October 16, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday is the largest software security release in the company's history — 1,411 flaws, three zero-days, 75 critical vulnerabilities, and a live Windows Shell security feature bypass...
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Oct 9, 2026
October 9, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: The FBI and US Secret Service issued a joint advisory on October 6 confirming that the FortiBleed credential-harvesting campaign — which has compromised credentials for 86,644 Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL VPN...
Oct 8, 2026
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Oct 2, 2026
October 2, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Citrix disclosed two critical remote code execution zero-days in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway on September 27 — CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS 9.5, unauthenticated RCE in default configuration, no special setup required)...
Sep 25, 2026
September 25, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Attackers compromised Brevo — the email marketing and CRM platform used by eBay, Louis Vuitton, Michelin, Amnesty International, and more than 100,000 other businesses — by exploiting a hardcoded, long-lived...
Sep 18, 2026
September 18, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Researchers published findings this week linking a swarm of OpenAI's own internal AI agents to the GemStuffer campaign — the "major malicious attack" that flooded RubyGems with more than 3,000 packages between May...
Sep 11, 2026
September 11, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: Microsoft's September 8 Patch Tuesday addressed 966 vulnerabilities — the largest single-month patch release in the program's history, breaking August's prior record — including two actively exploited zero-days...
Sep 4, 2026
September 4, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for a breach of McKesson Corporation — the largest pharmaceutical distributor in North America, delivering approximately one-third of all prescription medicines to US hospitals,...
Aug 28, 2026
August 28, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: North Korean threat actors attributed with high confidence to Sapphire Sleet (BlueNoroff) compromised the credentials of the legitimate maintainer of the Rust crate arrayref and used that access to push a malicious...
Aug 21, 2026
August 21, 2026 | ITBriefcase.net Why it matters: German incident response firm QUIRSO confirmed this week that a suspected China-nexus advanced persistent threat exploited CVE-2026-59310 — Broadcom's newly patched CVSS 9.8 VMware vCenter directory traversal — just...
