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  • Solana treasury firm SkyAI sells all SOL holdings, launches $201M buyback

    Solana treasury firm SkyAI sells all SOL holdings, launches $201M buyback 2026-10-20 at 00:04 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The former medical device maker has liquidated its Solana treasury and is offering to repurchase shares and warrants using its $223.8 million cash holdings. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in August

    Crypto PAC pours $362K into California race voters essentially decided in August 2026-10-19 at 23:22 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright A Fairshake affiliate is supporting incumbent Aisha Wahab through ads in November, but the congresswoman already won a special election in the district. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor

    Hackers Exploit Plex2Shell Flaws to Install Crypto Miners and Linux Proxy Backdoor 2026-10-19 at 22:44 By 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…

  • Visa, Mesh partner to enable crypto spending at 175M merchant locations

    Visa, Mesh partner to enable crypto spending at 175M merchant locations 2026-10-19 at 22:16 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Mesh will connect crypto and stablecoin wallets to Visa’s global payment network, allowing users to spend digital assets without a separate card. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Mastercard launches stablecoin risk screening for banks and payment providers

    Mastercard launches stablecoin risk screening for banks and payment providers 2026-10-19 at 22:03 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The new service combines payment data and blockchain analytics to help banks detect suspicious stablecoin transactions before settlement. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks

    Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks 2026-10-19 at 21:15 By Eduard Kovacs Attackers paired a genuine, signed copy of Siemens Software Center with malicious DLLs to infect Windows PCs via ClickFix lures. The post Siemens Software Center Vulnerability Exploited in ClickFix Malware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt…

  • DHS Banning DeepSeek from US Federal Civilian Agencies

    DHS Banning DeepSeek from US Federal Civilian Agencies 2026-10-19 at 21:00 By DeepSeek has been banned from civilian federal agencies. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Wife of accused spy inside powerful California tech giant fled the US — as suspect’s link to royal family revealed

    Wife of accused spy inside powerful California tech giant fled the US — as suspect’s link to royal family revealed 2026-10-19 at 20:31 By Annie Gaus Ex-OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan was in regular contact with a member of the Saudi royal family — and got help from Saudi Arabia as he allegedly hatched a scheme…

  • Revolut secures Gibraltar crypto license to support global expansion

    Revolut secures Gibraltar crypto license to support global expansion 2026-10-19 at 20:24 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The UK-based fintech will use the authorization to offer crypto services in additional international markets, though it has not disclosed specific countries or launch dates. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Anthropic Gives METR Team “Employee-Like Access”

    Anthropic Gives METR Team “Employee-Like Access” 2026-10-19 at 20:00 By Anthropic stated that it has begun to roll out “employee-like access” to a METR team.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Metaplanet to take 93.7% stake in Super League through 2,100 BTC deal

    Metaplanet to take 93.7% stake in Super League through 2,100 BTC deal 2026-10-19 at 19:41 By Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi The transaction would give Metaplanet access to US capital markets, where it plans to use preferred stock offerings to finance additional Bitcoin purchases. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Strive buys $335M in Bitcoin, boosting holdings to 36,818 BTC

    Strive buys $335M in Bitcoin, boosting holdings to 36,818 BTC 2026-10-19 at 19:30 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar The Bitcoin treasury company added another 1,223 BTC after an earlier purchase pushed it past MARA Holdings, while continuing to expand its reserves through equity financing. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor

    Popular WordPress SEO Plugin Rank Math PRO Hijacked to Deliver Self-Restoring Backdoor 2026-10-19 at 19:28 By 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,…

  • Drupal Warns of Fast Exploitation Risk for Critical Core RCE Flaw

    Drupal Warns of Fast Exploitation Risk for Critical Core RCE Flaw 2026-10-19 at 18:47 By Ionut Arghire Critical flaws impact the Entity List and Field UI modules, and exploit paths exist with contributed modules. The post Drupal Warns of Fast Exploitation Risk for Critical Core RCE Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an…

  • Rank Math PRO WordPress Plugin Compromised in Supply Chain Attack

    Rank Math PRO WordPress Plugin Compromised in Supply Chain Attack 2026-10-19 at 18:20 By Ionut Arghire Hackers injected malware into Rank Math PRO version 3.0.123 packages distributed between October 15 and October 16. The post Rank Math PRO WordPress Plugin Compromised in Supply Chain Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Healthcare Workers Claim Authentication Errors Delay Patient Care

    Healthcare Workers Claim Authentication Errors Delay Patient Care 2026-10-19 at 18:11 By According to a report from Imprivata, problems with authentication are delaying patient care within healthcare organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • ⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: 98 Zero-Days, Rogue AI Agents, $100M Crypto Theft, 700 Supermarkets Hit and More 2026-10-19 at 18:02 By 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…

