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SonicWall Patches CVSS 10.0 Pre-Authentication SSRF Flaw in SMA1000 Appliances https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/sonicwall-patches-cvss-100-pre.html SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rates it 10.0 on the CVSS scale and says it has no evidence that any of the four flaws is being

Unpatched Critical LMCache Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Run Code Remotely https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/unpatched-critical-lmcache-flaw-lets.html A critical vulnerability in LMCache, open-source software that speeds up large language model (LLM) servers such as vLLM, lets an attacker run code on the cache server without logging in, and no fixed version is available. The flaw is in LMCache's multiprocess mode, where the cache runs as a standalone server that LLM workers reach over the ZeroMQ messaging library. A single network

PoeLLM Malware Infects 3,400+ Servers to Expand Crypto Mining Botnet https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/poellm-malware-infects-3400-servers-to.html Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated campaign, dubbed Canto Incognito, has been found to install cryptocurrency miners, including

The Sixth Voice of the CISO Data Shows Cyber Risk Has Moved Inside the Workflow https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/the-sixth-voice-of-ciso-data-shows.html The 2026 findings are not just a year-over-year shift. They mark the latest point in a five-year arc where resilience, AI governance, human risk, and board scrutiny are converging inside the systems where work actually happens. For years, the enterprise cybersecurity story has been told as a straight line of escalation: more attacks, more data loss, more pressure, and more urgency. That

FBI Warns FortiBleed Remains Active After Amassing 86,644 Fortinet Device Credentials https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fbi-warns-fortibleed-remains-active.html The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Secret Service (USSS) on Tuesday warned that the FortiBleed credential harvesting campaign remains an active threat aimed at internet-facing Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and secure socket layer (SSL) virtual private network (VPN) gateways. "The campaign exploits reused or leaked credentials and legacy SHA-256 password storage, enabling threat

Atlassian Data Center Flaw Draws Exploitation Attempts Within Two Hours of Public Details https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/atlassian-data-center-flaw-draws.html Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow access to sensitive files under certain conditions. The arbitrary file access flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS score: 9.3) affects multiple products, including Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software

What Is Agentic Pentesting? What It Proves, and Where It Stops. https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/what-is-agentic-pentesting-what-it.html If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it discovers, validates, and exploits attack paths autonomously, the way a real attacker would. That promise is worth taking seriously. It’s also worth pressure testing, and three questions do the heavy lifting.  What can the assessment actually

Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/anthropic-expands-claude-access-for.html Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional

100+ Compromised Websites Use Fake Cloudflare Checks to Deliver LunexStealer https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/100-compromised-websites-use-fake.html The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has identified more than 100 compromised websites that have been injected with malicious JavaScript to serve an information-stealing malware called LunexStealer (aka Psychedelic Stealer). The activity, which was observed by the agency in September 2026, has been attributed to a threat cluster dubbed UAC-0277. It did not disclose who the

Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Ad Portals Capture Credentials and MFA Codes https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fake-chatgpt-gemini-and-claude-ad.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a "human-operated phishing platform" that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and Manus. The products, which claim to offer campaign optimization, spend audits, and business-account connections, are designed with one goal in

Linux Backdoors Impersonate Email Security Tools to Evade Detection in Korea and Taiwan https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/linux-backdoors-impersonate-email.html Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection. Threat actors are known to name their malicious software after a legitimate operating system component or a process as a defense evasion measure. By borrowing the name of a real binary, it may

LibreOffice and OpenOffice Flaws Let Malicious Spreadsheets Run Code Without Macro Warnings https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/libreoffice-and-openoffice-flaws-let.html A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro. The attack works only when the program's Java support is enabled. So far, it has only been shown as a proof of concept, and there are no reports of its use in

Wikimedia Says OpenAI Agents Tried to Compromise Etherpad and Use Wiki Tools as Proxies https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/wikimedia-says-openai-agents-tried-to.html The Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, has confirmed that it has discovered activity by rogue OpenAI agents on its platforms, including unsuccessful efforts to compromise Etherpad, a public note-taking tool, and edit Wikipedia pages. "The unauthorized bot activities included edits to our wikis, some unsuccessful attempts to exploit a public note-taking tool we host, and heavy traffic,

Welcome to the Jungle: What We Found Inside 15,465 Public MCP Servers https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/welcome-to-jungle-what-we-found-inside.html In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The protocol delivered. Thousands of developers built servers, and enterprises plugged them into agent workflows. The ecosystem around it fell short. Earlier this year, our team at OX Security,  traced critical vulnerabilities in Anthropic's MCP

Google Pauses OSS Product Bug Bounty Rewards After Surge in Invalid Automated Reports https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/google-pauses-oss-product-bug-bounty.html Google has stopped accepting product vulnerability reports through its bug bounty program for its open-source software. The change, in effect since October 1, means researchers can no longer submit security flaws in the code of projects such as Go, Angular, and Protocol Buffers there for a reward. Reports about supply chain compromises are still accepted, and reports filed before October 1 are

Critical Atlassian Flaw Lets Unauthenticated Attackers Read Known Files Across 8 Products https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/critical-atlassian-flaw-lets.html A critical flaw in 8 Atlassian Data Center products, which customers host themselves, allows an attacker with no login access to read specific files in each product's web application root directory. The attacker must already know a file's exact name and path and cannot list what the directory holds. Atlassian disclosed the flaw, CVE-2026-21589, on October 5, rated it 9.3 out of 10, and

FBI Removes Accenture Contractor After Patch Failure Led to ShinyHunters Breach https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fbi-removes-accenture-contractor-after.html The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has removed an Accenture contractor for their alleged role in a ShinyHunters-breach that led to the theft of personal details of thousands of bureau employees. That's according to a report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. "To date, our review has determined that the incident occurred as the result of a security failure ​

Denmark Says Attackers Accessed CPR Data for 8.8 Million People via Company Account https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/denmark-says-attackers-accessed-cpr.html Unauthorized parties have gained access to the names, addresses, and personal identification numbers of about 8.8 million people, living and dead, in Denmark's national population register, the country's digitalization ministry said on October 5. They used a private Danish company's lawful right to look up records in the Central Person Register (CPR). The ministry has told people never to

ClickFix Smuggles Payloads Through Browser Cache to Bypass Windows Run Limits https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/clickfix-smuggles-payloads-through.html A new type of ClickFix attack is using compromised websites to trick users into executing a malicious payload cached in a web browser's cache. "Instead of downloading and executing remote payloads like the typical attack pattern, in this attack, the websites pre-fetch a script payload into the browser cache disguised as a PNG file," the Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said in a post on X.

Microsoft Exchange Flaw Lets Authenticated Attackers Read Other Users' Mailboxes https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/microsoft-exchange-flaw-lets.html Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates to address a high-severity flaw in Microsoft Exchange Server that could allow an attacker to escalate privileges under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-96940, is rated 8.8 on the CVSS scoring system. "Weak authorization in Microsoft Exchange Server allows an authenticated attacker to elevate privileges over a