GM confirmed to TechCrunch that it will close the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant south of Detroit, as first reported by Automotive News. The site assembled battery packs for the Cadillac Celestiq and electric drive units and battery packs for the Chevrolet Corvette E-Ray. A GM spokesperson said the closure is unrelated to its EV strate…
A former OpenAI engineer with reported Saudi ties was detained after allegedly planting a secret recording device in a conference room at OpenAI's headquarters. Dark Reading presents the case as an example of a preventable insider threat vector. The available text is only a short teaser, so it gives no detail on the device, how long it wa…
The PHP security team has warned administrators to prepare for emergency security updates on October 21 at 14:00 UTC, fixing two critical vulnerabilities each rated 9.2 under CVSS v4.0. Information about the flaws reportedly leaked ahead of the planned embargo, and the team says it may release earlier if details become public or exploitat…
Zeabur, a developer hosting and deployment platform, disclosed that on October 14-15, 2026 an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its shared clusters, some Dedicated Servers and internal systems, and ultimately read the production database. The breach affected shared clusters in nine regions, 321,81…
Objective-See analyzed Heartbreaker, a previously unknown macOS ransomware sample (ad hoc-signed ARM64 Mach-O written in Rust). It was uploaded to VirusTotal in May 2025 and remains undetected by all AV engines. It was found by researcher Megan Carney. It encrypts files in ~/Downloads with AES-256-GCM, renames them to .heartbreaker, drops…
Hardware hacker Joe Grand found tampered Trezor Model T and Trezor One wallets sold through unauthorized third-party channels (Facebook Marketplace in Canada in 2025, and a TikTok shop in August 2026, shipped from China). The attackers replaced the microcontroller with one running malicious firmware that hands users one of about a dozen p…
An attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard private keys installed backdoor plugins on connected WordPress sites in an 18-hour campaign on 18-19 October 2026. Patchstack telemetry shows installations across a broad set of sites between 18 Oct 15:32 and 19 Oct 09:23 UTC. This is not a vulnerability in UpdraftPlus: the commands are c…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0318, a denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in PAN-OS affecting Panorama management appliances. The excerpt lists affected builds across the 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 release trains, including many hotfix (h) builds. It gives no CVSS score, attack vector, authentication requirements, …
Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0313, an OS command injection vulnerability (CWE-78) in the OS Query content pack for Cortex XSOAR and Cortex XSIAM. An authenticated administrator can execute arbitrary OS commands on remote endpoints. The vendor rates it MEDIUM with MODERATE suggested urgency (CVSS-BT 6.1 / CVSS-B 8.6) and states it…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0314, a local denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability in the GlobalProtect App for Windows. The advisory lists a wide range of affected releases across the 6.0, 6.2 and 6.3 branches. The excerpt gives no CVSS score, exploitation status, attacker prerequisites or fixed versions. Defenders …
Palo Alto Networks published advisory PAN-SA-2026-0013, its monthly Chromium vulnerability update for October 2026. It states that Prisma Browser is affected by vulnerabilities fixed in recent upstream Chromium Stable Channel releases. The vendor rates severity HIGH with suggested urgency MODERATE. Palo Alto Networks is not aware of any m…
Palo Alto Networks disclosed CVE-2026-0311, a server-side request forgery (SSRF, CWE-918) vulnerability in Checkov by Prisma Cloud. A local unauthenticated user can make unauthorized network requests from the host to internal services. The vendor rates it LOW severity with MODERATE suggested urgency (CVSS-B 4.8, CVSS-BT 1.1) and says it i…
Palo Alto Networks published advisory CVE-2026-0312 describing path traversal vulnerabilities (CWE-22) in Checkov by Prisma Cloud that let an unauthenticated local user write files to arbitrary locations on the scanning filesystem. No special configuration is required to be exposed. The vendor rates it MEDIUM (CVSS-B 6.8, CVSS-BT 4.3) wit…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0315, a local privilege escalation vulnerability in the GlobalProtect App on macOS. The excerpt lists affected versions only, in the 6.2.x and 6.3.x branches. It gives no CVSS score, root cause, exploitation status, or fixed versions. Defenders running GlobalProtect on macOS endpoints s…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published an advisory for CVE-2026-0317, a denial-of-service vulnerability in PAN-OS, the operating system of its firewalls. The text provided contains only the advisory title and a list of affected-version CPE entries. It does not give a CVSS score, attack conditions, exploitation status or fixed versions. Defend…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0320, an authenticated admin command injection vulnerability in PAN-OS. The advisory lists a wide range of affected releases across the 10.2, 11.1, 11.2, 12.1 and 12.2 branches, including many hotfix builds. The excerpt provided does not mention active exploitation, a CVSS score, or fix…
Palo Alto Networks PSIRT published advisory CVE-2026-0307 covering local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in the GlobalProtect App. The affected product list spans Linux, macOS, Windows, iOS, Android and ChromeOS clients. The advisory excerpt provided contains no CVSS score, exploitation status, technical root cause or fix details, so…
The FBI issued a Public Service Announcement through IC3 cautioning that threats against election workers endanger individuals and jeopardize the stability of the US electoral process ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. The FBI defines election workers broadly: elected and appointed officials, staff, volunteers, contractors, vend…
The FBI, via an IC3 Public Service Announcement, is warning US voters about federal election crimes ahead of the November 2026 midterm election. It describes three broad categories: campaign finance violations, threats to election workers, and civil rights violations such as voter suppression or intimidation. Examples include false voter …
The FBI warns that scammers are likely to exploit the 2026 US Midterm Election to run financial fraud schemes against victims across the United States. The PSA updates alert I-102924-PSA from 29 October 2024. Scammers use candidates' names, images, logos and slogans to solicit fake campaign contributions, sell merchandise that is never de…