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Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site’s server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19.

An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core alone, the Drupal Security Team said in its advisory. Several exploit paths exist through contributed modules, and at least one known path needs no login.

Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. 

The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving US businesses, which accounted for 16% of country-attributed targets. 

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The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers’ registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from unknown numbers and tackle spam or fraudulent calls.

To that end, the Department of Telecommunications has issued a circular urging service

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations.

The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026.

“This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It attempted to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories’ CI,” security researchers Gaetan

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian.

Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow, was acquired by IBM.

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-105740 (CVSS score: 9.9), a case of

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners.

The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems.

In a report published earlier

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation.

The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface.

“A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an

Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance’s operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday.

The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance filters an organization’s email for spam, malware,

Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10.

A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with the rights of the web server account. The flaw

Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man System.

“Since January 2026, the threat actors behind these kits have been responsible for