CrowdStrike: Vapor Panda used ARTEX against over 200 organizations
From October 17 the China-linked group hit ministries, telecoms, and U.S. defense-related targets; post-exploitation is confirmed at nine.
From October 17 the China-linked group hit ministries, telecoms, and U.S. defense-related targets; post-exploitation is confirmed at nine.
Aziz says logic flaws bypass server checks Telegram cited against rlottie bug CVE-2026-111105; no public proof or patch.
TrendAI says codename SHADOW-EARTH-79 won about 13% of observed Starlink ad bids and was the top bidder in 105 countries.
PHP fixes shipped October 21; nine firms, including ESET, told NBC News they had seen no successful PHP2Shell attacks.
Only one case was confirmed as agent-driven; entry often used exposed legacy systems and default or reused credentials.
Attackers demanded about ¥8 billion; alleged data appeared online, but GMO has not confirmed ransomware.
GMO says data was posted after an October 20 intrusion that may have hit 26,739 servers; it refused an ¥8 billion ransom and says encryption did not run.
Other listed targets included Taiwan, Hong Kong, the UK, France, Italy, Qatar, and Colombia.
TrendAI found one bidder dominating sampled Starlink ad auctions in 105 countries; the work does not show infection or a Starlink breach.
Neither CVSS 9.0 KSMBD issue had a CVE or a mainline fix as of October 23, 2026.
ZDI reports describe remote code execution in the kernel SMB server; no CVE or mainline fix is named.
The same live feed also covers BIND GSS-TSIG memory corruption, Node.js security releases, bank AI-agent logins and a Railway environment-variable incident.
Insikt Group counted 918 reports, up from 621, alongside multi-million-record breaches and an IDCFrontier ransomware outage.
Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 paid $1,262,000 for 98 zero-days, including Galaxy S26, Pixel 10, and OpenAI Codex.
Public PoC for CVE-2026-59346 crashes VMware Workstation and Fusion through a guest-to-host integer overflow.
SonicWall disclosed a CVSS 10 pre-auth SSRF in SMA1000, with no confirmed exploitation yet.
SonicWall patched a CVSS 10.0 pre-auth SSRF in SMA1000 WorkPlace plus three authenticated flaws.
SonicWall patched four SMA 1000 flaws, including an unauthenticated SSRF rated CVSS 10.0.
Researchers exploited 32 zero-days for $388,500 on day one of Pwn2Own Ireland, hacking Samsung Galaxy S26 twice and Oracle's AI database.
Pwn2Own Ireland 2026 day one: Ikotas Labs failed to exploit a Brother printer in time.
The DarkMe RAT has shifted from using zero-day exploits to simple phishing emails, targeting corporate users to steal cryptocurrency and credentials.
The DarkMe malware is now being delivered via simple phishing emails, abandoning the zero-days previously used to deliver the payload.
ZDI details CVE-2026-33824, a double-free in Windows IKEv2 fragment reassembly enabling unauthenticated remote code execution as SYSTEM on Windows.
Mustang Panda's updated CoolClient backdoor deploys a signed kernel driver to hide processes, files and network activity in Asian intrusions.
China-linked Jewelbug runs government espionage and crypto fraud from a single XG-Web browser-based control framework.
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