What's happening in security.
The latest breaches, malware, and privacy stories from BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Krebs on Security, and Malwarebytes Labs — short excerpts, always linking back to the original source. Last refreshed 20 Oct 2026 · 14:29.
DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. [...]
CJIS v6.1 Compliance: 5 Practical Priorities for Agencies
CJIS v6.1 requires agencies to maintain strong authentication, account security, and audit controls while demonstrating ongoing compliance. Specops outlines five practical priorities covering MFA, account management, passwords, logging,...
Hacker gets 8 years for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers
A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. [...]
Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector's iPhone Days Before Election
The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2026, the Citizen Lab said on October 19. The finding came...
Google may add your number to all your accounts: How to stop it
Android users report that Google automatically added their phone number to accounts they wanted to keep separate. Here’s how to check yours.
Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery
Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. [...]
WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators
WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy polic...
What Security Teams Can Do To Tame Wild Code
A sales manager builds an AI-assisted workflow to route leads. It connects to customer records, summarizes inbound requests, and posts updates to a shared channel. The workflow saves time, reduces manual work, and soon becomes part of th...
Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns
Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go's certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate certificate authority keys. Programs built on the new release will refuse connect...
OVHcloud CLI releases backdoored on GitHub to steal developer secrets
French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. [...]
Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States. [...]
Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Symantec Th...
ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident
ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that...
Meta glasses caught recording conversations without wake phrase
Owners reported unexpected recordings of private conversations, but Meta hasn’t explained what went wrong or what happened to the audio.
Revolut outage disrupts online banking operations worldwide
Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. [...]
Man seeking love travels 2,000 km to meet an AI-generated woman
An influencer’s invitation to join her on a farm shows how public videos can feel dangerously personal.
Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
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 s...
ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan
Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an...
Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge
A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive sec...
Hackers Use New ROMULUS ClickFix Platform to Deliver LegionLoader and Other Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that's being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research - Vedere Labs, ROMULUS is akin to a malware de...
Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed
Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records. [...]
WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites
Some downloads of the Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin from the vendor's official website carried malware that planted hidden backdoors in a supply-chain attack last week. [...]
Hackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware
Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original state to hide the atta...
Bullhorn takes staffing platform offline to contain cyberattack
Staffing software company Bullhorn has disabled access to its platform to contain a cyberattack that caused a system-wide outage. [...]
Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor
Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the o...
OpenCode hack exposes API keys amid AI distillation attacks
The open-source AI coding project OpenCode has notified a small number of users that API keys they used with external providers were exposed in a security breach. [...]
Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor
Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math...
Microsoft fixes game, app crashes caused by recent Windows update
Microsoft has resolved a bug that caused games and apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding to crash after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 preview update (KB5124010). [...]
AOMEI Backupper update servers hijacked to push malware: Check your PC
Attackers tampered with AOMEI Backupper’s update system to deliver malware that could give them remote access to users’ PCs.
⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done...
Inside the Underground Market for Know Your Client Services
Cybercriminals are selling forged identity documents, deepfake videos, and live verification services to help buyers bypass Know Your Client (KYC) checks. Flare examines how these underground services operate and the techniques used to c...
F5 releases out-of-band patches for critical NGINX vulnerabilities
F5 has released out-of-band security patches to address multiple NGINX web server flaws, including three critical-severity vulnerabilities that can let attackers execute code on vulnerable systems. [...]
Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations w...
GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake...
Microsoft fixes classic Outlook bug that hid Copilot buttons
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that removed the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons in the classic Outlook desktop mail client for some Windows users. [...]
A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (Lock and Code S07E21)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with John DeMay about a sextortion plot that targeted his son on the night of his suicide.
From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software
In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent's prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inboun...
Millions of California students’ sensitive data stolen in breach
The California Department of Education notified students about a data breach at contractor Educational Testing Service.
Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude a...
Microsoft: October Windows Server updates break Exchange sign-in, mail flow
Microsoft has confirmed that this month's Windows Server security updates are causing OWA sign-in and mail delivery issues on some Exchange Server systems. [...]
A week in security (October 12 – October 18)
A list of topics we covered in the week of October 12 to October 18 of 2026
Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers
A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He sh...
OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a...
Hackers exploit SiteGuard WAF flaw to run commands as admins
Attackers are targeting an OS command injection vulnerability in SiteGuard Server Edition that lets them execute commands as root or SYSTEM on affected servers. [...]
ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants
ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compro...
Hackers breach Microsoft 365 tenants via ConnectWise supply-chain attack
ConnectWise has shut down customer access to its Cloud Backup service (formerly SkyKick Cloud Backup) after hackers accessed application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. [...]
