This cybersecurity brief for October 26, 2025, covers several critical global incidents. A severe, actively exploited remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2025-59287) in Microsoft's WSUS has prompted an emergency out-of-band patch, with CISA mandating immediate action. In a massive supply chain attack, Dublin Airport disclosed a data breach affecting 3.8 million passengers after a third-party provider, Collins Aerospace, was compromised by ransomware. Meanwhile, a DDoS attack on Russia's food safety agency crippled national supply chains, the Safepay ransomware group targeted a German video surveillance firm, and dozens of nations signed a landmark, albeit controversial, UN cybercrime treaty in Hanoi.
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