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Node2Shell/HTTP2Shell Detection

Node2Shell/HTTP2Shell detection is harder than it looks, because the vulnerability is not confined to one product. Node2Shell, also called HTTP2Shell, is CVE-2026-111497: an out-of-bounds write in Google’s Brotli C decoder, versions 1.0.3 to 1.2.0, scored CVSS 4.0 9.2. Since the flaw sits in a shared compression library, it reaches Node.js, Python Brotli packages, Bun, curl,…

Kimsuky Detection and Exploitation Analysis

Kimsuky detection depends on recognizing the group’s tradecraft in your own telemetry, not just on matching a hash. Kimsuky is a North Korean APT group, and one of its published campaigns impersonates diplomats to deliver LNK files and PowerShell droppers. Those techniques leave traces in ordinary Windows Security logs: script hosts launched from user-writable folders,…

Binance Hack: How Fake Job Interviews and AI Abuse Led to a $6.34 Billion Attack

Binance reveals how fake job interviews, malware and internal AI abuse enabled attackers to steal $6.34 billion. The Binance security incident on October 29 shows how a fake recruitment process can become the entry point to critical financial infrastructure. The attackers combined social engineering, compromised developer tools, stolen credentials and abuse of an internal AI…

Oklahoma man charged with mailing threats, substances to election officials nationwide 

An Oklahoma man has been charged with mailing suspicious white substances to election officials across the country. Robin Patrick Martin faces charges of conveying false or misleading information and hoaxes, as well as mailing threatening communications. The charges allege a nationwide effort to intimidate election officials and support President Donald Trump. Starting on Sept. 16,…

Chainstack Reports Production Systems Breach Exposing Customer Data and Password Hashes

Blockchain infrastructure provider Chainstack on Tuesday disclosed that it was targeted in a cyber attack that allowed an unauthorized party to gain access to some parts of its infrastructure. The incident is assessed to be part of a large-scale, artificial intelligence (AI)-powered attack campaign that came to light last week. “An external attacker gained unauthorized…

Apple’s Q4 results show the enterprise tide turning to local AI

While delivering record Q4 revenue, Apple’s financial results revealed a $33 billion cost associated with memory price inflation, representing the true cost of the growing bubble of AI data center investments.  The results also showed something that threatens those same data center investments — a sea change in how enterprises are approaching AI. Inference costs, security, and data governance concerns may…

Fake-download campaign uses trojanized installers to deliver monetization payloads

In this article Attack chain overview Mitigation and protection guidance Learn More Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified an evolving fake-download campaign targeting users searching for cracked commercial software, free games, activators, plugins, and unofficial utilities. The campaign uses trojanized Inno Setup-style installers to distribute multiple monetized software payloads, referred to by the delivery system as…

Europol dismantles investment scheme that impacted potential victims in 50 countries

Authorities arrested seven people allegedly involved in an investment fraud scheme that claimed potential victims in more than 50 countries, Europol said Tuesday. Officials said the operation caused estimated losses of at least $4.5 million.  The takedown effort involved searches across 17 countries Tuesday and netted the seizure of more than 100 servers, according to…

Microsoft named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Agent Management Platforms  

Microsoft has been named a Leader in the inaugural 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for AI Agent Management Platforms. We believe this recognition reflects Microsoft’s approach to helping organizations manage, secure, and scale their AI investments through Microsoft Agent 365.  Figure 1: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for AI Agent Management Platforms, October 27, 2026. Monitor and manage…

Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a “sophisticated, multi-stage campaign” that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targeting two of its engineers. “It was not a single isolated breach or a simple…

Citizen Lab Researchers Win IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize

The Citizen Lab’s Mona Wang, Jeffrey Knockel, and  Zoë Reichert, in collaboration with Princeton researchers Prateek Mittal and Jonathan Mayer, have won the IRTF Applied Networking Research Prize for their work on the network security of Android apps. Citizen Lab research fellow Mona Wang will receive the award on the team’s behalf at the IRTF…

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FedRAMP Authorization Is the Easy Part: How to Stay Authorized with Qualys Policy Audit 

Key Takeaways FedRAMP authorization isn’t the finish line. Providers are expected to keep monitoring their security posture and give federal agencies the information they need for ongoing, risk-based decisions. CISA’s BOD 26-04, issued on June 10, 2026, moves federal vulnerability management toward risk-based prioritization instead of a single fixed deadline for every finding. FedRAMP has…

Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access

Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability, have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-116606 (CVSS score: 9.3)

PHP2Shell Detection

PHP2Shell detection matters because the window between a patch and real-world exploitation can be a single day. PHP2Shell is the name for two unauthenticated remote code execution flaws in PHP core, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, both rated CVSS v4.0 9.2. No authentication is needed, so any exposed PHP application on an unpatched release is a target.…

CrowdStrike moves to acquire Fiddler and Dreadnode, adding AI observability and testing to its security platform

