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A vehicle belonging to school photography firm Pret-a-Portrait was broken into overnight on 6-7 October, and a camera bag containing SD memory cards was stolen. The cards may hold photographs taken at Priory School in Lewes, UK, plus images of QR code cards showing pupils' names and class names. The same equipment was used for three furth…
A Register "On Call" column recounts a reader's account (pseudonym Daniel) of joining a UK school in 2020, after the school's network had been taken offline for three months by ransomware. Recovery relied on external contractors and a months-old backup. His audit found a password policy of six letters with no complexity or expiry, and use…
The October 2026 Windows security update changes the default handling of NTLMv1-derived credentials for Single Sign-On. Before the update, Windows allowed them and logged warning events. Now they are blocked. Wi-Fi, Ethernet and VPN authentication may fail in environments that still depend on the legacy protocol. Microsoft states this is …
The Administrative Office of the US Courts reported a "cybersecurity incident" affecting the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which is operated by BAE Systems, Inc. for the Federal Judiciary. The BNC systems and websites were taken offline, halting the production and distribution of electronic and paper bankruptcy notices for federal ban…
A still-unknown actor hacked thousands of remote-controlled refrigeration systems across hundreds of French grocery stores, spiking temperatures, spoiling food and sparking fires. The incident fits a broader trend of extortionists and other attackers going after physical systems to maximise real-world pressure on victims. Earlier examples…
AI pen-testing startup Terra Security reports a sharp rise in security fixes later found to be bypassed or incomplete. The share of GitHub security fixes needing a follow-up advisory for a failed patch within 90 days held near 0.2% from 2019 to 2025 but jumped to 2.3% in 2026. Terra links the trend to the 2026 explosion in AI-driven vulne…
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocery group behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Martin's and Albert Heijn, confirmed that a cyberattack caused by "malicious actions of others" forced it to proactively take IT systems offline, including websites and apps. The incident was first disclosed on October 12 and affected most of the…
The Security Affairs Malware Newsletter Round 119 is a weekly digest of malware research published by Pierluigi Paganini. It lists reports on IronChain ransomware, the evolution of XWorm from infostealer to surveillance platform, and the Hirudo banking malware spread through fake updates and patched banking apps. It also covers PEERSTITCH…
Darktrace researchers documented a new campaign distributing CikaBika Bot, a Rust-based remote access trojan controlled entirely through Discord. The infection chain starts with a disk image named PropositionProjet.img, which contains a French-language decoy PDF and a Windows shortcut disguised as a Word document. A Nim loader extracts th…
The fourth weekly Security Affairs AI-cybersecurity newsletter, by Pierluigi Paganini, is a curated list of headlines on the intersection of AI and security. It contains no original analysis or technical detail. Items include CyberXero, described as an AI-augmented initial access broker targeting Ukrainian critical infrastructure, and a C…
EG Secure Solutions warns that CVE-2026-106931, an OS command injection flaw in the statistics function of SiteGuard Server Edition, a Japanese host-based WAF, is being exploited in the wild. Successful exploitation lets an attacker run commands as root or SYSTEM on the server hosting the product. The flaw is rated CVSS 4.0 8.5 and CVSS 3…
Researcher Quentin Kaiser presented at Hexacon a vulnerability in Broadcom's proprietary 802.11 implementation, present in its SDK since at least 2010, that gives an attacker within Wi-Fi range unauthenticated remote code execution on affected routers without the network key or WPS enrollment. An incomplete patch was silently released in …
Cybersecurity firm Calif published a full exploit and write-up for a local privilege escalation to root on OpenBSD 7.9, chaining two kernel flaws, one of which is a 37-year-old integer overflow inherited from the original BSD sources. The exploit bypasses KARL address randomization and SMAP/SMEP protections without requiring any informati…
The UK Electoral Commission is developing an AI-powered system to alert candidates and parties to significant deepfakes within three hours of first posting. Chief executive Vijay Rangarajan announced the plan at the Conservative Party conference and cited a deepfake of Irish presidential candidate Catherine Connolly during Ireland's 2025 …
Meta will update its commercial terms on October 30, 2026, authorizing the company or anyone acting on its behalf to scrape content from websites associated with business customers and use it to train AI models and improve its products. "Business customer" is defined broadly: it covers advertisers, sellers, app developers, Page and Group …
Docking stations are easy to leave unpatched. A Dell support article (last modified May 22, 2026) says that with "Enable External USB Port" off and Type-C dock LAN on, the HD22Q, WD19 and WD22TB4 docks cannot be updated by Dell's Firmware Utility. Separately, the tools that update docks have had local vulnerabilities, including CVE-2023-4…
NIST, the National Security Agency and CISA released voluntary guidance on October 16, 2026 warning that advanced AI agents may exploit security flaws, break out of assigned limits and leave persistent access behind. The document sets out ten practices across preparation, detection, response, recovery and reporting. It targets organizatio…
Microsoft awarded researcher Sam Chen (Samchen) US$4,000 for reporting CVE-2026-81376, a critical (CVSS 3.1 score 9.6) Workspace Trust security feature bypass in Visual Studio Code versions before 1.136.2. A specially prepared workspace could connect to an attacker-controlled service and bypass Restricted Mode, potentially exposing local …
Researcher Quentin Kaiser (QTNKSR) disclosed a memory corruption flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) implementation. It allows an unauthenticated attacker within wireless range to disclose memory and execute code, including as root, on vulnerable routers. The attacker does not need the Wi-Fi password, network membership or a co…
Drupal published an advisory on October 14, 2026 for CVE-2026-108097, a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Field UI module (fieldui) of Drupal core. The advisory gives it a risk score of 19/25, with basic attack complexity, no authentication required, and full confidentiality and integrity impact. Drupal core alone is not…
