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Security News — 3 October 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 5 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 3 October 2026 · 10 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 3
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs03 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.4KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- Zammad GmbH Zammad
- Impact
- Remote code execution
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CVSS 9.4 CRITICAL · Vendor: zammad Zammad versions 6.3.0 to 6.5.4 are vulnerable a session hijack vulnerability that leads to remote code execution as the zammad user. The vulnerability is also present in version 7.0.0 to version 7.1.3, bu…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs03 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.4KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- Zammad GmbH Zammad
- Impact
- Privilege escalation
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CVSS 9.4 CRITICAL · Vendor: zammad All versions of Zammad including the latest alpha enable the local zammad user to escalate privileges to root.
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs03 Oct
HighCVSS 8.8
- Impact
- Privilege escalation
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 8.8 HIGH Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key vulnerability in Ultimate Member Ultimate Member ultimate-member allows Privilege Escalation.This issue affects Ultimate Member: from n/a through 2.13.1.
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Threat Activity 4
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
BleepingComputer03 Oct
Google's Gemini could soon access any file on your macOS device, open apps, browse the web, and perform actions without asking for permission every time. [...]
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The Hacker News03 Oct
The U.K.'s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing's state security service. In a "Security Service Espionage Alert"…
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BleepingComputer03 Oct
The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed its identity and access management system and downloaded a large amount of data. [...]
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The Hacker News03 Oct
Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infras…
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Breaches & Incidents 2
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
The Hacker News03 Oct
The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The…
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BleepingComputer03 Oct
A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as "Rey" has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. [...]
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Research & Detection 1
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)03 Oct
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes.
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