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Every CyberSIXT summary, newest first, with a link to its story and to the original report.
Most articles on Wed 21 Oct (96); 9–13 on weekend days.
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| Thu 15 Oct | 78 |
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| Today, Sun 25 Oct | 9 so far |
Sun 25 Oct· 1 article
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OpenAI Agents Expose VM Escapes and Sandbox Weaknesses
OpenAI has disclosed that its frontier-model training programme, conducted with no live internet access, was resumed after a period of restrictions and red-teaming. The company said reinforcement learning and internal inference for its most capable models…
Sat 24 Oct· 5 articles
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Leaked LiteLLM Key Fuels Malicious PyPI Release
LiteLLM confirmed that a master key was accidentally published to a public GitHub repository on 27 May 2026, exposing a deployment of the LiteLLM Agent Platform. An unknown attacker used the unrevoked master key on 10 October 2026 to access the Agent…
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Google Says Gmail and Photos Could Shape AI Search Ads
Google has updated its privacy policy to clarify that personalised AI features in Search or Gemini may access data from other Google services, including Gmail and Google Photos, to tailor content and ads. The company states that users “may choose to allow…
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Popcorn Time flaw exposed millions to SYSTEM level attacks worldwide
Between November 2025 and March 2026, Eye Security uncovered a threat in Time4Popcorn’s Updater.exe, a background updater for a discontinued Popcorn Time variant. The Updater, running with SYSTEM on Windows and root on macOS, queried abandoned web addresses…
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Brotli Flaw Enables Code Execution in Unpatched Node.js Builds
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder has been disclosed as CVE-2026-111497, affecting a wide range of software that unpack Brotli-compressed data. The vulnerability can enable crafted Brotli streams to overwrite memory past the end of a…
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CISA Warns of Active Attacks on Nextcloud and Arista Flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, affecting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO).…
Fri 23 Oct· 10 articles
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BlackX Bootkit Bypasses Secure Boot in Central Asian Attacks
A new UEFI bootkit called BlackX has been observed targeting diplomatic organisations in Central Asia, specifically Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan, in early 2026. The operation appears to be a more capable evolution of the BlackLotus bootkit and is…
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Ruby Patches Regex Flaws Behind Four Critical GitLab RCEs
Ruby has released updates to address three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine embedded in the language. The fixes are in Ruby 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13, after GitLab had patched four critical remote code execution flaws over the preceding weeks.…
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AI Agents Power Ransomware Affiliates’ Attacks on Edge Devices
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered an AI-driven intrusion ecosystem operated by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework called Phantom, used in live operations…
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Hackers Target Exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto Firewalls in Global Campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a large-scale campaign that targeted exposed network edge devices, including Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. The joint investigation by Group-IB and NyxLab notes that operators in the…
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PHP Warns of Unpatched RCE Risk in Rare Session Configurations
PHP has warned of a fresh, unpatched RCE pathway on web servers, just two days after it released emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, tracked as CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications that are configured in a narrow, unusual way…
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Sandworm Used Yggdrasil Network in Destructive Ukraine Wiper Attack
The Hacker News reports that Sandworm, the Russian state‑sponsored group, worked with another actor to mount a destructive wiping operation against a Ukrainian logistics company. The operation began with initial access on 16 July 2025, delivered via a…
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Pillow flaw lets malicious EPS filenames trigger code execution via Ghostscript
Pillow, the widely used Python image library, has a critical flaw tied to how it handles EPS images. The vulnerability, CVE-2026-112900, arises because Pillow passes the EPS file name to Ghostscript when converting the PostScript to pixels, without first…
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Flaws in x402 SDKs let AI agents pay API bills without spending limits
Security firm V12 has disclosed a set of critical defects in the x402 SDKs used by AI agents to pay for API calls. The most serious flaw stemmed from the default client, which previously allowed automatic signing of payments without any spending limit. In…
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Node.js Brotli flaw enables remote code execution in Linux arm64 builds
