October 29, 2026 · Applied Cybernetics Group
Morning Brief — October 29, 2026
Morning Brief — 2026-10-29
4 convergence, 1 material breach disclosures, 2 federal patching priority, 2 exploit probability movers, 10 emerging critical cves, 10 supply chain, 22 ransomware activity, 16 active malware families, 21 hand-authored sigma, 19 detection gaps, and 1 collection ledger. Sections with no signal are still rendered with an explicit “none in this window” note so absence is visible alongside presence.
Convergence
4 organizations seen by ≥2 independent source classes in 14 days. Detail: thrunt.me/convergence.
Photon Health — leak + litigation + notice, converged 2026-10-21
- 2026-08-19 · leak · Photon Health, Inc. listed by direwolf
- 2026-08-25 · litigation · Data-breach class action filed: Carey v. Photon Health Inc (District Court, S.D. New York)
- 2026-08-28 · litigation · Data-breach class action filed: Horne v. Photon Health, Inc. (District Court, S.D. New York)
- 2026-09-02 · litigation · Data-breach class action filed: Marshall v. Photon Health, Inc. (District Court, S.D. New York)
- 2026-10-21 · notice · Photon Health filed a breach notice with the Oregon Department of Justice, 521 affected
- 2026-10-23 · notice · Photon Health filed a breach notice with the Texas Attorney General, 3,085 affected
BASS Medical Group — leak + notice, converged 2026-10-27
- 2026-10-22 · notice · BASS Medical Group filed a breach notice with the California Attorney General
- 2026-10-27 · leak · BASS Medical Group listed by Booba Project
Opportune LLP — leak + notice, converged 2026-10-22
- 2026-07-08 · leak · opportune.com listed by chaos
- 2026-10-22 · notice · Opportune LLP filed a breach notice with the California Attorney General
- 2026-10-23 · notice · Opportune LLP filed a breach notice with the Texas Attorney General, 38,068 affected
Encore Enterprises — leak + notice, converged 2026-10-16
- 2026-08-02 · leak · Encore Enterprises, Inc. listed by CRPxO
- 2026-10-16 · notice · Encore Enterprises filed a breach notice with the Texas Attorney General, 1,746 affected
Material Breach Disclosures
Agassi Sports Entertainment Corp. (AASP)
- Filed: 2026-10-26 · CIK 0000930245 · Accession
0001493152-26-048428 - Filing: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/930245/000149315226048428/ex99-2.htm
Review and evaluate reports from Company management regarding the Company’s technology and cybersecurity processes and programs. Discuss periodically with senior management of the Company and Board any material issues that arise with respect to the Company’s technology and cybersecurity risk assessment and risk management processes and programs. Establish procedures with senior managem…
Federal Patching Priority
CVE-2026-46300 — Linux Kernel
Linux Kernel Missing Initialization of a Variable Vulnerability
- Added: 2026-10-28 · Federal due: 2026-10-31 · EPSS 95.7th pct (score 0.102) · CVSS 7.8 (HIGH) · CWE-787, CWE-456, CWE-123
- ransomware use: Unknown
Linux Kernel contains a missing initialization of a variable vulnerability that could allow for unintended modification of page-cache-backed data via failure to preserve the shared-fragment marker during socket buffer coalescing, causing ESP input processing to decrypt shared fragments in place. This vulnerability can be chained with CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to implant PHP webshells and run commands as root.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net: skbuff: preserve shared-frag marker during coalescing skb_try_coalesce() can attach paged frags from @from to @to. If @from has SKBFL_SHARED_FRAG set, the resulting @to skb can contain the same externally-owned or page-cache-backed frags, but the shared-frag marker is currently lost. That breaks the invariant relied on by…
CVE-2026-41709 — Broadcom VMware ESX
Broadcom VMWare ESX Insufficient Logging Vulnerability
- Added: 2026-10-28 · Federal due: 2026-11-11 · EPSS 22.3th pct (score 0.003) · CVSS 2.7 (LOW) · CWE-778
- ransomware use: Unknown
Broadcom VMWare ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability that could allow a malicious actor with admin access to perform certain operations without being logged.
VMware ESX contains an insufficient logging vulnerability. A malicious administrator could exploit this issue to perform certain operations without them being logged.
