Attackers Exploit CVSS 10.0 Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 CVSS score: 10.0, which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrar...

CyberXero Uses Claude Code in Campaign That Stole Over 628,000 Ukrainian Records

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a two-pronged artificial intelligence AI-augmented initial access campaign targeting WordPress sites, e-commerce platforms, and critical infrastructure entities in Ukraine. The activity, which brings together commodity offensive tools like Cobal...

P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2...

The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn't

In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single sign-on. The other thousand are invisible to identity infrastructure by default, not because anyone hid them, but because an identity stack can...

Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws

Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations until further notice following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence AI models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified...

Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of Repositories

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an ongoing credential-theft campaign that has compromised two high-profile open-source maintainer accounts to push a malicious workflow into over 340 repositories. "Using the account of Takashi Kitao, author of the 18,400-star game engine pyxel,...

FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal Hack

The FBI has arrested another suspected co-conspirator of ShinyHunters, FBI Director Kash Patel said on October 9 in a post on X. ShinyHunters is the extortion group that said in September it had breached the FBI's jobs portal and stolen sensitive data on almost all FBI agents and job applicants...

TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China Ties

Four more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link denie...

Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access

Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the fix only as...

Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects

Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence AI. "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said. "Projects tha...

Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy XMRig Miners Disguised as Microsoft Edge

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below - CVE-2026-105133 CVSS v4 score: 5.5 - An improper authentication...

Flax Typhoon Exploits Five Flaws as CISA Sets October 11 Deadline for Federal Agencies

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2015-3306 CVS...

The AI Velocity Paradox: Why Security Is Decades Behind AI Ambition

As enterprises race to deploy autonomous AI agents to accelerate business, a new report reveals they are tethered to security architectures built for a different era. The "Horizons of Identity Security" report from SailPoint highlights a critical “velocity paradox,” in which organizations invest ...

GoBalance Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack .onion Addresses by Recovering Tor-Format Keys

A bug in GoBalance , a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site's .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over. Searchlight Cyber, which disclosed the flaw on October 8, says an attacke...

Three Teams Demonstrate Remote Hacks of Fully Patched Google Pixel 10 at Pwn2Own

Three research teams broke into Google's Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikot...

Citrix Patches Critical NetScaler Flaw That Could Enable RCE in SAML Deployments

Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service DoS under certain conditions. "CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution...

FBI Seizes 7 Domains, Disrupts Flax Typhoon Tools Used in Critical Infrastructure Intrusions

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Department of Justice DoJ have announced the disruption of malicious tools used by a China-linked advanced persistent threat group known as Flax Typhoon. To that end, the agencies seized several domains and blocked access to platforms that were use...

FBI Says China-Linked Hackers Ran Portal Giving Third Parties Access to Stolen Emails

Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast Asia, the FBI and agencies in 6 other countries said on October 8. The company, Integrity Technology Group , has been...

ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories

The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools and traces of an intrusion. Apparently, keeping things secure is a problem on both sides of the fence. The rest of the...

Japan Sees Sharp Rise in Web Data Leaks Amid Mobile API Abuse and Metabase Attacks

Attackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known software flaws, the JPCERT Coordination Center JPCERT/CC said. The Tokyo-based center, which takes incident reports, based its October 8, 2026 alert on those reports and...

UAC-0099 Targets Ukrainian Government Personnel With ASHVEIN RAT Hiding Commands in HTML

The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET infostealer and remote access trojan RAT codenamed ASHVEIN. According to TrendAI, the malware has been put to use in attacks targeting Ukrainian government personnel. The cybersecurity company ...

ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence AI pen testing tool named ARTEX to carry out the attacks. The activity, per CrowdStrike Intelligence, was active from late September to early...

Wazza Phishkit Targets Banking, Government, and Manufacturing Across the US, EU, and Australia

Phishing kits are no longer limited to copying a familiar login page and waiting for a victim to enter credentials. Attackers are increasingly building filtering, session management, and traffic controls into the infrastructure that delivers the phishing page itself. ANY.RUN has identified Wazza,...

