> Security Affairs newsletter Round 601 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
[AUTHOR: Pierluigi Paganini]
[DATE: 25/10/2026 12:28]
[LANGUAGE: EN]
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Capcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email AddressesU.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogPHP Warns of New Code Execution Flaw Days After PHP2Shell PatchesMeta Faces $25 Billion Penalty Linked to Cambridge Analytica ScandalCapcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email AddressesU.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogPHP Warns of New Code Execution Flaw Days After PHP2Shell PatchesMeta Faces $25 Billion Penalty Linked to Cambridge Analytica ScandalPHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, No Confirmed Successful Exploits YetINTERPOL Operation Serengeti III Nets 1,462 Arrests and Recovers $105 Million in Cybercrime CrackdownMicrosoft Links ConnectWise Breach to China-Linked Group Using AI Pentesting Tool ARTEXSignal Vulnerability Could Keep Calls Alive After Users Hang UpPHP2Shell Attacks Started Four Days Before Public Disclosure, AWS ReportsFBI and CISA Warn of SafePay Ransomware Attacks on 600 OrganizationsRussian Satellite Makes a Close Approach To A Commercial Radar Satellite Used by UkraineOpenAI Reports Two Incidents of AI Agents Disabling Their Own OversightUS Government Orders DeepSeek Out of Federal Civilian SystemsPHP Prepares Emergency Fixes for Two Critical Remote Code Execution FlawsNSO Spyware Pegasus Hit a Serbian University Rector Six Days Before Snap ElectionsNikkei data breach affected over 1.8 million recordsGoogle Cloud Outage in London Disrupts Revolut Banking ServicesAfD Email Breach Exposes 421,000 Messages in Anonymous Online ArchiveMicrosoft Treats AI Agents as Insider Threats in New Security FrameworkPlex2Shell Exploit Used to Turn Vulnerable Plex Servers Into Crypto MinersMeta wants to scrape your website to train its AI, and you can’t say noDeepfakes and Election Manipulation: UK Watchdog Seeks Faster DetectionBig Fish: OpenBSD Root Exploit Chains a 37-Year-Old BSD Bug With a Kernel FlawAttackers Abuse Stolen ConnectWise Application Credentials to Target Microsoft 365Japan’s SiteGuard WAF flaw CVE-2026-106931 is already being exploited16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Bug Lets Attackers Take Over Routers Without a PasswordRust-Based CikaBika Bot Turns Discord into a Command Center
International Press – Newsletter
Cybercrime
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
Anonymous hackers claim to leak 421,179 internal emails from Germany’s Russia-aligned AfD
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
#StopRansomware: SafePay Ransomware
Cybercrime crackdown in Africa nets 1,462 arrests, recovers over USD 105 million
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
Nigerian Man Sentenced To Eight Years For Hacking, Fraud, And Identity Theft Schemes
1 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach
Malware
Auditing the auditor: Unmasking Apex Accelerator
GhostAction Attack Escalates By Targeting GitHub Users
Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer
ROMULUS: Analysis of a New Multi-Payload ClickFix Delivery Platform
Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
Hacking
ConnectWise (SkyKick) Vendor Credentials Abused in M365 Attacks
One Parser, Two Bugs, Many Routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi Across eCos and Linux
Plex2Shell Unauthenticated RCE in Plex Media Server
Big Fish: Exploiting a 37-Year-Old Kernel Bug in OpenBSD
Rapid Response: php2shell, Leaked Critical PHP Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 & CVE-2026-109619)
Making attacking agents pay
LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor
Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot
Proof-of-concept exploit released for PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
PHP2Shell Exploit Tooling Found on Exposed Attacker Server
Intelligence and Information Warfare
TAG-193’s Regional Espionage Operations
ATT&CK v20: Critical Infrastructure Campaigns, Adversary Use and Abuse of AI, & Iranian Cyber Espionage
No to Palantir – Five Times
UK Election Watchdog Develops AI System to Flag Deepfakes Within 3 Hours
Pegasus and Mercenary Spyware Attacks on Serbian Pro-Democracy Figures
Russian satellite makes possibly unprecedented approach to another spacecraft without permission
AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
Operation FlashHole: Lazarus breaks security, defies control
Pegasus spyware founder urges governments to trust his tech and ditch US AI
Cybersecurity
Character.ai files for bankruptcy following lawsuits alleging ties to teen suicides
Cybersecurity Jobs Report 235,786
Agents are your newest insiders. Security must move at their speed
Google Cloud services face outage in London, Revolut services down too
Government websites go dark after AI-discovered flaw sparks security scramble
Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
Suppressing misalignment monitoring alerts and disabling misalignment monitoring
AI Just Found a Bug That Puts up to 70% of the World’s Websites at Risk
CVE-2026-113380 — RingRTC (Signal): Flooded Call Event Queue Blocks Local Hang-Up
Cellebrite’s Advanced Unlocks and the case of the missing iPhone 17
Meta ordered to pay $25 billion penalty to New Mexico in data privacy case
PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches
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