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24 October 2026 - 07:51

Category: Breach

Source: SecurityWeek

A lovely buffet of relentless disasters

Rogue AI agents targeted banks while APT28 struck NATO defense firms and PingCAP lost source code. Truly an inspiring showcase of global digital resilience.

A lovely buffet of relentless disasters
anotherbreach itmisery
Severity: High Mood: Concerning
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24 October 2026 - 07:41

Category: Breach

Source: The Hacker News

Ransomware affiliates outsource to AI

Affiliates of INC and The Gentlemen ransomware syndicates are now using AI agents to execute intrusions. Apparently even criminals find breaking into systems too tedious.

Ransomware affiliates outsource to AI
cyberfatigue ransomware
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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24 October 2026 - 07:34

Category: Breach

Source: The Hacker News

Edge devices give away the keys again

Exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls generously surrendered over 70,000 enterprise credentials. Naturally, perimeter defence remains entirely aspirational.

Edge devices give away the keys again
firewallfail patchtuesday
Severity: Critical Mood: Expected
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23 October 2026 - 18:41

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Arista Delivers Zero-Day Hat Trick

Attackers are gleefully exploiting a third Arista VCO zero-day in just four months to nab operator privileges. Because two critical SQL injection flaws were clearly not enough.

Arista Delivers Zero-Day Hat Trick
#ZeroDayFatigue #AristaFail
Severity: Critical Mood: Frustrating
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23 October 2026 - 18:32

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Splendid, Hackers Now Use AI Tools

State-sponsored hackers used an AI tool called Artex to target hundreds of ConnectWise users. Wonderful to see threat actors automating my daily headache.

Splendid, Hackers Now Use AI Tools
#ConnectWise #AITired
Severity: High Mood: Concerning
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23 October 2026 - 18:21

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Mirai Drops In For PHP Exploitation

Mirai botnets are now having a go at PHP2Shell attacks alongside an ASLR bypass. Splendid news for everyone who enjoys watching ancient malware learn fresh party tricks.

Mirai Drops In For PHP Exploitation
#MiraiBotnet #SameOldStory
Severity: Medium Mood: Expected
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23 October 2026 - 18:11

Category: IT Fail

Source: NL Times

Brilliant, More Urgent PHP Patching

The Dutch NCSC is probing critical PHP exploits that already forced entities to yank sites offline. Admins are told to patch immediately, as if anyone actually does.

Brilliant, More Urgent PHP Patching
#PHPFail #PatchTuesday
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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23 October 2026 - 18:08

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Splendid, A Brand New Mesh Backdoor

Sandworm paired up to hit a Ukrainian logistics firm with a destructive wiper attack. Just another Tuesday in IT, obviously.

Splendid, A Brand New Mesh Backdoor
#ITFail #JustAnotherDay
Severity: Critical Mood: Concerning
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23 October 2026 - 12:51

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Python Pillow Hands Over Server Shells

Python's Pillow library runs arbitrary server commands simply by opening a specially crafted image file. Because viewing pictures was far too safe anyway.

Python Pillow Hands Over Server Shells
#pillowfail #pythonwoes
Severity: Critical Mood: Ridiculous
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23 October 2026 - 12:42

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Mirai Spams Millions With PHP2Shell

Millions of exploit attempts hit PHP2Shell vulnerabilities trying to drag systems into a Mirai botnet called Potassium. Lovely to see threat actors working so relentlessly.

Mirai Spams Millions With PHP2Shell
#botnetseason #miraireturns
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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23 October 2026 - 12:33

Category: Breach

Source: SecurityWeek

Patient Records Go Wandering Again

Quest Diagnostics suffered unauthorized access to patient records on its Quanum platform. Splendid to know medical privacy remains purely theoretical.

Patient Records Go Wandering Again
#databreach #healthcarefail
Severity: High Mood: Expected
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23 October 2026 - 12:21

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Another Glorious Node.js Exploit

Researchers proved official Node.js builds cheerfully execute attacker code via crafted Brotli data. Truly inspiring engineering at its finest.

Another Glorious Node.js Exploit
#nodejsfail #sameoldcode
Severity: High Mood: Ridiculous
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23 October 2026 - 12:19

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Atlassian Blesses Us With 75 Fixes

Atlassian dumped 75 patched flaws across Jira and Confluence today. Just another Tuesday spent fixing someone else's dependencies.

