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Security Affairs

PHP Warns of New Code Execution Flaw Days After PHP2Shell Patches

PHP warns of a new, unlikely code execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, and advises disabling session upload progress until a fix is released. PHP has warned of a new code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-115560, just two days after releasing emergency patches for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The vulnerability affects only a specific PHP configuration that PHP […]

CSO Online

Oracle patches 1295 security vulnerabilities in October, including six scoring 10.0

Oracle has patched 1295 security vulnerabilities with its October Critical Patch Update Advisory; six of them scored the highest vulnerability rating of 10.0 on the CVSS version 3.1 scale. The company’s flagship Oracle E-Business Suite was home to one of the vulnerabiltiies, tracked as CVE-2026-101809. This enables any unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP to compromise the workflow notification maile…

The Hacker News

Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Phantom. The threat actor is assessed to be Russian-speaking and functions both as an intrusion and data-extortion operator, as well as an

AWS Security Bulletins

CVE-2026-115812 and CVE-2026-115813: Issue in Amazon Web Services Multi Model Server

Bulletin ID: 2026-148-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/23/2026 10:30 AM PDT Description: Amazon Web Services Multi Model Server (MMS) is an open source tool for serving machine learning models for inference. It was published by AWS on GitHub, PyPI, and Docker Hub, and reached end of life; its source repository has been archived and read-only since November 20, 2025. CVE…

Flare

“PoC Yes. RCE No.”: What the Underground Actually Thinks of the Public PHP2Shell Exploits

By Olivier Bilodeau, Cybersecurity Research Director Within hours of PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) going public, GitHub filled up with proof-of-concept exploits, and the underground went looking for one that works. We followed the PHP2Shell threads on Exploit.in, XSS, Dread, BreachForums and four other underground forums through the first 48 hours after disclosure. The verdict from […] The post “PoC…

Orca Security

PHP2Shell: What This Week Tells Us About the Web We Built

The week the web’s plumbing failed On Wednesday afternoon, most of the world’s websites became exploitable at the same moment. The reason was PHP, the thirty-year-old language that still serves roughly seven out of ten sites you visit, including nearly every WordPress, Drupal, Magento and Joomla deployment on earth. Two bugs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, now […]

CERT-EU

2026-018: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP

On 20 October 2026, the PHP project announced an upcoming security release addressing two critical vulnerabilities in PHP. Public reports indicated that these vulnerabilities could lead to remote code execution (RCE). The PHP team released the fixes today, 21 October 2026 at 13:30 UTC, in PHP versions 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35. Both vulnerabilities can allow unauthenticated remote code execution. Technical de…

CSO Online

Dual BIOS: The laptop security feature SMBs don’t know they need

Every security checklist starts with the basics: strong passwords, multifactor authentication, spotting phishing, and keeping software up to date. All four protect what happens after a laptop starts. But some attackers are more focused on what happens before. That’s the domain of the BIOS, the first code that runs when a laptop powers on. It checks the hardware, then hands control to the operating system. Malware pla…

Rapid7 Blog

Metasploit Wrap Up: Langflow, MongoDB, and More

This release adds multiple new modules, and 6 of those modules point at a single target: Langflow, the open-source LLM workflow builder. Together they cover an authentication bypass (CVE-2026-93680), 3 unauthenticated remote code execution paths (CVE-2026-0768, CVE-2026-0769, and CVE-2026-10134), and 2 authenticated code execution flaws (CVE-2026-7873 and CVE-2026-93674), spanning Langflow releases from 1.0.0 through…

CSO Online

Meta hit with $25 billion fine for illegally sharing user data

A judge in New Mexico has fined Meta $25 billion for its flouting of data privacy laws between 2010 and 2021, including its controversial passing of data to Cambridge Analytica. The action serves as a stark reminder to enterprises not to play fast and loose with data protection legislation, as the consequences could be highly damaging. Meta faced the court action after it was revealed that data company Cambridge Anal…

SecurityWeek

In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia’s APT28 hit NATO defense firms, PingCAP source code stolen, ShinyHunters negotiator probe. The post In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft Security Response Center

CVE-2026-83862 Windows Network Load Balancing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

Corrected the CVSS Attack Vector metric from Network (AV:N) to Adjacent (AV:A) to reflect the requirement for Layer 2 network adjacency. The CVSS base score has decreased from 9.8 to 8.8. This is an informational change only. Customers who have successfully installed the update do not need to take any further action.

The Hacker News

Hackers Breach Enterprise Firewalls and VPNs, Exposing Over 70,000 Credentials

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate that operators in this campaign have obtained access to numerous organizations worldwide, and have attempted to further compromise some victims,

SANS Internet Storm Center

PHP Vulnerability Wrap-Up, (Fri, Oct 23rd)

This morning, we returned to Infocon Green. As usual, we are raising the Infocon to alert you to emerging situations requiring immediate attention. PHP fit that description. By now, you either know about it, or you probably never will, so it is time to go back to "business as usual".

Security Affairs

Meta Faces $25 Billion Penalty Linked to Cambridge Analytica Scandal

A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users about privacy, setting a record penalty. Meta plans to appeal. This week a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay the state $25 billion. The order follows a jury finding that the company deceived Facebook users about their privacy, and it’s the […]

The Cyber Express

The Cyber Express Weekly Roundup: PHP2Shell Knocks Wikipedia Offline, ASD Retires the Essential Eight and More

A decade-old flaw in the language behind much of the web, found by AI and serious enough to take Wikipedia offline. Driving licenses sold for AED 10,000 to people who never sat for a test. A police sweep across 21 African countries that ended in more than 1,400 arrests. This weekly roundup covers stories where the weak point was not always a firewall, but the trust built into code libraries, license agreements, and t…

The Hacker News

PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Risk Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches

PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an unusual way, and PHP considers it an unlikely risk.The project is not issuing an emergency fix for it. Instead, it recommends turning off a feature called

The Hacker News

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

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 ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) obtaining initial access to the target on July 16, 2025, via a spear-phishing email bearing a malware-laced attachment that led to the deployment of

Schneier on Security

Compromised TLS Certificates

The Indian CA eMudhra Limited has eight TLS certificates with laughably weak private keys: The compromised eMudhra keys were defective at a level that’s challenging the imagination of many of the engineers studying the incident. A normal size for a NIST P-384 elliptic curve cryptography private key contains roughly 384 bits of entropy, a size allowing almost 2384, or a number with 116 digits, different possibilities.…

Security Affairs

PHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, No Confirmed Successful Exploits Yet

PHP2Shell attacks have surged into the millions, but no successful exploitation is confirmed. Patch it immediately. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS score of 9.2), affecting every PHP version that handles web requests. The bug code dates back to PHP 5.4 from 2012, lives […]