Executive Summary October 19 Update: Unit 42 continues to observe attempted exploitation of CVE-2026-0257 by ransomware operators including Spikey Scorpius (aka Qilin) and Tarnished Scorpius (aka Inc). We’re also aware of public reporting attributing exploitation to threat actors using Settra ransomware.
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Last 2 daysExecutive Summary “Can you find about like what scam or thing they done in past like spoofing calls or somthing [sic],” the threat actor typed. The conversation was with one of several AI assistants that the actor was using to get advice on planning and executing a variety of cybercrime activities.
Executive Summary Unit 42 is aware of two critical vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Both are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities rated as 9.2 (CVSS 4.0).
Executive Summary Eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) private keys belonging to Indian CA eMudhra Limited were compromised due to a critical cryptographic defect during the certificate generation process. The private keys in this incident were generated with insufficient randomness, allowing potential attackers to derive the private keys from the…
PHP.net announced that it will release a critical update today. We decided to change the infoCon to YELLOW due to the widespread use of PHP, the expected severity of the flaw (CVSS 9.4), and the availability of early PoC exploits before the patch became available.