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Hundreds of French supermarkets' fridges hacked in large-scale attack

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Several major food retailers in France have been targeted by hackers who raised fridge temperatures up to 50 degrees Celsius causing fires and spoiling food.

Norway fines Microsoft ad firm $9.6 million over Grindr data sharing

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Norway's Data Protection Authority (Datatilsynet) has fined Microsoft-owned advertising company Xandr NOK 92 million ($9.6M) for unlawfully processing and sharing sensitive data belonging to Grindr users in the country. [...]

Best SMM Panel? Vote in Reddit’s Community Poll & See Results

(Monday October 12, 2026)
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Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. [...]

AI inquiry urges independent safety watchdogs inside companies

(Monday October 12, 2026)
A bipartisan parliamentary committee wants independent experts embedded inside AI companies, backs data centre investment and urges a copyright review.

Anthropic takes risky AI tests offline after models breach govt sites

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Anthropic announced that its internal AI models undergoing "high-risk and cybersecurity evaluations" no longer have internet access following incidents involving U.S. government websites at the federal, state, and local levels. [...]

Wifisting, a wireless toolkit beta for Linux: looking for testers and feedbacks

(Monday October 12, 2026)
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Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. [...]

Cyberattack shuts down refrigerators at French supermarkets

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted Danfoss refrigeration controllers. [...]

⚡ Weekly Recap: Helpdesk 0-Days, Rogue Certs, ShinyHunters Arrest, AI-Fooling Malware and More

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of the problem. A secure connection didn't always mean a safe destination. People offering to fix a ransomware mess had questions to answer themselves.

FBI Arrests Suspect in FBI-Hacking Case

(Monday October 12, 2026)
In September, hackers from a group called ShinyHunters announced that they stole a trove of FBI data about its own agents. It was an intelligence disaster. Last week, the FBI arrested (alternate link) someone associated with that crime.

Cisco and NVIDIA Announce USFP: Expanding the Path to AI Connectivity

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Cisco and NVIDIA announce USFP, the first 400G-per-lane pluggable form factor. Scale your AI infrastructure efficiently while keeping the proven operations you trust.

Inside AvisLoader: A Windows Malware Loader Built to Resist Disruption

(Monday October 12, 2026)
A new Windows malware loader called AvisLoader uses encrypted peer-to-peer communications to make command-and-control infrastructure harder to disrupt. Varonis researchers explain how the malware uses ClickFix delivery, shortcut-based persistence, and remote command execution capabilities. [...]

Leading digital change when nobody prepared you for it

(Monday October 12, 2026)
By Louise John, Head of IT Service Delivery at Virgin Active For IT managers, unexpected projects and changing business priorities are normal part of the job. You might have spent months planning your team’s workload, but only to be told with little warning that a new software solution needs to be implemented within six weeks. […] The post Leading digital change when nobody prepared you for...

Retail giant Ahold Delhaize takes systems offline after cyberattack

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Retail giant Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed today that it had to take some systems offline in response to a "cybersecurity incident" affecting its network. [...]

GitLab warns of max severity code execution vulnerability

(Monday October 12, 2026)
GitLab warned users today to immediately patch a maximum-severity vulnerability in the CI/CD Regular Expression Compiler that could let remote attackers run arbitrary code on targeted instances. [...]

Microsoft: Windows 11 23H2 reaches end of support in 30 days

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates next month. [...]

Bring Your Own Agent: Your Employees' Assistants Are Already Logged In

(Monday October 12, 2026)
The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the tech world is mesmerized by the capabilities and potential of these services. Less than a year

DTX + UCX 2026: Ingram Micro on Unlocking AI and Cloud Without Losing Control

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Ahead of their participation at DTX + UCX London 2026, Lee Robson, AWS Greenfield Practice Lead at Ingram Micro shares what the company will be showcasing at the event and explains what trends will impact the channel in the year ahead. How is Ingram Micro participating in DTX + UCX 2026? Ingram Micro will be […] The post DTX + UCX 2026: Ingram Micro on Unlocking AI and Cloud Without Losing...

