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Attackers have begun probing the Internet for systems unpatched against a recently disclosed critical Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) vulnerability. [...]
The attackers chained PHP2Shell and Fragnesia exploits and hacked two servers of a US government-affiliated organization. The post China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root Firewalls appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Adobe has released patches to address multiple critical security flaws in Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code execution, security feature bypass, and privilege escalation. The list of eight vulnerabilities is as fol…
Four EPICS Base flaws found by an autonomous system could let attackers crash processes at particle accelerators and fusion labs. The post Long-Hidden Flaws Patched in EPICS Research Facility Control Software appeared first on SecurityWeek.
On Tuesday, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) confirmed that hackers have begun exploiting a critical Brotli vulnerability known as Node2Shell, Broccoli2Shell, and HTTP2Shell. [...]
The process that gates nearly every B2B deal is a self-assessment the sender distrusts and the receiver accepts. There is finally a better basis for trust between companies. The post Nobody Trusts the Security Questionnaire. We Rely on It Anyway. appeared firs…
Modern phishing campaigns can compromise American businesses without relying on traditional credential theft. Attackers can abuse legitimate cloud services, authentication mechanisms, and trusted business workflows to gain access to corporate accounts while le…
The company will use the Series B funds to expand its platform for securing AI agents’ access to sensitive systems. The post Secrets Management Firm Infisical Valued at $600 Million After $40 Million Raise appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for his role in ransomware attacks targeting hospitals, government entities, and high-revenue businesses worldwide between 2018 and 2021. [...]
CVE-2026-101767 is an unauthenticated SQL injection that can be exploited for remote code execution. The post Hackers Start Probing Fresh Oracle EBS Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek.
CISA added the Brotli flaw to its KEV catalog, and two honeypot operators logged attempts, including one that used a broken exploit. The post CISA Warns of Node2Shell Exploitation as Honeypots Log Attack Attempts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
An unreleased Anthropic AI model found security flaws in Chrome, Safari, Android, Windows, and Linux and chained them into working proof-of-concept exploits, the company said in its latest report. The exploits were built in the lab after the model was prompted…
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a domain associated with a bulletproof hosting provider (BPH) named Virtualine. The move was in response to the service being used to commit and facilitate prolific criminal activity, inc…
Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on October 28 and pays only if a tip…
Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SSH forwards network connections…
The critical Oracle PeopleSoft bug that ShinyHunters has exploited since May is not one flaw but three chained together, the researchers who reported it said this week. Oracle patched all three under a single identifier, CVE-2026-35273, in June. Its root is a…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added two vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento, and Google's Brotli decoder library to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active expl…
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]
OpenAI confirmed GPT-6.1 Terra is safer overall than some of its older models, but its safety testing also found other problems. [...]
The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center disclosed a cyberattack that caused system outages and disrupted patient care and academic activities. [...]
A credit card skimming group reportedly compromised a shared analytics script used by e-commerce platform Convertr to steal shoppers' payment data during checkout. [...]
Fighting scams takes more than awareness—it takes collaboration, intelligence, and compassion. –Michelle McCluer, Vice President, Global Fusion and Intelligence, Mastercard San Jose, Calif. – Oct. 27, 2026 It started with a text that appeared to be meant for s…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of three cyber attacks targeting organizations in Japan in which artificial intelligence (AI) was a key element, either in the driving seat or to assist a human operator. TrendAI, which analyzed three exposed se…
Microsoft has released out-of-band (OOB) Windows updates to remove trust in certificates tied to compromised eMudhra certificate authority keys, protecting systems that do not receive automatic certificate trust updates. [...]
Agent decision logs and telemetry data belonging to Warp agentic development environment users were exposed in an attack on a third-party vendor in the project's infrastructure. [...]
Tailscale is preparing a patch for Tailscale SSH flaws whose details went public over the weekend, before any fixes had been released. The post Tailscale Rushes Patches After Uncoordinated Disclosure of ‘Tailworm’ Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The Tailscale security team is working to patch almost a dozen security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal credentials, crash servers, gain root privileges, and more. [...]
