> TODAY'S SUMMARY (16 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and vulnerabilities. Two major PHP bugs, termed the "PHP-ocalypse," posed significant risks to web applications, emphasizing ongoing software security challenges. The emergence of the BlackX UEFI bootkit demonstrates how attackers exploit older vulnerabilities, such as the Baton Drop flaw, to bypass security measures. Additionally, a memory-corruption issue in Google's Brotli decoder affects multiple programming environments, raising concerns for developers. A data breach at Capcom exposed 11.7 million email addresses, while CISA added critical flaws in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud to its vulnerability catalog. Lastly, AI's role in discovering and exploiting bugs underscores the need for vigilance as cyber threats evolve.
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Blog post covering the vulnerabilities disclosed during Microsoft Patch Tuesday.
An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint.
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. [...]
USN-8908-1 fixed vulnerabilities in BlueZ. Unfortunately, that update introduced a
regression in the A2DP profile: cached remote stream endpoints were no
longer loaded at startup, which could cause Bluetooth audio devices to
fail to reconnect automatically or to fall back to low-quality audio
profil...
Microsoft today released patches for 1,417 vulnerabilities. 76 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical, with 7 critical vulnerabiilties requiring no customer actions. One vulnerability was disclosed before today&#;x26;#;39;s patch Tuesday, and one is already exploited.
A federal lawsuit claims that Dmitry Belkin and his companies routinely failed to deliver on services to protect customers, generated fake evidence and denied refunds to victims.
The post FTC says âsextortionâ protection companies deceived customers about services appeared first on CyberScoop.
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates. [...]
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges.Â
The post Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic.
The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm bo...
The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday. [...]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Connect Secure flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)Â added an Ivanti Connect Secure FortiMail flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score of 8.6),...
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A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it.
The flaw was in the feature that converts a personal accou...
Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday Windows 11 KB5127648 and KB5126653 cumulative updates for versions 26H2/25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs, and add new features. [...]
An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected versions to "act immediately." A fix for the third...
L'Union européenne et l'Ukraine ont approfondi leur coopération en matiÚre de cybersécurité à l'occasion de leur cinquiÚme Dialogue sur ce sujet.Dans un contexte marqué par la guerre d'agression russe et le processus d'adhésion de l'Ukraine à l'UE, les discussions ont porté sur l'alignement de l'Ukr...
La Commission européenne a communiqué sur le lancement de la 14Úme édition de la Semaine du code de l'UE, soulignant l'importance de la littératie numérique et de la pensée computationnelle dans le contexte de l'intelligence artificielle.Lors de l'événement du 12 octobre, la vice-présidente exécutiv...
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L'Agence de l'Union européenne pour la cybersécurité (ENISA) a publié son rapport sur le panorama de la menace 2026, analysant les principaux risques en ligne observés en 2025.Le rapport, publié le 22 septembre, identifie le rançongiciel comme la menace la plus conséquente, le secteur de l'administr...