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Cisco make-me-root email bug exploited as a 0-day by unknown crims

Cisco “strongly” implored customers to patch yet another critical, make-me-root vulnerability in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG), one that has already been exploited in zero-day attacks. A Cisco spokesperson told The Register that the critical vuln, which received a 9.8 out of 10 CVSS rating, affects

3 min read Oct 14
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Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

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Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit

Researchers at security startup Xbow used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome into an exploit capable of executing code outside the browser's sandbox on Windows machines. Xbow estimates that this could affect about one billion users worldwide. Google fix

3 min read 2 views Oct 14
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Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks

Ivanti customers are being urged to update Connect Secure and check for compromise after attackers exploited a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability. On Tuesday, Ivanti released updates for Connect Secure (ICS) to fix CVE-2026-104935, an authentication bypass flaw discovered by Volexity. Rated 8.6

3 min read 3 views Oct 14
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Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls.

3 min read Oct 14
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CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. The security flaw,

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ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw

ABB previously published an advisory warning about possible probing of a dynovaPRO vulnerability.

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Harmonic Security Raises $50 Million for Workforce AI Protection

The cybersecurity startup plans to expand engineering and go-to-market teams in the US and UK.

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Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges.

1 min read 3 views Oct 14
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AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine. The

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OpenAI engineer charged after boardroom bug found wrapped in toilet paper

The Department of Justice has charged an OpenAI engineer with attempting to intercept oral communications after allegedly planting a recording device in an exec conference room. Investigators claim company security staff found a second device in his bag. Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, is de

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Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug

Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 36 in SharePoint Server, and 22 in SQL Ser

1 min read 3 views Oct 14

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