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Security News — 17 October 2026
A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 3 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 17 October 2026 · 6 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 2
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3KEV · exploited
- Exploited
- Yes — CISA KEV
- Product
- BeyondTrust Remote Support
- Impact
- Authentication bypass
- Action
- Patch per vendor / CISA KEV
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL · Vendor: beyondtrust The vulnerability exists within internal components of BeyondTrust’s Remote Support product. The components did not adequately validate the origin of the messages it received. Under the right conditi…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs17 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.3
- Impact
- Authentication bypass
- Audience
- Linux/server admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL phpMyFAQ 4.0.0 before 4.1.9 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability where WebAuthn registration endpoints attach credentials to any account without authentication or challenge validation. Attackers can stage a vic…
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Threat Activity 1
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
BleepingComputer17 Oct
Drupal has patched two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code remotely on websites running any supported version of the content management system. [...]
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Breaches & Incidents 3
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer17 Oct
ConnectWise has shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after hackers accessed application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. [...]
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The Hacker News17 Oct
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30…
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The Hacker News17 Oct
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauth…
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