Ledger Finds Unauthorized Hardware Implant in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallet Amid Fund Theft Reports

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds from users in Southeast Asia who had purchased products from CryptoBilis. The incident is said to have resulted in losses totaling more than $86

numbat – Endpoint Visibility and Forensics for AI Coding Agents

(Monday October 12, 2026)
numbat monitors Claude Code, Codex and other AI coding agents and rebuilds their sessions. Tested on a staged session; its blocking is opt-in and narrow.

Critical SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaw Targeted in 135 Exploitation Attempts After Patch

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 (CVSS score: 10.0), is a case of pre-authenticated server-side request forgery (SSRF) that could allow a remote attacker "to direct the appliance to issue requests on their

Attackers Exploit CVSS 10.0 Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

(Monday October 12, 2026)
A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable WordPress websites, resulting in remote code execution (RCE). The

LG webOS sync-demo Preauth RCE

(Monday October 12, 2026)
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CyberXero Uses Claude Code in Campaign That Stole Over 628,000 Ukrainian Records

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence (AI)-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobalt Strike with an AI orchestration layer powered by Anthropic's Claude Code, has been attributed

A Vulnerability in Atlassian Data Center Products Could Allow for Arbitrary File Access

(Monday October 12, 2026)
A vulnerability in Atlassian Data Center products could allow for arbitrary file access. Atlassian Data Center products are self-managed, enterprise-grade editions of Atlassian tools such as Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Jira Service Management, which organizations host on their own infrastructure or private cloud and which offer clustering, high availability, and greater control over data, security, and scaling....

Multiple Vulnerabilities in SonicWall SMA1000 Series Appliances Could Allow for Remote Code Execution.

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in SonicWall SMA1000 Series Appliances, the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 Series appliances are enterprise-grade secure access and SSL VPN gateways. Successful exploitation of the most severe vulnerability could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to reach internal functionality and perform...

Multiple Vulnerabilities in Dell System Update Could Allow for Remote Code Execution

(Monday October 12, 2026)
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Dell System Update (DSU), the most severe of which could allow for remote code execution. Dell System Update (DSU) is a free Dell utility for Windows that scans your Dell computer and automatically finds, downloads, and installs the latest BIOS, driver, firmware, and application updates for it. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these...

Unconcerned

(Sunday October 11, 2026)
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What ArchLinux ARM installation do I want for a VirtualBox guest on M5?

(Sunday October 11, 2026)
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Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records

(Sunday October 11, 2026)
Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. [...]

P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands

(Sunday October 11, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2 communication with the attacker's infrastructure," iVerify said in a new report published Thursday. The name

Intel 6250 Wi-Fi stuck in "Hard blocked: yes" on Pegatron Lucid tablet, works in Windows

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
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Cyber exec arrested in case allegedly tied to ShinyHunters hackers

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI's ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]

ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. [...]

Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that connects exposure discovery with investigation, risk prioritization, and response. [...]

ELI5 : How black hat hacking even works and how difficult is it? (those which are not backed by state)

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
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The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn't

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can only govern what authenticates through it, and most agents never do. That gap is the clearest

Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations until further notice following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified four broad categories of unintended model actions during evaluations and internal use of Claude

FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm

(Saturday October 10, 2026)
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.

A Vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway Could Allow for Remote Code Execution

(Friday October 09, 2026)
A vulnerability has been discovered in Citrix NetScaler Application Delivery Controller (ADC) and Citrix NetScaler Gateway that could allow for remote code execution. Citrix NetScaler ADC (Application Delivery Controller) is an enterprise networking platform and traffic management device designed to optimize, secure, and accelerate the delivery of web and cloud applications. Successful exploitation of the most...

Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. [...]

Is there a phishing app similar to Zshadow?

(Friday October 09, 2026)
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Friday Squid Blogging: I Caught a Squid

(Friday October 09, 2026)
On Wednesday I spent a day fishing, on a small boat out of Gloucester, MA. We caught many cod (none of which we could keep), and a bunch of hake and mackerel (all of which we could keep). And…I caught a squid! Near as I can tell, it’s a longfin squid, sometimes called a Boston squid (Doryteuthis (Amerigo) pealeii). That night I cooked it over a barbecue grill—hot and fast. Delicious.

Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel, the attacker pushed a malicious workflow to 27 repositories starting at 13:20 UTC," StepSecurity

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

(Friday October 09, 2026)
The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants. The FBI has not named the suspect, and no charges have been made public. The

Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. [...]

OSPF: When do routers start sending LSAs only to the DRs?

(Friday October 09, 2026)
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$10 million bounty offered for Chinese Hafnium hacker accused of Microsoft Exchange Server mega-attack

(Friday October 09, 2026)
The US State Department is offering up to US $10 million for information about the whereabouts of Zhang Yu, a 44-year-old Chinese national who is accused of being a key figure in China's state-sponsored hacking group, Hafnium. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China Ties

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Four more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with  Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link denies the claims and says it will fight them in court. TP-Link Systems is based in

Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the fix only as "fixed a bug that could lead to a crash," with no CVE assigned and no security

Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said. "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."

Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy XMRig Miners Disguised as Microsoft Edge

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below - CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java"

Flax Typhoon Exploits Five Flaws as CISA Sets October 11 Deadline for Federal Agencies

(Friday October 09, 2026)
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2015-3306 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An improper access control vulnerability in ProFTPD that could allow

The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition

(Friday October 09, 2026)
As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The "Horizons of Identity Security" report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest in AI-speed business operations while continuing to rely on human-speed security controls, creating a

Attackers exploit AhsayCBS backup flaws to deploy disguised crypto miners

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Attackers are exploiting two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS, the management console for Ahsay’s cloud backup software, to take over servers and quietly run cryptocurrency miners, according to researchers at Huntress. AhsayCBS (Cloud Backup Server) is mainly used by managed service providers (MSPs) and system integrators to create users and manage backup policies for their […] The post Attackers exploit...

What happened to the “linuxefi” and “initrdefi” GRUB commands?

(Friday October 09, 2026)
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GoBalance Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack .onion Addresses by Recovering Tor-Format Keys

(Friday October 09, 2026)
A bug in GoBalance, a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site's .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over. Searchlight Cyber, which disclosed the flaw on October 8, says an attacker who recovers the key can redirect the site's visitors to a copy of the site they control.

Three Teams Demonstrate Remote Hacks of Fully Patched Google Pixel 10 at Pwn2Own

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Three research teams broke into Google's Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikotas Labs $300,000, the contest's top prize, and made the team the overall winner. Trend Micro's Zero

Citrix Patches Critical NetScaler Flaw That Could Enable RCE in SAML Deployments

(Friday October 09, 2026)
Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service (DoS) under certain conditions. "CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service under specific configuration conditions," Citrix said. The vulnerability

FBI Seizes 7 Domains, Disrupts Flax Typhoon Tools Used in Critical Infrastructure Intrusions

(Friday October 09, 2026)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Department of Justice (DoJ) have announced the disruption of malicious tools used by a China-linked advanced persistent threat group known as Flax Typhoon. To that end, the agencies seized several domains and blocked access to platforms that were used to scan, and in some cases infiltrate, U.S. critical infrastructure. The list of seized

Where to learn?

(Friday October 09, 2026)
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CVE-2026-21589: Critical Pre-Authentication File Read Affects Atlassian Data Center Products

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Atlassian has released an out-of-band security advisory for CVE-2026-21589, a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting a broad range of its Data Center products. The flaw carries a CVSS 4.0 score of 9.3 and can be exploited remotely without authentication or user interaction. Because vulnerable functionality is shared across the Atlassian product ecosystem, every previous […] The post CVE-2026-21589:...

Post-quantum authentication: Why organizations should start testing certificate ecosystems now

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Prepare for post-quantum authentication by testing certificate ecosystems now. Learn how Microsoft’s PQC TLS Pilot Program helps advance future readiness. The post Post-quantum authentication: Why organizations should start testing certificate ecosystems now [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/10/08/post-quantum-authentication-why-organizations-should-start-testing-certificate-ecosystems-now/] ap...

