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Ads or Surveillance? Researchers Flag Suspicious Targeting of Starlink Users
Discover-Tech allegedly targeted Starlink users with digital ads to track their locations, according to sources cited in a new Reuters report. Digital defense firm TrendAI found that an Israeli ad tech company was heavily targeting users of satellite internet service Starlink, probably to spy on them. That’s according to six people familiar with the matter, speaking to Reuters. Raphael Satter reported it on October 27 in a Reuters story, and the claims rest on sources, not on a published attribution. “Researchers at TrendAI, a unit of Tokyo-based cybersecurity company Trend Micro, concluded…
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CVE-2026-97631: 16-Year-Old UEFI Flaw Threatens Servers
CVE-2026-97631: A 16-year-old UEFI flaw (CVSS score of 9.5/10) enables pre-OS code execution. Exposed servers need firmware patches and checks. A critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-97631 (CVSS score of 9.5), in the firmware that boots most of the world’s servers is now public, and the patch details came out months early. The bug affects TianoCore EDK II, an open-source project used by hardware manufacturers and cloud providers to build UEFI firmware. UEFI is the software that starts a computer before the operating system loads. EDK II is widely used across the industry, including by major UEF…
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U.S. CISA adds Google Brotli and Adobe Commerce and Magento flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Brotli and Adobe Commerce and Magento flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added Google Brotli and Adobe Commerce and Magento vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: Below are the flaws added to the catalog: CVE-2026-111497 (CVSS score: 9.2) – An unchecked return value vulnerability in Google Brotli that could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to corrupt decoder memory, expose sensitive information, caus…
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Three Japan-Focused Cyberattacks Show How Hackers Use AI
Three Japan-focused cyberattacks show how AI helps hackers scale operations, while exploiting old systems and weak security remains key. In autumn 2026, Japanese companies and other organizations reported a series of data leaks involving their web systems. On October 9, Japan’s National Cybersecurity Office issued a warning to businesses, while the head of the ruling party’s cybersecurity team described cyberspace as being in a “state of emergency.” Researchers at Trend Micro studied three attack infrastructures to understand how hackers use AI. Their findings show three different approaches,…
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Italy ’s Parliament Under Cyber Pressure: Why the Attack on the Chamber Matters
Italy ’s Parliament cyberattack highlights hybrid warfare risks and the need for transparency, stronger defenses and accountability. The cyberattack targeting email accounts at Italy’s Chamber of Deputies, including a parliamentary account assigned to Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, raises questions that go well beyond the security of individual inboxes. At a time when European institutions face growing cyber pressure, the incident highlights how access to political communications can become part of a broader hybrid warfare strategy. The Chamber confirmed that its IT systems had been targeted…
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Australia’s Cyber Spy Chief: Expect More Disruption as AI Accelerates Hacking
Australia’s cyber agency warns AI will drive more disruptive attacks, helping hackers find vulnerabilities faster and exploit them at greater scale. Australia’s top cyber spy has a blunt message: expect more disruption to everyday services. Abigail Bradshaw, director-general of the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD), says that with each jump in AI capability, more disruption is likely. The ASD published its annual cyber threat report on Tuesday, October 27, and ABC News had the story first. Bradshaw says the most advanced AI models have redefined the threat. Disruption can mean websites pul…
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U.S. CISA adds PHP flaws PHP2Shell to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds PHP flaws PHP2Shell to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the PHP PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2026-109618 – PHP Memory Corruption Vulnerability CVE-2026-109619 – PHP Stale Internal Request-State Vulnerability On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS score of 9.2). The flaws affect all PHP versions that handle web…
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Attackers Take Control of Dahua Cameras and Video Recorders Via Easy4IP
Ukraine warns that attackers can remotely access Dahua cameras and recorders via Easy4IP, viewing video and changing settings. Ukraine’s cyber incident response team CERT-UA has warned about attackers taking over video surveillance systems made by Dahua. In its alert dated October 23, 2026, it reports unauthorized remote access to IP cameras and video recorders. The attackers have watched the live video, changed device settings and created accounts of their own. The alert doesn’t say who was targeted or how many devices are affected. The attackers abused Easy4IP, Dahua’s cloud feature that le…
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Cohere Finds Qwen AI Model Contacting a Server in China
Cohere found an Alibaba AI model attempting to contact a server in China, raising security concerns about unexpected network activity in self-hosted AI systems. A report from Cohere says an Alibaba AI model Qwen tried to contact a server in China while carrying out a cybersecurity task. “Asked to write a defensive detection rule, Qwen3.8-Flash-Next ignored instructions and inventoried the machine it was running on and then tried to upload a probe file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing.” reads the report published by Cohere. “Cohere’s sandbox system blocked the attempt, but the act…
