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Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by CrowdStrike to…
Hardware wallet device maker Trezor has received credible reports about a suspected hardware crypto-theft implant in a Trezor Safe 5 sold by its reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. [...]
RAID-AI aims to help organizations assess their security preparation for ransomware attacks targeting AI systems
Why Integrated Security Operations Centers Are the Future of AI-Driven Security – Aimei Wei, Founder, CTO at Stellar Cyber San Jose, Calif. – Oct. 30, 2026 Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations…
TeamViewer has fixed a flaw that lets the machine being controlled in a remote session attack the computer that connected to control it. In a TeamViewer session, the computer that connects and takes control is the viewer, and the machine it controls is the hos…
Over 22.6 million exposed instances are potentially affected by the critical PHP flaws that have been targeted for over a week. The post PHP2Shell Attacks Root Palo Alto Firewalls but Fail Against WordPress appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Iran eyed in military freezer hacks, Copenhagen University breach, AI-powered malware. The post In Other News: Anthropic Breach Dispute, UEFI Flaw Hits Most Servers, Cloudflare AI Data Leak appeared f…
A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH backdoors. [...]
Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress…
Flaws in SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols can allow attackers to track phone locations, intercept calls and SMS verification codes, and impersonate subscribers without compromising their devices. Cape explains how these attacks exploit trust between networ…
As organizations eliminate passwords, attackers will adapt. Instead of attacking the authenticator directly, they will look for opportunities around it. The post Passkeys Are Better Than Passwords. But They Are Not Enough. appeared first on SecurityWeek.
It allowed customers to host hack-for-hire services, supported ransomware and infostealer operators, and accepted crypto payments. The post Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI Seizure appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Attackers have started exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability patched earlier this month, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). [...]
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 30, 2026 – Watch Into the Breach on YouTube Hosted by Kari Byron (MythBusters) and produced by Cyber King Productions, a new docuseries explores real-world cyberthreats…
A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device. It is telling everyone who bought a Trezo…
Threat actors are attempting to exploit a high-severity unauthenticated race condition leading to remote code execution. The post Fresh WordPress Vulnerability in Attackers’ Crosshairs appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Dream found that a suspected Chinese-nexus actor gained root access to Palo Alto Network firewall servers to target government organizations
The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won’t break anything. Their concerns are practical. An IPS protectio…
Leading cryptocurrency analysts have attributed the cyber-attack to a North Korean elite hacking unit
Microsoft has resolved Always On VPN connection failures triggered after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. [...]
Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders. The post Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability Exploited Against Online Stores appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as "Th3Pr0," has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted Western news outlets. The conspiracy was organized and led by member…
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. [...]
Malicious code linked to a website monitoring tool was designed to hijack logged-in Polymarket sessions and siphon user funds. The post $2 Million+ Drained From Polymarket Traders in New Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tracked as CVE-2026-97229, the bug allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code on the server. The post Max-Severity GitLab Vulnerability Exploited Against Alpine Linux appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has linked the theft of about $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency to a DevOps engineer's compromised laptop. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that a trojanized version of Anthropic's official Claude Code extension was distributed through the Cursor Marketplace as a legitimate update, attempting to install a persistent SSH backdoor on affected systems. The mal…
An integer overflow tracked as CVE-2026-111585 could be used to execute arbitrary code on the viewer’s system. The post TeamViewer Flaw Could Let Malicious Hosts Take Over Support Technicians’ Machines appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Blockchain analysts link the record crypto theft to North Korean hackers, as Binance probes a possibly compromised engineer laptop. The post $6 Billion Binance Hack Bears Hallmarks of North Korea’s TraderTraitor appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a "highly critical" security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core versions from 0.0.…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below…
Cryptocurrency giant Binance said on Thursday that a "security incident" on its platform has impacted about $6.3 billion worth of assets. The world's biggest cryptocurrency exchange said nearly $3 billion of those assets have been frozen on-chain so far. Tethe…
OpenAI says it won't reduce usage limits for the $100, $200, and $500 ChatGPT Pro plans, as well as Business Premium, and it also promised to keep Dots usage independent. [...]
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. [...]
A crypto-mining campaign abusing Hugging Face models returned days after takedown, hijacking GPU servers and planting backdoors, with one model downloaded over 28,000 times. Separately, a fake Solana starter kit on GitHub is positioned to trick AI coding agent…
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers. [...]
