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Attackers Exploit CVSS 10.0 Bricksforge WordPress Flaw Enabling Unauthenticated RCE

A maximum-severity security flaw impacting the Bricksforge plugin for WordPress has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to Patchstack. The critical vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85097 (CVSS score: 10.0), which allows unauthenticated attackers to upload and execute arbitrary PHP code on vulnerable WordPress websites, resulting in remote code execution (RCE). The

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A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats

A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw through OpenAI's bug bounty program on October 18, and OpenAI fixed it eight days later and rated it P1, its most serious category.

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CVE-2026-98432 - Linux kernel IPv4 TCP use-after-free Issue

Bulletin ID: 2026-160-AWS Publication Date: 10/30/2026 22:15 PM PDT Description: AWS is aware of CVE-2026-98432, a memory issue in the Linux kernel IPv4 TCP handshake path affecting kernel versions 4.4 and later that could result in remote code execution. Updated kernel packages are available for Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023, and we recommend customers running self-managed Linux instances update and reboot. A…

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Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%

Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the third quarter of 2026. That amounts to 197,400 attacks per day, or one attack every 0.44

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