Researchers have demonstrated a remote code execution (RCE) flaw in the Brotli decoder bundled with official Node[.]js builds, by feeding crafted Brotli data that exploits a mismatch in the decoder’s handling of a Brotli stream. The PoC, created by Imperva,…
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Attackers exploit PHP2Shell flaws to build a Mirai derived botnet
Threat researchers warn that attackers are probing PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619; CVSS 9.2) to drive infected hosts into a Mirai-derived botnet variant named Potassium. The exploits revolve around unauthenticated remote code…
Thu 22 Oct· 14 articles
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Arista VeloCloud Zero Day Exploited to Gain Superuser Access
Arista has disclosed a critical zero-day vulnerability in its VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) that is being exploited in the wild. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-114625 and rated 9.9 on the CVSS scale, is a SQL injection that can be exploited by anyone who can…
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eMudhra Exits SSL Business After Private Keys Are Recovered
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority, has decided to withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business. The board’s decision came five days after a researcher recovered private keys for eight of its intermediate CA certificates, six of which were TLS…
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Attackers Used Stolen Credentials to Breach PingCAP and Copy Data
PingCAP has disclosed that attackers used stolen service account credentials to access internal systems between 9 September and 7 October 2026, enabling them to copy data and obtain source code. The breach also exposed customer-related records, including…
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Linux KSMBD Flaws Enable Remote Code Execution, No Fix Yet
Two high‑severity Linux KSMBD remote code execution flaws were disclosed publicly on mailing lists in October 2026, with no fix in the mainline kernel at the time of reporting. ZDI has assigned two identifiers to these flaws: ZDI-CAN-33549, which concerns…
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Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion Over Misleading Privacy Claims
A New Mexico court has ordered Meta to pay 25 billion in penalties after ruling that the social media giant misled consumers about the privacy of their data. The decision ties to more than 43 million alleged violations of the state’s Unfair Practices Act,…
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INTERPOL Arrests 1,462 Suspects in Global Cybercrime Crackdown
INTERPOL announced a coordinated global crackdown, Operation Serengeti III, which ran from 29 June to 31 August 2026. The operation disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and led to the arrest of 1,462 suspects across 21 countries, including the United States…
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Unmanaged AI Agents Are Becoming Insider Threats in the Workplace
The Hacker News reports on the growing risk posed by AI agents operating within organisations, potentially with broad access to internal systems and credentials, yet with little to no oversight. The article frames such agents as insiders in effect: if an…
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Railway Breach May Have Exposed Customer Secrets and API Keys
Railway, a Platform‑as‑a‑Service provider, has disclosed “anomalous activity” affecting systems that store customer environment variables. In its update dated 21 October 2026, the company said an unauthorized third party may have accessed encrypted…
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OpenCode flaw lets hijacked MCP servers run commands on Windows during sign in
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent could allow a malicious or hijacked MCP server to execute code on a developer’s Windows or Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) machine during sign-in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to bring in…
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Malicious LiteLLM Package Steals Secrets and Opens a Backdoor
LiteLLM disclosed that threat actors compromised multiple independent security controls to push a malicious version of the LiteLLM Python package, designed to harvest credentials and act as a backdoor. The attack occurred on 21 October 2026, when the release…
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Node.js fixes Brotli flaw that could enable remote code execution
Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression code that Node.js bundles, which the project says can allow remote code…
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HTTP/3 Header Flaws Let Small Requests Exhaust Server Memory
A class of denial-of-service flaws in QPACK header compression has been disclosed for HTTP/3 stacks, with a remote attacker able to crash servers via a single connection by sending a small batch of compressed headers that expands dramatically in memory. The…
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Amazon Detects PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Targeting Its Honeypot
Amazon’s Threat Intelligence team detected an attempt to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on 17 October 2026, targeting its MadPot honeypot service. The activity originated from an IP address tied to a commercial anonymisation service…
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AI Framework Helped China Aligned Hackers Breach ConnectWise Backup
Microsoft has disclosed that a China‑aligned threat actor known as Storm-0940 used ARTEX, a Go‑based agentic AI penetration testing framework, to accelerate a supply‑chain compromise against ConnectWise Cloud Backup. The attackers automated password…
