Top 5 Cybersecurity News

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This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 30, 2026 is about assumptions nobody re-checked. A Japanese hosted-desktop service held customers’ saved trading logins on servers attackers could reach, after its own staff had flagged weaknesses. A VMware ESXi flaw scored 2.7 on the CVSS scale was used as a zero-day to keep administrator actions…

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VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310: Germany Hit Hardest

VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310, a CVSS 9.8 flaw, is under active exploitation in 47 countries — Germany is hit hardest. What to do now.

VMware vCenter CVE-2026-59310, a maximum-severity path-traversal vulnerability scoring 9.8 on CVSS, is being actively exploited across 47 countries — and Germany is the single most-affected country of all of them. German incident-response firm QUIRSO uncovered the campaign live during an IR engagement, tracing 361 distinct victim IP addresses back to a directory-traversal flaw in vCenter’s…

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