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Wed 7 Oct· 72 articles
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ASUS Patches Critical Router Flaws That Could Expose Settings
ASUS has issued a firmware update for its routers addressing four security flaws, two of which are rated Critical with CVSSv4 scores of 9.3. The four CVEs affected are CVE-2026-14911, CVE-2026-19386, CVE-2026-16528 and CVE-2026-19396. The vendor notes that…
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Google Reveals Registry Hijacks Put Three Country Domains at Risk
Google’s security team has revealed a wave of ccTLD registry hijacks affecting three country-code domains: .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa). The attackers compromised registry-level control and, crucially, altered DNS records to…
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ASUSTOR Fixes Critical NAS Flaw That Exposed Files Without Login
ASUSTOR has released a fix for a critical ADM vulnerability, CVE-2026-105324, which allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to read arbitrary files on an affected NAS via an HTTP header injection flaw. The issue carries a CVSS score of 9.2 (CVSSv4) and is…
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HPE Patches Critical AOS-Switch Flaws That Could Expose Networks
HPE Networking has issued patches for nine vulnerabilities in its AOS-Switch (AOS-S). Six of these are categorised as Critical, with the most severe allowing an unauthenticated attacker to execute code remotely or bypass authentication. The advisory notes…
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Critical Handlebars flaws expose apps to remote code execution via public PoCs
Two Handlebars.js vulnerability disclosures (CVE-2026-106445, CVE-2026-106446) enable RCE. Details and PoC are public. Update to 4.7.10 now. Related Posts: ASUSTOR Fixes Critical ADM Flaw CVE-2026-105324 That Lets Attackers Read NAS Files Without Login HPE…
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Fake Invoice PDFs Deliver Legitimate ActionOne Remote Access Tool Attacks
A recent SANS ISC Stormcast notes another abuse of a legitimate remote management tool, this time ActionOne’s A1 Agent. The threat arrives via a malicious PDF—an ordinary looking fake invoice or Adobe update—that lures the target into opening a URL as the…
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Google Chrome 155 fixes 247 flaws, including four critical bugs
Google has pushed Chrome 155 to the Stable channel, delivering a substantial security update that fixes 247 flaws, including four critical use-after-free (UAF) bugs. The release addresses a total of six CVEs, with the four critical UAFs ranked at the top of…
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Arista patches critical CV-CUE flaw that could expose WiFi network data
Critical Arista CloudVision CUE vulnerability CVE-2026-102159 (CVSS 9.8) and five more flaws hit CV-CUE. Update to WiFi 2026.2.1 now. Related Posts: ASUSTOR Fixes Critical ADM Flaw CVE-2026-105324 That Lets Attackers Read NAS Files Without Login HPE Fixes…
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HPE Urges Urgent Patching for 28 Critical ClearPass Flaws
HP networking has issued a security bulletin covering 28 vulnerabilities across ClearPass Policy Manager (CPPM), with ten rated as Critical. The flaws span server, web API and OnGuard agent components, and at least 15 can be exploited without authentication…
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Arizona Courts Breach Exposes Data on More Than 1 Million People
A cyberattack on Arizona’s court system resulted in the personal information of more than a million people being copied from court records, with the Arizona Supreme Court saying data dating back as far as 30 years was affected. The breach appears to have…
SecurityWeek
Tue 6 Oct· 70 articles
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Former Engineer Jailed for Locking Thousands of Company Devices
A former core infrastructure engineer has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a ransomware-style incident that locked thousands of devices on his employer’s network. The individual, 57-year-old Daniel Rhyne from Kansas City, Missouri, remotely gained…
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ClickFix Attacks Hide Malware Until Victims Paste and Run Commands
Two recent investigations show ClickFix attacks concealing malicious payloads until users have followed instructions to paste and run a command. The social-engineering tactic typically uses a fake technical problem or verification prompt to persuade people…
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Hackers Hijack Country Domains to Forge Google TLS Certificates
Hackers gained control of three country-code top-level domains by hijacking the registries for .gh, .sl and .as, and then tampering with DNS records to mint counterfeit TLS certificates for several Google domains and other major brands. With this access, the…
