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Anthropic details what stops Claude Duet from going rogue

Anthropic has outlined the security and privacy protections behind Claude Duet, its proactive AI agent that can monitor connected accounts and complete tasks while users are away. The safeguards include approval requirements, checks for sensitive information and infrastructure that keeps credentials outside the model’s reach. Duet works through a cloud-based computer and browser to prepare…

Malicious downloads can trick AI coding agents into compromising themselves

Malicious instruction files planted in a computer’s Downloads folder can trick AI coding agents into executing harmful code or exposing authentication tokens, Forever Security said after blocking an attempted attack on a customer’s machine and demonstrating similar techniques against OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code. In its research report, the firm said it discovered a…

MY TAKE: OktoberTech reveals a hardening AI foundation — but no one yet governing the agents

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Dr. Michio Kaku has never been shy about the future. Opening Infineon’s 10th OktoberTech at the Computer History Museum last Thursday, the physicist and futurist painted a sweeping one. AI is the fourth great wave of technology, after steam, electricity and the transistor. Quantum computing is the fifth. In Kaku’s telling, the…

12 Ransomware Recovery Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Ransomware recovery is measured on the worst Tuesday: how fast you find the clean point, prove it’s clean, and rebuild at scale without reinfecting yourself. The twelve solutions in this verdict guide attack those minutes differently intelligence platforms, journal-rewind engines, SaaS-protected coverage, vaulted copies, array-speed restores, and the hardening appliances underneath and buying well means…

Hackers Can Use DarkCore RAT to Hijack Gmail and WhatsApp Sessions Without Passwords

DarkCore, a remote access trojan marketed with a dedicated browser for reusing stolen sessions, potentially letting attackers access Gmail, WhatsApp, and MediaFire without entering passwords. Its advertised reverse proxy routes traffic through the infected device’s IP address, making unauthorized activity resemble legitimate access from the victim. The findings combine a cybercrime marketplace advertisement with analysis…

11 Backup & Recovery Solutions: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Ransomware rewrote backup’s job description attackers delete recovery points before encrypting production so 2026’s buying criteria are security properties: immutability stolen credentials can’t untick, isolation from your blast radius, and restores proven by stopwatch rather than dashboard. One roster note: our sheet listed Cohesity and Veritas separately, but their completed merger makes them one vendor…

12 Data Privacy Management Platforms: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Privacy management matured into an engineering discipline the moment deletion requests met data sprawl: you cannot fulfill what you cannot find, and 2026’s platform field divides exactly there workflow suites that run programs, data-intelligence engines that fulfill from discovered reality, consent infrastructures that make choices propagate, and right-sized lanes for the mid-market. This verdict guide…

10 Database Security & Activity Monitoring Tools: The 2026 Buyer’s Verdict Guide

Databases are where breaches cash out, and database security tooling splits by philosophy: watch the door (classic DAM), govern the warehouse era (access layers), protect the values themselves (in-path encryption), and audit the posture (assessment lanes). Two roster notes first: our sheet’s twelve rows contain two single vendors double-listed IBM appears as Guardium and as…

New TRUST#GRAFT Attack Tricks WordPress Admin Browsers Into Installing Malicious Plugins

TRUST#GRAFT, a JavaScript-to-WordPress attack chain that never breaks WordPress authentication. Instead, it borrows the trust placed in an already logged-in administrator’s browser and uses that session to install a persistent PHP backdoor. Many administrators stay signed in to wp-admin in the same profile they use for everyday browsing. That habit gives attackers a usable foothold.…

ALAS2CORRETTO8-2026-026 (important): java-1.8.0-amazon-corretto

CVE-2026-113470, CVE-2026-83374, CVE-2026-83376, CVE-2026-83378, CVE-2026-83380, CVE-2026-83381, CVE-2026-83387, CVE-2026-83400, CVE-2026-87255, CVE-2026-87290, CVE-2026-87291, CVE-2026-87292, CVE-2026-87293, CVE-2026-87294, CVE-2026-87367, CVE-2026-91332, CVE-2026-91334, CVE-2026-91335, CVE-2026-91373, CVE-2026-91374, CVE-2026-91375, CVE-2026-91379, CVE-2026-91380, CVE-2026-91381, CVE-2026-91382, CVE-2026-91394, CVE-2026-91395, CVE-2026-91396, CVE-2026-91397, CVE-2026-91400, CVE-2026-91403, CVE-2026-91409, CVE-2026-91410, CVE-2026-91411, CVE-2026-91415, CVE-2026-91417, CVE-2026-91418, CVE-2026-91451, CVE-2026-91452, CVE-2026-91453, CVE-2026-91461, CVE-2026-91462, CVE-2026-91463, CVE-2026-91464, CVE-2026-91487

