Election Scams Are Getting Harder to Spot as Real Campaign Outreach and Fraud Converge

In September, viewers of a Pennsylvania TV station received a text telling them to “verify your voter profile.” The station’s investigator could not find out who sent it, and the link was flagged as malware. When Check Point Exposure Management researchers followed the link, it led to a political fundraising page. That small episode sums up the main finding of our report on 2026 US midterm election threats. Voters ar…

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HTTP2Shell: The Brotli Vulnerability That Extends Beyond Node.js

The key point: CVE-2026-111497 now increasingly referred to as HTTP2Shell and initially reported as Node2Shell, is broader than a Node.js vulnerability. The vulnerability is associated with Brotli decompression, so defenders need to find vulnerable implementations across applications and infrastructure, confirm whether untrusted compressed data can reach them, and patch the affected component. AT A GLANCE · CVE: CVE-…

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Hackers Exploited Cisco SD-WAN Flaw to Plant Malware Built to Steal Encryption Keys

Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization's SD-WAN network. The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that encrypt traffic between sites and store them for later use, Cisco Talos said on October 28. Talos calls the attacks historical but does not specify when they