Bulletin ID: 2026-139-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/16/2026 10:15 AM PDT Description: FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP is an open-source, thread-safe TCP/IP stack for the FreeRTOS kernel, distributed by Amazon for use on embedded and IoT devices. AWS identified two issues with FreeRTOS-Plus-TCP, affecting multiple versions. CVE-2026-102551: improper verification of the source of a…
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis
A chain of vulnerabilities in Google’s Chrome browser could have enabled researchers to take control of one billion Windows machines worldwide — and it cost them just $40,000 in AI compute time to discover it. Researchers at Xbow USA worked for six days on developing the exploit, which earned them a $250,000 bug bounty from Google, the first under the new 2026 rules. They chose OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol for the task to de…
OverviewOn October 12, 2026, GitLab released 19.4.2, 19.3.5, and 19.2.8 to fix CVE-2026-97229, an integer overflow in its CI/CD regular-expression handling. The issue was reported through HackerOne by joaxcar. GitLab assigned it a CVSS score of 10.0 and described possible code execution by an unauthenticated user.The advisory states that CVE-2026-97229 affects GitLab CE and EE from 19.2 before 19.2.8, 19.3 before 19.…
Some awards you're happy to receive, while others make you stop for a moment. Receiving the 2026 Péter Szőr Award this week at Virus Bulletin in Seville for our research, BPFdoor in Telecom Networks: Sleeper Cells in the Backbone, was of the latter kind.Virus Bulletin created the award to honor Péter's life and work, and it recognizes outstanding technical security research: the rigorous, the deep, and the useful – e…
Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls were lacking. The bank was fined a whopping $1.2 billion for money laundering offences this week, after banking authorities identified a lax attitude to compliance. “We understand the seriousness of compliance, and we are responsible for getting it right,” Bank of America CEO Brian…
The Linux kernel’s networking stack was found vulnerable to a guest-to-host escape attack, in which an attacker operating inside a virtual machine (VM) could cross the isolation boundary and access the underlying host. Dubbed PwnEscape and tracked as CVE-2026-99999, a flaw allowed guest-controlled packet metadata to trigger a write that changes an IPv4 header after the kernel has already processed it. That flaw could…
Ein entfernter, anonymer Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Enterprise Linux und Red Hat Satellite ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen oder beliebigen Code auszuführen.
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen im Linux-Kernel ausnutzen, um einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand zu erzeugen und weitere nicht spezifizierte Angriffe zu starten.
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle im "python-requests" Paket von Red Hat Enterprise Linux ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