Prediction market platform Polymarket temporarily suspended trading on Thursday after hackers compromised a third-party service to distribute cryptocurrency-draining JavaScript, with approximately $2.5 million in assets traced to a suspected attacker wallet. […
A fake cryptocurrency trading app called Padre Terminal, previously available on the Apple App Store for iOS devices, has been linked to the theft of approximately $23,000 from 27 Solana wallets. [...]
Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn't. There's a strange mix of clever tricks and careless mistakes.…
A newly identified advanced persistent threat (APT) group tracked as UAT-11473 was observed exploiting CVE-2026-20127, an authentication-bypass flaw in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controllers, to deploy a custom malware framework called KeyDrift. [...]
A massive search-hijacking campaign involving 319 Chrome extensions with a combined 13.4 million reported installations redirected users' searches through tracking servers to generate advertising revenue from Bing and Yahoo. [...]
A flaw in the Linux kernel's TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel's own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Anthropic said on October 27 that its AI model…
Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba. The activity involves creating fake GitHub…
NIK C2 malware can fall back on victims’ OpenAI API keys to run AI queries
CREST has published a framework for strengthening cyber resilience across financial services
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. "It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities critical for cyb…
According to Cybersecurity Ventures, there are about 35,000 CISOs worldwide. Cynomi’s 2026 State of vCISO Report shows what clients need from the providers who could fill the gap. Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 29, 2026 – Watch the YouTube video There are around 35,…
Security teams have spent years trying to detect threats faster. AI is changing the harder part: how much time defenders have left to act. Advanced AI models can now help attackers discover vulnerabilities, generate exploit code, and move through weaknesses fa…
A flaw in Telegram for Android could be chained with two other bugs to take full control of a victim's phone through a voice call, once the victim answered, according to security startup NebuSec. The attacker needed only an ordinary Telegram account. Telegram…
AI is beginning to take over much of the work that has traditionally defined the security analyst's job. Investigating alerts, collecting evidence, correlating activity across tools, and executing response actions are becoming tasks that AI systems can perform…
26,400 credentials that developers left in public code on Gitee, a Chinese code-hosting service, still worked when a researcher tested them. Anyone who copied one from that code could have used it. Independent researcher Ben Zimmermann found them by scanning 7…
Akamai research reveals that scam detections topped six million in Q2 2026
Cisco has released patches to address a high-severity security flaw in Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software that it said has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2…
The UK’s privacy regulator has issued a reprimand to Staffordshire Police following a serious breach of personal information
GitHub has announced that it's introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time. "The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, actin…
The guidance sets out how federal agencies can prioritize PQC adoption for the most sensitive systems, to meet the 2031 transition deadline
An attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on the Alpine Linux project's own GitLab server a week after GitLab released a fix, Alpine Linux said on 28 October. The flaw, CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0), can let an attacker run code on a Git…
MR ROBOT Android malware rents banking trojans that steal one-time passwords and card data
Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization's SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that encrypt traffic between sites…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus thre…
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday warned that threat actors are exploiting the recently patched PHP2Shell vulnerabilities against publicly-accessible management interfaces. "Active exploitation has been observed targeting the Palo Alto Networks management interf…
The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. "First identified in late 2023, Silent Train u…
Third-party Android app stores can now apply to Google for permission to install apps with one tap, without Android's usual confirmation screens, and to update them in the background. To qualify, a store must pass identity checks and send Google its full catal…
A chain of logic flaws, with no memory corruption, can turn a malicious web page into code running on a Windows computer outside Microsoft Edge's sandbox, a security researcher has shown. Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published the full method on October 28, five mon…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted attack orchestrated by a suspected China-nexus threat actor that has leveraged the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach exposed systems. The activity…
GMO Internet has told customers to unplug their PCs in advance of a possible ransomware attack
Attackers have used fake ChatGPT and Claude projects to distribute Yoba malware
Nvidia’s Mark Weatherford says CISOs must translate AI cybersecurity risks into business priorities, clarify risk ownership and balance innovation with security controls
An undisclosed number of Engie customers have had their data compromised after a supply chain incident
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 28, 2026 – Listen to the Podcast Episode Award winning investigative reporter Dan McCrum joined the Financial Times in 2007. He has covered business and finance from bo…
Threat actors are beginning to probe for a newly patched critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-101767 (CVSS score: 9.8) , a case of improper authe…