CrowdStrike announced Monday it has signed agreements to acquire two artificial intelligence security companies, Fiddler AI and Dreadnode, in deals announced at its Fal.Con Europe conference in Barcelona. CrowdStrike did not disclose what it paid for the companies. A report in the Wall Street Journal listed the price for Fiddler at $400 million, and Dreadnode…

Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking, a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API key through phishing, source code leaks, misconfigured environments, or…

Defrost and Disrupt | An Assessment of Europe’s Refrigeration Attacks

Executive Summary On November 2 and 3, supermarket chains in Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Sweden, Ireland and Estonia reported overnight disruption to store refrigeration systems. The incidents came three weeks after attacks on refrigeration systems at hundreds of French supermarkets. Attacks on refrigeration systems predate the 2026 incidents, including attacks on Russian supermarkets and Israeli…

Climb Global Solutions Q3 Revenue Rises 37%

Climb Global Solutions reported record third-quarter 2026 net sales of $220.3 million, up 37% year over year, as demand for cybersecurity, expanding vendor partnerships, and acquisitions supported the specialty distributor’s growth. The results come amid broader strength in IT distribution, but CEO Dale Foster told Channel Insider that Climb’s strategy remains focused on developing vendor…

Optro Expands Partner Program Amid AI Governance Demand

Optro is expanding its global channel strategy with new partner investments and AI-powered governance capabilities, positioning resellers, integrators, and service providers to capture growing enterprise demand for governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) services. The investments also reflect a broader opportunity for partners to move beyond GRC software implementation to recurring services that support compliance monitoring,…

A hidden backdoor put 1.3 million TV boxes to work for criminals

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Salesforce to Buy Defense Startup Rune for Reported $375M

Salesforce announced on Oct. 29 that it has agreed to acquire defense technology startup Rune Technologies, whose software helps military units manage supplies and logistics with little or no network connectivity. The acquisition will expand Salesforce’s Missionforce business, which provides technology to military, national security and government organizations. Rune develops software that helps frontline military…

Novee puts forgotten internet-facing assets through penetration testing

Novee’s External Surface Testing is a new capability in its AI penetration testing platform that helps security teams discover internet-facing assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities. It tests newly disclosed CVEs and findings imported from third-party external attack surface management (EASM) tools. “Attackers don’t limit themselves to the applications you’re already testing. They look for anything…

Introducing Zero Wire, a hub for investigating critical Internet vulnerabilities

You run security at your organization. It’s 7:00 am, and you’re having breakfast. You receive a ping: a new critical vulnerability has been disclosed. Your team scrambles to compare vendor advisories, read technical research, check which systems run the affected software, and answer familiar questions from the business: are we affected, and what are we…

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Assured helps recovery teams find clean backups after ransomware attacks

Assured Data Protection has announced CleanRoom SCAN, a new managed service designed to strengthen cyber recovery by independently scanning isolated backup data using multiple leading security engines to identify hidden threats before restoration. The service helps organizations identify malware and other indicators of compromise earlier, reducing the risk of reinfecting production environments during recovery. CleanRoom…

Free the Model, Sell the Gateway: Prompt Adware hidden in Jailbreak Bundles

Key Points Check Point Research analyzed the Haiou jailbreak bundle, a prompt package targeting OpenAI Codex. Such jailbreaks are designed to weaken model guardrails and enable tasks related to hacking, software cracking, and information security. The analyzed bundle can be classified as prompt adware. It installs security-focused Skills and modifies Codex’ configuration files so that…

Researcher Discovers Path Traversal Flaw in Renault Navigation System That Enables Root Code Execution

A malicious SD card can give an attacker root-level code execution on the TomTom Carminat LIVE navigation unit used in some Renault cars. Security researcher Rasmus Moorats published the findings on November 2, 2026. It uses a Samsung S5P6440 chip and runs TomTom’s custom operating system, which is based on Linux 2.6.28.10. That kernel is…

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How to Export Falcon LogScale Logs

Send your query to the LogScale query API, POST /api/v1/repositories//query, and ask for application/x-ndjson: you get one event per line. The original log line sits in @rawstring, so one jq call turns the export back into raw logs. Alternatively, export logs directly from the LogScale UI as plain text, JSON or CSV. LogScale (formerly Humio)…

Attackers exploit critical Node-RED flaw to deploy Linux bot and backdoors (CVE-2026-58115)

Attackers are exploiting an authentication flaw (CVE-2026-58115) in Node-RED, a programming tool built into some industrial control products, to install a Linux bot and backdoors on unprotected servers, VulnCheck has found. Node-RED is a flow-based programming tool built on Node.js that lets users wire together event-driven applications in a browser-based editor. It can run on…

Network appliances go more than a year without patches as exploits speed up

The median vulnerability on enterprise network appliances stays unpatched for more than a year, Microsoft’s own telemetry shows, even as the most damaging software flaws are being weaponized within days of disclosure. Microsoft Security Research reported the findings Monday in an analysis of roughly 383,000 CVEs disclosed from 1999 through September 2026. It shows that…

