Tag: attack
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The Guardian view on food security: we have justtime, we need justcase | Editorial
Experts are warning that the UK is unprepared for crises. A refrigerator cyber-attack scare in France is the latest reminder of the risksWhat’s worrying French supermarket bosses should be prompting British ministers to action. On Sunday, hackers <a href=”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/12/cyber-attack-defrosts-refrigerators-france-supermarket-chains-intermarche-cooperative-u”>forced up the temperatures of refrigerators in hundreds of food stores across France to as high as…
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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…
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Silent Lynx Exploits WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Reverse Shell in CIS Government Attacks
The threat actor known as Silent Lynx has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).The activity, observed from June 2025 through August 2026, involves four different infection chains that make use of macro-enabled documents, PS2EXE downloaders, GitHub-hosted PowerShell, and crafted WinRAR archives First seen…
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Cisco Warns of Secure Email Gateway 0-Day Vulnerability Actively Exploited in Attacks
Cisco has warned that attackers are actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in the Advanced Malware Protection (AMP) feature of Cisco Secure Email Gateway. An unauthenticated remote attacker can use it to write arbitrary files and run commands as root on the underlying operating system. The advisory, cisco-sa-esa-afw-zqYJkjxp, says Cisco PSIRT learned of active exploitation in…
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Palo Alto Warns of PAN-OS 0-day Flaw Actively Exploited in Attacks
Palo Alto Networks has warned that attackers are exploiting a high-severity remote code execution flaw in the PAN-OS management interface. Tracked as CVE-2026-0322, the bug lets an authenticated attacker with network access run arbitrary code with root privileges on the firewall. PAN-OS zero-day vulnerability The flaw is a code injection weakness (CWE-94, CAPEC-242) in the…
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Hackers Use Online Ads to Infect Devices With Spyware Without a Single Click
Citizen Lab has confirmed the first public case of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered through targeted online ads. It calls the technique >>AdFection<<. The attack hit devices at Al Jazeera with Candiru spyware, and the ads were bought by an Israeli ad-tech firm called Discover-Tech. zero-click spyware attacks Online ads are sold in real-time auctions that…
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Hackers Steal UK Legal Aid Records Dating Back to 1978 in Major Cyberattack
The UK’s Legal Aid Agency (LAA) now says the 2025 data breach exposed far older data than first reported. About 250,000 stolen records predate 2007, and the earliest verified record is from 1978. UK legal aid cyberattack The LAA identified a cyber-attack on its online digital services on Wednesday 23 April 2025. It secured its…
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New ClickFix Attack Deploys Lorem Ipsum Malware Loader to Establish Remote Access
A ClickFix campaign uses the Lorem Ipsum Loader to install a Python-based tunneling implant, giving attackers a covert route into victims’ networks and potentially laying the groundwork for ransomware deployment. In an incident investigated in late September, defenders contained the intrusion before ransomware was deployed; the tunnel’s remote-access capability nevertheless made the compromised host a…
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France: Internet-Exposed Danfoss Controllers Drop 71% After Cyber-Attack
France-based operators of Danfoss refrigeration controllers have sharply reduced their internet exposure after the October 11 cyber-attack First seen on infosecurity-magazine.com Jump to article: www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/france-expose-danfoss-controllers/
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Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns between April and October of 2026. The campaigns also increase operational pressure on MSSPs serving US businesses, which accounted for 16% of country-attributed targets. Similar attacks First seen on…
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AdFection: How mercenary spyware invades victims’ devices through targeted advertising
Researchers say the attacks have serious implications for the online advertising world, and regulators. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/adfection-zero-click-spyware-discover-tech/
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AI Used in 84% of Ransomware Attacks as Identity Infrastructure Comes Under Fire.
Artificial intelligence appeared in ransomware incidents affecting 84% of surveyed victims, while 87% reported attacks targeting or exploiting identity infrastructure. The findings connect accelerated criminal operations with weaknesses in the systems governing enterprise access. The study surveyed 1,200 IT and security professionals across nine countries and eight industry sectors. Crucially, it included only organizations that…
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10 Best Container Image Scanning Tools Compared (2026): Features Pricing
Trivy and Grype give every team a free scanning floor, Snyk developer workflows and Sysdig lead the platform lanes, and Chainguard attacks the problem upstream with zero-CVE bases. Ten distinct options (Grype and Anchore are one vendor) compared across OSS, platform, registry, native, and eliminate-the-problem lanes. Quick Verdict: Best Container Image Scanning at a Glance…
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The internet’s attack surface moves at very different speeds
Censys found that AI-related software exposed to the public internet grew 63% in nine months, from 164,088 IP addresses in October 2025 to 267,915 in July 2026. Elsewhere in … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/10/15/exposed-ai-infrastructure-report/
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Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks
Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/palo-alto-networks-warns-of-pan-os-rce-flaw-exploited-in-attacks/
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Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles
Tags: attack, authentication, cve, ivanti, rce, remote-code-execution, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayCVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/vulnerabilities-threats/ivanti-ics-zero-day-attacks-vendor-patching
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Cisco Warns of Active Attacks Exploiting New Critical Secure Email Gateway Vulnerability
Attackers are exploiting a critical flaw in Cisco Secure Email Gateway that lets a sender with no login write files to the appliance’s operating system, Cisco said in an advisory on Wednesday.The attacker sends an email with a crafted attachment through the gateway and, if it succeeds, could then run commands as root. The appliance…
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Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App
Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10.A web shell is a small file that executes any command an attacker sends via a web request, with…
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Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack
Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ledger-asks-sellers-across-asia-to-halt-sales-after-supply-chain-attack/
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Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks
Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-patches-actively-exploited-secure-email-gateway-zero-day/
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Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 1,413 Flaws: Windows Zero-Day Already Under Attack
Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,413 vulnerabilities, including an exploited Windows zero-day and critical Outlook security flaws. The post Microsoft Patch Tuesday Fixes 1,413 Flaws: Windows Zero-Day Already Under Attack appeared first on TechRepublic. First seen on techrepublic.com Jump to article: www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-october-2026-patch-tuesday/
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The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them
AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested. Picus Security explains how combining agentic pentesting with exposure validation and breach simulation can help close these gaps. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/the-blind-spots-of-agentic-pentesting-and-how-to-close-them/
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Ransomware Gangs Threaten Employees’ Families as AI-Powered Attacks Escalate
Ransomware operators are extending their extortion tactics beyond corporate networks by threatening employees’ families and using artificial intelligence to enhance their attacks, according to the Semperis 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. Among the surveyed victims, 37% reported threats against their family members or friends, while 84% experienced attacks that involved AI in some form. The findings…
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CISA warns admins to immediately fix Ivanti flaw exploited as zero-day
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urged security teams to immediately patch an Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) flaw exploited in zero-day attacks since at least October 1st. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-warns-admins-to-immediately-fix-ivanti-flaw-exploited-as-zero-day/
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curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution
A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client’s memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine.The curl project fixed it on October 14 in curl 8.23.0. Taking over a client needs exact knowledge of its build and…
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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…
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An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.
The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part.TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer’s production website, on its own. One login request let the user choose where the…
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Volexity Uncovers Stealthy Ivanti VPN Attack Using Three Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Tags: access, attack, credentials, detection, ivanti, monitoring, network, vpn, vulnerability, zero-dayIvanti VPN zero-days let attackers gain root access, steal credentials, evade detection, and prepare for wider network compromise. On October 5, Volexity started investigating suspicious activity at one of its monitoring customers and traced everything back to an Ivanti Connect Secure VPN appliance running version 22.8R2.4, the latest build available at the time. Three chained…
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Fast AI adoption needs ‘good brakes’, says former CSA chief
At his first Singapore International Cyber Week since leaving CSA, David Koh drew on the CrowdStrike outage and the UNC3886 attacks to make the case for building resilience into AI adoption from the start First seen on computerweekly.com Jump to article: www.computerweekly.com/news/366652156/Fast-AI-adoption-needs-good-brakes-says-former-CSA-chief