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Go Team Weighs Turning Off Default MPTCP After Linux Flaw

The Go Security Team called a default change premature on Oct. 29, while commenters on golang/go issue 82717 split over keeping multipath TCP on.

Anna LindqvistNov 23 min

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02Anthropic's Claude Exploit Chains Hit Five Targets, Each With LimitsThe Frontier Red Team's Oct. 27 post covers Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows and Linux, but only the Chrome and Linux results reach code execution.Nov 2
03A Tampered Claude Code Extension Sat in Cursor's Marketplace for 11 Hours and Left an SSH Key BehindVersions 2.1.312 and 2.1.313 carried a 7,386-byte loader that plants an attacker key and a reverse tunnel. Uninstalling the extension does not remove either.Nov 1
04Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Chain Gave Root on a Patched VPN, and the Integrity Checker Misses ItVolexity dates exploitation to October 3, ten days before Ivanti's advisory; the root escalation step has no CVE and no fix in the sources reviewed.Nov 1
05Alpine Logged GitLab CVE-2026-97229 Attacks Nine Days Before CISA Listed ItAlpine's incident report shows the CVSS 10.0 flaw was exploited against its own server on Oct. 20 and 21, and that two GitLab 19.3 builds it ran still carried the bug.Oct 31
06KPMG Could Not Confirm the Deepfake in Capillary's €3 Million FraudCapillary Technologies blamed deepfake cloning in July, but the forensic audit it filed on Oct. 31 calls the loss a payment-diversion scam and says the missing recordings and phone data leave deepfakes unproven.Oct 31
07Linux TCP Flaw CVE-2026-98432 Still Unpatched on RHEL and UbuntuThe kernel team scores the use-after-free 9.8, Anthropic says its model wrote a root exploit for it, and the two biggest enterprise distributions have no fixed kernel.Oct 31
08AU Small Finance Bank Probes Leak Claim on Salesforce PlatformThe bank confirms an investigation into limited vehicle-loan data, while a group claiming Aadhaar, PAN and credit reports has released no samples.Oct 31
09SafeDep Tracks a Miasma-Family npm Worm Across 19 Test Packages, and One Still Serves Code on ImportNo victims have been found. The operator's latest build moved from a binding.gyp install hook to a load-time trigger that npm's --ignore-scripts flag does not stop.Oct 30
10npm Blocked the Name 'estee' as Too Similar to 'testem', and Support Says It Cannot Override the Typosquat CheckA developer's account and three GitHub Community threads show the same too-similar error hitting redisvl, jpcl and estee. Neither GitHub thread records a reply from npm staff.Oct 30
11Rs 300 Crore Reported Stolen From Small NBFCs, and CERT-In's Two Advisories Name No Victim, Tool or LossThe figure comes from an Economic Times report, not from a regulator. CERT-In's October 9 and October 15 advisories describe the method and leave out every number.Oct 30
12Binance Traces $6.3 Billion Theft to a DevOps Engineer's Laptop and a Service ContainerThe exchange says no wallet private key leaked and about $3 billion is frozen. Chainalysis puts the theft near $5.9 billion, and the three public figures do not match.Oct 30
13MuPDF and Foxit Build PDF AES-256 Keys From the Clock, V12 Finds, and Recovery Takes SecondsA V12 write-up says MuPDF before 1.28.5 leaves 512 possible keys and Foxit PDF Reader 2026.1.3.36551 hashes a timestamp. Neither has a CVE in the post.Oct 29
14A Custom PHP2Shell Build Rooted 25 PAN-OS Firewalls, Three Tied to a US Government Environment, Dream SaysDream Research says the chain paired PHP2Shell with a Linux kernel flaw to reach root in one HTTP request, and Unit 42 says it verified the same tooling.Oct 29
15Orange Tsai's Pwn2Own Edge Chain Ends at a telnet Handler, and the Write-Up Names No CVE and No Patched BuildDEVCORE's Orange Tsai published the nine-step chain that earned $175,000 in Berlin in May. The post does not say which Edge version fixed it.Oct 29