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Magento Campaign Infects 953 Online Stores Across Five Domains
Sansec tracks a Magento skimmer campaign that infected 953 stores, using five domains, bot filtering and malicious code hidden in CMS blocks. A criminal group has infected 953 online stores since July 2025, mostly Magento shops, according to Sansec researchers. The attackers add a small piece of code to store pages. When someone visits a shop, their browser contacts the attackers’ server to get further instructions. The server checks whether the visitor is a real shopper or a security scanner. If it detects a scanner, it hides the malicious activity. “deepveindrilling.com is the newest web ad…
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AI-Generated Fake Bank Calls and NFC App Enabled €380,000 Fraud, Dutch Police Say
Dutch police arrest two men over AI-voiced bank fraud that allegedly used a fake app to steal card data from 170 victims, causing €380,000 in losses. Rotterdam police have arrested two men over a new type of bank fraud that used AI-generated phone calls, a fake banking app, and NFC technology to steal bank card data. In just three weeks, the scheme allegedly cost 170 victims around €380,000. “Rotterdam police arrested two suspects accused of a new form of bank-helpdesk fraud. The operation allegedly caused around €380,000 in losses for 170 victims in just three weeks.” NL Times reports. “The…
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Researchers Uncover Rentable Android Spyware uCreater Targeting WeChat and Telegram
uCreater is Android spyware disguised as trusted apps, stealing credentials, messages and wallet data through a rentable platform. uCreater is a rentable Android spyware platform that hides inside repackaged legitimate apps, targeting messaging services and mobile wallets. Its YingGai framework can intercept one-time passwords, steal account and chat data, collect contacts, manipulate sessions and spoof camera feeds to bypass identity checks. Victims may install modified versions of Telegram, WeChat or GCash through sideloading or social engineering. Researcher Ovi found stolen data on a cont…
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PHP2Shell: Suspected North Korean campaign targets 216 vulnerable PHP hosts
Cyfirma links PHP2Shell scans of 216 vulnerable hosts to a suspected North Korean campaign using AI to rank public exploits. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS scale. The flaws affect all PHP versions that handle web requests. The vulnerable code dates back to PHP 5.4, released in 2012, and resides in the PHP engine itself rather than in individual applications. Attackers can exploit the flaws to execute code remotely by sending specially crafted HTTP requests, without authentication.…
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Anthropic reveals how Claude Mythos 5 crossed security testing boundaries
Anthropic says Claude Mythos 5 targeted real developers with fake identities to push malicious code during a security test. A cybersecurity test is supposed to measure what an AI model can do within an agreed boundary. In one UK AI Security Institute evaluation, Claude Mythos 5 crossed that boundary, targeted a real GitHub project and created fake identities to persuade its maintainers to accept malicious code. The maintainers refused. That stopped the attempted compromise, but it left a question that matters well beyond AI testing: what happens when a model treats completing its task as more…
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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 the same time, AI is creating new capabilities for threat detection, incident analysis and response. Security Affairs’ new newsletter follows this evolution, covering every week the latest t…
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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 to a high priority Backdoor ROMULUS: Analysis of a New Multi-Payload ClickFix Delivery Platform Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware Pegasus and Mercenary Spyware Attacks…
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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 AddressesU.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogPHP Warns of New Code Execution Flaw Days After PHP2Shell PatchesMeta Faces $25 Billion Penalty Linked to Cambridge Analytica ScandalCapcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email AddressesU.S. CISA add…
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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 tried to find weaknesses in those systems and why it stopped training its most advanced models for 11 days in September. “Based on the red-teaming results, the fixes we had implemented, and improvements to our monitoring and stopping systems, we judg…
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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, and why this particular security flaw is so serious? PHP is a programming language widely used to build websites and web applications. It powers a significant share of the web. PHP2Shell is serious because it can allow…
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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 an app for Nextcloud that lets you open, edit and collaborate on documents, spreadsheets and presentations directly in your browser, without needing Microsoft Office installed on your compu…
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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 their product, set a price, and then hope that customers renew their contracts. In a space as fast-paced as AI, such a strategy is no longer safe. Without usage as a guide, price decisions are made on assumptions rather than facts. Product roadmaps ar…
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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, along with account details including creation dates, last login dates, login counts, and the IP addresses used for the latest logins. “We have recently discovered that unauthorized access by a third party occurred to our online membe…
