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Robert Wayne Boling Jr. was the mastermind of an identity theft conspiracy that victimized thousands of military members and veterans. He faces up to 40 years in prison. The post Philippines-based American pleads guilty to running expansive fraud scheme targeting US servicemembers appeared first on CyberScoop.
Massive clean-up job under way because this mess makes it possible to impersonate any website or service
PHP has released 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35 to fix two critical vulnerabilities announced in this advance notice. WordPress updates won’t apply this fix, so check your PHP version and update now. See our new advisory for details. The post PSA: Upcoming Critical PHP Security Release appeared first on Wordfence.
Following the discovery that eight eMudhra intermediate certificates use weak keys, Cloudflare is deploying mitigations and releasing client updates. We explain the impact, our response, and what customers and developers should do next.
Enable native runtime protection for GKE in just one click. The Wiz Runtime Sensor add-on now automates deployment and credential management while delivering predictable, kernel-level eBPF threat detection for your GKE Kubernetes fleets.
Oracle addresses 1209 CVEs in its final quarterly update of 2026 with 1295 patches, including 112 critical updates.Key TakeawaysThe October 2026 Critical Patch Update (CPU) contains fixes for 1209 unique CVEs in 1295 security updates112 issues (8.6% of all patches) were assigned a critical severity ratingOracle Fusion Middleware received the highest number of patches at 206, accounting for 15.9% of all patchesBackgro…
Google, Mozilla, Apple, the Go project and others moved swiftly to block the affected certificates from the Indian CA, though it's unclear how the keys were compromised.
Bulletin ID: 2026-141-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/20/2026 13:30 PM PDT Description: CICD-toolchain-for-serverless-applications is an AWS sample application that provisions a CI/CD pipeline for serverless applications through the AWS Serverless Application Repository. We identified CVE-2026-112407, an incorrect privilege assignment in the IAM policy of AWS CICD-tool…
Ransomware operators including Spikey Scorpius (aka Qilin) and Tarnished Scorpius (aka Inc) are exploiting PAN-OS vulnerability CVE-2026-0257. The post Active Exploitation of May 2026 PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257 (Updated October 20) appeared first on Unit 42.
Bulletin ID: 2026-140-AWS Scope: AWS Content Type: Important (requires attention) Publication Date: 10/20/2026 13:00 PM PDT Description: Kiro Crew is an open-source personal AI agent that can be reached from a web dashboard, a CLI, or messaging channels such as WhatsApp, and that runs tools on the operator's machine. We identified CVE-2026-112380, an authorization issue in the WhatsApp channel and the internal subage…
How a single Google Search ad click leads to credential theft, hijacking of cloud billing account, and hundreds of thousands of dollars incurred in unauthorized AI API usage
Intermediate certs allow anyone to mint web credentials for any Internet server.
Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu hacked tax preparation businesses, filed false tax returns and enticed victims to send him money for investment schemes. The post Nigerian sentenced to 8 years for long-running tax business hacking and fraud scheme appeared first on CyberScoop.
Key Takeaways Teams are remediating more than ever, but exposure from the vulnerabilities that matter is still rising faster than they can keep up with. Mean time to exploitation is about −7 days. Mean time to remediate sits around +30 days. Qualys research: closures rose from 73M (2022) to 473M (2025) – 6× – while […]
Wordfence Argus helped uncover CVE-2026-82814, a high-severity unauthenticated PHP object injection in Duplicator and Duplicator Pro. Update to version 5.0.0 or newer. The post Wordfence Argus Discovers High Severity Unauthenticated PHP Object Injection in Duplicator appeared first on Wordfence.
Overview An authentication bypass vulnerability in the Xerj Console API allows sessions to bypass passkey-backed requirements during token issuance. By exploiting this flaw, an attacker with an existing valid token can create independent, persistent successor credentials directly through the console API. This allows the attacker to maintain access and potentially escalate privileges within the Xerj ecosystem, even if…
Nikkei disclosed a data breach affecting over 1.8 million records after hackers used stolen credentials to access a cloud service for system development. Japanese media company Nikkei has disclosed a data breach affecting more than 1.8 million records. The company, known for its financial news publications, including The Nikkei and the Financial Times, said attackers […]
You load your site, or visit an API endpoint your app relies upon, and instead of a page you find a brief, unhelpful message: 401 Unauthorized. Sometimes a browser password box appears. Other times, a blank white page presents only that number. In either case, visitors are shut out, and if the error strikes your admin area, even you are left at the threshold. The good news is that a 401 is one of the more honest HTTP…
It’s the work of the infamous group behind the attacks on Democrats during the 2016 presidential election, Symantec said. The post Russian GRU hackers hit NATO shipbuilder, aircraft engine maker, law enforcement agency in espionage campaign appeared first on CyberScoop.
Unit 42 investigates network compromises across numerous industries
Signal has fixed a vulnerability in its RingRTC calling library that could let a malicious call participant interfere with hangup, potentially leaving audio, and possibly video, active after the other person tries to end the call. Tracked as CVE-2026-113380, the issue affects RingRTC versions before 2.72.0. The flaw has been assigned a critical CVSS v4.0 … The post Signal fixes critical flaw that could keep audio act…
From October 26, only high and critical cases stay private as project seeks help sharing the workload
Hundreds of customers are confirmed impacted, as attackers use a sensitive credential to break into connected Microsoft 365 applications unimpeded. The post ConnectWise customers hit by supply-chain attack linked to compromised API secret appeared first on CyberScoop.
Google Cloud’s London outage disrupted Revolut payments and ATM withdrawals, while ING Germany reported online banking issues. Multiple Google Cloud services went offline in the London region this morning, according to Google’s status page, and the disruption didn’t stay contained to infrastructure dashboards. British digital bank Revolut reported a widespread service outage at roughly the […]
Artificial intelligence is complicating security in the software development life cycle, but a Dark Reading roundtable found collaboration, better identity visibility, and reduced testing costs offer CISOs a way ahead.
The September Microsoft Patch Tuesday release included 975 vulnerability advisories. This month, 1,415 vulnerabilities were just dropped. Compared to a pre-June average of 100 a month, that increase is staggering. Where did they come from? And what does the future look like?
LevelBlue SpiderLabs has been tracking multiple waves of Wazza, a newly observed multi-stage phishing kit that deploys device code phishing targeting Microsoft 365 accounts. In addition to recent reporting by The Hacker News, our analysis examines the kit's evolving techniques and infrastructure, highlighting key changes observed across analyzed variants.
You should also be wary of emails urging you to check the status of your retirement pension fund—a topic that might interest office workers. Recently, phishing emails have been identified that use retirement pension notifications as a pretext to steal email account information. Under the pretext of verifying a secure email, threat actors trick recipients […]
ASEC Blog publishes Ransom & Dark Web Issues Week 4, October 2026 The Seven Deadly Sins Claims Data Leaks from Seven Organizations Worldwide HYFLOCK Ransomware Attack on a Saudi ERP Software Company Qilin Ransomware Attack on a Japanese Investment Management Company
It is already well known that illegal software and cracked programs can be exploited for malware distribution. Recently, AhnLab identified a new type of information theft malware (Infostealer) disguised as an illegal program. This malware was first detected in mid-August and, after altering its execution method, began spreading widely in September. Notably, it not only […]
