Malware campaigns that combine phishing, obfuscated VBScript, PowerShell, and legitimate Windows applications to conceal infections targeting users in Brazil and Portugal. The investigation covers Overlord RAT, Lampion, and an unidentified payload delivered through a malicious newdev.dll. Rather than exploiting Windows Error Reporting itself, attackers impersonated its components and naming conventions, disguising malicious executables and scheduled…
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Microsoft Issues Emergency .NET Security Updates to Fix Four Vulnerabilities
Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates addressing four vulnerabilities across .NET, including a Brotli buffer overflow and incomplete fixes from an earlier October release. The updates apply to .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10, and .NET 11 Release Candidate 3. Microsoft recommends updating as soon as possible. .NET Security Updates CVE-2026-111497 affects .NET’s implementation of…
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Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Allows Android Apps With Zero Permissions to Steal Authentication Tokens
A high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Authenticator for Android could let a malicious app, without any Android permissions, impersonate trusted Microsoft apps and steal authentication tokens for a victim’s signed-in work account. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-80097 and affects Microsoft Authenticator versions earlier than 6.2606.4246. Microsoft has since issued a patch. Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Security…
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Witness: Open-source framework for verifying how your software was built
Witness is an open-source command-line tool that records how software gets built, signs that record, and checks it against a policy before the software ships. TestifySec built Witness and donated it to the in-toto ecosystem within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, and an open community now maintains it. A compiled binary doesn’t say which machine…
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A week in security (October 19 – October 25)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Resident Evil maker Capcom warns of phishing after 11.7 million records exposed Crime Stoppers chapter freezes tips after breach breaks anonymity promise Facebook’s misleading privacy claims land Meta a $25 billion penalty Scammers are finding new ways to target your phone. Here are 5 ways to protect yourself Woman faces…
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Cloudflare Adds New WAF Rules to Detect Attacks Targeting CVE-2026-111497
Cloudflare announced an emergency release of its Web Application Firewall (WAF) on October 25, 2026. This update introduces two detection rules for the Brotli vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-111497. These rules specifically target requests that declare Brotli body encoding and traffic accessing the Next.js image optimization endpoint. By default, both rules are enabled in Log mode,…
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OpenAI Codex Breaks USB Drive Encryption in Minutes, Exposing Critical Security Flaws
OpenAI Codex helped researcher Xusheng Li identify vulnerabilities in encrypted USB and copy-protection products, showing how AI can speed up reverse engineering. Published on October 22, 2026, the research details passwordless file recovery, embedded encryption keys, and hidden accounts across four different products. Using static analysis, Codex reproduced a previously identified flaw in just seven…
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AI slop is piling up highest on the biggest open-source projects
The maintainers of large open source projects are taking the worst of the AI slop. In a Linux Foundation survey of 234 open source contributors and maintainers, people running projects with more than 50 contributors estimated that close to a third of the code changes landing in their queue are low quality or AI-generated. Those…
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Product showcase: Stellar Cyber’s ISOC platform provides full-cycle architecture
An AI SOC that starts with somebody else’s alert is already too late. Stellar Cyber collects and normalizes telemetry, detects suspicious activity, correlates evidence, builds cases, investigates incidents, triages findings, and drives response from the same security architecture. That gives people and AI access to the evidence behind the alert – not just the alert…
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Hackers Launch Mass Scanning Campaigns Using Public PHP2Shell Exploit Scripts
Hackers are sweeping internet-facing PHP infrastructure with publicly circulating PHP2Shell exploit scripts, turning the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities into a worldwide reconnaissance campaign. Fastly recorded approximately 250,000 requests from PHP2Shell-named tools across roughly 3,200 public IP addresses through midday October 22. However, those figures include defensive scanners and do not establish successful server compromises.…
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Forgotten AI agents may still access sensitive company data
AI agents that have not run recently retain credentials and connections to company systems, according to Arrakis Security’s 2026 Autonomous Agents Threat Report. About 76% of enabled agents examined had not run in 60 days, leaving access available through inactive software. Agents by exposure family (Source: Arrakis Security) The analysis covered thousands of agents in…
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Hacker Demonstrates PHP Remote Code Execution in StealMyBitcoin Challenge, Shares Exploit
A security researcher has successfully demonstrated a PHP remote code execution (RCE) exploit against the Steal My Bitcoin challenge. This proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit illustrates how specially crafted HTTP requests can trigger memory corruption, disclose internal PHP addresses, and execute commands on a vulnerable server. The researcher, using the GitHub username KillaBoi, published the exploit in…
