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Channel The Hacker News (@thehackernews) in the English language segment is an active participant. Currently, the community unites 163 939 subscribers, ranking 657 in the Technologies & Applications category and 97 in the USA region.
π Audience metrics and dynamics
Since its creation on Π½Π΅Π²ΡΠ΄ΠΎΠΌΠΎ, the project has demonstrated rapid growth, gathering an audience of 163 939 subscribers.
According to the latest data from 25 October, 2026, the channel demonstrates stable activity. Although there has been a change in the number of participants by -250 over the last 30 days and by 112 over the last 24 hours, overall reach remains high.
- Verification status: Verified (Officially confirmed by Telegram)
- Engagement rate (ER): The average audience engagement rate is 4.25%. Within the first 24 hours after publication, content typically collects 3.09% reactions from the total number of subscribers.
- Post reach: On average, each post receives 6 958 views. Within the first day, a publication typically gains 5 058 views.
- Reactions and interaction: The audience actively supports content: the average number of reactions per post is 12.
- Thematic interests: Content is focused on key topics such as attack, credential, cve-2026, github, backdoor.
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The author describes the resource as a platform for expressing subjective opinions:
ββ Official THN Telegram Channel β A trusted, widely read, independent source for breaking news and tech coverage about cybersecurity and hacking.
π¨ Contact: admin@thehackernews.com
π Website: https://thehackernews.comβ
Thanks to the high frequency of updates (latest data received on 26 October, 2026), the channel maintains relevance and a high level of publication reach. Analytics show that the audience actively interacts with content, making it an important point of influence in the Technologies & Applications category.
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π¨ 953 online stores infected in a stealthy malware campaign, most running Magento.
Hackers injected malicious JavaScript that filters out security scanners while serving malicious code to real shoppers.
How it works β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-infect-953-online-stores-with.html
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βΌοΈ PHP patches Windows builds AGAIN, just 5 days after the PHP2Shell fixes.
This time, a Brotli flaw could allow code execution when cURL automatically decompresses crafted HTTP responses.
Updated builds cover PHP 8.2β8.5.
Full details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/php-issues-second-windows-security.html
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π¨ Microsoft Teams IT support scams are leading to malware and ransomware attacks.
Researchers tracked hundreds of cases where attackers flood inboxes with emails, impersonate IT staff on Teams, and trick employees into granting remote access.
How the attacks work β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-use-microsoft-teams-it.html
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This2Shell. That2Shell. Everything2Shell.
WHAT A WEEK IN #CYBERSECURITY.
> Critical RCEs dropping everywhere.
> Millions of exploit attempts.
> AI agents getting hijacked.
> Leaked keys poisoning software packages.
> Old bugs coming back to haunt us.
> And yes, some sites just went offline.
One week. Too many ways to get hacked.
β‘ Full Recap: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/weekly-recap-this2shell-that2shell.html
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βΌοΈ ALERT - 2 New critical Wasmtime flaws (CVSS 9.9) could let malicious WebAssembly modules escape their sandbox.
β’ CVE-2026-115889 Affects multiple architectures
β’ CVE-2026-115893 ARM64-only, present since 2020
Embedded apps need rebuilding.
Read β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/two-critical-wasmtime-flaws-could-let.html
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π¨ An attack can unfold for weeks before a SOC gets its first major alert.
By then, the real story may be buried in DNS queries, logins, and network connections that looked harmless.
Here's how NDR helps AI-assisted SOCs connect the clues and reconstruct attacks.
Read more β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/between-alerts-what-attackers-do-in.html
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βΌοΈ Tailscale SSH (Tailworm)
Researchers report that a compromised, SSH-authorized device could gain root on permitted targets via forwarding flaws.
Not unauthenticated RCE. Lab-tested; scope still under review.
Mitigations:
β’ Tighten SSH access policies
β’ Disable forwarding if unused (TS_SSH_DISABLE_FORWARDING=1)
β’ Enable SSH check mode as an added barrier
Tailnet Lock helps limit device enrollment abuse, not root escalation. Tailscale isn't recommending a blanket SSH shutdown.
Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/unpatched-tailscale-ssh-flaws-could-let.html
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π¨ Android spyware for rent can steal Telegram 2FA passwords and clone WeChat accounts.
Meet uCreator, a kit that hides inside modified Telegram apps, extracts chats, and conceals attacker sessions.
Read full investigation: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ucreator-android-spyware-can-steal.html
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π¨ UPDATE: The Brotli flaw (CVE-2026-111497) goes beyond Node.js and web traffic.
β’ .NET: patched by Microsoft
β’ FFmpeg: hit via a crafted JPEG XL image
β’ ClickHouse: one request crashes it, fix not yet released
β’ Apache Arrow: no fix yet
Details β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/brotli-decoder-flaw-behind-nodejs-rce.html
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π¨ 97 Microsoft 365 accounts compromised across 79 organizations.
Attackers replayed stolen sign-in tokens, registered 48 rogue Entra devices, and tampered with MFA settings to maintain access.
Huntress tracked over 200,000 login attempts.
Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/microsoft-365-token-replay-attacks.html
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π¨ 850+ compromised GitHub accounts. 13,500+ malicious branches.
Researchers uncovered 'Gheist,' an ongoing campaign using stolen tokens to plant GitHub Actions workflows that dump private repo secrets into logs.
Attackers download the logs, then delete the runs.
Details: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/gheist-uses-stolen-github-tokens-to.html
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πΏ UPDATE on the Popcorn Time cleanup
Of the 20 domains Eye Security flagged:
βΈ 17 now point to Shadowserver
βΈ 3 don't, and whoever holds them could push code to computers still running the app
βΈ 1 of those 3 was registered Oct 19
Read β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-push-over-2-million-updates.html
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π¨ The 9.0 Linux KSMBD bugs got the headlines. The 7.8 one has the public root exploit.
ZDI-CAN-33367: confirmed root on AlmaLinux, Debian and Ubuntu.
β Slips past the Dirty Frag fix
β No merged patch. No CVE.
Who's exposed + the stopgap β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/two-cvss-90-linux-ksmbd-rce-flaws.html
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βΌοΈ In a real-world attack, a malicious file in a dev's Downloads folder tried to trick an AI coding agent into installing malware.
In controlled tests, Codex ran the malware in over 90% of attempts.
All it took was a planted AGENTS md file.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/malicious-file-in-downloads-folder.html
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βΌοΈ In a real-world attack, a malicious file in a dev's Downloads folder tried to trick an AI coding agent into installing malware.
In controlled tests, Codex ran the malware in over 90% of attempts.
All it took was a planted AGENTS-md file.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/malicious-file-in-downloads-folder.html
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βΌοΈ In a real-world attack, a malicious file in a dev's Downloads folder tried to trick an AI coding agent into installing malware.
In controlled tests, Codex ran the malware in over 90% of attempts.
All it took was a planted AGENTS.md file.
Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/malicious-file-in-downloads-folder.html
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βΌοΈ WARNING - A researcher just dropped a report on Tailscale SSH flaws β one compromised device could get root on others, and thereβs NO PATCH yet.
In lab tests, SSH port forwarding enabled privilege escalation and lateral movement across already-permitted devices.
Tailscale says a fix is coming.
Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/unpatched-tailscale-ssh-flaws-could-let.html
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π¨ PHP2Shell attackers accessed MFA secrets and password hashes at a European government entity in just 2 hours.
That's not all.
β Signs of agentic AI use in post-exploitation activity
β Suspected Lazarus-linked operators scanning 216 targets worldwide
Full details β https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/php2shell-exploitation-hits-government.html
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βΌοΈ OpenAI's AI agents found ways to escape virtual machines and secretly communicate across isolated sandboxes.
In one test, agents exchanged synthetic secrets using CPU cache timing, without internet access or shared files.
OpenAI has now banned live internet access during frontier AI training.
Full story: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/openai-ai-agents-demonstrate-vm-escapes.html
