While digital billboards are supposed to grab your attention, recent reports from Egypt, Malaysia, and Brazil described them doing so with explicit footage. The cyberattacks were claimed by a group called Leakers$, which said it exploited software used to send content to LED displays. The group said it did not hack into individual billboards to show the pornographic footage, but accessed the software used to send the content. For example, on October 29, explicit footage appeared on a large…
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: 9.8, CVEs: CVE-2026-98432, Summary: A use-after-free vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel's IPv4 networking subsystem. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could exploit a race condition during TCP connection request processing to trigger remote code execution. The flaw arises when socket options are freed while still being accessed by a concurrent operation, such as a retransmitted connection…
Classification: Critical, Solution: Official Fix, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: 9.8, CVEs: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619, Summary: This Security Alert addresses CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619. These vulnerabilities, known as PHP2Shell, allow for unauthenticated remote code execution in PHP. Oracle strongly recommends that customers apply the available security patches without delay. The Security Alert advisory will continue to be updated as additional product patches become…
The NCSC warns that ‘tech on the cheap’ has left UK organisations exposed to AI uncovering and exploiting longstanding cyber security weaknesses and calls for urgent investment in resilience.
De multiples vulnérabilités ont été découvertes dans Ivanti Connect Secure. Elles permettent à un attaquant de provoquer une exécution de code arbitraire à distance, une élévation de privilèges et un contournement de la politique de sécurité. Ivanti indique que les vulnérabilités CVE-2026-104935,...
Recently, I had to extract embedded files from a set of OneNote files (extension .one). My onedump.py tool can extract individual files, so I would have to run this many times. To avoid this, I added a new feature to my onedump.py tool: producing JSON data. Several of my tools already have such a feature: they produce JSON data with the content of their analysis results. onedump's option --jsonoutput produces JSON output with the content of each embedded file found inside the OneNote file. And…
Abdel Sghiouar, Google engineer and senior cloud developer advocate, thinks prompt injection should be called prompt poisoning Category: Guides & Best Practices
Key Takeaways CISA AA26-194A provides actionable guidance to improve the security of Internet-facing Cisco routers against real-world attack techniques. The advisory focuses on configuration hardening and security hygiene, rather than a single vulnerability or CVE. Manually validating advisory recommendations across enterprise networks is difficult, time-consuming, and prone to inconsistencies. Qualys Policy Audit transforms advisory guidance into automated configuration compliance checks,…
Flaws in SS7 and Diameter signaling protocols can allow attackers to track phone locations, intercept calls and SMS verification codes, and impersonate subscribers without compromising their devices. Cape explains how these attacks exploit trust between networks and how its security-focused mobile service helps defend against them. [...]
A modern organization protects its information systems with a whole suite of technologies that generate thousands of security alerts every day. Looking at these alerts in bulk, you’ll see that a significant share are false positives. Ideally, these alerts would be filtered out automatically so that analysts could focus on the ones that may point to a real incident. However, writing filters is a time-consuming task in itself. To create a correct filter, an analyst needs to: Review the logs…
We explain what shell vulnerabilities are and how to manage them: PHP2Shell, Node2Shell (HTTP2Shell), React2Shell and Log4Shell Category: Guides & Best Practices
SIEM isn't dead. Its bloated pricing model is. Discover why legacy pricing models need to go, how AI fits in, and how to build a smarter, cost-effective security logging strategy.
Building your malware analysis lab is a key point before playing with malware. Today, thanks to virtualization, it's convenient to play with snapshots in your lab. Start a new investigation from a clean snapshot and take some more when you reached a critical step. But, if you need to revert to a previous snapshot, all changes applied to the VM are... lost! Therefore, it's important to store important data outside the VM. If you do malware analysis with Ghidra[1], your work lives in "projects".…
Serial number: AV26-028 Date: October 28, 2026 Audience This Alert is intended for IT professionals and managers. Purpose An Alert is used to raise awareness of a recently identified cyber threat that may impact cyber information assets, and to provide additional detection and mitigation advice to recipients. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security ("Cyber Centre") is also available to provide additional assistance regarding the content of this Alert to recipients as requested. Details The…
Unit 42 explores key peak shopping season retail cyber threats, from ransomware to AI attacks, and shares how to defend operations and customer trust. The post Unwrapping Retail Peak Season Cyber Threats appeared first on Unit 42.
October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, and it’s a good time to think about how much the world has changed for chief information security officers (CISOs) in the last 12 months. A year ago, we thought we were already in the thick of AI and starting to understand it. Since then, agents have spread across the enterprise faster than most organizations anticipated. According to our Work Trend Index Annual Report, the number of active agents in the Microsoft 365 ecosystem grew 15-fold year over…
Microsoft again asked Entra ID administrators to migrate users to phishing-resistant methods to avoid sign-in disruptions before it retires SMS and voice authentication in February 2027. [...]
PHP2Shell shows how quickly attackers can exploit critical vulnerabilities, often before organizations have time to patch. Token Security explains why limiting the access of service accounts, API keys, and AI agents is just as important as fixing vulnerabilities to reduce the damage from a breach. [...]
