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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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Critical-severity security defects could lead to command execution, authentication bypass, and XSS attacks.
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Initial attempts were observed on October 17, and mass activity began shortly after patches were released.
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Two lawsuits allege delivery robots scanned customers’ faces without consent, linked scans to names and addresses, and used them to train AI.
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ESET researchers uncover MythicRatatoskr – a previously unknown Go-based backdoor hiding its C&C server inside the Yggdrasil mesh network – that paved the way for a destructive attack against a Ukrainian grain firm
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LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor.
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Law enforcement agencies have disrupted nearly 11,000 cybercriminal networks and arrested more than 1,400 people in Operation Serengeti III, which targeted business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams. [...]
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Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression code that Node.js bundles, which the project says can allow remote code execution, meaning an attacker could run code of...
Nearly 100 vulnerabilities have been assigned a critical severity rating and Fusion Middleware received the most patches.
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OpenAI has proposed a five-stage process for handling critical vulnerabilities in widely used software. The process grew out of a two-month response to flaws in PHP, the open-source language that runs websites and web applications. Calif found one of the PHP flaws using OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol model, a...
The $25 billion award far exceeds a $5 billion fine the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook in 2019.
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Delinea has announced Delinea Fastpath MCP Server, a new capability that connects access governance data to the AI assistants teams already use. Using the Model Context Protocol (MCP), finance, IT, audit, and compliance teams can ask natural-language questions and get fine-grained, cross-application...
Huit certificats intermédiaires d’eMudhra reposaient sur des clés privées devinables en quelques secondes. Mozilla, Google, Apple et Microsoft les bloquent.
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