October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1,413 CVEs Include Three Zero-Days and 75 Critical Vulnerabilities

2026-10-18T07:23:28Z•2544fc72b1a92da17e8999ef3185de2658e9a0b23359c6101449531479066f77
AI-driven cyber threatsARTEXFAMOUS CHOLLIMALLM securityMicrosoft 365North Korea-linked threat activityPatch TuesdaySIEMSouth Koreacloud securitycritical vulnerabilitiesfederal cybersecurityfinancial sectorsafety classifier evasionvulnerability managementzero-day

What happened

CrowdStrike’s October 2026 blog feed covers Patch Tuesday vulnerabilities, including 1,413 CVEs, three zero-days, and 75 critical issues; disruption of the FAMOUS CHOLLIMA operation; AI-enabled threats targeting South Korean financial organizations; LLM safety-classifier evasion; and cybersecurity product, cloud security, data protection, and federal SOC modernization updates. The feed contains vulnerability intelligence and active-threat reporting, but no specific CVE identifiers are provided in the document.

Why it matters

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