Government Cybersecurity Weekly Intelligence Brief — week ending 2026-11-02
43 stories reviewed · 9 critical · 5 newly exploited vulnerabilities
Summary
43 stories affecting government tracked in the last seven days, 9 rated critical, 5 vulnerabilities added to the CISA Known Exploited catalogue.
Leading items
- VMware security advisory (AV26-763) – Update 2 — Canadian Centre for Cyber Security
- CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV — The Hacker News
- Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access — The Hacker News
This edition covers government only. Newly exploited vulnerabilities appear here when they were reported in coverage of this industry; the general weekly brief carries the full CISA catalogue for the same period.
Every item below links to its original source. Times are UTC.
Technical analysis
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