October 2026 Patch Tuesday: 1,413 CVEs Include Three Zero-Days and 75 Critical Vulnerabilities
2026-10-15T07:23:27Z•e7bd29a2931a5fa73b0a8782276fe7d693b5e102b3b89630ddfc8eff96d1c096
AI-driven attackARTEXCVEFAMOUS CHOLLIMALLM securityNorth KoreaPatch TuesdaySIEMSouth Koreacloud securitycritical infrastructurecritical vulnerabilitiesendpoint securityfinancial sectorstate-sponsored threatzero-day
What happened
CrowdStrike’s October 2026 blog feed highlights Microsoft Patch Tuesday reporting covering 1,413 CVEs, including three zero-days and 75 critical vulnerabilities; a U.S. government disruption of the FAMOUS CHOLLIMA operation; AI-enabled targeting of South Korean financial organizations using ARTEX; research on bypassing LLM safety classifiers; and security product and critical-infrastructure defense updates.
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