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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
- Mitsubishi Electric GENESIS, GENESIS64, ICONICS Suite, Hyper Historian, AnalytiX, MobileHMI, IoTWorX, MC Works64, GENESIS32 and BizViz exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
- EPICS Base exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
- CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
- CVE-2026-117532 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.3) Critical CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs
- 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
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
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
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
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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Google Project Zero27 Oct
Summary Project Zero compared two automated tools used by Google to find vulnerabilities in Chrome’s JavaScript engine, V8, on a regular basis. Fuzzilli is a generative JavaScript engine fuzzer and BigSleep is an LLM-based bug finding syst…
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BleepingComputer27 Oct
OpenAI confirmed GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall than some of its older models, but its safety testing also found other problems. [...]
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Dark Reading27 Oct
Cyber leaders can get ahead of AI liability with rigorous documentation, transparency, and smart contract negotiations with AI vendors.
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Dark Reading27 Oct
Nathan Hamiel outlines potential SecOps horror in the AI midst, as core technical capabilities go the way of reading an atlas or remembering phone numbers.
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PortSwigger Research27 Oct
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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CISA Blog27 Oct
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Breaches & Incidents 3
Ransomware, data breaches and supply-chain events.
BleepingComputer27 Oct
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]
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Dark Reading27 Oct
Mail bombing is getting a new look with a wide-scale, ongoing social engineering campaign that might be tied to the Black Basta ransomware gang.
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Dark Reading27 Oct
A recent Shai-Hulud attack shows defenders need real-time visibility into production code and affected services to respond to supply chain compromises.
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Research & Detection 4
Detection engineering, tooling and defensive analysis.
SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)27 Oct
Apple today released patches for 304 vulnerabilties. This number is still in line with prior Apple updates, and comes just about a month after the last apple update.
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Cisco Talos27 Oct
What does it mean to be "blue collar" for the blue team? Ryan Fetterman discusses the realities of detection engineering, and shares his philosophy on building a career in security without burning out.
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TrustedSec Blog27 Oct
<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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SANS Internet Storm Center (Handler Diary)27 Oct
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Policy & Commentary 1
Industry, executive and AI-security perspective.
Schneier on Security27 Oct
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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