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Monday, November 2, 2026 · generated · about 5 min read

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Patch today vendors with the most new CVEs today

Ranked by CVE count. Each vendor opens the CVE Feed filtered to that vendor and these dates.

Top developments ranked by cross-source trending

  1. Image: The Hacker News

    Government Linux Servers Targeted With SysGoRAT and Suspected AI-Generated Scripts

    News The Hacker News2h ago4 sources

    Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a cyber espionage campaign specifically targeting Linux infrastructure associated with government entities and state-affiliated infrastructure. The activity, observed by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 between October 2025 and April 2026, has been tracked under the moniker CL-UNK-1211, where "CL" refers to cluster and "UNK" stands for unknown

    Also in Trail of Bits Bleeping Computer CCCS Alerts & Advisories +1

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  2. Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access

    News The Hacker News31 Oct3 sources

    The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-111357 (CVSS score: 8.8) - A missing authentication for a critical function vulnerability that could allow a

    Also in Bleeping Computer CCCS Alerts & Advisories

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  3. FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist

    News The Hacker News1 Nov3 sources

    The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets from Binance to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima, PUKCHONG, Slow Pisces, and UNC4899. The FBI, along with the U.S. Secret Service (USSS) and the Internal Revenue Service Criminal Investigation (IRS-CI),

    Also in Infosecurity Magazine SecurityWeek

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  4. FBI pins $6.3B Binance crypto heist on North Korean hackers

    News The Register Security1h ago2 sources

    The FBI has blamed North Korean hackers for the record-breaking $6.3 billion theft from cryptocurrency exchange Binance, pointing the finger at the notorious Lazarus Group as the exchange scrambles to replace stolen funds and reassure customers. In an alert published Saturday, the agency attributed the October 29 attack to TraderTraitor, a North Korean hacking operation linked to Lazarus, which has made a lucrative career out of relieving crypto exchanges of their digital assets. Pyongyang was already in the frame before the FBI weighed in. Blockchain intelligence firms TRM Labs and Elliptic…

    Also in Ars Technica Security

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  5. Additional Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-111357, CVE-2026-118527)

    Research Rapid7 Blog1h ago2 sources

    Overview On October 29, 2026, Ivanti updated its security advisory for Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to include two additional vulnerabilities and released fixes for both. Ivanti rates CVE-2026-111357 , a missing authentication for critical function vulnerability ( CWE-306 ), with a CVSSv3.1 score of 8.8 ; it allows a local authenticated attacker to escalate privileges. CVE-2026-118527 , classified as generation of predictable numbers or identifiers ( CWE-340 ), has an Ivanti-assigned CVSSv3.0 score of 4.3 and, according to CISA's KEV entry , allows a remote authenticated attacker to upload…

    Also in SecurityWeek

    CVE-2026-111357 ↗CVE-2026-118527 ↗View on Security Feed

  6. Attackers Pose as IT Support on Microsoft Teams, Abuse AD CS to Steal Company Data

    News The Hacker News1h ago2 sources

    Attackers posing as IT support on Microsoft Teams talked employees into giving them remote control of their PCs. They then used insecure Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS) settings to obtain login certificates for privileged accounts, including one for a domain controller. Microsoft said in a report that it investigated two such intrusions, one of which resulted in company

    Also in Cyber Security News

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  7. Hackers Use CyberStrikeAI Agents to Automate Windows Domain Takeovers and Credential Theft

    News Cyber Security News2h ago2 sources

    Hackers are now using an AI-driven command framework called CyberStrikeAI to break into Windows networks and take over entire domains. Education organizations in Africa and Latin America were among the confirmed victims. The tool lets a language model decide which commands to run, so the operator no longer types each step by hand. CyberStrikeAI is an open-source, Go-based platform built for penetration testing. Criminals have already turned it toward real targets, and earlier reports showed how attackers targeted Fortinet FortiGate devices with the same framework. This new campaign shows the…

    Also in The Hacker News The Hacker News

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  8. Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%

    News The Hacker News31 Oct2 sources

    Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. That amounts to 197,400 attacks per day, or one attack every 0.44

    Also in SecurityWeek

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  9. WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours

    News The Hacker News30 Oct2 sources

    Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress Core versions 4.7 through 7.1.3. It carries a CVSS score of 8.1 on the CVSS scoring system. Patches for the flaw were released on October

    Also in SecurityWeek

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Vulnerability watch what to look at, most urgent first

Details CVEProductSeverity CVSSEPSS KEVFixIn the news
Highest scoring today 10new CVEs, highest CVSS first
CVE-2026-120338 prefab-uiPrefectHQ Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120276 WN536AX6-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120277 WN536AX6-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120279 WN536AX6-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120280 WN536AX6-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120281 WN536AX6-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120283 E8450Linksys Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120344 WN551X3-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120345 WN551X3-AWAVLINK Critical 10.0 — — None linked — CVSS 10.0No fix linked
CVE-2026-120224 Pugongying X5 ProOray Critical 9.9 — — None linked — CVSS 9.9No fix linked

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Top developments come from the Security Feed's cross-source trending detection. Vulnerability watch comes from the CVE Feed's daily NVD and CISA KEV sync.