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Using AWS WAF to apply mitigations for PHP2Shell RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619)

On October 21, 2026, the PHP project released emergency fixes for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in the PHP core runtime, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and collectively named PHP2Shell. Both are rated 9.2 (Critical) under CVSS v4.0, and both allow an unauthenticated attacker to run code on a vulnerable server. The fixed…

OpenAI’s models are deliberately breaking their misalignment monitoring systems

AI agents are getting more inventive in finding ways to circumvent safeguards to prevent bad behavior, OpenAI has revealed. On Tuesday, it reported two incidents, both involving the agent disabling or interfering with its alignment monitoring, and in one case directly lying about having done so.  “In two internal coding tasks, agents weakened misalignment monitoring…

ARISE: Agentic Runtime Identity Security Enforcement for Agents

Agentic Runtime Identity Security Enforcement (ARISE) governs AI agent actions in real time during execution. The framework uses a three-layer architecture starting with deterministic governance for permissions, moving to behavioral analysis to track intent, and ending with dynamic runtime governance to control actions before completion. Effective governance requires reaching Level 4 control depth, enabling inline…

Amazon Threat Intelligence identifies PHP2Shell exploitation prior to public disclosure in MadPot

Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated with a commercial anonymization network. While the vulnerability was under embargo, the targeting of a honeypot from an anonymized IP address…

Microsoft pins ConnectWise supply-chain attack to China-state aligned threat group

Microsoft researchers attributed the recent supply-chain attack targeting ConnectWise customers’ Microsoft 365 environments to a China-state aligned threat actor it tracks as Storm-0940. “As early as September 2026, Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across a broad range of industries,” Microsoft Security Research wrote…

Russian Satellite Makes a Close Approach To A Commercial Radar Satellite Used by Ukraine

A Russian satellite made a close approach to a commercial radar satellite linked to Ukraine, raising concerns about surveillance and security in space. A Russian-made satellite called Kosmos 2612 got very close to ICEYE-X36 last week, a commercial Earth-observation satellite that may support countries like Ukraine. CNN reports it may have come within less than…

Two critical PHP flaws put the web on alert as emergency patches arrive

Organizations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that powers much of the internet. The flaws discovered in the PHP scripting language could allow attackers to perform unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE). On Wednesday morning, the PHP Foundation released patches for affected versions, and said it…

Fleet Adds NVIDIA DGX Station, RTX PRO Management

Fleet Device Management is expanding its endpoint management platform to support NVIDIA DGX Station and RTX PRO workstations, enabling enterprise IT teams to manage AI computing systems alongside existing macOS, Windows, and Linux devices. The expansion is designed to bring AI workstations into established device security, vulnerability management, and compliance workflows as organizations deploy more…

Compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates

Cisco Talos is aware of eight intermediate certificates belonging to the intermediate certificate authority, eMudhra. Rather than possessing the mandatory 384 bits of pseudo-random security, several private keys evaluated single-digit and double-digit integers. This misconfiguration allows an attacker with the private key of any of the compromised intermediate CAs to impersonate any website or service.…

Tesla and SpaceX Form Independent Committees to Explore Merger

Elon Musk is considering putting electric cars, rockets, satellites and artificial intelligence under one corporate roof. Tesla and SpaceX have established committees of independent directors to examine a potential merger, marking a significant step toward combining two of Musk’s largest businesses. However, neither company has agreed to transaction terms, and the deal remains uncertain. For…

Google Cloud, Cognizant Launch 18,000-Engineer AI Group for Enterprise Deployments

Major enterprise AI contracts involve more than selecting a cloud platform. Buyers also have to consider the engineering resources and consulting expertise available to support their investments. Cognizant said it committed more than 18,000 engineers to a new Gemini Frontier Capability Group under its expanded partnership with Google Cloud, announced Oct. 19. Its specialists will…

WhatsApp’s chatbot was given hidden instructions to not mention privacy regulators

WhatsApp instructed its AI support chatbot not to recommend contacting privacy regulators when users couldn’t delete their accounts, researchers found. Privacy software company Redact discovered the hidden text on October 8. Its researchers then examined and saved copies of all 545 pages linked from WhatsApp’s help center, finding 102 instruction blocks across 80 pages. The…

AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise

In this article What’s happening What is ARTEX? Mitigation and protection guidance References Learn more As early as September 2026, Storm-0940, a China-state aligned actor, used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across a broad range of industries. Several of these Storm-0940 ARTEX-driven attacks have resulted…

LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor

The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind. The compromise affects LiteLLM 1.107.0, distributed through PyPI wheels and Docker images. The Python package has since been quarantined on Python Package…

