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CyberStrikeAI Uses 44 AI Agents to Automate Hacking Operations Against Japan Targets
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three exp
27-10-2026 23:56

GoAhead TLS Flaws Allow Revoked Client Certificates and Enable Session Decryption
The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the Open
27-10-2026 19:29

Apple Backports Fix for Exploited CoreGraphics Flaw to Older iPhones and iPads
Apple on Monday backported fixes for a high-severity security flaw that was exploited in real-world cyber attacks to older devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (CVSS score: 8.8), is an out-of-bounds write affecting CoreGraphics that cou
27-10-2026 19:29

Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Let Permissionless Android Apps Steal Work Account Tokens
Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim's work account. Microsoft tracks the flaw as CVE-20
27-10-2026 17:39

Keystone to Destroy 18,835 Hardware Wallets After Hackers Steal Device Verification Key
An attacker who gained access to Keystone's website obtained the key that its hardware wallets use to prove they are genuine, the company said in a statement on October 26. Someone with that key could build counterfeit devices that pass the on
27-10-2026 17:16

AI-Generated Fake Login Pages Are Making Account Takeovers Easier
Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. 
27-10-2026 17:02

Lazarus Abuses South Korean Security Software to Deploy Malware Using Post-Quantum Encryption
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturing se
27-10-2026 17:02

Tailscale Rushes Patches After Uncoordinated Disclosure of ‘Tailworm’ Flaws
Tailscale is preparing a patch for Tailscale SSH flaws whose details went public over the weekend, before any fixes had been released. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 15:26

Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers
A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's op
27-10-2026 15:03

OpenAI Compaction Flaw Let Researchers Bypass Hidden Reasoning Protections
OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem befor
27-10-2026 13:52

Vendor Key Leak Puts Data of 238,000 Denver Health Plan Members at Risk
A leaked SquareML access key could have been used to access a database containing personal and health information. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 13:30

HPE Patches Dozens of Critical Flaws in Networking Products
Eight max-severity security defects could lead to remote code execution and authentication bypass. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 13:13

Attackers Hijack Dahua IP Cameras in Ukraine Using P2P Access and Auth Weaknesses
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua. "Cases of compromising IP cameras and DVRs with access to the video stream, changing
27-10-2026 12:04

Unexplained DreamHost Incident Prompts Email, FTP Password Resets
The company says it reacted to an issue affecting some of its systems, including DreamHost webmail. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 12:02

Apple Just Patched 163 iPhone Security Flaws — Here’s What Was at Risk
Apple's iOS 27.2 fixes 163 security vulnerabilities, including WebKit and privacy flaws. IT teams should review updates across managed devices. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 11:52

iOS, macOS 27.2 Patch 286 Bugs; Fix for Exploited Flaw Backported to iOS 18
Apple patched 286 vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS 27.2 and brought the fix for an exploited CoreGraphics zero-day to older iPhones. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 11:49

Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI
Anthropic presents its own initial public offering as a step toward mitigating the risks it believes AI poses. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 10:44

New US China Investment Proposal Could Reshape AI, Biotech and Chip Funding
The US Treasury proposes tighter China investment restrictions covering AI, biotechnology and advanced chips. Here's what businesses and investors should know. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 10:38

CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2
27-10-2026 10:07

This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal
Keep your patch management pipelines primed in case another round of Citrix NetScaler patches get released soon. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 10:02

Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover
Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 09:44

Maritime Coalition Launches Free Vulnerability Database for Ship and Port Systems
Blue Initiative indexes nearly 30,000 IT and OT vulnerabilities relevant to ships and ports, 37 of them in maritime-specific products. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 07:14

Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics
The University of New Mexico Health System told people not to show up at its main hospital in Albuquerque and canceled appointments at more than 30 clinics. The post appeared first on .
27-10-2026 01:30

Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on Magento
An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small piece of code
26-10-2026 23:42

PHP Issues Second Windows Security Update in Five Days to Fix Brotli Code Execution Flaw
PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP says the flaw can
26-10-2026 23:15

Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver
26-10-2026 21:22

Anthropic Files for Potentially the Biggest IPO Ever as CEO Warns of Risk to Humanity From AI
A string of hacking incidents by rogue AI agents also has raised fears the technology will slip free of human control to carry out harmful, life-threatening tasks. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 20:20

⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and securit
26-10-2026 19:36

Two Critical Wasmtime Flaws Could Let Malicious WebAssembly Modules Escape Sandboxes
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vuln
26-10-2026 17:22

Between alerts: What Attackers Do in the Spaces Ordinary Detection Misses
Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one timeline, and it fee
26-10-2026 16:53

uCreator Android Spyware Can Steal Telegram 2FA Passwords and Clone WeChat Accounts
A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread outside the off
26-10-2026 15:24

