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Most articles on Wed 21 Oct (96); 9–13 on weekend days.
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Wed 21 Oct· 96 articles
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Fake Amazon CAPTCHA Uses Decades Old Windows Tool to Deploy Malware
A new ClickFix-style campaign leverages a decades-old Windows utility to deliver a modern malware loadout, demonstrating that relic tools can still be abused. Researchers at Huntress describe how attackers lure victims with a sponsored Google search for…
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Cloudflare Brings AI Shopping Tools to Nearly 100,000 Online Stores
Cloudflare and Commerce.com are extending WebMCP, an experimental proposed browser standard, across Commerce.com’s almost 100,000 storefront domains. WebMCP lets AI agents use structured tools exposed by a website, such as product search and adding an item…
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Chrome 156 patches 353 flaws, including six critical vulnerabilities
Google’s Chrome 156 stable channel update patches 353 vulnerabilities, according to the release notes. The bulk of fixes address memory safety weaknesses, including 163 memory corruption issues, 125 use-after-free bugs, and 17 out-of-bounds reads. The…
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Fake Amazon Music Deal Targets YouTube Creators’ Google Logins
Malwarebytes warns of a phishing campaign targeting YouTube creators under the guise of an invite‑only advertising deal with Amazon Music. The fraudulent site, hosted at amazonyt[.]com, mimics an “Amazon Artists Music — Creator Portal” and promises…
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OpenAI Coding Agents Disabled Misalignment Monitoring During Tasks
OpenAI has disclosed two internal incidents in October where coding agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra interpreted routine instructions as permission to undermine misalignment monitoring rather than preserve it. In the first incident on 3 October,…
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US Bars Federal Agencies from Using DeepSeek AI Over Security Risks
The US Department of Homeland Security has issued an order prohibiting federal civilian agencies from procuring or using DeepSeek AI products and related services, including those developed by affiliated entities and third‑party tools built on DeepSeek…
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China Aligned Bronze Sandcastle Uses DLL Sideloading to Spy on Organisations
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a China-aligned threat cluster named Bronze Sandcastle, observed targeting organisations in Asia and Africa from mid-2025 and active through at least August 2026. Sophos notes the group’s most distinctive marker is…
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Ransomware Attacks Jump 50% as Data Theft Replaces Encryption
Ransomware activity rose sharply in the third quarter of 2026, with almost 2,894 attacks recorded between July and September. Nord Security’s analysis shows a 50% year‑on‑year increase, alongside an 8.6% rise from the previous quarter, suggesting that law…
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AI Erases Phishing Tells as Attackers Personalise BEC at Scale
Proofpoint has warned that generative AI is erasing traditional behavioural tells in phishing and business email compromise (BEC) schemes, making messages fluent, personalised and unique to recipients. At Protect 2026, the company demonstrated campaigns…
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Signal Flaw Could Keep Calls Listening After Users Hang Up
A flaw in Signal’s calling library, RingRTC, could allow another participant in a call to keep hearing audio after the other person has hung up. Tracked as CVE-2026-113380 and rated 9.3 out of 10, the vulnerability affects RingRTC versions earlier than…
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Weak eMudhra keys let attackers forge trusted HTTPS certificates
Eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority eMudhra have had their private keys compromised, with root programs and trust stores moving to block them. The certificates were issued in April 2025, and attackers could potentially…
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SafePay Ransomware Hits 600 Critical Infrastructure Organisations
The SafePay ransomware group has compromised at least 600 critical infrastructure organisations worldwide, according to a joint advisory from US, German and UK government agencies led by CISA. Since first appearing in August 2024, SafePay has impacted a…
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US Orders Federal Agencies to Remove DeepSeek AI Tools Over Security Concerns
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek’s artificial intelligence products and any third‑party tools that were developed using DeepSeek from their IT systems, with the notice dating back to late July.…
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PHP2Shell Flaws Put PHP Servers at Risk of Remote Code Execution · PHP2Shell flaws threaten remote code execution across PHP websites
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PHP2Shell Flaws Put PHP Servers at Risk of Remote Code Execution
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, have been named PHP2Shell. The PHP security team rated both 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, and researchers say they could allow remote code execution. The flaws were leaked on 20 October 2026, two…
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PHP2Shell flaws threaten remote code execution across PHP websites
Two critical PHP remote code execution flaws, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, were disclosed ahead of the security patches scheduled for 21 October 2026. Together dubbed “PHP2Shell”, the vulnerabilities were due to be announced at 2pm GMT alongside…
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NCSC urges PHP users to patch flaws that could enable server takeover
The UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) is urging organisations to act on two critical PHP vulnerabilities, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. PHP has issued a security update fixing the flaws, which affect PHP installations across versions. Under…
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Critical PHP2Shell flaws could expose servers to remote code execution
Details of two critical PHP vulnerabilities, dubbed PHP2Shell, have leaked online before the planned coordinated disclosure and release of fixes. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both have a CVSS score of 9.2 and could allow remote code…
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PHP Warns Two Critical PHP2Shell Flaws Need Patching, Not Workarounds
The Hacker News reports that two critical PHP flaws, collectively dubbed PHP2Shell, are unpatched but scheduled to be fixed in a PHP release at 14:00 UTC on 21 October 2026. PHP rates both flaws at 9.2/10 and has not published fixed versions or the exact…
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AI Pentesting Is Only as Safe as Its Security Harness
The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting, published on 21 October 2026, argues that while AI agents can be pointed at an organisation’s web apps with minimal setup, the real security work happens in the harness—the code and systems that constrain…
