If you’ve ever looked at a list of cybersecurity jobs and felt like none of them fit you, you might just be looking at a short list. Most career guides cover the same few roles, like the analyst watching alerts or the pen tester (penetration tester, someone hired to legally break into systems to find […]
More than 40 residences in Texas were the target of a federal operation in September to clamp down on remote worker scams that feed money back to the North Korean regime.
Microsoft has released its monthly security update for October 2026, which includes 1415 vulnerabilities affecting a range of products, including 85 that Microsoft marked as "critical."
Anthropic's latest study combines IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down.
An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint.
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month's record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes. [...]
Microsoft today released patches for 1,417 vulnerabilities. 76 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical, with 7 critical vulnerabiilties requiring no customer actions. One vulnerability was disclosed before today's patch Tuesday, and one is already exploited.
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates. [...]
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. The post Ivanti Zero-Day Chain Gave Attackers Root Access to Fully Patched VPN appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic. The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are "challenging to shut down," since "there's no centralized point to shut off."
The U.K. Housing Ombudsman Service is investigating a third-party IT security incident that impacted its case management system on Tuesday. [...]
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Ivanti Connect Secure flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Ivanti Connect Secure FortiMail flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score of 8.6), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The vulnerability is an authentication bypass issue caused by […]
A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it. The flaw was in the feature that converts a personal account into an organization, Docker said in a security advisory on October 12.
Microsoft has released the Patch Tuesday Windows 11 KB5127648 and KB5126653 cumulative updates for versions 26H2/25H2/24H2 and 23H2 to fix security vulnerabilities and bugs, and add new features. [...]
69Critical1337Important0Moderate1LowMicrosoft addresses 1407 CVEs in the tenth Patch Tuesday of 2026, marking the second consecutive month to reset the bar as the largest Patch Tuesday release. This month’s updates include patches for two zero days, including one that was exploited in the wild.Microsoft patched 1,407 CVEs in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday release, with 69 rated critical, 1,337 rated as important, and one rated as low.This month’s update includes patches for 301 products and com…
An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected versions to "act immediately." A fix for the third is still pending, according to Volexity. Volexity, which reported the flaws to Ivanti,
A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) that use the SDK, SAP's official Python client for BTP services. An attacker must be able to control the tenant subdomain,
The flaws affect products such as Commerce, Photoshop, ColdFusion, Substance 3D, Dimension, FrameMaker and Bridge. The post Adobe Patches 176 Vulnerabilities Across 11 Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.
OverviewOn October 13, 2026, Ivanti published a security advisory for CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass by spoofing (CWE-290) affecting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS). The vulnerability has a CVSSv3.0 score of 8.6 and allows a remote, unauthenticated attacker to execute arbitrary commands.Ivanti reports that exploitation in the wild has already occurred prior to disclosure, affecting a limited number of customers. This indicates that exploitation has been occurring as a zero-d…
Google is restructuring bug bounty rewards with a focus on complex memory safety vulnerabilities. The post Google Partially Reverses Chrome Bug Bounty Cuts appeared first on SecurityWeek.
TFG London detected a cybersecurity incident that impacted IT systems used by the Phase Eight, Hobbs, and Whistles premium fashion brands. [...]
GitHub has taken the step of expiring unvalidated npm trusted publishing configurations 48 hours after creation after researchers found that it was possible for an attacker to push new versions of a different user's package without having to steal their credentials. "Your configuration becomes validated and exempt from expiry after its first successful publish," the Microsoft-owned subsidiary
The new research, published by AI security startup AIR, found that a network filtering flaw in Vercel Sandbox — a tool used to run code in isolated environments — could allow agents to exploit certificate validation processes to transmit data outside approved networks.
More than two dozen people were arrested by police in Ghana and Nigeria as part of a U.K.-hosted operation that also included tech companies.
Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services. The post Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in GitHub Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Ivanti urged customers on Tuesday to immediately patch an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in the Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) remote access gateway. [...]
Docker has disclosed a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-105445) in Docker Hub that let attackers access another user's container repositories using a personal access token (PAT). [...]