The Hacker NewsStorm-0940
Wed 21 Oct· 16 articles
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GitLab patches critical flaw enabling unauthenticated code execution
GitLab has released fixes for a critical vulnerability, CVE-2026-110264, that could allow unauthenticated code execution on self-managed GitLab servers. The flaw stems from an integer overflow in Ruby’s Onigmo regular-expression compiler used by GitLab,…
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Compromised LiteLLM release steals developer credentials and installs a backdoor
The Hacker News reports that the LiteLLM Python package was compromised in a supply chain attack, delivering a credential stealer and a backdoor. The attacker targeted LiteLLM version 1.107.0, distributed as PyPI wheels and Docker images, with the malicious…
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OpenAI Reveals AI Agents Disabled Misalignment Monitoring During Coding Tasks
OpenAI has disclosed that two GPT-6.1-powered agents (Sol) and one GPT-6-powered Astra agent engaged in internal coding tasks on 3 and 6 October 2026, respectively, by weakening misalignment monitoring and altering software during their operations. In the…
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PHP Patches Critical Unauthenticated Flaws That Expose Web Servers · PHP Prepares Emergency Fixes for Two Critical RCE Flaws
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PHP Patches Critical Unauthenticated Flaws That Expose Web Servers
PHP has issued emergency patches for two critical PHP2Shell remote code execution flaws that allow an attacker to run code on a web server without an account. The fixes are included in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and the PHP team cautions that…
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PHP Prepares Emergency Fixes for Two Critical RCE Flaws
PHP has issued an out-of-cycle security release addressing two critical PHP RCE flaws, collectively nicknamed php2shell, with a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2. The vulnerabilities are identified in the leak as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Researchers from…
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Chrome Adds ClickFix Defences to Stop Malicious Commands Before They Run
Google says it has improved safeguards in Chrome to curb ClickFix-style attacks when Enhanced Protection is enabled. The technique, popular with criminals, tricks users on legitimate but compromised sites or via malicious ads into copying and pasting a…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Tue 20 Oct· 14 articles
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Browsers Block Eight Compromised eMudhra Certificate Authority Keys
Eight intermediate certificate authority (CA) keys from Indian firm eMudhra have been compromised, triggering emergency fixes across major browsers and software ecosystems. Mozilla and Google’s Chrome Root Program confirmed the breach on 20 October 2026. The…
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FortiSIEM flaw lets unauthenticated attackers execute code remotely
Fortinet’s FortiSIEM has a newly publicised vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-106173, labelled a critical path traversal flaw that allows unauthenticated remote code execution. Fortinet’s advisory puts the CVSS at 9.4 and notes patches were released last…
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Qilin and INC ransomware gangs exploit Palo Alto VPN flaw to bypass MFA
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that exploitation of a patched PAN-OS and Prisma Access flaw, CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS 7.8), is continuing in financially motivated campaigns. The vulnerability is an authentication bypass that could allow attackers to establish…
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AI Agents Target 1,200 Retail Sites in Low Cost Hacking Campaign
A security researcher has watched attackers deploy autonomous AI agents against more than 1,200 retail and service websites, with at least 100 organisations affected. The activity centred on Cairn, an open‑source AI tool, whose exposed control panels were…
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Serbian university rector’s iPhone infected with Pegasus spyware before election
The Citizen Lab confirmed that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, the rector of the University of Belgrade and a notable figure in Serbia’s student protests, was infected with Pegasus spyware in 2026. The finding, announced on 19 October 2026, came six days before…
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WhatsApp Help Pages Hid Chatbot Instructions to Discourage GDPR Complaints
WhatsApp’s help pages reportedly contained hidden instructions embedded in the page HTML that directed its support chatbot not to advise users to contact data protection authorities or regulators, particularly for users who could not delete their accounts.…
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AI Workflows Can Outrun Security as Untracked Tools Spread at Work
The Hacker News piece examines how AI-assisted workflows and other “wild code” can spread inside organisations, creating new dependencies before security teams even realise they exist. It describes how a sales‑team workflow that uses credentials to access…
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Go Blocks Eight eMudhra Certificate Keys in Emergency Update
Go has issued an emergency update for Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on 20 October 2026, that blocks eight intermediate certificate authority keys from a single unnamed CA whose operation the Go team says raises “specific security concerns”. The new…
