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The latest breaches, malware, and privacy stories from BleepingComputer, The Hacker News, Krebs on Security, and Malwarebytes Labs — short excerpts, always linking back to the original source. Last refreshed 14 Nov 2026 · 12:54.
Attackers Exploit UnrealIRCd Flaw That Enables Server-Level Command Injection
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity security flaw impacting UnrealIRCd, an open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, f...
PostgreSQL Patches 52 Flaws, Including 22-Year-Old Bug Enabling Authenticated RCE
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with 51 other security flaws. Full protection from this flaw also requires rebuilding any C-...
New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs
Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the server's operator out. One of them, Mior, can also modify a VM's memory and fake the s...
FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social eng...
Trezor Confirms Hidden Implants in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallets That Can Steal Recovery Phrases
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wallet maker Trezor said yesterday. The implant reads the phrase from the wallet's...
When an AI Agent Goes Wrong, Can You Stop It?
Suppose an AI agent is asked to sort support tickets and look up account details. A ticket contains instructions that lead the agent to export records to an unfamiliar destination. The agent can make the request because its identity has...
SilentAir Hijacks Asian Telecom Networks to Intercept SMS 2FA Codes and Spy on Taiwanese Users
A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Taiwan. Enea, a telecom and cybersecurity software company based in Stockholm, found the g...
Operation Endgame Takes Down Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC Servers, Seizes 6.4M Stolen Logins
An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week. Criminals used the three malware tools to gain access to computers, steal passwords, and launch ransomware attacks. Police also seized...
Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell Flaws in Check Point Gateways to Deploy TSGA Backdoor and Wipe ESXi Files
An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting unpatched Check Point Security Gateways to obtain initial access via the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities and then a previously unreported local privilege escalation flaw in Gaia OS to deploy...
Hackers Exploit N-central Flaws to Infect 21 Servers, Including 19 Running Hotfix 2
N-able on Thursday said it's taking additional precautions in the wake of public disclosure of a new set of flaws tracked as 4EverAble2Shell and Agent2Shell. "We are restricting certain N-central features and integrations," the company s...
Webinar: See How Identity Blind Spots Put Your SOC at Risk and How to Close Them
Security teams have more alerts, logs, and monitoring tools than ever. Yet when an attack happens, one simple question can still take too long to answer: Who or what is behind this activity, and what can they access? A suspicious login m...
ThreatsDay: 59 Linux Kernel Bugs, Falcon Spyware, GSocket Backdoors + 17 More Stories
A search result isn't always safe. An access request isn't always harmless. And a familiar account doesn't always mean a familiar person is using it. Simple things to remember. Yet a surprising amount of this week's trouble starts right...
New SignDrop Zero-Day Exploit Turns Windows CLFS Security Feature Into SYSTEM Access
Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver. The proof of concept, called SignDrop, targets a log-authentication feature added to th...
Critical Red Hat Quay Flaw Lets Attackers Read and Overwrite All Private Container Images in a Registry
A critical flaw in Red Hat Quay allows an attacker who can access a Quay registry to read and overwrite private container images in every repository. Quay enables anonymous access by default, and while it is enabled, the attacker needs n...
Citrix Patches 12 NetScaler and Secure Access Client Flaws, Including Authentication Bypass
Citrix has released patches for multiple critical security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC, Citrix NetScaler Gateway, and NetScaler Console that could lead to denial-of-service (DoS) or an authentication bypass. The critical vulnerabilitie...
186 Fake AI Domains Redirect Users to ClickFix Lures, Browser Malware, and Search Hijackers
Cybersecurity researchers have found that lookalike domains masquerading as artificial intelligence (AI) tools are being used to serve ClickFix-style lures, browser-hijacking malware, and a set of extensions that hijack user searches. Th...
SCKit Malware Turns ScreenConnect Support Sessions Into Potential MSP Attack Paths
The ongoing campaign targeting ConnectWise ScreenConnect deployments involves the exploitation of a now-patched critical security flaw in the remote access software, and not a new vulnerability, it has emerged. Blackpoint Cyber's Adversa...
Google Cloud Warns Three AMD Turin CPU Flaws Could Leak Data Across Processes in VMs
Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week. The company has already applied mitigations against attacks between VMs, and between V...
