Automotive AI startup IQ.Lvbs claims that between October 7 and 14, 2026 it faced repeated attempts to steal its NovaSpark driving model, access users' devices and private driving files, and exploit its sign-in system. The company says the first requests came from an IP address assigned to Comma.ai Inc., a rival whose camera hardware Nova…
A former OpenAI engineer with reported Saudi ties was detained after allegedly planting a secret recording device in a conference room at OpenAI's headquarters. Dark Reading presents the case as an example of a preventable insider threat vector. The available text is only a short teaser, so it gives no detail on the device, how long it wa…
Objective-See analyzed Heartbreaker, a previously unknown macOS ransomware sample (ad hoc-signed ARM64 Mach-O written in Rust). It was uploaded to VirusTotal in May 2025 and remains undetected by all AV engines. It was found by researcher Megan Carney. It encrypts files in ~/Downloads with AES-256-GCM, renames them to .heartbreaker, drops…
The FBI and CISA issued a joint Public Service Announcement warning that malicious cyber actors may use phishing and smishing against election officials, candidates and political organizations ahead of the 2026 U.S. midterm elections. These targets are attractive because of their access to voter registration data, current government offic…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1310 reports multiple vulnerabilities in Citrix products, based on Citrix security bulletins dated 13 October 2026. According to the advisory, some flaws allow an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service. Other listed impacts are data integrity and con…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1316 reports multiple vulnerabilities across Microsoft products, based on Microsoft security bulletins dated 13 October 2026. According to the advisory, some flaws allow an attacker to achieve remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation and remote denial of service. Other listed impacts are data …
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1309 reports a vulnerability in Zabbix that allows an attacker to compromise data confidentiality. The advisory covers several supported branches and refers to the vendor bulletin ZBX-28169, published on 14 October 2026. No CVE identifier, exploitation status, technical detail or attribution is provided in…
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1315 reports multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure components, published on 14 October 2026. Some of them allow remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality. Microsoft published the corresponding security bulletins on 13 October 2026. …
CERT-FR advisory CERTFR-2026-AVI-1312 covers a large set of vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office, fixed in Microsoft's 13 October 2026 security updates. Exploitation can lead to remote arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, security policy bypass and loss of data confidentiality. Microsoft states that CVE-2026-96951 is being activ…
A public repository exposed sensitive data from Smart Sampa, the Prefeitura de São Paulo video surveillance system, for about 11 months, allowing unauthorized access to more than 58,000 cameras. Cameras covered sensitive sites such as daycare centers, schools, hospitals and drug-treatment centers. According to UOL, reporters used the expo…
Huntress researchers identified a fake page impersonating the WatchGuard download portal that harvested VPN server addresses, usernames and passwords before offering the legitimate Mobile VPN with SSL installer. The investigation began after suspicious activity involving an administrator at a managed service provider (MSP), who found the …
Ticketmaster confirmed a security incident that exposed personal data of customers in Brazil who bought tickets in 2025. The company notified affected users by email and reported the case to the Brazilian data protection authority (ANPD). According to the company, the incident involved a third-party data analytics tool. The investigation,…
Mid Florida Dermatology & Plastic Surgery, a 33-location medical group in central Florida, reported to the HHS Office for Civil Rights a breach affecting 85,585 individuals. An unauthorized third party accessed its network from March 26 to March 30, 2026, and patient files may have been viewed or acquired. Two other healthcare incidents w…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
Citizen Lab documented AdFection, a campaign in which the Israeli-founded ad firm Discover-Tech delivered zero-click mercenary spyware attributed to Candiru through the online advertising ecosystem. During 2024 and 2025, 45 devices belonging to Al Jazeera were targeted. Citizen Lab calls this the first detailed public technical evidence o…
A US federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, citing flight risk. Prosecutors allege he planted a covert audio recording device, hidden in toilet paper behind a TV, in an executive conference room used for confidential meetings. OpenAI found the device in late Septe…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand and an enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over governance failures in its use of the third-party Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform. Between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used Auror without formal approval, …
Google warns that Armory Castle, a suspected PRC state-sponsored espionage actor, exploited the critical BeyondTrust Remote Support vulnerability CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS 9.3) in August 2026, well before BeyondTrust disclosed it on October 15. The actor escalated privileges to root and established persistent access on compromised appliances.…
The weekly InfoStealers report for 12-19 October 2026 summarises stealer-log telemetry on compromised machines, credentials and sessions. The United States ranks 8 by country of infection with 438 machines. Gmail is the most affected email provider with 1,225,748 users, followed by Hotmail (90,554) and Yahoo (33,493). Sessions and saved c…
In late August 2026, Sekoia's TDR team observed an attacker compromise an unauthenticated Flowise honeypot (emulating v2.2.8). The attacker harvested stored credentials, tried to plant a malicious chatflow with a callback to 154.217.251.226, and used prompt injection to turn the LLM agent into an offensive analysis assistant. The activity…