October 2026

The issue was publicized by cybersecurity researcher Scott Helme, who published a blog saying that instead of a random 384-bit number, one of the company’s private keys was just the number four.

A Chinese government-aligned hacking group used automated tools to carry out the recent supply chain attack on IT management software company ConnectWise and is using the same techniques to try to compromise organizations around the globe, Microsoft said.

More than 1,400 suspected cybercriminals were arrested across Africa this summer as part of a crackdown on the gangs perpetrating online fraud, ransomware and business email compromise attacks, Interpol said.

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching.

Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it.

If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista’s VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22.

The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator, even with a read-only customer account, gain operator privileges, the top level of control over it.

For

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates.

eMudhra said it will replace affected customers’ certificates with free ones from partners, though its

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That’s a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn’t even over yet.

But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed

The United Arab Emirates says it’s creating a foundation of security and safety as it transforms its public service footprint.

Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information.

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Critical-severity security defects could lead to command execution, authentication bypass, and XSS attacks.

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