From “honey pots” to insider threats, Silicon Valley was on espionage alert even before the FBI’s arrest of an OpenAI employee.

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Table of Contents ● Quick Summary: The Reality of Modern-Day Trading ● How to Start Day Trading: Foundational Framework and Requirements ● Day Trading for Beginners Guide:…

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LogicMonitor connects user experience, infrastructure, and AI-led action to help IT teams prevent, prioritise, and resolve what matters.

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Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond identified and took down Yam Store, a coordinated underground network dealing in commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS). The network allowed cybercriminals to readily purchase, and very quickly…

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Microsoft says it has dismantled a criminal marketplace responsible for 1 billion malicious messages. Working with international authorities and several tech and cybersecurity companies in a nearly year-long investigation, Redmond identified and took down Yam Store, a coordinated underground network dealing in commercial phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS). The network allowed cybercriminals to readily purchase, and very quickly…

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[This is a Guest Diary by Zachary Norwood, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Crypto mining malware has been active and spreading across the internet for quite some time now. Moreover, the DShield honeypot picked up a worm that self-propagates through a plethora of means. One of them is stealing SSH…

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Regional program funds participating partners to deliver evidence-based observability reviews as cloud complexity, cost pressure, and AI adoption reshape monitoring needs

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Selfwealth’s Q3 platform data dives into investor themes across copper, AI and US equity investment. Copper ETF buying is up almost 470% year-on-year as investors look for…

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The artificial-intelligence giant met with public-market investors Wednesday ahead of its planned IPO next month.

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The artificial-intelligence giant met with public-market investors Wednesday ahead of its planned IPO next month.

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In this post, I will show you a practical workflow for validating external exposure. A hostname resolves to a public IP address. A service responds to an HTTPS request. Yet nobody on the security team can immediately identify the application owner or the cloud resource behind it. For an organisation with cloud infrastructure, this is…

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Sophos ITDR now delivers deeper AI identity visibility, expanded Microsoft support, faster response, and seamless deployment.

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AMSTERDAM, Oct. 13, 2026, CyberNewswire – G2A.COM, a digital marketplace that serves more than 35 million users across 180 countries, reports a 35% year-on-year surge in antivirus and security software orders, outpacing VPN orders. Released during Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the marketplace figures reveal that security software accounted for 43% of cybersecurity-related orders during the period, up…

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Cyber attacks are growing every year, and companies now need skilled people who can find weak spots before hackers do. That is why ethical hacking courses in India have become a popular choice for students, freshers, and working professionals seeking a stable, well-paid tech career. But with so many options, picking the right course can…

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Trellix addresses an AI-accelerated threat landscape with the first on-premises federated AI core for an agentic SOC, bringing machine-speed defense to the world’s most…

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A ransomware negotiator attended a cybersecurity conference, only to be arrested by the FBI in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters gang. Meanwhile, hackers get the keys to ASOS’s app and the chance to message every single customer. What did they say? And how did the company respond? We have thoughts. All this and…

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Update delivered to systems already in the field, extending the value of existing customer deployments

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Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. […]

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You trust the dashboard’s 100 percent delivery rate, yet customers still can’t find the email. “Delivered” only marks a server handshake, never inbox visibility.

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Authorities in the Republic of North Macedonia filed charges against the alleged administrator of OLVX, a cybercrime marketplace that sold stolen personal data, credentials and malicious tools for attacks since 2023. The 20-year-old citizen of North Macedonia, who officials identified as “E.A.” in a news release, is accused of commiting computer fraud, misuse of personal…

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Your IP address can reveal your location, ISP, connection type, and VPN use to websites, ad networks, and trackers before a page even loads.

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CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

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Plus, Ukraine said new limits on Starlink have disrupted its military operations, and OpenAI alleged an ex-employee took confidential files to Apple.

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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Microsoft Windows Shell flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Microsoft Windows Shell flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-96951 (CVSS score of 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2026 address a…

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A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.

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To power the iPhone maker’s next phase, Chief Executive John Ternus needs to raise its AI game.

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To power the iPhone maker’s next phase, Chief Executive John Ternus needs to raise its AI game.

