October 2026

U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases 2026-10-21 at 12:49 By U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services “developed using DeepSeek implementations,” under a Department of Homeland Security order. They may also no longer buy information technology products […]

PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert 2026-10-21 at 12:05 By This story is developing and was written before PHP’s scheduled 14:00 UTC release on October 21. Once the release is out, the affected and fixed versions below are confirmed by the official advisory. PHP will ship an out-of-cycle […]

Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites 2026-10-21 at 12:01 By Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft’s website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers’ connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, using them to backdoor WordPress sites. TeamUpdraft is the developer behind UpdraftPlus, a popular WordPress backup plugin with over four million […]

Hackers Hid Vasilek Backdoor in VMware Tools During 2-Year Russian Healthcare Intrusion 2026-10-21 at 11:02 By A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian cybersecurity firm Solar, the activity has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed Partisan Zmiy, which […]

State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web 2026-10-21 at 10:44 By State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. The […]

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws 2026-10-21 at 10:26 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that’s collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-96652 (CVSS […]

How AI Chatbots Could Shape Voter Information Ahead of Midterm Elections 2026-10-21 at 09:00 By Election years have always attracted influence operations. AI has given those efforts a new route. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert 2026-10-21 at 07:57 By PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but has not described. Security researchers at watchTowr say […]