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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 VMware SD-WAN, a technology that helps companies securely connect offices, data centers, cloud services, and remote sites over wide-area networks. It is now associa…
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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 says is unlikely to be used in practice. An application must meet several conditions: it must configure session.serialize_handler as php_binary or php_serialize, change it to php at runtime using ini_set(), and make this change…
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Meta Faces $25 Billion Penalty Linked to Cambridge Analytica Scandal
A New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion for misleading users about privacy, setting a record penalty. Meta plans to appeal. This week a New Mexico judge ordered Meta to pay the state $25 billion. The order follows a jury finding that the company deceived Facebook users about their privacy, and it’s the biggest fine ever imposed on Meta. State District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew wrote that Facebook’s deception was intentional and that executives consistently misled users about how the platform worked. “Facebook promised users that they (the users) controlled their data. This was…
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PHP2Shell: Millions of Attacks, No Confirmed Successful Exploits Yet
PHP2Shell attacks have surged into the millions, but no successful exploitation is confirmed. Patch it immediately. On October 21, PHP released emergency patches for two critical vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 (CVSS score of 9.2), affecting every PHP version that handles web requests. The bug code dates back to PHP 5.4 from 2012, lives in the PHP engine itself rather than in any application, and allows unauthenticated remote code execution via crafted HTTP requests. Cloudflare researchers observed tens of thousands of exploit attempts within 45 minutes of publi…
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INTERPOL Operation Serengeti III Nets 1,462 Arrests and Recovers $105 Million in Cybercrime Crackdown
INTERPOL’s Operation Serengeti III led to 1,462 arrests, disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered $105 million across 21 countries. INTERPOL announced the results of Operation Serengeti III, a multinational cybercrime crackdown that led to 1,462 arrests, disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. The operation brought together law enforcement agencies from 21 countries between June 29 and August 31, 2026, targeting online fraud, ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), scams and digital extortion. “One of Africa’s largest cybercrime…
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Microsoft Links ConnectWise Breach to China-Linked Group Using AI Pentesting Tool ARTEX
China-linked Storm-0940 used AI tool ARTEX to target 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, exploiting stolen ConnectWise credentials at machine speed. Microsoft published a detailed technical report naming Storm-0940, a China state-aligned group, as the actor behind the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain compromise. The group used ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, to run attacks at machine speed against hundreds of organizations across aerospace, defense, energy, financial services, government, manufacturing, and more. “Several of these Storm-0940 ARTEX-driven attacks h…
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Signal Vulnerability Could Keep Calls Alive After Users Hang Up
A critical Signal flaw could keep calls active after hang-up, exposing microphone or camera. Update to a fixed version immediately. A critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-113380 (CVSS score 9.3 of 10), in Signal ’s calling library could allow a malicious caller to interfere with call termination, potentially leaving the victim’s microphone and camera active after they believe the conversation has ended. The flaw affects versions before 2.72.0 of the library RingRTC, which the messaging app uses to provide voice and video calling. It highlights a security problem that deserves attention…
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PHP2Shell Attacks Started Four Days Before Public Disclosure, AWS Reports
AWS detected PHP2Shell exploit attempts four days before disclosure, highlighting the risk of attackers exploiting critical flaws before patches arrive. Attackers attempted to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before the flaws became public, according to Amazon Threat Intelligence. “Amazon Threat Intelligence identified a PHP2Shell exploitation attempt dating to Oct. 17, 2026, in MadPot telemetry, four days before public disclosure of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619.” reads the report published by Amazon team.”The exploit attempt originated from an IP address associated w…
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FBI and CISA Warn of SafePay Ransomware Attacks on 600 Organizations
SafePay ransomware has hit 600+ organizations since 2024, using stolen credentials, VPN access and double extortion to pressure victims into paying. CISA, the FBI, the US Secret Service, Germany’s Landeskriminalamt Rheinland-Pfalz, and two UK law enforcement agencies jointly published an advisory this week on SafePay, a ransomware group they describe as one of the most active operations currently running. The group has breached at least 600 organizations across critical infrastructure sectors since August 2024, spanning North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. “Since August 2024,…
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Russian Satellite Makes a Close Approach To A Commercial Radar Satellite Used by Ukraine
A Russian satellite made a close approach to a commercial radar satellite linked to Ukraine, raising concerns about surveillance and security in space. A Russian-made satellite called Kosmos 2612 got very close to ICEYE-X36 last week, a commercial Earth-observation satellite that may support countries like Ukraine. CNN reports it may have come within less than a mile. Orbital monitoring company LeoLabs says the behavior is consistent with rendezvous and proximity operations, meaning maneuvers designed to bring two spacecraft together. “A rare move by a Russian-made satellite may have brought…
