Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Day Chain Reaches Root

By Editorial Team | October 16, 2026
Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain CVE-2026-104935: a brushed-aluminium case with a broken blue tamper seal on a dark wooden floor, headline “Three Ivanti Zero-Days, One Root Shell”

Volexity found an Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day chain that gave one attacker unauthenticated root on a VPN appliance running the latest build at the time. Ivanti has fixed two of the three flaws. As of October 14, the third, the privilege escalation that turns a web-server foothold into root, has no fix. Ivanti’s own Integrity…

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Top 5 Cybersecurity News

By Editorial Team | October 16, 2026
Sealed matte-grey device on a dark table under a narrow lamp, with the headline “What Does Your Assurance Verify?” and the DIESEC logo, for Top 5 Cybersecurity News, October 16, 2026

This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 16, 2026 has one thing in common: each story turns on a check that looked like proof of safety. A VPN appliance was fully patched and the vendor’s integrity tool found nothing, yet an attacker held root. French supermarkets ran refrigeration controllers that sit outside most IT…

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