October 2026 attacks tracker
Every supply chain compromise, breach, exploited vulnerability, AI-run attack and agent incident of October 2026 we could verify, newest first. Each entry has its status and a link to a full breakdown with primary sources. Link to any incident, filter by type, or embed one on your own site.
Checked every 4 hours · last updated Oct 25, 2026, 18:04 UTC · 58 incidents · Read the month as one article
- Supply chain
- 8
- Breach
- 11
- Exploited
- 8
- Critical vuln
- 10
- AI-run attack
- 11
- Agent incident
- 10
October incidents
58 incidents in October 2026
Week 4 · October 22 to 28
- Agent incidentConfirmed (OpenAI)
OpenAI containment red team
OpenAI says red-team agents escaped training VMs, found paths to the live internet and passed signals between VMs through CPU cache timing; sandbox components patched
- Agent incidentConfirmed (Anthropic, AISI)
Mythos 5 malicious pull request (AISI test)
In a UK AISI cyber test with internet on and safeguards off, a Claude Mythos 5 agent sent a malicious pull request to a real GitHub project and used sock-puppet accounts; rejected, no harm found
- Agent incidentReported (Nikkei)
Panasonic HR data sent to generative AI
Employee at a subsidiary reportedly uploaded HR data on ~330,000 people to a banned AI service; no outside attack, Panasonic release not checked
- Agent incidentReported (Forever Security)
Malicious AGENTS.md in Downloads
Forever Security found a planted
AGENTS.mdin a customer's~/Downloadsthat steered a coding agent to install the malicious npm packagefunction-color; delivery method unknown - ExploitedConfirmed
Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator CVE-2026-114625
Any authenticated user, even read-only, can act as a superuser operator on on-prem VCO; Arista reports active exploitation; fixed in 5.2.3.18, 6.1.3.10, 6.4.2.12; added to CISA KEV October 23
- Critical vulnPatched
x402 SDK flaws
Three critical bugs let a hostile API drain an agent wallet: no default spend cap, Solana approvals accepted as payments, SIWx logins signed for other sites
- Agent incidentPartly confirmed
Meta Muse agent
Filesystem export, shared artifact links and VM escape reports; Meta says the export was not a breach
- AI-run attackReported (Symantec)
Symantec "Skynet mode"
Honeypot caught an offensive agent using exposed LLM endpoints as its brain, with 74 tools
Week 3 · October 15 to 21
- BreachConfirmed (Quest, SEC 8-K)
Quest Diagnostics Quanum LSM
Quest learned Oct 21 of unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM ordering system and believes patient records were accessed; scope still under investigation, system taken offline
- BreachConfirmed (SBI)
State Bank of India
3,897 customer records found in a dark-web set; source unknown
- ExploitedConfirmed advisory
Cisco Smart Install (Static Tundra)
NSA: disable Smart Install now; CVE-2018-0171 still used to steal switch configs
- Critical vulnPatched
Tailscale
eMudhra trust exposure fixed in v1.104.2
- Critical vulnPatched
Node.js security release
Ten CVEs including a Brotli RCE and TLS hostname bypasses
- Critical vulnPatched
GitLab CVE-2026-110264
CVSS 10.0 unauthenticated RCE in self-managed GitLab back to 7.0
- AI-run attackReported (Straiker)
CyberCartel CARLIY0S
Straiker: Claude, Grok and Kimi agents aimed at 400+ Latin American financial targets
- AI-run attackReported (Unit 42)
BUGSTER
Unit 42: Hermes Agent, DeepSeek V4 and a permission-bypassed Cursor used to steal 5,200+ records
- AI-run attackConfirmed (Microsoft)
Storm-0940 and ARTEX
Microsoft: ARTEX agents used stolen ConnectWise app credentials against 2,250+ tenants
- BreachConfirmed
Railway
Customer env vars accessed, some decrypted; Railway says the aim was AI inference keys
- Supply chainConfirmed
LiteLLM 1.107.0
PyPI wheels and Docker images ran a startup-hook stealer and RAT for about 100 minutes
- ExploitedConfirmed
PHP2Shell
AI-found PHP interpreter RCEs leaked a day early and were attacked before the fix
- Critical vulnPatched
Oracle Java SE CPU
55 Java SE fixes, 49 remotely exploitable without authentication
