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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," reads the circular released 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 caller...

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...