Microsoft publishes 1,413 CVEs on 13 October 2026, above September’s 973. Only one is exploited, a Mark of the Web bypass added the same day to CISA’s KEV catalogue, and this Patch Tuesday is the last one scheduled under the ESU programmes for Windows Server 2012, 2012 R2, Exchange Server 2016 and 2019. TLP:CLEAR …
Ten agencies from seven countries document how Integrity Technology Group, a Chinese company sanctioned by the US Treasury since January 2025, supplies automated scanners, botnets, hijacked VPNs and exfiltration scripts to actors linked to Flax Typhoon. Eight old vulnerabilities, five of them just added to CISA’s KEV catalogue, remain successfully exploited.
Ukraine’s government incident response team describes a ClickFix campaign served from more than a hundred compromised sites and steered through a smart contract. One of its three installation chains loads a vulnerable AMD driver whose sample does not appear in the April 2026 copy of the Microsoft blocklist examined here.
CVE-2026-19490 is a SAML authentication bypass on NetScaler, not the two RCE zero-days disclosed on 26 September. Here is how to tell them apart.
CISA officially migrated its Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) platform on September 17. Behind the acronym VINCE-NT (Vulnerability Information and Coordination Environment – New Technology), which replaces the venerable VINCE operated since 2020 by the CERT/CC, lies much more than a mere interface facelift or a welcome alignment with CSAF status frameworks. This is an act…
Three Linux kernel CVEs enter CISA’s KEV catalogue with a three-day deadline and mandatory forensic triage. Fixes, scope and how to read the scores.
CISA switched its coordinated disclosure platform on 17 September. TLP marking, a 45-day clock, sanctions screening: the rules are written.
France’s ANSSI has published five incident investigation strategies. The SIM3 maturity model measures which ones a team can actually run.
Oracle released 673 security patches on 15 September 2026, 247 of them for vulnerabilities that are remotely exploitable without authentication. Six carry the maximum score of 10.0, five of those in Fusion Middleware. TLP:CLEAR PAP:CLEAR Unlimited disclosure, no restriction on use. Published 16 September 2026 Subject Oracle, September 2026 CSPU Distribution Public Confidence…
CISA justifies its new directive and its three-day deadline by pointing to AI-accelerated exploitation. Tested against the two public datasets available, that justification holds on one indicator and gives way on the others.
Eighteen Active Directory compromise techniques, their Windows event identifiers, and the logging plan that has to come first.
Published in 1998 and never replaced, RFC 2350 describes an incident response team in seven parts. What it demands, what has aged, how to write one.
SIM3 v2 interim measures a team over 45 parameters and 5 levels. Free for internal use, tooled online, and soon extended to SOCs and PSIRTs
