Cybersecurity
New VOLTA Infostealer Uses Claude, Gemini, and Kimi AI to Rank Victims by Financial Value
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new Windows infostealer malware called VOLTA-AUTODOXER (aka VOLTA) that makes use of a large language model (LLM) to rank a victim's st…
FBI links $6.3 billion Binance crypto heist to North Korean hackers
The FBI has confirmed that North Korean state-sponsored hackers known as TraderTraitor were behind the $6.3 billion crypto-theft attack on Binance, making it the largest cryptocur…
Alpine Linux rebuilds GitLab after attempted RCE attack
Hackers attempted to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability in Alpine Linux's development infrastructure on October 20-21, prompting the open-source project to rebuild its GitLab…
OpenAI says it's doubling Pro usage limits and bringing Work features to Chat
OpenAI has just confirmed that it's rolling out ChatGPT Work capabilities directly into regular Chat, while also combining usage allowances across ChatGPT and Codex. [...]
CVSS 10.0 LXD, MicroCloud Flaw Lets Attackers Impersonate Trusted Clients Without a Private Key
A critical flaw in Canonical's LXD and MicroCloud let an attacker log in as a trusted client without holding that client's private key. To do it, the attacker had to reach their H…
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 pa…
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, d…
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 …
Northflank security breach leads to abuse of customers' AI API keys
Cloud application hosting platform Northflank is warning customers to rotate all credentials and secrets stored on its platform after a security breach led to unauthorized use of …
New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phones
A security researcher has released a proof-of-concept exploit for a recently patched Android vulnerability, dubbed "SMS of Death" and tracked as CVE-2026-58882, that lets attacker…
Reddit to lock content behind logins to fight scrapers
Reddit announced in a post by co-founder Steve Huffman that the site will gradually become a "logged-in service," offering limited access to visitors without accounts. [...]
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Chainalysis discloses data breach from "offensive agentic techniques"
Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis disclosed a data breach after attackers used "offensive agentic techniques" to access internal systems and tools, exposing customer names, em…
Chainalysis Confirms Intrusion Into Internal Tools and Exposure of Customer Identity Data
American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an external actor accessed non-sensitive customer data. However, the comp…
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 (K…
A Shared ChatGPT Link Could Run Attacker Code in Your Session and Read Private Chats
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…
Cloudflare Reports 18.2 Million Network-Layer DDoS Attacks in Q3, Up 38%
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 comp…
Critical Linux kernel flaw allows remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on…
Linux kernel exploit enables remote root attacks on MPTCP servers
Security researchers at Anthropic have developed an exploit for a critical Linux kernel vulnerability that allows unauthenticated attackers to remotely execute commands as root on…
Chinese Hackers Use AI-Powered ARTEX to Target Over 200 Organizations Worldwide
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-…
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 …
TeamViewer Flaw Lets Remote Computers Attack Users Who Connect to Control Them
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…
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,…
WordPress RCE Flaw Draws Nearly 63,000 Attack Attempts in Just 24 Hours
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 …