16 Malicious Firefox Extensions Pose as Rabby and OKX Wallets to Steal Recovery Phrases

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a cluster of 16 malicious Mozilla Firefox extensions that are capable of stealing cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases and private keys. "The extensions masquerade as wallet portals, desktop utilities, and browser tools, but their code intercepts recove...

U.S. Offers Up to $10 Million for Tips on Zhang Yu, Charged in HAFNIUM Hacks

The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a Chinese national charged in the United States in connection with the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks known as HAFNIUM. The reward is for information leading to h...

MonsterCloud Owner Accused of Billing Over $19M While Secretly Paying Ransoms to Decrypt Data

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ on Wednesday announced charges against a 50-year-old U.S. and Israeli national for allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying the attackers to obtain decryptors while claiming to use proprietary tools to recover their data. Zohar Pinhasi aka Zack...

Tensorlake npm Package Compromised to Deliver Shai-Hulud Credential-Stealing Worm

The npm package known as "tensorlake," a TypeScript software development kit SDK for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. The malicious version 0.5.144 "contains obfuscated malware that harvests credential...

Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains

Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains ccTLDs and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google's own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh Ghana, .sl Sierra Leone or .as American Samoa was put at risk...

Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans RAT to compromised hosts. The campaign has been codenamed MALFEX by CloudSEK and Checkmarx. The activity is assessed to be the work of a...

SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances

SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall...

Unpatched Critical LMCache Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code Remotely

A critical vulnerability in LMCache , open-source software that speeds up large language model LLM servers such as vLLM, lets an attacker run code on the cache server without logging in, and no fixed version is available. The flaw is in LMCache's multiprocess mode, where the cache runs as a...

PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining Botnet

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence AI and large language model LLM infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated...

The Sixth Voice of the CISO Data Shows Cyber Risk Has Moved Inside the Workflow

The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a...

FBI Warns FortiBleed Remains Active After Amassing 86,644 Fortinet Device Credentials

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI and Secret Service USSS on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting campaign remains an active threat aimed at internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and secure socket layer SSL virtual private network VPN gateways. "The campaign...

Atlassian Data Center Flaw Draws Exploitation Attempts Within Two Hours of Public Details

Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow access to sensitive files under certain conditions. The arbitrary file access flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21589 CVSS score: 9.3 affects multiple products, including...

What Is Agentic Pentesting? What It Proves, and Where It Stops.

If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it discovers, validates, and exploits attack paths autonomously, the way a real attacker would. That promise is worth taking seriously. It’s also worth...

Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws

Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence AI models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified...

100+ Compromised Websites Use Fake Cloudflare Checks to Deliver LunexStealer

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an information-stealing malware called LunexStealer aka Psychedelic Stealer. The activity, which was observed by the agency in...

Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Ad Portals Capture Credentials and MFA Codes

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "human-operated phishing platform" that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence AI chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and Manus. The products, which claim to offer campai...

Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and Taiwan

Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection. Threat actors are known to name their malicious software after a legitimate operating system...

LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings

A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro. The attack works only when the program's Java support is...

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies

The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages. "The unauthorized bot activities included edits to ou...

Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers

In 2024, MCP Model Context Protocol set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows. The ecosystem around it fell short...

Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports

Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward...

Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products

A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory...

FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To...

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account

Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right ...

ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits

A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the...

Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes

Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940 , is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. "Weak authorizatio...

⚡ Weekly Recap: NetScaler and FortiMail 0-Days, AI Coding Leaks, Spectre v2 and Ransomware Arrests

A blank field. A public repo. One reply to an email. A box left exposed. None of this sounds dramatic, which is partly the problem. This week’s threats keep finding leverage in small things that were easy to overlook. There are actively exploited bugs in the mix, cleaner intrusion paths, smarter...