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Volexity caught UTA0576 chaining three Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days into unauthenticated root on a fully patched VPN, then pulling LAPS passwords and BitLocker keys. Ivanti's Oct. 29 update closes the last bug.
An attacker went after Alpine Linux's GitLab with CVE-2026-97229, the CVSS 10 Ruby regex bug, and CISA added it to KEV (due Nov. 1). Alpine found no tampering but rebuilt anyway. Self-built Ruby needs its own upgrade.
Drupal says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-118539, a 'Highly critical' access bypass in Commerce Core that can hit store owners financially. Fixed in 3.3.13 and 8.x-2.41; audit your orders.
CVE-2026-98432, a 9.8-rated race in Linux's IPv4 TCP handshake dating to 4.4, can give a remote attacker root; Anthropic says Claude wrote a working exploit. Debian, Oracle, SUSE and Amazon have fixes; Ubuntu and RHEL are pending.
CloudSEK says the Doorway botnet compromised 11,363 routers, cameras and servers in a month, mostly via blank or default passwords on MikroTik routers plus old RouterOS and Openfire bugs.
iOS and iPadOS 18.7.11 backport Apple's fix for CVE-2026-86950, a CoreGraphics zero-day Apple says may have been exploited against targeted individuals, to the iPhone XS, XR and older iPads.
CERT-UA warns attackers are hijacking Dahua cameras and recorders in Ukraine through Easy4IP P2P access, guessable serials, weak passwords and old auth-bypass bugs.
Sansec found a JavaScript loader in Magento CMS blocks on 953 stores since July 2025; the newest version fingerprints visitors so scanners see nothing, and PolyShell is the main way in.
Cisco says attackers are exploiting CVE-2026-76418, an unauthenticated bug in the ASA and FTD SSL VPN that forces the firewall to reboot when secondary authentication is configured.
Lumen ties Volt Typhoon's Silent Train covert network to zero-days in N-able, Cisco SD-WAN, VeloCloud and likely Quest KACE, while Cisco Talos details KeyDrift malware stealing SD-WAN keys.
CrowdStrike says China-nexus Warp Panda used CVE-2026-41709, a VMware ESX insufficient-logging flaw, as a zero-day against US law firms. CISA added it to KEV with a Nov. 11 deadline.
CVE-2026-97631, a 9.5-rated overflow in EDK II's PXE driver dating to 2010, can let someone on the local network run code before Secure Boot on network-booting machines. Firmware updates are still pending.
CISA added Adobe Commerce's PolyShell and the Brotli Node2Shell bug to its exploited-vulnerabilities list, due Nov. 10, as ELLIO logged the first Node2Shell exploit traffic.
Sansec says a Brazilian Magecart group planted a card skimmer in the Plausible analytics script every Convertr store loads, exposing checkouts at dozens of fashion brands Oct. 24 to 27.
Hunt.io combed about ten attacker open directories full of PHP2Shell tooling and a Mirai-style botnet, and published attempt signatures and indicators defenders can search for today.
CYFIRMA says Korean-speaking operators are quietly scanning 216 unpatched PHP hosts at governments, banks and logistics firms, with a moderate-confidence Lazarus link.
Oracle's out-of-band CVE-2026-91403 fix (CVSS 9.1) stops Java trusting eight eMudhra intermediate certificates with weak keys; a second update, CVE-2026-114820, removes the related roots.
Group-IB and NyxLab say actor k0t exploited exposed FortiWeb, FortiGate and GlobalProtect devices through 2026, reached domain admin, and stole more than 70,000 credentials, likely as an initial access broker.
Imperva ran attacker code on an official Node.js 24.22.0 image by feeding it crafted Brotli data, through fetch() responses or Express 5 body parsers. Patch Node.js and rebuild images.
Eye Security found Time4Popcorn's abandoned updater would run any file as SYSTEM or root, registered its domain and used it to switch the updater off. Android users remain exposed.
Asus fixed three High-rated router flaws, including CVE-2026-93489 (CVSS 8.7), that let someone on your network act as admin without a password. No attacks reported yet.
Amazon says a PHP2Shell exploit hit its MadPot honeypots on Oct. 17, four days before PHP disclosed CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. It now calls exploitation broad.
GitLab fixed CVE-2026-110264, a CVSS 10.0 flaw in its bundled Ruby regex engine that could let unauthenticated attackers run code on self-managed servers as old as version 7.0. No exploitation seen yet, and no workaround.
A joint FBI, CISA and USSS advisory says SafePay ransomware has hit at least 600 victims since August 2024, getting in through stolen or guessed VPN logins and old Cisco ASA, SonicWall and Veeam flaws, then wiping backups before it encrypts.
Node.js fixed an out-of-bounds write in its bundled Brotli decoder (CVE-2026-111497) that it says could allow remote code execution on 22.x, 24.x and 26.x. End-of-life versions get no patch.