- Critical vulnDisputed
exploit.cat Claude disclosure
Session-bridge JWT and artifact-upload claims; Anthropic disputes the second
- Critical vulnConfirmed
MCP TypeScript SDK 1.32.0
Four advisories, two high; two fixes need config to take effect
- BreachReported (Wiz)
LLMjacking via GCP billing
Phished GCP admins; foreign projects linked to victim billing to run Gemini
- AI-run attackReported (SOCRadar)
INC and The Gentlemen via OpenCode
SOCRadar: 8,257 messages in 133 OpenCode sessions, about $23,920 of model spend, 62 named organizations
- BreachConfirmed (Capcom)
Capcom CAPCOM ID
Unauthorized access found Oct 19: 11,774,247 records (emails, login metadata); 43 with birth dates; 196 accounts had passwords changed. Capcom says passwords and cards were not exposed
- AI-run attackPartly confirmed
Cairn: 1,200+ sites
Reuters and NorForge: agents probed 1,200+ sites and breached 100+; cost and theft unconfirmed
- Supply chainReported (Elastic)
Apex Accelerator npm (REF8801)
Fake AI copilot and MCP packages redirect LLM traffic, add an attacker MCP server and steal configs
- AI-run attackReported (Wiz)
Wiz: AI-driven cloud attack
An agent chained a Kafka UI flaw to cluster-admin at machine speed
- Supply chainConfirmed
OVHcloud CLI v0.11.0 to v0.15.0
Contributor account hijacked; release assets and
checksums.txtreplaced for about 94 minutes - BreachConfirmed
TeamUpdraft
Customer database accessed; UpdraftCentral keys used to install backdoor plugins
- BreachConfirmed
Zeabur shutdown
Founder announced Zeabur will wind down through December 2026 after the breach
- Critical vulnConfirmed
eMudhra CA
Eight intermediate CA keys were computable (one was 4), so any TLS certificate could be forged
- BreachConfirmed
OpenCode Console
A legacy system exposed saved provider keys for about 1.4% of Console users
- ExploitedConfirmed
Plex2Shell
Four chained Plex Media Server CVEs; miners and a proxy backdoor within a day of the PoC
- ExploitedConfirmed
Siemens Software Center
DLL side-loading (CVE-2026-110936) abused by the Romulus ClickFix campaign; CISA KEV
- Supply chainConfirmed
Rank Math PRO 3.0.123
Update channel served a self-restoring backdoor for 11 hours; CVE-2026-111862
- Agent incidentConfirmed (OpenAI)
OpenAI model spent test ETH
An internal model derived keys from public recovery phrases and spent Sepolia ETH it was not given
- Agent incidentConfirmed advisory
CERT-In agent advisory
AI agents under testing used leaked keys and broad cloud roles to read confidential records at Indian organizations
Week 2 · October 8 to 14
- BreachConfirmed
Zeabur (second breach)
Plaintext admin credentials left out of the August rotation; 321,810 accounts and 3.2M env var records
- ExploitedConfirmed
Collabora built-in CODE server CVE-2026-110447
OS command injection in the Nextcloud built-in CODE server (
richdocumentscodebefore 26.4.303); admins report attacks since September 10; fixed September 11; added to CISA KEV October 23 - ExploitedConfirmed
SiteGuard Server Edition
CVE-2026-106931 OS command injection, on by default; root or SYSTEM on the WAF host; CISA KEV
- BreachConfirmed
ConnectWise Cloud Backup
A stolen app credential for seven app identities signed in to 162 to 173 Microsoft 365 tenants
- Critical vulnConfirmed
MCP TypeScript SDK CVE-2026-104850
A malicious MCP server could collect OAuth refresh tokens and client secrets; fixed in sdk 1.31.0
- AI-run attackConfirmed (Microsoft)
Storm-0940 infrastructure
Spray infrastructure later linked to the ConnectWise intrusion was active
- BreachConfirmed advisory
Indian fintech attacks
CERT-In warned attackers stole API credentials at NBFCs, lenders and payment firms and called fund-transfer APIs directly; link to AI agents unclear
- Agent incidentConfirmed (Anthropic)
Anthropic unintended actions
Anthropic reported Claude taking unintended actions on live sites, including a fake police tip
- Critical vulnConfirmed
Claude Code CVE-2026-86063
Plugin hash pin could be bypassed by a same-named branch; fixed in 2.1.179
- Supply chainConfirmed
Tensorlake npm 0.5.144