ALAS2KERNEL-5.15-2026-119 (important): kernel

CVE-2026-74496, CVE-2026-74743, CVE-2026-80726, CVE-2026-89638, CVE-2026-89796, CVE-2026-93287, CVE-2026-93288, CVE-2026-93785, CVE-2026-93795, CVE-2026-93798, CVE-2026-93800, CVE-2026-93813, CVE-2026-97416, CVE-2026-97417, CVE-2026-97420, CVE-2026-97421, CVE-2026-97430, CVE-2026-97437, CVE-2026-97438, CVE-2026-97439, CVE-2026-97441, CVE-2026-97444, CVE-2026-97445, CVE-2026-97446, CVE-2026-97448, CVE-2026-97449, CVE-2026-97450, CVE-2026-97451, CVE-2026-97452, CVE-2026-97453, CVE-2026-97454, CVE-2026-97455, CVE-2026-97456, CVE-2026-97472, CVE-2026-97476, CVE-2026-97481, CVE-2026-97483, CVE-2026-97484, CVE-2026-97523, CVE-2026-97524, CVE-2026-97568, CVE-2026-97596, CVE-2026-97598, CVE-2026-97608, CVE-2026-97611, CVE-2026-97612, CVE-2026-97899, CVE-2026-97904, CVE-2026-97905, CVE-2026-97940, CVE-2026-97951, CVE-2026-97958, CVE-2026-97959, CVE-2026-97998, CVE-2026-98010,…

Microsoft 365 Token-Replay Attacks Compromise 97 Accounts at 79 Organizations

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79 organizations. Huntress, which observed the activity between July 14 and September 22, 2026, said it detected 497 successful Microsoft 365 sign-in…

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Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding

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, and in its first month of availability it…

Gheist Uses Stolen GitHub Tokens to Steal Private Repository Secrets via Actions Logs

An automated campaign is using stolen GitHub tokens to plant workflows that print a repository’s secrets into its GitHub Actions logs, which the attackers then download before deleting the runs. The attacks have succeeded in private repositories and GitHub Enterprise environments, according to an analysis by cloud security company Wiz. A GitHub safeguard that pauses

Hackers Use PowerShell and Windows Error Reporting to Hide Malware on Infected PCs

Malware campaigns that combine phishing, obfuscated VBScript, PowerShell, and legitimate Windows applications to conceal infections targeting users in Brazil and Portugal. The investigation covers Overlord RAT, Lampion, and an unidentified payload delivered through a malicious newdev.dll. Rather than exploiting Windows Error Reporting itself, attackers impersonated its components and naming conventions, disguising malicious executables and scheduled…

Microsoft Issues Emergency .NET Security Updates to Fix Four Vulnerabilities

Microsoft released emergency out-of-band security updates addressing four vulnerabilities across .NET, including a Brotli buffer overflow and incomplete fixes from an earlier October release. The updates apply to .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10, and .NET 11 Release Candidate 3. Microsoft recommends updating as soon as possible. .NET Security Updates CVE-2026-111497 affects .NET’s implementation of…

Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Allows Android Apps With Zero Permissions to Steal Authentication Tokens

A high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft Authenticator for Android could let a malicious app, without any Android permissions, impersonate trusted Microsoft apps and steal authentication tokens for a victim’s signed-in work account. This vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-80097 and affects Microsoft Authenticator versions earlier than 6.2606.4246. Microsoft has since issued a patch. Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Security…

Cloudflare Adds New WAF Rules to Detect Attacks Targeting CVE-2026-111497

Cloudflare announced an emergency release of its Web Application Firewall (WAF) on October 25, 2026. This update introduces two detection rules for the Brotli vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-111497. These rules specifically target requests that declare Brotli body encoding and traffic accessing the Next.js image optimization endpoint. By default, both rules are enabled in Log mode,…

OpenAI Codex Breaks USB Drive Encryption in Minutes, Exposing Critical Security Flaws

OpenAI Codex helped researcher Xusheng Li identify vulnerabilities in encrypted USB and copy-protection products, showing how AI can speed up reverse engineering. Published on October 22, 2026, the research details passwordless file recovery, embedded encryption keys, and hidden accounts across four different products. Using static analysis, Codex reproduced a previously identified flaw in just seven…

