4319 Chrome Extensions Found Hijacking Searches, Affecting 13.4 Million UsersCCCS Alerts & AdvisoriesCyber Security NewsGoogle Project ZeroMalwarebytes LabsSecurityWeek+2A network of 319 browser extensions has been linked to search hijacking affecting roughly 13.4 million users over a decade. Marketed as PDF converters, manual finders, safe search tools, and AI search helpers, these extensions redirect queries through operator-controlled servers before sending users to Yahoo or Bing. The business model turns ordinary searches into referral income while exposing queries to an intermediary. Similar behavior appeared in an earlier Chrome extension search hijacking investigation involving 23 add-ons, showing how basic browser settings can support large…
9NIK C2: The new AI-enabled command-and-control frameworkCisco TalosCyber Security NewsMicrosoft SecurityCVE-2026-62740 ↗CVE-2026-62877 ↗Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.” NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the victim's keystrokes to collect the targeted victim’s sensitive data, and instruct an integrated AI model to analyze the harvested data, all within the compromised session. In this framework, the actor has abused the OpenAI Chat Completions application programming interface (API), which is a HTTP endpoint that enables ChatGPT-style conversations programmatically. In addition to the features that enable…
10Oracle celebrates end of Cybersecurity Awareness Month with quadruple troubleBleeping ComputerCCCS Alerts & AdvisoriesThe Hacker NewsThe Register Security+1CVE-2026-101767 ↗Attackers are probing a critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution (RCE), despite Oracle issuing a patch earlier this month. Meanwhile, new analysis indicates that an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day exploited by ShinyHunters as early as May involves three distinct vulnerabilities that can be combined to achieve RCE. Patching alone may not remove attackers from already compromised systems, particularly if they've installed web shells. First up: CVE-2026-101767, a critical, unauthenticated SQL injection bug in Oracle EBS that can lead to RCE. “Our Oracle…
11Discover and remediate PHP2Shell exposure with TenableCCCS Alerts & AdvisoriesCisco Security AdvisoriesESET WeLiveSecurityTenable Blog+1CVE-2026-109618 ↗CVE-2026-109619 ↗Learn how to use Tenable solutions to find vulnerable PHP versions, prioritize remediation, and patch the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) faster. Key takeaways The PHP2Shell vulnerabilities ( CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 ) put security teams in a race against attackers. PHP runs on more than 70% of websites, so organizations need to quickly find where they’re affected and update PHP to fixed versions. Tenable helps you find PHP2Shell across your attack surface. Tenable One Attack Surface Management discovers externally facing PHP assets. Tenable…
14China-Linked Hackers Exploited VMware ESX Zero-Day to Reduce Audit Trail VisibilityCCCS Alerts & AdvisoriesThe Hacker NewsThe 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 threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-41709 (CVSS score:
15Microsoft releases emergency .NET security fixes for Google Brotli bugCCCS Alerts & AdvisoriesThe Register SecurityZero Day InitiativeTo address a vulnerability in Google's Brotli compression technology that could allow attackers to corrupt process memory, Microsoft is urging .NET users to update "as soon as possible" after releasing an out-of-band (OOB) security update. It released new versions for .NET 8, 9, 10, and .NET 11 to patch against the Brotli bug, following similar updates from Node.js, Python, and other projects. Senior program manager Rahul Bhandari said in the October 25 release that the buffer overflow vulnerability in Brotli, tracked as CVE-2026-111497 and rated 8.1 under CVSS v3.1 in Microsoft's advisory…
18Serial ransomware crook gets 70 months behind bars for Nefilim, Hive rolesBleeping ComputerThe Register SecurityUkrainian ransomware crook Artem Stryzhak has been sentenced to 70 months in the slammer by a New York federal court for his role as an affiliate of the Nefilim and Hive ransomware gangs. Prosecutors believe the cybercriminal began working with Nefilim in or around June 2021, while living in Barcelona, Spain. The Nefilim ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operation was known for targeting wealthy companies, with its operators encouraging affiliates to pursue businesses capable of paying substantial ransom demands. One of Nefilim's most high-profile attacks was on Australian logistics giant Toll…
19Prolific Hive and Nefilim ransomware affiliate sentenced to 70 months in prisonCyberScoopSecurityWeekA 36-year-old Ukrainian national was sentenced to 70 months in prison for participating in a string of ransomware attacks targeting various critical infrastructure operators and businesses from the middle of 2018 to late 2021, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Artem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak was involved in ransomware attacks on hospitals that disrupted patient care, government entities, a dentist office, a company in the oil and gas transportation industry and law firms. He joined various ransomware groups during his crime spree, including Nefilim and Hive, which attacked about 1,500…
20Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on MagentoInfosecurity MagazineThe Hacker NewsAn 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 store's pages that, when visited by unsuspecting users, serves malicious JavaScript loader code through Magento CMS blocks. "When you
The UK’s comms watchdog has put forward four methods of checking netizens aren't kids – dubbed highly effective age assurance (HEAA) – as it prepares for the proposed under-16 social media ban. The regulator says some…
The UK’s comms watchdog has put forward four methods of checking netizens aren't kids – dubbed highly effective age assurance (HEAA) – as it prepares for the proposed under-16 social media ban. The regulator says some adults may not need to prove their over-16-ness to social media platforms that will make inferences about their age based on previous activity, but confirmed that "many" are likely to have to undergo the same verification process. Big Brother Watch's (BBW) Director Silkie Carlo said: "This plan for a government 'social media ban' is a national ID system by the back door. Both…
Microsoft released the KB5127936 preview cumulative update for Windows 11 versions 25H2 and 26H2, with 41 changes, including File Explorer and Cloud rebuild improvements.
EXCLUSIVE Researchers identified at least 83 attacks against 61 public GitHub repositories, including popular open source projects such as Google LangExtract, Trivy, Brave browser, and MLflow, in what they suspect is a…
EXCLUSIVE Researchers identified at least 83 attacks against 61 public GitHub repositories, including popular open source projects such as Google LangExtract, Trivy, Brave browser, and MLflow, in what they suspect is a coordinated campaign to execute commands in CI/CD environments and steal credentials and access tokens. It all happened very quickly, the Radware threat hunters said in an exclusive interview with The Register. Most (77) of the malicious items were published during a 43-minute time span on September 1, with the remaining six occurring within the next two minutes. “Our guess is…
Hackers have claimed a breach of cryptocurrency swap platform Wagyu.xyz, while researchers reviewing the purported leak found thousands of records connecting Monero transactions with public blockchain payments and IP…
Hackers have claimed a breach of cryptocurrency swap platform Wagyu.xyz, while researchers reviewing the purported leak found thousands of records connecting Monero transactions with public blockchain payments and IP addresses. The dataset contains 38,628 order records and 10,139 distinct IP addresses, covering activity between July 18 and October 26, 2026. Its origin and authenticity remain independently unverified. The findings highlight a privacy risk beyond cryptocurrency code: information held by services that move funds between blockchains. Unlike a wallet compromise, a transaction…
A flaw in Telegram for Android allowed an attacker to run code on a victim's phone via a voice call once the victim answered, according to security startup NebuSec. The attacker needed only an ordinary Telegram account…
A flaw in Telegram for Android allowed an attacker to run code on a victim's phone via a voice call once the victim answered, according to security startup NebuSec. The attacker needed only an ordinary Telegram account. Telegram fixed the flaw in version 12.10.4 of the app, released in late September, and NebuSec disclosed it on October 29. The flaw can be triggered in every version from
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…
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 on their own. As these capabilities mature, security operations centers (SOCs) will see major changes in how work is organized, how
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…
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 7.25 million public Gitee repositories and reported the results on October 28. Most were keys for cloud and AI services, led by
Cisco released security updates to patch a denial-of-service zero-day in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Threat Defense (FTD) software that attackers are exploiting to remotely crash vulnerable firewall devices.
Hackers targeting FreePBX phone servers have upgraded their malware to steal credentials that can keep phone fraud running even after an infected system is rebuilt. The INJ3CTOR3 operation now collects configuration…
Hackers targeting FreePBX phone servers have upgraded their malware to steal credentials that can keep phone fraud running even after an infected system is rebuilt. The INJ3CTOR3 operation now collects configuration files containing SIP trunk passwords, database credentials, management secrets, and mail relay logins, extending the damage beyond the compromised server. The change builds on an earlier campaign that placed unauthorized calls through victims’ own phone systems. Previously documented six-layer FreePBX persistence mechanisms helped the malware survive removal attempts, but stolen…
Apple’s latest updates include a fix for a CoreGraphics bug that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The fix is now available for older iPhones and iPads. Apple released security updates on October 26. Apple…
Apple’s latest updates include a fix for a CoreGraphics bug that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The fix is now available for older iPhones and iPads. Apple released security updates on October 26. Apple first fixed the flaw in iOS 26.7.1. Its latest updates also bring the fix to older devices that can’t run iOS 26, including the iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone XR, and seventh-generation iPad. The iOS 18.7.11 update is a backport: it brings a fix from a newer software version to an older one. Here, Apple has made the fix available to older devices running iOS 18, so they can be…
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…
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-2026-76418, is rated 8.6 on the CVSS scoring system. Successful exploitation could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the
Illicit software on the computers of some of the world’s best online poker players allowed the accused cheater to see what cards were in the victims’ hands—and trounce them at the tables.
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…
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, acting as an install-time policy gate," GitHub said. The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available in public preview
GitHub has launched Copilot Fusion, a system that automatically selects AI models for coding tasks , helping developers balance code quality, speed, and cost. Instead of choosing a model for every request, users select…
GitHub has launched Copilot Fusion, a system that automatically selects AI models for coding tasks , helping developers balance code quality, speed, and cost. Instead of choosing a model for every request, users select Fusion and let it decide how to handle the work. It is generally available in Visual Studio Code , Copilot CLI, the GitHub Copilot app , and JetBrains IDEs . Fusion is a model router and coordinator, not a new standalone model. It checks each request for reasoning, code generation, debugging, and tool needs, then chooses the models and steps needed to produce one final answer…
Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.” NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the victim's keystrokes to…
Cisco Talos observed a new AI-integrated command-and-control (C2) framework in the wild called “NIK C2.” NIK C2 contains a Windows implant, using which, an actor can dump credentials, stream the victim's keystrokes to collect the targeted victim’s sensitive data, and instruct an integrated AI model to analyze the harvested data, all within the compromised session. In this framework, the actor has abused the OpenAI Chat Completions application programming interface (API), which is a HTTP endpoint that enables ChatGPT-style conversations programmatically. In addition to the features that enable…
The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Meta on Wednesday demanding the company answer for the privacy concerns its smart glasses pose to the public. The letter cites 404…
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden and Massachusetts Senator Edward Markey sent a letter to Meta on Wednesday demanding the company answer for the privacy concerns its smart glasses pose to the public. The letter cites 404 Media’s October 2025 investigation into how people use Meta’s smart glasses to harass massage parlor workers. That investigation found Instagram accounts with hundreds of thousands of followers and millions of views uploaded videos filmed with Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses, where men entered massage parlors across the country and solicited the workers for sex work. The full letter is here…
Microsoft urged Entra ID administrators to migrate from SMS and voice authentication in Entra ID to passkeys before retirement begins on February 1, 2027, to reduce phishing risks and prevent sign-in disruptions. The…
Microsoft urged Entra ID administrators to migrate from SMS and voice authentication in Entra ID to passkeys before retirement begins on February 1, 2027, to reduce phishing risks and prevent sign-in disruptions. The reminder, published on October 27 under Message Center notice MC1528000, follows July announcements. Retirement covers Worldwide and Government Community Cloud environments and should finish in early February 2027. Administrators should not wait until the change reaches their tenant before preparing affected users. According to the Microsoft retirement notice , users with another…
A network of 319 browser extensions has been linked to search hijacking affecting roughly 13.4 million users over a decade. Marketed as PDF converters, manual finders, safe search tools, and AI search helpers, these…
A network of 319 browser extensions has been linked to search hijacking affecting roughly 13.4 million users over a decade. Marketed as PDF converters, manual finders, safe search tools, and AI search helpers, these extensions redirect queries through operator-controlled servers before sending users to Yahoo or Bing. The business model turns ordinary searches into referral income while exposing queries to an intermediary. Similar behavior appeared in an earlier Chrome extension search hijacking investigation involving 23 add-ons, showing how basic browser settings can support large…
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…
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 GitLab server through a crafted regular expression in a CI configuration. Alpine found no evidence that the attack worked but
Welcome back to PWNED, in which The Reg offers cautionary tales from folks who’ve left their doors wide open to attackers and lived to tell the tale. This week’s misadventure involves unpatched older machines and a…
Welcome back to PWNED, in which The Reg offers cautionary tales from folks who’ve left their doors wide open to attackers and lived to tell the tale. This week’s misadventure involves unpatched older machines and a password that was supposed to send a message to crims. Our story comes courtesy once again of leading red teamer and pen tester Dahvid Schloss of Suzu Labs. A client asked Schloss to visit a factory and check the servers there for security holes. The company had been hacked six months prior, made some adjustments, and wanted to make sure that they were bulletproof now. Schloss'…
A new exploit chain for Microsoft Edge revealed that combines five bugs and two Windows features to run code outside the browser sandbox. Published by Security researcher Orange Tsai on October 28, 2026, the research…
A new exploit chain for Microsoft Edge revealed that combines five bugs and two Windows features to run code outside the browser sandbox. Published by Security researcher Orange Tsai on October 28, 2026, the research shows how flaws in browser logic can turn a malicious webpage into code execution on Windows without memory corruption. Tsai, a member of DEVCORE, built the chain for Pwn2Own Berlin 2026. His technical write-up describes two months of research completed without AI tools. The finished exploit used fewer than 100 lines of code. The chain began in Edge’s Conditional Access…
A new ClickFix campaign is using fake Cloudflare verification pages to trick both Windows and Mac users into running harmful commands on their own computers. The pages look like the “Verify you are human” checks that…
A new ClickFix campaign is using fake Cloudflare verification pages to trick both Windows and Mac users into running harmful commands on their own computers. The pages look like the “Verify you are human” checks that many people click through every day. Instead of a quick security check, the visitor ends up starting an infection by hand. The campaign was seen on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, and it runs on legitimate websites that have been compromised. A visitor lands on a normal-looking site, and a hidden script loads the fake Cloudflare page on top of it. Since the page shows different…
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…
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 and store them for later use, Cisco Talos said on October 28. Talos calls the attacks historical but does not specify when they
Raw intelligence is cheap; operationalized intelligence is rare. A threat intelligence platform earns its keep by fusing feeds, deduplicating indicators, scoring relevance against your estate, and pushing enriched…
Raw intelligence is cheap; operationalized intelligence is rare. A threat intelligence platform earns its keep by fusing feeds, deduplicating indicators, scoring relevance against your estate, and pushing enriched context into the SIEM, SOAR, and firewall before the analyst asks. The 2026 rankings reward platforms that close that loop, not those that merely aggregate. Recorded Future takes 1 ; Anomali and ThreatConnect complete the podium. Key Takeaways • 1 overall: Recorded Future the intelligence graph with the broadest collection and cleanest productization. • Podium: Recorded Future…
SOAR grew up twice: first from scripts to playbooks, then in the current wave from playbooks to AI agents that draft, decide, and act under human guardrails. The 2026 field splits into suite engines living inside…
SOAR grew up twice: first from scripts to playbooks, then in the current wave from playbooks to AI agents that draft, decide, and act under human guardrails. The 2026 field splits into suite engines living inside SIEM/XDR platforms and independent automation fabrics (Tines, Torq, Swimlane) selling speed-to-build to any stack. Palo Alto Cortex XSOAR takes 1 on depth and content gravity; Splunk SOAR and Tines complete the podium. Key Takeaways • 1 overall: Cortex XSOAR the deepest playbook ecosystem and marketplace in the category. • Podium: XSOAR (depth), Splunk SOAR (SIEM-fused automation)…
Hackers have compromised at least 17,960 Android devices and intercepted more than 7.6 million SMS messages in a banking malware campaign targeting India. The operation combines fake bank calls, phishing websites…
Hackers have compromised at least 17,960 Android devices and intercepted more than 7.6 million SMS messages in a banking malware campaign targeting India. The operation combines fake bank calls, phishing websites, malicious applications, and cryptocurrency mining to steal financial information while quietly exploiting infected phones. The attackers impersonated 11 Indian banking institutions and two government programs, collecting banking credentials, credit card details, and identity documents. Stolen messages included one-time passwords, transaction alerts, and account communications…
Introduction A couple of months ago, our research revealed a highly sophisticated infection chain and a complex .NET assembly-loading framework built on XAML markup, which strongly indicates a supply-chain attack…
Introduction A couple of months ago, our research revealed a highly sophisticated infection chain and a complex .NET assembly-loading framework built on XAML markup, which strongly indicates a supply-chain attack targeting a custom Windows build used exclusively by government entities in Asia. The malicious framework has been labeled NetamLoader; at present, no attribution to any known APT group has been established. The sample came to light in the first half of 2026, when Kaspersky Security Network (KSN) issued a malware detection alert for a .config file using AppDomainManager injection to…
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…
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 threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks targeting the U.S. legal sector. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-41709 (CVSS score:
Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it's convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and…
Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it's convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and take some more when you reached a critical step. But, if you need to revert to a previous snapshot, all changes applied to the VM are... lost! Therefore, it's important to store important data outside the VM.
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…
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 interface exposed to the internet," the network security company said in an update to its advisory. The vulnerabilities, tracked as
Authorities seized the domain of Virtualine , a bulletproof hosting provider that cybercriminals used to commit a large-scale sextortion scheme, ransomware, data theft, malware hosting and money laundering, the Justice…
Authorities seized the domain of Virtualine , a bulletproof hosting provider that cybercriminals used to commit a large-scale sextortion scheme, ransomware, data theft, malware hosting and money laundering, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Virtualine facilitated prolific criminal activity, including the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), the Justice Department said. The Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting provider was among the most active this year in crypto-related crime in particular, researchers said. The site and its associated infrastructure stands out among the…
Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims in a new book the US President's son-in-law may have been hacked twice. Is any of it true…
Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims in a new book the US President's son-in-law may have been hacked twice. Is any of it true, and what does it tell us about the phones in our pockets? Meanwhile, James Ball explains that of the internet’s most trusted security keys were protected by numbers so small that one of them was... four. Yes, "4". And then, of course, to make the week worse we suffered a PHPocalpyse... Plus, Chuck Randolph of 360 Privacy explains how the internet has made it scarily easy to put…
A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN…
A vulnerability in the peering authentication in Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller, formerly SD-WAN vSmart, Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager, formerly SD-WAN vManage, and Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Validator, formerly SD-WAN vBond, could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication and obtain administrative privileges on an affected system. This vulnerability exists because the peering authentication mechanism in an affected system is not working properly. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending crafted requests to an affected system. A successful exploit could…
A leak website was published Wednesday, showcasing internal data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors after it was obtained by hackers who claimed to have breached an identity…
A leak website was published Wednesday, showcasing internal data on more than 41,000 Department of Homeland Security employees and contractors after it was obtained by hackers who claimed to have breached an identity service used by the agency. The transparency nonprofit Distributed Denial of Secrets and the hacker maia arson crimew got the data from a hacktivist outfit known as the Department of Peace. ”The leak is extraordinary but deceptive in [its] simplicity as it identifies the officials responsible for overseeing covert and undercover operations, the government’s hunt for leakers and…
Cisco Talos has identified UAT-11473, a highly sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, who exploited CVE-2026-20127 , an authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst Controller instances to…
Cisco Talos has identified UAT-11473, a highly sophisticated advanced persistent threat (APT) actor, who exploited CVE-2026-20127 , an authentication bypass vulnerability in Cisco SD-WAN Catalyst Controller instances to bypass authentication and gain unauthorized access to affected systems. UAT-11473 then installed a custom malware framework we track as “KeyDrift” consisting of multiple components geared towards collecting sensitive keying information, acting as backdoors and intermediate command-and-control (C2) hosts. Observed targeting spans across space and satellite services, defense and…
A federal appellate court panel said West Virginia's version of Daniel's Law — meant to shield the personal data of police and other officials — is unconstitutional.