Atlassian Blesses Us With 75 Fixes
#patchtuesday #joysofpatching
Severity: Critical Mood: Expected
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23 October 2026 - 08:11

Category: Breach

Source: The Register

Chinese Spies Tour ConnectWise Cloud

Microsoft revealed a ConnectWise breach let Chinese spies loose across 2,250 cloud tenants using AI agents. Lovely to know algorithms are taking over our incident response panic.

Chinese Spies Tour ConnectWise Cloud
#CloudBreach #AIAgents
Severity: Critical Mood: Concerning
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23 October 2026 - 08:04

Category: IT Fail

Source: Computer Weekly

A Masterclass In Botched Disclosures

The PHP Foundation admitted their carefully planned PHP2Shell disclosure went horribly wrong amid widespread panic. Same story different day for vulnerability management.

A Masterclass In Botched Disclosures
#ITFail #PatchTuesday
Severity: High Mood: Ridiculous
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23 October 2026 - 07:51

Category: Ransomware

Source: HookPhish

Akira Leaks Lab Data Because Why Not

Akira ransomware cheerfully dumped Annapath on its leak site after pocketing 110 GB of sensitive records. Splendid, employee passports make lovely ransom collateral.

Akira Leaks Lab Data Because Why Not
#Ransomware #DataLeak
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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23 October 2026 - 07:41

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Arista Gives Us A Zero-Day Surprise

Arista warned that attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator. Same story, different day in central management.

Arista Gives Us A Zero-Day Surprise
#ZeroDayFatigue #SQLInjection
Severity: Critical Mood: Expected
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23 October 2026 - 07:34

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Register

Splendid, PHP Protections Bypassed

PHP2Shell renders remote code execution safeguards entirely pointless as attackers spend tokens on it. Why do we even bother trying?

Splendid, PHP Protections Bypassed
#ITFailures #SameOldStory
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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22 October 2026 - 18:41

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Three Hundred Tor Relays Gone Rogue

Threat actors seized over three hundred Tor exit relays to quietly siphon SSH credentials via redirected servers. Same story different day with privacy.

Three Hundred Tor Relays Gone Rogue
#TorFail #StolenLogins
Severity: High Mood: Concerning
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22 October 2026 - 18:32

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Agentic Pentesting Breaks Everything

AppSec teams are letting AI agents fire attacks at web apps, discovering the safety harness is rather tricky to build. Why do we even bother trying?

Agentic Pentesting Breaks Everything
#AIPentest #NoHarness
Severity: Medium Mood: Ridiculous
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22 October 2026 - 18:21

Category: IT Fail

Source: CISA KEV

Official Guidance For AI Token Diet

CISA and Canadian cyber authorities have penned joint guidance to stop enterprise AI from guzzling every token in sight. Here we go again with the paperwork.

Official Guidance For AI Token Diet
#TokenDiet #GovGuidance
Severity: Medium Mood: Frustrating
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22 October 2026 - 18:11

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Hunting For Hackers With Evil Bits

Corey Thuen scouts hackers sporting what he dubs the evil bit, because conventional hiring was clearly too tranquil. Same story different day in recruitment.

Hunting For Hackers With Evil Bits
#EvilBit #HiringBlues
Severity: Low Mood: Expected
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22 October 2026 - 18:07

Category: IT Fail

Source: The Hacker News

Splendid, HTTP/3 Servers Fall Over

FoxIO kindly proved an unauthenticated stranger can crash HTTP/3 servers with one connection. Naturally, memory amplification makes it even more delightful.

Splendid, HTTP/3 Servers Fall Over
#OhBrilliant #JustPatchIt
Severity: High Mood: Frustrating
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22 October 2026 - 13:07

Category: IT Fail

Source: SecurityWeek

Cisco Blesses Us With 34 Fresh Patches

Cisco patched 34 critical flaws enabling authentication bypass and command execution. How comforting to learn the network perimeter was essentially wide open.

Cisco Blesses Us With 34 Fresh Patches
#CiscoSeason #JustAnotherDay
Severity: High Mood: Expected
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