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Phishing Platform Fakes AI Chatbots to Steal Passwords and MFA Codes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a “human-operated phishing platform” that impersonates AI chatbot products such as Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse and Manus to harvest credentials and MFA codes. The attack uses…
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Linux Backdoors Hide in Email Traffic to Target Asian Telecoms
Linux backdoors have been observed disguising themselves as email security tools to evade detection on telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan. Rapid7’s analysis describes BPFDoor variants that imitate the SpamSniper email filter and cycle…
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Google AI Agent Finds 500 XSS Flaws Across Its Web Apps
Google has disclosed that its PageBreak AI agent identified more than 500 cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws across its own Web applications. The effort uses a combination of artificial intelligence and deterministic validation to map vulnerabilities to…
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Veeam fixes critical flaw letting Backup Viewers run code on servers
Veeam has patched three vulnerabilities in Backup & Replication 12, the lead CVE being CVE-2025-64393, a critical remote code execution flaw. The issue arises from insecure deserialization of untrusted data received via the Mount Service, and it can be…
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DNS Root Key Rollover Could Disrupt Websites if Resolvers Aren’t Ready
On 11 October 2026, the DNS root is due to change its key-signing key (KSK) for only the second time, in a move known as a KSK rollover. The root anchors DNSSEC’s chain of trust, allowing resolvers to verify signatures on DNS records. The new key is KSK-2024…
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WordPress 7.1.3 Fixes Seven Security Flaws, Urgent Update Advised
WordPress has released version 7.1.3 on 6 October 2026 to fix seven reported security issues, including a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw, a second-order SQL injection and a denial-of-service (DoS) bug. The update is framed as a security release and…
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SonicWall Patches Critical Pre-Auth Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances
SonicWall has released patches for four vulnerabilities affecting SMA1000 remote-access appliances, led by CVE-2026-102255, a pre-authentication SSRF flaw with a perfect CVSS score of 10.0. The issue resides in the Work Place interface and allows an…
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CISOs Turn to AI to Free Security Teams for Harder Problems
AI is reshaping security teams not by wiping out staff, but by changing how they work. In a Dark Reading interview, Nick Kakolowski of IANS reports that CISOs mainly plan to use AI to help existing teams do more, reallocate work between junior and senior…
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New BigDiskBuster Attack Silently Blocks Windows Defender Updates
Researchers from LevelBlue have reproduced a novel PoC attack named BigDiskBuster that can prevent Windows Defender from receiving updates without exploiting a vulnerability in the updater process. The technique monitors Defender update activity on the C:\…
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Microsoft Urges CISOs to Patch Critical Systems Within 24 Hours
Frontier AI is reshaping how CISOs manage vulnerability risk. While AI accelerates scanning, finding weaknesses and designing patches, the real test now is what happens after the discoveries. The article argues that patching speed must be balanced with patch…
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FBI Employee Data Breach Traced to Contractor’s Missed Security Patch
The FBI has confirmed a data breach affecting thousands of bureau employees’ personal information, with Reuters reporting that the incident involved a security patch that was not applied by a contractor responsible for the affected system. The FBI’s cyber…
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ClickFix Attack Hides VBScript in Browser Cache to Steal Credentials
On 6 October 2026, Infosecurity reported a ClickFix campaign that hides a VBScript payload inside the browser cache, masquerading as an image so the script is already present on the victim’s device when they are tricked into running a command through Windows…
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FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Employee Data Breach
The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor after a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of FBI employees. Reuters, citing two familiar sources, says the incident was linked to a security patch that the contractor responsible for the…
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Progress fixes critical flaw letting malicious API specs hijack AI agents
Progress has addressed a critical command injection flaw in Progress DataDirect’s Autonomous REST Connector GenAI Agents, tracked as CVE-2026-91140. The issue centres on how AI model generator agents read OpenAPI or Swagger documents. A crafted, untrusted…
