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…
Varonis Threat Labs disclosed a privilege-escalation chain in Snowflake Postgres that turned a limited, non-superuser role (snowflakeadmin, holding CREATEROLE) into operating-system command execution as the postgres account. The chain abused built-in PostgreSQL behaviors, even though Snowflake had blocked the usual SQL-to-OS routes. Varon…
Bright Security announced the launch of STAR Fuzzer, an agentic fuzzer in its Bright STAR platform. It uses AI to select security-critical functions and generate harnesses, then runs an evolutionary search engine to find faults and delivers byte-exact reproducing payloads. In pre-release testing, 45% of the open-source projects tested had…
CyberSN's Cybersecurity Jobs Report, built on JobSpikr data, shows US cybersecurity job postings at a four-year low of 235,786 between January and September 2026. That is down 26.4% from 320,210 in the same period of 2025. Demand for AI Security Engineer roles grew 268.3% and Cyber Data Scientist roles grew 203.5%. Just under 15% of all p…
Anthropic has acquired Opaque Systems, a startup whose technology lets sensitive data be used in AI systems while the underlying hardware keeps it protected (confidential computing). Opaque announced the deal last week and said its team is joining Anthropic. Financial terms were not disclosed. The company has been winding down its operati…
MITRE released version 20 of its ATT&CK framework, expanding coverage of recent adversary tradecraft across the Enterprise, ICS and Mobile domains. Enterprise gains nine techniques and sub-techniques, including two prompt injection techniques (direct and indirect), abuse of an organization's own AI agents for data theft, poisoning of web …
An unauthorized party used a compromised login credential to access a file transfer (SFTP) site belonging to Educational Testing Service (ETS) and copy files containing California public school student data, according to the California Department of Education (CDE). ETS supports the state's CAASPP and ELPAC assessment programs. Access occ…
Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. The article excerpt does not say how the intrusion happened, who was responsible, or exactly which data fields were exposed. The scale makes this a mass customer-data exposur…
A NordLayer-sponsored article published on BleepingComputer warns that employees using personal ChatGPT accounts at work can expose sensitive company data, even when the organization provides an approved Enterprise workspace. It describes how IT teams can investigate unauthorized AI use and block sensitive information before it reaches pe…
Sansec warns that a maximum-severity flaw, CVE-2026-103849 (dubbed BlockStrap), in Magento Open Source and Adobe Commerce could allow attackers to execute arbitrary PHP code on store servers. No in-the-wild exploitation has been observed yet, but Sansec identified four potential attack paths in under 24 hours and expects mass exploitation…
Microsoft has fixed a known issue in the classic Outlook desktop client for Windows that hid the Copilot Chat and Copilot buttons for users with a Copilot Chat (Basic) or Microsoft 365 Copilot (Premium) license. Microsoft first announced a fix in June through a service change, but the bug resurfaced after recent updates and was investigat…
Microsoft has confirmed that the October 2026 Windows Server security updates cause Outlook on the web (OWA) sign-in failures and mail delivery problems on some on-premises Exchange Server systems. Affected hosts run Windows Server 2019 and later. Messages sent from Outlook may stay in the Outbox, and Exchange may have trouble accessing m…
Microsoft has fixed a known issue in which games and Windows 11 apps using AC-3 (Dolby Digital) audio decoding crashed after the September 2026 optional preview update KB5124010. The fix is included in the October 2026 Patch Tuesday update KB5127648, which Microsoft advises installing on affected systems running Windows 11 24H2 and later.…
Flare research, published as sponsored content, describes how underground forums package services that defeat Know Your Client (KYC) identity checks. Offerings include forged identity and financial documents, manipulated photos and AI-generated videos, live deepfake tools, and accounts advertised as already verified. The article cites the…
The open-source AI coding agent OpenCode disclosed a breach tied to a "large-scale distillation attack" that exposed stored external-provider API keys for 1.4% of OpenCode Console users. Affected users had linked providers such as Anthropic, OpenAI and Google. Users reported unauthorized charges ranging from several hundred USD to more th…
Bullhorn, a US cloud staffing and recruitment software vendor serving more than 10,000 customers, disabled access to its platform after detecting a cyber incident that caused a system-wide outage. Customers first saw job posting problems on Friday, and the company confirmed the cyberattack the following day. Bullhorn says it has isolated …
Between April and July 2026, a threat actor tracked as UNC7017 compromised AOMEI update and notification infrastructure and used it to push malware to users of AOMEI Backupper. The attackers briefly altered two configuration files and restored them within minutes to evade detection. The campaign was uncovered by ManageEngine's Threat Anal…
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, …
Infoblox links the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least 2017, to the Russian-language affiliate program Hotejka, assessed with high confidence to be a rebrand of the traffic monetization operation ROI777. Help TDS supplies PHP templates and a malicious WordPress plugin that affiliates install on comprom…