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Security News — 6 October 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 13 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 6 October 2026 · 30 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 3
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs06 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL The Crayons plugin for SPIP before 3.5.0 contains a missing authorization vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to modify arbitrary editable object fields by omitting the secu_ anti-forgery parameter in cray…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs06 Oct
CriticalCVSS 10
- Impact
- SQL injection
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 10.0 CRITICAL · Vendor: joomcode Joomla Extension - joomcode.com - Unauthenticated SQL injection in read and write queries in JCTables 1.21.1 - The front-end CRUD API controller performs no Joomla token validation and no authenticatio…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs06 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Product
- InternLM MindSearch
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL A vulnerability has been found in InternLM MindSearch 0.1.0. This issue affects the function ExecutionAction.run of the file mindsearch/agent/graph.py of the component Planner Agent. The manipulation of the argument input…
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Other CVEs 5
Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.
BleepingComputer06 Oct
Atlassian is warning customers of a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-21589, that can be exploited for arbitrary file-access in multiple self-hosted Data Center products, including Confluence, Jira, and Bitbucket. [...]
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs06 Oct
When a private repository is transferred to a user who lacks access, Gitea grants that recipient temporary read access as a collaborator so they can review the repository. Rejecting or cancelling the transfer did not revoke this collaborat…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs06 Oct
Gitea expanded a workflow's static `strategy.matrix` into its full Cartesian product without a size limit when creating a run, before the fork pull request approval gate applied. A user who can open a pull request from a fork could submit…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs06 Oct
When Gitea's web installer is reachable against a database that already contains users, such as after `INSTALL_LOCK` has been reset to `false`, submitting the install form with an administrator username matching an existing account issued…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs06 Oct
With `[migrations] ALLOWED_DOMAINS` set to a matching entry such as `*` or a hostname wildcard, Gitea's migration URL validation could permit reserved and link-local addresses, such as `169.254.169.254`, even when `ALLOW_LOCALNETWORKS = fa…
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Threat Activity 12
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
CISA Cybersecurity Advisories06 Oct
KEV · exploited
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ component of SOI product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out various attacks affect…
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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories06 Oct
KEV · exploited
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of unauthenticated servlet access vulnerabilities that affect Asset Suite product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to potentially cause confidentiality, inte…
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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories06 Oct
KEV · exploited
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of open-source software vulnerabilities that affect REB500 product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the produc…
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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories06 Oct
KEV · exploited
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain full unauthorized access to the device. The following versions of Johnson Controls EasyIO FG are affected: EasyIO FG firmware <=2.0b52 (CVE-…
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Microsoft Security Blog06 Oct
Learn how CISOs can mitigate cybersecurity risks and increase resilience in the age of AI-powered vulnerability management. The post CISO perspectives on managing vulnerability risks in the age of AI appeared first on Microsoft Security Bl…
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The Hacker News06 Oct
A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro. T…
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The Hacker News06 Oct
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "human-operated phishing platform" that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Met…
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Dark Reading06 Oct
The situation illustrates a trend toward using AI and deterministic validation to identify flaws and exploitability, and provide a risk assessment.
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Dark Reading06 Oct
In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.
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PortSwigger Research06 Oct
Have you ever felt like a model isn't actually trying to do what you asked? Did you just ask it wrong, or is there something else at play here? In this post, I'll briefly explore this phenomenon, the
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BleepingComputer06 Oct
A new campaign targeting ad account managers uses fake ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity sites that steal login credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes through browser-in-browser attacks. [...]
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Palo Alto Unit 4206 Oct
Analysis of Blinder Tunnel, an Iran-nexus campaign using fake Dubai Airports recruitment lures and GitHub C2 malware to target critical infrastructure. The post Blinder Tunnel Campaign Targets Iraqi Infrastructure appeared first on Unit 42…
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Breaches & Incidents 3
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer06 Oct
Exploited
On the first day of the Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 competition, security researchers hacked the Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and earned $388,500 after exploiting 32 zero-days. [...]
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BleepingComputer06 Oct
UK fashion retailer ASOS confirmed a data breach Tuesday after hackers sent unauthorized push notifications through its mobile app while claiming to have stolen customer data from the company's Snowflake environment. [...]
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The Hacker News06 Oct
The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pa…
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Research & Detection 6
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)06 Oct
Exploited
It seems that a trend started… I continue my journey discovering more RMM ("Remote Management & Monitoring") tools abused by threat actors! A few days ago, I wrote a diary[1] about ScreenConnect used in the wild. Today, I…
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Dark Reading06 Oct
PoC
Not quite an EDR-killer, but the proof-of-concept cyber technique creates a silent virus detection gap while service runs normally, no exploit required.
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The Hacker News06 Oct
Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection. Threat actors are known to name the…
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Google Project Zero06 Oct
Project Zero often works with software vendors to remediate the vulnerabilities we report and provide broader guidance on making software more secure. Some vendors express concern about potential scenarios in which they are unable to fix v…
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TrustedSec Blog06 Oct
<p>Logging isn't a switch to flip; it's something to tune and maintain. In this blog, we outline a four-step Active Directory logging framework covering log sizing, audit policies, detection goals, and gap analysis.</p>
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)06 Oct
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Policy & Commentary 1
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Schneier on Security06 Oct
404Media is reporting (alternate link ) that a cyber-weapons arms manufacturer is exploiting a vulnerability in iOS to bypass its automatic reboot security feature. This is the feature that automatically puts an iPhone into a more secure s…
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