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Russian-Linked Hackers Used New Mesh Network Backdoor in Destructive Ukraine Attack

Russian-Linked Hackers Used New Mesh Network Backdoor in Destructive Ukraine Attack

Ravie LakshmananOct 23, 2026Malware / Cyber Espionage The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to… 

Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

Swati KhandelwalOct 23, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it… 

Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data

Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data

Swati KhandelwalOct 23, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their “Node2Shell” proof of concept ran code… 

PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware

PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware

Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder… 

Arista Warns of Critical VeloCloud SQL Injection Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks

Arista Warns of Critical VeloCloud SQL Injection Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks

Swati KhandelwalOct 22, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista’s VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw… 

eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Business After 8 Intermediate CA Keys Found Easily Guessable

eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Business After 8 Intermediate CA Keys Found Easily Guessable

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA… 

AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More

AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More

Ravie LakshmananOct 22, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked… 

Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

Swati KhandelwalOct 22, 2026Vulnerability / Linux Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel’s built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative, with no fix…