  • Police Suicides Spark Campaign Demanding Action

    Police Suicides Spark Campaign Demanding Action 2026-10-19 at 17:18 By It Stops Now, a campaign calling for action over police suicides, was just launched.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Security Leaders Discuss BAE Cyberattack

    Security Leaders Discuss BAE Cyberattack 2026-10-19 at 17:00 By BAE Systems was hit with a cyberattack that halted production/distribution of bankruptcy notices.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access

    ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access 2026-10-19 at 16:58 By Zeljka Zorz American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ Microsoft 365 accounts. The intruders used a compromised credential belonging to the ConnectWise…

  • GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories

    GhostAction Attackers Plant Credential Stealer Disguised as Font in 94 GitHub Repositories 2026-10-19 at 16:57 By 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…

  • From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software

    From Email-to-Case to the Boardroom: How Inherited Agents Break Governance Built for Software 2026-10-19 at 16:57 By 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…

  • Axonius AI Workforce pairs asset intelligence with automated action

    Axonius AI Workforce pairs asset intelligence with automated action 2026-10-19 at 16:38 By Industry News Axonius has announced Axonius AI Workforce, the latest expansion of Axonius AI. It enables organizations to deploy teams of Virtual Workers that monitor their environments, identify high-risk exposures and assets that deviate from their expected state, remediate issues, and report…

  • Made an ‘honest’ mistake with crypto taxes? New bill offers way out

    Made an ‘honest’ mistake with crypto taxes? New bill offers way out 2026-10-19 at 16:30 By Cointelegraph by Christina Comben A proposed US bill would let crypto investors correct past tax reporting mistakes through a dedicated disclosure program, with reduced penalties for eligible taxpayers. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloads

    Sweet Security adds one-click protection for vulnerable cloud workloads 2026-10-19 at 16:28 By Industry News Sweet Security has announced the release of Virtual Patching, a new capability that protects running cloud and AI applications from specific vulnerabilities the moment they are identified. Security teams can enforce protection in one click while engineering develops, tests, and…

  • ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Services in Response to Cyberattack

    ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Services in Response to Cyberattack 2026-10-19 at 16:16 By Ionut Arghire The services remain unavailable as the company continues remediation and security validation. The post ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Services in Response to Cyberattack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic

    Fake Web3 Accelerator Uses npm Packages to Spread Malware and Hijack AI Agent Traffic 2026-10-19 at 15:57 By 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,…

  • Plex2Shell Exploit Chain Weaponized Against Plex Servers Hours After Disclosure

    Plex2Shell Exploit Chain Weaponized Against Plex Servers Hours After Disclosure 2026-10-19 at 15:44 By Eduard Kovacs Threat actors have been observed delivering cryptocurrency miners and proxy software. The post Plex2Shell Exploit Chain Weaponized Against Plex Servers Hours After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Strategy buys $22M in Bitcoin, repurchases $193M in STRC

    Strategy buys $22M in Bitcoin, repurchases $193M in STRC 2026-10-19 at 15:30 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz Strategy added 267 Bitcoin to its holdings as it bought back 1.94 million STRC shares and boosted its preferred stock buyback program to $3 billion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin sheds $400M in market cap in two weeks

    World Liberty’s USD1 stablecoin sheds $400M in market cap in two weeks 2026-10-19 at 14:57 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra World Liberty Financial’s USD1 stablecoin saw its market cap decrease more than $400 million over two weeks of large redemptions on Ethereum and BNB Chain. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

  • One Compromised Login Exposed Millions of California Students’ Records

    One Compromised Login Exposed Millions of California Students’ Records 2026-10-19 at 14:55 By Eduard Kovacs Intruders used compromised credentials to access an ETS SFTP server, copying records of California students back to 2006. The post One Compromised Login Exposed Millions of California Students’ Records appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek…

  • BingX, YouHodler added to ESMA MiCA register in latest update

    BingX, YouHodler added to ESMA MiCA register in latest update 2026-10-19 at 14:32 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz ESMA’s latest MiCA register update includes BingX, YouHodler and Banco Santander’s Openbank, bringing the total to 375 unique CASPs. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack

    Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack 2026-10-19 at 14:13 By Ionut Arghire The persistent, stealthy FortiGate implant was deployed against a telecommunications organization. The post Exploited Fortinet Bug Linked to Stealthy FortiGate Implant in Telecom Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises

    With open-weight AI, more of the security burden falls on enterprises 2026-10-19 at 14:04 By Sinisa Markovic Organizations that run open-weight AI models on their own infrastructure may have to supply safety and security controls that an AI provider would otherwise handle for them, Microsoft and NVIDIA warn in a joint paper on managing the…

