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PHP2Shell: What Actually Protects You Before the 14:00 UTC PHP RCE Patch, and What Doesn't
You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of 10, and has given no workaround of its own. Until you can install it, what lowers your
CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, including four vulnerabilities impacting Plex Media Server that's collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-96652 (CVSS score: 5.3) - Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)
PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVSS v4.0 scale but has not described. Security researchers at watchTowr say the two flaws allow remote code execution. Only the four supported PHP branches, 8.2 through 8.5, can receive the fix, and no exploitation has been reported so far.
Critical FortiSIEM Flaw Gets Public Exploit PoC for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiSIEM that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-106173 (CVSS score: 9.4), is a critical path traversal flaw that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute unauthorized code or commands via specially
CISA Adds Six Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added six new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-96652 Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability CVE-2026-96654 Plex Media Server Improper Neutralization of Encoded URI Schemes in a Web Page Vulnerability CVE-2026-96655 Plex Media Server Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability CVE-2026-96656 Plex Media Server External Control of File Name or Path Vulnerability CVE-2026-106931 EG Secure Solutions SiteGuard Server Edition OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2026-110936 Siemens Software Center Uncontrolled Search Path Element Vulnerability These…
Advisory at a Glance Title #StopRansomware: SafePay Ransomware Original Publication October 20, 2026 Executive Summary This advisory details recent activity by the SafePay ransomware group. SafePay actors have been highly active since August 2024, targeting businesses and critical infrastructure across North America, South America, Europe, and Australia. SafePay actors typically gain access to networks by stealing or guessing passwords, exploiting vulnerabilities in security systems, and using phishing tactics. Once inside the network, SafePay actors establish control by creating new accounts or taking over existing ones. They then use legitimate system tools to move through the…
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of multiple vulnerabilities that affect MicroSCADA X SYS600 product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out various attacks on the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi Energy MicroSCADA X SYS600 Product are affected: MicroSCADA X SYS600 vers:MicroSCADA_X_SYS600/<=10.7, 10.8 (CVE-2026-9852, CVE-2026-9853, CVE-2026-9854, CVE-2026-9853) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 7.8 Hitachi Energy MicroSCADA X SYS600 2 Vulnerabilities Improper Neutralization of Formula Elements in a CSV File, Incorrect Implementation…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain and disclose sensitive information. The following versions of Moxa AIG-302 ThingsPro Edge are affected: Moxa AIG-302 ThingsPro Edge firmware <=1.4.0 (CVE-2026-109812, CVE-2026-109813) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 8.1 Moxa Moxa AIG-302 ThingsPro Edge firmware 2 Vulnerabilities Missing Authorization, Use of Hard-coded Cryptographic Key Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Critical Manufacturing, Energy, Water and Wastewater Systems Countries/Areas Deployed: Worldwide Company Headquarters Location: Taiwan Vulnerabilities Expand All + CVE-2026-109812 A missing authorization vulnerability…
View CSAF Summary Hitachi Energy is aware of vulnerabilities that affect RTU500 product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities if exploited can have impact on confidentiality, integrity and availability of the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi Energy RTU500 Product are affected: RTU500 series CMU Firmware vers:RTU500_series_CMU_Firmware/>=13.5.1|<=13.5.4, vers:RTU500_series_CMU_Firmware/>=13.6.1|<=13.6.3, vers:RTU500_series_CMU_Firmware/>=13.7.1|<=13.7.8, vers:RTU500_series_CMU_Firmware/>=13.8.1|<=13.8.2,…
View CSAF Summary Two vulnerabilities in the Web-Based Management (WBM) interface of WAGO CC100, PFC100 G2, PFC200 G2, TP600, Edge Controller and WP400 devices allow an authenticated low-privileged user to bypass intended privilege boundaries. The issues affect both the routing configuration functionality and the authorization model for PROFIBUS configuration management. The following versions of WAGO OS Linux are affected: WAGO Firmware (vers:semver/>=1.0.0|<4.10.0) installed on WAGO Hardware 0751-9x01 vers:all/* (CVE-2026-80466, CVE-2026-88850) WAGO Firmware (vers:semver/>=1.0.0|<4.10.0) installed on WAGO Hardware 0750-811x-xxxx-xxxx vers:all/* (CVE-2026-80466, CVE-2026-88850)…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could crash the Windows kernel. The following versions of HMS Networks PEAK-System PCAN Windows drivers are affected: PEAK-System Device Driver Setup <=5.1.2.1151 (CVE-2026-109576, CVE-2026-101103, CVE-2026-94188, CVE-2026-103672, CVE-2026-110322, CVE-2026-105960) PCAN Windows CAN device drivers <=5.1.2 (CVE-2026-109576, CVE-2026-101103, CVE-2026-94188, CVE-2026-103672, CVE-2026-110322, CVE-2026-105960) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 7.1 HMS Networks PEAK-System Device Driver Setup 5 Vulnerabilities Out-of-bounds Write, Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow'), Improper Validation of Array…
CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-61624 Fortinet Multiple Products Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 BeyondTrust Remote Support Authentication Bypass by Spoofing Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog…
CISA Urges Patching Critical Vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support
CISA is aware of critical authentication bypass vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 , affecting BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) versions 26.2.3 and earlier. Patches are available for supported versions (24.3.1 and later); organizations using older versions must upgrade first. Cyber threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerability to gain initial access, then establishing persistence, escalating privileges, and moving laterally. CISA added CVE-2026-102764 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog on Oct. 16, 2026. CISA urges organizations with affected self-hosted Remote Support appliances to immediately take the following actions: Apply the BT26-05-RS…
Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency’s Super Intelligence Security Center (NSA SISC) and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Key Practices for Incident Readiness and Response in Super Intelligence Training and Evaluation . The product outlines ten voluntary core practices to help organizations that train and evaluate highly capable super intelligence (SI) agents—particularly pre-deployment, cutting edge SI agents with reduced safeguards or other high-risk, non-public systems—prepare for and manage SI control incidents. A SI control incident occurs when one or more SI agents takes uninstructed actions…
Cyber Threat Actors Use a Variety of Techniques to Target Election and Campaign Officials
CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Public Service Announcement (PSA) warning election and campaign officials about cyber threats during the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. Malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing techniques to steal login credentials and other sensitive information or install malware on targeted devices. Election officials, candidates, and political organizations may be attractive targets because of their access to voter registration data, current government officials, and sensitive campaign information. Cyber actors are increasingly using sophisticated phishing and smishing campaigns that closely resemble legitimate communications. These…
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 detected the unauthorized access. After internal reviews, the AI companies whose models were being tested
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 nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel's networking code, not in any one cloud's setup, so it reaches the shared
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-source library Next.js uses through the sharp package to handle SVG images. The fixes are in
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 its advisory. Several exploit paths exist through contributed modules, and at least one known path needs no login.
CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog , based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-21589 Atlassian Multiple Products Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant risks to the federal enterprise. Binding Operational Directive (BOD) 26-04: Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk establishes vulnerability management requirements for Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies. BOD 26-04 reinforces the importance of the KEV Catalog and requires federal agencies to prioritize rapid…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to delete protected data, recover user credentials and impersonate legitimate users, or cause the server to stop responding to all clients. The following versions of Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Milo are affected: Eclipse Milo >=0.6.0|<=1.1.4 (CVE-2026-63252, CVE-2026-63248, CVE-2026-60007) Eclipse Milo >=1.0.0|<=1.1.4 (CVE-2026-62927, CVE-2026-58080, CVE-2026-61387) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 8.2 Eclipse Foundation Eclipse Milo 5 Vulnerabilities Incorrect Authorization, Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime, Missing Authorization, Observable Response Discrepancy, Missing Release…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to gain control over affected IP cameras. The following versions of Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology EseeCloud are affected: EseeCloud App <=4.9.6 (CVE-2026-107617, CVE-2026-97858, CVE-2026-105664) EseeCloud Firmware <=4.9.86.0 (CVE-2026-107617, CVE-2026-97858, CVE-2026-105664) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 9.8 Guangzhou Juan IoT Technology Co., Ltd. EseeCloud App 3 Vulnerabilities Use of Hard-coded Credentials, Improperly Controlled Modification of Dynamically-Determined Object Attributes, Observable Response Discrepancy Background Critical Infrastructure Sectors: Energy, Communications, Transportation…
View CSAF Summary Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to delete stored medical images, disclose patient information, inject forged studies, reassign patient records, overwrite files, and cause a denial-of-service condition. The following versions of J4Care dcm4che are affected: dcm4chee-arc-light 5.35.1 (CVE-2026-97851, CVE-2026-107621, CVE-2026-105273, CVE-2026-101021, CVE-2026-105279, CVE-2026-105667) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 9.1 J4Care dcm4chee-arc-light 4 Vulnerabilities Missing Authorization, Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop'), Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity, Missing Authentication for Critical Function Background Critical…
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Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
Ravie Lakshmanan reports: Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it’s continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA
Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware actors. The activity relates to CVE-2026-0257 (CVSS score: 7.8), an authentication bypass flaw that could be exploited by bad actors to set up unauthorized VPN connections. It was patched by Palo Alto Networks in May 2026 and was
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector's iPhone Days Before Election
The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's Pegasus spyware in 2026, the Citizen Lab said on October 19. The finding came six days before Serbia's October 25 snap parliamentary election. The infection used a zero-click exploit, meaning Đokić did not have to tap a link or
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan
Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to place a specially-crafted DLL in a directory the application searches, resulting in execution of malicious code with the same privileges as the
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor
Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the online alias boredhackerblog, the exploitation activity involves chaining four different vulnerabilities, collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
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: 9.3), is a case of improper origin validation in an internal messaging component that could be exploited by a
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
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 in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
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 make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
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 each requires a specific configuration to exploit. A fourth lets an attacker forge a TLS session that could
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches
Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems. In a report published earlier
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-0322 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of remote code execution in the management interface. "A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the management interface of Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS software enables an
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI's publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has since confirmed all three bugs, fixed them, and paid XBOW its top $
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host
A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine. The bug is tracked as CVE-2026-74580 and named Vghost. Tencent Zhuque Lab, which found the
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug
Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come under active exploitation. These include 1,102 flaws in Windows, 134 in Office, 61 in Developer Tools, 36 in SharePoint Server, and 22 in SQL Server. Of these, more than 670 relate to privilege escalation, followed by over 300 remote code
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
GitHub Tightens npm Publishing After Flaw Left 1,500+ Packages Vulnerable to Hijacking
GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without having to steal their credentials. "Your configuration becomes validated and exempt from expiry after its first successful publish," the Microsoft-owned subsidiary
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
[Webinar] How to Stop AI-Driven Privilege Escalation With Runtime Identity Controls
The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn't always the initial login. It's what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege escalation, attackers can move through systems faster than security teams can investigate. A compromised account that looks legitimate at first could become the starting point for a much
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Anthropic Cuts Live Internet Access for Internal AI Tests After Claude Exploits Injection Flaws
Anthropic on Friday said it's cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites. The AI company said it identified four broad categories of unintended model actions during evaluations and internal use of Claude - Claude Mythos
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote Commands
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword. "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2 communication with the attacker's infrastructure," iVerify said in a new report published Thursday. The name
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root Access
Security researchers have published a full working exploit for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its changelog described the fix only as "fixed a bug that could lead to a crash," with no CVE assigned and no security
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source Projects
Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said. "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy XMRig Miners Disguised as Microsoft Edge
Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below - CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java"
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
Three Teams Demonstrate Remote Hacks of Fully Patched Google Pixel 10 at Pwn2Own
Three research teams broke into Google's Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikotas Labs $300,000, the contest's top prize, and made the team the overall winner. Trend Micro's Zero
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
FBI Warns FortiBleed Remains Active After Amassing 86,644 Fortinet Device Credentials
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service (USSS) on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting campaign remains an active threat aimed at internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and secure socket layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) gateways. "The campaign exploits reused or leaked credentials and legacy SHA-256 password storage, enabling threat
Fornax Risk Insight: vulnerabilities may affect exposed services, patch windows, and third-party dependencies before exploitation scales.
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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 is the developer behind UpdraftPlus, a popular WordPress backup plugin with over four million active installations. The vendor also offers UpdraftCentral, a remote
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
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's largest, said in a stock-exchange filing dated October 21 that it "has experienced an incident involving the loss of certain data." The count is
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Company Websites, Target Over 1,200 Sites
A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents tried more than 1,200 sites and reached websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm-equipment maker Deere, appliance company
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Welsh firms ‘Password1’ and ‘Test 2’ fails led to hackers stealing children’s data
Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of personal data belonging to 3,300 individuals, the vast majority of whom were children. Ogi Networks Limited (ONL) and the Local Government Data Unit – Wales, known as Data Cymru, received reprimands... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Simone Kraus writes: On October 9, 2026, Reuters introduced the world to Adem El Adeb, a 19-year-old so called former cybercriminal known as Pryx, who claimed to have abandoned illegal hacking and started a cybersecurity company, but that doesn’t change what he does until the FBI was attacked. He described himself as a retired threat... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Attorney General Tong Announces $625,000 Settlement with Frontier Over Data Breach
Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has been active in litigating data breaches. The press release below relates to a 2024 breach of Frontier Communications by RansomHub: Attorney General William Tong today announced a $625,000 settlement with Frontier Communications Parent Inc., resolving an investigation into an April 2024 data breach that compromised the sensitive personal information,... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
U.S. bans DeepSeek from government agency systems amid AI rift with China
Jenny Lee reports: The Trump administration banned Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government agencies, citing security concerns. The Department of Homeland Security on Monday made public the order requiring federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek-related technology from their IT systems and barring them from procuring DeepSeek products and services. The ban applies to... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Suspected cyber incident blocks Parkview Health patient portal in Indiana and Ohio
DysruptionHub reports: The health system disabled its network after suspicious activity, leaving MyChart and doctor searches unavailable and directing urgent medical needs to phone calls or walk-in clinics. A suspected cyber incident left Parkview Health patients without MyChart and online doctor searches Monday after the Indiana-based health system disabled its network in response to suspicious... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader
The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, which is tracking the activity cluster under the moniker Swallowtail, involved the use of a backdoor called HOOKEDGE and a previously
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident
ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that led to unauthorized access to application identities associated with Cloud Backup. The company said it has completed the following actions since it began
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories
The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake font file. The latest evolution, detailed by OpenSourceMalware, signals that the attackers are actively refining their modus operandi in response to steps
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace saves its own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key there, and Console uses that key to call the provider so team members can use the models without
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
US Cybersecurity Job Postings Fall 26% as AI Security Engineer Demand Soars
Kevin Townsend reports: Data for CyberSN’s jobs report is aggregated from JobSpikr (with duplicates removed). The various job titles are then analyzed and assigned to CyberSN’s taxonomy of 45 cybersecurity functional roles in ten categories. The result is an assessment of the job market by skills required rather than by the recruiting companies’ role titles.... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
More NHS staff sacked for accessing records of Nottingham stabbing victims
Ellie Ng reports: More NHS staff have been dismissed for inappropriately accessing medical records of the Nottingham stabbing victims, taking the total sacked so far to 15, a trust said. Students Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar and grandfather Ian Coates were stabbed to death in the city by Valdo Calocane in 2023. During its investigation,... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
NY AG James and CT AG Tong Secure $2.7 Million from Boston Children’s Health Physicians and XTIUM for 2024 Data Breach
NY’s Attorney General and CT’s Attorney General held both a provider and its IT company liable for a data breach. The settlement also includes a corrective action plan to improve data security. New York Attorney General Letitia James and Connecticut Attorney General William Tong today secured $2.7 million from Boston Children’s Health Physicians (BCHP), a... Source
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Hack exposes data on millions of California students
Eric He and Tyler Katzenberger report: Personal information about millions of California students was stolen in a hack of a non-profit organization that contracts with the state’s Department of Education, officials announced Friday. The names, addresses, demographic information and disability status of all 7 million students enrolled in California public schools over the past three... Source
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Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers' M365 environments. ConnectWise Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery service built for managed service providers (MSPs
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Russian man linked to deadly NHS contractor hack arrested
Joe Tidy reports: German police have detained a Russian man accused of being part of a cyber-crime gang which caused chaos at London hospitals and contributed to a patient’s death. The hack of blood testing company Synnovis in 2024 led to disrupted pathology services across several London hospitals and was the first cyber attack in... Source
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Moscow police detain suspected DataSuckers hackers linked to breaches in Ukraine and Russia
Daryna Antoniuk reports: Russian authorities have reportedly detained three suspected members of the DataSuckers hacking group following a cyberattack on a popular restaurant chain that exposed vast amounts of customer information. A Moscow court on Wednesday placed 19-year-old Denis Fridman under house arrest until December 8 in connection with the Dodo Pizza breach, which reportedly... Source
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UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishing
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The activity is being tracked by
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
KR: NHIS Employee Sold Data, Victims Uninformed for Three Months
In today’s reminder of the insider threat, Kim Ji-won reports: A National Health Insurance Service (NHIS) employee was dismissed for illegally selling personal information of health insurance subscribers to external parties, but victims have yet to be notified of the data breach. Rep. Kim Ki-woong of the People Power Party revealed this during a parliamentary audit... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Vibetech Database Exposes 13.7M Records Including Assortment of Old Breaches
Debra Ahmed reports: An unprotected database linked to India-based AI software development and IT services company Vibetech exposed 13.7 million records containing credentials and other sensitive information from previous data breaches. The repository was accessible online without security authentication or a password, according to cybersecurity researcher Jeremiah Fowler, whose findings were published by ExpressVPN and... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Ransomware Attacks Intensify: Criminals Shift Focus to Target Employees and Their Families
Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to force companies to pay. According to the Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report, 37% of successful attacks included threats against workers’ friends or relatives. The findings show that ransomware is no longer only a... Source
Fornax Risk Insight: breach activity can indicate credential exposure, downstream phishing risk, or partner trust impact.
