Israeli startup Hirundo reports that Alibaba's Qwen3-Coder shows a pro-CCP bias, producing more vulnerable code when asked to build applications for Western organizations. This is consistent with earlier findings by CrowdStrike (November 2025) and Booz Allen Hamilton (May 2026). Hirundo had the model build web services (sign-up, login, se…
A Flare analysis argues that Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$ and ShinyHunters are distinct intrusion clusters within The Com, a decentralized, mostly English-speaking cybercriminal subculture, and not interchangeable names for one group. It describes SP1D3R HUNTERS (also called Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters, SLH) as a shared brand and coordination …
Patchstack reports a critical remote code execution vulnerability in PHP that is already being actively exploited after details leaked on October 20. Because the flaw sits in the language runtime, any PHP-based application on a vulnerable version is exposed, including WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla and Laravel sites. Patchstack confir…
Kaspersky's analysis of Operation FlashHole describes a Lazarus Group campaign against South Korea that follows Operation SyncHole. The earliest evidence dates to July 2025, and the campaign was observed in January. At least three organizations in the software, construction and wired communication equipment manufacturing sectors were affe…
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a rising pattern of LLMjacking in which threat actors compromise privileged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users solely to offload the cost of large-scale LLM inference onto the victim. Attackers link external, attacker-controlled GCP projects to the victim's billing account, so all Gemi…
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…
A Chainguard survey released at its Assemble London event on October 14 found that 66% of security leaders at companies with $1bn or more in revenue admit leaving high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched "at least sometimes". Among companies with under $250m in revenue, the figure was 27%. Larger firms cite business trade-offs: disrupti…
Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday is a record release of roughly 1,415 new CVEs, the first four-digit volume ever, larger than any previous full year of Microsoft patches. Only one flaw is under active attack: CVE-2026-96951, a Windows Shell security feature bypass that evades Mark of the Web (MotW) protections. Two others are public…
Flashpoint's first monthly insider threat report, drawn from its Primary Source Collection (PSC), identified 9,787 insider-related posts across 1,216 channels and 1,778 authors in September 2026. Overall volume fell, but threat actors kept recruiting insiders and advertising insider access, mostly to enable fraud. Flashpoint counted 857 u…
Flashpoint's weekly Middle East brief for October 9-15 describes sustained kinetic escalation alongside cyber and information operations. Ansarallah (Houthis) ran a multi-day missile, drone and cruise-missile campaign against King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh. It killed at least 14 people and closed the airport through at least …
Infoblox attributes the long-running Help TDS traffic distribution system, active since at least April 2017, to Hotejka, a small Russian-language affiliate program that appears to be a rebrand of ROI777 (exposed in 2018). The TDS fingerprints visitors and redirects them to browser-lock tech support scams that push victims to call centers,…
The Wiz Customer Incident Response Team (CIRT) reports a growing number of intrusions in which an AI agent system ran the entire operation: finding entry points, harvesting credentials, pivoting across platforms and debugging its own scripts in real time. In one investigated case, the agent compromised a large multi-cloud organization (GC…
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…
Check Point Research reports that commercial antidetect browsers Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin are widely referenced on Russian-language underground forums and are used for account takeover, carding, fraudulent loan applications, ad-revenue fraud and coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB). The tools spoof browser fingerprints, manage p…
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Recorded Future's Insikt Group tracks the actor behind the October 2026 AI-assisted intrusions into South Korean financial institutions as TAG-217. The group was testing infrastructure and assembling attack tools as early as August 2026, weeks before the campaign became public. South Korea's Financial Services Commission (FSC) disclosed t…
Recorded Future's Insikt Group reports on TAG-193, a cluster that ran a sustained intelligence-collection campaign against government bodies from early 2025 through May 2026. Targets include diplomacy, economic development, agriculture and environmental agencies in Russia, Tajikistan, Belarus, Armenia and Uzbekistan. Lure documents and im…
Since mid-2025 the Kremlin has sharply escalated restrictions on digital communications, according to Insikt Group (Recorded Future). Measures include VPN blocking, state-managed regional internet shutdowns, throttling of Telegram and WhatsApp, promotion of the state-owned Max messenger, and expanded surveillance of Russian and foreign en…
Huntress analyzed an active credential-phishing campaign in which the lookalike domain watchguard-vpn.net harvests WatchGuard SSL VPN credentials. On October 7, 2026, an administrator at a managed service provider searched Bing for "watchguard vpn sll download" and clicked through to the fake page, which Huntress classifies as SEO poisoni…
Huntress reports that a stolen vendor credential for ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) was used on October 15, 2026 to obtain Microsoft Graph tokens in customer Microsoft 365 tenants from the hosting IP 144.172.64.128. As of 19:00 UTC on October 16, Huntress had confirmed unauthorized sign-ins in 162 tenants. Later updates found…