Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday

Dark Reading’s October 2026 roundup covers active exploitation of critical SonicWall SMA SSRF vulnerabilities, a major Microsoft Patch Tuesday containing zero-days and unauthenticated remote-code-execution flaws, phishing and cyber-espionage campaigns linked to North Korean, Russian, and Chinese actors, ransomware and cybercrime disruptions, and emerging risks from AI agents, ClickFix techniques, IoT malware, cloud environments, and identity compromise. The feed includes both actionable threat intelligence and broader cybersecurity strategy, policy, and industry coverage.