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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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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, …
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…
Elastic Security Labs is tracking REF8801, a campaign in which a fake Web3 venture capital accelerator, Apex Accelerator (Apex Foundation), targets cryptocurrency startups and founders with malicious npm packages. The packages, @apexacc/cli and @apexacc/audit, pose as an AI advisor and an MCP-based security scanner, with offers of free Cl…
An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16, and the company says third-party AI provider keys saved in OpenCode Console "may have been exposed." About 1.4% of Console users, all with an outside provider linked, were notified by email on October 17 and told to revoke and replace their OpenAI, Anthropic or Go…
This weekly recap covers several concurrent incidents. ConnectWise disabled seven application identities and suspended Cloud Backup after unknown actors abused them to compromise Microsoft 365 tenants. China-nexus Armory Castle (UNC5221 / Warp Panda) exploited BeyondTrust Remote Support flaw CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) as a zero-day in lat…
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 (advertised on underground forums for $5,000 in October 2022 and confirmed by ESET in March 2023, per gbhackers.com) and bypa…
GitLab released critical patch versions on October 21, 2026 for CVE-2026-110264, a CVSS 10.0 integer overflow in the regular expression compiler of GitLab CE/EE. A specially crafted expression could let an unauthenticated attacker run arbitrary code on a self-managed server (docs.gitlab.com). Affected releases go back to version 7.0 (June…
Unknown threat actors breached the TeamUpdraft website on 17-18 October 2026 and likely accessed its customer database, which holds connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault and UpdraftClone. Patchstack observed an attacker holding valid UpdraftCentral dashboard keys issuing signed commands to install backdoor plugins on connected …
State Bank of India (SBI) said in an October 21 stock-exchange filing that it identified 3,897 customer records with personal information within a set of about 375,000 records circulating on the dark web (thehackernews.com). The bank does not yet know where the data came from or whether it is authentic. The figure matches a claim by a thr…
Eight intermediate CA certificates of the Indian certificate authority eMudhra (emSign brand), generated on 30 April 2025, were found to have P-384 private keys so weak (integers below 256) that anyone can recover them from the public certificates and forge certificates for any domain. A researcher credited as Wayne reported it on October…
