What's happening in security
Breaches, credential dumps, actively exploited bugs and AI incidents — pulled from 5,635 items across public feeds, Have I Been Pwned and CISA KEV.
Biggest this week
- Westcon-Comstor posts record US$3.37B first-half sales as APAC demand for AI, cloud and cyber accelerates — Reseller News (NZ), 2d 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, 2d 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, 2d ago
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Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, email addresses, user IDs, and organizational roles. …
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Fashion retailer Resolve says hackers stole payment card information
The company, billing itself as “the next-generation fashion retailer for Millennial and Generation Z consumers,” said a recent hack exposed customer payment card numbers.
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Florida warns that 4.9 million people had Social Security numbers leaked in financial aid site breach
The state’s Department of Education (FLDOE) said on Thursday it became aware of a data breach involving the Florida Student Financial Aid website on October 19.
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Bedrock Data routes data exposure fixes to owners and verifies results
Bedrock Data has announced AI-assisted remediation, which federates the work of fixing data exposure to the data owners across the enterprise. Bedrock Data discovers who owns each exposed dataset, opens a ticket for that owner in …
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Manage My Health inquiry exposes breach response and vendor accountability gaps
Privacy Commissioner Michael Webster has warned organisations against building their crisis response plans during an active cyberattack, using the fallout from the Manage My Health breach to highlight broader failings in incident …
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Binance hit by record $6.3 billion crypto hack, scrambles to freeze funds
Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, confirmed Thursday that it had been hacked in a $6.3 billion cyber heist that blockchain investigators are blaming on North Korea.
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Japan Airlines suffers third-party data breach exposing passenger info
Japan Airlines (JAL) has announced that a data breach at Amadeus's Passenger Service System exposed the data of about 92,000 customers. [...]
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Limited reports of PHP bug exploitation emerge
One cyber firm listed a half-dozen exploitations of the PHP2Shell bugs, and another identified a well targeted, suspected Chinese campaign that breached U.S. "government affiliated" servers.
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BAE Says No Data Extracted in Incident Hitting Bankruptcy Courts
BAE Systems says no data was extracted and no PII was breached in the incident that disrupted US bankruptcy court notices for weeks. The post BAE Says No Data Extracted in Incident Hitting Bankruptcy Courts appeared first on Secur…
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HHS Filing Puts iRhythm Data Breach Toll at 8.2 Million
Hackers stole personal information and iRhythm account and device data from third-party-hosted business applications. The post HHS Filing Puts iRhythm Data Breach Toll at 8.2 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Smashing Security podcast #490: How Jared Kushner’s iPhone was allegedly hacked twice
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 do…
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Japan Airlines warns of data breach as country grapples with multiple cyber incidents
Hackers stole passport numbers, frequent flyer numbers, email addresses and phone numbers for about 2,000 customers.
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345,000 email addresses stolen in cyberattack on Germany’s far-right party AfD
Over 345,000 unique email addresses were exposed in the September 2026 breach at German far-right political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD). Breach notification service Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) added the data to its databa…
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China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root Firewalls
The attackers chained PHP2Shell and Fragnesia exploits and hacked two servers of a US government-affiliated organization. The post China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root Firewalls appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Data breach at Sony-owned internet provider compromises 2.6 million customer records
Attackers who broke into the So-net member database made off with personal information belonging to more than 2.58 million current and former customers, along with the email passwords of 54,401 users, Sony Network Communications h…
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Japan's GMO Offers $1 Million Bounty to Catch Hackers Behind FX Trading Cloud Breach
Japan's GMO Internet Group is offering up to $1 million in total for tips that help catch the attackers who breached its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service, after refusing to pay an extortion demand. The reward program opened on Oct…
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Tailscale Patches SSH Flaws That Could Let Hacked Devices Gain Root Access on Other Servers
Tailscale has released version 1.104.4 to fix flaws in its built-in SSH server that could let an attacker reach services and files on other servers that only the root user should be able to touch. The flaws are in how Tailscale SS…
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Breach victims discover their data was held by companies they’ve never heard of
Nearly seven in ten people affected by data breaches handled by Kroll were exposed through an outside supplier, according to its Data Breach Outlook 2026. Businesses rely on outside providers to store information, process transact…
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Japan's GMO urges customers to shut down PCs amid ransomware threat
The GMO Group has urged customers to disconnect their systems from the internet and shut down computers after a threat actor who breached the company's Onamae Desktop Cloud threatened to launch a ransomware attack today. [...]
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Hackers repeatedly breached suppliers holding UK police data, watchdog finds
His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services says British police data has been breach several times this decade through third-party IT suppliers.
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Cyberattack disrupts University of New Mexico hospitals, extortion group claims attack
University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center (HSC), the academic medical arm of the University of New Mexico, has suffered a cyberattack that has temporarily disrupted the operation of its hospitals and may have resulted …
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Energy giant ENGIE discloses data breach affecting customers
French energy giant ENGIE, one of the world's largest power and natural gas providers, confirmed that attackers stole customer data after breaching a marketing platform used by business partners. [...]
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AfD: 345,439 accounts breached
Data exposed: Email addresses, Email messages. In September 2026, the German political party Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) suffered a data breach which exposed 345k unique email addresses. The following month, hundreds of giga…
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University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. [...]
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Former pentester used ARTEX AI to steal 8.2 million data records
South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation that breached more than 90 organizations in the country, with ARTEX AI pentesting framework used in most of the attacks. [...]
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PwC confirms learning records breached in attack on vendor site
The professional services firm was the subject of a claim by a known ransomware actor.
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How Bad Is The 2026 Data Breach Crisis?
This week in cybersecurity from the editors at Cybercrime Magazine Sausalito, Calif. – Oct. 26, 2026 – Read the Full Story from Encryption Consulting Cybersecurity Ventures projects global cybercrime damage costs rising from $10.5…
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Bias in Qwen3-Coder Model
Interesting research : TL;DR: Chinese AI models now sit inside Western products, and some carry geopolitical triggers: tell the model who the code is for, and the security of what it writes changes. For the first time, we showed t…
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Unpatched Tailscale SSH Flaws Could Let a Hacked Device Reach Root on Other Servers
A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH se…
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Quest Diagnostics confirms data breach exposed patient records
American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. [...]
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Quest Diagnostics warns of potential data theft after attack on lab service system
Nationwide lab test company Quest Diagnostics said one of its key systems may have experienced a breach of patient data.
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Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany’s far-right AfD party
The AfD has confirmed that hackers breached its hosting provider. A leak site now claims to offer 421,179 of the party’s internal emails, and shows AI-written summaries rather than the emails themselves. Read more in my article on…
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11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach
The hackers stole 11 million email addresses from CAPCOM ID and changed the login passwords for 196 accounts. The post 11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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State Bank of India Suffers a Customer PII Data Leak
Relatively small data breaches in India can turn quite serious, thanks to a sophisticated underground market for trading PII.
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Toronto crime tips org freezes operations after details of data breach come to light
Late Wednesday night the Toronto chapter of Crime Stoppers broke ranks with the national association, revealing a timeline showing what it knew and when along with an announcement that it will pause operations.
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Capcom confirms data breach affecting 11.7 million accounts
Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information. [...]
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LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute info-stealer malware
Hackers compromised the LiteLLM project's PyPI package and published malicious Docker images with a payload that steals credentials, secrets, and environment variables. [...]
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ThreatsDay: AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relay…
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333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email
For 3 days this month, 333 exit nodes were hacked in hopes of stealing sensitive data.
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Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected
Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]
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TiDB Breach Exposes Flawed Cloud Security Assumptions
Cloud providers may be storing sensitive customer data, without either party knowing it. But when a provider is breached, the data comes home to roost.
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Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites
Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft's website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers' connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, using them to backdoor WordPress sites. TeamUpdraft …
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CISA: SafePay ransomware hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldwide since 2024. [...]
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State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web
State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it does not yet know where the data came from. The state-owned bank, India'…
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Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites
A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]
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Nigerian sentenced to 8 years for long-running tax business hacking and fraud scheme
Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu hacked tax preparation businesses, filed false tax returns and enticed victims to send him money for investment schemes. The post Nigerian sentenced to 8 years for long-running tax business hacking and…
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California warns all public school students of data stolen in contractor breach
The CDE released multiple statements over the last week warning the state’s students that assessment contractor Educational Testing Service (ETS) suffered a months-long data breach.
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Hacked X accounts of Ireland’s Gardaà restored
Our CEO, Brian Honan, spoke to the Irish Sun after the hacking of two An Garda SĂochána social media accounts. He explained that hackers might gain access through phishing emails or messages sent to account managers. Other methods…
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Defense contractors in two NATO allies hacked in recent Russia-linked campaign
The Russian group known as APT28 and Fancy Bear used a recently documented backdoor to dwell in the networks of two defense contractors and a law enforcement agency in two NATO allies, researchers said.
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970,000 Medi-Cal Members Affected by Paradigm Healthcare Data Breach
Paradigm Healthcare Services detected an intrusion in October 2025, but it took nearly a year to start notifying affected individuals. The post 970,000 Medi-Cal Members Affected by Paradigm Healthcare Data Breach appeared first on…
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