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OpenAI Reports Two Incidents of AI Agents Disabling Their Own Oversight
OpenAI reveals two cases of AI agents disabling safety monitoring during coding tasks, with one falsely denying it had removed the safeguards. OpenAI published an internal incident report this week documenting two separate cases in which GPT-6 class agents weakened the system designed to detect misaligned behavior, in both cases while carrying out routine coding tasks. This wasn’t an external attack. These were internal deployments, and the agents made their own judgment calls that happened to gut the oversight watching them. OpenAI explained that “in both cases, the agents considered whether…
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US Government Orders DeepSeek Out of Federal Civilian Systems
PHP prepares emergency patches for two critical RCE flaws, while older, unsupported versions could remain exposed without vendor fixes. The U.S. government ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them. The order also reaches third-party tools and services built with DeepSeek implementations, which is the part most organizations should notice. The notice doesn’t explain exactly what counts as a “DeepSeek implementation.” Agencies will need to ask suppliers whether their products fall under the ban. “The Department of Homeland Security…
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PHP Prepares Emergency Fixes for Two Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws
PHP will release emergency fixes for two critical RCE flaws rated 9.2, as researchers warn of potential risks to exposed and unsupported systems. PHP is preparing an emergency security release for two critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute code remotely on affected servers. The update is scheduled for today, October 21 at 14:00 UTC, after details of the flaws leaked online ahead of their planned disclosure. I have successfully recreated & lab/field tested CVE-2026-109618 / CVE-2026-109619 > Two heap use-after-free primitives in PHP's `session.upload_progress` handler (`php_…
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NSO Spyware Pegasus Hit a Serbian University Rector Six Days Before Snap Elections
Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus on a Serbian rector’s iPhone 6 days before elections, raising the known civil society spyware target count to 16. The Citizen Lab published a research note confirming that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware sometime in 2026. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning Đokić did nothing to trigger it. No tap, no opened file, nothing. “In collaboration with the SHARE Foundation, we found with high confidence that Professor Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, and promin…
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Nikkei data breach affected over 1.8 million records
Nikkei disclosed a data breach affecting over 1.8 million records after hackers used stolen credentials to access a cloud service for system development. Japanese media company Nikkei has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 1.8 million records. The company, known for its financial news publications, including The Nikkei and the Financial Times, said attackers accessed a cloud service used for system development. On the morning of October 7, the hackers used previously stolen credentials to gain access. Nikkei has published details of the incident in an official statement. “A cloud ser…
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Google Cloud Outage in London Disrupts Revolut Banking Services
Google Cloud’s London outage disrupted Revolut payments and ATM withdrawals, while ING Germany reported online banking issues. Multiple Google Cloud services went offline in the London region this morning, according to Google’s status page, and the disruption didn’t stay contained to infrastructure dashboards. BREAKING: Revolut's app and cards have stopped working across Europe. Google Cloud's London region is affected by network failures. Revolut, and many other services, runs on Google Cloud. Revolut says money and data are safe but has not named a cause. pic.twitter.com/kyxOMlVaak— Interna…
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AfD Email Breach Exposes 421,000 Messages in Anonymous Online Archive
A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) confirmed on October 19 that its hosting provider was hacked in September and that mailboxes were copied. By the time the confirmation reached Bild, a website called hexane.cc had already been online for hours offering an index of what it claims are 421,179 internal party emails. “In September 2026 there was a hacking attack on a hosting provider used by our party.” By then the website hexane.cc had…
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Microsoft Treats AI Agents as Insider Threats in New Security Framework
Microsoft urges organizations to secure AI Agents as insider threats, using dynamic permissions, continuous risk monitoring and automated containment. Microsoft published a detailed blog post explaining how organizations should secure AI agents. Microsoft sees them as a growing insider threat, not just a possible risk in the future. AI agents are not dangerous by nature, but they can access critical systems and may fail, be manipulated, or be compromised. “The most trustworthy agentic system will not be the one with the model we trust most. It will be the one designed that enables us to trust…
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Plex2Shell Exploit Used to Turn Vulnerable Plex Servers Into Crypto Miners
Attackers exploit Plex2Shell flaws to install crypto miners and proxy software. Admins should update their Plex Media Server. Plex Media Server is designed to make movies, music, and other media available across devices. But when a server is exposed to the internet and runs vulnerable software, it can become an entry point for attackers who have little interest in your film collection. On October 16, 2026, security researcher Zach Main published technical details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a vulnerability chain dubbed Plex2Shell. Within a day, researchers had observed attackers using…