16DHS Leak Puts 41,000 Names and 55,000 Access-Group Labels Online, and Nobody Agrees Where the Data Came FromDistributed Denial of Secrets says the Icepick archive came from DHS's Okta login system. Okta says it has no evidence of a compromise, and DHS has not said how it was obtained.Oct 29
17OpenAI Says AI Found PHP2Shell Before Attackers. The Disclosure Timeline Supports Part of ThatCalif reported the PHP flaws on Aug. 11 and working exploitation was first confirmed on Oct. 24, but a leak, Cloudflare's early attack traffic and four finders complicate the "first" claim.Oct 29
18CISA Gives Agencies Three Days to Patch PHP2Shell After a Honeypot Caught Working ExploitationBoth PHP flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) entered the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on Oct. 26 with an Oct. 29 federal deadline, five days after the fixed releases shipped.Oct 29
19PHP's CVE-2026-115560 Is Not Fixed by the PHP2Shell Releases, and Has No Patch DatePHP published the advisory on Oct. 23, two days after 8.5.12 shipped, and plans to fix it only in a routine release; the interim setting matches the PHP2Shell workaround.Oct 29
20Brotli's Decoder Bug Was Fixed in February and Disclosed in October, and CISA Now Lists ItCVE-2026-111497 sits in Google's Brotli library, so Node.js, .NET, Python, Bun and Envoy each had to ship their own patch; the catalog deadline is Nov. 10.Oct 29
21OVHcloud CLI Releases v0.11.0 to v0.15.0 Were Swapped for Secret-Stealing Builds for 94 MinutesA contributor's hijacked GitHub account replaced archives on five existing releases on October 19. A customer's pinned SHA-256 caught it; Homebrew, go install and Docker users were untouched.Oct 28
22Oracle E-Business Suite CVE-2026-101767: Probing Begins Seven Days After the October PatchHorizon3.ai reported the unauthenticated SQL injection to Oracle on July 24. Defused Cyber's decoys logged exploit attempts on October 27, a week after the fix shipped.Oct 28
23CVE-2026-97631: One ICMP Packet Can Corrupt EDK II Firmware During PXE Boot, and No Fix Has ShippedTianoCore rates the 16-year-old overflow 9.5. The fix is merged upstream, no stable EDK II release carries it, and every affected server waits on its firmware vendor.Oct 28
24Apple's git and curl Still Trust the Eight eMudhra Certificates, 11 Days After the ReportSafari and Mail have blocked the weak-key intermediates since October 19. The command-line tools Apple ships with macOS read a different file, and macOS 27.2 left it alone.Oct 28
25Tailworm Lists 11 Tailscale and headscale Findings; 7 Are Fixed in v1.104.4 and None Has a CVEAn approved device with one SSH policy rule is enough to reach root through unix-socket forwarding, according to Cyberdione Labs. Tailscale says most SSH issues are privilege escalation by already-authorized users.Oct 28
26OpenCode and Warp Both Lost Server-Side Data Within 10 Days, and Neither Has Said How the Attackers Got InOpenCode's Console held provider API keys for 1.4% of its users; Warp's third-party vendor held agent logs for about 1%. The local tools were not the exposure in either case.Oct 28
27Apple Patches iPhone XR and XS for Exploited CoreGraphics Flaw 28 Days After Newer iPhones Got the FixCVE-2026-86950 was fixed in iOS 26.7.1 on Sept. 28. The older devices, stuck on iOS 18, received iOS 18.7.11 on Oct. 26.Oct 28
28Amazon Saw PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Four Days Before PHP Shipped the FixTwo unauthenticated code-execution flaws rated 9.2 were patched on Oct. 21, but Qualys counts 110 million of 167 million PHP installations on branches that get no regular fix.Oct 27
29Node.js Fixes 10 CVEs, and Four Are Follow-Ups to Earlier Patches That Did Not HoldThe worst, a Brotli decoder write past an 8-byte buffer, needs an app that decompresses attacker-supplied data, and Qualys counts 1.7 million installs on lines that will never get a fix.Oct 27
30LiteLLM 1.107.0 Was Downloaded About 49,000 Times Before PyPI Pulled ItThe credential stealer ran whenever Python started, and the account of how attackers got in changed between Oct. 21 and Oct. 23.Oct 27

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