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Security News — 14 October 2026

A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 12 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 14 October 2026 · 27 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles exploited Dark Reading
  2. Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks exploited BleepingComputer
  3. Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks exploited BleepingComputer
  4. CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  5. CVE-2026-101954 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) Critical CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs

Urgent Vulnerabilities 8

Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.

Dark Reading14 Oct

Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Ivanti Connect Secure
Impact
Authentication bypass
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

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BleepingComputer14 Oct

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Impact
Code injection
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. [...]

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CISA Current Activity14 Oct

CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS
Impact
Code injection
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-0322 Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS Code Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-76519 Cisco Secure Email…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct

CVE-2026-101954 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL · Vendor: Juniper An Improper Authentication vulnerability in the J-Web management interface and its NETCONF session handling of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows an unauthenticated network attacker to…

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Palo Alto Unit 4214 Oct

Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Fortinet FortiManager
Impact
Missing authentication
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

We investigated an intrusion where attackers exploited CVE-2024-47575 to target 500+ firewalls and deploy PEERSTITCH, a memory-resident ARM64 malware. The post Unit 42 Uncovers PEERSTITCH, a Stealthy FortiGate Implant appeared first on Uni…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct

CVE-2026-110862 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Impact
Authentication bypass
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL Better Auth from 1.4.0-beta.18 before 1.7.7 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to sign in as other users by reusing OAuth state values as Magic Link tokens. Attackers can…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct

CVE-2026-101982 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Impact
Buffer overflow
Audience
Network/firewall admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL · Vendor: Juniper A Stack-based Buffer Overflow vulnerability in the routing protocol daemon (rpd) of Juniper Networks Junos OS and Junos OS Evolved allows a configured BGP/EVPN peer to cause root code execution on Junos…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct

CVE-2026-110536 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Product
D-Link DIR-868L
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL A vulnerability was determined in D-Link DIR-868L 2.01b05. This impacts the function system of the file /htdocs/cgibin of the component HNAP CGI Handler. Executing a manipulation of the argument SOAPACTION can lead to os…

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Threat Activity 11

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

Breaches & Incidents 2

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Krebs on Security14 Oct

U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime servi…

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Research & Detection 2

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

Policy & Commentary 4

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Daniel Miessler14 Oct

I Write My Own Stage Directions Now

Charcoal sketch: a purple robot hand writes marks on a cream script strip that loops into a vintage microphone, and out of the microphone comes a sienna ribbon of sound carrying three theater masks that go from a scowl, to a resolute look,…

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Schneier on Security14 Oct

The Future of AI Cryptanalysis

Matthew Green has been writing a rather pessimistic series of posts about the potential for AI systems to vastly outperform humans in cryptanalysis of both symmetric and public-key ciphers. I am more optimistic than he is. That is, I have…

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Schneier on Security14 Oct

Cyberattack on Connected Fridges in France

Another IoT cyberattack , this one in France: Hackers gained control of the software that regulates the temperatures of the refrigeration units, forcing some to warm to 50C (120F) overnight, according to one supermarket chain affected. […]…

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Schneier on Security14 Oct

Upcoming Speaking Engagements

This is a current list of where and when I am scheduled to speak: I’m speaking at ATTENTION: Democracy, Rebuilt in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The event runs October 21–23, 2026, and my talk is on Wednesday, October 21. I’m speaking at the U…

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