Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated October 29)
CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 are Critical vulnerabilities in PHP, a scripting language used globally for web servers and CMS systems. The post Threat Brief: Critical Vulnerabilities in PHP: CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619 (Updated…
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EMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromised
Eight compromised eMudhra intermediate CA private keys risk unauthorized TLS signing and MitM interception. Read our analysis and containment guide. The post EMudhra Intermediate CA Certificates Compromised appeared first on Unit 42 .
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FBI Links North Korea's TraderTraitor to Record $6.43 Billion Binance Crypto Heist
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has officially attributed the theft of more than $6 billion in virtual assets to TraderTraitor, a North Korea-aligned elite hacking group also tracked as Jade Sleet, Pressure Chollima,…
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Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoors
A malicious version of Anthropic's Claude Code VS Code extension was distributed through Cursor's extension marketplace for approximately 11 hours on October 29, exposing up to 5,000 developers to malware designed to install persistent SSH…
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Syrian Electronic Army hacker gets prison time for attacks on Western targets
Ahmad Umar Agha, known online as “Th3Pr0,” was sentenced Thursday in federal court in Virginia to 42 months behind bars for his role in a conspiracy that was organized by former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's closest advisers.
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Syrian Hacker Behind Fake Tweet That Triggered $136 Billion Market Drop Gets 42 Months in Prison
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. The conspiracy was…
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Drupal warns of critical Commerce Core flaw exploited in attacks
Drupal warned admins to patch a critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core module that attackers are exploiting in the wild. [...]
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A Deep Dive into the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API
In my previous blog post I mentioned the GetProcessHandleFromHwnd API. This was an API I didn’t know existed until I found a publicly disclosed UAC bypass using the Quick Assist UI Access application. This API looked interesting so I…
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Hackers Steal About $2.7 Million From Polymarket Traders via Hijacked DebugBear Script
Malicious code on the website of prediction market Polymarket sold some signed-in traders' positions and moved their funds to the hackers on October 29. The code had replaced a page-speed script that the site loaded from an outside…
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NetamLoader Malware Targets Government Windows 10 Systems in Asia via .NET Injection
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what has been described as a "highly sophisticated infection chain" targeting government organizations in Asia. The activity, detailed by Kaspersky this week, targeted a custom Windows 10…
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Attackers Chain Three Ivanti Connect Secure Flaws to Gain Unauthenticated Root Access
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following active exploitation in the wild. The…
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Trezor warns of suspected crypto-theft implant in hardware wallet
Hardware wallet device maker Trezor has received credible reports about a suspected hardware crypto-theft implant in a Trezor Safe 5 sold by its reseller CryptoBilis in Southeast Asia. [...]
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Binance probes potential $5.8 billion crypto-theft hack
Cryptocurrency exchange Binance is investigating a potential security breach involving up to $5.8 billion in digital assets, in what could become the largest cryptocurrency hack in history. [...]
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ZDI-26-838: FreeBSD Kernel TTY Race Condition Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on affected installations of FreeBSD Kernel. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this…
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ESET APT Activity Report Q2 2026–Q3 2026
An overview of the activities of selected APT groups investigated and analyzed by ESET Research in Q2 2026 and Q3 2026
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Tricks from the Past deployed via signed ChatGPT and Claude binaries
Key Points Introduction Over the past two months, we have been tracking a campaign that abuses the popularity of AI tools such as ChatGPT and Claude to spread a custom malware chain we call Yoba. The attackers use fake GitHub projects that…
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CVE-2026-111497 added to CISA KEV — Google Brotli
Google Brotli contains an unchecked return value vulnerability that allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to corrupt adjacent decoder state memory, disclose sensitive memory contents, cause a denial of service, or potentially execute…
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26th October – Threat Intelligence Report
For the latest discoveries in cyber research for the week of 26th October, please download our Threat Intelligence Bulletin. TOP ATTACKS AND BREACHES Japanese cloud hosting provider Onamae Desktop Cloud has confirmed a cyberattack in which…
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PHP2Shell: What to know about two critical PHP flaws
Here's the lowdown on CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, as well as what website owners and IT teams should do to stay safe – all in a little more than two minutes
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Stopping PHP2SHELL: How SentinelOne Protects Customers From This Attack Technique
Stop PHP2Shell with SentinelOne. Learn how Singularity Agent stops web worker post-exploitation, kills process trees, and hunts threats.
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