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Microsoft: October Windows update may break Smart App Control

Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month's KB5127648 Windows 11 security update. [...]

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BAE Systems cyberattack disrupts US federal court operations

The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy courts. [...]

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China-Linked Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Take Over Remote Support Servers

The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score

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CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testing

AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detec

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BeyondTrust patches zero-day exploited in attacks since August

BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. [...]

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The Hacker News5h

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

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Dark Reading12h

SecTor 2026 Reveals a Rapidly Shifting Cybersecurity Landscape

The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth.

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F-Secure Launches Victim-First Scam Encyclopedia Covering 50+ Types of Consumer Fraud

Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime.

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Dark Reading13h

AI Slop Isn't Just for Social Media; It's Ruining Cyberattacks, Too

Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.

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BleepingComputer14h

Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers

Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server app (richdocumentscode) for Nextcloud. [...]

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The Hacker News14h

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

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Android gets AI defenses against messaging scams, fake calls

Google announced new AI-powered defenses against scam messages and call-forwarding abuse on Android, currently rolling out to eligible devices. [...]

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The Hacker News15h

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

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Hackers hijack D-Link, Ubiquiti devices to resell your stolen bandwidth

A proxyjacking campaign has impacted devices in 34 countries, monetizing victims' internet connections through a commercial residential proxy network. [...]

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BleepingComputer17h

Fake Arch Linux packages push malware with root privileges

A threat actor uploaded malicious packages to the Arch User Repository (AUR) that impersonated two popular helper tools, yay and paru. [...]

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The Hacker News18h

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 momen

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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 mak

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Dark Reading19h

Vulnerability Management Isn't About the Score — It's About How It Applies to You

Organizations need to move away from vendor-assigned, theoretical scores toward real exploit data specific to their environments.

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The Hacker News20h

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 tem

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Is AI pentesting as good as a human pentester?

AI pentesting can uncover vulnerabilities missed by human testers, but it also has limitations in consistency, risk assessment, and understanding business context. Intruder compares the strengths and weaknesses of both approaches and explains where AI agents can improve security

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Microsoft: Windows Server 2022 reached end of mainstream support

Microsoft announced that Windows Server 2022 has reached the end of mainstream support and will remain in extended support until October 2031. [...]

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The Hacker News21h

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 eac

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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

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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 it

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BleepingComputer22h

Police arrests 95 suspects in international CSAM crackdown action

Law enforcement authorities from 17 countries in Latin America and Europe have arrested 95 suspects in an INTERPOL-coordinated operation targeting the distribution of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) through online messaging groups. [...]

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The Hacker News22h

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 o

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Microsoft fixes bug causing Windows black screens, Explorer crashes

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that was causing black screens, desktop loading issues, and Explorer crashes after installing Windows 11 updates released since August. [...]

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UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK's Ministry of Justice that manages the country's Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978. [...]

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EU Grocers Pay a Steep Price for Unpatched Fridge Firmware

Hundreds of stores lost millions of euros because they hired third parties to manage the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems.

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Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

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