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Disclosure: This article was produced in partnership with FastDL. Hackread.com reviewed and edited the content before publication. “SaveVid.Net…

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Workday Chief AI Officer, Joel Hellermarkhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/joel-hellermark/, sat down with journalists from Australia, Japan and Hong Kong at Workday Rising 2026 and…

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Economic growth will solve the debt problem and keep us ahead in AI. That will require new investors.

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It’s been 25 years since my Senate office received an envelope with anthrax. Are we better prepared today?

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Most security tooling that fits into a CI/CD pipeline—static analysis (SAST), software composition analysis (SCA), and dynamic scanners (DAST)—flags potential issues from patterns and signatures. A flagged pattern shows you where to look; penetration testing is what confirms whether something is actually exploitable. That confirmation has traditionally come from a periodic, out-of-band engagement that runs…

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A bug in Claude Code Desktop’s preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

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Ivanti has disclosed CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity vulnerability in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) that is being actively exploited in real-world attacks. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.6 and enables unauthenticated attackers to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on vulnerable VPN appliances. The vulnerability came to light after Volexity investigated a compromised Ivanti Connect…

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In his Q&A with the APJ media, Workday General Manager, Talent Acquisition Products, Adam Godsonhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/adamgodson/, spent 25 minutes fielding questions on…

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Microsoft has patched CVE-2026-96951, a high-severity Windows Shell security feature bypass vulnerability that is already being exploited in real-world attacks. The flaw carries a CVSS score of 8.8 and allows an unauthenticated attacker to evade Mark of the Web (MOTW) protections by convincing a victim to interact with a specially crafted file. The zero-day was…

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group’s operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. […]

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Linux creator Linus Torvalds has now begun using AI to write code for the operating system’s kernel. In a new coding project, he has used Anthropic’s AI tool, Claude Code, to develop eight code changes to resolve a performance issue in Linux, reports ZDNet. “The code, the test programs, the review that forms the basis…

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When I introduced myself to Workday President, Product and Technology, Gerrit Kazmaierhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gerrit-kazmaier/, as being from iTWire in Australia, he had…

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Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance’s operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday. The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance filters…

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The European Commission has launched investigations into OpenAI and Anthropic after the companies’ AI agents escaped their test environments and infiltrated other organizations’ systems, Euronews reports. In one case, an AI agent from OpenAI managed to break out of its test environment and hack the AI platform Hugging Face. In the other case, a model…

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SAP’s October update fixes a critical S/4HANA code injection flaw and NetWeaver memory corruption. See affected systems, risks, and patching priorities.

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Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering. […]

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Microsoft’s streak of record-breaking vulnerability disclosures continued with a mega Patch Tuesday, containing 1,413 defects affecting the company’s various enterprise products and services.  The monthly batch of patches surpassed the company’s previous annual record of 1,261 common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVEs) set in 2020.  “Hundreds of CVEs in a single release used to be the…

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Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday fixes over 1,400 flaws, including an exploited Windows bug. Learn which vulnerabilities security teams should patch first.

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Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with the…

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Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. […]

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Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man System. “Since January 2026, the threat actors behind these kits…

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Every year on 14 October, World Standards Day recognizes the people and organizations working together to develop standards that make our world safer, more connected, and more resilient. For the PCI Security Standards Council, this year’s celebration carries special significance: for 20 years, we have been setting payment security standards that help protect payment data…

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Your streaming box might not look like much of a computer. But connect enough inexpensive devices together, and they can run an AI model. Researchers at Anthropic demonstrated this by running a Google Gemma model across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes. They warn that small models could soon spread across vulnerable internet-of-things (IoT) devices, including…

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The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers and KVM devices as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea’s fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting…

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September 2026 Windows Updates brought a patch for CVE-2026-69459, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Windows Power Dependency Coordinator, allowing a non-admin local user on the computer to elevate themselves to Local System. The vulnerability was found by two anonymous researchers who used it at the TyphoonPWN 2026 competition. Subsequently, SSD published a technical analysis…

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The hottest new app this fall is Muse, an AI agent from Meta. Give it a chore, and it does the chore for you. Ask whether it’s a person or a machine, and it may well lie and claim to be a human. Related: AI agents lack moral values Agents like Muse are catching on…

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The arrest of the 35-year-old Saudi national underscores that threats to Silicon Valley firms often originate within their own ranks.