Securing Mobile/Desktop App's Access to Database [closed]

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast Asia, the FBI and agencies in 6 other countries said on October 8. The company, Integrity Technology Group, has been sanctioned by the U.S. and the UK. The hackers scanned websites for flaws using a tool containing more

ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools and traces of an intrusion. Apparently, keeping things secure is a problem on both sides of the fence. The rest of the week isn't much more reassuring. Malicious code turned up in developer packages and extensions that

WorkNest Secure Achieves CREST STAR-FS Accreditation for Red Teaming

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
WorkNest Secure has achieved CREST Simulated Targeted Attack & Response for Financial Services (STAR-FS) accreditation, recognising its ability to deliver intelligence-led red teaming assessments for organisations operating in high-risk and regulated environments. The accreditation confirms that WorkNest Secure meets CREST’s standards for conducting threat-led penetration testing, using realistic attack scenarios to assess how effectively organisations...

Japan Sees Sharp Rise in Web Data Leaks Amid Mobile API Abuse and Metabase Attacks

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Attackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known software flaws, the JPCERT Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) said. The Tokyo-based center, which takes incident reports, based its October 8, 2026 alert on those reports and other information. The alert names no attacker and no affected organization. JPCERT/

UAC-0099 Targets Ukrainian Government Personnel With ASHVEIN RAT Hiding Commands in HTML

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET infostealer and remote access trojan (RAT) codenamed ASHVEIN. According to TrendAI, the malware has been put to use in attacks targeting Ukrainian government personnel. The cybersecurity company is tracking the cluster under the name Earth Sirrush (previously SHADOW-EARTH-065). ASHVEIN,

ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence (AI) pen testing tool named ARTEX to carry out the attacks. The activity, per CrowdStrike Intelligence, was active from late September to early October 2026, and resulted in data exfiltration from various South Korea-based financial firms,

Global cyber attacks up 48% as ransomware and phishing climb, Check Point finds

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Organisations worldwide faced an average of 2,803 cyber attacks per week in September 2026, up 16% on August and 48% on the same month last year, according to new data from Check Point Research. The figures point to sustained growth rather than a one-off spike. Weekly attacks per organisation have climbed 36% in five months, […] The post Global cyber attacks up 48% as ransomware and phishing climb, Check Point...

Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD event

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Filigran has announced the speaker line-up for THREAD, its first annual event for the cyber defence and threat intelligence community, taking place in Paris on 15 October. The free, one-day gathering at Les Jardins de Saint-Dominique will feature speakers from Accenture, Centrica, Thales Group and the FBI. Its programme combines strategic discussions with practical sessions […] The post Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD...

Using GNU `parallel` in zsh when globbing yields too many results for a command line & takes long

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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Core to Cloud Appoints David Brown as Managing Director

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
UK cybersecurity specialist Core to Cloud has appointed David Brown as Managing Director, strengthening its leadership team as the company looks to expand its managed security services business. Brown brings more than 20 years of experience across cybersecurity, managed services and enterprise technology. He will oversee the day-to-day operations of Core to Cloud, working alongside […] The post Core to Cloud Appoints...

How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March 2022, the Russian TV Channel One editor Marina Ovsyannikova burst onto the set of the evening newscast. She held up a hand-drawn sign behind the anchor’s head that read: “Stop the war. Don’t believe propaganda. They’re lying to you!” She shouted, “No to...

I built CyclePatrol for finding Wi-Fi vulnerabilities with cyclic scanning during city walks

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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Wazza Phishkit Targets Banking, Government, and Manufacturing Across the US, EU, and Australia

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic controls into the infrastructure that delivers the phishing page itself. ANY.RUN has identified Wazza, a new phishkit targeting banking, manufacturing, and government organizations across the US, Europe

Digital IDs and the AI threat: verification must evolve, not just digitise

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
By Marc de Beaucorps, Co-founder and CEO of Finovox The UK’s rollout of new digital IDs is being pitched as a straightforward upgrade involving safer age checks, smoother access, and fewer fakes. But from a fraud perspective, “simpler” can be a dangerous word. Identity fraud rarely disappears; it mutates. And when you digitize identity, you […] The post Digital IDs and the AI threat: verification must evolve, not just...

No EDR, no problem: how Huntress rebuilt an Akira ransomware attack from forensic leftovers

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Incident responders rarely get to watch an attack from the beginning. More often, security tooling arrives after the damage is done, either as part of the response or because a rollout was still underway when the attackers struck. That was the position Huntress found itself in this September, when its agent was deployed at an […] The post No EDR, no problem: how Huntress rebuilt an Akira ransomware attack from forensic...

