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Key cybersecurity updates today include the sentencing of Syrian hacker Ahmad Umar Agha to 42 months for pro-Assad cyberattacks, highlighting ongoing threats from state-sponsored hacking. A critical vulnerability in Drupal Commerce Core is being actively exploited, urging affected online stores to patch immediately. In another alarming trend, researchers have identified a malicious ChatGPT link that can execute code in users' sessions, potentially compromising private conversations. Additionally, Cloudflare reported a significant increase in DDoS attacks, with 18.2 million recorded in Q3, reflecting a 38% rise. On the software front, major releases of Wireshark and YARA-X have been announced, addressing various bug fixes and improvements.
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A China-state-aligned threat actor compromised a ConnectWise cloud backup application and used an open-source agentic AI framework to turn its stolen credentials against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft said.
Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributed the acti...
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching.
Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it.
If an employee had that much reach with that little ov...
Fingerprint has announced Agentic Installation, the AI-powered onboarding path for companies to deploy device intelligence to their websites or apps in minutes to detect and stop fraud. By running a single prompt in an AI coding tool, such as Claude Code, Codex or Cursor, developers take Fingerprint...
XTIUM has released the latest version of XTAI (XTIUM Trusted AI), expanding its AI Service Platform with XTAI Orchestrator. The new governance platform brings together managed AI services, AI-powered voice, custom XTAI Agents, managed networks, and managed cloud. Building on XTAI’s initial focus on...
GitLab has released security patches for a maximum-severity Regular Expression Compiler flaw that can let remote attackers run arbitrary code on vulnerable servers. [...]
PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert PHP pushed out an out-of-cycle security release on October 21 for two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities rated 9.2 on CVSS v4.0, after details of the embargoed flaws leaked online a day early. Res...
GitLab a corrigé la CVE-2026-110264, une faille critique exploitable sans authentification qui touche toutes les versions depuis la 7.0, sortie en 2014.
Le post GitLab corrige la CVE-2026-110264, une faille critique qui touche toutes les versions depuis 2014 a été publié sur IT-Connect.
AI agents did the dirty work, with hackers gaining privileged access in some environments in under three hours
SentinelOne has unveiled Singularity Agentic Detection and Response (ADR), a new offering that discovers AI agents, enforces what agents are allowed to do, monitors agent behavior in depth, and detects and stops unintended and malicious activity in real time. Bringing together visibility and governa...
A woman faces up to six years in prison over a Cash App account she says someone opened using her stolen identity.
Broadcom has announced the launch of Arcot Scam Defense, a new feature of Arcot by Broadcom, designed to block social engineering fraud during card-not-present (CNP) transactions. “Financial institutions are experiencing broad increases in fraud attempts driven by sophisticated, AI-enhanced social e...
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables.
Upon further investigation, the company found that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to encrypted environment variables, and, in s...
Anthropic has updated Claude Security with ongoing code scanning and automatic fix tracking to help security teams monitor vulnerabilities as software changes. The service scans codebases for vulnerabilities and suggests patches for review. It is powered by the company’s full family of models, inclu...
Microsoft said it has observed threat actor activity in multiple ConnectWise customer environments, with the attackers leveraging the ARTEX agentic AI platform
A Dell order confirmation lands in your inbox and it looks pretty legitimate: it comes from Dell’s order domain, passes DKIM and DMARC checks, uses Dell’s real template, and confirms a $736.09 purchase of Microsoft Project Standard 2024 that you never made. Under “Ship To,” where an address should b...
Fortinet a publié le 22 octobre des correctifs urgents pour FortiOS, FortiManager et FortiAnalyzer, contre des failles critiques détectées grâce à l'IA.
Le post FortiGate, FortiManager : Fortinet vous demande de patcher tout de suite, mais sans dire ce qu’il corrige a été publié sur IT-Connect.
Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information.
The post Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add outside tools, and such code would run with the developer's own access....
Palo Alto Networks confirmed that all versions of PAN-OS and Panorama are affected by PHP2Shell, a pair of critical PHP vulnerabilities that let an attacker run code on a web server without logging in. Palo Alto has not shipped fixed PAN-OS releases yet. Fortinet and Cisco published their own adviso...
Threat intelligence analysts now observe large-scale evidence of exploitation of the two critical PHP vulnerabilities