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Members of Congress are pressing the Trump administration to expand the federal government’s role in securing artificial intelligence, wanting new safety standards and regulations, independent testing of models and more “aggressive” use of AI for defensive cybersecurity purposes. In a letter, Sens. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., and Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said that multiple incidents of frontier AI…

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Intuit has switched on Intuit Intelligencehttps://quickbooks.intuit.com/intuit-intelligence/ in Australia, almost a year after unveiling it on stage in Las Vegas. It lands in a…

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Cryptography rarely fails at the math – it fails at deployment. Why post-quantum migration and AI-scale risk make open-source stewardship a core control.

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Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. […]

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The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions. Heleket’s support agent on Telegram claims, despite all evidence to the contrary, that it…

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Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2026 address a record 1,415 vulnerabilities. Prioritize the exploited zero-day, critical bugs and potentially wormable vulnerabilities. Microsoft just shattered every patch record in the book. October 2026 brought us a staggering 1,415 new CVEs from Microsoft alone. “Well, it’s a new record release from Microsoft, again. This is…

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AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested. Picus Security explains how combining agentic pentesting with exposure validation and breach simulation can help close these gaps. […]

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This research was conducted jointly with Julian-Ferdinand Vögele of Recorded Future’s Insikt Group. Details of the joint research and presentation are available here. Cisco Talos identified UAT-6275 (TAG-193 by Recorded Future) activity targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Recovered artifacts show additional interest in water resources and energy. This focus is…

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Researchers at Forescout said the discovery shows how ClickFix is evolving from a delivery technique into full-blown cyber-criminal infrastructure

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This month’s update also marks the first official one for Windows 11 26H2 and the end of support for Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro.

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A massive cybercriminal ecosystem facilitating more than a billion malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organizations across 150 countries has been disrupted by law enforcement agencies and partners worldwide. […]

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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Google Chrome, the most severe of which could allow for arbitrary code execution. Successful exploitation of the most severe of these vulnerabilities could allow for arbitrary code execution in the context of the logged on user. Depending on the privileges associated with the user an attacker could then install…

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Simply asking Anthropic’s Claude Code to review an HTML file could hand attackers access to a developer’s machine, cloud credentials and software development environment, according to a new Noma Security finding. Noma’s researchers found a vulnerability affecting Anthropic’s Claude Code Desktop app that could allow malicious JavaScript embedded in an HTML file to execute without…

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Microsoft collaborated with Japanese authorities, Health-ISAC and several cybersecurity companies to dismantle an expansive, seemingly disconnected ecosystem of Chinese-language cybercrime tools and services, the company announced Wednesday. Since the start of the year, a vast collection of customized phishing kits developed and sold by Chinese-speaking threat actors — a cluster Microsoft tracks as Storm-2990 —…

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The AI-enabled operation used spoofed emails, fake government documents, and the creation of a local organization to target schools in Peru and Ecuador, among other efforts.

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of authentication bypass impacting ICS

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Built on Qwen3.5-2B, the System One model executes sub-31ms local inference, allowing enterprises to run automated classifications quickly, at low cost and completely offline without transmitting sensitive data to third-party cloud servers.

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A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client’s memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on October 14 in curl 8.23.0. Taking over a client needs exact knowledge of its build and…

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Considering a career in cybersecurity? Cybersecurity Career Week (CCW), a campaign led by the NICE Program at NIST from October 19-24, 2026, aims to raise public awareness and help people find their path to #ChooseCyber. During this week, academia, industry, non-profit organizations, and government agencies host events, share resources, provide trainings, and engage community to…

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Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. It’s the CFO, or it sounds exactly like her, asking the controller…

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Attackers without an account of their own were found logging in to Ivanti Connect Secure appliances using an authentication bypass flaw that the vendor has since fixed. Once inside, attackers ran arbitrary commands on the appliances. “Ivanti initially discovered a portion of this vulnerability as part of our product security program and patched it in…

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OpenAI employee charged with planting hidden audio recorders to capture sensitive discussions about AI research and company strategy. On September 30, OpenAI staff found a small audio recording device jammed into a USB port on the back of a television in an executive conference room in their San Francisco office. The device had been there…

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Google has launched Gemini 4 Argon, a new flagship AI model aimed at complex enterprise and software-development workloads, pairing claims of stronger coding performance and advanced reasoning with an introductory pricing model that doubles after November 30. The model “excels at deep work in complex, real-world tasks,” Koray Kavukcuoglu, senior vice president of Google DeepMind…

