The Hack Sheet #004
Thursday, October 29, 2026 · 9 stories
Security PHP2Shell attackers rooted 25 servers, including 3 tied to US government
A suspected China-nexus actor chained the PHP2Shell flaws (CVE-2026-109618/109619, CVSS 9.2) with the Fragnesia kernel bug (CVE-2026-46300, CISA KEV deadline Oct 31) on exposed Palo Alto management interfaces. Update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35 and lock down management access. CISA guidance: cisa.gov.
source: thehackernews.com
Security Cisco SD-WAN CVSS 10 auth bypass used to plant key-stealing KeyDrift malware
Talos says attackers abused CVE-2026-20127 to install KeyDrift, which steals the encryption keys protecting traffic between sites. Upgrade SD-WAN controllers and restrict access to ports 22 and 830.
source: thehackernews.com
Security Sony's Japanese ISP So-net loses 2.6 million customer records
The Oct 19 breach, spotted Oct 23, exposed names, birth dates, phone numbers and emails, plus about 54K email passwords and 16 bank records. So-net is forcing password resets; customers should watch for phishing.
source: securityweek.com
IT Palo Alto: Brotli bug hits PAN-OS with Brotli inspection and TLS decryption on
CVE-2026-111497 (CVSS 9.2) also affects the Prisma Cloud AST client. Workarounds are available and Palo Alto reports no known exploitation of its products yet.
source: cybersecuritynews.com
Crypto zkLink Nova bridge drained of about $783K with forged proofs
A public relayer plus an Arbitrator hash that was never cleared let the attacker post a fake root to the L1 escrow and withdraw funds.
source: hacked.slowmist.io
Crypto Avalanche TranchePool drained of $1.01M USDC at the UTC rollover
A settlement flaw at the daily rollover, combined with a flash loan, allowed a double withdrawal from the Fence Finance / Valinor Digital / Oatfi pool. Nothing has been recovered.
source: blockfence.io
Crypto Hifi Finance DAO hijacked through a late-voted malicious proposal
A Tornado-funded attacker pushed Proposal 21 through with late votes, upgraded the BalanceSheet contract, minted 25M HIFI and drained about $1M in collateral. It follows a similar governance takeover at X100.
source: hacked.slowmist.io
Crypto Keystone pulls hardware wallets after factory authentication key is stolen
Counterfeit devices could now pass as genuine, and 25,964 customer records were exposed. Buy hardware wallets only direct from the maker and verify them before use.
source: coinarticle.com
Gaming Bandai Namco: about 346K GUNDAM base members exposed via email vendor
Emails and internal IDs leaked through third-party mailer YmirLink. No passwords or payment data were involved, but expect GUNDAM-themed phishing.
source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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