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October 21, 2026

sanitised. IoT & ICS/OT Daily Briefing: 21 Oct 2026

sanitised. IoT & ICS/OT Daily Briefing · Wednesday 21 October 2026

Today in IoT & ICS/OT
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Accenture, Dragos, SANS Launch $10M Initiative to Defend Small US Utilities
SecurityWeek
AI tools connected to Google Workspace can access millions of sensitive emails and files. Join this session to uncover your organization’s risk and learn a framework to manage AI access. Join as we bring together CISOs, senior cybersecurity executives, practitioners, industry experts, and other security leaders to shar…
IoT & Hardware
Hackers take control of school cameras, locks, and HVAC, shutting down entire Idaho school district
Cybernews
Ransomware attackers hacked an Idaho school district last weekend, taking control of school cameras, electronic locks, and heating systems – forcing district officials to shut down all schools for two days. The district first became aware of the attack on October 17th after teachers began reporting issues with the netw…
IoT & Hardware
[0day-rubbish] TRENDnet TV-IP302PI firmware 1.02.38 authenticated NTP server-address OS command injection to root command execution via a shell-form system() call (7.2 High, PR:H)
Full Disclosure
Posted by disclosure via Fulldisclosure on Oct 200day Rubbish Research Team is publicly disclosing a vulnerability in TRENDnet TV-IP302PI firmware 1.02.38, the closed-source IP surveillance camera from TRENDnet (United States). The camera's application daemon is shipped at /hunt/hunt_server: an ARM 32-bit EABI5 version…
IoT & Hardware
[0day-rubbish] ProSoft Technology RLX-IFH24E v2.2.44 unsigned firmware upgrade package to root command execution and full account-database overwrite (7.2)
Full Disclosure
Posted by disclosure via Fulldisclosure on Oct 200day Rubbish Research Team is publicly disclosing a vulnerability in the ProSoft RLX-IFH24E, version v2.2.44, the industrial wireless radio from ProSoft Technology, Inc. (United States). The appliance is a closed-source embedded device and an OEM build of the MicroHard S…
IoT & Hardware
[0day-rubbish] Edimax BR-6478AC firmware v2.20 authenticated command injection in the formWlanMP manufacturing-test handler, root command execution (7.2)
Full Disclosure
Posted by disclosure via Fulldisclosure on Oct 200day Rubbish Research Team is publicly disclosing a vulnerability in the Edimax BR-6478AC, firmware image BR6478AC_v2.20.bin, the dual-band AC1750 SOHO wireless router from Edimax Technology Co., Ltd. (Taiwan). A single authenticated POST to a manufacturing radio-calibra…
IoT & Hardware
3 Ways Threat Intelligence Makes Life Easier for American SOC Analysts
Cyber Security News
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a good time to rethink how SOC analysts detect and investigate threats, draw conclusions from the first three quarters of 2026, and see how exactly your daily workflows could be improved. One important takeaway is that visibility into your company’s internal environment alone i…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Upstream oil and gas: Securing operations across distance, remoteness and harsh environments
Industrial Cyber
Upstream oil and gas production is often determined by distance, with wellheads, gathering systems and offshore platforms relying on satellite, cellular and radio links. These operations are usually run by a crew and sometimes by no one at all. The interconnections add the communication pathway to the attack surface. T…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
AppGate gives OT supervisors live monitoring and session termination controls
Help Net Security
AppGate has expanded its zero trust offering for operational technology (OT) with Session Governance capabilities that help critical infrastructure operators reduce third-party access risk, simplify compliance audits and protect operational uptime. The expansion builds on the ZTNA for OT offering AppGate introduced in …
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Booz Allen warns frontier AI models can exploit OT pathways, manipulate controllers and move robotic equipment
Industrial Cyber
Frontier artificial intelligence models, given limited human direction, achieved all eight objectives in controlled tests of an industrial environment, showing they can turn digital access into physical action, Booz Allen Hamilton disclosed in its latest report. In testing at the company’s OT (operational technology) c…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Tactien Group launches CAST platform for independent counter-drone system testing at critical infrastructure sites
Industrial Cyber
The Tactien Group, an independent aviation advisory firm for critical infrastructure, announced CAST (Counter-UXS Assessment & System Testing), the software platform its advisory team uses to plan, run, and score counter-drone evaluations in customers’ environments. End-users get a measured answer on which detection sy…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
ISA/IEC standards require integrated safety and cybersecurity for industrial control systems, OT-Knight’s Barreto Jijón says
Industrial Cyber
A new post published on ISASecure highlighted need for industrial asset owners to integrate functional safety and operational technology (OT) cybersecurity into a single lifecycle, arguing that the two disciplines address interconnected risks within the same industrial control systems. Rafael Barreto Jijón, managing di…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Advantech and DEKRA target industrial cybersecurity gaps as EU Cyber Resilience Act implementation advances
Industrial Cyber
As the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enters its implementation phase, cybersecurity compliance is becoming an increasingly important requirement for industrial equipment and Edge AI products entering global markets. Advantech announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with DEKRA. By comb…
Also in security today
Vulnerabilities & Exploits
Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
The Hacker News · also reported by DataBreaches.net
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN co…

CVE-2026-0257
Cloud & Identity
Revolut Outage Disrupts Payments and Banking Services as Google Cloud Reports London Issues
Cyber Security News · also reported by Security Affairs
Revolut suffered a major service outage on Tuesday, October 20, 2026, disrupting payments, cash withdrawals, and access to its banking app. The digital bank said customer money and data remained safe while engineers worked to restore affected services. The disruption came as Google Cloud reported problems in its London…
Malware & Tooling
Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
The Hacker News · also reported by Cyber Security News
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider say…
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