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Tailscale SSH Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Gain Root Access to Connected Servers
Security researchers have revealed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Tailscale and Headscale that could let attackers gain root access to connected servers, bypass network security policies, steal credentials, and disrupt remote-access infrastructure. Erica Windisch of Cyberdione Labs published these findings in a security research report titled Tailworm. The assessment examined Tailscale version 1.104.2 and headscale version…
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Recognition appointed to promote global cybersecurity standard for 400 million small businesses
Recognition PR and Marketing Recognition has been appointed as the public relations and marketing agency for Dynamic Standards International DSI and CyberCert, supporting their…
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Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure
Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous Trust report. Eighty-one percent of suspected digital fraud in its network during the first half of 2026 occurred during account logins and financial transactions, highlighting risks that persist throughout a customer…
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New Getac case study shows how rugged tablets support SA Power Networks’ field mobility refresh across South Australia
Delivered with Getac Gold Partner AMIT, the deployment highlights how the Getac ZX10 helps utility crews work across demanding South Australian field environments
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Can’t Patch PHP2Shell Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own
PHP2Shell comes with a clear instruction: update PHP. Fixed releases exist for supported branches, and Qualys customers can identify PHP installations using network scans, Cloud Agents, container assessments, and Deep Scan where supported, while assessing exposed web applications and APIs with Qualys TotalAppSec. Patching at this scale still takes time. In Qualys telemetry, only 199,000…
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Can’t Patch PHP2Shell Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own
PHP2Shell comes with a clear instruction: update PHP. Fixed releases exist for supported branches, and Qualys customers can identify PHP installations using network scans, Cloud Agents, container assessments, and Deep Scan where supported, while assessing exposed web applications and APIs with Qualys TotalAppSec. Patching at this scale still takes time. In Qualys telemetry, only 199,000…
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r/opensource bans AI projects, and solo devs go down with them
Moderators of r/opensource, Reddit’s catch-all forum for open source software, have barred any project that “uses AI, is made by AI, or is intended for AI.” Moderator Wolvereness announced the rules in a post over the weekend. A project now has to be at least a year old and actively maintained, carry an OSI license,…
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Google open-sources the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin its engineers use to catch AI coding mistakes
Google has open-sourced the Elephant-Goldfish Model plugin, an internal tool that makes an AI coding agent write and defend a design document before it touches any code. The plugin hands that document to fresh AI sessions that have never seen the design conversation and tells them to find what is wrong with it. The EGM…
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ISC Stormcast For Monday, October 26th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10150, (Mon, Oct 26th)
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Qualys Offers Free Services to Help Organisations Quickly Find and Fix PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities
Qualyshttps://www.qualys.com/, Inc. NASDAQ: QLYS, a leading cloud-native cyber risk management company, today announced it is offering its solutions for free as a service to…
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NiCE Appoints Rajesh Shriyan as Chief Information Officer to Accelerate Enterprise-Wide AI Transformation
NiCE the world’s leading AI-powered customer experience CX platform provider, today announced the appointment of Rajesh Shriyan as Chief Information Officer CIO. Shriyan will…
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Customer Growth and Platform Innovation Advance Nintex Vision for Agentic Business Orchestration
New platform capabilities and NintexConnect events showcase unified approach to bringing people, workflows, systems, and AI agents together
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Semperis Researcher Discovers an Iranian Nation-State-Sponsored Threat Group Operating Command-and-Control Infrastructure in the United States
Prince of Persia threat group changes hosting strategy and evolves malware capabilities, highlighting the need for organisations to monitor suspicious network activity and…
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Dayforce to Acquire Ribbon AI Inc. to Advance Agentic Recruiting
Ribbon’s conversational voice and video AI will help organisations screen talent faster, deliver a more engaging candidate experience, and reduce recruiting costs
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Zero Trust Falls Short When Identity and Security Operate Separately
For Australian businesses, the office network is no longer the clear boundary it once was. Employees move between home, the workplace and public spaces, often using personal…
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Phantom Labs Research Shows AI Agents Are Acting Beyond Intent. BeyondTrust AI Agent Security, Now Available, Stops Them.
