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Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Company Websites, Target Over 1,200 Sites https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-use-autonomous-ai-agents-to.html A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it happen because the operators left their control panels open on the internet. The agents tried more than 1,200 sites and reached websites belonging to more than 100 companies, including farm-equipment maker Deere, appliance company

ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/connectwise-resets-credentials-as-cloud.html ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that led to unauthorized access to application identities associated with Cloud Backup. The company said it has completed the following actions since it began

Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-hijack-five-ovhcloud-cli.html An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored on the disk of any machine that runs it, the cloud provider says. They were live on GitHub for up to 94 minutes, from 12:47 to 14:21 UTC,

ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/clickfix-attackers-exploit-siemens.html Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to place a specially-crafted DLL in a directory the application searches, resulting in execution of malicious code with the same privileges as the

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ex-openai-engineer-detained-in-spy.html A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco office to allegedly steal sensitive secrets. In a new court filing Sunday, prosecutors revealed that Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national, was "in frequent communications via WhatsApp

Hackers Use New ROMULUS ClickFix Platform to Deliver LegionLoader and Other Malware https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/romulus-clickfix-platform-tricks-users.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that's being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research - Vedere Labs, ROMULUS is akin to a malware delivery service that employs ClickFix-style lures on bogus landing pages to trick unsuspecting users into running malicious commands and infecting their own

Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-exploit-plex2shell-flaws-to.html Threat actors have begun to exploit a chain of vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server to deploy cryptocurrency miners and reverse proxy software, a day after a proof-of-concept (PoC) went public. According to a researcher who goes by the online alias boredhackerblog, the exploitation activity involves chaining four different vulnerabilities, collectively called Plex2Shell. The vulnerabilities

Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/popular-wordpress-seo-plugin-rank-math.html Copies of Rank Math PRO, the paid version of the Rank Math SEO plugin for WordPress, that were downloaded from rankmath.com or delivered as updates between 20:02 UTC on October 15 and 07:12 UTC on October 16 contained malware, Rank Math said in a security notice published on October 16. Any site that installed and activated one of those copies should be treated as compromised, and the

⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/weekly-recap-98-zero-days-rogue-ai.html The worst problems don't always come with a warning. Sometimes they arrive through a service everyone trusts, a device someone bought, or a system nobody thought to check. By the time something looks wrong, the damage may already be done. This week had plenty of that. Trusted connections became a problem. Hardware wasn't as safe as it looked. Old bugs found new victims, and some systems were

GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ghostaction-attackers-plant-credential.html The threat actor behind the GhostAction supply chain attack has expanded beyond injecting malicious GitHub Actions workflows into compromised projects to phish open-source developers and deliver a stealer malware disguised within a fake font file. The latest evolution, detailed by OpenSourceMalware, signals that the attackers are actively refining their modus operandi in response to steps

From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/from-email-to-case-to-boardroom-how.html In Salesforce Agentforce, the recommended way to make an agent respond to events is a Flow: a record is created or a case is updated, and the Flow passes data into the agent's prompt. Separately, Email-to-Case and Web-to-Case turn inbound customer messages into case records; it is how airlines and hotels run support intake. Both are standard, documented, as-designed features. Chained together,

Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fake-web3-accelerator-uses-npm-packages.html A fake Web3 accelerator has been observed pushing information stealers and backdoors to Windows and macOS systems using malicious npm packages under the pretext of offering free artificial intelligence (AI) credits for Anthropic Claude and Google Gemini, coding tools, and security audits. "The tools delivered information-stealing malware and backdoors for macOS and Windows machines," Elastic

Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/unpatched-broadcom-wi-fi-flaw-lets.html A flaw in Broadcom's Wi-Fi setup software lets an attacker within radio range run code as root on Broadcom-based routers, without the network password or any pairing step, security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed on October 16. He showed the attack working against home gateways supplied by three Belgian internet providers, in one case reading the Wi-Fi password off the device

OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/opencode-console-breach-may-have.html An intruder reached a legacy system at OpenCode on the night of October 16 and may have exposed the third-party AI provider keys that users had saved in OpenCode Console, the company said. Console is OpenCode's optional hosted service: a workspace saves its own OpenAI, Anthropic, or Google key there, and Console uses that key to call the provider so team members can use the models without

ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenants https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/connectwise-suspends-cloud-backup-after.html ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. The disabled identities are listed below - ConnectWise Cloud Backup - 506e08f9-6e9a-4da4-942b-a099a03644ae ConnectWise

MALFEX npm Package 'imgdecode' Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addon https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/malfex-npm-package-imgdecode-hides.html Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that's part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named "imgdecode," was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named "malfexteste8." It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of

Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenants https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-use-compromised-connectwise.html Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers' M365 environments. ConnectWise Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery service built for managed service providers (MSPs

Inbox flooded with sign-up messages? Email bombing explained https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/cybersecurity/inbox-flooded-signup-messages-email-bombing/ If you’re suddenly being overwhelmed with sign-up emails, it could very well be a sign of something more serious

Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bug https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-demonstrate-openbsd-root.html A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD's KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections. Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped

Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper's Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoor https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/attackers-tampered-with-aomei.html Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine's Threat Analysis