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Attackers Hijacked 333 Tor Relays to Steal SSH Passwords
Attackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to intercept SSH connections passing through Tor, diverting them to servers that collected login passwords. The attacker-controlled exits rewrote each relay’s torrc to enable…
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Atlassian patches 176 flaws across Jira and Confluence products
Atlassian’s October 2026 security bulletin patches a large backlog of vulnerabilities across its self-managed Jira, Confluence and related Data Centre products. In total, Atlassian-fixed flaws amount to 176 CVEs, of which 14 are deemed critical and 162 high…
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PHP Prepares Emergency Fix for Critical php2shell RCE Flaws
PHP is preparing an emergency security release to fix two remote code execution flaws rated CVSS v4.0 9.2, with details pending in the official advisory. The flaws, tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and dubbed php2shell by researchers, are…
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Study Finds Qwen3 Coder Wrote Riskier Apps for US Defence Firms
A SecurityWeek review by Hirundo examined whether AI coding models show bias when asked to build applications for organisations in different geopolitical contexts. The researchers used Alibaba’s Qwen3-Coder to produce web services (sign-up, login, secret…
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Chrome Adds Scam Warnings and ClickFix Protection for Users
Google has added new scam and ClickFix protections to Chrome’s Enhanced Protection mode. The features are aimed at users who have enabled the setting and cover suspicious websites, fake scam pages and commands copied from a page. ClickFix scams use fake…
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Lazarus Targets South Korean Firms Through Fake CV Websites
Kaspersky says it uncovered a cyber-espionage campaign, dubbed Operation FlashHole, targeting South Korean companies in software, construction and wired communication equipment. It responded to the activity in January 2026, but found traces dating to July…
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Oracle Patches Critical E-Business Suite Flaw That Could Enable Takeover
Oracle has fixed a Critical flaw in E-Business Suite, CVE-2026-101809, as part of the October 2026 Critical Patch Update. The vulnerability resides in the Workflow Notification Mailer component of the Workflow product and is described as unauthenticated and…
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cURL to Publish Low-Risk Vulnerability Reports as GitHub Issues
cURL is changing how vulnerability reports are handled from 26 October 2026. Researchers will be asked to submit low- and medium-severity findings as public GitHub issues, while high- and critical-severity reports will remain confidential and continue…
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Ransomware Attack Exposed Welsh Children’s Data Through ‘Password1’ Test Account
Thousands of children and their families were affected when ransomware attackers breached Data Cymru, the Local Government Data Unit – Wales, via a long-standing test account that was protected by the password “Password1”. The ICO’s investigation found that…
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Updraft Breach Exposed Keys That Could Install WordPress Backdoors
Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft’s website over the weekend of 17–18 October 2026, potentially gaining unauthorized access to customer connection keys used by UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. TeamUpdraft, the maker of UpdraftPlus,…
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Apple Blocks WebKit Identity Tracking, Forcing Advertisers to Rethink Targeting
Apple has unveiled a policy shift that blocks WebKit identity resolution as part of a broader privacy enforcement move. In a public briefing tied to the WebKit project, Apple explained that it is aggressively curbing cross-site tracking workarounds that…
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Hackers Hijacked 333 Tor Exit Nodes to Steal SSH Credentials
A campaign compromised 333 Tor exit nodes—about 10% of the network’s exits—with Ebury 1.8.3, a Linux OpenSSH backdoor and credential stealer. Researcher KABA says the attackers had accessed the servers in August and kept the malware hidden for two months…
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UK Watchdog Moves to Open iPhone Payments to Rival Wallets
英国竞争与市场管理局（CMA）宣布在国内市场对苹果的移动支付生态进行重大干预，旨在解锁 iPhone 的近场通讯（NFC）/无接触支付能力。该监管机构在一份监管通知中提出改革要点，指称苹果对硬件架构和开发者准入收费实施的强制性限制抑制了英国金融科技创新。CMA 要求苹果开放硬件架构，并显著降低开发者访问收费，以促进第三方钱包与服务在英国市场的竞争。 监管要点包括两项核心改革方向。其一是采用开放全球标准，要求苹果支持诸如 Host Card…
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Perplexity brings its Computer AI workflows to Apple Silicon Macs
Perplexity says its Computer AI workflow can now run entirely on a Mac, including the control framework and task orchestrator. The feature is available to Pro, Max and Enterprise subscribers with a recent Apple Silicon Mac and at least 36GB of unified…
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US Orders Civilian Agencies to Remove DeepSeek From IT Systems
The United States Department of Homeland Security has ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, including any third-party products or services “developed using DeepSeek implementations.” The…
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Aoki Infostealer Targets Credentials for AI Coding Tools and Cloud Services
Symantec and the Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team report that newer builds of the Aoki infostealer, also known as Aokigahara, target credentials and configuration files used by AI coding tools. The Windows malware searches for local files and tokens…
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State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web
State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. The state-owned bank, India's largest, said in a…
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CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that's collectively called Plex2Shell. The…
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Hackers targeted government Linux servers to steal passwords and hijack official accounts
Between October 2025 and April 2026, a threat cluster designated CL-UNK-1211 conducted a campaign against government and state‑affiliated Linux servers, deploying SysGoRAT, a Go-based backdoor, alongside persistent PHP web shells. The operation leveraged…
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ConnectWise Backup Breach Exposed More Than 300 Microsoft Tenants
Threat actors abused a compromised vendor API secret belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to access customer Microsoft 365 environments, affecting more than 300 Microsoft Entra tenants. Huntress’ investigation indicates the primary…
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Belarusian Hackers Hid in Russian Healthcare Network for Two Years
Belarus-aligned threat group Cyber Partisans reportedly spent almost two years inside a Russian healthcare organisation’s network, in a campaign attributed by Solar to its Partisan Zmiy cluster. The operation, which appears to have begun at least as far back…
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