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“Vote for my niece”: the WhatsApp scam that steals your account — and your contacts’

A message from a friend asks you to vote for their niece, or to forward a code “sent to you by mistake”. It is a scam: the friend’s account is already hijacked, and the code is yo…

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PHP2Shell: two critical PHP flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution on web servers

On 21 October 2026, the PHP project shipped emergency releases 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 to fix CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, two memory flaws that let an unauthent…

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OVHcloud CLI: official binaries replaced with a secret-stealing malware on GitHub for 1 h 33

On 19 October 2026, a compromised OVHcloud developer account was used to replace the GitHub release files of ovhcloud-cli v0.11.0 to v0.15.0 with a trojanised build that steals SS…

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ConnectWise Cloud Backup: attackers hijacked the service’s Microsoft 365 identities, MSPs must audit every customer tenant

ConnectWise has confirmed unauthorised access to the application identities of its Cloud Backup service, formerly SkyKick, which connect to the Microsoft 365 tenants of managed se…

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BeyondTrust Remote Support: a zero-day exploited since August lets attackers take over the appliance without an account

BeyondTrust has fixed CVE-2026-102764, a critical flaw in Remote Support that lets an attacker with no account perform file operations on the appliance. According to Google and Ma…

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US federal bankruptcy courts stop sending notices after a cyberattack at their contractor

The US judiciary says a cybersecurity incident at BAE Systems, which runs the Bankruptcy Noticing Center for the courts, has taken its websites offline and halted the production o…

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Palo Alto PAN-OS: a management interface flaw gives root on firewalls, already exploited

Palo Alto Networks has fixed CVE-2026-0322, a flaw in the PAN-OS management interface that lets an authenticated administrator run code as root on PA-Series and VM-Series firewall…

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This week’s barometer: compliance, flaws and speed, sector by sector

This week our panel of 4,719 websites averages 73/100 on compliance, 70 on vulnerability and 66 on speed. Banking and tech lead; the public sector and non-profits trail. Here is w…

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Nextcloud: attackers plant web shells through Collabora’s Built-in CODE Server app, update or remove it now

A critical flaw in the optional Nextcloud app Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server lets anyone run system commands on the server without logging in. It has been exploited since…

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Cisco Secure Email Gateway: a single booby-trapped email gives attackers root, flaw already exploited

Cisco has fixed CVE-2026-76519, a critical flaw in its Secure Email Gateway that lets anyone send an email with a crafted attachment to write files and run commands as root on the…

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Windows Shell: a zero-day that strips the internet warning from files, fixed in October’s Patch Tuesday

Among the more than 1,400 flaws fixed by Microsoft on 13 October, CVE-2026-96951 (CVSS 8.8) is already exploited: it lets a booby-trapped file escape the Mark of the Web protectio…

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Ivanti Connect Secure: zero-day chain exploited for root access, one of three flaws still unpatched

Attackers chained three unknown flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliances to run commands as root without logging in, then harvested Active Directory credentials. Ivanti fixed…

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Vacaf, France's family holiday-aid platform, breached: data of up to 1.2 million families at risk

Vacaf, the holiday-aid service of France's family-benefit funds, was hit by a cyberattack. Up to 1.2 million families' names, children and benefit details may be exposed — no bank…

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Hundreds of French supermarkets hit as attackers hijack Danfoss refrigeration controllers

During the night of 11 to 12 October 2026, attackers took control of Danfoss refrigeration supervisors in French supermarkets and forced fridges and freezers to heat up. CERT-FR i…

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FBI and nine partner agencies expose the toolkit of China-linked Integrity Tech: old flaws, Exchange password spraying and SoftEther VPN backdoors

On 8 October 2026 the FBI, CISA, NSA and agencies from six other countries published a joint advisory on the hackers enabled by Integrity Technology Group, a Chinese company linke…

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FortiBleed: the FBI warns attackers are still logging into exposed FortiGate firewalls with stolen passwords

The FBI and the US Secret Service warn that FortiBleed, a campaign that steals and cracks passwords for Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL VPN gateways, is still active. Citing …

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Atlassian Data Center: critical flaw lets anyone read files on Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket servers

Atlassian disclosed on 5 October 2026 CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS 9.3), a path traversal flaw in eight self-hosted products, including Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket Data Center. No logi…

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FBI breach: attackers got in through a PeopleSoft patch a contractor never installed

The FBI says the theft of personal data on thousands of its staff happened because a contractor did not apply a security patch to a platform it managed. According to Reuters, that…

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France’s cybersecurity agency hit through Metabase: the “harmless” internal tools nobody watches

ANSSI, the French national cybersecurity agency, has confirmed that 118 accounts of its innovation lab were compromised through a critical zero-day in Metabase, a self-hosted dash…

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Denmark: 8.8 million people exposed after attackers used a contractor’s access to the national population register

Attackers reached Denmark’s CPR, the central population register, through the legitimate access of a private company allowed to query it. Names, addresses and personal ID numbers …

Microsoft Exchange: one stolen account is enough to read every mailbox — install the out-of-band fix

CVE-2026-96940 (CVSS 8.8) lets any authenticated user of an on-premises Exchange server read other people’s mail and attachments in the same organisation. Microsoft shipped an out…

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Apache HTTP Server 2.4.69: 20 security fixes, none critical — how to update calmly

Apache released httpd 2.4.69 on 1 October 2026 with 20 vulnerability fixes, rated low (15) or moderate (5). No emergency, but every Apache server should be updated in the next mai…

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Tax data stolen from France’s DGFiP: what ANSSI’s incident report teaches every company

ANSSI has published its investigation into this summer’s data thefts at the French tax administration. Its conclusion: no sophisticated attack, but stolen passwords, missing multi…

Citrix NetScaler: two critical zero-days under mass exploitation — patch, then check for compromise

Two pre-authentication flaws in NetScaler ADC and Gateway (CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, CVSS 9.5) were exploited before any fix existed and are now used by many attacker gro…

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