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Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a "highly critical" security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core versions from 0.0.0 to 2.41 and from 3.0.0 to 3.3.13. "This module enables you to sell goods and services to customers through an included shopping cart and checkout form or through decoupled applications via APIs," Drupal said in an advisory. "The module doesn't sufficiently protect certain routes and entity fields, leading to an access bypass that may financially impact the vendor." The open-source content-management framework acknowledged that the vulnerability is being "actively exploited in the wild," but provided no specifics about the nature of the activity or the extent of the campaign. Users are being recommended to update to the latest version - Version 3.x - Upgrade to Commerc...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An integer overflow or wraparound vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition that could allow an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD configuration due to insufficient regular expression validation. CVE-2026-76418 (CVSS score: 8.6) - An unchecked return value to NULL pointer dereference vulnerability in Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial-of-service (DoS) condition. The devel...

Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever tricks and careless mistakes. Hackers are borrowing trust from familiar apps, websites, and AI tools. Some are using AI to speed things up. Others are leaving their own attack files exposed. Not exactly careful work. Different stories, familiar weak spots. Here's what showed up this week. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out.

A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as  CVE-2026-98432 , affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said  on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit that uses the flaw to let a remote attacker with no credentials run commands as root on Linux servers with a multipath TCP listener. As of October 29, Ubuntu and RHEL have not released a fixed kernel. Red Hat, Amazon, Oracle, and SUSE score the flaw between 5.9 and 8.1, lower than the kernel team's 9.8. The flaw is a race condition in the code that sets up new IPv4 TCP connections. It can make the kernel read memory it has already freed, a bug type known as a use-after-free. The kernel fix  credits Anthropic researcher Xinyang Ge with reporting the bug. Neither the CVE record nor the fix mentions multipath TCP (MPTCP). The link between that feature and this bug comes from Anthropic'...

Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon , its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities critical for cybersecurity defense, landing a firm lead in SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym (54.8%) for exploitation, and CWE-bench (71.0%) for patching," Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president of Google DeepMind and chief AI architect at Google, said . On the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index benchmark, Carbon leads with a score of 59, surpassing Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 (58), OpenAI GPT-6 Astra (57), GPT-6.1 Sol (55). One of the core focus areas is cybersecurity, where the latest iteration reportedly delivers significant performance improvements across the board, including vulnerability detection, validation, and remediation. Carbon is also twice as likely to generate secure code ver...