Synology has been scrambling to fix the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities since the PHP developers released emergency security patches on October 21, and the company confirmed that a number of its NAS packages were affected. Now the story has taken a twist, as Synology reports that attackers are exploiting the flaws, and the US cybersecurity agency CISA has added them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Synology is now extending security fixes to older DiskStation Manager (DSM) versions, following the discovery of a separate ransomware campaign targeting outdated NAS systems.

For the past few years, Mistral has tried to carve itself a name as Europe’s answer to Silicon Valley’s AI giants, moving from smaller, open models to heavyweight systems like Mistral Large 3 in late 2025. After raising €3 billion in September 2026, the French start-up has doubled down on its ambition to compete with leading US and Chinese AI developers. Now, the company is trying again to take on the AI behemoths with Mistral Large 4, a massive open-weight model built for coding, complex reasoning, image analysis, and business automation.