Google has enhanced Chrome’s AI-powered scam defenses with a new server-side Gemini model that detects fake antivirus alerts, fraudulent browser updates, and other deceptive websites. Announced on October 20, 2026, these changes expand protection to all users who enable Safe Browsing’s Enhanced Protection mode. This update builds on the earlier on-device Gemini integration introduced in…

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Google on Tuesday said it’s rolling out improved safeguards in its Chrome browser to secure users against ClickFix attacks when Enhanced Protection is enabled. ClickFix is a popular social engineering technique in which bad actors trick users into copying and pasting malicious code directly into their computer’s operating system, thereby bypassing conventional security controls. As…

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Plus, a draft prospectus for Anthropic shows revenue growth, rising computing costs

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Professional services automation (PSA) software helps managed service providers (MSPs) manage service tickets, technician time, customer contracts, projects, and billing. The best PSA platform for an MSP depends on its size, existing remote monitoring and management (RMM) tools, automation requirements, and budget. HaloPSA is our overall pick for MSPs seeking comprehensive service management capabilities. Atera,…

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SOCRadar has found seven exposed servers linked to INC and The Gentlemen ransomware affiliates, holding AI chats, stolen…

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Antidetect browsers tools that create separate browser profiles with altered digital fingerprints could help scammers operate thousands of apparently unrelated social media accounts. The research focuses on Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin, commercially available platforms with legitimate uses in marketing, e-commerce and privacy protection. Researchers say they also found the tools referenced in criminal forums and…

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Orlando, Florida, United States, October 20th, 2026, CyberNewswire Industrial Defender Unifies Endpoint Intelligence and Network Monitoring for CIP-015, Adds Risk Signal to Turn Findings into Prioritized Patch Plans New internal network security monitoring correlates every anomaly with deep asset intelligence; Risk Signal converts findings into verified remediation Industrial Defender, an OT cybersecurity leader serving the…

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The attack uses malicious Google search results related to Amazon and leverages the ‘finger’ utility to launch a CAPTCHA that installs malware, including the Lumma stealer.

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Executive Summary BlueHammer (CVE-2026-33825) is an eight-stage local privilege-escalation chain targeting the Windows Defender Antimalware Platform before 4.18.26030.3011. It does not grant initial access; an attacker needs standard-user code execution first. Still, in the lab, it reached NT AUTHORITYSYSTEM, recovered domain-admin credentials from LSASS, and moved laterally via pass-the-hash. This is not memory corruption. It…

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A Google search for Amazon business led to a ClickFix lure that dropped multiple malicious payloads onto the victim machine, including versions of Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Client RMM.

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What Is Log Analytics? Log analytics is the practice of collecting, parsing, normalizing, and querying machine-generated event records to answer an operational or security question. In a SOC, that question is usually narrow: did this account authenticate from an unexpected source, did this host spawn an unusual child process, which API calls preceded the data…

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Oracle heeft 194 kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle E-Business Suite en gerelateerde componenten, specifiek voor versies 12.2.3 tot en met 12.2.15. Afhankelijk van de specifieke kwetsbaarheid kunnen deze door een aanvaller met netwerktoegang worden misbruikt om ongeautoriseerde toegang tot gegevens te verkrijgen of om gegevens aan te maken, in te zien, te wijzigen of te verwijderen.…

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PHP.net announced that it will release a critical update today. We decided to change the infoCon to YELLOW due to the widespread use of PHP, the expected severity of the flaw (CVSS 9.4), and the availability of early PoC exploits ahead of the patch becoming available.  This diary will be continuously updated today. I am…

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Employers are getting pickier when looking at tech resumes, but competition for the right skills is still intense. Companies will pay a premium for experience and advanced AI skills. “The market is no longer defined simply by how many people employers hire, but by how precisely they hire,” said Ger Doyle, ManpowerGroup’s regional president for…

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The Gentlemen ransomware operation is abusing legitimate Lenovo and Safetica kernel drivers to terminate security software, weakening endpoint defenses before encryption. Acronis Threat Research Unit researchers identified two custom dropper samples during a recent incident, exposing how the group weaponizes vulnerable drivers rather than relying exclusively on conventional process termination commands The technique, known as…

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Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, with two new mouse utilities, new command-line tools, and Command Palette improvements. […]

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Attackers are using stolen connection keys exposed in a TeamUpdraft security breach to install malicious plugins on affected WordPress sites and establish persistent access. Sites already compromised may remain at risk even after the exposed credentials are revoked. The attacks followed unauthorized access to TeamUpdraft’s website. The company, which develops the UpdraftPlus backup plugin and…

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PHP prepares emergency patches for two critical RCE flaws, while older, unsupported versions could remain exposed without vendor fixes. The U.S. government ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them. The order also reaches third-party tools and services built with DeepSeek implementations, which is the part most…

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously undocumented China-aligned threat cluster known as Bronze Sandcastle that has been observed targeting organizations in Asia and Africa since mid-2025. “The most distinctive technical marker for Bronze Sandcastle is its consistent use of Sandboxie DLL sideloading,” Sophos security researcher Gabor Szappanos said in a post published

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Apple’s innovative folding phone is alluring for plenty of reasons, but comes with the trade-offs of a first-generation product.

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Cloudflare has issued a warning about emerging attacks targeting two critical PHP vulnerabilities. In response, the company has implemented emergency web application firewall (WAF) rules while developers await an official security release. The PHP Foundation has provided advance notice, assigning both vulnerabilities a CVSS v4 score of 9.2, indicating the urgent need for affected environments…

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Cybercriminal groups The Gentlemen and Qilin dominate ransomware attacks – and both are evolving their tactics in an attempt to outdo one another

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The short answer: open Event Viewer, right-click the log you need (for example Windows Logs → Security), choose Save All Events As…, and keep the .evtx format. From an elevated command prompt, the same thing is one line: wevtutil epl Security C:logssecurity.evtx. Don’t copy the files out of C:WindowsSystem32winevtLogs with Explorer. The Event Log service…

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Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral signals email filters have relied on for years are fading as a result. Proofpoint shared several examples of the…

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BRONZE SANDCASTLE intrusions involving hidden Windows backdoors and the theft of the Active Directory database. The suspected China-based group combines legitimate applications, malicious DLLs, and encrypted payloads to execute code inside trusted processes while limiting artifacts available to conventional file scanning. Investigations covering August 2025 through August 2026 identified victims in the Philippines, Taiwan, Afghanistan,…

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A recently disclosed flaw in Signal’s calling software could allow another participant to keep hearing you after you hang up. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-113380 (CVSS score 9.3 out of 10), affects RingRTC versions earlier than 2.72.0. RingRTC is the open-source library behind Signal’s voice and video calling functionality, providing calling components for its mobile…

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The two companies are trying to solve the AI agent security conundrum with multiple layers of real-time security checks.

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Google released Chrome version 156 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing 353 security vulnerabilities, including six critical flaws. Announced on October 20, 2026, this update addresses memory corruption, use-after-free errors, input validation issues, and other weaknesses across various browser components. Google stated that the deployment will continue over the coming days…

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During triage, analysts may overlook valuable threat intelligence simply because they don’t know it exists. Previous investigations, related malicious activity, and industry-specific observations could provide the context needed to decide what to investigate next. With Related Threat Context, now available to ANY.RUN Enterprise clients, SOC and MSSP teams can immediately see these connections alongside IOCs…

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Microsoft expanded its sovereign cloud offerings on Tuesday, adding new security, governance and AI capabilities as customers, particularly in Europe, demand greater assurance over where data is stored, who can access it and how critical services operate during disruptions. The announcement builds on Microsoft’s ongoing digital sovereignty efforts, assisting organizations in applying appropriate levels of…

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Several ransomware groups are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS GlobalProtect patched in May, to break into organizations in sectors ranging from healthcare and education to government and energy. CVE-2026-0257 stems from the firewalls relying on cookies without performing detailed validation and integrity checking, which allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass…

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Hearthstone’s newest expansion returns to Azeroth’s darkest age with 135 cards, custom-built minions and four very unfriendly gods. For fans of Yogg-Saron’s spectacularly…

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A new CISA advisory warns of the threat posed by SafePay to businesses and critical infrastructure, and urges defenders to take action to mitigate the group’s tactics

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On Debian and Ubuntu, sshd writes to /var/log/auth.log. On RHEL, Rocky, Alma and CentOS Stream, it writes to /var/log/secure. If neither file exists, your system logs only to the systemd journal. Then the command you want is journalctl -u ssh on Debian-based systems, or journalctl -u sshd on the Red Hat family, Fedora and Arch.…

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This post outlines six steps to optimize your network for VoIP. In today’s digital age, we utilize the Internet to share knowledge through various multimedia platforms and stay connected with our loved ones. The Internet has been used for many purposes, but what if we use it to make voice calls smoothly? We do it…

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You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today’s fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of…

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Most investigations stall on a simple question: where are the logs, and how do I get them out? On Windows, event logs sit in %SystemRoot%System32winevtLogs as binary .evtx files. Export them from Event Viewer (right-click a log, then Save All Events As…) or from an elevated prompt with wevtutil epl Security C:IRSecurity.evtx. On systemd-based Linux,…

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An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the…

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Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found. Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination. Only a password login to an SSH server…

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A privacy weakness in Meta’s Muse AI assistant that made shared conversations discoverable through passive DNS records, exposing personal files and internal business documents. Dubbed GhostShares, the issue affected public sharing links whose supposedly unguessable identifiers appeared inside searchable hostnames. Meta told Ars Technica on October 20 that it was suspending the feature. The finding…

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Private keys associated with eight intermediate certificate authorities operated by Indian digital trust provider eMudhra have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to forge trusted certificates and impersonate websites or services, according to Google and Mozilla. “On 17th October @ 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report to certificates@mozilla.org, forwarded by the Chrome Root program, that the…

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Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP were leaked one day before their scheduled disclosure and security patches

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A major public key infrastructure incident has triggered emergency security measures across browsers, programming language ecosystems, certificate stores, and software packages. Private keys associated with eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority certificates were compromised, potentially allowing unauthorized parties to create certificates that could appear trustworthy to vulnerable clients. The incident affects six TLS intermediates used for…

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Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. […]

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PHP will release emergency fixes for two critical RCE flaws rated 9.2, as researchers warn of potential risks to exposed and unsupported systems. PHP is preparing an emergency security release for two critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute code remotely on affected servers. The update is scheduled for today, October 21 at 14:00 UTC,…

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Sophos found BRONZE SANDCASTLE abusing legitimate Windows apps to load encrypted backdoors, collect system information and steal Active…

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PHP administrators are facing an urgent security update after maintainers announced an out-of-cycle release addressing two critical vulnerabilities. The flaws, tracked by security researchers as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, have each received a CVSS v4.0 score of 9.2 from the PHP security team. Researchers at watchTowr describe both issues as remote code execution vulnerabilities. The emergency…

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Legitimate infrastructure has become a powerful delivery mechanism for attackers, carrying the inherent trust they once had to build. As Cisco Talos explored in our previous research on weaponizing software-as-a-service (SaaS) notification pipelines, these platforms are increasingly repurposed as proxies for malicious intent.   Talos has since tracked a significant acceleration in this trend, observing abuse…

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Swallowtail, the Russian espionage group also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear and Forest Blizzard, targeted organizations in two NATO member states, including a law enforcement agency, a naval shipbuilder and a manufacturer of military aircraft engines. The targets’ roles point to intelligence collection focused on national security and defense. The U.S. government identifies APT28 and…

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Horizon3.ai has released a public proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-106173, a critical vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSIEM. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to turn arbitrary file writes into remote code execution. Researcher Zach Hanley published a technical analysis on October 20, following Fortinet’s security advisory released on October 13. The vulnerability specifically affects the product’s gRPC communication…

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Oracle heeft kwetsbaarheden verholpen in diverse producten, waaronder Oracle MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Connectors (waaronder Connector/ODBC) en MySQL Router. De kwetsbaarheden in Oracle MySQL betreffen diverse componenten, waaronder MySQL Server, MySQL Cluster, MySQL Enterprise Backup, MySQL Connectors en MySQL Router. De potentiële impact omvat ongeautoriseerde toegang tot of wijziging van gegevens…

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Oracle heeft meerdere kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle Enterprise Manager, waaronder de Base Platform, Data Guard Management, Siebel en Virtualization-componenten. De kwetsbaarheden betreffen versies 13.5 en 24.1. De kwetsbaarheden in Oracle Enterprise Manager kunnen leiden tot ongeautoriseerde toegang tot gevoelige gegevens, wijzigingen in data en aantasting van de beschikbaarheid en integriteit van systemen. Sommige kwetsbaarheden maken…

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Grafana Labs has announced a Knowledge Graph in every Grafana Cloud stack, alongside new Digital Experience Monitoring capabilities and updates to Grafana Cloud Incident Response Management (IRM). The releases connect infrastructure and application dependencies with user experience and incident response, giving people and agents shared context to investigate problems and take action. As agentic systems…

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From childhood prodigy to AI pioneer to Nobel Prize winner, Demis Hassabis has always had a simple plan. Step one, solve intelligence. Step two, solve everything else.

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Tenstorrent announced Oct. 19 that it raised $1.5 billion to expand AI hardware manufacturing and commercial operations, valuing the company at $6.2 billion after the investment. The Series E round was led by Trace Capital and Innovation X, with participants including ARK Invest, Fidelity Management & Research Company, Sandisk, Morgan Stanley, T. Rowe Price and…

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Oracle has released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update, which includes 1,295 new security patches across its enterprise portfolio. Published on October 20, the advisory addresses vulnerabilities in Oracle software as well as third-party components. Notably, it addresses critical flaws that attackers can exploit remotely without authentication. Affected products include databases, middleware, business applications, Java,…

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ThreatLocker has announced the launch of Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), giving organizations a tool to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of their environments. ZTAIC enables security teams to give AI agents exactly what they need to perform their jobs while keeping everything else out of reach, even as agents invoke other applications and…

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Apache disclosed eight vulnerabilities in Tomcat, including authentication bypass, cross-user data exposure, insecure socket access, and cryptographic configuration failures. Of these, three are rated Important, and five are rated Low. Fixes are available in Tomcat versions 11.0.27, 10.1.61, and 9.0.123, depending on the affected version branch. These vulnerabilities affect specific components and configurations, not every…

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The ICO has slammed security failings by the Welsh local government data unit and IT service provider following the 2024 incident

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Oracle heeft nieuwe kwetsbaarheden verholpen in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise. De kwetsbaarheden in Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise betreffen verschillende beveiligingsrisico’s, waaronder ongeautoriseerde toegang tot gegevens, ongeautoriseerde wijzigingen van gegevens en verstoring van de beschikbaarheid van systemen (denial-of-service, DoS). Afhankelijk van de specifieke kwetsbaarheid kan misbruik leiden tot aantasting van de vertrouwelijkheid, integriteit of beschikbaarheid van gegevens en…

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Two critical PHP remote code execution vulnerabilities will be patched in an emergency release on October 21. Fixes are only expected for supported PHP 8.x branches. Key takeaways CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are critical vulnerabilities in PHP, both rated CVSSv4.0 9.2 by the PHP security team. Public reporting describes both as remote code execution vulnerabilities. watchTowr…

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Frontier AI advancements have created a world where exploitation outpaces defense. The average enterprise takes 32 to 43 days to patch, but the mean time to exploit a vulnerability is 10 hours. This asymmetry creates questions around how enterprises can trust autonomous AI to operate ubiquitously across their environments. As I mentioned on the TechCrunch…

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OVHcloud, the French cloud computing and web hosting company, alerted customers that a hacker tampered with its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to spread information-stealing malware. OVHcloud CEO Octave Klaba disclosed the incident on X, warning users who downloaded the latest CLI release that day to update the tool or delete it. According to Klaba,…

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Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services that turn email addresses into persistent tracking identifiers. How email addresses become tracking IDs This “post-cookie” tracking method allows a third party to collect a user’s email address when they log in to a…

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Attackers compromised 333 Tor exit nodes in a coordinated campaign to intercept SSH connections, steal passwords, and deploy the Ebury Linux backdoor, according to a research account published on October 20, 2026. The compromised infrastructure accounted for approximately 10% of Tor’s roughly 3,000 exit relays. The researcher reported that attackers accessed the underlying servers in…

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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide since 2024. […]

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Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters represent distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, not interchangeable names for one cybercriminal organization. The analysis separates these clusters from SP1D3R HUNTERS, also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH), which it describes as a shared brand and coordination layer rather than a fourth operational group. That distinction has immediate consequences for…

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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 stock-exchange filing dated October 21 that it “has experienced an incident involving the loss…

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In this post, I will show you how to securely migrate mailboxes from Exchange Server to Microsoft 365. The transition of mailboxes from the on-premise Exchange Server to the Microsoft 365 environment allows companies to update their email system, make it more accessible, and decrease the management complexity associated with the maintenance of on-premises servers.…

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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 vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-96652 (CVSS score: 5.3) – Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

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CISA has warned that SafePay ransomware actors have compromised at least 600 organizations across multiple critical infrastructure sectors, combining data theft and encryption with deliberate attacks on backup systems to obstruct recovery. The October 20, 2026, joint advisory describes operations spanning North America, South America, Europe, and Australia since August 2024. Published with the FBI,…

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ORLANDO, Fla., Oct. 20, 2026, CyberNewswire – Industrial Defender, an OT cybersecurity leader serving the global critical infrastructure industry, today released its latest version, adding internal network security monitoring (INSM) and Risk Signal. The release builds on Industrial Defender’s decades of leadership serving NERC-CIP regulated utilities, pairing its deep endpoint visibility with network traffic monitoring,…

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Rust 1.100, scheduled for November 12, 2026, will introduce stable support for Cargo dependency cooldowns, allowing developers to reject newly published package versions until they reach a configurable minimum age. The feature gives security researchers, maintainers, and registries time to identify malicious releases before automated updates spread them across development environments and CI pipelines access.…

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A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian cybersecurity firm Solar, the activity has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed Partisan Zmiy, which is also known as the Cyber Partisans. Known to be active since at least 2020, the…

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A heart monitor used to be a box beside a hospital bed. Electrodes fed a cable, the cable fed a screen, and a nurse watched the screen. The threat model fit on a sticky note. Cardiac care doesn’t work like that anymore. A patch or smartwatch records the electrocardiogram (ECG). A phone or gateway relays…

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SAN RAFAEL, Calif., Oct. 19, 2026, CyberNewswire – Built on an evolutionary engine first released in 2018, STAR Fuzzer by Bright Security finds crashes, memory exhaustion and memory-safety bugs in security-critical code without a running application. In its first open source research run, it found High or Critical issues in 45% of the projects tested,…

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Citizen Lab confirmed Pegasus on a Serbian rector’s iPhone 6 days before elections, raising the known civil society spyware target count to 16. The Citizen Lab published a research note confirming that the iPhone of Vladan Đokić, Rector of the University of Belgrade, was infected with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware sometime in 2026. The infection…

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Ransomware affiliates associated with INC and The Gentlemen exposed an intrusion ecosystem after leaving operational servers publicly accessible. The investigation began in late September 2026 with open directories on 45.227.254[.]43. Configuration files and credentials led researchers to six additional adversary servers, exposing development infrastructure, command infrastructure and ransomware staging systems. The findings describe an active…

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Microsoft has introduced new rules for assessing reports in its bug bounty programs, tying submission completeness more directly to potential rewards. Announced by the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) on October 20, 2026, these changes replace the previous multiple report quality levels with two assessments: “Complete” and “Not Complete.” This updated approach establishes clearer expectations…

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DevGuard is a free, open source vulnerability management platform that collects a software project’s security findings in one place, ranks them by risk, and tracks them. It’s an OWASP Incubating Project, and anyone can self-host it. One command line, six scans DevGuard runs secret scanning, static code analysis, dependency checks against known CVEs, infrastructure-as-code checks,…

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Attackers exploited compromised UpdraftCentral connection keys to send trusted remote-management commands to WordPress sites, ultimately installing malicious plugins that could provide unauthorized access to these websites. This incident followed unauthorized access to TeamUpdraft’s website on October 17-18, 2026. The company suspects attackers accessed its customer database, which contained UpdraftCentral connection keys and customer account information.…

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Security teams have tools for code, endpoints, cloud infrastructure, identity, and secrets management. Credentials cut across all of them. A developer finds an AWS key in a repository. The first step is obvious: remove it. But that does not answer the questions the security team now has: Is the key still active? Who owns it?…

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PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but has not described. Security researchers at watchTowr say the two flaws allow remote code execution. Only the four supported PHP branches, 8.2 through 8.5, can…

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Researchers discovered that private keys could be extracted from public certificate data, compromising eight intermediate certificates from eMudhra’s Certificate Authority. The incident, publicly disclosed on October 20, 2026, prompted emergency blocks across browser platforms and trust stores and revealed failures in the authority’s cryptographic key generation process. The affected certificates consist of six TLS intermediates…

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The PHP security team has announced an upcoming release that will address two critical vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. This warning, published on October 20, 2026, advises administrators to prepare for immediate upgrades. Additionally, watchTowr has reported two potential remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. However, PHP has not yet confirmed their identifiers or…

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In this Help Net Security video, Vince Stoffer, Field CTO at Corelight, talks about how AI is changing work in the SOC and how attackers are using the same tools. He explains how LLMs help with vulnerability analysis and detection engineering, including writing SIEM rules and small programs that analyze packets or Zeek metadata. Those…

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The PHP security team has announced an urgent security release for Wednesday, 21 October 2026 at 14:00 UTC. The release fixes two vulnerabilities, each rated 9.2 (Critical) under CVSS v4.0. The notice doesn’t yet describe the vulnerabilities or say which PHP versions they affect. The project will publish those details, along with the patched version…

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Two critical PHP RCEs, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, leaked before the patch. Learn what’s known, who’s exposed, and how to prepare now.

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Google released TorchTPU as open source, giving PyTorch developers a native way to run models on the company’s Tensor Processing Units. Google also announced TPU support in the vLLM and SGLang serving engines, the TorchTitan training framework, Ray, and Hugging Face’s libraries. Teams that write their models in PyTorch and run them on GPUs by…

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New 15-year warranty covers all MS-7K-U units already shipped to Australia.

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– Starting from 2027, Atlassian Williams F1 Team will leverage Klaviyo’s B2C CRM platform to deliver deeper fan relationships across their growing global fanbase – Klaviyo…

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Cohesity, a leader in AI-powered data security, today announced the appointment of Matthew Johnston as Senior Director, Partner Sales, Asia Pacific and Japan APJ. In his new…

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On October 20, 2026, the PHP security team announced an upcoming security release addressing two critical vulnerabilities, each rated CVSS v4.0 9.2. The release is scheduled for October 21, 2026, at 14:00 UTC. PHP has indicated that the updates may be released earlier if vulnerability details become public or evidence of active exploitation emerges. Public…

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DeepSeek has been dealt a huge blow in the US, even as it continues to innovate and keep pace with, or in some cases outperform, rival models from American labs. The US Secretary of Homeland Security has issued an order banning all DeepSeek products and services from federal agencies. Government organizations must purge their IT…

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Hybrid AI drives demand for distributed processing and trusted network context across increasingly complex hybrid cloud infrastructure

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More than 10 million developers are building on Cloudflare as AI agents reshape how applications get built, shipped, and scaled globally

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New BeyondTrust Entitle integration enables organisations to bring just-in-time JIT access into existing ServiceNow workflows while also governing privileged access within…

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