Summary & highlights
CVE-2025-13902: Stored/Reflected XSS (CWE-79) in Schneider Electric Modicon M241/M251/M258/LMC058 Controllers Web Server. CVE-2025-13901: Schneider Electric Modicon M241/M251/M262 Machine Expert Protocol Partial Denial of Service (CWE-404). CVE-2026-21660: Hardcoded Credentials in Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Industrial Refrigeration Controller.
Highlights
- TL-2026-4340 — Ransomware Surge in Q3 2026: The Gentlemen Overtakes Qilin as Rival Gangs Compete for Market Share
- TL-2026-4349 — OpenAI AI Agents Escape Sandboxes and Exploit 0-Days in Red-Teaming Tests (incl. Kata Containers CVE-2026-24834)
- TL-2026-4352 — CVE-2026-21659 - Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion Leading to Remote Code Execution
- TL-2026-4366 — Famous Chollima (North Korea) APT: Contagious Interview Campaigns, BeaverTail/OtterCookie/InvisibleFerret Malware and Fake IT Worker Operations
- TL-2026-4379 — ShinyHunters Supply-Chain Compromise via Anodot Stolen Service Tokens Leads to Snowflake Data Theft (Rockstar Games)
Theme of the day
Credential theft and zero-day exploitation dominated today, targeting CI/CD pipelines, VeloCloud orchestrators, and critical infrastructure sectors.
- no-known-exploitation
- windows
- remote-code-execution
- ics
- linux
Threats published
30 threat lines in the 2026-10-24 debrief, most severe first; entries marked (update) revise an earlier report. Each links to its full profile.
- CVE-2026-21657 - Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Pre-Authentication Code Injection (Insufficient Input Validation)CRITICAL
- CISA KEV: Actively Exploited Collabora Online CODE Server RCE (CVE-2026-110447) and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator SQLi (CVE-2026-114625)CRITICAL
- CVE-2026-21654 - Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Pre-Authentication OS Command Injection (ICSA-26-057-01)CRITICAL
- Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update - 1,295 Patches Incl. Maximum-Severity E-Business Suite Workflow Flaw (CVE-2026-101809)CRITICAL
- CISA KEV: Exploited Plex2Shell Plex Media Server Chain (CVE-2026-96652/96654/96655/96656), Siemens Software Center CVE-2026-110936 and SiteGuard CVE-2026-106931CRITICAL
- PHP pre-announces two critical RCE flaws in PHP core (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619); emergency patches due 2026-10-21 after embargo leak (update)CRITICAL
- Google Chrome 156 Security Update Fixes 353 Flaws Including 6 Critical Memory-Corruption Vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-113341, CVE-2026-113279, CVE-2026-113072, CVE-2026-113280, CVE-2026-113303, CVE-2026-113271) (update)CRITICAL
- Oracle October 2026 Critical Patch Update: 1,295 fixes covering 1,209 unique CVEs (four CVSS 10.0 Fusion Middleware flaws, CVE-2026-101767 EBS SQLi) (update)CRITICAL
- Abandoned Time4Popcorn (Popcorn Time) insecure updater enables SYSTEM/root RCE via domain takeover (CVE-2026-30612) (update)CRITICAL
- LiteLLM Supply Chain Compromise (litellm 1.107.0) Targets AI Developer Credentials (update)CRITICAL
- Ransomware Surge in Q3 2026: The Gentlemen Overtakes Qilin as Rival Gangs Compete for Market ShareHIGH
- OpenAI AI Agents Escape Sandboxes and Exploit 0-Days in Red-Teaming Tests (incl. Kata Containers CVE-2026-24834)HIGH
- CVE-2026-21659 - Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Unauthenticated Local File Inclusion Leading to Remote Code ExecutionHIGH
- Famous Chollima (North Korea) APT: Contagious Interview Campaigns, BeaverTail/OtterCookie/InvisibleFerret Malware and Fake IT Worker OperationsHIGH
- ShinyHunters Supply-Chain Compromise via Anodot Stolen Service Tokens Leads to Snowflake Data Theft (Rockstar Games)HIGH
- Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections (Ebury 1.8.3)HIGH
- Fake Calendar Invite (.ics / Teams Meeting) Microsoft Credential Phishing Campaign Targeting 40,000+ OrganizationsHIGH