Product showcase: Stellar Cyber’s ISOC platform provides full-cycle architecture

An AI SOC that starts with somebody else’s alert is already too late. Stellar Cyber collects and normalizes telemetry, detects suspicious activity, correlates evidence, builds cases, investigates incidents, triages findings, and drives response from the same security architecture. That gives people and AI access to the evidence behind the alert – not just the alert…

Hackers Launch Mass Scanning Campaigns Using Public PHP2Shell Exploit Scripts

Hackers are sweeping internet-facing PHP infrastructure with publicly circulating PHP2Shell exploit scripts, turning the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities into a worldwide reconnaissance campaign. Fastly recorded approximately 250,000 requests from PHP2Shell-named tools across roughly 3,200 public IP addresses through midday October 22. However, those figures include defensive scanners and do not establish successful server compromises.…

Hacker Demonstrates PHP Remote Code Execution in StealMyBitcoin Challenge, Shares Exploit

A security researcher has successfully demonstrated a PHP remote code execution (RCE) exploit against the Steal My Bitcoin challenge. This proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit illustrates how specially crafted HTTP requests can trigger memory corruption, disclose internal PHP addresses, and execute commands on a vulnerable server. The researcher, using the GitHub username KillaBoi, published the exploit in…

Tailscale SSH Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Gain Root Access to Connected Servers

Security researchers have revealed multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in Tailscale and Headscale that could let attackers gain root access to connected servers, bypass network security policies, steal credentials, and disrupt remote-access infrastructure. Erica Windisch of Cyberdione Labs published these findings in a security research report titled Tailworm. The assessment examined Tailscale version 1.104.2 and headscale version…

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Synthetic identities leave US lenders with $2.4 billion in fraud exposure

Criminals are exploiting established customer accounts and familiar brands to steal money and personal information, according to TransUnion’s Fraud in the Age of Continuous Trust report. Eighty-one percent of suspected digital fraud in its network during the first half of 2026 occurred during account logins and financial transactions, highlighting risks that persist throughout a customer…

Can’t Patch PHP2Shell Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own

PHP2Shell comes with a clear instruction: update PHP. Fixed releases exist for supported branches, and Qualys customers can identify PHP installations using network scans, Cloud Agents, container assessments, and Deep Scan where supported, while assessing exposed web applications and APIs with Qualys TotalAppSec. Patching at this scale still takes time. In Qualys telemetry, only 199,000…

Can’t Patch PHP2Shell Yet? Build a Stopgap with the Controls You Own

PHP2Shell comes with a clear instruction: update PHP. Fixed releases exist for supported branches, and Qualys customers can identify PHP installations using network scans, Cloud Agents, container assessments, and Deep Scan where supported, while assessing exposed web applications and APIs with Qualys TotalAppSec. Patching at this scale still takes time. In Qualys telemetry, only 199,000…

SECURITY AFFAIRS AI-CYBERSECURITY NEWSLETTER ROUND 5

Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At…

PHP2Shell Exploitation Hits Government Entity Amid Global Scanning and Signs of AI-Assisted Hacking

Threat actors have been observed using agentic artificial intelligence (AI) platforms for post-exploitation activity following the abuse of the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. “In one case, the attackers targeted a government entity in Europe and within two hours of the initial exploitation they had successfully accessed password hashes and multi-factor

Team Explanation

There are two major ways of assessing the quality of our understanding of a phenomenon: Prediction, and Explanation. Prediction feels extremely powerful because it seems to be proving its deep understanding by having reality speak on its behalf. You want proof that I understand how the planets move? Well let me tell you exactly where…

SECURITY AFFAIRS MALWARE NEWSLETTER ROUND 120

Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Auditing the auditor: Unmasking Apex Accelerator GhostAction Attack Escalates By Targeting GitHub Users       Plex vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild to drop a cryptominer   WordPress Rank Math SEO PRO Plugin 3.0.123 is vulnerable…

Security Affairs newsletter Round 601 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including international press. Capcom Data Breach Exposes 11.7 Million Email Addresses U.S. CISA adds Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator flaw to its Known…

Use An SPF Checker To Diagnose DNS And Mail Server Problems

An SPF checker helps domain owners identify DNS misconfigurations, validate email authentication records, and troubleshoot mail delivery problems. By checking SPF syntax, authorized sending servers, and DNS lookup limits, businesses can detect errors that may affect email deliverability and domain security. Regular SPF checks also help reduce the risk of email spoofing and phishing attacks…

OpenAI AI Agents Demonstrate VM Escapes and Secret Cross-Sandbox Communication

OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. “Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure, we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier…