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Critical UEFI Firmware Flaw Allows Attackers to Execute Malicious Code Before OS Boots

A critical vulnerability in EDK II’s PXE network boot driver could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute malicious code before the operating system loads. This vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-97631, affects ICMP error processing during both IPv4 and IPv6 network boot, which exposes the firmware memory to potential writes by attackers. The advisory identifies the EDK II…

Discord to Make Public Server Messages Searchable on Google

Discord will make eligible messages from public channels in Discoverable Servers accessible through Google and other search engines, expanding conversations beyond its application. This rollout introduces privacy considerations, messages from members are automatically enabled for web publication by default in most regions. If members choose to turn off sharing later, it does not automatically remove…

12 Confidential Computing Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Confidential computing closes encryption’s last gap data exposed during computation with hardware-enforced TEEs that prove their state via attestation, and 2026’s buying question is one sentence: who must be unable to see this data, provably? This verdict guide judges twelve options across the real menu: hyperscaler families, the two silicon lanes everything rides, independent enablement…

AI-Powered Hackers Target Japanese Companies With Automated Attacks and Credential Theft

Threat actors targeting Japanese organizations are using artificial intelligence to automate intrusion workflows, speed up attack planning, and develop credential-theft tools, according to an investigation of three exposed attack infrastructures. The findings show distinct levels of AI involvement, from autonomous agents conducting attacks to experienced operators using generated scripts. The research follows Japan’s National Cybersecurity…

12 Data Access Governance Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

“Who can read the M&A folder?” still silences rooms, and Copilot-era AI assistants turned that silence into a deadline they surface everything anyone technically can touch. This verdict guide judges twelve data access governance options across the field’s real architectures: effective-access graphs, warehouse-native policy engines, proxy-light governors, database-level enforcers, and the suite extensions with one…

12 Data Discovery Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Every downstream control inherits the inventory discovery builds DLP, access reviews, DSARs, AI governance and the 2026 field answers the “where is it?” question from different vantage points: correlation graphs, agentless cloud sweeps, semantic engines, access-context fusions, and the operational-store specialists DSPM marketing skips. This verdict guide judges twelve tools on accuracy honesty, estate reach,…

12 Hardware Security Modules (HSM): The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

An HSM is a decade-long marriage to a root of trust, and 2026’s vows are specific: FIPS 140-3 trajectories (140-2 certificates are sunsetting), post-quantum firmware with dates attached, and delivery models spanning racked appliances to hourly cloud instances. This verdict guide judges twelve options including the sovereign-lane specialists US-centric lists skip and one hyperscaler service…

Hackers Attempt to Breach U.S. Election Commission Systems, Triggering Major Service Outage

Hackers targeted the U.S. Federal Election Commission’s systems, forcing the agency to shut down online services and disrupting campaign finance filings just days before the November 3 midterm elections. The outage delayed fresh spending disclosures, but officials have not confirmed a successful breach or data theft. According to Reuters, an FEC electronic filings officer warned…

FBI Seizes Virtualine Domain Over Alleged Criminal Hosting and Bitcoin Money Laundering

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal activity, including “the advertisement of sexually explicit images of minors, the intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate…

Critical GoAhead Web Server Flaw Allows Attackers to Bypass Client Certificate Authentication

A critical flaw in the GoAhead embedded web server lets revoked client certificates pass authentication checks, potentially restoring access to identities administrators have blocked. Tracked as CVE-2026-115881, the vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.1 and affects GoAhead 3.4.5 through 6.1.0 when specific mutual TLS settings are enabled. GoAhead 6.1.1 fixes the issue. The flaw…

Hackers Abuse Indian Government Domains to Push Illegal Gambling Websites Through Google Search

Hackers have abused Indian government and educational domains to promote illegal gambling websites through Google Search, using unauthorized DNS changes to establish malicious subdomains while leaving legitimate websites operational. Another delegated government subzones to third-party nameservers, enabling broader control over subordinate DNS records. The technique, called domain shadowing, allows attackers to misuse an organization’s domain…

Tailscale Patches SSH Flaws That Could Let Hacked Devices Gain Root Access on Other Servers

Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SSH forwards network connections, a job the Tailscale background process carries out with root privileges. To use them, an attacker…

ShinyHunters-Exploited Oracle PeopleSoft Zero-Day Turns Out to Be Three Chained Flaws

The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week. Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its root is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) that reaches an internal management interface because PeopleSoft trusts its…

Sweet Security Offers All Organizations Affected by HTTP2Shell Virtual Patching Protection at No Cost

New York, NY, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire The root-cause fix will take weeks; protection can’t wait Sweet Security today announced Sweet Safety Net, extending its runtime Virtual Patching protection to every organization affected by HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497). The capability will enable users to block any exploitation of Node2Shell at no cost for 30 days, whether or…

Adobe Commerce PolyShell Attacks Breach Hundreds of Stores as Brotli Exploit Traffic Emerges

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento, and Google’s Brotli decoder library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-111497 (CVSS score: 9.2) – An unchecked return value vulnerability in

NIST starts the countdown to retire quantum-vulnerable encryption

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a roadmap for moving to post-quantum cryptography (PQC), with earlier deadlines for certain sensitive federal systems. The report, Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards (NIST IR 8547), explains which cryptographic methods need to be replaced, what organizations should consider and how the transition will unfold. It…