Exploit Probability Movers
| CVE | Today | Prev | Δ | In KEV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2026-111497 | 0.880 | 0.555 | ▲ 0.325 | ✓ |
CVE-2026-48356 | 0.591 | 0.306 | ▲ 0.285 | ✓ |
Emerging Critical CVEs
CVE-2026-61567· CRITICAL (10.0) · 2026-10-28 — AVideo is a video-sharing Platform. Prior to 8.1.0, the live-streaming endpointview/videosListToLive.phpaccepts an attacker-named streamer inwebSiteRootURL, callsLogin::runinobjects/Login.php, and trusts th…CVE-2026-61564· CRITICAL (10.0) · 2026-10-28 — AVideo is a video-sharing Platform. Prior to 8.1.0, the unauthenticated installer endpointinstall/checkConfiguration.phpassemblesvideos/configuration.phpby interpolating request parameters, including `webSiteRoot…CVE-2026-44179· CRITICAL (9.9) · 2026-10-28 — XWiki Remote Macros provides XWiki rendering macros that are useful when migrating content from Confluence. From 1.13 until 1.14.5, theexcerpt-includemacro does not properly escape the included page’s title and execu…CVE-2026-42922· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-29 — A authorization bypass vulnerability exists in the /nodered functionality of FUXA (version(s): 1.3.2-2809). A specially crafted HTTP request can lead to a arbitrary code execution. An attacker can make an unauthenticated…CVE-2026-109516· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-29 — The Bot for Telegram on WooCommerce plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Authentication Bypass leading to Account Takeover in all versions up to, and including, 1.3.0. The/wp-json/woo-telegram/v1/main/REST endpoint…CVE-2026-118579· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-28 — A weakness has been identified in D-Link DIR-505 1.10B02. The impacted element is the function main of the file /secmark1524.cgi of the component Web Management CGI. This manipulation of the argument accu/pass/code/hash/…CVE-2026-118690· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-28 — Signal K Server before 2.33.0 contains a missing authentication vulnerability that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to download log archives via the /skServer/ziplogs endpoint. Attackers can extract the JWT secret…CVE-2026-103409· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-28 — A Missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in Juniper Networks Session Smart Router allows an unauthenticated network-based attacker to obtain administrative privileges by passing crafted URL parameters…CVE-2026-103406· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-28 — An Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command vulnerability in the AutomatedProvisioner in Juniper Networks Session Smart Conductor allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root vi…CVE-2026-115968· CRITICAL (9.8) · 2026-10-28 — Deserialization of Untrusted Data vulnerability in Ultimate Member Ultimate Member ultimate-member allows Object Injection.This issue affects Ultimate Member: from n/a through 2.13.1.
Supply Chain
GHSA-3f7j-7jwc-fxfj · CVE-2026-116576 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.8 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
systeminformation - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3f7j-7jwc-fxfj
systeminformation vulnerable to Windows command injection in services() through Unicode quotation marks
GHSA-6jp4-8v48-cc5v · CVE-2026-117601 (pip)
- CRITICAL · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
electrum - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6jp4-8v48-cc5v
Electrum: Malicious server can replace a just-broadcast tx and try to trick user into RBF-ing it
GHSA-97r2-qh9m-474h · CVE-2026-116581 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
seroval - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-97r2-qh9m-474h
Seroval: fromJSON deserializer trusts node-supplied array length and sequence doneAt (unauthenticated event-loop DoS)
GHSA-wp97-x4hv-qvhp · CVE-2026-116584 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
seroval - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wp97-x4hv-qvhp
Seroval fromJSON/fromCrossJSON denial of service via unvalidated array node length
GHSA-7rv5-mrxv-xcr9 · CVE-2026-116580 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.3 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
seroval - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7rv5-mrxv-xcr9
Seroval: Deserialization invokes attacker-chosen callables: AsyncIteratorFactoryInstance calls source.on(listener) without type check
GHSA-h3rc-j82p-2c3h · CVE-2026-115915 (pip)
- HIGH · CVSS 8.1 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
vllm - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-h3rc-j82p-2c3h
vLLM: Untrusted EPS inputs can trigger denial of service or Ghostscript RCE
GHSA-6757-hggm-hp2w · CVE-2026-115912 (pip)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
vllm - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6757-hggm-hp2w
vLLM: Public multimodal SHM handle forgery reaches worker-side pickle.loads() with insecure serialization disabled
GHSA-mghf-wjfp-p5xm · CVE-2026-115893 (rust)
- CRITICAL · CVSS 9.9 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
wasmtime,wasmtime,wasmtime - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mghf-wjfp-p5xm
Wasmtime: Cranelift backend on aarch64 can jump to incorrect target on large Wasm br_table instruction
GHSA-x8rm-f576-gq67 · CVE-2026-115887 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
graphql-scalars - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-x8rm-f576-gq67
graphql-scalars PhoneNumber scalar is vulnerable to regular expression denial of service
GHSA-gg6h-894w-4m9c · CVE-2026-116795 (npm)
- HIGH · CVSS 7.5 · 2026-10-28
- Affected:
re2js - https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-gg6h-894w-4m9c
RE2JS: Quadratic-time denial of service in re2js lookbehind matching
Ransomware Activity
22 new victim postings across 13 groups.
| Group | Victims | Sample |
|---|---|---|
SilentRansomGroup | 5 | Lowenstein Sandler LLP, Morrison Foerster, T… E…, S… H…, L… |
akira | 3 | Trulife, Roberts Consulting Services, Insurance Services |
lockbit5 | 2 | xspringcapital.com, susannecerda.com |
payload | 2 | Hauhinco, Marbre Design |
rhysida | 2 | ClaimTek Systems, Noelker and Hull |
Barracuda | 1 | Femern Link Contractors |
Global Secret Group | 1 | The Anglican International School |
Panzer | 1 | PQE Group |
Wallstreet | 1 | Fortrex |
anubis | 1 | Santiam Hospital & Clinics |
aurora | 1 | EWM Group |
genesis | 1 | A&B Lab |
pear | 1 | Cyrious Software |
Active Malware Families
16 malware families named in the last 30 days of research (8 by ≥2 publishers), exercising 15 ATT&CK techniques.
| Family | Type | Publishers | Reports | Techniques (✗ = coverage gap) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ConnectWise ScreenConnect (abuse) | rmm-abuse | 9 | 26 | T1219 |
| ClickFix | delivery → | 12 | 19 | T1059.001, T1204 |
| Mirai | botnet | 5 | 5 | T1110, T1498, T1499, T1584.005 |
| XMRig | miner | 4 | 5 | T1496 |
| Lumma | stealer | 3 | 4 | T1005, T1071, T1555 |
| Vidar | stealer | 4 | 4 | T1005, T1071, T1555 |
| CoinMiner | miner | 2 | 3 | T1496 |
| XWorm | rat | 2 | 2 | T1056.001, T1071 |
| AgentTesla | stealer | 1 | 2 | T1056.001, T1071, T1114, T1555 |
| njRAT | rat | 1 | 2 | T1056.001, T1059.003, T1071, T1219 |
| ACRStealer | stealer | 1 | 1 | T1005, T1071, T1555 |
| AsyncRAT | rat | 1 | 1 | T1056.001, T1059.001, T1071, T1219 |
| NetSupport Manager (abuse) | rmm-abuse | 1 | 1 | T1219 |
| QuasarRAT | rat | 1 | 1 | T1056.001, T1059.001, T1071, T1219 |
| Remcos | rat | 1 | 1 | T1056.001, T1071, T1113 |
| Stealc | stealer | 1 | 1 | T1005, T1071, T1555 |
Families marked ”→” are delivery/social-engineering clusters (ClickFix). Their technique mappings are the delivery chain — downstream behavior is payload-dependent, so they don’t open a hard coverage gap on their own.
Cross-Reference
No SEC × KEV vendor token matches in this window. (This is a heuristic surface, absence is expected most days.)
Hand-Authored Sigma
19 production-ready TTP rules (+2 scaffolds in the authoring queue) live at https://thrunt.me/sigma/manifest.json. Subscribe via https://thrunt.me/sigma/rules.lock.json (content-hash churn) or pull all with https://thrunt.me/sigma/rules.tar.gz.