A critical 16-year-old flaw in EDK II, the open-source code that most hardware makers use to build UEFI firmware, can allow an attacker to run code on a machine before its operating system loads, but only while the machine is booting over the network. UEFI fir…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of this decade's defining technologies. From healthcare and finance to manufacturing and education, organizations increasingly rely on AI to automate repetitive tasks, uncover patterns hidden within large datasets, a…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The University of New Mexico is working to restore systems following the incident, which has been claimed by the BYOD ransomware group
Attackers have infected 953 online stores with a scanner-evading JavaScript loader since July 2025
Researchers uncovered an OpenAI API flaw that exposed hidden AI reasoning traces, prompting a fix and a $6000 bug bounty reward
ISC2’s new Cyber-AI Workforce Coalition serves as a “vendor-neutral convener” to map the future of AI security careers, ISC2 CEO Scott Beale told Infosecurity
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…
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…
Arctic Wolf warned that the function enables highly effective social engineering attacks, which lead to incidents such as ransomware
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…
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.…
Hackers have stolen personal information on over 520,000 people from the University of Copenhagen
ISC2 is seeking 3000 volunteers to enrol to a pilot exam phase for its upcoming AI security certification
UK police forces and fire and rescue services have been urged to strengthen cybersecurity as rising cyber threats outpace current defenses
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…
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 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…
CISA’s new strategy, CISA 2030, will focus on rapid detection and response and resiliency of critical services ahead of “passive defense”
A large-scale GitHub campaign abused stolen access tokens to target 13,500+ branches and repositories with secret-stealing workflows
Six Linux flaws were made public, including one with a working root exploit and no merged fix
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…
Microsoft’s updates address two newly disclosed vulnerabilities in the .NET developer platform, as well as flaws not fully addressed in an earlier release
Blue Initiative launches a new vulnerability database for IT and OT CVEs relevant to the maritime industry
PHP warns of critical RCE vulnerability CVE-2026-115560, but says limited exploit conditions mean most deployments are unlikely to be affected
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…
Japanese video games giant Capcom confirmed unauthorized access to its online account system
Security researchers identified attempts to access corporate networks which have been linked to a major Microsoft 365-targeted BEC campaign using phishing, stolen session tokens and social engineering
Kroll found that 69% of data breach victims in the past year were affected by a third-party breach, with attacks on tech companies the most common cause
The EU Commission will assess whether Booking.com has adequately protected customers from phishing attacks
Stealthy malware campaign by ‘Prince of Persia’ threat group targeting organisations worldwide discovered operating on American soil
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…
Microsoft said it has observed threat actor activity in multiple ConnectWise customer environments, with the attackers leveraging the ARTEX agentic AI platform
Threat intelligence analysts now observe large-scale evidence of exploitation of the two critical PHP vulnerabilities
Nearly all organizations now run production workloads in the cloud, but a new SANS survey found most have yet to achieve mature cloud security programs
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…
Researchers have uncovered Athena StealthRoute, a phishing-as-a-service platform featuring an AI Studio that generates phishing lures and decoy content designed to conceal attacks
Researchers at Symantec have uncovered an AI agent designed to operate a full cyber-attack without human intervention
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…
Cybercriminal groups The Gentlemen and Qilin dominate ransomware attacks - and both are evolving their tactics in an attempt to outdo one another
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
Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP were leaked one day before their scheduled disclosure and security patches
The ICO has slammed security failings by the Welsh local government data unit and IT service provider following the 2024 incident
A new IANS report has found that despite the growth of the head of AI security role, accountability for AI governance in firms remains unsettled
OpenCode silently patched a critical RCE flaw, leaving vulnerable users unaware of the security risk, researchers at Pillar Security warned
Rapid adoption of agentic AI comes with potential business benefits. But if done incorrectly it also carries risks around AI activity management and security
Siemens identified the activity to be from the Romulus multi-platform ClickFix campaign, with Siemens Software Center users urged to apply an update
Known exploited vulnerabilities take a median time of 87 days to be patched, according to a new Moody’s report
The 2024 cyber incident affected the healthcare data of 62 million people, who launched a class action lawsuit against the business services firm
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…
A breach affecting the OpenCode Console may lead to the exposure of API keys for Anthropic, OpenAI and Google Gemini users
Cloud Backup, SaaS Security, and Cloud Management services offline as IT service provider investigates possibility that unknown attackers have full access to client environments via stolen tokens
CyberSN observed a particularly big dip in cybersecurity leadership positions such as CISO and Cybersecurity Director in 2026 compared to 2025