BeyondTrust Phantom Labs® observed 1.28 million shell commands requested from approximately 132,000 prompts in four weeks, averaging nearly 10 commands per prompt 85% of…
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Azul Statement on the eMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromise
Azul, the trusted leader in enterprise Java for today’s AI-first world, issued the following statement in response to the eMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromise made…
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OpenSSL 4.1.0: What’s new, what’s removed, and what’s still broken
The OpenSSL project released version 4.1.0, adding support for DTLS 1.3 and listing four known bugs in the DTLS code that ships with it. DTLS is the variant of TLS built for datagram transports such as UDP, and version 1.3 is defined in RFC 9147. The bugs fall on developers who adopt DTLS 1.3 or…
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SUSE Brings Sovereign Control to Enterprise Agentic AI with NVIDIA
Updates give enterprise IT sovereign control over agentic AI workflows while accelerating AI workloads with NVIDIA OpenShell Reference Architecture Integration and SLES for NVIDIA.
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YARA-X 1.22.0 Release, (Sun, Oct 25th)
YARA-X’s 1.22.0 release brings 11 improvements and 9 bugfixes. One improvement adds built-in functions to read 64-bit integers: int64, int64be, uint64, and uint64be. Didier Stevens Senior handler blog.DidierStevens.com (c) SANS Internet Storm Center. https://isc.sans.edu Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.
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SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 5
Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At…
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Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers
A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding, and an attacker who already controls one device that the…
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PHP2Shell Exploitation Hits Government Entity Amid Global Scanning and Signs of AI-Assisted Hacking
Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. “In one case, the attackers targeted a government entity in Europe and within two hours of the initial exploitation they had successfully accessed password hashes and multi-factor
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AI coding agents hijacked using AGENTS.md file in Downloads folder
Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer’s Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. […]
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Team Explanation
There are two major ways of assessing the quality of our understanding of a phenomenon: Prediction, and Explanation. Prediction feels extremely powerful because it seems to be proving its deep understanding by having reality speak on its behalf. You want proof that I understand how the planets move? Well let me tell you exactly where…
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Meta’s Unending AI Spending
Plus, how America’s cheapest EV fared on a Deep South road trip, Demis Hassabis’s quest to solve the world’s mysteries with AI, our iPhone Duo review and more.
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 120
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Auditing the auditor: Unmasking Apex Accelerator GhostAction Attack Escalates By Targeting GitHub Users Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer WordPress Rank Math SEO PRO Plugin 3.0.123 is vulnerable…
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Security Affairs newsletter Round 601 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION
A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including international press. Capcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email Addresses U.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known…
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Use An SPF Checker To Diagnose DNS And Mail Server Problems
An SPF checker helps domain owners identify DNS misconfigurations, validate email authentication records, and troubleshoot mail delivery problems. By checking SPF syntax, authorized sending servers, and DNS lookup limits, businesses can detect errors that may affect email deliverability and domain security. Regular SPF checks also help reduce the risk of email spoofing and phishing attacks…
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Why billionaire founders keep their shaman secret, and what tech leaders can learn from it
GUEST INTERVIEW: Billionaire founders will happily pass on the number for their surgeon, their lawyer or their wealth manager. Ask about the person they turn to for the things…
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Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Ultra lands in Australia with NVIDIA RTX Spark, up to 128GB of memory and a very local idea of AI
Microsoft has brought its most powerful Surface ever to Sydney, brought in the executive in charge of Surface business strategy to explain it, and put NVIDIA on stage beside her.