16 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Rabby and OKX Wallets to Steal Recovery Phrases

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. "The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but their code intercepts recovery phrases and private keys during wallet import flows and attempts to send those secrets to

When everything looks normal: why context, not more alerts, is the next frontier for security operations

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Security awareness has long relied on teaching people to spot the obvious warning signs. Steve Povolny, Vice President of AI Strategy & Security Research at Exabeam, says attackers have been studying the same lessons. “The security industry has spent years teaching people what suspicious looks like: bad grammar, strange links, logins from impossible locations. Attackers […] The post When everything looks normal: why...

Is Your DDoS Protection Actually On?

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Readiness is a visibility problem, and it’s one many organizations don’t know they have. Most security controls tell you when they’re broken. A bad firewall rule lets traffic through that shouldn’t be there. An expired certificate generates alerts. A misconfigured WAF starts blocking legitimate users and someone notices pretty quickly. DDoS protection is different. A […] The post Is Your DDoS Protection Actually...

Do we need TrustZone for Cortex-M on a HSM-equipped MCU?

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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U.S. Offers Up to $10 Million for Tips on Zhang Yu, Charged in HAFNIUM Hacks

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a Chinese national charged in the United States in connection with the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks known as HAFNIUM. The reward is for information leading to his identification or location, the news outlet NTD reported this week, citing a notice

MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi (aka Zack Silver and Zack Green) has been charged with two counts of wire fraud and one count of wire

Tensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing Worm

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
The npm package known as "tensorlake," a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. The malicious version 0.5.144 "contains obfuscated malware that harvests credentials, exfiltrates secrets, establishes persistence, and executes remotely supplied code," Socket said

Advanced evil/captive portal project made to be run on the esp32-c5 or most microcontrollers capable of running marauder.

(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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Smashing Security podcast #487: Clippy’s crypto comeback

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Microsoft's Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn't from Microsoft either. Meanwhile, UK losses from hacked email and social media accounts have rocketed by 417%, as scammers pose as your friends to flog you tickets to gigs that don't exist. Plus, Hack The Box's Christine...

Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone) or .as (American Samoa) was put at risk. With such a certificate, an attacker could pose as the real site over an encrypted

Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans (RAT) to compromised hosts. The campaign has been codenamed MALFEX by CloudSEK and Checkmarx. The activity is assessed to be the work of a lone threat actor who appears to have published 12 packages since August 2023, eight of which have

How do I run a command with a repeated flag argument built from values in a file?

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
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SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rates it 10.0 on the CVSS scale and says it has no evidence that any of the four flaws is being

3 lessons from frontier AI vulnerability research

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Read how How Microsoft Security's FORGE Lab is scaling vulnerability research from Windows to the Linux kernel. The post 3 lessons from frontier AI vulnerability research [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/10/07/3-lessons-from-frontier-ai-vulnerability-research/] appeared first on Microsoft Security Blog [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog].

Unpatched Critical LMCache Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code Remotely

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
A critical vulnerability in LMCache, open-source software that speeds up large language model (LLM) servers such as vLLM, lets an attacker run code on the cache server without logging in, and no fixed version is available. The flaw is in LMCache's multiprocess mode, where the cache runs as a standalone server that LLM workers reach over the ZeroMQ messaging library. A single network

PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining Botnet

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated campaign, dubbed Canto Incognito, has been found to install cryptocurrency miners, including

ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a business unit recently divested by the global aerospace company...

The Sixth Voice of the CISO Data Shows Cyber Risk Has Moved Inside the Workflow

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a straight line of escalation: more attacks, more data loss, more pressure, and more urgency. That

FBI Warns FortiBleed Remains Active After Amassing 86,644 Fortinet Device Credentials

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service (USSS) on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting campaign remains an active threat aimed at internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and secure socket layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) gateways. "The campaign exploits reused or leaked credentials and legacy SHA-256 password storage, enabling threat

Atlassian Data Center Flaw Draws Exploitation Attempts Within Two Hours of Public Details

(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow access to sensitive files under certain conditions. The arbitrary file access flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS score: 9.3) affects multiple products, including Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software