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Security News — 27 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 27 October 2026 · 18 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  2. EPICS Base exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  3. CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  4. CVE-2026-117532 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) Critical CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs
  5. Apple Patches for October 2026, (Mon, Oct 26th) SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)

Urgent Vulnerabilities 3

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

CISA Cybersecurity Advisories27 Oct

Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Google Chromium WebP
Impact
Out-of-bounds write
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code (CVE-2023-4863), bypass authentication (CVE-2026-16436 and CVE-2026-16437), or perform arbitrary operations (CVE-2026-1643…

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CISA Current Activity27 Oct

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
Adobe Commerce and Magento
Impact
Unrestricted file upload
Action
Patch per vendor / CISA KEV

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-48356 Adobe Commerce and Magento Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type Vulnerability…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs27 Oct

CVE-2026-117532 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3)

CriticalCVSS 9.3
Impact
Authentication bypass
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 9.3 CRITICAL REDAXO core from 5.3.0 before 5.21.4 contains an authentication bypass vulnerability in the structure/history plugin that allows unauthenticated attackers to forge temporary login tokens. Attackers can force the session-t…

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Threat Activity 7

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

CISA Cybersecurity Advisories27 Oct

EPICS Base

KEV · exploited

View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition, corrupt memory, disclose sensitive information, or potentially execute arbitrary code. The following version…

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PortSwigger Research27 Oct

Scalable Vector Grief

I tested eight popular SVG sanitizers and bypassed six of them. In this post, I'll show you how a response header can run JavaScript in Firefox even when the response body is completely harmless XML.

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Breaches & Incidents 3

Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.

Research & Detection 4

Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.

TrustedSec Blog27 Oct

What is CUI? A Contractor’s Perspective

<p>Three questions every government contractor should be able to answer about CUI—how to identify it, when to mark it, and how to handle it correctly. In this blog, we answer all three from a contractor’s perspective.</p>

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Policy & Commentary 1

Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.

Schneier on Security27 Oct

Hiding Capabilities in AI Models

Interesting research: “ AI Models Can Provably Hide Arbitrary Capabilities ” Abstract: Capability evaluations aim to surface dangerous model behaviors before deployment, but their reliability depends on the assumption that hidden capabilit…

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