(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.
(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. [...]
(Monday October 12, 2026)
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(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. [...]
(Monday October 12, 2026)
A bipartisan parliamentary committee wants independent experts
embedded inside AI companies, backs data centre investment and urges a
copyright review.
(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. [...]
(Monday October 12, 2026)
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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. [...]
(Monday October 12, 2026)
Attackers remotely defrosted refrigerators at multiple French
supermarket chains overnight in a cyberattack that reportedly targeted
Danfoss refrigeration controllers. [...]
(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.
(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.
(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.
(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. [...]
(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. […]
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(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. [...]
(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. [...]
(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. [...]
(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
(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 […]
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(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
(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.
(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
(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
(Monday October 12, 2026)
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(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
(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....
(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...
(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...
(Sunday October 11, 2026)
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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. [...]
(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
(Saturday October 10, 2026)
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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. [...]
(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. [...]
(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. [...]
(Saturday October 10, 2026)
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(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
(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
(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.
(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...
(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. [...]
(Friday October 09, 2026)
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(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.
(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
(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
(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. [...]
(Friday October 09, 2026)
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(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.
(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
(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
(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."
(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"
(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
(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
(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 […]
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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.
(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
(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
(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
(Friday October 09, 2026)
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(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 […]
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(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
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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
(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
(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...
(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/
(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,
(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,
(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, […]
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Check Point...
(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 […]
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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 […]
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(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...
(Thursday October 08, 2026)
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(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
(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 […]
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just...
(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...
(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
(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...
(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 […]
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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
(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
(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
(Thursday October 08, 2026)
Click the link for more details on Advanced evil/captive portal project made to be run on the esp32-c5 or most microcontrollers capable of running marauder.
(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...
(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
(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
(Wednesday October 07, 2026)
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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
(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
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(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
(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
(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...
(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
(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
(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