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Next.js released an  out-of-band security update  on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and the other in librsvg, the open-source library Next.js uses through the sharp package to handle SVG images. The fixes are in Next.js 16.4.1 and 15.5.28, the current Active and Maintenance long-term support (LTS) releases. What Was Fixed The update covers three separate issues. Vercel, which develops Next.js, rated both code-execution flaws critical, each with a CVSS score of 9.5. The table lists the versions each issue affects and the version that fixes it. Issue Affected versions Fixed in Who is exposed Code execution through use cache ( GHSA-673q-mjm6-r5xr ...

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. Tracked as CVE-2026-108097 , the flaw sits in Field UI, the core module behind the admin pages where site builders manage fields and how they display. Drupal rates it 19 out of 25 on its own risk scale, the level the project calls critical. The advisory does not name the contributed modules that open a path to the flaw, and custom code may also expose it. Drew Webber of the Security Team and Octavio Galland are credited with reporting it. What to Do Now The fixed release for each supported branch: Drupal 11.4.x: update to  11.4.10 Drupal 11.3.x: update to  11.3.19 ...

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.  Similar attacks appearing across different customers can trigger repetitive investigations, consume analyst capacity, and extend response times, making it harder to maintain consistent service levels as threat activity grows. How Fake AI Attacks Are Reaching US Businesses Fake AI attacks pose a serious risk to business security The campaigns investigated by ANY.RUN use familiar AI brands to encourage employees to execute malicious commands, install compromised applications, or submit credentials through fraudulent authentication pages.

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 authenticated attacker with network access to execute arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall," Palo Alto Networks said . The issue impacts PAN-OS software on PA-Series and VM-Series firewalls and on Panorama (virtual and M-Series). Cloud NGFW and Prisma Access are not affected by the vulnerability. Palo Alto Networks said that no special configuration is required to exploit the issue, but said the security risk can be minimized by restricting access to the management interface to only trusted internal IP addresses. "You can reduce the risk of exploitation by restr...

AI is already part of digital forensics and incident response work, with or without a policy in place to govern it. The issue is that these tools are growing more confident in their own output faster than practitioners are developing reliable ways to verify it. Without governance models and validation standards in place, that gap compounds and rarely stays contained to a workstation: an unverified finding can end up in a forensic report, a deposition, or in court.  At SANS, we created two new AI frameworks this year to help address this challenge: the Digital Forensics & AI Investigations Framework , which we mapped to the trusted standards established by the Scientific Working Group on Digital Evidence (SWGDE), and the Incident Response & AI Investigations Framework , which we mapped to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. Both frameworks rest on the same principle: AI can accelerate investigative work, but the human examiner remains the final authority at every phase...

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 providers to implement the Calling Name Presentation (CNAP) service. "At the time when a call is incoming, the calling name presentation service presents the calling name identity of the calling user on the user terminal of the called user," according to a circular issued by the Indian Ministry of Communications dated October 13, 2026. "Calling name identity is the name of the calling user as recorded in subscriber data record of the originating telecommunication service provider and such identity is included in the calling line identification of such user." The cal...

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 Ferry and Guillaume Valadon said . GhostAction is the moniker for a supply chain attack campaign targeting developer infrastructure on GitHub. Originally discovered in September 2025, it involves threat actors compromising legitimate developer accounts to inject malicious GitHub Actions automation workflows into software repositories. Attackers have been found to gain write access to repositories using stolen Personal Access Tokens (PATs) or credentials harvested from infostealer logs and dumps. Using the hijacked maintainer account, they push a malicious workflow file disguis...

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 authenticated remote code execution impacting versions prior to 1.9.0. "Any authenticated Langflow user can achieve Remote Code Execution (RCE) on the server by adding an MCP server with the 'stdio' transport," reads an advisory released last month. "The user-supplied command field is passed directly to bash -c "exec {command}" with zero validation, no allowlisting, and no sandboxing. The command executes immediately when the server list is fetched. Additionally, the env field allows arbitrary environment variable injection (e.g., LD_PRELOAD, PATH ove...