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OpenAI Paused Frontier AI Training After a Security Incident
OpenAI paused frontier model training for 11 days after AI agents exposed security weaknesses, VM escapes and covert communication channels. OpenAI published a detailed report this week explaining how it improved security in the systems used to train and test its most advanced AI models. The company also described what happened when its AI agents…
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Should Government Websites Block Personal AI Agent Transactions?
Meta’s Muse, Instinct, and other personal AI agents are all the rage. But are they safe and secure for government financial or legal transactions? Are government policy bans needed now?
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Week in review: PHP vulnerabilities patched, exploited Palo Alto GlobalProtect VPN flaw
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: A critical PHP security release is coming today, so get ready to update! The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 (Critical)…
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OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication
OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure, we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier…
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Fortnite returns to Australian iPhones as Epic’s six-year Apple battle delivers results
Fortnite is back on Australia’s App Store, bringing a six-year absence to an end – and foreshadowing bigger changes to how Australians install apps and pay for digital…
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Twelve South puts holiday travel tech on ice with colourful accessory refresh
Wireless headphones, wired aircraft screens and a hotel bedside table full of devices: Twelve South is tackling familiar travel frustrations with a fresh splash of colour.
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Kensington SD5900T Thunderbolt 4/DisplayLink Dock review – the one cable that changes everything
Walk into almost any office on a Monday morning and you’ll see the same ritual repeated dozens of times: laptop on the desk. Power cable. Monitor cable. Ethernet. USB receiver….
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The Kensington KB535 EQ rechargeable multi-device keyboard gives you one keyboard for everything
For many of us, the keyboard is the computer. We spend our days writing emails, preparing reports, coding software, editing spreadsheets, chatting with colleagues and…
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Throw back the Curtain
Productivity from “AI” depends on the close analysis of work. For some tasks it is astonishing.
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Models Are the How, Harnesses Are the What
I think this is a really good explainer. Loading tweet… But I have a slightly different explanation that’s pretty elegant to remember. 1. Both models and harnesses are made to help you get what you want from AI 2. Models are getting much better, but they can only do so much because they don’t know…
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Best Copy Trading Platform for Crypto: 6 Tests a Platform Must Pass, Banana Gun Included
The best copy trading platform for crypto passes six tests: recent results instead of all-time, a visible real wallet, a cap on each copy, filters on what gets copied, an automatic exit, and protection on the fill. Banana Gun covers the cap, filter, exit and Anti-MEV tests, and public on-chain wallets cover the first two.…
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ALAS2NGINX1-2026-017 (medium): nginx
CVE-2026-15176, CVE-2026-93479, CVE-2026-95101, CVE-2026-97205, CVE-2026-97629
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Abnormal Innovate Dallas 2026 Conference
Abnormal Innovate Dallas is a free, full-day security conference scheduled for November 5, 2026, in Dallas, Texas. Marking the launch of Abnormal AI’s global event series, the conference brings together enterprise security leaders and practitioners to address modern cyber threats. The agenda includes technical breakout sessions, hands-on attack labs, and live threat intelligence analysis focused…
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Pierluigi Paganini answers questions about the PHP2Shell flaws
Pierluigi Paganini answers questions about the PHP2Shell vulnerability, early exploitation, AI-assisted attacks, and the risks to businesses, servers, and personal data. 1. Your latest report reveals that hackers began exploiting the PHP2Shell vulnerability four days before it was publicly disclosed. First, can you explain what PHP is, how widely it is used across the internet,…
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FBI Explores Espionage Case Against Saudi OpenAI Suspect
Engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was accused of bugging a restricted conference room at the company’s offices.