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Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday release addresses a record-breaking 1,413 vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited Windows Shell zero-day and two other publicly disclosed flaws. Just when you thought a previous record would stand for a while, Microsoft comes out again with the largest monthly Patch Tuesday release. Microsoft has said its growing use of AI to…

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A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has…

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We found a wave of websites posing as Calendly booking pages for job interviews at Meta. Visitors pick a slot for a 30-minute phone call with a recruiter, fill in their details, and pass what looks like a CAPTCHA. Then the page asks them to log in to Facebook. The interview is fake. The pages…

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial fraud.  Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it identified replacements for eight Indonesian banking

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In what may be a hugely significant move, China has approved the use of Alibaba AI models for Apple’s iPhone Duo and other iPhones. It’s a significant step forward for the company in China, where demand for its smartphone remains incredibly strong. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has approved integration of AI from Alibaba in…

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Ever since OpenAI’s ChatGPT chatbot and its offspring Microsoft Copilot were launched, critics have pointed out that both products — and all other generative AI tools — have been built using billions of dollars of stolen intellectual property. Training AI models requires vast amounts of written material, especially books, newspapers, and magazine articles. OpenAI, Microsoft,…

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The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer’s production website, on its own. One login request let the user choose where…

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Police tip hotlines already have their fair share of crank callers. Apparently they now have to contend with crank AI agents as well. AI agents have already been caught hacking software companies, breaching an Australian government portal, and trying to hack a Canadian government website. Now Anthropic’s Claude has added a made-up murder tip to…

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More internet-connected refrigerators have joined the official list of those affected by a cyberattack that ruined stocks of chilled food at hundreds of French supermarkets over the weekend. The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR) advised supermarkets to disconnect any refrigeration control systems with a public IP address from the internet, and to reconnect them…

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Smaller AI models may soon be able to spread autonomously among connected devices in the home — such as smart ovens and Android TV boxes, AI company Anthropic has warned. By exploiting security vulnerabilities in these devices, AI models could gain access, use their processing power, and spread further. This would allow them to continue…

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Ivanti VPN zero-days let attackers gain root access, steal credentials, evade detection, and prepare for wider network compromise. On October 5, Volexity started investigating suspicious activity at one of its monitoring customers and traced everything back to an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliance running version 22.8R2.4, the latest build available at the time. Three chained…

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Dashlane data finds that passkey adoption is growing but not quickly enough

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Check Point Research found two LiteLLM vulnerabilities that could let low-privilege users execute code, access sensitive files, hijack admin accounts, and steal AI provider API keys.

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As a long-time appreciator of advanced Android efficiency, I love me a good widget. A well-designed Android widget can surface important info for you when and where you need it — without forcing you to find your way into the related app, poke around in its various screens and menus, and actively look for the…

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At least two French supermarkets using temperature regulation devices from Dixell Electronics also experienced food stock disruptions

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ANY.RUN researchers tracked fake AI tool campaigns that impersonate Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, Gemini, and other AI brands to plant infostealers, take over browser sessions, and phish business accounts. Between April 15 and October 5, 2026, 1,258 public sandbox analyses were tied to these campaigns, and the USA was the second-largest source of submissions after…

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Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe

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When I started writing regularly about cybersecurity management in 2015, the environment looked very different. Cloud computing was still reshaping enterprise technology. Ransomware had not become the industrialised threat it is today. Artificial intelligence was not driving boardroom discussions. Zero Trust had yet to enter mainstream technical vocabulary and quantum computing barely registered on the…

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Microsoft issued its largest ever round of security updates in the October Patch Tuesday

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Since July, US frontier AI labs and other AI leaders have revealed a string of incidents in which their models accessed external computer systems without authorization, events popularly described as AI agents “going rogue.” The most well-known and studied of these incidents is OpenAI’s hack into Hugging Face, which OpenAI initially characterized as “an unprecedented…

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Microsoft addressed 1,413 security vulnerabilities in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday update, making it the company’s largest monthly…

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New Chainguard research reveals larger companies struggle to patch vulnerabilities due to business priorities and operational disruption

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A flaw in Linux’s vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host’s memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine. The bug is tracked…

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