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 this month, Huntress said it observed threat actors combining the two flaws to achieve unauthenticated remote code execution and deploy web shells and cryptocurrency miners on exposed systems. Although the vulnerabilities were initially assumed to be addressed in AhsayCBS versions 9.15.2.59 and 10.3.4.0 released in August 2026, the software company has now confirmed that the patches did not completely plug them. The fixes are available in the following versions - AhsayCBS v10.3.4.45 hotfix AhsayCBS v9.15.2.70 hotfix "Given the severity of these risks, we strongly urge ...

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, and other threats, and only a gateway with the File Reputation service enabled and a Content Scanner Tools package older than version 25.3.0.5525 is vulnerable. The fix has been shipping since September 14 in AsyncOS 15.5.5-014 and 16.5.0-780, the builds Cisco listed as fixed in a hardening release that day, which the company now says covered this flaw. It also arrives as a Content Scanner Tools update, version 25.3.0.5525 or later, which installs without a software upgrade or a restart. Cisco found the flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76519 (CVSS score: 9.8), in its own internal security scanni...

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 allows an unauthenticated request to run a command on the server, but only when the app's local document server is not running, such as during a restart or upgrade, or after a crash. Collabora fixed it in  version 26.4.303  on September 11 and on October 14 published  an advisory  with the identifier  CVE-2026-110447 , warning that turning off the app does not help: it must be updated or removed. Who Is Affected The app, published by Collabora under the package name richdocumentscode, downloads a copy of Collabora Online Development Edition (CODE) and runs it ...

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 facilitating the sending of over one billion phishing emails and SMS messages to over 75 thousand organizations worldwide," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence and Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit said . The court-authorized operation is the result of an investigation that Microsoft launched in late 2025 after it was notified of malicious messaging campaigns targeting people in Japan. The  The Chinese-language cybercriminal ecosystem has been described as an interconnected network of phishing kit operators, developers, and an illicit marketplace and initial access broker (IAB) codenamed YAM ...

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme . The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies, charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, money laundering conspiracy, conspiracy to commit identity theft, and aggravated identity theft. The following individuals have been charged - Sun Sheng Ming, 37, Dandong City, China Pei Li Guang, age unknown, Liaoning, China Weng Shou Cheng, age unknown, Liaoning, China Han Guo Bin, age unknown, Dandong City, China Wang Jian Jun, 34, Dandong City, China Sheng Zhang Kun, age unknown, Shenzhen, China Zhang Wei Ping, age unknown, Dandong City, China Zhang Li Ping, age unknown, unknown location Yu Yang, 40, age unknown, Dandong City, China Jin Long, ...

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, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of authentication bypass impacting ICS versions 25.1.1.1 and prior, 25.1.2.2 and prior, and 22.8R2.4 and prior that could allow a remote unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands. "CISA is aware of cyber threat actors exploiting this zero-day authentication bypass vulnerability, which allows remote, unauthenticated execution of arbitrary commands, to conduct credential theft and data exfiltration," the agency said .  The agency has since added the flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the fixes by October 16, 2026. ...

A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on October 14 in  curl 8.23.0 . Taking over a client needs exact knowledge of its build and memory layout, and curl expects a real attack to end in a crash instead. The flaw, a use-after-free tracked as  CVE-2026-92392 , affects curl and libcurl 8.12.0 through 8.22.0, both the command-line tool and the library that many other programs use for transfers. curl rates it High on its own four-level scale, its first High-severity flaw since the  SOCKS5 heap overflow of October 2023 . The project cut its release cycle by two weeks to ship the fix. The attack runs from the server side. The client has to upload a file of roughly 135KB over HTTP/2 to a server controlled by the attacker, and the server's certificate must pass the client's checks....

Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. It's the CFO, or it sounds exactly like her, asking the controller to push a supplier payment out before the weekend because a deal closes Monday. She's traveling, she's rushed, and she apologizes for the bad connection. Ten minutes later an email lands with the wire details. A couple of years ago that scenario was a conference talk. Now it shows up in incident reports. In a 2025 Gartner survey of 302 cybersecurity leaders , 62% said their organization had experienced at least one deepfake attack in the prior 12 months. In the same survey, 43% reported at least one deepfake audio call incident and 37% had run into deepfakes on video calls. And the wire is only the obvious ask. The same cloned voice can call the help ...