Google DeepMind Engineer Resigns in Protest of Pentagon Contract

Sofia Liguori, a research engineer working at DeepMind, resigned in protest this week from Google’s pioneering artificial intelligence laboratory. Unlike a wave of other AI researchers who have quit over fears AI might someday turn against humanity, Liguori stepped down over concern about her employer’s current practices. Disenchanted and disturbed by Google’s military contracts with…

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Multiple Vulnerabilities in PHP Could Allow for Remote Code Execution

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. PHP is a widely-used, open-source server-side scripting language designed primarily for web development. All PHP installations serving web requests, including PHP-FPM, Apache with mod_php, php-cgi, FrankenPHP and LiteSpeed are considered at risk. Successful exploitation of the most…

PHP2Shell: Why websites are going offline for emergency security updates

If you’ve encountered websites in maintenance mode today, it may be a security precaution. Reports of attacks targeting two critical PHP vulnerabilities have prompted warnings to install emergency updates and consider temporarily taking affected services offline until they can be patched. The vulnerabilities, known as PHP2Shell, are tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Both carry a…

Two critical RCEs in PHP core

Cisco Talos is tracking the disclosure of two unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaws in PHP core, dubbed “php2shell”, triggered by a plain HTTP request and exploitable before any application code runs, affecting every PHP build since 5.4. Based on the entities involved in the disclosure, artificial intelligence and associated technologies played a key role…

Analysis of the GitHub “php2shell” Repository: Public PoCs and Defense Tools That Spread Immediately After the Disclosure of the PHP Vulnerability

Overview Immediately after the PHP vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 were disclosed on October 21, 2026, a large number of repositories named “php2shell” were created in a short period of time on GitHub, a code repository platform. Of the top 100 repositories (excluding forks) found by searching for “php2shell,” 99 addressed these vulnerabilities, and nearly all…

NCSC-2026-0445 [1.00] [M/H] Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Analytics

Oracle heeft 33 kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse Oracle Analytics-producten, waaronder Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition en Oracle BI Publisher. In de patchnote staan 33 kwetsbaarheden, waarvan 14 kwetsbaarheden op afstand kunnen worden misbruikt zonder dat authenticatie vereist is. Afhankelijk van de kwetsbaarheid, de getroffen productversie en de configuratie kan misbruik leiden tot ongeautoriseerde toegang tot…

NCSC-2026-0444 [1.00] [M/H] Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Communications

Oracle heeft 110 kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse Oracle Communications-producten, waaronder Oracle Communications Unified Assurance, Oracle Communications Cloud Native Core Security Edge Protection Proxy, Oracle Communications Service Catalog and Design en Oracle Communications Operations Monitor. De kwetsbaarheden betreffen verschillende beveiligingsproblemen in Oracle Communications-producten, waaronder mogelijkheden voor niet-geauthenticeerde en laaggeprivilegieerde kwaadwillenden om via netwerktoegang ongeautoriseerde acties uit…

Amazon Plans €16B Germany Investment, Including €4.8B AWS Expansion

Amazon is committing more than €16 billion ($18 billion) to Germany in 2027, including €4.8 billion to expand AWS infrastructure as demand for AI and cloud computing grows. The investment plan, announced Tuesday at the German government’s Invest in Germany Summit in Berlin, will expand AWS’s Frankfurt region while supporting additional projects in robotics, logistics,…

Introducing full transaction detection for Cloudflare WAF

Today, we are expanding our web application firewall (WAF) by adding two new capabilities: full transaction detections and response rules. Full transaction detections evaluate each HTTP request alongside its response to identify evidence of exploitation. It helps answer both “Does this request look malicious?” and “What happened when the application handled it?” Response rules can…

NCSC-2026-0443 [1.00] [H/H] Kwetsbaarheden verholpen in PHP

PHP heeft twee kritieke kwetsbaarheden verholpen. De kwetsbaarheden kunnen zonder authenticatie op afstand worden misbruikt voor het uitvoeren van willekeurige code. Alle PHP-installaties die webverzoeken verwerken zijn getroffen. De kwetsbaarheid met kenmerk CVE-2026-109618 betreft geheugenbeschadiging bij de afhandeling van een Out-of-Memory-situatie. Hierdoor kunnen interne requestgegevens slechts gedeeltelijk worden geïnitialiseerd en tijdens de verwerking als geldige…

Cloudflare deploys protections against php2shell vulnerability

Today, Calif.io, Wiz, OpenAI and Quarkslab disclosed two vulnerabilities in PHP, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and known as php2shell. The vulnerabilities affect all web servers running PHP 5.4 or later and they may allow an attacker to cause denial of service, remote code execution, and data exposure when an application processes specially crafted HTTP traffic. Cloudflare has…

NVIDIA unveils security architecture that can stop AI agents crossing set boundaries

NVIDIA’s OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA’s existing OpenShell security software, combining it with hardware for running AI models, managing agent operations and enforcing security rules. The aim is to let agents carry out useful work within defined…