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OCT26
CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS scoring system, facilitate unauthenticated remote code execution on affected deployments - CVE-2026-109618 - An out-of-memory

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OCT26
Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics

The University of New Mexico Health System told people not to show up at its main hospital in Albuquerque and canceled appointments at more than 30 clinics. The post Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OCT26
Anthropic Files for Potentially the Biggest IPO Ever as CEO Warns of Risk to Humanity From AI

A string of hacking incidents by rogue AI agents also has raised fears the technology will slip free of human control to carry out harmful, life-threatening tasks. The post Anthropic Files for Potentially the Biggest IPO Ever as CEO Warns of Risk to Humanity From AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OCT26
Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on Magento

An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small piece of code to the store's pages that, when visited by unsuspecting users, serves malicious JavaScript loader code through Magento CMS blocks. "When you

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OCT26
PHP Issues Second Windows Security Update in Five Days to Fix Brotli Code Execution Flaw

PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP says the flaw can be reached through the cURL extension when the extension decompresses HTTP responses automatically. cURL leaves that off by default, but

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OCT26
Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malware. "A consistent pattern of attacker behavior has emerged across these incidents: the use of the same throwaway tenants, the same 'IT

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OCT26
Industrial Vendors Check Products for PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities

Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB and others have confirmed that some of their products are affected by the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities. The post Industrial Vendors Check Products for PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT26
Genesys Hack Exposes Customer Data From Internal Systems

The Genesys Cloud, Genesys Engage, and Genesys Engage Cloud platforms were not affected. The post Genesys Hack Exposes Customer Data From Internal Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT26
Stolen AI Reasoning Could Help China Build Cheaper Rivals

Xint says a flaw in OpenAI’s compaction process let researchers move reasoning traces between models, potentially making it cheaper to distill a rival AI. The post Stolen AI Reasoning Could Help China Build Cheaper Rivals appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
OCT26
⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More

This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and security teams have more urgent patches than they can keep up with. And that's not even the full story. A leaked key led to a software supply-chain

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OCT26
PHP2Shell Exploitation Moves From Probes to Working Shells 

Attackers successfully exploited the PHP2Shell flaws against honeypots, launching 35 shells from two IP addresses on October 24. The post PHP2Shell Exploitation Moves From Probes to Working Shells appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT26
953 Online Stores Infected in Long-Lasting Malware Campaign

Small loader code injected into the stores served a payload to visitors or did nothing to avoid detection. The post 953 Online Stores Infected in Long-Lasting Malware Campaign appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT26
Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes

Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vulnerable Wasmtime build to compile a module they control, and one of the flaws affects only ARM64 systems. Fixed versions were released on

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OCT26
Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts

The individuals called victims and persuaded them to install an app and scan their credit cards to loot their bank accounts. The post Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT26
Between alerts: What Attackers Do in the Spaces Ordinary Detection Misses

Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one timeline, and it feeds the defensive systems that can tie all events together into one coordinated view. SOC teams often first see the shape of an intrusion

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