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The Hacker News

Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet

Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater belongs to Time4Popcorn, an abandoned copy of Popcorn Time, a free app that streamed pirated films and TV over BitTorrent. Popcorn Time was

EFF

The Vulnerability Apocalypse and Why We Should Fund Open Source

If you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week—and all your nerdiest friends were talking about "The Vulnerability Apocalypse” and this thing called PHP that powers nearly 70% of the websites on the internet. You may find yourself wondering: what is PHP, what just happened, what is the vulnerability apocalypse, and what do I need to do? To fi…

The Hacker News

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 than previously thought. The attacks aim to exploit CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS scores: 9.2), which can result in unauthenticated remote

AWS Security Bulletins

CVE-2026-115417 - Memory allocation with excessive size value in the MQTT 3.1.1 compatibility adapter in aws-c-mqtt

Bulletin ID: 2026-147-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/22/2026 13:30 PM PDT Description: aws-c-mqtt is a C99 implementation of the MQTT 3.1.1 and MQTT5 specifications, distributed as part of the AWS Common Runtime (CRT) and bundled in the AWS IoT Device SDK for C++ v2. We identified CVE-2026-115417, a memory allocation with excessive size value (CWE-789) in the library'…

Cisco Security Advisories

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 SMTP MIME Denial of Service Vulnerability

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 SMTP MIME Decoder that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart. This vulnerability is due to a lack of error checking when the MIME fields of the SMTP header are parsed. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted SMTP packets through an established connection to be parse…

Cisco Security Advisories

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

Multiple Cisco products are affected by vulnerabilities in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. For more information about these vulnerabilities, see the Details section of this advisory. Cisco has released software updates that address these vulnerabilities. Th…

Cisco Security Advisories

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Generic Routing Encapsulation Denial of Service Vulnerability

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the generic routing encapsulation (GRE) tunnel decapsulation feature of the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause an unexpected restart of the Snort 3 Detection Engine. This vulnerability is due to improper handling of nested GRE traffic. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted GRE pay…

Cisco Security Advisories

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Denial of Service Vulnerability

Multiple Cisco products are affected by a vulnerability in the Snort 3 Detection Engine that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the detection engine to unexpectedly restart, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. The vulnerability is due to a flaw in logic handling when General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) Tunneling Protocol (GTP) extension headers are processed within the codec. An at…

Cisco Security Advisories

Multiple Cisco Products Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications Buffer Overflow Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the Snort 3 Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) Decompression Engine of multiple Cisco products could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the Snort 3 Detection Engine to restart unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to improper range checking when Snort 3 decompresses VBA data, which is user controlled. An attacker could exploit thi…

Zscaler ThreatLabz

SEO Poisoning Campaign Delivers New Armorsteal Malware

IntroductionIn September 2026, Zscaler Threat Hunting identified an SEO poisoning campaign that used fake websites impersonating the Chocolatey package manager and the Microsoft Activation Scripts (MAS) tool to distribute a Python-based malware family we track as Armorsteal. The fake websites targeted users searching for Chocolatey or MAS software installation commands. Each lure page displayed a malicious PowerShell…

NCSC Netherlands

NCSC-2026-0452 [1.00] [M/H] Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in FreeBSD bhyve hypervisor

De FreeBSD community heeft meerdere kwetsbaarheden verholpen in bhyve Hypervisor De kwetsbaarheden betreffen race conditions, onjuiste validatie en synchronisatieproblemen in verschillende device modellen binnen de bhyve hypervisor. Een kwaadwillende gast-virtuele machine kan deze fouten misbruiken om een denial of service te veroorzaken door het bhyve proces te laten crashen of om arbitraire code uit te voeren in de…

Ubuntu Security Notices

USN-8952-1: Tornado vulnerabilities

It was discovered that Tornado did not properly handle certain HTTP requests and network inputs. An attacker could possibly use these issues to cause a denial of service, expose sensitive information, or bypass access controls. (CVE-2023-54397, CVE-2024-14029, CVE-2026-91990, CVE-2026-91992, CVE-2026-103262, CVE-2026-103263)

NCSC Netherlands

NCSC-2026-0450 [1.00] [M/H] Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Snort 3 van Cisco

Cisco heeft meerdere kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Snort 3, het open source intrusion detection en prevention systeem dat in diverse Cisco-producten wordt gebruikt. De kwetsbaarheden bevinden zich in verschillende componenten van de Snort 3 Detection Engine, waaronder de SMTP MIME Decoder, NetFlow Detection Engine, GRE Detection Engine, Teredo Detection Engine, VBA Decompression Engine, en de memory management. Ongeaut…

NCSC Netherlands

NCSC-2026-0449 [1.00] [M/H] Meerdere kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Java

Oracle heeft meerdere kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Java. In Oracle Java SE, JavaFX en GraalVM Enterprise Edition zijn diverse kwetsbaarheden aanwezig die door ongeauthenticeerde netwerkaanvallers kunnen worden misbruikt via blootgestelde API's of sandboxed Java-applicaties. Deze kwetsbaarheden maken het mogelijk om denial of service te veroorzaken, ongeautoriseerde lees- en schrijfacties op data uit te voeren,…

Ubuntu Security Notices

USN-8890-2: libsoup vulnerabilities

USN-8890-1 fixed vulnerabilities in libsoup. This update provides the corresponding updates for libsoup3 on Ubuntu 26.10. Original advisory details: It was discovered that libsoup incorrectly handled certain HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. (CVE-2026-4271) It was discovered that libsoup incorr…

AWS Security Bulletins

PHP web runtimes (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

Bulletin ID: 2026-143-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/21/2026 14:30 PM PDT Summary: Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) allow an unauthenticated remote actor to execute code, access process-accessible data, or cause denial of service on affected PHP workers. Customers running affected PHP versions (8.2–8.5 below the fixed releases,…

Ubuntu Security Notices

USN-8951-1: c-ares vulnerabilities

It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly parsed certain SOA replies. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. (CVE-2020-22217) It was discovered that c-ares incorrectly handled certain sortlist strings. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause c-ares to crash, resulting i…

Cisco Security Advisories

Cisco Advance Notification for Publication of October 21, 2026, Security Advisories

On October 21, 2026, the Cisco Product Security Incident Response Team (PSIRT) published the following advisories. To remediate the vulnerabilities that were disclosed on October 21, 2026, Cisco strongly recommends that customers upgrade to the fixed software that is indicated in the advisories. For more information about changes in Cisco PSIRT vulnerability disclosure, see Strengthening the Foundation: A Predictable…

Cisco Security Advisories

Cisco IOS XR Software for ASR 9000 Series Routers IPv4 Unicast Packets Denial of Service Vulnerability

A vulnerability in the IPv4 packet processing functionality of Cisco IOS XR Software that affects Cisco ASR 9000 and 9900 Series Aggregation Services Routers as well as Cisco ASR 9902 and 9903 Compact High-Performance Routers could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause network processor (NP) errors, resulting in a line card reset or shutdown and a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is…

Zscaler ThreatLabz

CVE-2026-88771: Inside the Exploitation of a Critical NetScaler RCE Vulnerability

IntroductionOn September 27, 2026, Citrix disclosed CVE-2026-88771, a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability affecting NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and NetScaler Gateway. The vulnerability carries a CVSS v3.1 score of 9.8 according to NVD and a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.5 according to the Citrix security bulletin CTX697096. The vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitr…