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Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls

Cisco Patches Actively Exploited ASA and FTD VPN Flaw That Can Crash Firewalls

Ravie LakshmananOct 29, 2026Vulnerability / Network Security Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said… 

GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Block Malicious Packages Before Installation

GitHub Launches npm Firewall to Block Malicious Packages Before Installation

Ravie LakshmananOct 29, 2026DevSecOps / Vulnerability GitHub has announced that it’s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time. “The firewall inspects both metadata requests… 

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Attacker Tried to Exploit Alpine Linux’s GitLab via CVSS 10.0 Flaw Its Ruby Left Open

Attacker Tried to Exploit Alpine Linux’s GitLab via CVSS 10.0 Flaw Its Ruby Left Open

An attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on the Alpine Linux project’s own GitLab server a week after GitLab released a fix, Alpine Linux said on 28 October. The flaw, CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0), can let… 

Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys

Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys

Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization’s SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that… 

China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility

China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail Visibility

Ravie LakshmananOct 29, 2026Vulnerability / Cyber Espionage The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed…