Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2026
Attackers exploit a critical Cisco email gateway flaw to gain root access. Cisco urges customers to update scanner tools and check for compromise. Cisco confirmed this week that threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability in Cisco Secure Email Gateway, tracked as CVE-2026-76519 with a CVSS score of 9.8. An attacker can exploit the flaw […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 15, 2026
Android trojan Hirudo replaces genuine banking apps with modified versions to steal credentials and bypass security checks, enabling financial fraud. ThreatFabric researchers detailed a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that takes a genuinely different approach to defeating banking security. Instead of throwing a fake login screen over the real app, it uninstalls the real […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Microsoft Windows Shell flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-96951 (CVSS score of 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2026 address a […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2026
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2026 address a record 1,415 vulnerabilities. Prioritize the exploited zero-day, critical bugs and potentially wormable vulnerabilities. Microsoft just shattered every patch record in the book. October 2026 brought us a staggering 1,415 new CVEs from Microsoft alone. “Well, it’s a new record release from Microsoft, again. This is […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2026
OpenAI employee charged with planting hidden audio recorders to capture sensitive discussions about AI research and company strategy. On September 30, OpenAI staff found a small audio recording device jammed into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room in their San Francisco office. The device had been there […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2026
Ivanti VPN zero-days let attackers gain root access, steal credentials, evade detection, and prepare for wider network compromise. On October 5, Volexity started investigating suspicious activity at one of its monitoring customers and traced everything back to an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliance running version 22.8R2.4, the latest build available at the time. Three chained […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 14, 2026
Netskope tracks four XWorm versions in the wild, 46 plugins, and new tools for location, audio and live browser control, with detections up fourfold. Netskope Threat Labs has been following XWorm since September 2024, and its latest report shows the malware has changed a lot. Over the past year the team identified four distinct versions […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Connect Secure flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Ivanti Connect Secure FortiMail flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score of 8.6), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability is an authentication bypass issue caused by […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2026
Anthropic researchers show how small AI models could autonomously replicate across IoT devices, raising concerns about adaptive, AI-powered botnets. Anthropic published a paper this week that should make anyone who manages IoT infrastructure sit down for a moment. The research shows that small AI models are approaching the capability to replicate themselves autonomously across networks […]
Pierluigi Paganini
October 13, 2026
GitLab fixed a critical vulnerability with a maximum CVSS score of 10.0 that could let unauthenticated attackers run code on its servers. GitLab has addressed a critical security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score of 10.0), that could let attackers run code on its servers without logging in. The flaw affects Community Edition (CE) and […]