Industrial Vendors Check Products for PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities
Siemens, Schneider Electric, ABB and others have confirmed that some of their products are affected by the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 14:52

Genesys Hack Exposes Customer Data From Internal Systems
The Genesys Cloud, Genesys Engage, and Genesys Engage Cloud platforms were not affected. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 14:40

Stolen AI Reasoning Could Help China Build Cheaper Rivals
Xint says a flaw in OpenAI’s compaction process let researchers move reasoning traces between models, potentially making it cheaper to distill a rival AI. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 14:30

Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79 organizations. H
26-10-2026 14:05

PHP2Shell Exploitation Moves From Probes to Working Shells 
Attackers successfully exploited the PHP2Shell flaws against honeypots, launching 35 shells from two IP addresses on October 24. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 13:30

PHP2Shell: What to know about two critical PHP flaws
Here's the lowdown on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little more than two minutes
26-10-2026 13:25

Gheist Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Steal Private Repository Secrets via Actions Logs
An automated campaign is using stolen GitHub tokens to plant workflows that print a repository's secrets into its GitHub Actions logs, which the attackers then download before deleting the runs. The attacks have succeeded in private repositories and GitH
26-10-2026 13:19

Your Older Android Phone Is Getting a New Scam Defense — Here’s What Google Changed
Google is extending scam-call protection to Android 15 and earlier, adding safeguards against malicious apps that abuse accessibility permissions. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 12:52

953 Online Stores Infected in Long-Lasting Malware Campaign
Small loader code injected into the stores served a payload to visitors or did nothing to avoid detection. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 12:46

Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank Accounts
The individuals called victims and persuaded them to install an app and scan their credit cards to loot their bank accounts. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 11:47

Malicious File in Downloads Folder Tries to Trick AI Coding Agent Into Installing Malware
A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the attem
26-10-2026 11:33

Node2Shell: Brotli Flaw Triggers Patching Across Microsoft, Node.js, Python Packages
An out-of-bounds write in Google’s Brotli decoder affects Node.js, .NET, PowerShell, and Python packages, and can lead to code execution. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 10:21

Mythos 5 Ignored Real-World Harm in July Attack
The model engaged in severe overreach and dishonesty, creating fake identities and submitting malicious code on GitHub. The post appeared first on .
26-10-2026 09:10

Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers
A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forw
25-10-2026 23:14

PHP2Shell Exploitation Attempts Continue Amid Suspected N. Korea Global Scanning Activity
In an update, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it's retracting its earlier assessment that the post-compromise activity targeting the European government agency involved the exploitation of the PHP2Shell flaws. "What researchers saw was an attack against
25-10-2026 22:49

PHP2Shell Exploitation Hits Government Entity Amid Global Scanning and Signs of AI-Assisted Hacking
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. "In one case, the attackers targete
25-10-2026 22:49

OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication
OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment research, moni
25-10-2026 12:24

Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave
Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks. The post appeared first on .
25-10-2026 11:00

Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as C
24-10-2026 16:39

Leaked LiteLLM Master Key Let Attackers Steal GitHub Tokens and Hijack Release Pipeline
LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a configu
24-10-2026 16:33

Google Says Gmail and Photos Data Shared With AI Search Could Be Used for Targeted Ads
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "You
24-10-2026 16:06

Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The update
24-10-2026 14:34

CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Critical Flaws in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing reports of a
24-10-2026 11:55

BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in ear
24-10-2026 00:20

Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specia
23-10-2026 23:24

Exposed Infrastructure Reveals How Ransomware Affiliates Used AI Agents to Execute Intrusions
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to
23-10-2026 23:20

Hackers Breach Enterprise Firewalls and VPNs, Exposing Over 70,000 Credentials
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate that op
23-10-2026 19:20

PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Risk Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches
PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an unusual way, an
23-10-2026 16:55

Russia-Linked Hackers Used New Mesh Network Backdoor in Destructive Ukraine Attack
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) obtain
23-10-2026 16:41

Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image
Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens
23-10-2026 15:06

In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia’s APT28 hit NATO defense firms, PingCAP source code stolen, ShinyHunters negotiator probe. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 14:23

Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data
Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linu
23-10-2026 14:10

Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which s
23-10-2026 14:05

PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previou
23-10-2026 13:10

Mirai Botnet Operators Join PHP2Shell Attacks as ASLR Bypass Exploits Emerge
Researchers tie PHP2Shell attempts to a Mirai botnet and show an ASLR bypass, but no successful compromise has been confirmed yet. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 12:45

China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks
The state-sponsored hackers targeted hundreds of organizations and gained privileged access to some environments. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 10:31

