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Security News — 26 October 2026

A daily, automatically-compiled digest of the cyber security stories that broke in the last 24 hours, drawn from 10 trusted feeds. Each entry is a short excerpt — follow the link to read the full article at its original publisher. Compiled 26 October 2026 · 26 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  2. CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  3. ⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More The Hacker News
  4. Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware The Hacker News
  5. CVE-2026-116508 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) Critical CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs

Urgent Vulnerabilities 6

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

CISA Current Activity26 Oct

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
PHP Group PHP
Impact
Use-after-free
Audience
Linux/server admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog and updated the PHP Alert, Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching : CVE-2026-109618 – PHP Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2…

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories26 Oct

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
PHP Group PHP
Impact
Use-after-free
Audience
Linux/server admins
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog and updated the PHP Alert, Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP Require Immediate Patching : CVE-2026-109618 – PHP Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116508 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Product
TOTOLINK A950RG
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL A security flaw has been discovered in TOTOLINK A950RG 4.1.2cu.5268_B20221104. Affected by this issue is the function sub_402340 of the file infostat.cgi of the component Device-Information CGI. Performing a manipulation…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116506 — HIGH (CVSS 8.6)

HighCVSS 8.6
Product
TOTOLINK A950RG
Impact
Command injection
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 8.6 HIGH A vulnerability was determined in TOTOLINK A950RG 4.1.2cu.5268_B20221104. Affected is the function apmib_set of the file firewall.so. This manipulation causes command injection. The attack may be initiated remotely. The explo…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116505 — HIGH (CVSS 8.5)

HighCVSS 8.5
Product
TOTOLINK A950RG
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 8.5 HIGH A vulnerability was found in TOTOLINK A950RG 4.1.2cu.5268_B20221104. This impacts the function getDeviceInfo of the file /var/lib/misc/udhcpd.leases of the component device-information Handler. The manipulation of the argumen…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116504 — HIGH (CVSS 8.6)

HighCVSS 8.6
Product
TOTOLINK A950RG
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 8.6 HIGH A vulnerability has been found in TOTOLINK A950RG 4.1.2cu.5268_B20221104. This affects the function setCloudUpgradeFW of the file lib/cste_modules/upgrade.so of the component Cloud Upgrade. The manipulation of the argument Fi…

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Other CVEs 5

Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.

CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-76654 — MEDIUM (CVSS 5.8)

MediumCVSS 5.8
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 5.8 MEDIUM An NTLM coercion vulnerability exists on Windows nodes when the subPath supplied in a pod's volumeMounts is set to a symbolic link that points to an attacker-controlled network share. When a kubelet resolves symlinks, it do…

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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-2270 — MEDIUM (CVSS 5.9)

MediumCVSS 5.9

CVSS 5.9 MEDIUM A confused deputy attack exists in the StatefulSet controller that allows a user with namespace-scoped write permissions on StatefulSet and ControllerRevision objects to create a cross-namespace pod. An attacker exploiting…

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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116602 — MEDIUM (CVSS 5.5)

MediumCVSS 5.5
Audience
Linux/server admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 5.5 MEDIUM A vulnerability was detected in SourceCodester Online Food Ordering System 1.0. This issue affects the function unlink of the file admin/delete.php. Performing a manipulation of the argument image_name results in path trave…

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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs26 Oct

CVE-2026-116556 — LOW (CVSS 1.9)

LowCVSS 1.9
Product
Argilla
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 1.9 LOW A vulnerability was found in Argilla up to 2.8.0. This affects an unknown function of the file argilla-frontend/components/features/annotation/container/fields/text-field/TextField.vue. The manipulation of the argument text re…

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Threat Activity 6

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

Breaches & Incidents 5

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Research & Detection 3

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

Policy & Commentary 1

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Schneier on Security26 Oct

Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model

Interesting research : TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed that this…

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