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Meta wants to scrape your website to train its AI, and you can’t say no
Meta wants the right to scrape your website for AI training. If you have a business account, that includes you. At the end of the month, Meta plans to change its commercial terms in a way that matters to every company advertising or selling through its platforms. The new language takes effect on October 30, 2026. It lets Meta collect content from websites associated with business customers and use it to train AI models or otherwise improve its products, according to The Register. Meta defines “business customer” broadly. It includes anyone who uses ads or marketing messages, sells or lists pr…
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Deepfakes and Election Manipulation: UK Watchdog Seeks Faster Detection
The UK Electoral Commission is building an AI system to alert candidates to damaging deepfakes within three hours. The UK’s Electoral Commission is building an AI-powered system to tell candidates about significant deepfakes within three hours of posting. Its chief executive, Vijay Rangarajan, said so at a panel at the Conservative Party’s annual conference last week, as Tech Policy Press points out that it’s a rare public intervention from a man who has run the regulator since 2024 and who mostly speaks to Parliament in evidence sessions. He began with an example from another country. During…
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Big Fish: OpenBSD Root Exploit Chains a 37-Year-Old BSD Bug With a Kernel Flaw
OpenBSD flaws, including a 37-year-old BSD bug, enable local attackers to bypass security protections and gain root access. Patches are available. Cybersecurity firm Calif published a full exploit and write-up this week for a local privilege escalation on OpenBSD 7.9 that chains two separate kernel flaws, one of them a 37-year-old integer overflow inherited from the original BSD sources. The exploit bypasses OpenBSD’s KARL address randomization and the SMAP and SMEP hardware protections without needing any information disclosure vulnerability at all. OpenBSD already shipped patches for both i…
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Attackers Abuse Stolen ConnectWise Application Credentials to Target Microsoft 365
Attackers stole ConnectWise application credentials to access Microsoft 365 tenants, prompting the company to suspend cloud services. ConnectWise suspended its Cloud Backup service and took both SaaS Security and Cloud Management offline over the weekend after discovering that unknown attackers had obtained unauthorized access to seven of its application identities. The company discovered the incident on October 14 through internal monitoring, disabled the compromised identities on October 17, and is still investigating how attackers obtained the credentials. “We have taken protective action…
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Japan’s SiteGuard WAF flaw CVE-2026-106931 is already being exploited
Attackers are exploiting vulnerability CVE-2026-106931 in SiteGuard Server Edition to run commands as root or SYSTEM. EG Secure Solutions published an urgent alert warning of CVE-2026-106931, an OS command injection bug in SiteGuard Server Edition. Threat actors are already exploiting it in the wild. A successful exploit lets them run commands with root or SYSTEM privileges on the server where the product runs. SiteGuard is a Japanese web application firewall (WAF) that runs directly on the web server it protects. The vulnerability affects its statistics feature, which is enabled by default.…
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16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Bug Lets Attackers Take Over Routers Without a Password
A Broadcom Wi-Fi flaw dating back to 2010 allows attackers within Wi-Fi range to execute code on vulnerable routers without authentication. Researcher Quentin Kaiser presented a talk at Hexacon in Paris documenting a vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary 802.11 implementation that has been present in their SDK since at least 2010. The bug allows an attacker to get unauthenticated remote code execution on affected routers without knowing the WiFi password or going through the normal WPS setup process. As of October 15, 2026, none of the affected devices in Belgium had received a patch. “A vu…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 4
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 the same time, AI is creating new capabilities for threat detection, incident analysis and response. Security Affairs’ new newsletter follows this evolution, covering every week the latest t…
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Rust-Based CikaBika Bot Turns Discord into a Command Center
CikaBika Bot uses fake documents to infect Windows systems, then abuses Discord and Ngrok to execute commands, spy on victims, and steal files. Darktrace researchers have documented a new campaign distributing a remote access trojan called CikaBika Bot, written in Rust and controlled entirely through Discord. The infection chain starts with a disk image that looks like a business proposal, and ends with an attacker who can run arbitrary commands, steal files, and capture your screen, all through messages in a chat platform. “The infection chain begins with a disk image and a malicious Windows…
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SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 119
Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter IronChain Ransomware Threatens Businesses with Permanent Data Loss and Costly Downtime AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter XWorm Reborn: From infostealer to surveillance platform Hirudo: From Fake Updates to Patched Banking Apps The campaign that never stopped: tracking GhostAction from 2025 to 2026 Exposing AdFection How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware…
