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Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38% 2026-10-31 at 09:05 By Threat actors are launching about 8,226 network-layer distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks per hour, Cloudflare revealed Thursday. The web infrastructure and security company said it autonomously mitigated 18.2 million network-layer (L3) DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP DDoS requests in the…

A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats 2026-10-31 at 07:33 By A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker’s code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it, allowing them to read their private conversations, researchers at the security firm Parameter showed. The researchers reported the flaw…

Bay Area tech exec says it’s ‘terrible’ for people to own key piece of PC hardware 2026-10-31 at 05:49 By Amanda Monahan OpenAI boss Sam Altman is getting roasted online after suggesting it’s “quite terrible” that ordinary people are using up the world’s limited supply of computer memory instead of putting it to better use…

How North Korea’s ruthless state sponsored hackers, main suspects in the $6.3B Binance heist, operate 2026-10-31 at 00:51 By Vivi Lin “They attack people, not code,” an expert told The Post. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Influx of foreign workers at AI firms poses ‘national security threat,’ advocates warn 2026-10-30 at 23:48 By Fox News Humans First chair Amy Kremer says sensitive information at firms like OpenAI could be exploited by foreign adversaries. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

North Korea May Be Behind the $6.3B Binance Hack 2026-10-30 at 20:32 By Security expert insight on the $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide 2026-10-30 at 20:23 By Chinese state-sponsored threat actors have been observed using a Go-based artificial intelligence (AI)-powered penetration testing framework called ARTEX in attacks aimed at high-value targets simultaneously. The activity has been attributed by CrowdStrike to a China-based “targeted intrusion adversary” it tracks…

TeamViewer Flaw Lets Remote Computers Attack Users Who Connect to Control Them 2026-10-30 at 19:26 By TeamViewer has fixed a flaw that lets the machine being controlled in a remote session attack the computer that connected to control it. In a TeamViewer session, the computer that connects and takes control is the viewer, and the…

WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours 2026-10-30 at 19:26 By Threat actors have been observed attempting to exploit a high-severity security flaw in WordPress Core shortly after patches were released. The vulnerability, which does not have a CVE identifier, relates to a case of remote code execution impacting WordPress…

Train for the Gray Zone: Security Awareness Needs a Simulator 2026-10-30 at 19:00 By Policies tell employees what the rules are. Scenarios and near misses teach them what the rules are for. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

Ex-Google engineer quits saving for retirement over chilling AI apocalypse prediction 2026-10-30 at 18:42 By Titus Wu A former Google AI safety expert is so confident artificial intelligence will destroy humanity. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Meta settles with teen over claims social media caused depression, eating disorders 2026-10-30 at 18:34 By Reuters The settlement came after jury selection began on Wednesday. Meta had settled with another teen plaintiff days before the trial. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

6 Cyber Experts Share Their Greatest Security Scares 2026-10-30 at 16:00 By “The instincts I built 25 years ago no longer apply,” says Randolph Barr, Chief Information Security Officer at Cequence Security. Six cybersecurity experts share what scares them most about the current landscape.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS…

Why Urgent Security Fixes Aren't Fixed. Observe, Prove, Act, Confirm Gets Them Moving 2026-10-30 at 15:42 By The alert is critical. The fix is known. And the ticket sits in a queue for days. Security teams understand the risk, but the people who keep applications available need proof that the change won’t break anything.  Their…

Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison 2026-10-30 at 15:42 By Ahmad Umar Agha, a Syrian Electronic Army hacker known online as “Th3Pr0,” has been sentenced by a U.S. federal court to 42 months in prison for his role in a hacking conspiracy that targeted Western news outlets.…

Trezor Warns of Suspected Hardware Implant in One of Its Wallets Sold by CryptoBilis 2026-10-30 at 14:21 By A Trezor Safe 5 hardware wallet bought from the reseller CryptoBilis has an extra circuit board that sends out the recovery phrase over a mobile network, a customer has reported. Trezor has not yet examined the device.…

Official Claude Code VS Code Extension Compromised to Install Persistent SSH Backdoor 2026-10-30 at 14:11 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed that the official Anthropic Claude Code extension was compromised on the Open VSX registry to install a persistent SSH backdoor on infected hosts. The issue has since been traced to the compromise of the Cursor…

Here’s when top Wall Street executives expect OpenAI will launch its blockbuster IPO 2026-10-30 at 12:00 By Charles Gasparino Sam Altman has been among the AI industry’s top alarmists – as has Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Taking DLP to the Cloud Edge with Kubernetes 2026-10-30 at 12:00 By Somesh Kelkar A look at the architecture, deployment model, and cloud-native use cases for DDS This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Hackers Actively Exploit Highly Critical Drupal Commerce Core Authorization Bypass Flaw 2026-10-30 at 11:25 By Drupal has warned that threat actors are exploiting a “highly critical” security flaw in its Commerce Core component. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-118539 (CVSS score: N/A), is a case of missing authorization affecting Commerce Core versions from 0.0.0 to 2.41…

CISA Adds Actively Exploited GitLab RCE and Cisco Firewall DoS Flaws to KEV 2026-10-30 at 09:27 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added two security flaws impacting Cisco and GitLab software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS…