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Former Unit 8200 Officers Raise $34 Million for Agentic SecOps Startup Mave

Sun, 10/25/2026 - 7:00am

Founded in 2025 by Unit 8200 alumni, Tel Aviv-based Mave uses AI agents to investigate alerts across existing security stacks.

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In Other News: Tor Exit Relays Hijacked, Banks Spot Rogue AI Agents, Self-Rebuilding macOS Ransomware

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 10:23am

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Russia’s APT28 hit NATO defense firms, PingCAP source code stolen, ShinyHunters negotiator probe.

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Mirai Botnet Operators Join PHP2Shell Attacks as ASLR Bypass Exploits Emerge

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 8:45am

Researchers tie PHP2Shell attempts to a Mirai botnet and show an ASLR bypass, but no successful compromise has been confirmed yet.

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China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise Attacks

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 6:31am

The state-sponsored hackers targeted hundreds of organizations and gained privileged access to some environments.

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Attackers Exploit Third VeloCloud Orchestrator Zero-Day in Four Months

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 5:58am

The critical-severity SQL injection flaw allows attackers to access privileged internal functionality and gain operator privileges.

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11 Million Impacted by Capcom Data Breach

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 4:34am

The hackers stole 11 million email addresses from CAPCOM ID and changed the login passwords for 196 accounts.

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Quest Diagnostics Reports Cyber Breach Affecting ‘Certain Patient Records’

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 4:25am

In a regulatory filing, Quest Diagnostics reported unauthorized access to its Quanum Lab Services Manager, a platform where certain clients can place test orders.

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LiteLLM Compromised in Fresh Supply Chain Attack

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 4:10am

Hackers used compromised GitHub CLI OAuth tokens to push and approve malicious packages on PyPI and Docker.

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Atlassian Patches 75 Flaws in Data Center and Server Products

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 3:54am

Atlassian’s October bulletin lists 176 vulnerability entries, including 14 critical-severity issues, all in third-party components.

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Iran’s Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016

Fri, 10/23/2026 - 2:39am

After a three-month lull, Prince of Persia hid a Tornado C&C server on US shared hosting, its first US-based server since 2016.

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Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 10:31am

Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t.

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Indurex Raises $8 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Platform

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 9:00am

The Amsterdam-based company plans to use the funding for research and development and commercial expansion in Europe and the Middle East.

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Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 8:34am

Affecting the open source calling library RingRTC, the bug prevented calls from ending properly.

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Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 8:20am

Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching.

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Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 6:45am

Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information.

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Cisco Patches 34 Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Products

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 6:05am

Critical-severity security defects could lead to command execution, authentication bypass, and XSS attacks.

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PHP2Shell Exploitation Started Days Before Patches

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 5:48am

Initial attempts were observed on October 17, and mass activity began shortly after patches were released.

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Oracle Patches Over 1,200 Vulnerabilities With October 2026 CPU

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 3:38am

Nearly 100 vulnerabilities have been assigned a critical severity rating and Fusion Middleware received the most patches.

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Meta Ordered to Pay New Mexico $25 Billion for Deceiving Users About Privacy on Facebook

Thu, 10/22/2026 - 3:26am

The $25 billion award far exceeds a $5 billion fine the Federal Trade Commission levied against Facebook in 2019.

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Google Hardens Chrome Against ClickFix Attacks, Insecure HTTP Connections

Wed, 10/21/2026 - 1:00pm

Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis.

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