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Security News — 24 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 24 October 2026 · 7 items.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 2
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs24 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.8
- Impact
- Insecure deserialization
- Audience
- WordPress admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.8 CRITICAL The Prime Mover – Backup and Migration plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to PHP Object Injection in all versions up to, and including, 2.2.1 via deserialization of untrusted input in the migration search-and-replace rout…
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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs24 Oct
CriticalCVSS 9.4
- Product
- Unitree Robotics Unitree Go2
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
CVSS 9.4 CRITICAL A security vulnerability has been detected in Unitree Robotics Unitree Go2 up to 1.1.11.4. The impacted element is the function set_volume of the file gpt_thread.py of the component chat_go. Such manipulation of the argum…
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Other CVEs 1
Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.
The Hacker News24 Oct
- Impact
- Remote code execution
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111…
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Threat Activity 2
Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.
BleepingComputer24 Oct
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and…
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The Hacker News24 Oct
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machi…
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Breaches & Incidents 1
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
The Hacker News24 Oct
LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2…
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Policy & Commentary 1
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
The Hacker News24 Oct
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google s…
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