Nefilim and Hive ransomware affiliate gets 70 months in prison
A Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, and high-revenue businesses worldwide between 2018 and 2021. [...]
Also covered by Krebs on Security, SecurityWeek, CyberScoop
Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated October 25)
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a scripting language used globally for web servers and CMS systems. The post Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated…
Also covered by Kaspersky Securelist, Sucuri Blog, Huntress
Volt Typhoon Used Covert Silent Train Network in Four Zero-Day Exploitation Campaigns
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. "First identified in late…
Also covered by BleepingComputer, SecurityWeek
AL26-027 - Critical vulnerability impacting Google Brotli – CVE-2026-111497
Also covered by CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities, Tenable Blog
Microsoft releases Windows OOB updates to distrust eMudhra certificates
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. [...]
Also covered by Unit 42 (Palo Alto), Cisco Talos
Tricks from the Past deployed via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries
Key Points Introduction Over the past two months, we have been tracking a campaign that abuses the popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to spread a custom malware chain we call Yoba. The attackers use fake GitHub projects that…
Also covered by Infosecurity Magazine, CSO Online
PHP2Shell: What to know about two critical PHP flaws
Here's the lowdown on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little more than two minutes
Also covered by Tenable Blog, Graham Cluley
Discord to let search engines index public server messages
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. [...]
Also covered by SC Media
US sanctions Russians, North Koreans for laundering IT worker earnings
The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned Russian and North Korean nationals for allegedly laundering the earnings of illicit IT workers on behalf of Pyongyang.
Also covered by Krebs on Security
ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2026–Q3 2026
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q2 2026 and Q3 2026
Also covered by CrowdStrike
ZDI-26-832: AVG Internet Security avgToolsSvc Link Following Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of AVG Internet Security. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this…
Also covered by Elastic Security Labs
Japan's GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]
Also covered by Infosecurity Magazine
26th October – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 26th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japanese cloud hosting provider Onamae Desktop Cloud has confirmed a cyberattack in which…
Also covered by Wordfence
Siemens Software Center
View CSAF Summary The affected application loads dynamic-link libraries (DLLs) from an uncontrolled search path. This could allow an authenticated local attacker to place a specially crafted DLL in a directory that the application…
Also covered by CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities
Stopping PHP2SHELL: How SentinelOne Protects Customers From This Attack Technique
Stop PHP2Shell with SentinelOne. Learn how Singularity Agent stops web worker post-exploitation, kills process trees, and hunts threats.
Also covered by CrowdStrike
CVE-2026-102764 added to CISA KEV — BeyondTrust Remote Support
BeyondTrust Remote Support contains an authentication bypass by spoofing vulnerability that could allow a remote attacker to perform file operations on the appliance.
Also covered by Rapid7 Blog
Security Alert: Microsoft Releases October 2026 Security Updates
Also covered by Qualys Blog
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2026 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for October 2026, which includes 1415 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 85 that Microsoft marked as "critical."
Also covered by CrowdStrike
Evolution of Web3 in Cloud Supply Chain Attacks
Unit 42 details how threat actors leverage Web3 infrastructure and open-source supply chain attacks to breach enterprise cloud environments The post Evolution of Web3 in Cloud Supply Chain Attacks appeared first on Unit 42 .
Also covered by GitHub Security Blog
2026-014: Critical Vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway
On 27 September 2026, Citrix published a security bulletin addressing 8 vulnerabilities affecting customer-managed Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway, among which 2 critical unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE)…
Also covered by Cloudflare Security