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The FBI and CISA warn that hackers are actively targeting industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems worldwide, potentially causing food spoilage, equipment damage, and fire hazards. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/fbi-cisa-warn-of-cyberattacks-targeting-refrigeration-systems/
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The Tailscale security team is working to patch almost a dozen security vulnerabilities that could be exploited to steal credentials, crash servers, gain root privileges, and more. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/tailscale-warns-of-serious-ssh-flaws-allowing-root-privilege-escalation/
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Hackers compromised the LiteLLM project&#39;s PyPI package and published malicious Docker images with a payload that steals credentials, secrets, and environment variables. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/litellm-release-pipeline-hacked-to-distribute-info-stealer-malware/
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Japanese gaming giant Capcom has confirmed that hackers breached its membership service, CAPCOM ID, exposing more than 11.7 million customer email addresses and associated information. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/capcom-confirms-data-breach-affecting-117-million-accounts/
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Cloud platform Railway published an urgent warning to users after detecting suspicious activity on its systems that store customer environment variables earlier this week. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/railway-warns-devs-to-rotate-secrets-after-potential-breach/
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) released security updates to patch 72 vulnerabilities in the Aruba Operating System (ArubaOS), including eight maximum-severity authentication bypass and code execution issues. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hpe-patches-eight-max-severity-rce-and-auth-bypass-aos-flaws/
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The PHP security team has shared mitigation measures for a new remote code execution vulnerability that affects systems with non-default configurations and has no patch. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-shares-mitigation-for-new-and-unpatched-rce-vulnerability/
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American clinical laboratory company Quest Diagnostics disclosed that patient records have been exposed after a threat actor gained unauthorized access to its Quanum LSM system. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/quest-diagnostics-confirms-data-breach-exposed-patient-records/
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Microsoft says Windows Server 2016 will stop receiving security updates after it reaches the end of support in January 2027. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-windows-server-2016-reaches-end-of-support-in-january/
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Researchers remotely disabled a vulnerable updater in the abandoned Time4Popcorn app, a fork of the Popcorn Time BitTorrent client, closing a security flaw that could have allowed attackers to execute malicious code with elevated privileges on millions of computers. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/abandoned-popcorn-time-app-exposed-millions-of-device-to-rce-attacks/
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A new UEFI bootkit named BlackX, deployed in an espionage campaign in early 2026, exploited the old Baton Drop vulnerability to bypass Secure Boot and load a malicious driver designed to interfere with security solutions from Kaspersky and Avast. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/blackx-uefi-bootkit-exploits-baton-drop-flaw-to-bypass-secure-boot/
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Researchers found a malicious AGENTS markdown instruction file in a customer&#39;s Downloads folder that tricked an AI coding agent into installing a rogue npm package. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ai-coding-agents-hijacked-using-agentsmd-file-in-downloads-folder/
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Two critical RCE vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), collectively tracked as PHP2Shell, have been successfully exploited in the wild. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php2shell-security-flaws-now-sucessfully-exploited-in-the-wild/
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Kali Linux has released version 2026.3, its third release this year, featuring six new hacking tools, desktop environment improvements, refreshed build scripts, and more. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-20263-released-with-7-new-tools-desktop-updates/
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A Chinese national was arraigned in California after being extradited from the Netherlands for his alleged involvement in a cryptocurrency investment scam that stole nearly $37 million from 174 victims in the United States. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chinese-man-extradited-for-role-in-36-million-cryptocurrency-scam/
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Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also tracked as Node2Shell and HTTP2Shell. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-releases-emergency-net-patches-for-critical-brotli-flaw/
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A critical flaw dubbed &#39;HTTP2Shell&#39; in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrupt memory and access sensitive data. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/critical-http2shell-brotli-vulnerability-triggers-emergency-patches/
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DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to the File Manager interface. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dreamhost-forces-email-ftp-sftp-password-resets-in-ongoing-incident/
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OpenAI has launched GPT-6.1 Terra, a new model focused on computer use, visual reasoning, coding, and everyday work, while costing significantly less than its larger models. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-launches-gpt-61-terra-with-3x-faster-ai-agents-50-percent-lower-pricing/
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South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation that breached more than 90 organizations in the country, with ARTEX AI pentesting framework used in most of the attacks. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-pentester-used-artex-ai-to-steal-82-million-data-records/
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The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal data belonging to 525,000 people. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/university-of-copenhagen-data-breach-exposes-data-of-525-000-people/
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Microsoft has announced plans to add AI-powered phishing detection to Teams messages starting in early November 2026. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-teams-to-get-ai-powered-context-aware-phishing-detection/
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Security researchers at Amazon Threat Intelligence say attackers began targeting the PHP2Shell flaws four days before security patches were released on Wednesday. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/amazon-says-php2shell-exploitation-began-4-days-before-patches/
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Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/revolut-outage-disrupts-online-banking-operations-worldwide/
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The Anubis ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the cyberattack on Coca-Cola's Fairlife dairy subsidiary, threatening to publish allegedly stolen corporate data unless the company pays a ransom. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/anubis-ransomware-claims-coca-cola-fairlife-attack-threatens-data-leak/
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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) gave federal agencies until Friday to patch an actively exploited vulnerability in the Langflow visual framework for building AI agents. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisa-orders-feds-to-prioritize-patching-langflow-auth-bypass-flaw/
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An international law enforcement operation dubbed "Operation KillSwitch" seized the KillSec ransomware gang's data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the group's alleged administrator. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/police-dismantle-killsec-ransomware-gang-allegedly-led-by-16-year-old/
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Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-google-domains-after-breaching-cctld-registries/
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SonicWall has released hotfixes to address a maximum-severity server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw in SMA1000 series appliances. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/sonicwall-warns-of-max-severity-ssrf-flaw-in-sma1000-gateways/
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Google has now suspended submissions to its Open Source Software Vulnerability Rewards Program (OSS VRP) after being flooded by AI-generated reports. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-halts-open-source-bug-bounty-program-amid-ai-spam-surge/