Enterprises pay $100,000 a day for AI they never ordered

Enterprises deploying large language models (LLMs) in production may be unknowingly footing the bill for someone else’s AI business. Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) is warning of financially motivated LLMjacking campaigns in which cybercriminals hijack enterprise cloud and model access before reselling it through underground subscription services. The activity can generate fake cloud charges exceeding…

Major Cyber Attacks in October 2026: Fake AI, Account Takeovers, and Remote Access Threaten US and EU

October 2026 brought another wave of cyber threats targeting US enterprises, exposing security gaps that could lead to financial losses, data breaches, and business disruption. Attackers exploited trusted platforms, legitimate authentication processes, and growing AI adoption to gain access to corporate accounts and systems, making early detection and containment increasingly difficult. For SOC teams, these…

Revolve card breach: 1.5 million people may be affected

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Microsoft Analyzes 383,000 Security Vulnerabilities and Reveals Which Flaws Hackers Exploit Most

Microsoft’s analysis of approximately 383,000 disclosed vulnerabilities shows that attackers overwhelmingly favor weaknesses enabling system takeover rather than exploiting vulnerabilities indiscriminately. The research identifies 2,056 CVEs linked to real-world exploitation, roughly 0.5% of the population, highlighting why vulnerability management must prioritize demonstrated attacker utility over disclosure volume or severity scores alone. Covering vulnerabilities published from…

The 4 Elements of Exposure Prioritization and How to Operationalize Them

Your team is remediating more vulnerabilities than ever, yet your breach risk has barely changed. You’re spending too much time and effort on exposures attackers may never exploit, while higher-risk exposures sit, waiting in the queue. Gartner®’s report on exposure prioritization states that fewer than 10% of vulnerabilities are exploited, yet most are treated as…

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NIST Releases New Cybersecurity Guidelines to Protect Small Businesses From Phishing and Ransomware Attacks

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released new cybersecurity guidance to help solo business owners protect themselves against threats like phishing, ransomware, and account compromise. Published on November 2, 2026, NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 50 simplifies the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 and offers practical actions for businesses with limited IT infrastructure. The publication, Small…

Release Notes: Related Threat Context for Faster Than Ever SOC Triage and 590+ Threat Coverage Updates

Security investigations often begin with a single suspicious IOC, but deciding what it means requires context. The more relevant intelligence analysts can connect to that finding, the better they can determine what deserves attention and what to do next. October’s release introduces a new powerful capability in ANY.RUN’s Interactive Sandbox– Related Threat Context. Now SOCs…

Russia-Aligned Gorbag Hackers Exploit WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Data-Stealing Malware

A Russia-aligned threat actor known as Gorbag has been observed using simple information stealer malware in attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations. “Active since at least February 2025, the group has focused exclusively on Ukrainian targets, with a clear preference for law enforcement and justice entities, local administrations near the front line, and the defense sector,” ESET…

11Detection Engineering Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Detection engineering treats rules like software versioned, tested, reviewed, deployed through pipelines and the tooling market now covers every stage: authoring platforms, coverage auditors, content marketplaces, translation engines, and validation loops. This verdict guide judges eleven options on as-code rigor, coverage mathematics, and backend freedom, because detections locked in one vendor’s console are hostages, not…

CISA’s new strategy runs into America’s blind trust problem

An attacker with a working credential may find the system already open to them. That is the uncomfortable reality behind the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) new strategy, “CISA 2030: Defend, Harden, Prevail.” The strategy prioritizes operational technology security, software supply chain integrity and continuity of essential services. It also acknowledges that strong defenses…

11 Deception Technology Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Deception technology sells the cleanest alert in security legitimate users never touch a decoy, so nearly every trip is real and the 2026 buying question is mostly an acquisitions map: four of this roster’s pioneers now ship inside larger portfolios (Attivo→SentinelOne, TrapX→Commvault, Smokescreen→Zscaler, Illusive→Proofpoint). This verdict guide judges eleven options on signal-per-effort, decoy realism, and…

ConnectWise Breach Exposes MSP Security Responsibilities

ConnectWise has restored its Cloud Backup service following a supply-chain attack that disrupted operations for more than 2,300 managed service provider (MSP) partners and exposed security risks across downstream Microsoft 365 environments. The incident, attributed to the China-aligned threat group Storm-0940, involved compromised application credentials that attackers used to access customer tenants. While ConnectWise has…

Armed with AI, hackers target endpoint security blind spots, raising stakes for CISOs

A China-linked hacking group’s use of AI agents to identify security weaknesses during a global espionage campaign is raising concerns about whether enterprises can detect gaps in their defenses before automated attacks exploit them. CrowdStrike reported that the group, tracked as VAPOR PANDA, used an AI-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX to target more than…