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- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 3d ago
- GitHub Octoverse 2026 — Simon Willison (AI), 4d ago
- Binance Suffers Security Breach Affecting $6.3 Billion in Assets, Nearly $3 Billion Frozen — The Hacker News, 3d ago
- Upwind Security Raises $400 Million at $3.8 Billion Valuation — SecurityWeek, 4d ago
- Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds — The Record, 3d ago
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Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
Today s PHP Security Release, and How We re Strengthening PHP Security If you're running anything on PHP it's vital you upgrade - today's updates (across the entire PHP 8.x line) address two remote code execution holes, and there …
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CISA: Hackers chain Plex flaws in Plex2Shell attacks to breach servers
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server. [...]
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Democrat lawmakers say Russia is aiming to undermine party ahead of midterms
The pair stressed the latest update showed no country is pursuing the technically challenging effort to interfere with or hack into the country’s election infrastructure or tamper directly with votes.
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AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enables supply chain compromise
Storm-0940 used ARTEX agentic AI to accelerate a ConnectWise supply chain compromise, enabling application credential abuse across Microsoft 365 environments. The post AI-driven, large-scale nation-state campaign using ARTEX enabl…
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LiteLLM Compromised in Supply Chain Attack Delivering Credential Stealer and Backdoor
The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind. The comprom…
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EFF’s State Legislative Agenda to End ALPR Mass Surveillance
Police agencies across the U.S. have deployed Automated License Plate Readers (ALPRs) to capture images of passing vehicles along with time, date, and GPS coordinates. While the technology itself isn’t new (ALPRs have existed in v…
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Weak encryption certificates could have let hackers easily spoof websites
Major web browsers blocked the eMudhra TLS certificates to prevent them from being weaponized.
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PHP says AI review of critical bugs first sparked alarm in August, but signs surfaced in 2024
In a lengthy statement about two critical vulnerabilities, the PHP Foundation explained how one dated to 2024, how a recent third-party review by AI companies heightened attention on both, why it scrambled to post information earl…
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Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections
Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis. The post Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections appeared first on Se…
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PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors
The two RCE bugs can be exploited against WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, and other popular applications. The post PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit Sensors appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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OVHcloud GitHub Compromise Tied to GlassWorm Threat Actors
A developer's GitHub account that was compromised several months earlier was used to push malicious code to unsuspecting users.
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OpenAI's GPT-6 Agent Removed Safety Monitoring, Then Falsely Denied Doing So
OpenAI has revealed that two artificial intelligence (AI) agents powered by GPT-6.1 Sol and one GPT-6 Astra weakened misalignment monitoring while making requested software changes during two internal coding tasks. The AI company …
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OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it
OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. [...]
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Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile
Panache — RTS Belle Époque pour mobile Well this is delightful: I released Battle Drones yesterday under an Apache 2.0 License and there's already a French language fork which reskins the game to take place in steampunk 1900s Fran…
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EFF Launches Guide to Help Parents and Youth Protect Privacy Online
Guide Includes Easy, Quick Ways To Identify and Protect Against Online Threats SAN FRANCISCO – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has published “ Online Privacy for Parents and Youth ,” a new guide to help families protect t…
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Optiv Launches CyberBOT Cybersecurity Awareness Training Program
Hands-on sessions provide educators, nonprofits, and community leaders with an accessible resource to foster year-round cyber awareness and build more resilient communities.
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Survey Finds High-Profile Executives Feel Untouchable as Digital Exposure Turns Into Physical Risk
360 Privacy finds more than 8 in 10 security and wealth professionals say cybersecurity and physical security can no longer be separated.
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Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today
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…
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CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619: Critical Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution in PHP
Overview On October 21, 2026, the PHP project announced security releases for two critical vulnerabilities in PHP. CVE-2026-109618 can corrupt memory during out-of-memory (OOM) handling, while CVE-2026-109619 is a use-after-free f…
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Critical RCE vulnerabilities in PHP (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619)
We discuss the incident involving the leak of information about vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Kaspersky solutions detect the PHP2Shell exploit: we’ll walk you through examples using KEDR, KATA, and KES.
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Two critical RCEs in PHP core
Cisco Talos is tracking the disclosure of two unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaws in PHP core, dubbed php2shell , triggered by a plain HTTP request and exploitable before any application code runs, affecting every PH…
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‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With Fake Targets
Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold. The post ‘Context Bombs’ Cut AI Attack Success by Misleading Agents With…
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High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7
Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents. The post High-Severity Flaws Exploited in Three Days as Ransomware Dominates Q3: Rapid7 appe…
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Russian hackers teamed up to wipe data at Ukrainian grain firm
The Russian state-linked hacking group Sandworm collaborated with another threat actor to carry out a destructive cyberattack against a Ukrainian grain logistics company last year, researchers said Thursday.
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‘This Is Not a Drill’: Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Are Setting the Internet on Fire
The PHP Foundation has revealed two serious vulnerabilities that could impact millions of websites. Security experts warn that failure to quickly patch the flaws could have dire consequences.
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FBI, CISA warn that SafePay ransomware poses threat to critical infrastructure
The group has been linked to a 2025 attack targeting technology firm Ingram Micro.
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Hundreds of websites taken offline as concern grows over two PHP vulnerabilities
The maintainers of the globally used PHP scripting language released patches for two vulnerabilities after alerting users that the bugs were severe.
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Critical PHP vulnerabilities expose vast majority of websites to potential compromise
The serious flaws in popular website software prompted government agencies to urge organizations to take their sites offline until they could be fixed.
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eMudhra security blunder left trusted CA signing keys exposed to anyone
Eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority eMudhra were secured with private keys so weak that anyone could recover them from the public certificates in under a second. On its website, the company highl…
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PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws
The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively as PHP2Shell. [...]
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“Next Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and Execute Multiple Types of Cybercrime Activities
An investigation into a threat actor bypassing AI safety controls to coordinate credential theft, VoIP fraud planning, and database exfiltration. The post “Next Exploit Opportunities”: How a Threat Actor Used AI to Help Plan and E…
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ClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet
ClickFix attacks are surging as cybercriminals use fake AI installers, malicious search results, and trusted chatbot platforms to trick users into executing malware. Push Security examines how these attacks evade traditional defen…
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Russia-linked hackers broke into NATO shipbuilder in latest espionage campaign
Symantec, which discovered the operation, urged companies to scan their networks for signs of compromise.
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AI Guardrails Aren’t Stopping Criminal Hackers
Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
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PHP Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical PHP2Shell RCE Flaws as Exploit Attempts Emerge
PHP has released emergency updates that fix two critical flaws in the language itself, letting an attacker without an account run code on a web server. The fixes are in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, and the PHP team says …
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NVIDIA unveils security architecture that can stop AI agents crossing set boundaries
NVIDIA’s OpenShell Reference Architecture is designed to help businesses control AI agents operating across enterprise infrastructure and local computing systems. It builds on NVIDIA’s existing OpenShell security software, combini…
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PHP2Shell: Critical PHP vulnerabilities patched, update now!
The PHP development team has released emergency security updates to fix PHP2Shell, two critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) that could let attackers execute code remotely on web servers without logging in…
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Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a scripting language used globally for web servers and CMS systems. The post Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 …
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Prepare yourselves: PHP to release emergency fixes for 2 critical vulnerabilities
The project overseeing the programming language is releasing patches Wednesday, with the internet racing to patch the 9.2 rated flaw. The post Prepare yourselves: PHP to release emergency fixes for 2 critical vulnerabilities appea…
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Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security
Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M seed led by Tower Research Ventures to commercialize its Beacon AI agent runtime security platform. The post Asymptote Labs Lands $5.5 Million Seed for AI Agent Runtime Security appeared first on Securi…
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Google Chrome Adds ClickFix Warnings to Stop Users From Running Malicious Commands
Google on Tuesday said it's rolling out improved safeguards in its Chrome browser to secure users against ClickFix attacks when Enhanced Protection is enabled. ClickFix is a popular social engineering technique in which bad actors…
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Decades-Old Windows Utility Powers Modern ClickFix Attack
The attack uses malicious Google search results related to Amazon and leverages the 'finger' utility to launch a CAPTCHA that installs malware, including the Lumma stealer.
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Amazon-Themed ClickFix Campaign Serves Up Finger-Licking Malware
A Google search for Amazon business led to a ClickFix lure that dropped multiple malicious payloads onto the victim machine, including versions of Lumma Stealer and NetSupport Client RMM.
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Q3 2026 Threat Update: Attackers Are Exploiting Vulnerabilities Within 3 Days
Three days is the average time between a high-severity vulnerability becoming public and its exploitation, according to the latest Quarterly Threat Landscape Report from Rapid7. And 71% of the exploitation tracked in Q3 occurred w…
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Attack Reduction in Huntress Managed ESPM: Disrupting ClickFix
ClickFix tricks users into pasting malicious commands into the Windows Run dialog. See how Attack Reduction in Huntress ESPM helps prevent that from happening.
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Memory Bugs Account for Most of Chrome’s 353 New Security Fixes
The update fixes 353 flaws, including 163 memory corruption and 125 use-after-free vulnerabilities. The post Memory Bugs Account for Most of Chrome s 353 New Security Fixes appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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The Best Cybersecurity Lies In Artificial Intelligence
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, a…
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High number of data centres makes Ireland a hacking target – cybersecurity expert
Our CEO, Brian Honan, spoke to RTÉ’s Morning Ireland after a Google data centre outage disrupted Revolut and other financial services. He explained why Ireland’s many data centres put it “in the crosshairs” for nation-state attack…
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A Design Flaw in Share Links Exposes Users’ Personal Conversations With Meta’s Muse
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
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OpenAI Agents Silenced Security Team Alerts, Removed Misalignment Monitor
In two internal incidents, agents read routine coding instructions as permission to weaken monitoring, and one gave a false answer about it. The post OpenAI Agents Silenced Security Team Alerts, Removed Misalignment Monitor appear…
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