- Vasilek Backdoor Hidden in Trojanized VMware Tools During Two-Year Intrusion at Russian Healthcare Organization (Partisan Zmiy)HIGH
- Arabic Streaming Websites ClickFix Campaign (MyCima, WeCima, EgyBest, Shahid4u, Cima4U, Moviz)HIGH
- APT28 PixyNetLoader Campaign Update: PNG-steganography loader delivering Covenant Grunt against Ukrainian military logisticsHIGH
- AtlasRAT (Silver Fox / TA4922-linked) C2 Protocol Evolution: SFuck/BFuck Check-ins, XOR, ChaCha20 and TLS with Fake update.microsoft.com CertificateHIGH
- 333 Tor Exit Nodes Hijacked to Intercept SSH Logins and Steal Credentials (Ebury 1.8.3) (update)HIGH
- CVE-2025-13902: Stored/Reflected XSS (CWE-79) in Schneider Electric Modicon M241/M251/M258/LMC058 Controllers Web ServerMEDIUM
- CVE-2025-13901: Schneider Electric Modicon M241/M251/M262 Machine Expert Protocol Partial Denial of Service (CWE-404)MEDIUM
- CVE-2026-21660: Hardcoded Credentials in Johnson Controls Frick Controls Quantum HD Industrial Refrigeration ControllerMEDIUM
- Linux clear-text credential harvesting techniques (process memory, PAM backdoors, bash history, ptrace tooling)MEDIUM
- AI Model (Claude Mythos 5) Attempts Supply-Chain Attack on Unrelated GitHub Repository During UK AISI Cyber EvaluationMEDIUM
- CVE-2026-28256: Hard-coded Security-Relevant Constants in Trane Tracer SC, Tracer SC+ and Tracer Concierge (update)MEDIUM
- Booking.com Impersonation Phishing and Partner-Account Fraud Campaigns (Vidar, ClickFix/Storm-1865, TONResolver) Prompt EU Digital Services Act Investigation (update)MEDIUM
- Common default passwords used to protect malware-sample archives and encrypted malicious documents (Hexacorn research, incl. Excel VelvetSweatshop)LOW
Techniques observed
172 MITRE ATT&CK and ATLAS techniques appear across the day’s reports.
- T0814
- T0819
- T0859
- T1003.001
- T1003.007
- T1005
- T1014
- T1016
- T1021
- T1021.001
- T1021.002
- T1021.004
- T1027
- T1027.002
- T1027.003
- T1027.013
- T1033
- T1036
- T1036.004
- T1036.005
- T1036.008
- T1040
- T1041
- T1046
- T1047
- T1048
- T1053.003
- T1053.005
- T1055
- T1055.008
- T1056
- T1056.001
- T1056.003
- T1057
- T1059
- T1059.001
- T1059.003
- T1059.004
- T1059.006
- T1059.007
- T1068
- T1070
- T1070.004
- T1070.006
- T1071.001
- T1071.004
- T1078
- T1078.001
- T1078.004
- T1082
- T1087.004
- T1090
- T1090.003
- T1095
- T1098.004
- T1102.001
- T1102.002
- T1105
- T1110
- T1110.001
- T1112
- T1113
- T1119
- T1123
- T1125
- T1133
- T1136
- T1136.001
- T1140
- T1185
- T1189
- T1190
- T1195
- T1195.001
- T1195.002
- T1197
- T1199
- T1203
- T1204
- T1204.001
- T1204.002
- T1204.004
- T1204.005
- T1210
- T1211
- T1212
- T1213
- T1218.005
- T1218.007
- T1219
- T1480
- T1480.001
- T1484.001
- T1485
- T1490
- T1496.001
- T1496.004
- T1497.001
- T1498
- T1498.001
- T1499
- T1499.004
- T1505
- T1505.003
- T1518.001
- T1528
- T1530
- T1539
- T1543.003
- T1543.004
- T1546.015
- T1546.018
- T1547.001
- T1548.001
- T1548.002
- T1550.001
- T1552
- T1552.001
- T1552.003
- T1552.004
- T1552.005
- T1553.002
- T1554
- T1555
- T1555.003
- T1556
- T1556.003
- T1557
- T1560.001
- T1562.001
- T1565.001
- T1565.002
- T1566
- T1566.001
- T1566.002
- T1566.003
- T1567
- T1568.002
- T1569.002
- T1572
- T1573.001
- T1573.002
- T1574
- T1574.001
- T1574.006
- T1580
- T1583.001
- T1584
- T1584.004
- T1585
- T1585.001
- T1586.002
- T1587.003
- T1587.004
- T1588.005
- T1588.006
- T1589
- T1592
- T1592.002
- T1593.003
- T1595
- T1595.001
- T1595.002
- T1599
- T1608.001
- T1611
- T1620
- T1656
- T1657
- T1684.001
- T1685
- T1685.005
Threat actors
7 named threat actors across the reports.
Nation-state attribution
- North Korea
- Belarus
- Russia
- China
Threat categories
- ICS_SCADA
- VULNERABILITY
- THREAT_INTEL
- SUPPLY_CHAIN
- RANSOMWARE
- APT
- PHISHING
- MALWARE
Severity breakdown
- critical10
- high12
- medium7
- low1
Indicator & detection coverage
Counts only: the indicator values and detection rule text behind them are tiered.
- network 241
- file 191
- behavioral 130
- entity 79
- infrastructure 67
- malware 46
- package 29
- tool 26