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Security News — 29 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 29 October 2026 · 34 items.

Top 5 to watch today

  1. Hitachi Energy TRO600 series products exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories
  2. CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog exploited CISA Current Activity
  3. NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control framework exploited Cisco Talos
  4. Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated October 29) exploited Palo Alto Unit 42
  5. Hitachi Energy CoreTec Product exploited CISA Cybersecurity Advisories

Urgent Vulnerabilities 9

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

CISA Current Activity29 Oct

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

KEV · exploited
Exploited
Yes — CISA KEV
Product
GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition
Impact
Integer overflow
Audience
DevOps/CI admins
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-2026-97229 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerabi…

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Palo Alto Unit 4229 Oct

Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated October 29)

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

CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a scripting language used globally for web servers and CMS systems. The post Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated…

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CVEDatabase - Critical CVEs29 Oct

CVE-2026-107329 — CRITICAL (CVSS 9.9)

CriticalCVSS 9.9

CVSS 9.9 CRITICAL · Vendor: IBM IBM Langflow OSS 1.0.0 through 1.12.4 could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code due to improper control of code generation.

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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs29 Oct

CVE-2026-107239 — HIGH (CVSS 8.8)

HighCVSS 8.8
Impact
Remote code execution
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 8.8 HIGH · Vendor: Microsoft A vulnerability allowing a member of the Veeam Virtualization Extensions Users group to perform remote code execution (RCE) on servers running the Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Collecto…

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CVEDatabase - Recent CVEs29 Oct

CVE-2026-107238 — HIGH (CVSS 8.7)

HighCVSS 8.7
Impact
Remote code execution
Audience
Windows admins
Action
Patch when a fix is available; monitor exposure

CVSS 8.7 HIGH · Vendor: Microsoft A vulnerability allowing an authenticated domain user to perform remote code execution (RCE) as the LocalSystem account on servers running the Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center Collector se…

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Other CVEs 2

Lower-severity or unconfirmed-exploitation vulnerabilities.

Threat Activity 17

Malware, campaigns and adversary tradecraft.

CISA Cybersecurity Advisories29 Oct

Hitachi Energy TRO600 series products

KEV · exploited

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of multiple vulnerabilities that affect the TRO600 series product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited for remote code execution (RCE) to carry out further attac…

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories29 Oct

Hitachi Energy CoreTec Product

KEV · exploited

View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of OS command injection and Dirty Frag vulnerabilities that affect CoreTec product versions listed in this document. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could result in impact on confi…

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CISA Cybersecurity Advisories29 Oct

Siemens Mendix SAML Module

View CSAF Summary Mendix SAML module contains an authentication bypass vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain unauthorized access by replaying a valid SAML assertion in IdP-initiated authentication flows.…

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Dark Reading29 Oct

Rethinking Cybersecurity Awareness in the AI Era

This installment of the Reporters' Notebook video series discusses some of the trends and topics from Cybersecurity Awareness Month, from using AI for better training to educating next-generation workforces on modern risks and emerging thr…

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Cisco Talos29 Oct

A quiet week in infosec <.<

In this edition of the Threat Source newsletter, William explores how PHP has taken over the conversation, Node.js has joined in, but underneath it all, there are still good people doing good work.

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Breaches & Incidents 2

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.

Daniel Miessler29 Oct

General Hill-Climbing: The One Main Loop in AI

General Hill-Climbing diagram: five numbered stations climb a hill to the Ideal State flag, from TELOS through articulating the ideal state, evals, doing the work, and iterating, with a dashed loop back to refine the ideal state and evals/…

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