PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessions

A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 CVSS score: 5.4, a path traversal flaw in the command lin...

Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory

A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEsca...

ThreatsDay: Adobe RCE, DNS Wallet Theft, NVIDIA Container Escape, Self-Healing Backdoor + 23 More

Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that’s an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can lead to a big theft. A trusted login can hide th...

Citizen Lab Traces Zero-Click Candiru Spyware Infections at Al Jazeera to Targeted Online Ads

Candiru, an Israeli maker of spyware sold to governments, infected devices at the news network Al Jazeera through ordinary online ads, in attacks that needed no click or other action from the user, researchers at the Citizen Lab said Thursday. The hidden attack code ran the moment an ad loaded on...

Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks

The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States CIS. The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of...

Help TDS Linked to Hotejka as 20,000+ Cloudflare Pages Domains Host Tech Support Scams

A long-running Traffic Distribution System TDS known as Help TDS to a Russian-language affiliate program called Hotejka , which appears to be a rebrand of a traffic monetization operation dubbed ROI777. Help TDS is assessed to be active since at least 2017, offering PHP code templates to partners...

NGINX Fixes 5 Flaws, Including Possible RCE and a TLS Bug That May Skip Client-Cert Checks

NGINX released versions 1.30.6 and 1.31.7 on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of them present in every release since May 2005. There are three memory bugs that F5, the company behind NGINX, says could crash a worker process or possibly let an attacker run code, and each requires a...

Next.js Ships Out-of-Band Patch for Two Critical RCE Flaws in Caching and SVG Processing

Next.js released an out-of-band security update on October 14 that fixes two critical flaws allowing unauthenticated remote code execution, along with a high-severity denial-of-service flaw. One code-execution flaw is in React Server Components, and the other in librsvg, the open-source library...

Drupal Patches Critical Field UI Flaw With Unauthenticated RCE Path via Contributed Modules

Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site's server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in Drupal 11.4.10, 11.3.19, and 10.6.19. An attacker cannot reach the flaw through core alone, the Drupal Security Team said in its advisory. Sever...

Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early

Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving U...

Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 CVSS score: 8.6, is a case of remote code execution in the management interface. "A remote code execution RCE...

Why AI Confidence Is Not Validation

AI is already part of digital forensics and incident response work, with or without a policy in place to govern it. The issue is that these tools are growing more confident in their own output faster than practitioners are developing reliable ways to verify it. Without governance models and...

India Mandates Registered Caller Name Display on 4G and Newer Networks From November 1

The Indian government has directed telecom service providers TSPs in the country to mandatorily display callers' registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from unknown numbers and tackle spam or fraudulent...

GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026. "This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It...

Langflow's Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence AI applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow, w...

AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134 , which could be chained to...

Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting New Critical Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability

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 the...

Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App

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...

Microsoft Disrupts 3 Phishing Kits Linked to Over 1 Billion Scam Messages

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...

U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud

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 ...

CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts

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,...

curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution

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...

How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team

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 he...

Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days

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...

Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks

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 mobi...

An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

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 le...

AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

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. Th...

Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave

Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave , an isolated slice of memory the operating system uses to guard secrets, and the one they broke into...

Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug

Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 36 in SharePoint Server, and 22 in SQL...

OpenAI Employee Arrested for Allegedly Planting Hidden Recorder in Executive Conference Room

A Saudi national and employee of OpenAI has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to covertly record sensitive conversations. Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, has been charged with using or endeavoring to use ...

Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets

Small artificial intelligence AI models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm...

Docker Fixes Critical Two-Year-Old Hub Flaw That Let One User Push Images as Another

A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it. The flaw was in the feature that converts a personal...

Attacker Chains Three Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Days for Root Access, Only Two Patched So Far

An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected versions to "act immediately." A fix for the thi...

SAP Discloses Critical CVSS 10 Flaw in Cloud SDK for Python Allowing OAuth2 Credential Theft

A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform BTP that use the SDK, SAP's official Python clie...

GitHub Tightens npm Publishing After Flaw Left 1,500+ Packages Vulnerable to Hijacking

GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without having to steal their credentials. "Your configuration becomes...

Xandr Fined a Record €8.6 Million for Relaying Grindr Data Revealing Sexual Orientation

The Norwegian Data Protection Authority DPA has fined Xandr, an advertising unit owned by Microsoft, €8.6 million $9.62 million for illegally relaying ​Grindr users' sensitive data to advertisers. The administrative penalty is the largest issued by the data protection watchdog, arguing the case...

[Webinar] How to Stop AI-Driven Privilege Escalation With Runtime Identity Controls

The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation, attackers can move through systems faster than security teams can investigate...

LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network

Three vulnerabilities in LG's webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure Disclosure on October 12. The chain was tested o...

Product Walkthrough: Bitdefender AI Visibility and Control

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed. A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list. Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine...

Attackers Heat French Supermarket Fridges Up to 50°C by Hijacking Danfoss Controllers

Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said. The attackers reached them through the controller that runs all of a store's fridges and freezers, a...

Two Critical MarkLogic Flaws Could Give Delegated Managers Persistent Admin Control

Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software's MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical. Fixes have been availab...

GitLab Patches CVSS 10.0 Flaw That Could Let Unauthenticated Users Run Server Code

GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition CE and Enterprise Edition EE software that could result in arbitrary code execution. "GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execu...

Low-Cost Android Phones Ship With Preinstalled Malware That Turns Them Into Residential Proxies

Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies. The activity, which targets Android devices built on MediaTek platforms across several...

⚡ Weekly Recap: Helpdesk 0-Days, Rogue Certs, ShinyHunters Arrest, AI-Fooling Malware and More

Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That's not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it. But speed is only part of the problem. A secure connection didn't always me...

Bring Your Own Agent: Your Employees' Assistants Are Already Logged In

The personal AI agents rollout is going about as smoothly as expected: Amazon now blocks Meta's Muse because it doesn't identify itself as a bot while browsing; Instinct keeps raising privacy concerns; and the horror stories from pretty much every personal AI agent keep piling up. Regardless, the...

Ledger Finds Unauthorized Hardware Implant in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallet Amid Fund Theft Reports

Cryptocurrency hardware maker Ledger has temporarily paused sales of its products via CryptoBilis following reports of stolen funds linked to devices sold by the reseller. On Friday, the company said it was investigating reports of loss of funds from users in Southeast Asia who had purchased...

Critical SonicWall SMA 1000 Flaw Targeted in 135 Exploitation Attempts After Patch

Threat actors have been observed exploiting a recently disclosed critical security flaw in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access SMA 1000 appliances within days of public disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102255 CVSS score: 10.0, is a case of pre-authenticated server-side request forger...

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...