33 security incidents in the news this October, sorted by size. 7 ran on a stolen key (K), 4 abused a trusted channel (T).
BIGGEST REACH
1. PHP2Shell: 2 critical PHP flaws, governments in NL, FI, FR, UK pulled sites offline
2. Railway: customers' environment variables (API keys, DB logins) may have been read
3. LiteLLM: poisoned release with a credential stealer, live 2 hours (K)
4. eMudhra: 8 certificate authority keys cracked in under a second, one was the number 4 (T)
5. California: student data incl. disability status, via a testing contractor's login (K)
6. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached, the company is shutting down (K)
7. GitLab: CVSS 10 remote code execution, every self-managed release since 2014
8. Cairn: open-source AI agent used to breach 100+ company sites, about $50 each
9. Ahold Delhaize: Food Lion, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Albert Heijn online shops down
10. Onamae: up to 26,739 FX trading servers in Japan, all plans stopped
11. ConnectWise Cloud Backup: compromised OAuth app, 162+ Microsoft 365 tenants (K)
12. SafePay ransomware: 600+ victims, FBI and CISA advisory
SERIOUS
13. Ivanti Connect Secure: zero-day exploited since Oct 3
14. Citrix NetScaler: SAML zero-day exploited before the patch
15. FortiMail: CVSS 9.8 zero-day exploited, no full patch yet
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs in via GlobalProtect, plus a PAN-OS zero-day
17. Windows: Shell zero-day in a record Patch Tuesday of ~1,400 fixes
18. NGINX: 3 critical memory bugs in non-default setups
19. HTTP/3: 7 of 10 stacks tested crash on one connection
20. Plex: exploit live, ~49,000 servers still exposed
21. Signal: a call can stay open after hang-up, fixed in September
22. Tor: 333 exit relays intercepted SSH logins (T)
23. OVHcloud CLI: 5 releases backdoored for 94 minutes (K)
24. AOMEI Backupper: update server tampered to deliver a backdoor (T)
25. Siemens Software Center: trojanized installer, exploited, patched (T)
26. UpdraftCentral: backdoor plugins pushed to WordPress sites (K)
27. PingCAP TiDB Cloud: stolen service account, customer data and source code (K)
28. Bullhorn: staffing platform taken offline after a cyberattack
29. ASOS: rogue "HACKED" push notification, customer data may be exposed
30. State Bank of India: 3,897 customer r
31. Medi-Cal: 970,000 members, intrusion in 2025, notified now
32. n0n: 38 shipping and port firms on a leak site, unconfirmed
33. Meta Muse: an agent reportedly read iMessages it was denied
Ran LiteLLM 1.107.0, deployed on Railway or used OVHcloud CLI 0.11 to 0.15? Rotate every secret it touched.