Unit 42 (Palo Alto Networks) tracks a campaign, CL-UNK-1211, in which operators compromised government Linux infrastructure between October 2025 and April 2026. The operators used PHP and shell scripts that appear to be AI-generated, with conversational comments and step-by-step reasoning. They harvested credentials and went after databas…
On October 21, 2026, attackers compromised the LiteLLM release pipeline and published malicious version 1.107.0 to PyPI, Docker Hub and GHCR. The package carried a credential stealer ("privcollect") and a backdoor that runs remote code every hour, effectively a RAT. LiteLLM suspects the attacker obtained developer GitHub CLI OAuth tokens …
A New Mexico state judge ordered Meta to pay $25 billion, the largest fine ever imposed on the company, after a jury found it liable for deceiving users about how Facebook handled their personal data. Judge Francis J. Mathew ruled the deception was intentional and that executives consistently misled users. In September, jurors found over …
Kaspersky GReAT identified an APT campaign in early 2026 targeting diplomatic agencies in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The attackers used a UEFI bootkit dubbed BlackX, which closely resembles BlackLotus and bypasses Secure Boot by exploiting Baton Drop (CVE-2022-21894). Kaspersky attributes the activity to APT41 with medium co…
Attackers gained unauthorized access to Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, operated by GMO Internet, and installed malicious programs in some customer server environments. GMO confirmed the installations on October 20, 2026. On October 21 it began rolling shutdowns of all Desktop Cloud plans and identified 26,739 potentially affected servers. Info…
Microsoft attributed the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application to Storm-0940, a China state-aligned actor. The actor used ARTEX, a Go-based agentic AI penetration testing framework, to automate reconnaissance, password spraying and OAuth application abuse at "machine speed" against hundreds of organiza…
Aikido Security published a best-practices guide for defending against software supply chain attacks. It cites Aikido Intel data: about 7.5 million package versions analyzed in Q2 2026, with 19,500 malicious packages confirmed. The guide uses recent incidents to show which controls would have worked: the axios compromise, tj-actions/chang…
Two critical vulnerabilities affect PHP, in all versions since PHP 5 (2004). The NSA warned about them on Wednesday 21 October 2026, saying they let attackers reach the server file system or the database used by the web application (techcrunch.com). The PHP Foundation released four updates on 21 October 2026, including PHP 8.5.12. Each fl…
Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, a VPS service operated by GMO Internet in Japan, and installed malicious programs on up to 26,739 customer servers. The company confirmed the intrusion on October 20, 2026. It began progressively shutting down customer servers at 04:00 local time on October 21, and all De…
A cluster of unrelated but concurrent security events hit on 21 October 2026. Reuters reported government websites worldwide going offline after AI-discovered critical vulnerabilities in PHP, and the NSA advised organizations to update immediately or take PHP systems offline. The same day, Node.js patched four high-severity flaws, and Lit…
Kaspersky's analysis of Operation FlashHole describes a Lazarus Group campaign against South Korean organizations. It follows Operation SyncHole and is placed within the broader Cascade Hole activity. The earliest evidence dates to July 2025 (securelist.com, bleepingcomputer.com), and Kaspersky identified at least three victims in the sof…
The LiteLLM release 1.107.0 (a widely used open source LLM proxy and AI gateway developed by BerriAI, about 23 million weekly downloads per theregister.com) was trojanized on PyPI on 21 October 2026 and carries a credential stealer (privcollect) plus a remote code execution backdoor. All wheels (Linux, macOS, Windows) drop three extra fil…
Jefferson County Health Department (Hillsboro, Missouri) has agreed to a $2.25 million settlement of a consolidated class action over a 2022 data security incident. An unauthorized third party accessed its network between October 31 and November 15, 2022, and may have viewed or obtained personal and protected health information. The breac…
F5 released NGINX 1.30.6 (stable) and 1.31.7 (mainline) on October 14, 2026 to fix five vulnerabilities. Three are memory-corruption bugs that F5 scores 9.2 (Critical) on CVSS v4.0, and they can crash a worker process or, in some conditions, allow code execution. The others are a TLS session-ticket flaw that can bypass client-certificate …
The European Commission has opened a formal investigation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) into Booking.com, a very large online platform with more than 45 million EU users. It will examine whether the company does enough to stop fraudsters from using the platform for fake listings, impersonation fraud, phishing and smishing (theregis…
Wiz Research disclosed multiple memory-safety vulnerabilities in the core PHP engine, grouped under two CVEs with severity up to CVSS 9.2, and patched by the PHP team on October 21, 2026. The flaws allow unauthenticated remote code execution or disclosure of process memory (passwords, tokens, API keys, certificates) on any site running an…
A ClickFix malvertising campaign uses sponsored Google results for "amazon business" to lure victims to a fake Amazon login page on Google Sites and then to a fake CAPTCHA. The CAPTCHA pastejacks a command into the clipboard that the victim is told to run in the Windows Run box. The command abuses the legacy finger.exe utility to fetch a …
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) opened a rulemaking in September asking whether platforms should be required to stop impersonation scam ads from reaching consumers, citing ad tools that generate copy, images and video and optimize targeting regardless of whether an ad is legitimate. The article reports that nearly one trillion scam …
Check Point Exposure Management researchers identified a campaign that mass-produces fraudulent customer support PDFs and posts impersonating more than 20 travel brands, including airlines, travel agencies and transportation companies. The documents are uploaded to trusted university, government and commercial websites through public uplo…
Check Point Research reports that commercial antidetect browsers, notably Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin, are widely referenced on Russian-language underground forums and marketplaces. They are used for account takeover, payment card fraud (carding), fraudulent loan applications, ad-revenue fraud, bulk creation of fake accounts and coor…