Drupal patches critical RCE flaws, warns exploits may emerge soon
Drupal has patched two critical vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to execute code remotely on websites running any supported version of the content management system. [...]
MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September...
Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unau...
Critical BlockStrap flaw lets hackers run code on Magento servers
Researchers warn that hackers could soon exploit a maximum-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-103849) affecting Magento and Adobe Commerce, potentially allowing them to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers. [...]
Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP ha...
Targeted ads installed Candiru spyware in zero-click attacks
Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. [...]
Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked...
UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (...
Eiliko robot companion exposes private chats and can be hijacked
A researcher found serious flaws in Eiliko’s security, exposing private conversations and allowing remote changes to what the robot says.
OpenAI Research Model Spent 3rd-Party Test ETH Without Permission to Deploy Smart Contract
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocu...
Employees using personal ChatGPT at work? Here's what IT admins need to do
Employees using personal ChatGPT accounts at work can expose sensitive company data, even when their organization provides an approved Enterprise workspace. NordLayer explains how IT teams can investigate unauthorized AI use and block se...
Burger King Japan data breach exposes 11 million customer records
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. [...]
“Spray and pray” job applications could make it harder for you to spot a scam
Sending out lots of job applications without keeping track could make a scammer’s message look like a reply you’ve been waiting for.
AI Decision Models and Their Impact on AI SOC Platforms
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman's fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own De...
OpenAI sued over children safety and data use
Eight US states and a mother of two accuse the ChatGPT maker of putting children’s safety and privacy at risk.
Microsoft: October Windows update may break Smart App Control
Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month's KB5127648 Windows 11 security update. [...]
BAE Systems cyberattack disrupts US federal court operations
The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy courts. [...]
China-Linked Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Take Over Remote Support Servers
The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerabil...
CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testing
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned...
BeyondTrust patches zero-day exploited in attacks since August
BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. [...]
PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessions
A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-616...
Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. [...]
Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. T...
Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls
Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. [...]
ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More
Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small per...
Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth
A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. [...]
Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges
A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. [...]
Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads
Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thu...
Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involv...
Update Chrome: Google fixes 37 security flaws, including seven critical bugs
Some flaws could let attackers run malicious code on your device through a crafted webpage.
Help TDS Linked to Hotejka as 20,000+ Cloudflare Pages Domains Host Tech Support Scams
A long-running Traffic Distribution System (TDS) known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka, which appears to be a rebrand of a traffic monetization operation dubbed ROI777. Help TDS is assessed to be active...
Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester?
AI pentesting can uncover vulnerabilities missed by human testers, but it also has limitations in consistency, risk assessment, and understanding business context. Intruder compares the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and exp...
Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support
Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031. [...]
NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks
NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or...
Is this link safe? Find out with Malwarebytes Scam Link Check
Not sure if a link is safe? Malwarebytes Scam Link Check scans suspicious links for signs of phishing, scams, malware, and other online threats before you click.
Next.js Ships Out-of-Band Patch for Two Critical RCE Flaws in Caching and SVG Processing
Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Com...
Drupal Patches Critical Field UI Flaw With Unauthenticated RCE Path via Contributed Modules
Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site's server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19. An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core...
Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action
Law enforcement authorities from 17 countries in Latin America and Europe have arrested 95 suspects in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) through online messaging groups. [...]
Sextortion “help” firm took $60 million from victims, FTC alleges
The FTC accuses Digital Forensics Corporation and affiliated companies of exploiting people seeking help with intimate-image blackmail.
Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The cam...
Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code executio...
Raven AI lets cops find your home from a photo taken inside
Removing location data may not keep your home private. An AI tool used by law enforcement can match indoor photos to property listings.
Why AI Confidence Is Not Validation
AI is already part of digital forensics and incident response work, with or without a policy in place to govern it. The issue is that these tools are growing more confident in their own output faster than practitioners are developing rel...
India Mandates Registered Caller Name Display on 4G and Newer Networks From November 1
The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers' registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identi...
Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing black screens, desktop loading issues, and Explorer crashes after installing Windows 11 updates released since August. [...]
GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories
The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted fr...
UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978
The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978. [...]
Langflow's Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts
Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows....
AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches
Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-...
Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. [...]
FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group's operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. [...]
Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting New Critical Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance's operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted a...
Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack
Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tamperi...
Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10....
Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks
Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. [...]
Microsoft Disrupts 3 Phishing Kits Linked to Over 1 Billion Scam Messages
Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kit...
