CyberSecurity Updates

Amazon has appointed cybersecurity veteran Kevin Mandia to its board of directors, strengthening the technology giant’s security expertise at the board level. Mandia was elected to the board on September 8 and brings more than 30 years of experience responding to cyber threats across the public and private sectors, Amazon announced. He is the founder and CEO of cybersecurity firm Armadin and a co-founder and general partner at cybersecurity-focused venture capital firm Ballistic Ventures. Mandia is…

The security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse has released another Microsoft Defender zero-day exploit, right after Microsoft’s record-breaking September 2026 patches. Dubbed ‘ShieldCrash’, the exploit targets fully patched Windows systems for privilege escalation. The proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code demonstrates an arbitrary file read with System privileges, according to Nightmare Eclipse, also known as Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and MSNightmare. However, the underlying vulnerability can be exploited to gain full System privileges, allowing attackers to drop…

Microsoft on Tuesday rolled out a record number of patches, fixing 974 CVEs across its products, including two vulnerabilities exploited in the wild as zero-days. The first exploited zero-day, CVE-2026-85880, is a heap buffer overflow issue in the Windows Advanced Local Procedure Call (ALPC) that could allow a local attacker to gain System privileges. “An attacker who can execute code in a low-privilege AppContainer could exploit this vulnerability locally to escape the sandbox and elevate…

The security researcher known as Nightmare Eclipse has dropped three zero-day exploits targeting products from Avast, CrowdStrike, and Nvidia. Also known as Chaotic Eclipse, Infinite Nightmare, and MSNightmare, the security researcher came to fame for a series of zero-day exploits targeting Microsoft’s products, but has recently moved to other vendors as well. In late August, Nightmare Eclipse released a privilege escalation zero-day in a Kaspersky endpoint security product. Dubbed HardBreacher, the exploit has been patched…

Hackers have been exploiting a critical-severity vulnerability in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin to hack websites, WordPress security firm Defiant warns. A highly popular drag-and-drop website builder, Elementor is a free WordPress plugin with over 10 million installations. Elementor Pro is the paid version that offers additional features, including a Form widget with support for File Upload fields. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-32475 (CVSS score of 9.8), is described as an arbitrary file upload issue…

SecurityWeek’s weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories across vulnerability disclosures, emerging attack methods, policy updates, industry reports, and other noteworthy events to help readers maintain a well-rounded awareness of the evolving cybersecurity environment. Here are this week’s highlights:  Microsoft releases cloud patches Microsoft has released patches for nine vulnerabilities…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released patches for 34 CVEs in the Aruba Networking ArubaOS-CX (AOS-CX) platform, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Per HPT’s advisory, more than 150 flaws were resolved in AOS-CX versions 10.18.1002, 10.17.1030, 10.16.1060, 10.13.1190, and 10.10.1181. Many of these bugs are tracked together under single CVEs. Nearly two dozen issues, tracked collectively as CVE-2026-73749 (CVSS score of 9.8), were addressed with the updates. The critical security defects are rooted…