> TODAY'S SUMMARY (109 articles)
Today's cybersecurity news highlights several critical threats and trends:
1. **AI and Cloud Exploits**: Google warns of "LLMjacking" attacks, where criminals hijack access to large language models, leading to cloud charges exceeding $1 million for some businesses. This tactic underscores the growing intersection of AI and cybercrime.
2. **Increased Ransomware and Espionage**: The UK faces a surge in cyberattacks, particularly AI-powered ransomware targeting critical infrastructure. Russian-aligned groups are actively exploiting vulnerabilities to target Ukrainian organizations, emphasizing ongoing geopolitical tensions.
3. **Malware and Vulnerability Exploits**: Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in widely used software, including critical flaws in Node-RED and Siemens devices, leading to potential remote command backdoors and botnet installations.
4. **Cybercrime Infrastructure Dismantling**: Law enforcement has successfully dismantled a botnet of over 1.3 million compromised Android TV devices, showcasing collaborative efforts to combat cybercrime.
5. **Emerging AI Threats**: As AI tools become more prevalent, organizations are urged to bolster their defenses against sophisticated attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in their systems, highlighting the pressing need for improved cybersecurity strategies.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 16:00
An attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on the Alpine Linux project's own GitLab server a week after GitLab released a fix, Alpine Linux said on 28 October.
The flaw, CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0), can let an attacker run code on a GitLab server through a crafted regular ex...
Your company’s CTO has a plan to implement your company’s first LLM-based application. The board approved it, and now you’re finding out about it. It’s a typical story I hear all the time, and I’ve lived it myself.
You’ve heard everything about models and LLMs, but now you...
MR ROBOT Android malware rents banking trojans that steal one-time passwords and card data
Cursing in login credentials can help keep the bad guys out, but not when the rest of your security is BS
ENGIE says attackers accessed French customers’ contact and energy contract data through a partner sales tool. Banking data was not affected. French multinational energy company ENGIE warned customers in France that attackers accessed personal information through a sales tool used by some business p...
The FBI seized Virtualine, a hosting service accused of supporting criminal sites, ignoring abuse reports and helping launder money from illegal activities The FBI seized the website of Virtualine, a hosting service that sold its services to criminals. The seized domain is virtualine.net, and the go...
Microsoft propose à environ 60 000 salariés de partir avec une indemnité, soit plus d'un quart de ses effectifs. Qui est concerné ? Voici ce qu'il faut retenir.
Le post Microsoft propose un départ volontaire à 60 000 salariés, soit plus d’un quart de ses effectifs a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Hackers stole personal information and iRhythm account and device data from third-party-hosted business applications.
The post HHS Filing Puts iRhythm Data Breach Toll at 8.2 Million appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Two critical vulnerabilities were announced last week in PHP, the internet’s most widely used web application runtime, and they came with the familiar warning to patch immediately. But CISOs will have to deal with the long tail of these flaws for years due to widespread PHP in...
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 Tal...
CVE-2026-41709 allows attackers with administrative privileges to perform operations without being logged.
The post Chinese Hackers Quietly Used Low-Severity ESXi Logging Flaw as Zero-Day appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The malware that topped ESET’s infostealer detections in Latin America in the first half of 2026 is an example of how cybercrime has professionalized
Summary Everyday financial needs are driving Sub-Saharan Africa’s crypto growth. The region’s crypto economy grew 13.4% to $101 billion, making…
The post South Africa Leads Sub-Saharan Africa’s 13.4% Crypto Growth appeared first on Chainalysis.
Le fondateur de CentOS et Rocky Linux dévoile Ginux, un noyau en Rust compatible Linux (mais qui n'est pas Linux), développé avec l'aide de l'IA en 11 jours.
Le post Ginux : avec l’IA, le fondateur de CentOS crée en 11 jours un noyau Rust compatible Linux a été publié sur IT-Connect.
In this Help Net Security interview, Nathan Smolenski, CISO at Qualys, talks about how security teams can handle the growing volume of AI-discovered vulnerabilities. He explains why CISOs should track the average window of exposure instead of standard MTTR, and why only a small share of disclosed fl...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a security flaw impacting Broadcom VMware ESX to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, after CrowdStrike revealed that it had been weaponized by a China-nexus threat actor known as Warp Panda in attacks...
Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it&#;x26;#;39;s convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and take some more when you reached a critical step. But, if you need to...
WordPress 7.1.4 corrige 22 vulnérabilités, dont une faille d'exécution de code à distance liée au processus de mise à jour. Voici ce qu'il faut retenir.
Le post WordPress 7.1.4 corrige 22 vulnérabilités, dont 1 faille menant à l’exécution de code à distance a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Forty percent of 500 senior IT and security leaders surveyed for certificate authority Sectigo said they are very prepared for monthly TLS certificate renewals because automated systems are already in place. Their more specific answers point elsewhere. Only 4% said their certificate management is al...
Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday warned that threat actors are exploiting the recently patched PHP2Shell vulnerabilities against publicly-accessible management interfaces.
"Active exploitation has been observed targeting the Palo Alto Networks management interface exposed to the internet," the netwo...