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U.S. CISA adds Collabora Online flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Collabora Online flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Collabora Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-110447 (CVSS score of 9.2), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server is…
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SPECTER Attack Uses USB Power Signals to Leak Data From Air-Gapped PCs
Researchers demonstrated SPECTER, a technique that leaks data from compromised air-gapped PCs through USB power controls, phone charging changes and peripherals.
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HTB: Checkpoint
Checkpoint is an assume breach Active Directory box where the starting account has unusual rights over the AD Recycle Bin. I’ll restore a deleted user who still has the default password, and use their write access to a share to plant a malicious VS Code extension that a sync job installs, giving me a shell.…
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Usage Intelligence: The Monetization Signal Most AI Companies Are Ignoring
AI companies need usage data to align pricing with costs, improve products, identify churn risks, and grow revenue through informed decisions. The AI Paradox There is a paradox: AI companies exist to extract intelligence from data, yet many have almost no visibility into how their own software is being used. They design complex models, introduce…
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BlackX UEFI bootkit exploits Baton Drop flaw to bypass Secure Boot
A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast. […]
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Four Innovators on Work and Creativity
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Capcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email Addresses
Capcom disclosed a data breach exposing 11.7 million email addresses and account details after hackers accessed its CAPCOM ID service. Japanese gaming company Capcom has disclosed a data breach discovered on October 19 involving its CAPCOM ID service, which provides access to online services and games. As of October 22, attackers stole 11,774,247 email addresses,…
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OpenAI AI Agents Exploit Zero-Day Vulnerabilities to Escape Sandboxes and Access Host Systems
OpenAI disclosed that its AI agents escaped hardened virtual machines, bypassed network restrictions, and exchanged information across isolated environments during an internal red-teaming campaign. Published October 23, the findings describe weaknesses in frontier-model research infrastructure, not demonstrated compromises of customer-facing products. The company said it patched discovered vulnerabilities and strengthened containment before resuming frontier training.…
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Anthropic AI Model Attempts to Inject Malicious Code Into Software
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 attempted to inject malicious code into an open-source repository during a cybersecurity evaluation, then used fabricated identities to pressure maintainers into accepting the change. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) disclosed findings on October 23, describing an unauthorized supply-chain attack that reached real developers outside the controlled exercise. Maintainers rejected the…
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Hackers Use Fake Chocolatey and Microsoft Activation Websites to Spread New Armorsteal Malware
Hackers are distributing ArmorSteal, a Python-based malware family, through fake Chocolatey and Microsoft Activation-Script websites promoted via search engine poisoning. The malware combines remote access, surveillance, and information theft capabilities to steal passwords, browser cookies, authentication tokens, and cryptocurrency wallet data. Zscaler’s Threat Hunting team identified the campaign in September 2026 and published its findings…
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Researchers Push Over 2 Million Updates to Remotely Disable Popcorn Time Updater That Could Fuel a Botnet
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater belongs to Time4Popcorn, an abandoned copy of Popcorn Time, a…
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Hackers Breached LiteLLM GitHub Repository 11 Days Before Supply Chain Attack
Hackers accessed LiteLLM’s GitHub organization and executed credential-stealing workflows eleven days before the October 21 supply chain attack that distributed malicious litellm==1.107.0 packages. The findings establish a longer compromise window preceding the poisoned releases. Socket recovered malicious workflows executed inside BerriAI/litellm on October 10 and October 12, 2026. Both used the maintenance-style commit message ci:…
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Anthropic AI Model Attempts to Infect GitHub Repository With Malware During Security Test
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 attempted to introduce malware into an unrelated GitHub repository and used fabricated identities to persuade its maintainers to accept the malicious code during a cybersecurity evaluation. The supplied assessment describes testing by the UK AI Security Institute (AISI), where nine of 43 evaluation runs involved unauthorized actions affecting real people or…
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Brotli Decoder Flaw Behind Node.js RCE Also Affects Bun, Python and Other Widely Used Software
A memory-corruption flaw in Google’s Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497, the flaw allows crafted compressed data to overwrite past the end of a buffer and corrupt a program’s memory, potentially
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U.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a critical Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-114625 (CVSS score of 9.4), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) is the central management system for…
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CISA Flags Two Actively Exploited Critical Flaws in Collabora Online and Arista VeloCloud
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing reports of active exploitation in the wild. The critical-severity vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-110447 (CVSS score: 9.2) – An operating
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How to Identify Compromised eMudhra Certificates With Qualys (CVE-2026-111943 and CVE-2026-111944)
Executive Summary A critical certificate authority incident disclosed on October 17, 2026, impacts eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates. A flaw in the key generation process could allow attackers to recover private keys and issue fraudulent TLS or code-signing certificates. The affected intermediates have been revoked and blocked by major platform vendors, including Chrome, Mozilla, Apple,…
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You Were Once Smarter Than AI at Math. Yes, Even You.
