October 2026

Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win

A chain of logic flaws, with no memory corruption, can turn a malicious web page into code running on a Windows computer outside Microsoft Edge’s sandbox, a security researcher has shown.

Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published the full method on October 28, five months after the chain won $175,000 at the Pwn2Own Berlin contest in May. Microsoft fixed the Edge bugs the day after the contest,

  • October 29, 2026

PHP2Shell Attack Roots 25 Servers, Breaches U.S. Government-Affiliated Network

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted attack orchestrated by a suspected China-nexus threat actor that has leveraged the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach exposed systems.

The activity, which was observed on October 25, 2026, involved an attacker combining PHP2Shell with a kernel privilege escalation exploit to root

  • October 29, 2026

Adobe Fixes 8 Critical Campaign Classic Flaws Allowing Code Execution and Security Bypass

Adobe has released patches to address multiple critical security flaws in Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation.

The list of eight vulnerabilities is as follows –

CVE-2026-104351 (CVSS score: 9.9) – A code injection vulnerability that could lead to arbitrary code execution.

  • October 28, 2026

American Organizations Under Attack: Skyw4lker Device Code Phishing Campaign Exposed

Modern phishing campaigns can compromise American businesses without relying on traditional credential theft. Attackers can abuse legitimate cloud services, authentication mechanisms, and trusted business workflows to gain access to corporate accounts while leaving fewer obvious signs behind.

ANY.RUN’s analysis of Skyw4lker, a device code phishing campaign primarily targeting U.S. organizations

  • October 28, 2026

Anthropic’s Unreleased AI Model Chains Flaws Into Working Chrome, Safari, Windows and Linux Exploits

An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report.

The exploits were built in the lab after the model was prompted, not seen in any real attack, and Anthropic reported every flaw to the vendor first, so all of them are already patched. One proof of

  • October 28, 2026