October 2026

Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open.

The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing the file’s name to Ghostscript, a separate program it runs to turn the image into pixels, without checking the name first.

Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated.

Their “Node2Shell” proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux arm64, with no debugger or custom build, by feeding crafted data to the bundled Brotli decoder (CVE-2026-111497). Node.js disclosed the flaw

The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants.

In this video, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn’t get a chance to cover, from busting up North Korea’s stateside infrastructure in “Operation Lonestar Justice” to Staples’ gift card bonanza.

Des centaines de magasins ont subi des pertes se chiffrant en millions d’euros parce qu’ils avaient fait appel à des tiers pour gérer le micrologiciel OT obsolète qui pilotait leurs systèmes de climatisation.

Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t.

The post Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Amsterdam-based company plans to use the funding for research and development and commercial expansion in Europe and the Middle East.

The post Indurex Raises $8 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Affecting the open source calling library RingRTC, the bug prevented calls from ending properly.

The post Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching.

The post Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Late Wednesday night the Toronto chapter of Crime Stoppers broke ranks with the national association, revealing a timeline showing what it knew and when along with an announcement that it will pause operations.