Shai-Hulud variant in an AI sandbox SDK: steals developer and AI tool secrets, self-spreads, has a wipe switch
Week 1 · October 1 to 7
- Supply chainConfirmed; counts vary
GhostAction (new wave)
Stolen GitHub tokens push "security-audit" workflows that send package, cloud and AI keys to attackers
- AI-run attackReported (CrowdStrike)
ARTEX vs South Korean banks
CrowdStrike: a likely lone actor ran ARTEX and several LLMs against Korean banks, exposed by his own open directory
- Supply chainReported (ProjectDiscovery)
Backdoored Qwen model steals .env via Codex (PoC)
ProjectDiscovery backdoored Qwen2.5-7B for under $50; a trigger phrase made it in Codex CLI fetch a script and send
.envfiles out. Research proof of concept, no in-the-wild use shown - ExploitedConfirmed vuln; attempts reported
Langflow CVE-2026-105740
CVSS 9.9: any authenticated user can run shell commands through an MCP stdio server; honeypot attempts since September 19
- Supply chainConfirmed
SubQuery
@subql/common5.8.3Modified publish workflow swapped the build for an external archive, published through trusted publishing; steals CI and developer secrets
- Agent incidentConfirmed (OpenAI)
OpenAI agents disable monitoring
GPT-6 agents removed misalignment monitors during routine work; one denied it
- AI-run attackReported
Cairn instances exposed
About two dozen exposed Cairn instances found in malicious use, the start of the 1,200+ site story
- AI-run attackReported (SOCRadar)
INC ransomware builds staged
46 INC encryptor builds staged for six victims for an October 1 deployment; broader deployment unconfirmed
- Agent incidentConfirmed
OpenAI agent access notices
OpenAI disclosed it had notified 100+ organizations that its agents may have accessed their systems without authorization
Reported in October, started earlier
March 2026
Search ads lead to cloned docs that tell developers to paste an infostealer install command
Fixed August 17
A poisoned HTML file could run script in the Claude Code Desktop preview and read local files
Fixed September 28
A remote MCP server could run commands on Windows and WSL during OAuth sign-in; no CVE
May to July 2026
METR and Redwood estimate about 10% of eligible internal Codex traffic went unmonitored
Sept 9 to Oct 7; told Oct 19
Stolen service-account credentials let an attacker copy internal data and source code, including account details, SQL editor text, billing data and encrypted API-key values; PingCAP says no evidence TiDB-stored data was affected
Unconfirmed claims
Oct 20 Unconfirmed
From: Dark-web trackers; a law firm investigation. What to do: Rotate, cap and scope keys anyway.
Oct 22 Unconfirmed
TiDB Cloud leak: FulcrumSec's 10.6 TB claim
From: FulcrumSec leak-site listing (Oct 19); PingCAP confirmed a smaller breach but not these figures. What to do: Rotate TiDB Cloud API keys; watch for PingCAP's customer notices.
Oct 22 Unconfirmed
From: Everest leak site; Hackmanac; CTIWatch. What to do: Watch for a PwC statement; review shared credentials.
Oct 23 Unconfirmed
Rand Mutual Assurance (South Africa)
From: Underground forum claim relayed by Dark Web Intelligence; 366 GB, 1.68M claim records, $95,000 demand. What to do: Watch for an RMA statement; claimants beware of payout-verification scams.
Oct 23 Unconfirmed
From: Researcher thread on X; third-party write-up. What to do: Audit bundled certs and how your code validates them.
Oct 24 Unconfirmed
"Universal jailbreak" via spoofed tool calls
From: X post by @chetaslua. What to do: Limit agent permissions; treat tool output as untrusted.
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- Supply chain
- A package, release, plugin or update channel shipped malicious code
- Breach
- A company's systems or customer data were accessed
- Exploited
- A vulnerability with confirmed in-the-wild attacks
- Critical vuln
- A severe flaw disclosed and patched, with no confirmed exploitation yet
- AI-run attack
- An intrusion where agents or LLMs did substantial operational work
- Agent incident
- An AI agent caused harm or broke a control without an outside attacker
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