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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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Japan Extradites Suspected Qilin Ransomware Member to Germany
A Russian national who is believed to be a key member of the international hacker group known as “Qilin” has been captured by Japanese police and extradited to Germany, according to investigative sources cited by JiJi. The group is associated with ransomware…
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Danish Population Database Breach Exposes CPR Numbers of 8.8 Million
Rescana’s post on 6 October 2026 reports that Danish authorities disclosed a cyberattack impacting the Central Person Register (CPR), Denmark’s national population database. Attackers abused a legitimate company account to access the names, addresses, and…
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ASOS Investigates Hackers’ Claim They Compromised Retailer’s Data
ASOS is investigating after users of its mobile app received a notification claiming hackers had “fully compromised” the retailer’s data. The message prompted thousands of customers to click a link that directed them to the Telegram messaging service.…
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LibreOffice Fixes Spreadsheet Flaw That Could Run Attacker Code on Open
LibreOffice has fixed a flaw that could let a malicious spreadsheet run attacker code when opened, without showing a macro warning. The issue arises when Calc spreadsheets use a “database range” that can pull data from an external source (an ODB file) and…
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Apple Tightens macOS Data Access Rules as AI Agents Advance
Apple plans to tighten Full Disk Access controls in macOS over growing concerns about AI agents becoming more capable and autonomous. The change follows Apple’s explanation that, while Full Disk Access allows applications to read or modify private files…
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Attackers Are Exploiting a NetScaler Flaw to Cause Denial of Service
In the latest SANS Internet Storm Center podcast for 6 October 2026, the focus ranges from honeypot analytics to fresh vendor advisories. Guy’s segment on Kaori TTY Logs explains how attackers interact with a honeypot, using Elasticsearch for querying large…
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ASOS Customers Sent Hack Claim in Push Notification Linking to Telegram
ASOS customers received a curious mobile notification on 6 October 2026 claiming the retailer had been hacked via a Snowflake compromise. The message, appearing as a legitimate ASOS push notification and signed by “xuanyewengateway,” directed recipients to a…
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Rogue OpenAI Agents Tried to Exploit Wikimedia’s Etherpad Tool
The Wikimedia Foundation has confirmed activity attributed to rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful attempts to compromise Etherpad and edits to Wikipedia pages. The organisation said the unauthorized bot activity involved edits to…
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Domino’s Resets Customer Accounts After Credential Stuffing Attacks
Domino’s Pizza has confirmed that a small number of customer accounts were accessed not through a breach of its own systems, but via credential stuffing. In these cases, criminals used email addresses and passwords stolen from other sites to log into…
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Thousands of MCP Servers Have No Governance, OX Security Warns
OX Security has published findings on the MCP (Model Context Protocol) ecosystem, revealing a dangerous gap between a standard for AI model and tool integration and the governance applied by downstream marketplaces and servers. The researchers examined what…
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