  • Waymo has ordered thousands of Chinese-made cars to expand its US robotaxi fleet — sparking security concerns on Capitol Hill

    Waymo has ordered thousands of Chinese-made cars to expand its US robotaxi fleet — sparking security concerns on Capitol Hill 2026-10-19 at 13:30 By Thomas Barrabi Alphabet-owned Waymo is using Chinese-built vehicles to rapidly expand its nationwide robotaxi fleet. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks

    Cybercriminals favor Microsoft over Apple and Google in brand phishing attacks 2026-10-19 at 12:38 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10…

  • MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks

    MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks 2026-10-19 at 12:37 By Eduard Kovacs Defenders get 15 new detection strategies, six for Enterprise and nine for ICS, backed by 38 analytics. The post MITRE ATT&CK v20 Catalogs AI Abuse, MFA Bypass, Water Utility Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an…

  • You Asked. Now Ask Again.

    You Asked. Now Ask Again. 2026-10-19 at 12:00 By Good leadership often hinges on asking good questions. My journalism and media-training background particularly informs how I approach them. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine's RSS Feed View Original Source

  • JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients: Report

    JPMorgan takes JPM Coin to Ethereum for institutional clients: Report 2026-10-19 at 11:58 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra JPMorgan is reportedly expanding its JPM Coin deposit token to Ethereum, allowing institutional clients to make payments and settle tokenized asset transactions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Bitcoin, Ether ETFs shed $549M as October ETH outflows near $1B

    Bitcoin, Ether ETFs shed $549M as October ETH outflows near $1B 2026-10-19 at 10:54 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz US spot Ether ETFs recorded around $955 million in October net outflows so far, while Bitcoin funds extended their weekly withdrawal streak to two weeks. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems

    Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems 2026-10-19 at 10:45 By Eduard Kovacs Opaque Systems has developed technology that lets AI systems use sensitive data while keeping it protected by the underlying hardware. The post Anthropic Acquires Confidential AI Startup Opaque Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original…

  • Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers

    Unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers in Range Run Code as Root on Routers 2026-10-19 at 10:29 By 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…

  • OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys

    OpenCode Console Breach May Have Exposed OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google API Keys 2026-10-19 at 10:29 By 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:…

  • Zoom adds ‘proof of human’ badges to show you’re not a deepfake

    Zoom adds ‘proof of human’ badges to show you’re not a deepfake 2026-10-19 at 08:55 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Sam Altman-backed World has rolled out biometric verification badges for Zoom enterprise users, aiming to combat AI deepfake impersonation and fraud. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Bearer CLI: Free, source-available code security scanning tool (SAST)

    Bearer CLI: Free, source-available code security scanning tool (SAST) 2026-10-19 at 08:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Bearer CLI is a free static application security testing (SAST) tool that scans source code for vulnerabilities and prioritizes them by the sensitive data they touch. SAST means the tool reads code without running it. Organizations can use it freely,…

  • RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example

    RPO and RTO explained with a real disaster recovery example 2026-10-19 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Matthew Burden, CEO of BlackBox Hosting, explains RPO and RTO and how they differ in practice. RPO, the recovery point objective, is the most data you can lose, measured in time. RTO,…

  • Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta

    Half the AI bot traffic hammering your website comes from Meta 2026-10-19 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec AI agent traffic across DataDome’s network grew 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion requests in Q3 2026, according to the company’s AI Traffic Report Q3 2026. Meta’s Muse generated 29.1 million requests between September 22 and…

  • Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families

    Ransomware pressure now reaches employees’ homes and families 2026-10-19 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ransomware attackers threatened employees’ family members or friends at 37% of organizations surveyed for Semperis’ 2026 Ransomware Risk Report. The survey covered 1,200 IT and security professionals at organizations that had experienced at least one successful ransomware attack. “Ransomware has proven…

  • Qubic freezes chain after attacker drains 1.4K wallets with weak seeds

    Qubic freezes chain after attacker drains 1.4K wallets with weak seeds 2026-10-19 at 04:03 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng Qubic says 87.1% of the stolen funds remain onchain and the rest were frozen at crypto exchange MEXC, as network validators prepare to vote on a recovery plan. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News…

  • Richard Heart caught with pants down, QDay gets even closer: Hodler’s Digest

    Richard Heart caught with pants down, QDay gets even closer: Hodler’s Digest 2026-10-19 at 01:58 By Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton HEX founder Richard Heart detained in early morning raid in Istanbul, Starknet plunges almost 50% as it votes to become an L1, and Bitwise says all signs point to Crypto Spring. This article is an…

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