New N-central Exploits Work Against Patched Servers, Enable Root RCE and Windows SYSTEM Access
N-able on Thursday said it's investigating a new public disclosure containing claims of additional vulnerabilities in on-premise versions of N-central running version 2026.4.1 HF2. "Based on our initial review, the server issue described...
Calendar Invites and Live Proxies: Inside a Google Session Hijacking Campaign
Since mid-August 2026, a phishing operation has been stealing live Google sessions from corporate users. Every check defenders normally lean on to judge a link came back clean, and the operator designed it that way on purpose. The Threat...
PTC Patches Critical Windchill and FlexPLM Flaw That Could Enable Remote Code Execution
PTC has released patches for a new critical vulnerability impacting Windchill and FlexPLM software that, if successfully exploited, could result in remote code execution. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-126325, carries a CVSS v4 s...
Critical Pre-Auth MongoDB Flaw (CVE-2026-118383) Can Crash Lagging Servers on Failover
A critical flaw in MongoDB Server allows an unauthenticated attacker to send two requests that trigger a crash on the database server. The crash occurs only if that server is later chosen to take over as the main server while it still la...
Node.js Fixes 16 Flaws, Including HTTP/2 Bugs That Crash Servers and Leak Other Connections' Data
A flaw fixed in Node.js this week lets unauthenticated clients crash servers that use the runtime's built-in HTTP/2 support on the 24.x and 26.x release lines. A second HTTP/2 flaw can cause a server to send a client pieces of its memory...
Attacker Used 4,837 Hijacked GitHub Accounts to Run a CI Secret Stealer in 1,806+ Repositories
Starting Tuesday, an attacker used stolen credentials for 4,837 GitHub accounts to plant a secret stealer in repositories those accounts could write to, according to Aikido Security, a security software company. The stealer is built to t...
Critical Apache HTTP/2 Flaw Could Let Unauthenticated Attackers Execute Code Remotely
A critical flaw in Apache HTTP Server's HTTP/2 module, mod_http2, can let a remote attacker run code on the server. Tracked as CVE-2026-119618, it affects versions 2.4.55 through 2.4.70 and is fixed in version 2.4.71, released yesterday....
ScreenConnect Attacks Target at Least 288 Endpoints Across 48 Organizations With Rogue Clients
ConnectWise has taken the precautionary step of disabling five third-party extensions in partner environments following reports of unauthorized access. In an advisory posted on its site, the company said there is no evidence that the inc...
Critical Zoom Workplace Flaw Could Allow Unauthenticated Remote Privilege Escalation
Zoom has released software updates to address two security flaws impacting Zoom Workplace for Windows, including a critical bug that could result in privilege escalation on affected systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-202...
AntiFox AI Pentesting Platform Linked to Attacks That Accessed AWS Production Secrets
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a campaign in which an emerging agentic penetration testing platform called AntiFox has been used to steal Amazon Web Services (AWS) credentials and pivot laterally into compromised env...
Hackers Target Qlik Sense Servers With Reverse Shells, Stage ActiveMQ and Veeam Exploits
Threat actors have been observed targeting Qlik Sense servers to unsuccessfully deliver PowerShell reverse shell commands against multiple environments in October 2026. Cynet's CyOps and Research teams said they identified the suspicious...
Over 35,000 Grok-Built Apps Exposed Online, Some Leaking Confidential Data and Passwords
Of the 37,571 Grok-built apps that security company Claroc found online, 35,578 were open to anyone without a sign-in, the researchers said yesterday. They included 24 apps built by staff at the social network X and at SpaceXSI, the comp...
We Built An Agent That Broke All of Our Security Rules. Here's What We Learned.
We tell customers three things about securing AI agents: they need their own identities, access that fits the job they’re given, and traceability that’s separate from any human’s. That was true for us at Token as well. Then, we built an...
eMudhra Revokes 8 More CAs It Previously Declared Unaffected by Key Compromise
The in-house Python script behind eMudhra's October key compromise has now cost the company 8 more of its intermediate certificate authorities (CAs), even though it did not weaken their keys. Each intermediate CA has its own private key,...
Microsoft Patches 1,259 Flaws, Including Exploited Outlook Bug That May Expose NTLMv2 Hashes
Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for a total of 1,259 vulnerabilities spanning its software portfolio, the second consecutive month where the patch volume has exceeded 1,000 flaws. These cover 726 flaws in Windows, 174 in Office, 61...
Railway Says Stolen Customer AI Keys Led to $740,000 in Estimated Unauthorized Usage Charges
AI provider keys that customers stored on Railway were stolen in an October breach and used to commit an estimated $740,000 in unauthorized spending, the platform-as-a-service provider said yesterday. It has promised to pay those charges...
Microsoft Researchers Show AI Agents Can Be Backdoored by Editing Fewer Than 10 Neurons
An AI model can be given a hidden backdoor by editing fewer than 10 of its rarely used neurons, without retraining the model, Microsoft researchers have shown. When a chosen trigger appears, the model outputs an attacker's command, which...
Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave Flaws Actively Exploited Despite Available Patches
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Tuesday added two security flaws impacting Cisco BroadWorks and Openwave Messaging Webtop Media Transcoder to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evid...
Git Patches Flaw That Lets Malicious Repositories Execute Code During Recursive Clones
A flaw in Git can let a malicious repository run an attacker's code on a computer that clones it recursively, together with its submodules. The Git project fixed it this week in Git 2.56.1, with matching fixes for the 2.50 through 2.55 s...
SGLang RCE Exploit Breaches NEAR AI, Steals Data From 18 Agents and About 100 Users
An attacker exploited a remote code execution flaw in SGLang, an open-source inference engine, and ran code on one of NEAR AI's inference servers last Sunday. The attacker could also have seen requests being processed on that server that...
Hackers Exploit Critical Xen Orchestra Auth Bypass Flaw to Gain Admin Access
French software company Vates VMS has warned of a critical security vulnerability in Xen Orchestra that it said is being actively exploited in the wild. The authentication bypass flaw, which does not yet have a CVE identifier, is tracked...
Three China-Nexus Espionage Campaigns Linked Through Sparrow Malware Ecosystem
Three distinct threat activity clusters with shared infrastructure and malware code similarities have been observed targeting telecommunications providers, government organizations, military entities, research institutions, and critical...
Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy Sandbox-Evading Python Backdoor
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an attack that exploited two now-patched vulnerabilities in AhsayCBS to deliver a Python-based implant. The activity, observed by Huntress in early October 2026, involves the exploitati...
Blind Eagle Uses Fake Court Notices to Deliver Remote Access Trojan Across Latin America
The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has resurfaced with a new campaign targeting organizations in Latin America through judicial and administrative-themed phishing lures to deliver a remote access trojan (RAT) that shares its lineage w...
Fireworks AI Confirms Wider Breach Affecting Customer Datasets, Model Weights and Notion AI Chats
Fireworks AI disclosed on Monday that its investigation into a security incident first reported early last month uncovered further malicious activity, affecting account and billing information, alongside secrets, datasets, and incomplete...
Binance Warns of iOS Sandbox Escape That Could Expose Crypto Wallet Keys, No Fix Confirmed
An iOS sandbox escape published on GitHub lets an app read other apps' files on iPhones running iOS 26 and 27. That puts seed phrases, private keys, and login credentials at risk of exposure to malicious apps, Binance warned today. Apple...
Beyond the Alert: The Case for Rich Network Data
At some point your security will fail. This isn’t pessimism. It’s not because your team and tools aren’t sophisticated enough. It’s the reason we have detections in the first place. And, it’s why once we accept that prevention has its li...
Apple Patches iMessage Group Chat Privacy Flaws and Bluetooth Pairing Vulnerabilities
An iMessage flaw could let a remote attacker join a group chat and receive its messages, Apple said yesterday, and it released updates to fix it. The updates also fix a separate iMessage flaw that could let someone added to a group acces...
Russian Turla Hackers Use New Cereal Malware to Steal Emails From Government Exchange Servers
The Russia-aligned state-sponsored threat actor known as Turla (aka Snake) is wielding a previously undocumented cyber espionage toolset called Cereal that's used to break into victims' Microsoft Exchange servers with an aim to surreptit...
SAP Patches Four CVSS 10.0 Flaws, Including Two Enabling Remote Code Execution
Four flaws that attackers could exploit without logging in were fixed today as part of SAP's monthly Security Patch Day—the vendor rates all four 10.0, the maximum CVSS score. Three are in the SAP NetWeaver application server, the softwa...
France Blames Iran for Sabotage Attack on Refrigeration Controllers at About 700 Retail Sites
An October cyberattack on refrigeration controllers at about 700 French retail sites was carried out by a cyber unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the French government said yesterday. The attackers broke into contr...
Anthropic's Claude Fable 5.2 Beats GPT-6 Cyber in Multi-Stage Cyberattack Benchmark
Anthropic on Monday released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 models, which it said exhibit improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision. During pre-release training, the large language models (LLMs) helped its engineers "complete...
Google Issues Chrome Security Update for Eighth Actively Exploited Zero-Day of 2026
Google on Monday released updates to patch nine security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-125350 (CVSS score: 8.8),...
N-able Takes N-central Cloud Offline After Researcher Discloses 33 Zero-Days with PoC Exploits
N-able said it has taken N-central Hosted Environments offline and is urging on-premises customers to shut down their servers until further notice following the public disclosure of over 30 vulnerabilities collectively tracked as Able2Sh...
CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of OpenSSH, GPUStack, FreeSWITCH, and IBM Flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added four security flaws impacting GPUStack, SignalWire FreeSwitch, OpenBSD OpenSSH, and IBM Aspera Faspex to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog,...
Hackers Exploit Qubole's Trusted AWS Access to Breach Customer Accounts and Steal Data
An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security company Wiz said today. The attacker used credentials for an AWS account that...
Hackers Compromise Ethersphere's bee-js and Swarm Desktop to Deliver Wallet-Stealing Malware
Attackers used the Ethersphere project's own release automation to publish malicious versions of two of its tools for the Swarm decentralized storage network: bee-js 13.3.0 and Swarm Desktop 0.56.2. Both releases download and run code bu...
Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia
The South Asian cyber espionage group known as Bitter (aka APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17, and TA397) has been observed targeting South Asian organizations with a previously unreported remote access trojan called P...
⚡ Weekly Recap: SSHole Exploited, APT Root RCE, Robot Takeovers, 15K Hacked Sites, and More
A system doesn't always need a complicated bug to let someone in. Sometimes, a blank password is enough. That's one of the bigger stories this week. And it gets worse when the tools meant to keep systems updated or running safely become...
Default 'admin:admin' Server Password Helps Researchers Hack Two Automakers, Unlock and Start Cars
The login systems behind two car brands' mobile apps could be taken over completely, two security researchers found, allowing them to access any customer's account and, for an owner with a connected car, unlock the doors and start the en...
Web3Auth Flaw Exploited to Steal Keplr Crypto, Provider Empties Other Wallets for Safety
Some people who set up a Keplr crypto wallet with their Google or Apple account have had money stolen by an attacker. Keplr uses a company called Web3Auth to run that Google and Apple sign-in. The attacker used a security flaw at that co...
LNbits Urges All Operators to Shut Down Their Bitcoin Lightning Wallet Servers Amid Attacks
Everyone running LNbits, a free, open-source Bitcoin Lightning wallet system, should shut down their servers now because of a wave of attacks, the project said yesterday. It has several security fixes to release and asked operators to be...
Taiwan-Based Hacker Used BOSSAI AI Agents to Steal Taipei Emergency Dispatch Records
A single attacker using AI agents pulled emergency dispatch records covering seven Taipei districts, researchers at Acronis's Threat Research Unit said last week. The agents also found a Taipei fire department platform exposing patient d...
Former OpenAI Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Planting Covert Device in Executive Meeting Room
The OpenAI engineer who was arrested and charged last month for planting a covert audio recording device in the company's office has pleaded not guilty. According to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan mad...
U.S. Agencies Warn Refrigeration Controller Attacks Could Cause Fires and Inventory Losses
U.S. government agencies have warned that threat actors are actively targeting industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems globally with an aim to cause service disruptions, fire hazards, and loss of inventory. "The actors...
CISA Flags SonicWall SonicOS MFA Bypass Flaw Amid Reports of Possible Exploitation
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity vulnerability impacting SonicWall SonicOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it said may have been explo...
Claude Code's “Don't Ask Again” File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub
Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user selects "Yes, and don't ask again," Anthropic's AI coding assistan...
Installing the Fix for an Exploited WordPress Flaw Can Expose Some Sites One Last Time
Some WordPress sites can still be attacked while they install the fix for an actively exploited flaw, according to Umut Bayram, the Picus Security researcher who found it. The update that installs the fix still unpacks its files using th...
Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot
Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS scor...