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Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days

Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days 2026-10-14 at 14:19 By A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its […]

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Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks

Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks 2026-10-14 at 14:08 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation […]

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Coins.ph says Philippine central bank license intact amid revocation claims

Coins.ph says Philippine central bank license intact amid revocation claims 2026-10-14 at 14:05 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Coins.ph says its Philippine central bank license remains intact amid reports of possible revocation over alleged offshore gambling transactions. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part. 2026-10-14 at 14:00 By The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a […]

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US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms

US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms 2026-10-14 at 13:55 By Ionut Arghire Investigators stormed 40 locations in Texas and seized 187 laptops used by North Korean IT workers to hide their location. The post US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms appeared first on […]

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Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers

Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles owner joins growing list of fashion retailers targeted by hackers 2026-10-14 at 13:48 By Sinisa Markovic People who have shopped with Phase Eight, Hobbs or Whistles will have to wait to find out whether their personal information was exposed in a cyberattack on the company behind the three UK fashion […]

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CryptoQuant’s 3 charts keeping Bitcoin’s ‘Uptober’ thesis valid

CryptoQuant’s 3 charts keeping Bitcoin’s ‘Uptober’ thesis valid 2026-10-14 at 13:38 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin onchain analysis eyed a “potential bottom” for BTC price action in early October as demand weathered external headwinds. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Radware MCP Server Protection monitors agent activity and guards against protocol abuse

Radware MCP Server Protection monitors agent activity and guards against protocol abuse 2026-10-14 at 13:35 By Industry News Radware has announced Radware Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server Protection, a purpose-built solution designed to help organizations more securely adopt MCP as AI agents gain greater access to enterprise applications, data and business workflows. The solution is […]

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SolarWinds Avior pairs IT automation with human approval and audit trails

SolarWinds Avior pairs IT automation with human approval and audit trails 2026-10-14 at 13:27 By Industry News SolarWinds has announced the launch of Avior, a standalone, goal-oriented agentic AI system purpose-built for mission-critical IT environments. Built on the SolarWinds Platform, Avior will help IT teams securely define goals, coordinate specialized agents, and track progress toward […]

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Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI to test running applications for vulnerabilities

Chainguard Harness uses frontier AI to test running applications for vulnerabilities 2026-10-14 at 13:16 By Industry News Chainguard has announced Chainguard Harness, a new cyber harness that uses frontier AI models like Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5.1 to find and fix exploitable vulnerabilities in an organization’s application code. Harness builds an application from an organization’s source […]

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Scytale MCP gives AI tools scoped, read-only access to compliance data

Scytale MCP gives AI tools scoped, read-only access to compliance data 2026-10-14 at 13:15 By Industry News Scytale has announced the launch of Scytale MCP, a Model Context Protocol server that connects a customer’s AI tools directly to their compliance program. With Scytale MCP, tools such as Claude and ChatGPT can query live compliance data […]

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AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host 2026-10-14 at 12:59 By A flaw in Linux’s vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an […]

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GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code

GitHub adopts cheaper AI model to catch secrets developers leave in code 2026-10-14 at 12:26 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub has trained a credential classifier to improve generic secret detection and reduce false alerts. The new pipeline cut median post-push scan execution time by 86% and model serving costs by more than 98% compared with its […]

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Attackers chained three Ivanti zero-days to gain root on fully patched VPN appliances

Attackers chained three Ivanti zero-days to gain root on fully patched VPN appliances 2026-10-14 at 11:59 By Zeljka Zorz A threat actor has been using an exploit chain combining three vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Connect Secure (ICS) appliances to breach organizations, collect credentials, exfiltrate configuration data, and perform network reconnaissance. “In the first week of October […]

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OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings

OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly trying to eavesdrop on executive meetings 2026-10-14 at 11:40 By Sinisa Markovic A recording device wrapped in toilet paper and plugged into the back of a television in an executive conference room at OpenAI’s San Francisco office has led to the arrest of one of the company’s engineers. Abdulrahman Alfozan, […]

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Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave

Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave 2026-10-14 at 11:31 By Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an isolated […]

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Microsoft fixes exploited Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951)

Microsoft fixes exploited Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) 2026-10-14 at 10:53 By Zeljka Zorz In another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has squashed over 1,400 security bugs, including a Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) exploited by attackers in the wild. CVE-2026-96951 is a command injection vulnerability in Windows Shell that can be […]

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Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 114 Flaws as Mozilla Unveils Firefox Enterprise

Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 114 Flaws as Mozilla Unveils Firefox Enterprise 2026-10-14 at 10:38 By Ionut Arghire Mozilla has introduced Firefox Enterprise for organizations with strict compliance, governance, and security requirements. The post Chrome, Firefox Updates Patch 114 Flaws as Mozilla Unveils Firefox Enterprise appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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