AI worms could spread across your smart devices, Anthropic warns
Researchers say small AI models could be capable of spreading across vulnerable smart devices within months.
U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a m...
Microsoft fixes VPN issues caused by September Windows updates
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. [...]
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering
The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime ser...
The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them
AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested. Picus Security explains how combining agentic pentesting with exposure valid...
Global takedown hits network behind 1 billion phishing messages
A massive cybercriminal ecosystem facilitating more than a billion malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organizations across 150 countries has been disrupted by law enforcement agencies and partners worldwide. [...]
CISA warns admins to immediately fix Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged security teams to immediately patch an Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) flaw exploited in zero-day attacks since at least October 1st. [...]
CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosu...
curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution
A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on...
How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team
Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at...
Hirudo Android malware replaces banking apps to evade security checks
A new Android malware called Hirudo steals bank account credentials by replacing legitimate banking apps with modified versions that disable security checks. [...]
Update Windows: Record Patch Tuesday fixes flaw already under attack
Microsoft’s October updates address a record 1,413 vulnerabilities, including a Windows flaw attackers are already exploiting and two other zero-days.
Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by d...
Fake Calendly “Meta Careers” pages steal Facebook and Google logins
An interview invitation becomes a trap for your Facebook and Google passwords, even with two-factor authentication turned on.
Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app its...
An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.
The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major in...
Microsoft: Recent Windows updates may trigger Remote Desktop failures
Microsoft has confirmed that non-admin users may be unable to connect to devices via Remote Desktop after installing recent Windows updates if the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]
Police receive fake murder tip from Anthropic’s Claude AI
Anthropic’s Claude submitted a made-up tip about an unsolved murder during testing.
AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host
A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's mem...
Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave
Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an isolated slice of memory the operating...
Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug
Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61...
OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room
A Saudi national and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations. Abdulrahman Alf...
Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today's epic patch batch dwarfs September's record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten tim...
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. [...]
Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. [...]
Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data center...
Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. [...]
Microsoft: Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro reached end of support
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates. [...]
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said s...
UK Housing Ombudsman Service investigates 'security incident'
The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday. [...]
Docker Fixes Critical Two-Year-Old Hub Flaw That Let One User Push Images as Another
A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited...
Windows 11 KB5127648 & KB5126653 cumulative updates released
Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday Windows 11 KB5127648 and KB5126653 cumulative updates for versions 26H2/25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs, and add new features. [...]
Attacker Chains Three Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Days for Root Access, Only Two Patched So Far
An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers...
SAP Discloses Critical CVSS 10 Flaw in Cloud SDK for Python Allowing OAuth2 Credential Theft
A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technolo...
TFG London cyberattack disrupts systems at Hobbs and Whistles retailers
TFG London detected a cybersecurity incident that impacted IT systems used by the Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles premium fashion brands. [...]
GitHub Tightens npm Publishing After Flaw Left 1,500+ Packages Vulnerable to Hijacking
GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without havin...
Ivanti warns of Connect Secure zero-day exploited in attacks
Ivanti urged customers on Tuesday to immediately patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) remote access gateway. [...]
Docker Hub flaw let attackers impersonate users, tamper with images
Docker has disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-105445) in Docker Hub that let attackers access another user's container repositories using a personal access token (PAT). [...]
The MFA Gaps Attackers are Still Exploiting
Attackers continue exploiting gaps in MFA coverage, using stolen credentials to access VPNs, RDP, and Windows systems that still rely on passwords alone. Specops explains why protecting cloud applications isn't enough and how organizatio...
SAP warns of maximum severity OAuth2 SSRF security flaw
SAP has addressed 20 security flaws across multiple products in its October 2026 security updates, including a maximum-severity vulnerability in the Cloud SDK for Python. [...]
Xandr Fined a Record €8.6 Million for Relaying Grindr Data Revealing Sexual Orientation
The Norwegian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million ($9.62 million) for illegally relaying Grindr users' sensitive data to advertisers. The administrative penalty is the la...
Grindr users’ sensitive data shared through ad auctions without valid consent
Advertising company Xandr has been fined $9.6 million over data sharing that could reveal Grindr users’ sexual orientation.
[Webinar] How to Stop AI-Driven Privilege Escalation With Runtime Identity Controls
The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation, attackers can mov...
Hackers heat up supermarket fridges, spoiling food across France
A cyberattack on supermarket temperature-control systems in France left spoiled food, empty shelves, and reports of fires.
LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network
Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by...
Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control
A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model run...
Attackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges Up to 50°C by Hijacking Danfoss Controllers
Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said. The attackers reached them through the co...