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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.
Urgent Vulnerabilities 6
Actively exploited, critical, or high-severity flaws — patch or mitigate first.
CISA Current Activity26 Oct
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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The Hacker News26 Oct
- Audience
- Windows admins
- Action
- Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure
PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP say…
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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs26 Oct
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
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
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.
Dark Reading26 Oct
Nvidia security executive Mark Weatherford says CISOs must help business leaders weigh AI's pros and cons, and ensure those deploying it own the risks.
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Dark Reading26 Oct
A new AI agent prompt injection technique exploits how coding assistants consume local instruction files, blurring the line between text documents and executable actions.
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BleepingComputer26 Oct
OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model focused on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and everyday work, while costing significantly less than its larger models. [...]
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BleepingComputer26 Oct
DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to the File Manager interface. [...]
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The Hacker News26 Oct
An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small…
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Dark Reading26 Oct
This Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, "Securing the Next 250," asks us to look beyond vulnerabilities and consider what will make our digital systems resilient for generations.
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Breaches & Incidents 5
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
The Hacker News26 Oct
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attac…
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The Hacker News26 Oct
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams…
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BleepingComputer26 Oct
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
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BleepingComputer26 Oct
South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation that breached more than 90 organizations in the country, with ARTEX AI pentesting framework used in most of the attacks. [...]
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Dark Reading26 Oct
An ongoing supply chain attack is harvesting credentials and sensitive data from thousands of developer repositories.
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Research & Detection 3
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
Elastic Security Labs26 Oct
Microsoft wants EDR out of the Windows kernel, and the preview binaries show wesp.sys telling a user-mode client that a process is starting, with nothing in its imports to let that client block it.
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)26 Oct
[This is a Guest Diary by Jeffray Spence, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program]
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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)26 Oct
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Policy & Commentary 1
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Schneier on Security26 Oct
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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