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Generative AI Is Erasing Behavioral Tells, Weakening Behavior-Only Detection, Proofpoint Reports

Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templ…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Vulnerabilities

PHP2Shell: What Actually Protects You Before the 14:00 UTC PHP RCE Patch, and What Doesn't

You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today's fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on…

PHP

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

The Harness Is the Hard Part of Agentic Pentesting

An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everythi…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections

Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a res…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Attackers Abuse UpdraftCentral Keys to Plant Backdoors on WordPress Sites

Unknown threat actors breached TeamUpdraft's website and potentially gained unauthorized access to customers' connection keys for UpdraftCentral, UpdraftVault,…

WordPress

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

CISA: SafePay ransomware hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations worldw…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases

U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services "develo…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

State Bank of India Confirms Data Leak After 3,897 Customer Records Found on Dark Web

State Bank of India has identified 3,897 customer records containing personal information in a set of about 375,000 records available on the dark web, and it d…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Vulnerabilities

CISA Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Exploited Plex2Shell, Siemens, and SiteGuard Flaws

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, in…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Hackers Hid Vasilek Backdoor in VMware Tools During 2-Year Russian Healthcare Intrusion

A Belarus-aligned hacktivist group spent nearly two years within the network of a Russian healthcare organization. According to a report published by Russian c…

VMware

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PHP2Shell: Two Unpatched Critical PHP RCE Flaws (CVSS 9.2) Trigger Emergency Security Alert

PHP will ship an out-of-cycle security release at 14:00 UTC today, October 21, for two critical vulnerabilities that its security team has rated 9.2 on the CVS…

PHP

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection…

WordPress

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates

Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could rec…

Apple

LinuxSecurity - Security Articles
LinuxSecurity - Security Articles

Phala Attack Shows What Confidential Computing Does Not Protect

An attacker read logs and settings from a small set of Phala Cloud apps, the company says.

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information abou…

PHP

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

FBI says SafePay ransomware gang ‘among most active’ with more than 600 victims since 2024

The FBI and cyber agencies in the UK and Germany said SafePay is targeting businesses and critical infrastructure by guessing passwords, exploiting vulnerabili…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months

Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to comp…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

California warns all public school students of data stolen in contractor breach

The CDE released multiple statements over the last week warning the state’s students that assessment contractor Educational Testing Service (ETS) suffered a mo…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

23andMe successor settles with California for $6 million over cybersecurity failings

California Attorney General Rob Bonta announced a settlement under which 23andMe's successor will pay $6 million to resolve allegations that the company did no…

The Record
The Record

Nigerian national given 8-year sentence for tax business hacks

A Nigerian national who worked with a group to hack tax prep businesses and conduct millions of dollars in fraud using customer data was sentenced this week.

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Eight eMudhra CA Keys Compromised, Triggering Emergency Fixes Across Browsers and Software

The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificate authority (CA) certificates are compromised, Mozilla and Google's Chrome Root Program confirms on Oc…

Chrome

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Vulnerabilities

Critical FortiSIEM Flaw Gets Public Exploit PoC for Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have released a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for a recently patched critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiSIEM that could …

Fortinet

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Qilin and INC Ransomware Groups Exploit Palo Alto Networks Flaw to Bypass MFA

Palo Alto Networks has disclosed that it's continuing to observe exploitation of a now-patched security flaw impacting PAN-OS and Prisma Access by ransomware a…

Palo Alto VPN

The Record
The Record Vulnerabilities

EU cyber law won’t force fixes for fridge controllers hit in French attack

The EU’s Cyber Resilience Act that took effect last month only requires companies to fix vulnerabilities and issue free updates during a product's support peri…