These basic problems stumped AI only a few years ago. Can you solve them?
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AI Hacks Are Coming Thick and Fast and Overwhelming the Internet
Criminals are turning to next-generation, AI-powered hacking tools as a serious internet flaw has given birth to “Black October.”
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Nvidia Expands Telecom AI Push With Nokia, T-Mobile and Orange
Telecom providers are expanding their networks beyond connectivity to support AI workloads closer to end users. This shift toward distributed AI infrastructure could create opportunities for channel partners in hardware deployment, systems integration, network automation and edge AI services. At GTC Berlin on Oct. 21, Nvidia announced that telecom operators including T-Mobile and Orange, working…
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AI Agent Deceptions, Acalvio & Competitive Landscape 2026
The deployment of autonomous AI agents introduces critical cybersecurity risks, including machine identity sprawl, prompt injection, and logic poisoning. As a result, the market for agentic AI security and deception tools is expanding rapidly to counter increasingly fast and automated attacks across cloud and enterprise environments. Acalvio ShadowPlex addresses these threats using an agentless, cloud-native…
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The Plan to Put Super Dogs on the Battlefield of the Future
An Anduril-backed venture aims to genetically engineer faster, sharper-nosed military dogs to help beat the enemy.
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Trust Is Not What It Seems — And Fraudsters Are Counting on It
Threat actors don’t need to rely on malware to breach organizations anymore. They’re simply calling help desks and politely asking for access, with a little help from artificial intelligence.
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Abandoned Popcorn Time app exposed millions of device to RCE attacks
Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of computers. […]
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(Reliable)? php2shell exploitability, (Fri, Oct 23rd)
Yesterday everyone was running around like crazy (me included 🙂 because of the php2shell vulnerability. However, after looking closely at some published PoC’s – and there is an unbelievable amount of AI generated – erm, slop – it looks like building a universal, reliable, one click exploit is quite difficult (unless I’m missing something, so…
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Exposed to PHP2Shell? Cyber Experts Weigh in With Advice
Fixing the critical PHP flaws is not as simple as clicking “Update.” Here’s how to assess your risk, and what you can do to protect yourself.
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Writing Is Closer to Thought Than Code
I’ve been having this almost-debate with Matt Pocock for a while about the best way to do spec driven development. Matt is a very accomplished old-school developer. A true software engineer. And he’s been using AI to enhance his capabilities to an extraordinary degree. His development skills are extremely powerful, and have been starred more…
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A Veteran of the Telecom Bust Navigates the AI Boom
Ciena CEO Gary Smith is “suitably paranoid,” but optimistic.
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GoDaddy Revokes 404,607 SSL Certificates After Policy Errors
GoDaddy revoked 404,607 SSL/TLS certificates after finding certificate-policy errors, with affected sites including some Gibraltar government websites.
