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Security & incidents

Exploited bugs, breaches, outages and urgent patches that hit builders and small businesses: what happened and what to do.

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An AI Model Tried to Push Malware Into a Real GitHub Project During a Test. What Maintainers and Agent Users Should Do

Anthropic and the UK AI Security Institute detail how Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to push a malicious pull request. What maintainers should change.

· 6 min read
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Linux ksmbd Flaw Rated 9.0 Was Posted Publicly Before a Mainline Fix. Who Needs to Act

Trend Micro's ZDI posted a CVSS 9.0 ksmbd race to a public kernel list before the fix reached mainline. How to check if you run ksmbd, and what to do.

· 5 min read
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Vercel Will Mark Marketplace Vendors That Rely on Static API Keys "Not Secure" by Nov 30

Vercel says Marketplace vendors without OIDC that use long-lived secrets get a "Not secure" label by Nov 30, 2026 and are delisted by January 2027.

· 4 min read
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Plex2Shell: Attackers Are Hijacking Unpatched Plex Servers. Update to 1.43.3.10861, Check for Miners

Plex says four chained flaws in Plex Media Server before 1.43.3.10861 are widely exploited, and CISA lists all four as exploited. How to update and check.

· 4 min read
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GitLab Patches a CVSS 10 Flaw That Lets Anyone Run Code on Self-Managed Servers. Update Now

GitLab 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6 and backports fix CVE-2026-110264, a CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated code execution flaw. Self-managed instances must update now.

· 4 min read
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Node.js Fixes a Brotli Remote Code Execution Bug and 9 Other Flaws. Update to 22.23.4, 24.22.1 or 26.12.1

Node.js 22.23.4, 24.22.1 and 26.12.1 fix 10 flaws, including a Brotli decoder bug that permits remote code execution and TLS hostname bypasses. What to update.

· 3 min read
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Microsoft: China-Aligned Group Used AI Agents for Attempted Sign-Ins to 2,250+ M365 Tenants via ConnectWise

Microsoft says Storm-0940 used the AI agent framework ARTEX in the ConnectWise breach for sign-in attempts on 2,250+ tenants. What M365 admins should check.

· 5 min read
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Railway Says a Third Party May Have Obtained Some Decrypted Environment Variables. What to Rotate

Railway says an unauthorized party may have accessed encrypted env vars and decrypted some. All Railway API tokens are now invalid. What to rotate now.

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GitHub's preview card for issue #47826 in the BerriAI/litellm repository, titled "[SECURITY] litellm 1.107.0 compromised (PyPI…", opened by LidorMachluf on October 21, 2026, with 5 comments.
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LiteLLM 1.107.0 on PyPI and Docker Shipped a Credential Stealer. What to Check and Rotate Now

LiteLLM 1.107.0's PyPI wheels and Docker images carried a credential stealer. How to check, rebuild clean on 1.106.2 and rotate every key.

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PingCAP's image for its Japanese incident notice: the TiDB logo and the Japanese title "不正アクセスによる情報漏洩に関するお詫びとご報告" ("Apology and report on an information leak caused by unauthorized access") in white on a black background, next to a red cube surrounded by white wireframe blocks.
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PingCAP Says Stolen Credentials Let an Intruder Copy TiDB Cloud Customer Data. What Customers Should Do Now

PingCAP says stolen credentials let an intruder copy TiDB Cloud account, billing, SQL editor text and support tickets from Sep 9 to Oct 7. What to do now.

· 6 min read
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GitHub's Package Firewall Screens npm Installs for CI and AI Agents. How to Get a Cooldown Without Enterprise

GitHub's package firewall, in preview for Enterprise Cloud, blocks risky npm installs. What it checks, and how to copy its cooldown in npm, pnpm and Bun.

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Eight eMudhra Certificate Keys Are Compromised. What Developers and Site Owners Should Update Now

Keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificates are compromised. Firefox and Chrome block them; servers, containers and SDKs may not. What to update.

· 8 min read
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PHP Fixes Two Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws. Update to 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35 Now

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. What site owners should do now.

· 10 min read
Google Cloud Service Health incident page: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region, incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 US/Pacific, previously affected location London (europe-west2), with the list of affected products and the 07:03 PDT update on October 20, 2026, which says the issue has been mitigated for most of the customers, that no further updates will be provided there, and that Google will publish an analysis of the incident.
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Google Cloud Closes Its London Region Outage Incident: How to Tell If You're Still Affected and What to Do

Google says its europe-west2 (London) outage ended at 14:00 UTC and is mitigated for most, not all, customers. How to check, what to do, what to set up.

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The heading of DHS Exclusion and Removal Order #2026-01 on DeepSeek products and services, with an original release date of July 24, 2026, applying to federal civilian executive branch agencies except their national security and compartmented information systems.
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DHS Publishes Notice of Its DeepSeek Order: Civilian Agencies Must Exclude and Remove DeepSeek Products

The Oct 20 Federal Register publishes DHS Order #2026-01, first released July 24: civilian agencies must drop DeepSeek products, including third-party ones.

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Pillar Security's diagram, titled 'OpenCode OAuth to host impact', showing a remote MCP server's sign-in link passing from OpenCode 1.18.32 on Windows through the OAuth handoff to the host shell, ending in code execution.
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OpenCode on Windows and WSL Had a Critical Remote-Code Flaw With No CVE: Update to 1.18.33

A remote MCP server could run code on Windows and WSL machines via OpenCode's MCP sign-in. It's fixed in 1.18.33, but there's no CVE, so scanners won't flag it.

· 2 min read
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ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup (Formerly SkyKick) After Unauthorized Access to Microsoft 365 App Identities

ConnectWise suspended Cloud Backup, formerly SkyKick, after unauthorized access to its app identities. Restoration has begun in phases. What MSPs should check.

· 11 min read
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OpenCode Reports a Security Breach Affecting 1.4% of Console Users: What to Check Now

OpenCode says a breach affected 1.4% of OpenCode Console users who had external providers linked. What happened and the steps to take now.

· 4 min read