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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.
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.
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.
Microsoft ties the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply-chain attack to China-aligned Storm-0940, which used ARTEX AI agents to try sign-ins to more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants at up to 2,900 a minute.
Unit 42 says the Qilin and INC ransomware groups are using CVE-2026-0257, a GlobalProtect authentication bypass patched in May, to open VPN sessions without MFA and then move on to vCenter, ESXi and Veeam.
Attackers are chaining four Plex Media Server bugs, now on CISA's exploited list, to drop a cryptominer and a traffic-relay proxy on servers that never got September's fix.
Rapid7 details intrusions where attackers chained CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88779 to get root on NetScaler ADC and Gateway, then planted HA-aware persistence and stole the appliance's credentials and keys.
Google and Mandiant say suspected Chinese espionage group ARMORY CASTLE has exploited a BeyondTrust Remote Support zero-day since late August. Once inside, it took root, dumped stored credentials and used the support tool to reach internal machines.