Attackers are increasingly abusing legitimate IT tools, Microsoft 365 sessions, and everyday workflows to compromise businesses without triggering traditional defenses. Huntress Labs ranks the threats hitting organizations hardest, highlighting which attack te…
The GoAhead embedded web server loaded a certificate revocation list into its default TLS backend but never turned revocation checking on, so a revoked client certificate could still pass login on affected setups. The flaw is in builds that use the OpenSSL bac…
Apple on Monday backported fixes for a high-severity security flaw that was exploited in real-world cyber attacks to older devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (CVSS score: 8.8), is an out-of-bounds write affecting CoreGraphics that could resu…
A leaked SquareML access key could have been used to access a database containing personal and health information. The post Vendor Key Leak Puts Data of 238,000 Denver Health Plan Members at Risk appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Eight max-severity security defects could lead to remote code execution and authentication bypass. The post HPE Patches Dozens of Critical Flaws in Networking Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 27, 2026 – Watch the Quantapocalypse Documentary Quantapocalypse, a Cybercrime Magazine 10-minute documentary sponsored by Keyfactor, examines how organizations can pre…
Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim's work account. Microsoft tracks the flaw as CVE-2026-80097 and…
The company says it reacted to an issue affecting some of its systems, including DreamHost webmail. The post Unexplained DreamHost Incident Prompts Email, FTP Password Resets appeared first on SecurityWeek.
An attacker who gained access to Keystone's website obtained the key that its hardware wallets use to prove they are genuine, the company said in a statement on October 26. Someone with that key could build counterfeit devices that pass the online check owners…
Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. Some fake log…
The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturing sectors.…
Apple has backported security patches released last month to older iPhones and iPads, addressing a zero-day bug exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]
A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operatio…
French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by business partners. [...]
OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its catalog of actively exploited security flaws and ordered federal agencies to patch their systems by Thursday. [...]
The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua. "Cases of compromising IP cameras and DVRs with access to the video stream, changing the de…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the…
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small piece of code to the…
PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP says the flaw can be rea…
Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams or to deliver malwar…
This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in attacks, and security team…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 26, 2026 – Read the Full Story from Encryption Consulting Cybersecurity Ventures projects global cybercrime damage costs rising from $10.5 trillion in 2025 to $12.2 tri…
Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first need a vulnerable Wasmt…
Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one timeline, and it feeds the…
A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread outside the official…
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…
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 Ent…
A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the attempt on a real cust…
A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding,…
In an update, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it's retracting its earlier assessment that the post-compromise activity targeting the European government agency involved the exploitation of the PHP2Shell flaws. "What researchers saw was an attack against a Euro…
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…
A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, Microsoft's .NET, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli. Tracked as CVE-2026-111497…
LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27, 2026, a configuration…
Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google services. "You may cho…
Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the machine. The updater belon…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing reports of active…
Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan in early 2026…
Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found that a specially cra…
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain Framework" referred to as Phan…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate that operators…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 23, 2026 – Read the Full Story in The Times of Israel Imagine a country without borders, universities, factories or an elected government. It manufactures almost nothin…
PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an unusual way, and PHP c…
The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth Sirrush) obtaining ini…
Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which it opens by passing t…
Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image for Linux arm64, wit…
AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which set no spending limit until…
Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously th…
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee h…
Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log in to the orchestrator…
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certif…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 22, 2026 – Watch the YouTube Video Where and how do chief information security officers (CISOs) find new cybersecurity vendors? Registering on vendor websites with thei…
Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize full control over affected servers. Experts say…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 21, 2026 – Read the Full Story in Fast Company Cybersecurity Ventures estimated that global cybercrime costs hit $10.5 trillion in 2025, and a World Economic Forum repo…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 20, 2026 We recently reported that the award-winning Cybercrime Magazine has the no. 1 b2b focused cybersecurity channel with more than 1.3 million subscribers and many…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 19, 2026 – Read the Full Story in Arab News Cybersecurity Ventures projected that global cybercrime damages would reach $10.5 trillion annually by 2025, up from $3 tril…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 16, 2026 – Read the Full Story in The Morning Global cybercrime expenses are expected to increase from $11 trillion USD by 2027 to $12.2 trillion by 2031, according to…
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 15, 2026 – Listen to the Podcast Episode It’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month (CAM) and Alissa (Dr Jay) Abdullah, PhD, SVP and Deputy Chief Security Officer at Mastercard…
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…