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Russian fishing vessels are suspected of spying on critical undersea communication cables linking Britain with Europe and the US. Over 500 suspicious movements involving 17 vessels have been identified, with ships repeatedly slowing down, changing direction and following cable routes. British officials fear this activity could help Moscow identify targets for future sabotage

Oracle published a security alert for Java today: CVE-2026-91403, CVSS 9.1. It's in JSSE (Java's TLS) and is exploitable over the network without credentials. Affected versions listed: Java SE 8u511, 11.0.33, 17.0.21, 21.0.13, 25.0.5 and 27.0.1, and GraalVM

CRITICAL: GitLab flaw (CVSS 10.0) affects 12 years of releases. CVE-2026-110264 could allow unauthenticated remote code execution on self-managed servers

Microsoft: The China state-aligned threat actor Storm-0940 used the agentic AI penetration testing framework ARTEX to automate attacks targeting hundreds of organizations globally across a broad range of industries. Microsoft Threat Intelligence assesses that Storm-0940 was responsible for the recently disclosed ConnectWise supply chain compromise of a multitenant application. Our investigation found that Storm-0940's use of ARTEX accelerated the speed of compromised application abuse to authenticate to target environments through applications that had already been granted access, allowing the threat actor to operate without requiring an interactive user sign-in. AI-accelerated follow-on activity included reconnaissance, application credential changes, and attempts to modify privileges that could enable expanded or persistent access. Read our blog for a detailed analysis and indicators of compromise (IOCs), along with Microsoft Defender detections, protection recommendations, and guidance on investigating service principal sign-ins and unexpected application credential or privilege changes

Confirmed: Network data show an ongoing disruption to North Korea's already limited internet connectivity. The incident corresponds with the loss of international access to websites under the country's .kp domain

NSA Cyber: Effective Immediately, all organizations using PHP for their systems are advised to be prepared for an update addressing two critical vulnerabilities. PHP is widely used for web applications. These vulnerabilities often provide a direct path to the server's file system or database. If an immediate update is not feasible, it is recommend that organizations take the system offline until it can be fully mitigated. NSA will follow up shortly with more specific guidance

Orange Network Outage: A national outage is affecting Orange and Sosh mobile and internet networks since late morning this Wednesday, October 21. Emergency numbers may be difficult to reach, particularly 15 (SAMU), 17 (police and gendarmerie), and 18 (firefighters). In case of emergency, if your call does not go through, dial 112 from another available mobile network or use a landline

Security firm Calif appears to have a working exploit for the leaked PHP flaws, hours before the patch. A briefly posted video credited to Calif shows it running commands on a WordPress 7.1.3 site on PHP 8.5.4. Kevin Beaumont says a screenshot from it is real. A separate public PoC is also circulating, but its own author now says one of its attack chains is dead and code execution is unreliable. Admins have two stopgaps until the fix lands at 14:00 UTC today. Turning off session.upload_progress.enabled in php.ini disables the feature the leaked details point to. The only cost is upload progress bars. Blocking every request with a multipart Content-Type at the web server goes further, but breaks file uploads

The NCSC is encouraging UK organisations to prepare for immediate updating of systems using PHP. Where immediate remediation is not feasible, organisations should consider taking the system offline until it can be fully mitigated

Widespread internet disruption reported across North Korea. More than 40 websites, including KCNA, Rodong Sinmun and government portals, have experienced significant outages. Network monitors also detected disruptions to Pyongyang's internet infrastructure

The PHP security team is giving advance notice: Upcoming security release Wed, Oct 21st 2026, 14:00UTC, two critical vulnerabilities, both rated CVSSv4 9.2. PHP users are encouraged to prepare to update. Earlier release if details become public or active exploit evidence

Multiple online services are down or experiencing issues. Google Cloud has reported "issues" in its western Europe region, affecting dozens of websites, including Revolut, Royal Mail and HSBC

Google Cloud has reported an "issue" affecting dozens of services across the UK They include Revolut, Lloyds, HSBC, Halifax, Rightmove, Royal Mail, Bank of Scotland, DPD and Sky

Question: Who ordered the interruption of Starlink in Ukraine Trump: I don't know who it was, but I'd like to find out

One week before Serbia's crucial elections, it's confirmed: Belgrade University's rector was hacked with zero-click Pegasus — and a key prosecutor, pulled off a case after speaking out about political interference, got a spyware alert. 16 confirmed targets and counting

Datagroup's data center in Kyiv has been completely destroyed, making restoration and further operations impossible, according to the company's press service

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Jerusalem_Post that Russia's cooperation with Iran runs counter to its own interests, accusing Moscow of backing antisemitic bot networks targeting Israel

Confirmed: Russian social media network VK (VKontakte) is currently experiencing a major disruption, with metrics showing connectivity at 56% of normal levels. The incident comes amid reports of a Ukrainian drone attack in the vicinity of its St. Petersburg data center.

Italian airspace experiencing significant disruption today following a "technical anomaly" detected in the geographic data transmission network, according to the country's air traffic control operator ENAV. Operational capacity reduced to 50% of total air traffic, causing delays and cancellations, which will inevitably have a knock-on effect for the entire continent. ENAV has ruled out malicious activity as the cause.

Google announces major breakthrough in quantum computing, achieving 99.99% accuracy in key quantum operation

Bulgarian MP Ivaylo Mirchev said two masked individuals deliberately set fire to 11 of 17 Starlink antennas at a secret facility near Sofia. The antennas reportedly support satellite communications used in Ukraine's war effort. Bulgarian authorities confirmed an investigation is underway and said security at similar facilities has been tightened

Initial: Explosion at Intel factory in Kiryat Gat, reports of 3 injured on site

Sources in Ukraine's Defense Ministry confirmed to Suspilne that Starlink connectivity restrictions were detected overnight in the Ukrainian military at speeds above 160 km/h. The ministry is still verifying the exact speed threshold. The restrictions reportedly significantly complicate some Defense Forces operations, including logistics, unmanned systems, and medium-range strikes. Officials are investigating the cause

Explosions were reported in Balakovo

Yandex shows no signs of recovery amid a prolonged connectivity outage reportedly consistent with extensive infrastructure damage following Ukrainian drone strikes on major data centers in Sasovo and Vladimir. The Russian technology giant has issued a pessimistic outlook for users in Russia and abroad.

A third Yandex data center has been hit by drones since October 7. Traffic from Yandex (AS13238) was already down approximately 35% following the Sasovo strike, before plunging 99% compared with the previous week at around 00:30 UTC on October 11, when its Vladimir facility shut down, according to the company.

A cyberattack targeting refrigeration systems at French supermarkets, including Intermarché, Leclerc and Super U, reportedly caused widespread food losses on October 12. Hackers allegedly exploited older software from Danish manufacturer Danfoss to remotely activate continuous defrosting, setting temperatures as high as 50°C and destroying fresh and frozen products. Around 150 Intermarché stores were reportedly affected, alongside Leclerc, Super U and potentially other retailers. Two supermarkets in Alsace reported combined losses of €270,000, while nationwide damage could reach several million euros

Multiple users report internet access has been throttled in Azerbaijan. Main apps appear to be Instagram, TikTok and other social media where you can share videos

Users in Russia are reporting disruptions to Yandex services, according to data from the Detector404 outage monitoring platform.

Confirmed: Metrics show a second collapse in the networks of Russian tech giant Yandex after a new Ukrainian drone attack on data centers in Vladimir this morning. The campaign comes not long after Russia's threat to give Ukraine a "digital detox"