Report Date: 2026-10-27
New KEVs: 4 ▲ +4 vs last weekRansomware Victims: 221 ▼ -39 vs last week
4 vulnerabilities were added to the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog this period. Php Group products show the strongest concentration of risk signals this week. Ransomware activity is moderate with 221 new victims posted to leak sites over the last 7 days, with Qilin posting the most victims.
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Patch This Week
The top 3 KEVs to remediate right now, ranked by CISA deadline proximity, ransomware exploitation, and severity. These are confirmed exploited — if you do nothing else today, patch these.
- CVE-2026-114625 – Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator | CVSS 9.4 | EPSS 1.0% / 63th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-10-26 (overdue by 1d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-110447 – Collabora Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server | CVSS 9.2 | EPSS 12.3% / 96th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-10-26 (overdue by 1d) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines. - CVE-2026-109618 – PHP Group PHP | CVSS 9.2 | EPSS 100.0% / 100th pct
CISA deadline: 2026-10-29 (2d remaining) — Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.
Top KEVs
Vulnerabilities confirmed actively exploited in the wild by CISA — ranked by ransomware use, then severity. Patch these before anything else.
This Reporting Window
- CVE-2026-114625 – Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator | CVSS 9.4 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 1.0% / 63th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-109618 – PHP Group PHP | CVSS 9.2 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 100.0% / 100th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-109619 – PHP Group PHP | CVSS 9.2 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 100.0% / 100th pct | Ransomware Use: No
- CVE-2026-110447 – Collabora Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server | CVSS 9.2 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 12.3% / 96th pct | Ransomware Use: No
Major CVEs
Critical-severity CVEs published in the last 7 days that are not yet in the CISA KEV catalog — not confirmed exploited, but severe enough to assess and prioritize patching before they are.
- CVE-2026-81212 – Unknown Vendor | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.3% / 19th pct | Published: 7 days ago
IBM DataStage on Cloud Pak for Data 5.4.0.0 allows an unauthenticated user to perform an arbitrary write into shared Redis under any tenant's key. This collapses the platform's credential-encryption boundary and lets an … - CVE-2026-87337 – Unknown Vendor | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.4% / 38th pct | Published: 7 days ago
Vulnerability in the Oracle Access Manager product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Authentication Engine). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.1.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability al… - CVE-2026-91216 – Unknown Vendor | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.5% / 44th pct | Published: 7 days ago
Vulnerability in the Oracle SOA Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Fabric Layer). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthent… - CVE-2026-91221 – Unknown Vendor | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.5% / 44th pct | Published: 7 days ago
Vulnerability in the Oracle SOA Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Fabric Layer). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthent… - CVE-2026-91231 – Unknown Vendor | CVSS 10.0 (CRITICAL) | AV: Network | EPSS 0.5% / 44th pct | Published: 7 days ago
Vulnerability in the Oracle SOA Suite product of Oracle Fusion Middleware (component: Adapters). Supported versions that are affected are 12.2.1.4.0 and 14.1.2.0.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticat…
Security News
Advisories, threat research, and incident reports from 12 sources across government, commercial research, and security journalism — prioritized by source credibility.
- CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 5 days ago – Siemens SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP
View CSAF Summary Multiple vulnerabilities have been identified in the additional GNU/Linux subsystem of the firmware version V3.1.7 for the SIMATIC S7-1500 CPU 1518(F)-4 PN/DP MFP (incl. SIPLUS variant). Siemens is prep… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 5 days ago – Kiloview E3 NDI Encoder
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of this these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to fully compromise the device. The following versions of Kiloview E3 NDI Encoder are affected: E3 Firmware <1.30 (CVE-20… - CISA ICS AdvisoryAdvisory · 5 days ago – Siemens Industrial Edge App Publisher
View CSAF Summary The Industrial Edge App Publisher contains a vulnerability chain involving improper certificate validation and the rendering of unescaped data from backend responses. These issues can be combined to all… - SANS ISCResearch · yesterday – Apple Patches for October 2026, (Mon, Oct 26th)
Apple today released patches for 304 vulnerabilties. This number is still in line with prior Apple updates, and comes just about a month after the last apple update.
 - SANS ISCResearch · 4 days ago – (Reliable)? php2shell exploitability, (Fri, Oct 23rd)
Yesterday everyone was running around like crazy (me included 🙂 because of the php2shell vulnerability.
