Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft’s Overgrown October Patch Tuesday
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
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The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
Read the full story on Dark Reading.
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond.
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.
Today is Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges.
The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday.
Anthropic’s latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be “challenging” to shut down.
Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position.
Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.
The proliferation of enterprise apps and the centrality of cloud identity providers requires an identity security rethink.
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