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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of authentication bypass impacting ICS…
The Hacker News
Attackers without an account of their own were found logging in to Ivanti Connect Secure appliances using an authentication bypass flaw that the vendor has since fixed. Once inside, attackers ran arbitrary commands on the appliances. “Ivanti initially discovered a portion of this vulnerability as part of our product security program and patched it in…
CSO Online UK
A new Android malware called Hirudo steals bank account credentials by replacing legitimate banking apps with modified versions that disable security checks.
BleepingComputer
Microsoft’s October updates address a record 1,413 vulnerabilities, including a Windows flaw attackers are already exploiting and two other zero-days.
Malwarebytes
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has…
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial fraud. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it identified replacements for eight Indonesian banking…
The Hacker News
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…
Security Affairs
FBI alleges covert recorder was plugged into a TV, with a second device later discovered in the employee’s bag…
The Register
Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an isolated slice of memory the operating system uses to guard secrets, and the one they broke into handles…
The Hacker News
Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe…
ESET WeLiveSecurity
A threat actor has been using an exploit chain combining three vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Connect Secure (ICS) appliances to breach organizations, collect credentials, exfiltrate configuration data, and perform network reconnaissance. “In the first week of October 2026, Volexity discovered an unknown threat actor, UTA0576, abusing a zero-day exploit chain to compromise a fully patched (at…
Help Net Security
In another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has squashed over 1,400 security bugs, including a Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) exploited by attackers in the wild. CVE-2026-96951 is a command injection vulnerability in Windows Shell that can be triggered by remote attackers via a file that is designed to exploit the vulnerability. Such a…
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