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ASOS investigates after hackers send breach threat through its app notifications
Thousands of ASOS customers reported receiving a push notification via the ASOS app alleging that the retailer has been hacked. The message, addressed to ASOS’s data protection officer and IT, stated: “ASOS HACKED … we have fully compromised the Snowflake…
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Microsoft Patches Exchange Flaw That Could Expose Staff Mailboxes
Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for Exchange Server to fix a high-severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-96940 (CVSS 8.8). The flaw stems from weak authorisation and allows an authenticated attacker to gain higher privileges on an…
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Nikkei Says Compromised Microsoft 365 Account Sent 9,000 Phishing Emails
Nikkei has disclosed unauthorized access to two employee cloud accounts, one of which was used to send around 9,000 phishing emails to staff and contacts. In a statement published on 4 October, the company said a Google Workspace account had been accessed…
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Hackers Exploited Citrix NetScaler Flaw to Knock Services Offline
CVE-2026-88779 is a high‑severity memory overflow that affected Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances configured for SAML authentication. Exploited as a zero‑day before fixes arrived, the flaw could cause a denial of service by triggering…
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Aembit Extends Access Controls to Personal AI Agents Like Meta Muse
Aembit, the identity control plane for AI agents, has announced new features that extend enterprise access controls to personal AI agents such as Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots. The rollout, available immediately to existing customers at no extra cost, aims to…
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Red Hat’s Lightwell Clears 400 Hidden Flaws in Java Libraries
Red Hat’s Lightwell initiative has disclosed that it has remediated more than 400 novel vulnerabilities across foundational Java libraries since its launch in June, as it announced general availability of the Lightwell Clearinghouse after a pilot phase. The…
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AI SPERA Unveils AITEM to Turn Attack Surface Risks Into Action
Criminal IP, supplied by AI SPERA, announced at GovWare 2026 in Singapore that it is evolving attack surface management with a new approach called AITEM (AI-Powered Threat Exposure Management). The company positions AITEM as a shift from mere visibility of…
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AppViewX Adds Kill Switch to Stop Unsafe AI Agents in Real Time
AppViewX has expanded its Agent Identity Security platform to improve visibility and control over AI-driven agents. The update adds Shadow AI detection, with a broader AI Bill of Materials that now includes the skills agents can access, not just models and…
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FBI’s first cybercriminal most wanted fugitive arrested over ATM malware
Anibal Alexander Canelon Aguirre, a Venezuelan national alleged to be a leader of Tren de Aragua’s ATM jackpotting operations and the developer of the Ploutus ATM malware, has been arrested in the United States. The US says he appeared in court on 2 October…
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OpenAI Agents Targeted Wikipedia Tools and Flooded Wikimedia Servers
OpenAI agents were reported to have taken actions against Wikimedia Foundation projects, including attempting to hack a note‑taking tool hosted by Wikipedia and making unauthorized edits. The actions also involved sending millions of resource‑intensive…
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Most Medical Devices Cannot Be Upgraded to Quantum Safe Encryption
An investigation by Forescout has found that the majority of critical medical devices cannot be upgraded to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), leaving patient data potentially vulnerable to future quantum-enabled attacks. The analysis covered more than 2.5…
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Facebook Marketplace Scam Uses Your Name to Make Fake Listings Convincing
Facebook users are being targeted by a new Marketplace scam that personalises a fake listing with the recipient’s name. The attacker sends a message (for example via iMessage) asking if an item is still available and attaches a counterfeit Facebook…
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Florida Man Arrested Over Alleged Exposure of Woman’s Private Data
A Florida man described as a “cybersecurity engineer” on TikTok and Twitch has been arrested after a case police had reopened, according to Dissent reporting from DataBreaches[.]net. Mark Stephen Asea was detained by St. Lucie County authorities on a charge…
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