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Malware

Hackers Backdoor Nextcloud Servers Through Critical Flaw in Collabora’s Built-in CODE App

Attackers exploited a flaw in an optional Nextcloud app, Collabora Online - Built-in CODE Server, to plant web shells on Nextcloud servers. Three administrators reported the issue on GitHub, with the first logged attack on September 10. A web shell is a small file that executes any comman

1 min read Oct 14
Phishing

Microsoft Disrupts 3 Phishing Kits Linked to Over 1 Billion Scam Messages

Microsoft and Health-ISAC, along with the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3) and a coalition of private sector companies, such as Resecurity, Cloudflare, Oracle, Proofpoint, and TRM Labs, announced the disruption of three phishing kits, CoGUI (aka NX or FA), Haozi (aka Phoenix), and Iron Man Syst

1 min read Oct 14
Policy & Law

U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker cons

1 min read 1 views Oct 14
Vulnerabilities

Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

1 min read 1 views Oct 14
Vulnerabilities

Security researchers spent 6 days doing their Chromework, built 1B user exploit

Researchers at security startup Xbow used OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol model to help chain three zero-day vulnerabilities in Chrome into an exploit capable of executing code outside the browser's sandbox on Windows machines. Xbow estimates that this could affect about one billion users worldwide. Google fix

3 min read 2 views Oct 14
Phishing

Yam Store: The Phishing Network Behind a Billion Messages

A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.

1 min read 1 views Oct 14
Cloud

Anthropic 'SneakPeek' Flaw Is a Silent Zero-Click Threat

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

1 min read 1 views Oct 14
Vulnerabilities

Ivanti patches Connect Secure zero-day after researchers confirm in-the-wild attacks

Ivanti customers are being urged to update Connect Secure and check for compromise after attackers exploited a newly disclosed zero-day vulnerability. On Tuesday, Ivanti released updates for Connect Secure (ICS) to fix CVE-2026-104935, an authentication bypass flaw discovered by Volexity. Rated 8.6

3 min read 3 views Oct 14
Vulnerabilities

Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls.

3 min read Oct 14
Vulnerabilities

CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. The security flaw,

1 min read 3 views Oct 14
Other

curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution

A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on October 14 in curl 8.23.0. Taking over a client needs exa

1 min read 3 views Oct 14
AI Security

How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team

Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. It's the CFO, or it sounds exactly like her,

1 min read 3 views Oct 14

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