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 has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76418, is rated 8.6 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker…
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 and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,” GitHub said. The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available…
The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off.
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 an attacker run code on a GitLab server through a crafted regular expression in a CI configuration. Alpine found no…
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 encrypt traffic between sites and store them for later use, Cisco Talos said on October 28. Talos calls the attacks historical but…
Researchers can’t quite explain why cyber threats look so different in Italy compared to everywhere else.
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 that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-41709…
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday warned that threat actors are exploiting the recently patched PHP2Shell vulnerabilities against publicly-accessible management interfaces. “Active exploitation has been observed targeting the Palo Alto Networks management interface exposed to the internet,” the network security company said in an update to its advisory. The vulnerabilities, tracked as
The supply chain attack campaign’s shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit.
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. “First identified in late 2023, Silent Train uses rotating chains of compromised SOHO, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure,” Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs…