If you use the internet at all, you may have noticed that a large percentage of sites suddenly went down earlier this week—and all your nerdiest friends were talking about "The Vulnerability Apocalypse” and this thing called PHP that powers nearly 70% of the websites on the internet. You may find yourself wondering: what is PHP, what just happened, what is the vulnerability apocalypse, and what do I need to do? To fi…
Threat actors don't need to rely on malware to breach organizations anymore. They're simply calling help desks and politely asking for access, with a little help from artificial intelligence.
Every security checklist starts with the basics: strong passwords, multifactor authentication, spotting phishing, and keeping software up to date. All four protect what happens after a laptop starts. But some attackers are more focused on what happens before. That’s the domain of the BIOS, the first code that runs when a laptop powers on. It checks the hardware, then hands control to the operating system. Malware pla…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also indicate that operators in this campaign have obtained access to numerous organizations worldwide, and have attempted to further compromise some victims,
The AfD has confirmed that hackers breached its hosting provider. A leak site now claims to offer 421,179 of the party’s internal emails, and shows AI-written summaries rather than the emails themselves. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Kroll found that 69% of data breach victims in the past year were affected by a third-party breach, with attacks on tech companies the most common cause
The hackers stole 11 million email addresses from CAPCOM ID and changed the login passwords for 196 accounts. The post 11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders. The post Quest Diagnostics Data Breach Exposed ‘Certain Patient Records’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities sent criminal forum operators scrambling to protect their own infrastructure, revealing that threat actors face the same exposure management challenges as the organizations they target.Key takeawaysThe adversary economy operates on the same fundamental principles as the legitimate economy. Forum self-evacuations: Criminal forums including BreachForums initiated emergency infrastructur…
China-linked Storm-0940 used AI tool ARTEX to target 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, exploiting stolen ConnectWise credentials at machine speed. Microsoft published a detailed technical report naming Storm-0940, a China state-aligned group, as the actor behind the ConnectWise Cloud Backup supply chain compromise. The group used ARTEX, an open-source AI-driven penetration testing framework, to run attacks […]
GitLab on Wednesday published updated versions of its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that address a dozen bugs and security issues, including some that allow various unauthenticated actions. The most serious of the security issues, labeled critical in severity, is CVE-2026-110264, an integer overflow issue. “GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unaut…
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn't even over yet. But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed
Capcom has disclosed a data breach affecting 11.7 million CAPCOM ID accounts worldwide, exposing email addresses and account activity information. Attackers also changed passwords on 196 accounts, which the company has since reset. In its announcement, the Japanese game publisher said it discovered signs of unauthorized access on October 19. Capcom immediately blocked the suspicious … The post Capcom discloses data b…
Shadow AI used to be confined to a few simple scenarios, such as AI chatbots and AI browser extensions. Today, it spans a broad spectrum of complex vectors, making it harder to detect and control. In the latest installment of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series, learn how employee security training, AI usage governance, and exposure management can help you tackle shadow AI successfully.Key takeawaysIntegrat…
A China-state-aligned threat actor compromised a ConnectWise cloud backup application and used an open-source agentic AI framework to turn its stolen credentials against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft said. Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributed the activity to Storm-0940, which it said has used the ARTEX framework since as early as September 2026 to automate attacks on hundreds of organizations.…
A growing number of AI-built websites are going live with their most sensitive credentials visible to anyone who opens the page. New research from Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs (CRIL) found live OpenAI keys, Stripe secret keys and backend database tokens sitting in the public front-end code of sites created with AI app builders. Over one month, CRIL scanned more than 1.3 million newly registered domains. Resea…
Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information. The post Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Cyble scanned 1.3M+ newly registered domains and found AI-built sites leaking live secrets to the browser: OpenAI keys, Stripe keys, and database tokens. Spinning up a website no longer takes a developer. A prompt to an AI app-builder returns a working, styled, deployable site in minutes, and when one template works, the same operator clones it across a dozen domains before launch. That is also how secrets end up in…
LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM's release pipeline was compromised to push 1.107.0 to the Docker Hub registry and the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository. The incident took place around 4:00 a.m.
A Yonsei University cyberattack has compromised the personal information of roughly 10,000 students and graduates after outsiders gained unauthorized access to the school’s online portal. The breach comes months after Sogang University disclosed a far larger leak. The university’s Office of Information and Communications confirmed the breach in a notice sent to affected individuals on Thursday. “The personal informat…
The FBI, CISA and international partners have issued a warning about SafePay ransomware, a group that has impacted at least 600 victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors since August 2024. Published on October 20, 2026, the joint cybersecurity advisory describes SafePay as among the most active ransomware groups in 2026, with operations affecting organizations in North America, South America, Europe and…
GitLab is not affected by PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). The GitLab application is not written in PHP and does not run it to serve web requests, and our Security team has found no evidence of impact to GitLab-managed infrastructure. GitLab.com, GitLab Self-Managed, and GitLab Dedicated are not impacted.PHP is a widely used programming language that runs on web servers and powers popular platforms li…
Cloud providers may be storing sensitive customer data, without either party knowing it. But when a provider is breached, the unseen information comes to light.
We discuss the incident involving the leak of information about vulnerabilities CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. Kaspersky solutions detect the PHP2Shell exploit: we’ll walk you through examples using KEDR, KATA, and KES.
Two critical PHP vulnerabilities could lead to unauthenticated remote code execution. Patches are available for supported PHP 8.x branches, and exploitation attempts began before public disclosure.Change logUpdate October 26: CISA added CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to its KEV catalog. Added details on a regression in PHP 8.4.27 and 8.5.12 and on PHP's October 23 session upload progress advisory. Added a note o…
