A 28-year-old Russian man has been arrested by German police, suspected of being a key member of the Qilin ransomware gang. Detectives have linked the man to the attack against blood-testing firm Synnovis, that disrupted London hospitals, and resulted in the death of a patient. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Microsoft urges organizations to secure AI Agents as insider threats, using dynamic permissions, continuous risk monitoring and automated containment. Microsoft published a detailed blog post explaining how organizations should secure AI agents. Microsoft sees them as a growing insider threat, not just a possible risk in the future. AI agents are not dangerous by nature, […]
Broken object-level authorization ranks first on the OWASP API Security Top 10, and OWASP says that traditional static application security testing (SAST) tools struggle to find access control flaws. A missing authorization check is an absence of code, so a scanner that matches patterns has nothing to match. You can find the gap only if you already know what the endpoint is meant to enforce.We're building Business Lo…
AI agents are sending more and more code into review queues built for human-paced work. A coding assistant can speed up code writing, but it can’t show you whether review, security checks, and release approvals can keep pace with all that extra code. AI-native engineering — the practice of intentionally designing the engineering process so people and agents each do what they are best suited to — starts with identifyi…
At the request of the Open Source Technology Improvement Fund (OSTIF), Quarkslab performed a security audit of mbedTLS, evaluating the security of the changes in version 4.0.
A large-scale scam operation impersonating Microsoft uses a malicious traffic distribution system (TDS) run by a Russian organization and abuses thousands of Cloudflare links.
TeamUpdraft has disclosed unauthorized access to its teamupdraft.com website over the weekend of October 17-18, 2026. The company believes its customer database was accessed and says that database contained connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault, and UpdraftClone, along with customer account information. The post PSA: UpdraftCentral Connection Key Compromise Used to Install Malicious Plugins on WordPress Si…
Flashpoint joined international law enforcement and private-sector partners in a coordinated operation targeting West African scam networks, resulting in dozens of arrests, millions of fraudulent accounts removed, and over one hundred victims of human trafficking identified. The post Inside Joint Disruption Week: 28 Arrests and 3.7 Million Scam Accounts Removed appeared first on Flashpoint.
Japanese delivery giant Yamato Transport has confirmed that attackers stole about 5.3 million customer and delivery-destination records from its Kuroneko deferred payment service. The company said an investigation with external security specialists confirmed the data theft after it detected unauthorized access on September 28. After discovering the intrusion, Yamato restricted external access and reported the … The p…
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…
Attackers exploit Plex2Shell flaws to install crypto miners and proxy software. Admins should update their Plex Media Server. Plex Media Server is designed to make movies, music, and other media available across devices. But when a server is exposed to the internet and runs vulnerable software, it can become an entry point for attackers who […]
Hackers compromised AOMEI’s software distribution infrastructure to deliver Windows backdoors, switching malicious configurations on for just five to ten minutes before restoring legitimate content. The campaign ran between April and July 2026 and affected software delivery channels used by AOMEI Backupper and AnyViewer, according to coordinated reports from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), Mandiant, and … Th…
Educational Testing Service (ETS) is notifying California students and families that an intruder stole personal information from a file transfer site used for statewide testing, including disability details and assessment results. The breach includes records for all students enrolled in the three previous school years, as well as current and former students. The notification does … The post ETS data breach exposes Ca…
Why the controls on an AI agent have to live outside of it, and what a security operations team can do to implement and maintain those controls.The new privileged user in your environmentSecurity teams spent two decades learning how to work with the people they trust most. Domain admins, DBAs, finance approvers and contractors with VPN access all get a mature playbook: verified identity, scoped access, logged activit…
OverviewWhile performing continuous red teaming exercises through Rapid7’s Vector Command service, Rapid7 discovered three new vulnerabilities in Eptura Archibus. A legacy API endpoint could be exploited to bypass authentication and run various functions without authentication (CVSS: 8.6 High). The most serious functions allow for full database read (CVSS: 8.5 High) and an insecure file upload (CVSS: 9.6 Critical). T…
The order cites national security concerns, including sending data to servers in China, the potential for malware and the overall risk to federal IT systems. The post DHS to ban DeepSeek from federal civilian agencies appeared first on CyberScoop.
OverviewIn early October 2026, Rapid7 analysts investigated a compromise of a Citrix NetScaler ADC appliance. The appliance was running an affected 14.1 build and was exposed to active exploitation targeting NetScaler authentication and SAML deployments.The intrusion achieved root code execution, deployed multiple persistence mechanisms, installed PHP web shells, created outbound command-and-control and internal tunn…
When trusted packages are compromised, malicious code can quickly spread throughout and beyond developer environments. See how Wiz’s supply chain pipeline identifies compromised packages at publication, helping teams detect zero-day supply chain compromises in Wiz Defend before a CVE is published
OverviewOn October 15, 2026, BeyondTrust disclosed a critical authentication bypass in Remote Support (RS), its platform for remotely troubleshooting and administering endpoints. Tracked as CVE-2026-102764 and assigned a CVSSv4 score of 9.3, the vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote attackers to perform file operations on an affected appliance without user interaction. Versions 26.2.3 and earlier are affected u…
Drupal has patched two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Drupal core and the contributed Entity List module. The first flaw, tracked CVE-2026-108097, affects the core Field UI module, while CVE-2026-108099 affects Entity List. Neither is directly exploitable through the affected component alone, but Drupal warns that multiple serious exploit paths exist through contributed […]
Copyright takedown requests tied to OnlyFans and other adult content creators are revealing how attackers exploit vulnerable university and government websites to manipulate search results. UpGuard's Greg Pollock explains what universities, government websites, and security teams need to think about next.
Updated the Security Updates table to list Microsoft Identity Web v3 and v4 separately and clarify the affected version ranges. The existing security updates are versions 3.16.0 and 4.16.1, respectively. This is an informational change only.