 - Unit 42Research · 4 days ago – Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated October 25)
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a scripting language used globally for web servers and CMS systems. The post Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-20… - Unit 42Incident · 5 days ago – The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks
Unit 42 explores modern OAuth threats and actionable steps organizations can take to protect their environments. The post The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks appeared first on Unit 42 . - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 6 days ago – Proof-of-concept exploit released for PHP vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
Categories: Threat Research Tags: advisory, vulnerability, php - Sophos X-OpsResearch · 7 days ago – BRONZE SANDCASTLE deploys modified Meterpreter shells
<p>The China-based threat group uses DLL sideloading in these attacks</p> Categories: Threat Research Tags: BRONZE SANDCASTLE, Meterpreter, Sandboxie - The RecordIncident · yesterday – Serbian autocrat loses election following widespread reports of digital repression
Serbian strongman leader Aleksandar VuÄiÄ on Sunday admitted defeat in his race for prime minister, a loss that follows a series of incidents of digital repression that galvanized the opposition. - The RecordIncident · yesterday – Ukraine warns hackers are exploiting Chinese-made Dahua surveillance cameras
CERT-UA says it has identified cases in which hackers compromised Dahua internet-connected cameras and video recorders, changed their settings and created unauthorized user accounts. - Security Affairs (APT)Incident · yesterday – PHP2Shell: Suspected North Korean campaign targets 216 vulnerable PHP hosts
Cyfirma links PHP2Shell scans of 216 vulnerable hosts to a suspected North Korean campaign using AI to rank public exploits. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618… - Security Affairs (APT)Incident · 5 days ago – Microsoft Links ConnectWise Breach to China-Linked Group Using AI Pentesting Tool ARTEX
China-linked Storm-0940 used AI tool ARTEX to target 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, exploiting stolen ConnectWise credentials at machine speed. Microsoft published a detailed technical report naming Storm-0940, a China sta… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)News · yesterday – Magento Campaign Infects 953 Online Stores Across Five Domains
Sansec tracks a Magento skimmer campaign that infected 953 stores, using five domains, bot filtering and malicious code hidden in CMS blocks. A criminal group has infected 953 online stores since July 2025, mostly Magent… - Security Affairs (Cybercrime)News · yesterday – Researchers Uncover Rentable Android Spyware uCreater Targeting WeChat and Telegram
uCreater is Android spyware disguised as trusted apps, stealing credentials, messages and wallet data through a rentable platform. uCreater is a rentable Android spyware platform that hides inside repackaged legitimate a…
Ransomware Activity
Victim counts posted to ransomware group leak sites — use this to gauge which groups are most active and which sectors and regions are being targeted.
31 new victims posted today
7-day total: 221 via Ransomware.live
Most Active Groups
Group Intelligence
- Qilin — Qilin ransomware was first observed in July of 2022. Qilin Ransomware is written in Golang and supports multiple encryption modes; all of which are controlled by the operator. Qilin actors practice double extortion – demanding payment for a decryptor, as well as for the non-release of stolen data.
- Silentransomgroup — A former Conti team
aka Chatty Spider and UNC3753
Most Targeted Sectors
Top Countries
US (79), DE (20), GB (10), IT (7), ES (6)
Notable Incidents
- Heber City, UT (Government & Defense · US) — claimed by Qilin. N/A Press coverage →
- Burnaby Schools – School District 41 (Education · CA) — claimed by Qilin. N/A Press coverage →
- Weld Re 8 School District (Education · US) — claimed by Thegentlemen. weld8.org Weld Re-8 School District public school district founded in 1914 in Fort Lupton, Colorado, serving about 2500 students across 7 schools with a 43.5 million dollar budget. The student body is 76 percent minority… Press coverage →
Active Threat Indicators
Live IOC intelligence from abuse.ch —
Feodo Tracker, URLhaus, and ThreatFox. Use to update firewall rules, DNS sinkholes, and EDR signatures.
Active C2 Servers — Block Outbound (Feodo Tracker)
| IP Address | Port | Malware Family | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| 50.16.16.211 | 443 | QakBot | US |
Full blocklists: Feodo • URLhaus • ThreatFox
Vendor-Specific Risks
Vendors with confirmed KEV exploitation this week — the stacked bar shows how that exposure breaks down across exploited CVEs (red), critical CVEs to watch (orange), and news mentions (yellow). Prioritize patching vendors with the largest red segment.
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