Attackers Exploit Third Arista VCO Zero-Day in Four Months
The critical-severity SQL injection flaw allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality and gain operator privileges. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 09:58

Attackers Exploit Third VeloCloud Orchestrator Zero-Day in Four Months
The critical-severity SQL injection flaw allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality and gain operator privileges. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 09:58

11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach
The hackers stole 11 million email addresses from CAPCOM ID and changed the login passwords for 196 accounts. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 08:34

Quest Diagnostics Data Breach Exposed ‘Certain Patient Records’
In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 08:25

Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’
In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 08:25

LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack
Hackers used compromised GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push and approve malicious packages on PyPI and Docker. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 08:10

Atlassian Patches 75 Flaws in Data Center and Server Products
Atlassian’s October bulletin lists 176 vulnerability entries, including 14 critical-severity issues, all in third-party components. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 07:54

Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016
After a three-month lull, Prince of Persia hid a Tornado C&C server on US shared hosting, its first US-based server since 2016. The post appeared first on .
23-10-2026 06:39

The AI Agent Nobody Owns: Watch Expert Webinar On Your Newest Insider Threat
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an em
23-10-2026 00:35

Arista Warns of Critical VeloCloud SQL Injection Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can
23-10-2026 00:35

eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Business After 8 Intermediate CA Keys Found Easily Guessable
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its i
22-10-2026 23:42

ThreatsDay: AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal
22-10-2026 23:15

Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes
Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can
22-10-2026 22:31

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations
Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple r
22-10-2026 21:42

Zoomtopia 2026: Zoom Introduces AI Agents, New Security Controls
Zoom unveils AI agents and its Unified Context Layer at Zoomtopia 2026. Learn how its new automation and security tools could affect IT teams. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 20:50

INTERPOL Arrests 1,462 Suspects, Disrupts 10,909 Cybercrime Networks in Global Crackdown
INTERPOL on Thursday announced that a coordinated law enforcement action has disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. In tandem, the effort saw law enforcement agencies from 21 countries arrest 1,462 sus
22-10-2026 19:08

The AI Agent Nobody Owns: Watch Expert Webinar On Your Newest Insider Threat
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an em
22-10-2026 17:15

Railway Says Intruder May Have Accessed Customer Secrets, Urges Credential Rotation
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables. Upon further investigation, the company found that an unauthorized third party may have gained access
22-10-2026 16:45

OpenCode Flaw Lets Malicious MCP Servers Execute Code During Sign-In on Windows and WSL
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add outside tools, and such c
22-10-2026 16:14

ChatGPT Locked Chats Explained: How to Use It and What to Know
ChatGPT now lets users lock private conversations with a PIN or biometrics. Learn how Locked Chats works, its limitations, and the risks of resetting a PIN. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 14:56

Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit
Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 14:31

LiteLLM Suspects GitHub Token Leak in AI Gateway Logs Behind Malicious Package Release
LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM's release pipeline was
22-10-2026 13:58

Node.js Brotli Decoder Bug Could Allow Remote Code Execution in All Supported Versions
Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression code that Node.js bundles, which the project says can allow remot
22-10-2026 13:17

Indurex Raises $8 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Platform
The Amsterdam-based company plans to use the funding for research and development and commercial expansion in Europe and the Middle East. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 13:00

Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups
Affecting the open source calling library RingRTC, the bug prevented calls from ending properly. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 12:34

Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities
Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 12:20

New QPACK Flaws Can Crash HTTP/3 Servers, Trigger Up to 4,000-Fold Memory Amplification
A remote attacker who has not logged in can crash many HTTP/3 web servers with a single connection, security firm FoxIO disclosed, releasing working proof-of-concept code. By sending a small batch of compressed HTTP headers that expands in memory t
22-10-2026 12:08

Someone Tried to Exploit PHP2Shell 4 Days Before the Vulnerabilities Were Publicly Disclosed
Amazon's Threat Intelligence team on Wednesday said it detected an attempt to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities dating back to October 17, 2026, against its MadPot honeypot service, as the flaws come under broad exploitation in the wi
22-10-2026 12:04

How to choose the right CTI tools for your business
Get to know the ins and outs of cyber threat intelligence and how your company's security can be can be strengthened by putting threat intelligence into place. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 11:16

Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates
Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 10:45

Cisco Patches 34 Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Products
Critical-severity security defects could lead to command execution, authentication bypass, and XSS attacks. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 10:05

China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack
Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the incident, Storm-0940 used ARTEX, a Go-based agentic AI penetration
22-10-2026 09:51

PHP2Shell Exploitation Started Days Before Patches
Initial attempts were observed on October 17, and mass activity began shortly after patches were released. The post appeared first on .
22-10-2026 09:48

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