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A sextortion conspiracy killed his son (Lock and Code S07E21)

This week on the Lock and Code podcast… At just 17 years old, Jordan DeMay was murdered by strangers online. That’s how Jordan’s father, John DeMay, described what happened to his son four years ago. At home in…

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Threat Intel Malwarebytes Labs

Millions of California students’ sensitive data stolen in breach

Breach

Personal information belonging to millions of current and former California public school students has been stolen from a system operated by Educational Testing Service (ETS). ETS is a nonprofit organization that helps…

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Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic

Malware Crypto

A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for…

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News CyberScoop

Spyware found on devices belonging to prominent Serbian critics as elections loom

Malware Research

Spyware has been detected on devices used by some of Serbia’s most prominent figures connected to the country’s political upheaval, according to researchers who announced their findings Monday. Vladan Ðokić, the rector…

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Threat Intel Malwarebytes Labs

A week in security (October 12 – October 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Eiliko robot companion exposes private chats and can be hijacked “Spray and pray” job applications could make it harder for you to spot a scam OpenAI sued over children safety and data…

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Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers

Research

A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on…

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OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys

Breach

An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional…

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Google Unveils New Android AI Protections to Block Scam Calls, Phishing Links and OTP Theft

Phishing

Google has announced a new set of Android security protections designed to stop mobile scams across calls, text messages, chat apps, web links, and account verification codes. The update comes as criminals increasingly…

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News The Register Security

ConnectWise turns off its SaaS-y backup, security, and management services to probe security SNAFU

SaaS-for-managed services providers ConnectWise has initiated a “service interruption” for its some of its offerings after detecting unauthorized access. ConnectWise offers ERP tailored to the needs of managed services…

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Hackers Exploiting Plex Vulnerabilities in the Wild to Deploy Cryptominer Malware

Vuln Malware Research

Hackers are exploiting flaws in Plex Media Server to install cryptocurrency mining malware, with a researcher recording successful attacks against a honeypot on October 17, 2026. The activity follows the release of…

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Microsoft Confirms October Windows Updates Can Break Exchange Server Email Services

Microsoft has confirmed that Windows Server security updates released on October 13, 2026, can disrupt Exchange Server email services, blocking webmail access and leaving messages undelivered. The issue affects some…

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News The Register Security

Linux KVM guest-host escape rated critical, may represent a new way to attack penguin-powered networking

Research

Paulos Yibelo, the researcher who in early October claimed to have found a guest-host escape flaw in Linux KVM, the hypervisor used by most hyperscale clouds, has named the flaw PwnEscape and warned it might represent a…

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Podcast Hak5

Hackers Turned GitHub Against Its Own Users | Threat Wire

Vuln

How are hackers exploiting GitHub Actions to steal credentials and secrets from hundreds of repositories in a growing supply chain attack? This week on Hak5, we investigate the GhostAction campaign, Anthropic’s new AI…

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ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants

ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application…

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OpenCode Security Breach Exposes Third-Party API Keys of its Console Users

Breach

OpenCode has disclosed a security breach affecting 1.4% of its Console users, warning that third-party API keys saved in affected workspaces may have been exposed. In an October 17 statement, the company linked the…

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Claude AI Solves 25-Year NSA Cryptography Mystery in Just 30 Minutes

Research

Anthropic says an internal Claude research model has traced the origins of five NSA-supplied elliptic curve seeds in under 30 minutes, answering a cryptography question that remained open for roughly 25 years. The…

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This Might Be the Earliest Known Spear Murder In Earth’s History

Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that lived and died by the spear, drew unequal lots, paged Fox Mulder, and peered at an alien moon. First, scientists discover a mortal spear wound in a…

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News The Register Security

Cybercrims go beyond stealing data to attack physical building systems

Late Sunday night, a still-unknown cybercriminal or group hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food, and sparking fires…

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MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon

Malware Research

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package…

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Hackers used Compromised ConnectWise Backup Credentials to Hack 173 Microsoft 365 Accounts

Breach

Hackers used a stolen ConnectWise Cloud Backup credential to sign in to 173 Microsoft 365 partner and customer tenants, giving them access through a trusted backup application. The incident shows how one leaked vendor…

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Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants

Breach Research

Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly…

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Google Fixes 10 Chrome Vulnerabilities, Including Memory Corruption Flaw Found With Claude AI

Vuln

Google released a Chrome Stable security update fixing 10 vulnerabilities across Windows, Mac, and Linux, including a high-severity DOM memory corruption flaw reported by Xinyang Ge of Anthropic with Claude AI. The…

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Hackers Exploit Critical Collabora Online Flaw to Backdoor Nextcloud Servers

CVE-2026-110447 ↗ Vuln Malware Breach

Hackers are exploiting a critical flaw in the Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server app for Nextcloud, with users reporting web shells on compromised servers. Tracked as CVE-2026-110447, the vulnerability allows remote…

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OpenAI Confirms Its AI Model Hacked Government Website While Counting Hospital Beds

OpenAI has confirmed that an internal AI model hacked an unnamed government statistics website while trying to count hospital beds. The June 17, 2026 incident started as a data task during reinforcement-learning…

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Federal agencies recommend cyber controls, independent testing for frontier AI systems

The federal government is advising AI companies to set more industry standards for securing agents in sandbox testing environments. In joint guidance from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the…

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Media Schneier on Security

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Before the Chicxulub Meteor Impact

Research

New research shows that squid lived all around the globe even before the Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I…

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Media Ars Technica Security

OpenAI models hacked a crypto wallet and breached more websites

Breach Crypto

OpenAI said internal models hacked two more websites, bypassed company-imposed browsing restrictions, and used exposed credentials to draw cryptocurrency from a wallet it couldn’t otherwise access, in the latest…

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Trending Threat Intel Volexity

Mind the (Patch) Gap , Part 3: Analysis with Volexity Volcano, Threat Intel, and MCP

Vuln

Last month, Volexity published two blog posts in its Mind the (Patch) Gap series. The series details Volexity’s discovery of multiple Chinese threat actors simultaneously using zero-day exploits in Google Chrome and…

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News The Hacker News

Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug

Vuln Research

A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and…

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Prolific Chinese espionage group exploits BeyondTrust zero-day

Vuln APT Research

Suspected Chinese hackers with a proven knack for exploiting zero-days in security products are at it again, targeting BeyondTrust customers in attacks that researchers have traced back to late August. Mandiant…

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