Legal Aid Agency cyberattack: Compromised data goes back to 1978
Tevye Markson has an update on the April 2025 breach of the UK’s Legal Aid Agency, previously reported on this site: A new update on the Legal Aid Agency data breach has revealed that the data which was compromised in a cyberattack in 2025 goes back as far as 1978. The LAA on Wednesday announced... Source
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The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting
An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits. The Hugging Face intrusion OpenAI disclosed in July
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Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections
Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found. Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination. Only a password login to an SSH server made through Tor between October 1 and 5, after accepting the interception
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U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases
U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services "developed using DeepSeek implementations," under a Department of Homeland Security order. They may also no longer buy information technology products or services from the Chinese AI developer or its affiliates Homeland Security Secretary
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Hackers Hid Vasilek Backdoor in VMware Tools During 2-Year Russian Healthcare Intrusion
A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian cybersecurity firm Solar, the activity has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed Partisan Zmiy, which is also known as the Cyber Partisans. Known to be active since at least 2020, the group has a track record of striking industrial
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Eight eMudhra CA Keys Compromised, Triggering Emergency Fixes Across Browsers and Software
The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates are compromised, Mozilla and Google's Chrome Root Program confirms on October 20. An intermediate CA signs the certificates that websites present, so anyone holding one of these keys could issue a certificate for any website that a browser would accept. A researcher reported the
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WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators
WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp's own privacy policy for Europe tells users they can complain to one. The text sat in the pages' code, never shown on screen, until it was removed by October 18. Whether the
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A sales manager builds an AI-assisted workflow to route leads. It connects to customer records, summarizes inbound requests, and posts updates to a shared channel. The workflow saves time, reduces manual work, and soon becomes part of the team’s daily routine. Across the same organization, employees are building useful apps, agents, and automations faster than existing processes can support them
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Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns
Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go's certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate certificate authority keys. Programs built on the new release will refuse connections to sites and services whose certificates were issued under those keys. The Go team says the keys belong to one certificate authority it has not
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Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware
An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They were live on GitHub for up to 94 minutes, from 12:47 to 14:21 UTC,
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge
A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "in frequent communications via WhatsApp
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Hackers Use New ROMULUS ClickFix Platform to Deliver LegionLoader and Other Malware
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that's being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research - Vedere Labs, ROMULUS is akin to a malware delivery service that employs ClickFix-style lures on bogus landing pages to trick unsuspecting users into running malicious commands and infecting their own
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor
Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a security notice published on October 16. Any site that installed and activated one of those copies should be treated as compromised, and the
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More
The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week had plenty of that. Trusted connections became a problem. Hardware wasn't as safe as it looked. Old bugs found new victims, and some systems were
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From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software
In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent's prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound customer messages into case records; it is how airlines and hotels run support intake. Both are standard, documented, as-designed features. Chained together,
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Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic
A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. "The tools delivered information-stealing malware and backdoors for macOS and Windows machines," Elastic
Fornax Risk Insight: malware reporting often signals initial-access tradecraft that can bypass weak endpoint and email controls.
Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers
A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password off the device
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ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants
ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. The disabled identities are listed below - ConnectWise Cloud Backup - 506e08f9-6e9a-4da4-942b-a099a03644ae ConnectWise
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MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named "malfexteste8." It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of
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Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis
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OpenAI Research Model Spent 3rd-Party Test ETH Without Permission to Deploy Smart Contract
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a third-party's wallet without authorization to complete a coding task. The incident, the AI company said, involved an internal research model part
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AI Decision Models and Their Impact on AI SOC Platforms
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman's fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions API at DevDay and opened a public beta on October 6. Cribl published cribl-decision, an open LoRA adapter you can run locally. Others, like Laya, are
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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 login can hide the wrong person. Old bugs are finding new victims, familiar tools are being put to strange uses, and
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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 moment an ad loaded on the screen, and in some cases the ad loaded out of sight, in the background. The Citizen
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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 templates to partners and affiliates that are installed into compromised websites with an aim to direct unsuspecting
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