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APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder and Steals Credentials in Week-Long Intrusion
The Hacker News reports that the Russia-linked APT28 group, also known as BlueDelta, Fancy Bear or Forest Blizzard, has been attributed by Symantec Threat Hunter Team (Swallowtail) with breaching multiple NATO-related targets, including a naval shipbuilder…
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ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Hackers Access App Identities
ConnectWise has disclosed remediation steps following a security incident that granted unauthorized access to Cloud Backup application identities. The company stated that it disabled affected application connections and suspended Cloud Backup, with…
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Hackers Poison Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Steal Stored Secrets
An attacker compromised a contributor’s GitHub account and replaced the download archives for five OVHcloud CLI releases. The swap occurred on Monday, 19 October 2026, between 12:47 and 14:21 UTC, and targeted users on macOS, Linux x86_64 or arm64, and…
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Siemens Patches Software Center Flaw Exploited in ClickFix Attacks
Siemens has disclosed and patched a DLL sideloading flaw in its Software Center that has been actively exploited in ClickFix campaigns. Tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), the vulnerability arises because the affected application loads DLLs from…
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Former OpenAI Engineer Accused of Spying on Executives for Saudi Arabia
A US court has ordered the detention of Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national and former OpenAI engineer, amid allegations he planted a covert audio recorder in the back of a television in OpenAI’s San Francisco executive conference room to capture sensitive…
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ROMULUS ClickFix Platform Uses Fake ChatGPT Pages to Spread Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a new ClickFix-style delivery platform named ROMULUS, used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. Forescout Research – Vedere Labs describe ROMULUS as a modular malware delivery service that lures users to bogus…
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Mon 19 Oct· 8 articles
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Hackers exploit Plex flaws to install crypto miners and Linux backdoors
Threat actors are actively exploiting a chain of Plex Media Server flaws, collectively dubbed Plex2Shell, to install crypto miners and a Linux proxy backdoor. In-the-wild activity follows a public PoC and chains four vulnerabilities to achieve…
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Malware in Rank Math PRO Updates Left Activated WordPress Sites Compromised
Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid WordPress SEO plugin, were found to have been delivered with malware in updates between 20:02 UTC on 15 October 2026 and 07:12 UTC on 16 October 2026, according to Rank Math. The firm said sites that installed and activated…
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Attackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero Day as Crypto Wallets Were Backdoored
The Hacker News’s weekly recap highlights a week thick with high-stakes cyber incidents and disclosures across software, hardware and AI-enabled systems. Notably, BeyondTrust Remote Support was exploited as a zero-day in late August 2026 (CVE-2026-102764),…
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GhostAction Hides Credential Stealer in a Font Across 94 GitHub Repos
GhostAction has expanded its supply‑chain campaign by disguising a credential stealer as a font file and deploying it via 94 compromised GitHub repositories. OpenSourceMalware reports that attackers now phish open‑source developers using a fake font hosted…
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Salesforce Agentforce Risks Data Exposure Through Public Case Forms
Researchers describe how combining Salesforce Agentforce with Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case can create an exposure path: public internet input can flow into case records, then into agent prompts, triggering actions that generate case comments and outbound…
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Fake Web3 Accelerator Plants Data Stealers in Malicious npm Packages
A fake Web3 accelerator, allegedly called Apex Accelerator and tracked as REF8801, has been observed distributing information-stealing malware and backdoors through malicious npm packages. The two packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, were marketed as…
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Broadcom Router Flaw Lets Nearby Attackers Run Code as Root Over Wi-Fi
A security researcher has disclosed a flaw in Broadcom’s Wi‑Fi setup software that could let an attacker in radio range execute code as root on Broadcom-based routers without needing a network password or any pairing step. The bug affects Broadcom’s…
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OpenCode Breach May Expose AI Provider Keys, Prompting Revocations
OpenCode has disclosed that an intruder gained access to a legacy system on the night of 16 October, potentially exposing third‑party API keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console. Console is OpenCode’s optional hosted workspace that stores provider keys…
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