This week, Axios reported that major US banks were detecting third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts. In many cases, customers have given the agents their usernames and passwords so they could act on their behalf. This kind of access can violate a bank’s rules. Bianco Research president Jim Bianco raised the question during Unchained’s Bits + Bips livestream on October 26: “Are you protecting me, or are you protecting your own profits?” Bianco described traditional finance’s…
On October 27, Google issued a new Stable channel update for Chrome. Most users are on Chrome’s Stable channel. The desktop update brings Chrome to versions 156.0.8078.73/.74 for Windows and Mac and 156.0.8078.73 for Linux. The update includes 52 security fixes, including four rated Critical. On the same day, Mozilla issued Security Advisory 2026-118, which fixes 167 vulnerabilities. Firefox 159 also introduces several new features. Both updates will roll out over the coming days and weeks. How…
Executive Summary Node.js has fixed CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli decoder flaw that can permit remote code execution, in 22.23.4, 24.22.1, and 26.12.1, but upgrading at scale is slow. In Qualys telemetry, only 42,000 of roughly 3 million Node.js installations have been patched, and 1.7 million run end-of-life lines that will never receive a fix. In the meantime, interim mitigations from the Qualys Threat Research Unit narrow the Brotli, DNS, TLS, and keep-alive attack paths, and WAF, IPS, and EDR…
Elections give scammers plenty to work with: urgent deadlines, familiar faces, passionate supporters, and messages asking people to take action. Some want you to “fix” your voter registration. Others want a donation, an answer to a survey, or payment for merchandise supposedly endorsed by your favorite politician. The details change, but the objective stays the same: get your money, your personal information, or both. Here are five election-themed scams to watch out for. Scam 1. “We’ll help you…
More than half of the individual warnings from the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) drew on previously secret material that had been cleared for disclosure, underscoring the growing role of intelligence sharing to prevent attacks.
AI is widening the attack surface of the critical infrastructure facilities and services that state, local, and education (SLED) organizations run. In the final post of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month series, we explain how a whole-of-state security approach can help SLED agencies protect their critical infrastructure. Key takeaways Because cyber attackers prey on under-resourced targets, they often go after SLED organizations, especially those that operate critical infrastructure, including…
You recognize the website. You’ve visited it before. You may even have it bookmarked. Then it asks you to do something unusual: install an update, allow notifications, or run a command to prove you’re human. Stop and check first. A website you trust can still display instructions you shouldn’t follow. Our researchers have documented attacks in which criminals hacked legitimate websites and used them to deliver fake verification pages that trick visitors into installing malware. Within the same…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to its catalog of actively exploited security flaws and ordered federal agencies to patch their systems by Thursday. [...]
A new NIST, CISA, and NSA guide treats runaway agents as incidents to be rehearsed. The hard part of the response is answering whose authority the agent used, and that answer has to exist before the incident does. [...]
Quest Diagnostics has confirmed that an unauthorized party accessed a system healthcare providers use to order laboratory tests and view results, affecting personal information and patient records. Quest is a major US laboratory testing company whose services help healthcare professionals diagnose and monitor medical conditions. Those services range from routine laboratory testing to specialized testing in areas such as cancer, infectious diseases, and neurology. What happened and what was…
Introduction AI agents and associated tooling are becoming increasingly common in corporate infrastructure. Agents can perform a range of actions with the user’s privileges, such as accessing data, running commands, and interacting with external services. This creates new security risks, especially when these tools are used without the security team’s oversight or well-designed policies. Detecting, tracking, and controlling AI agents is becoming one of the most pressing tasks for security teams…
[This is a Guest Diary by Jeffray Spence, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] Around Here, we start our day with coffee, but our day does not begin until we have our data...So much data. Where to even begin? When approaching a massive dataset, such as those from a DShield SIEM Honeypot, the first step is to actually find something to analyze. As for myself, I usually go looking for something that makes me go; "Huh." Today we will be walking through a starting approach with…
Classification: Important, Solution: Workaround, Exploit Maturity: Proof-of-Concept, CVSSv3.1: None, CVEs: , Summary: A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to allow port forwarding, and an attacker who already controls one device that the network's access rules permit to connect to the target. The…
Dalle attività di monitoraggio del CSIRT Italia e dall'analisi dell'esposizione nazionale emerge che l'81,9% dei servizi PHP con versione identificata risulta potenzialmente vulnerabile a PHP2Shell. Si sollecita l'aggiornamento immediato e la disabilitazione di session.upload_progress.enabled per la CVE-2026-115560, ancora priva di patch. Ove disponibili regole specifiche, configurare i WAF in modalità blocco; in assenza di mitigazioni efficaci, valutare di porre offline i servizi.
