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Security News — 2 October 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 7 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 2 October 2026 · 21 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 4
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CISA Current Activity02 Oct
KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- Zammad GmbH Zammad
- Impact
- Remote code execution
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-102489 Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability CVE-2026-102490 Zammad GmbH Zammad Im…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs02 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Authentication bypass
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL UTMStack before 11.2.16 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows remote attackers to gain full administrative API access by presenting a valid Utm-Internal-Key header matching the INTERNAL_KEY environme…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs02 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Unrestricted file upload
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL H3C CVM, the Cloud Virtualization Management component of the H3C CAS cloud platform, contains an unauthenticated arbitrary file upload vulnerability in the /cas/fileUpload/upload endpoint that allows remote attackers to…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs02 Oct
HighCVSS 8.1
CVSS 8.1 HIGH · Vendor: jetbrains In JetBrains TeamCity before 2026.2, 2026.1.4, 2025.11.8 administrator account takeover was possible via password reset
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Other CVEs 1
Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs02 Oct
MediumCVSS 6.5
CVSS 6.5 MEDIUM UTMStack before 11.2.16 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in UTMIncidentCommandWebsocket.processCommand(), the handler mapped to the /command/{hostname} STOMP destination, where no role check or command allowli…
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Threat Activity 7
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
Dark Reading02 Oct
Exploited
One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.
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BleepingComputer02 Oct
GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances. [...]
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The Hacker News02 Oct
Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-…
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Dark Reading02 Oct
Patch middleware vulnerabilities now to avoid hardware-based MFA exploits in ultra-sensitive environments.
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The Hacker News02 Oct
A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance t…
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Dark Reading02 Oct
The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers' increasingly advanced capabilities.
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BleepingComputer02 Oct
The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned eight members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) for their role in the theft of millions of dollars in ATM jackpotting attacks across the United States. [...]
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Breaches & Incidents 3
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer02 Oct
Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security numbe…
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BleepingComputer02 Oct
The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university by exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain initial access. [...]
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The Hacker News02 Oct
OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies o…
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Research & Detection 2
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
Dark Reading02 Oct
Organizations may face an artificial intelligence (AI) reckoning over the next year. Omdia and Gartner weigh in on how to tackle the governance, security, and value challenges ahead.
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)02 Oct
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Policy & Commentary 4
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
The Hacker News02 Oct
Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Ca…
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Schneier on Security02 Oct
The EU is recommending import controls to combat unregulated squid fishing in the Southwest Atlantic. I’m not optimistic. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blo…
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Schneier on Security02 Oct
St. Lucie County in Florida discovered ( alt link ) a dozen Flock cameras whose ownership it can’t identify, and that the county government had not permitted. I am reminded of the decade-old story of StingRay cell phone surveillance device…
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Schneier on Security02 Oct
This essay was written with Nathan E. Sanders, and originally appeared in The Guardian . New campaign finance disclosure data shines a light on which US political campaigns are using AI tools and how much they are spending on them. Candida…
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