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Hackers around the world are all-in on using agentic AI to wage attacks—and manipulating tools like Anthropic’s Claude to help them carry out their crimes.
WIRED
Symantec, which discovered the operation, urged companies to scan their networks for signs of compromise.
Cybersecurity Dive
The project overseeing the programming language is releasing patches Wednesday, with the internet racing to patch the 9.2 rated flaw.
CyberScoop+1 source
The attack uses malicious Google search results related to Amazon and leverages the ‘finger’ utility to launch a CAPTCHA that installs malware, including the Lumma stealer.
Dark Reading
ClickFix tricks users into pasting malicious commands into the Windows Run dialog. See how Attack Reduction in Huntress ESPM helps prevent that from happening.
Huntress
The company is suspending the feature after security researchers discovered how easy it was to access sensitive information shared with the AI assistant.
WIRED+1 source
Attackers are using stolen connection keys exposed in a TeamUpdraft security breach to install malicious plugins on affected WordPress sites and establish persistent access. Sites already compromised may remain at risk even after the exposed credentials are revoked. The attacks followed unauthorized access to TeamUpdraft’s website. The company, which develops the UpdraftPlus backup plugin and…
CSO Online UK
PHP prepares emergency patches for two critical RCE flaws, while older, unsupported versions could remain exposed without vendor fixes. The U.S. government ordered federal civilian agencies to remove DeepSeek products from their IT systems and stop buying them. The order also reaches third-party tools and services built with DeepSeek implementations, which is the part most…
Security Affairs+6 sources
Several ransomware groups are exploiting CVE-2026-0257, an authentication bypass in Palo Alto Networks’ PAN-OS GlobalProtect patched in May, to break into organizations in sectors ranging from healthcare and education to government and energy. CVE-2026-0257 stems from the firewalls relying on cookies without performing detailed validation and integrity checking, which allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to bypass…
Help Net Security+4 sources
Private keys associated with eight intermediate certificate authorities operated by Indian digital trust provider eMudhra have been compromised, potentially allowing attackers to forge trusted certificates and impersonate websites or services, according to Google and Mozilla. “On 17th October @ 20:06 UTC, Mozilla received a report to certificates@mozilla.org, forwarded by the Chrome Root program, that the…
CSO Online UK
PHP will release emergency fixes for two critical RCE flaws rated 9.2, as researchers warn of potential risks to exposed and unsupported systems. PHP is preparing an emergency security release for two critical vulnerabilities that could let attackers execute code remotely on affected servers. The update is scheduled for today, October 21 at 14:00 UTC,…
Security Affairs+1 source
To escape the chaos of her Russian childhood, Lili Infante became an American law enforcement prodigy. She pioneered the DEA’s investigations of the dark web—never suspecting who she’d find hiding there.
WIRED