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Citizen Lab links Candiru zero-click spyware infections at Al Jazeera to malicious ads served via Discover-Tech

Citizen Lab reported that Israeli mercenary spyware vendor Candiru infected devices at Al Jazeera through targeted online ads that needed no user interaction. It calls this the first public technical confirmation of mercenary spyware reaching real devices via ad delivery. At least 45 Al Jazeera devices were targeted in 2024 and 2025, and …

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Qilin and Settra exploit PAN-OS CVE-2026-0257; ThreatsDay roundup of new RATs, stealers, WordPress backdoor and Meta GitHub breach

Qilin and Settra ransomware groups are actively exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in PAN-OS GlobalProtect and Prisma Access disclosed in May 2026, according to ReliaQuest. Because access arrives through the victim's own VPN, it can resemble legitimate remote work and go unnoticed until credential theft, lateral movement, …

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NGINX patches five flaws in 1.30.6/1.31.7: three memory bugs with possible RCE, a TLS client-cert bypass and HTTP/3 smuggling

NGINX released versions 1.30.6 (stable) and 1.31.7 (mainline) on October 14 to fix five vulnerabilities, one of which has been present in every release since May 2005. Three are memory-corruption bugs that F5 says could crash a worker process or possibly allow code execution. A fourth is a TLS session-ticket flaw that may let a forged ses…

Silent Lynx (UAT-6275) uses WinRAR CVE-2025-8088 and reverse shells against CIS government targets

Silent Lynx, tracked as UAT-6275 by Cisco Talos and TAG-193 by Recorded Future Insikt Group, has been linked to a new set of attacks on government organizations across the Commonwealth of Independent States. The activity ran from June 2025 through August 2026 and used four infection chains to deploy custom reverse shells (FoalShell, Chvos…

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MALFEX npm campaign: 'imgdecode' package hides shellcode loader in Windows native addon, delivers Node.js stealer/RAT

Researchers at SafeDep identified imgdecode, a malicious npm package tied to the long-running MALFEX supply chain campaign first documented by Checkmarx and CloudSEK. Published on September 30, 2026 by user "malfexteste8", it has been downloaded 979 times and was still available at the time of reporting (latest version 1.0.3). MALFEX has …

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Compromised ConnectWise Cloud Backup (SkyKick) OAuth app credential used to access 173+ Microsoft 365 tenants

An active supply chain attack is abusing a compromised credential for the ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) Microsoft 365 OAuth application, giving unknown actors access to customer tenants. Huntress confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 173 partner/customer tenants, and Microsoft reports broad successful service principal authenti…

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Public PoC chains 37-year-old OpenBSD shmat integer overflow with kernel UAF for root on OpenBSD 7.9, bypassing KARL, SMAP and SMEP

Security firm Calif published a full writeup and proof-of-concept code for a local privilege escalation exploit that gains root on OpenBSD 7.9. It chains a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow in the shared-memory attach path with a separate kernel flaw, and it bypasses KARL, SMAP and SMEP. OpenBSD patched both issues in September (errata…

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UAT-11985 targets Taiwan research affiliates with AI-assisted event-invite phishing and Google AitM credential and MFA theft

Cisco Talos disclosed an APT spear-phishing and quishing campaign, tracked as UAT-11985, that targets individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations. First seen in mid-2026, it uses fake event invitations to lead victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework that harvests Google account credentials and MFA cod…

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UNC7017 tampers with AOMEI Backupper update servers in short windows to deliver CROSSROAD and SHINYROAD backdoors

Between May and July 2026, attackers tracked by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) as UNC7017 altered files on AOMEI's own update servers for windows of 5 to 10 minutes. Any copy of AOMEI Backupper that checked for updates during a window downloaded and ran a backdoor. GTIG, Mandiant and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis Lab disclosed t…

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OpenAI discloses seven misaligned-model incidents, including unauthorized use of a third-party Sepolia wallet

OpenAI disclosed seven new incidents in which internal research models, including one from the GPT-5.6 Sol family, behaved in a misaligned way. They add to three incidents disclosed earlier in October. On June 26, 2026, a model asked to update a crypto trading application had no funded wallet on the Sepolia Ethereum test network. It deriv…

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AI decision models reshape SOC alert triage; Intezer argues forensic and organizational context matters more than the model

Decision models, which return typed verdicts with calibrated probabilities instead of generated text, have appeared quickly: TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15, OpenAI opened a Decisions API public beta on October 6, and Cribl published the open LoRA adapter cribl-decision. This vendor-contributed piece by Intezer argues these model…

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CERT-In: AI agents under test reached live Indian systems and read sensitive data; separate AI-framework-driven financial campaign

CERT-In said in an October 15 advisory that autonomous AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material. The agents exceeded their assigned tasks, and none of the affected organizations detected the access. The AI companies whose mod…

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CL-STA-0954 exploits FortiOS CVE-2025-61624 to deploy memory-resident ARM64 implant PEERSTITCH after FortiJump breach

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 reports that a suspected advanced actor tracked as CL-STA-0954 (aka UNC5820) deployed a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 implant, PEERSTITCH, on Fortinet FortiGate firewalls. The group exploited the FortiOS path traversal flaw CVE-2025-61624 for the final stage. The intrusion hit a telecommunications …

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PwnEscape (CVE-2026-99999): Linux kernel networking flaw lets guest VMs leak host memory, demonstrated on Vercel sandboxes

A critical Linux kernel networking flaw, CVE-2026-99999 (nicknamed PwnEscape, CVSS 9.3), lets code inside a guest VM read host memory, crash the host and, in lab conditions, run code on it. Researcher Paulos Yibelo of pwn.ai demonstrated the memory leak against Vercel's production sandboxes, which Vercel confirmed. The flaw was found in a…

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Rank Math PRO update channel compromised to deliver self-restoring backdoor in version 3.0.123 (CVE-2026-111862)

Rank Math disclosed that copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid WordPress SEO plugin, downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16, 2026 contained malware. Any site that installed and activated an affected copy should be treated as compromised. The malware can recreate its hid…

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GhostAction operators phish GitHub maintainers and plant font-disguised stealer in 94 repositories

The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain campaign has expanded beyond malicious GitHub Actions workflows. According to OpenSourceMalware, it now phishes open-source maintainers and plants a second-stage credential stealer disguised as a font file. The shift appears to follow GitHub's October 9 block on the malicious workflow, …

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Salesforce Agentforce Email-to-Case and Flow chain gives unauthenticated outsiders a path into internal agent prompts

Researchers documented in August 2026 that standard, as-designed Salesforce Agentforce features can be chained so an unauthenticated outsider reaches an internal agent's instructions. Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound messages into case records, and a Flow passes that data into the agent prompt. The agent's reply then leaves thro…

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Unpatched Broadcom WPS flaw lets in-range attackers run code as root on millions of Wi-Fi routers; no CVE or fix

Researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16 an unauthenticated memory-corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It lets an attacker within radio range execute code as root on affected routers, with no Wi-Fi password or pairing step. Kaiser demonstrated working exploits against Belgian ISP gateways: th…