← Back to Blog
Security News
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.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 8
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
Dark Reading14 Oct
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.
Read at source →
BleepingComputer14 Oct
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. [...]
Read at source →
CISA Current Activity14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
Palo Alto Unit 4214 Oct
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…
Read at source →
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
Threat Activity 11
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
BleepingComputer14 Oct
Exploited
Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. [...]
Read at source →
The Hacker News14 Oct
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted att…
Read at source →
The Hacker News14 Oct
Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits,…
Read at source →
Microsoft Security Blog14 Oct
Microsoft uncovered a Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem, an interconnected network of phishing kit operators (tracked as Storm-2990), and an illicit marketplace (tracked as Storm-3119) selling tools and infrastructure for large-scal…
Read at source →
Dark Reading14 Oct
A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.
Read at source →
Dark Reading14 Oct
A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.
Read at source →
BleepingComputer14 Oct
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group's operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. [...]
Read at source →
The Hacker News14 Oct
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A…
Read at source →
The Hacker News14 Oct
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix…
Read at source →
Cisco Talos14 Oct
Talos and Recorded Future identified UAT-6275 activity targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. Recovered artifacts show additional interest in water resources and energy.
Read at source →
Dark Reading14 Oct
The AI-enabled operation used spoofed emails, fake government documents, and the creation of a local organization to target schools in Peru and Ecuador, among other efforts.
Read at source →
Breaches & Incidents 2
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer14 Oct
Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering…
Read at source →
Krebs on Security14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
Research & Detection 2
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)14 Oct
Years ago I wrote diary entries about VBA code stored inside AutoCAD drawing files (.dwg).
Read at source →
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)14 Oct
Read at source →
Policy & Commentary 4
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Daniel Miessler14 Oct
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,…
Read at source →
Schneier on Security14 Oct
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…
Read at source →
Schneier on Security14 Oct
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. […]…
Read at source →
Schneier on Security14 Oct
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…
Read at source →