 2025 injunction against using the messaging app to spread spyware. A federal judge said WhatsApp hurt its case by not revealing enough information.
ConnectWise initially said on Friday that it was investigating “attempts of unauthorized access associated with the ConnectWise Cloud Backup environment,” and confirmed such access on Saturday.
Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original state to hide the attacks.a [...]
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Several security issues were fixed in curl.
Staffing software company Bullhorn has disabled access to its platform to contain a cyberattack that caused a system-wide outage. [...]
A phone belonging to the rector of the University of Belgrade was discovered to have been infected with Pegasus spyware, the latest in a series of such discoveries in the lead-up to Serbia's national elections.
Attackers exploit Plex2Shell flaws to install crypto miners and proxy software. Admins should update their Plex Media Server. Plex Media Server is designed to make movies, music, and other media available across devices. But when a server is exposed to the internet and runs vulnerable software, it c...
At risk, the Oregon Democrat warned, are online crime tipsters, whistleblowers and others.
The post Wyden seeks adoption of encryption tech at hundreds of federal agencies to protect visitors’ sensitive traffic appeared first on CyberScoop.
Terra finds sharp rise in GitHub security fixes reported broken within 90 days
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 8 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
Several security issues were fixed in libXtst.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network:
Attackers paired a genuine, signed copy of Siemens Software Center with malicious DLLs to infect Windows PCs via ClickFix lures.
The post Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 9 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: