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Oct 22, 2026
Railway warns devs to rotate secrets after potential breach
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Cloud platform Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. [...]

Microsoft Entra ID Opens SMS and Voice Authentication to Third-Party Providers
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Microsoft is preparing to phase out its own SMS and voice-based authentication services, forcing organizations that still rely on telephony-based multifactor authentication (MFA) to rethink how those users will sign in. The company continues to promote phishing-resistant methods such as passkeys, but some businesses face regulatory, operational, or

Researchers Warn of ClickFix Campaign Targeting Amazon Business Users
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a campaign that abuses sponsored search results for “Amazon Business” to lure users to a convincing fake Amazon login page. After entering their details, victims are presented with a fraudulent CAPTCHA that secretly copies a command to their clipboard and instructs them to paste it into the Windows Run dial

Arista patches new VeloCloud Orchestrator zero-day exploited in attacks
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Arista Networks released security updates to patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability affecting VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) On-Prem deployments. [...]

Microsoft shares how to fix broken Exchange Online EWS apps
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Guides & How-to

Microsoft says IT admins can re-enable the retired Exchange Web Services (EWS) API in Exchange Online to fix EWS apps that have stopped working. [...]

Active Directory Explorer: Find Hidden AD Changes Faster
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 22, 2026 Cloud & Identity

Microsoft Sysinternals Active Directory Explorer is a tool for quickly inspecting Active Directory attributes, tracing unexpected directory changes, reviewing permissions, and comparing the directory at two points in time.   Without a baseline comparison, you can’t easily determine what changed.  What is Active Directory Explorer?  Active Directory

Machine speed attacks require machine speed detection and response
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Attackers can steal credentials and begin exfiltrating data within minutes, often before security teams can respond. Exaforce examines real-world attacks involving stolen GitHub tokens, malicious AI installers, and MFA phishing, explaining why faster detection and automated containment are critical. [...]

Amazon says PHP2Shell exploitation began 4 days before patches
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Security

Security researchers at Amazon Threat Intelligence say attackers began targeting the PHP2Shell flaws four days before security patches were released on Wednesday. [...]

GitLab warns of new max severity code execution vulnerability
BleepingComputer • Oct 22, 2026 Security

GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. [...]

Oct 21, 2026
Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Infrastructure

Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery

AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
Microsoft Security Blog • Oct 21, 2026 AI & Copilot

Storm-0940 used ARTEX agentic AI to accelerate a ConnectWise supply chain compromise, enabling application credential abuse across Microsoft 365 environments. The post AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog .

Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Security

Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]

Microsoft Previews OneDrive Sync Client Command-Line Tool for IT Admins
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 21, 2026 Workplace

Microsoft has announced a new OneDrive Sync Client Command Line Interface (CLI) designed to simplify OneDrive administration in enterprise environments. This new tool aims to reduce the manual effort IT teams often face when troubleshooting sync issues and investigating device compliance problems. Large organizations rely on OneDrive to keep files

CISA: Hackers chain Plex flaws in Plex2Shell attacks to breach servers
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Security

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server. [...]

Microsoft Brings Metrics Usage Insights to Azure Monitor Workspace
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 21, 2026 Cloud & Identity

As Azure environments grow, organizations collect increasing amounts of monitoring data, but many teams struggle to understand which metrics are consuming Azure Monitor workspace capacity, why ingestion volumes are changing, and where optimization opportunities exist. It becomes difficult to control observability costs, manage workspace limits, and

PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Security

The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively as PHP2Shell. [...]

ClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Security

ClickFix attacks are surging as cybercriminals use fake AI installers, malicious search results, and trusted chatbot platforms to trick users into executing malware. Push Security examines how these attacks evade traditional defenses and why AI tools have become increasingly effective lures. [...]

Microsoft PowerToys adds CursorHide, Button Lock mouse tools
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Workplace

Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, with two new mouse utilities, new command-line tools, and Command Palette improvements. [...]

Microsoft says October updates didn’t actually fix VPN issues
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Workplace

Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. [...]

CISA: SafePay ransomware hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs
BleepingComputer • Oct 21, 2026 Security

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide since 2024. [...]

Oct 20, 2026
Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites
BleepingComputer • Oct 20, 2026 Security

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow
BleepingComputer • Oct 20, 2026 Security

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. [...]

Microsoft Adds Quick Machine Recovery Support to Windows Server 2025
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 20, 2026 Infrastructure

When a faulty update, driver, or configuration change causes large numbers of servers to fail during startup, IT teams often face a time-consuming recovery process. Administrators may need to manually access affected systems, troubleshoot boot issues, and apply fixes one machine at a time, which can significantly extend downtime during widespread o

Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months
BleepingComputer • Oct 20, 2026 Security

Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and information for 321,810 accounts. [...]

Microsoft Outlines a Hybrid Intelligence Strategy for Windows AI
Petri IT Knowledgebase • Oct 20, 2026 AI & Copilot

Microsoft is repositioning Windows as a platform for “hybrid intelligence,” where AI workloads can move between local hardware and cloud services depending on the task. The company argues that the next generation of AI agents will need access to both powerful local computing resources and cloud-scale intelligence, while remaining secure and managea

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