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The September Microsoft Patch Tuesday release included 975 vulnerability advisories. This month, 1,415 vulnerabilities were just dropped. Compared to a pre-June average of 100 a month, that increase is staggering. Where did they come from? And what does the future look like?
Cisco Talos
An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. Between April and July 2026, attackers repeatedly altered configuration files on AOMEI’s own servers for just five to ten minutes at a time, then restored the originals. The tampered files belong…
Help Net Security+1 source
Multiple threat actors have exploited a high-severity flaw in the company’s GlobalProtect portal.
Cybersecurity Dive+4 sources
Key Findings Introduction Antidetect browsers conceal their users’ digital identities, enabling a single operator or small team to simultaneously run thousands of isolated accounts across multiple platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Twitter/X, Discord, LinkedIn, Reddit, and many more, without triggering the detection systems employed by those platforms. In this report, we highlight three…
Check Point Research
Security patches are turning into roadmaps for attackers, with a growing share of fixes later found incomplete or open to bypass. Oren Yomtov, a security researcher at Terra Security, began tracking broken fixes after the team kept running into them in its own work over the past year. “A fix would ship, a bypass would…
Help Net Security
Researchers uncovered a zero-click infection affecting a supporter of Serbia’s student movement, alongside a spyware warning sent to an anti-corruption investigator. The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia’s student-led pro-democracy movement, was infected with Pegasus spyware in 2026, according to an investigation by Citizen Lab…
Bitdefender+2 sources
The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia’s student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware in 2026, the Citizen Lab said on October 19. The finding came six days before Serbia’s October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning…
The Hacker News+2 sources
Siemens has confirmed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-110936, a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, the company’s tool for downloading, installing and managing its software. Siemens first published its security advisory on 15 October 2026, giving the flaw reported by Jose Oregon from Huntress Labs a CVSS v4.0 score of 8.4. On 17 October,…
Help Net Security+2 sources
An attacker used a contributor’s GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud’s command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They…
The Hacker News
French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware.
BleepingComputer+1 source
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Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to place a specially-crafted DLL in a directory the application searches, resulting in execution of malicious code with the same privileges…
The Hacker News+2 sources