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Engineering a Truly AI Agentic Penetration Testing Platform
A research and implementation guide to autonomous external web application and API security testing Autonomous penetration testing is evolving from conventional vulnerability scanning toward systems that can discover an application’s attack surface, form hypotheses about potential weaknesses, select appropriate tests, interpret results, adapt their next actions, and validate suspected vulnerabilities with reproducible evidence. Yet a…
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Microsoft Teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection
Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026. […]
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BlackX UEFI Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot on Patched Windows Systems Missing Revocations
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026, is suspected to be orchestrated by a China-linked state-sponsored hacking group known as APT41, Kaspersky said in a technical report
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Microsoft Retires AI Builder Add-Ons: What Partners Need to Check
Microsoft partners need to check AI Builder renewal dates and arrange replacement capacity to keep customers’ apps and automated workflows running. The company will retire AI Builder capacity add-ons from sale on Nov. 1, 2026, according to an Oct. 22 Partner Center notice. Customers can continue using existing credits through their current subscription term, but…
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Google will pay people to use less electricity so its data centers can use more
Google has an answer to some of the electricity supply problems that data center construction is causing: It has signed an agreement with energy supplier Voltus to build what it’s calling a 1-gigawatt virtual power plant, expanding on an earlier 100 megawatt deal the two signed earlier this year. This power plant is virtual in…
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Inside the LiteLLM 1.107.0 supply chain compromise: Credential theft through Python startup hooks
In this article Attack overview Technical details Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise References Learn More On October 21, 2026, a compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) and distributed through official container images. The malicious package added files that Python could execute during normal interpreter initialization. An application…
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Pax8 Launches AI Tools to Help MSPs Build New Revenue
Pax8 is betting that the next phase of growth for managed service providers won’t come from selling more IT tools, but from helping businesses manage the AI systems increasingly embedded in their daily operations. At its Beyond EMEA conference in Copenhagen on October 19, the company introduced 8os, an AI operating system, and 8bot, an…
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PHP Warns of New Code Execution Flaw Days After PHP2Shell Patches
PHP warns of a new, unlikely code execution flaw, CVE-2026-115560, and advises disabling session upload progress until a fix is released. PHP has warned of a new code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-115560, just two days after releasing emergency patches for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The vulnerability affects only a specific PHP configuration that PHP…
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Hyperscalers allow more scrutiny of controversial data center plans
Hyperscalers are getting decidedly twitchy about citizens’ reactions to their secretive data center construction plans, and are looking for ways to de-escalate some of the conflicts. Earlier this month, Amazon announced its Data Center Commitment which, among other things, would disclose more information about energy and water use and consider a moratorium asking government officials…
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Deutsche Telekom Taps AudioCodes for Voice AI Service
Deutsche Telekom is using AudioCodes’ VoiceAI Connect platform to power its new Voice AI Notes Mobile service for small and midsize businesses (SMBs), bringing AI-powered communications capabilities to customers while maintaining control over sensitive voice data. The deployment integrates Deutsche Telekom’s mobile network with Mistral AI services within its T Cloud environment, allowing the telecommunications…
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Google and Voltus Expand Virtual Power Plant Plan Across PJM
Google plans to pay homes and businesses to reduce electricity demand when the grid needs relief. The company announced Oct. 22 it expanded its agreement with energy technology company Voltus to develop a 1-gigawatt (GW) virtual power plant across the PJM Interconnection grid, which serves 67 million people across 13 states and Washington, DC. Voltus…
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Oracle patches 1295 security vulnerabilities in October, including six scoring 10.0
Oracle has patched 1295 security vulnerabilities with its October Critical Patch Update Advisory; six of them scored the highest vulnerability rating of 10.0 on the CVSS version 3.1 scale. The company’s flagship Oracle E-Business Suite was home to one of the vulnerabiltiies, tracked as CVE-2026-101809. This enables any unauthenticated attacker with network access via HTTP…
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Ruby Fixes Three Regex Engine Bugs Responsible for Four Critical GitLab RCE Flaws
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specially crafted pattern could corrupt memory while Ruby compiles it, potentially leading to code…
