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Baker Tilly notifies clients of data breach at third-party provider
The Baker Tilly Advisory Group is notifying clients that a data breach has compromised certain personal information about them and their dependents. [...]
Active ScreenConnect attacks breach MSPs, impact dozens of organizations
ConnectWise is investigating an active malware campaign targeting managed service providers (MSPs) that uses compromised ScreenConnect environments to deploy rogue remote-access clients to customer devices. [...]
eMudhra revokes 8 more CA certificates after private key mishap
Certificate authority eMudhra has revoked eight additional intermediate CA certificates after an investigation into its recent certificate security incident found improper handling of private keys during the…
Notion says Fireworks breach exposed customer AI chat transcripts
Notion, the digital workspace platform, disclosed that a security breach at its AI infrastructure provider, Fireworks AI, exposed Notion AI chat transcripts in a small number of workspaces. [...]
Who Runs the Ransomware Group Qilin?
The cybercrime group Qilin has emerged as the world's most active ransomware affiliate program, claiming at least 365 victim organizations in the past three months alone. But even top Russian hackers make operational…
Maersk confirms data breach as WhiteArmor ransomware demands $5 million
Maersk announced that a threat actor gained unauthorized access to a local legacy system inherited through an earlier acquisition and extracted data from it. [...]
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…
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…
Hackers use AntiFox AI agents in AWS credential-theft attacks
Attackers are using Alibaba Cloud to host self-managed instances of AntiFox, an open-source agentic penetration testing platform, to target web services and AWS environments. [...]
eBPF Rootkits: Why Underground Actors Are Taking Notice
Linux eBPF rootkits can hide malicious activity and evade traditional detection methods without loading kernel modules. Flare reveals how these techniques are spreading through underground forums, where threat actors…
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…
N-able releases security hotfixes for zero-day vulnerabilities
N-able released hotfixes to address zero-day bugs affecting its N-central remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform, which were publicly disclosed over the weekend and forced it to take vulnerable hosted…
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…
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.…
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…
Microsoft fixes audio issues caused by September security updates
Microsoft says the November 2026 cumulative updates resolve USB audio issues plaguing Windows users who have installed security updates released since September. [...]
CISA flags Cisco BroadWorks flaw as actively exploited in attacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned on Tuesday that hackers are now exploiting a high-severity Cisco BroadWorks vulnerability in attacks. [...]
Microsoft fixes Exchange sign-ins broken by Windows Server updates
Microsoft has fixed Outlook sign-in and mail delivery issues on Exchange Server systems after installing the October 2026 Windows Server security updates. [...]
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,…
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…
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…
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)…
Railway breach leads to $740,000 in fraudulent AI charges
Cloud hosting provider Railway says hackers exploited vulnerabilities in its infrastructure to steal customer authentication secrets and generate approximately $740,000 in fraudulent AI usage, potentially exposing…
Microsoft Fixes Nearly 1,100 Security Vulnerabilities
Microsoft did another four-digit patch drop today, releasing updates to fix almost 1,100 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and supported software. This month's Patch Tuesday addresses 63 critical…
Japanese furniture giant Nitori says hackers stole 37.6M customer records
Nitori, a major Japanese furniture and home accessories retailer, discovered that an attacker accessed a system on its network and may have stolen 37.62 million customer records. [...]
Microsoft releases Windows 10 KB5131096 extended security update
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5131096 extended security update, which includes this month's November 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. [...]
Hackers exploit trusted AWS access to breach multiple cloud environments
A threat actor used compromised identity and access management (IAM) credentials for a Qubole big data platform's AWS account to access and exfiltrate data from multiple customers' AWS environments. [...]
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
⚡ 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Cyber After AI Helps Find 81 Firefox Flaws, 948 Linux Exploits
OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑6 Cyber, which it described as a major step forward in security research that brings together stronger cybersecurity capabilities with a step-change improvement in model alignment. The…
Microsoft Paint RCE Fix Now Available, but Windows Update Won't Deliver It
A fix for CVE-2026-83844, a remote code execution flaw in Windows Paint, is now in the Microsoft Store. Paint gets this fix only through a Store update, not through Windows updates. The fixed build, 11.2609.401.0, was…
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