U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities.
On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x. These vulnerabilities impact critical operations such as…
On October 21, 2026, Node.js announced the availability of fixes for multiple vulnerabilities across the following supported release lines: 22.x, 24.x, and 26.x. These vulnerabilities impact critical operations such as the Brotli decoder, DNS resolution, and TLS certificate validation. The vulnerabilities pose risks for remote code execution and traffic interception. For more information, see Node.js Security Release . The following vulnerabilities have a Security Impact Rating (SIR) of High and are addressed in this advisory: CVE-2026-111497 - Brotli decoder out-of-bounds write; potential…
The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
Attackers are probing a critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution (RCE), despite Oracle issuing a patch earlier this month. Meanwhile, new analysis indicates that an Oracle…
Attackers are probing a critical Oracle E-Business Suite vulnerability that can lead to remote code execution (RCE), despite Oracle issuing a patch earlier this month. Meanwhile, new analysis indicates that an Oracle PeopleSoft zero-day exploited by ShinyHunters as early as May involves three distinct vulnerabilities that can be combined to achieve RCE. Patching alone may not remove attackers from already compromised systems, particularly if they've installed web shells. First up: CVE-2026-101767, a critical, unauthenticated SQL injection bug in Oracle EBS that can lead to RCE. “Our Oracle…
Between October 17 and October 20, 2026, a critical security compromise involving Certificate Authorities that are managed by eMudhra was uncovered. A security researcher demonstrated that the private keys for eight…
Between October 17 and October 20, 2026, a critical security compromise involving Certificate Authorities that are managed by eMudhra was uncovered. A security researcher demonstrated that the private keys for eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were fundamentally broken due to an unprecedented error in their Key Generation Ceremony (KGC) in April 2025. This allows anyone to brute-force acquire these private keys within seconds. For more information, see eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise and the Cisco Talos blog post Compromised eMudhra intermediate certificates . For information about…
A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote…
A vulnerability in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense (FTD) Software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause the device to reload unexpectedly, resulting in a denial of service (DoS) condition. This vulnerability is due to logic errors when secondary authentication is configured on a tunnel group. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request when connecting to the SSL remote access VPN. A successful exploit could allow the attacker to cause…
A Florida judge ruled this week that ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is not liable in a lawsuit brought by a Dominion Voting Systems executive over a film that accuses the former electronic voting hardware and software…
A Florida judge ruled this week that ex-Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne is not liable in a lawsuit brought by a Dominion Voting Systems executive over a film that accuses the former electronic voting hardware and software company executive of saying he “made sure” that Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump wouldn’t win reelection in 2020. The lawsuit, brought in 2022 by Eric Coomer, a former director of product strategy and security at Dominion Voting Systems, concerns comments made in a 2020 film produced by Byrne titled “The Deep Rig.” In the film, which alleges a conspiracy to…