Aikido Security's AI pentesting fits into the stack you already run. You can add AI pentesting on top to catch the complex logic flaws deterministic tools miss. Category: Guides & Best Practices
Executive Summary A critical certificate authority incident disclosed on October 17, 2026, impacts eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates. A flaw in the key generation process could allow attackers to recover private keys and issue fraudulent TLS or code-signing certificates. The affected intermediates have been revoked and blocked by major platform vendors, including Chrome, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft. The issue is tracked as CVE-2026-111943 and CVE-2026-111944. The eMudhra Certificate…
Classification: Severe, Solution: Workaround, Exploit Maturity: Not Defined, CVSSv3.1: None, CVEs: CVE-2026-115560, Summary: Informational advisory: Session upload progress We suggest you set session.upload_progress.enabled=0 until the next regular bugfix release, to fully protect from an unlikely RCE vector. This setting was already listed as a mitigation in the GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp advisory for CVE-2026-109619 published on Oct 21st, 2026. If you applied it then, keep it in place and no further…
Yesterday everyone was running around like crazy (me included :) because of the php2shell vulnerability. However, after looking closely at some published PoC's - and there is an unbelievable amount of AI generated - erm, slop - it looks like building a universal, reliable, one click exploit is quite difficult (unless I'm missing something, so please do let me know). The PoC's that have been released so far have several pre-requirements and are almost cheating. First, in order to have a clean…
In this article Attack overview Technical details Mitigation and protection guidance Indicators of compromise References Learn More On October 21, 2026, a compromised LiteLLM 1.107.0 release was published to the Python Package Index (PyPI) and distributed through official container images. The malicious package added files that Python could execute during normal interpreter initialization. An application did not need to import LiteLLM for the payload to run: starting Python in an affected…
AI agents can be manipulated through malicious emails, websites, and plugins into executing commands, stealing data, or deleting files using their legitimate permissions. Gen Digital explains how its Agent Trust Hub helps protect agents through skill verification, secure connectivity, and runtime controls that intercept dangerous act [...]
This morning, we returned to Infocon Green. As usual, we are raising the Infocon to alert you to emerging situations requiring immediate attention. PHP fit that description. By now, you either know about it, or you probably never will, so it is time to go back to "business as usual". Many vendors have released patches for the vulnerability in sync with PHP.net, showing that the coordinated vulnerability disclosure worked and achieved its goal of providing tested and working patches in a timely…
Eight compromised eMudhra intermediate CA private keys risk unauthorized TLS signing and MitM interception. Read our analysis and containment guide. The post EMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromised appeared first on Unit 42.
Unit 42 explores modern OAuth threats and actionable steps organizations can take to protect their environments. The post The Current Landscape of OAuth Attacks appeared first on Unit 42.
The warnings are everywhere these days. Don’t click this. Don’t open that. Don’t scan this. Don’t download that. These messages of caution, however well-intended, are so ubiquitous and constant that it should come as no surprise that some people have started to tune them out. How many people? About one in three, according to our recent study. Keeping up with every warning can feel exhausting. Meanwhile, scammers are finding new ways to target people and phones give them plenty of opportunities.…
Shadow AI used to be confined to a few simple scenarios, such as AI chatbots and AI browser extensions. Today, it spans a broad spectrum of complex vectors, making it harder to detect and control. In the latest installment of our Cybersecurity Awareness Month blog series, learn how employee security training, AI usage governance, and exposure management can help you tackle shadow AI successfully. Key takeaways Integrating shadow AI into security awareness training helps employees recognize its…
CISA, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security (Cyber Centre), and partners are releasing joint guidance, Managing AI Token Consumption for Operational Resilience, to help organizations understand and manage token usage in support of operations. As organizations adopt third-party super intelligence (SI) services, token-based usage models can affect cost, performance, and access to critical services. Unmanaged token consumption may contribute to rising and unpredictable costs, reduced service…
A Cash App account opened in her name has left Amanda Smith facing criminal charges and potentially up to six years in prison. 404 Media reports that Smith says someone used her Social Security number (SSN) and date of birth to create an account that received money from a Facebook Marketplace scam. Allegedly, a buyer sent $1,000 for items that weren’t really for sale. A scammer had taken over someone else’s Facebook account and directed the buyer to pay a Cash App account in Smith’s name.…
This guide walks through supply chain security best practices that would have stopped the attacks of the past 18 months. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
ClickFix tricks users into pasting malicious commands into the Windows Run dialog. See how Attack Reduction in Huntress ESPM helps prevent that from happening.
Compare nine phishing simulation tools for realistic email, voice, SMS and deepfake exercises, adaptive training and broader workforce protection. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
Compare nine KnowBe4 alternatives for awareness training, phishing simulations, AI governance and workforce protection, plus practical migration advice. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
Key Takeaways Teams are remediating more than ever, but exposure from the vulnerabilities that matter is still rising faster than they can keep up with. Mean time to exploitation is about −7 days. Mean time to remediate sits around +30 days. Qualys research: closures rose from 73M (2022) to 473M (2025) – 6× – while critical findings still open at day seven rose from 56% to 63%. Less than 1% of vulnerabilities are actively exploited. A volume-and-CVSS program spends most of its effort on the…
Compare eight security awareness training platforms for role-based learning, AI threats, phishing simulations and protection across your workforce. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons
Compare eight Mimecast alternatives for email security, AI governance, employee training and archiving, with practical advice for planning your switch. Category: DevSec Tools & Comparisons