CISA Offers Free Security Tools to Protect Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace From Cyber Threats

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) offers two free assessment tools, ScubaGear and ScubaGoggles, to help organizations identify insecure configurations in Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Developed under the Secure Cloud Business Applications (SCuBA) project, these tools compare cloud tenant settings against established security baselines and generate reports that highlight configuration gaps. CISA established…

Hackers Abuse Online Ads to Track Starlink Users and Spy on Individuals Across 49 Countries

Advertising infrastructure is increasingly being repurposed as a surveillance channel that can profile internet users and track their movements across sensitive locations, according to research from TrendAI. Investigators identified an operation, referred to as SHADOW-EARTH-79, that made unusual ad purchases and used a reconstructed software interface, suggesting its primary purpose is intelligence gathering rather than…

Malicious npm Campaign Hijacks 42 GitHub Repositories to Steal Credentials and Spread Malware

Research has identified 42 weaponized GitHub repositories belonging to 11 legitimate owners in the testmetest npm campaign, exposing an operation that combines credential theft, development-tool execution hooks, and malicious package publishing. The findings establish that the campaign extended beyond attacker-controlled test packages into established developers’ repositories. Researchers Guy Korolevski and Yair Benamou uncovered oversized payload…

Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of

Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on outside providers to store information, process transactions and operate software. A breach at one of those providers can expose customer records across multiple organizations, including people who…

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Hackers Use Signed ChatGPT and Claude Binaries to Deploy Yoba Malware

Hackers are exploiting growing interest in AI tools to spread Yoba malware through fraudulent GitHub projects that claim to offer non-existent desktop applications named GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus. According to Check Point Research, these repositories and GitHub Pages attracted users through apparent SEO poisoning, with download buttons that delivered malicious ZIP files.…

Cisco Talos Uncovers 1,400 Scam Emails Sent Through Staples and Dell Order Notification Systems

Cisco Talos identified roughly 1,400 scam emails delivered through legitimate Staples and Dell order notification systems, exposing how attackers can insert fraudulent support instructions into authenticated transactional messages. The findings fit a wider pattern: Talos observed abuse across more than 25 legitimate platforms over the past year, including collaboration, productivity, payments, file sharing, surveys, and…

Attackers compromised 42 GitHub repositories by using files too large to be searched

A security research firm reported Monday that it had identified breaches of 42 third-party GitHub repositories in which attackers had deployed payload blobs large enough “to evade the GitHub search and API paths normally used to find this kind of compromise.” The report from JFrog Security Research said the victimized repositories contained execution hooks for…

Attackers built a ‘Skynet’ AI agent that hijacks exposed models to run cyberattacks

Skynet is no longer a fictional adversary. Attackers have built an offensive agent that exploits unprotected AI models on the web with a ‘Skynet’ directive that allows them to run unattended for up to 100,000 steps. In this mode, a reference to the humanity-destroying artificial neural network-based superintelligence system in the Terminator film franchise, the…

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…

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…

Prolific Hive and Nefilim ransomware affiliate sentenced to 70 months in prison

A 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a string of ransomware attacks targeting various critical infrastructure operators and businesses from the middle of 2018 to late 2021, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak was involved in ransomware attacks on hospitals that disrupted patient care, government entities,…

CyberStrikeAI Uses 44 AI Agents to Automate Hacking Operations Against Japan Targets

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three exposed server environments used by threat actors to conduct the malicious cyber operations, described them as distinct from…

AWS becomes first CSP to complete the Cloud High profile assessment with 172 services and features in scope

We continue to expand the scope of our assurance programs at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and are pleased to announce the successful completion of our first ever Cloud High (PBHH) security assessment with 172 assessed services and features. Completion of this assessment, effective September 18, 2026, makes AWS the first cloud service provider (CSP) in…

Breaking PHP2 Shell and Brotli Vulnerability Update

Two critical security vulnerabilities affect global web infrastructure. The PHP 2Shell flaws involve memory safety errors during out-of-memory handling, allowing remote code execution across PHP environments. Simultaneously, a Brotli decompression flaw enables memory corruption and code execution when processing malicious compressed HTTP responses. Threat actors are actively scanning for unpatched WordPress, Laravel, and Node.js applications.…

Criminal IP Joins INTERPOL’s Gateway Initiative to Support Global Cybercrime Efforts

Torrance, United States / California, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire AI SPERA, the company behind the cyber threat intelligence and attack surface management platform Criminal IP, has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) under its Gateway initiative. The agreement establishes a framework for sharing information and technical expertise relevant to cybercrime…

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Brotli bug reaches far beyond Node.js (CVE-2026-111497)

A vulnerability in Brotli, Google’s widely used open-source compression library, is putting a broad range of software at risk. About CVE-2026-111497 Alternatively known as “Node2Shell”, “Broccoli2Shell” and “Brotli2Shell”, CVE-2026-111497 is a remotely exploitable out-of-bounds write flaw that gained widespread attention after Node.js publicly disclosed it on October 21, 2026. “An attacker who can supply Brotli…

Verizon Expands AWS Partnership With $2B-Plus AI Infrastructure Deal

Verizon’s AWS agreement, valued at more than $2 billion, highlights the connectivity behind AI workloads and gives channel partners a reason to assess whether customers’ networks can support their AI plans. The company announced the agreement on Oct. 26 alongside its third-quarter results, saying it establishes a commercial framework to expand distributed computing and support…