| Rule | Status | YAML |
|---|---|---|
| T1037 Boot or Logon Initialization Scripts: Linux Init Script Modification | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1037-linux-init-script-modification.yml |
| T1055 Process Injection: Rundll32 Spawning Explorer as an Injection Host | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1055-rundll32-spawning-explorer-injection.yml |
| T1059 Process Launched from the PeopleSoft PSEMHUB.war Directory | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1059-peoplesoft-psemhub-payload-execution.yml |
| T1071.004 DNS-over-HTTPS Resolution from a Non-Browser Process | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1071-004-doh-resolver-non-browser-c2.yml |
| T1098.004 Account Manipulation: SSH Authorized Keys File Modification | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1098-004-ssh-authorized-keys-write.yml |
| T1098.005 Okta Verify Enrollment from a Hypervisor Guest | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1098-005-hypervisor-mfa-device-enrollment.yml |
| T1102.001 Dead Drop Resolver: EtherHiding Payload Retrieval from BNB Smart Chain Testnet | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1102-001-etherhiding-bsc-testnet-dead-drop.yml |
| T1190 Oracle PeopleSoft PSEMHUB Request via a Non-Canonical Path (UNC6240 WAF Bypass) | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1190-peoplesoft-psemhub-encoded-path-exploitation.yml |
| T1195.002 Compromise Software Supply Chain: Malicious Google Tag Manager Container | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1195-002-unapproved-gtm-container-injection.yml |
| T1204.004 Malicious Copy and Paste: ClickFix macOS Terminal Execution | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1204-004-clickfix-macos-terminal-execution.yml |
| T1204.004 Malicious Copy and Paste: ClickFix Run Dialog Execution | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1204-004-clickfix-run-dialog-execution.yml |
| T1505.003 Web Shell or Payload Written into PeopleSoft PSEMHUB.war or PORTAL.war, or MeshAgent Staged in /tmp | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1505-003-peoplesoft-psemhub-webshell-drop.yml |
| T1557 Okta Authentication or MFA via a Remote-Desktop / Proxy / Tor Tunnel | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1557-aitm-cross-asn-session-mfa.yml |
| T1557 Claims Kit First-Party Exfil: X-Enc Single-Letter C2 | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1557-claims-kit-single-letter-c2-xenc.yml |
| T1557 Okta Verify SVG Asset Served by a Non-Okta Host | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1557-non-okta-host-oktaverify-svg.yml |
| T1557 reCAPTCHA-Skinned Cloudflare Turnstile Gate | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1557-recaptcha-skinned-turnstile-gate.yml |
| T1566.002 Spearphishing Link: Luxembourg Hospitality SMS Phishing Campaign | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1566-002-luxembourg-hospitality-sms-phish.yml |
| T1574.002 DLL Side-Loading: Signed javac.exe Loading jli.dll from a User-Writable Path | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1574-002-signed-javac-sideload-jli.yml |
| T1583.001 Resolution of a ShinyHunters .claims Impersonation Domain | experimental | https://thrunt.me/sigma/t1583-001-claims-registration-conjunction.yml |
| T1003.008 OS Credential Dumping: /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow Access | draft | https://thrunt.meundefined |
| T1530 Data from Cloud Storage: Detection | draft | https://thrunt.meundefined |
Detection Gaps
19 of 328 techniques with corpus signal have zero detection coverage: no SigmaHQ, Elastic or Splunk rule, no thrunt rule. This is the hand-authoring queue; the live view is at https://thrunt.me/corpus/attck/.
| Technique | Name | Active families | Reports | KEV |
|---|---|---|---|---|
T1573.001 | Symmetric Cryptography | — | 7 | 3 |
T1056.003 | Web Portal Capture | — | 2 | 0 |
T1678 | Delay Execution | — | 2 | 0 |
T1001.001 | Junk Data | — | 1 | 0 |
T1027.007 | Dynamic API Resolution | — | 1 | 0 |
T1027.012 | LNK Icon Smuggling | — | 1 | 0 |
T1027.016 | Junk Code Insertion | — | 1 | 0 |
T1070.009 | Clear Persistence | — | 1 | 0 |
T1132.002 | Non-Standard Encoding | — | 1 | 0 |
T1480.002 | Mutual Exclusion | — | 1 | 0 |
…and 9 more below the cut — full list on the rollup.
Pipeline Health
All feeds healthy.
Collection Ledger
Dark sources — running clean, delivering nothing:
| Source | Last delivered | Quiet | Expected within |
|---|---|---|---|
circl-misp | 2026-08-30 | 60d | 14d |
Sources: SEC EDGAR (public domain), CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (public domain), FIRST.org EPSS (per ToS), NIST NVD (public domain), GitHub Security Advisories (per ToS), ransomware.live (per ToS), state attorney general and HHS OCR breach notices (public records), CourtListener RECAP (public domain), MITRE ATT&CK (CC BY 4.0), SigmaHQ (DRL 1.1), Elastic and Splunk rule inventories, and vendor research and advisories (linked per item).
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