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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…