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OCT27
Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Let Permissionless Android Apps Steal Work Account Tokens

Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and collect sign-in tokens for a victim's work account. Microsoft tracks the flaw as CVE-2026-80097 and fixed it in Authenticator for Android version 6.2606.4246, so anyone using the app should update. In the researchers' tests,

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OCT27
Unexplained DreamHost Incident Prompts Email, FTP Password Resets

The company says it reacted to an issue affecting some of its systems, including DreamHost webmail. The post Unexplained DreamHost Incident Prompts Email, FTP Password Resets appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT27
iOS, macOS 27.2 Patch 286 Bugs; Fix for Exploited Flaw Backported to iOS 18

Apple patched 286 vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS 27.2 and brought the fix for an exploited CoreGraphics zero-day to older iPhones. The post iOS, macOS 27.2 Patch 286 Bugs; Fix for Exploited Flaw Backported to iOS 18 appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT27
Keystone to Destroy 18,835 Hardware Wallets After Hackers Steal Device Verification Key

An attacker who gained access to Keystone's website obtained the key that its hardware wallets use to prove they are genuine, the company said in a statement on October 26. Someone with that key could build counterfeit devices that pass the online check owners use to verify a Keystone. A buyer who trusted a counterfeit could have their crypto stolen, but the incident did not involve

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OCT27
AI-Generated Fake Login Pages Are Making Account Takeovers Easier

Fake login pages are nothing new, but generative AI is making them easier to build and more convincing. Attackers can recreate familiar login screens, impersonate trusted brands and tailor phishing attempts to specific employees or organizations. Some fake login pages go beyond stealing passwords. They can also capture MFA codes or hijack authenticated sessions, allowing attackers to gain

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OCT27
Lazarus Abuses South Korean Security Software to Deploy Malware Using Post-Quantum Encryption

The North Korea-linked Lazarus Group has been attributed to a cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation FlashHole targeting at least three organizations in South Korea spanning the construction, software, and wire-communication equipment manufacturing sectors. According to Russian cybersecurity company Kaspersky, the campaign has been active since at least July 2025. It's assessed to pick up

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OCT27
Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI

Anthropic presents its own initial public offering as a step toward mitigating the risks it believes AI poses. The post Risks Spelled Out for Anthropic Investors Include Possible Harms From Runaway AI appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OCT27
This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal

Keep your patch management pipelines primed in case another round of Citrix NetScaler patches get released soon. The post This is Fine: What NetScaler Zero-Days Tell Us About the New Normal appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Tod Beardsley
OCT27
Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover

Running at system boot, it periodically polled the update domain to execute any code served, with full privileges. The post Dead Popcorn Time Updater Put Millions of Computers at Risk of Takeover appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT27
Australia Gets Into Amadey Malware Backend, Cuts Off Access to 180,000 Infected Computers

A criminal using the Amadey malware can no longer access or steal data from 180,000 infected computers around the world, including some in Australia, the Australian Signals Directorate (ASD) says. The agency's operators gained access to the criminal's operation's backend and cut it off from those computers. "The next steps that we took were to disconnect that Amadey controller from all those

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OCT27
OpenAI Compaction Flaw Let Researchers Bypass Hidden Reasoning Protections

OpenAI's compaction feature, which shrinks a long conversation to save space, could be turned into a way to copy a model's hidden reasoning out in plain text, security firm Xint has shown. OpenAI's reasoning models work through a problem before answering, and the service normally returns only the raw reasoning as an encrypted item the user cannot read. The method got past

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OCT27
Maritime Coalition Launches Free Vulnerability Database for Ship and Port Systems

Blue Initiative indexes nearly 30,000 IT and OT vulnerabilities relevant to ships and ports, 37 of them in maritime-specific products. The post Maritime Coalition Launches Free Vulnerability Database for Ship and Port Systems appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT27
Attackers Hijack Dahua IP Cameras in Ukraine Using P2P Access and Auth Weaknesses

The Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) has issued an alert warning of unauthorized remote access to video surveillance systems manufactured by Dahua. "Cases of compromising IP cameras and DVRs with access to the video stream, changing the device configuration and creating third-party accounts have been recorded," the State Special Communications Service of Ukraine (SSSCIP)

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OCT26
CISA Confirms Active Exploitation of Two PHP2Shell Flaws Enabling Remote Code Execution

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday confirmed active exploitation of the recently patched PHP2Shell flaws by adding them to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The PHP vulnerabilities, both rated 9.2 on the CVSS scoring system, facilitate unauthenticated remote code execution on affected deployments - CVE-2026-109618 - An out-of-memory

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OCT26
Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics

The University of New Mexico Health System told people not to show up at its main hospital in Albuquerque and canceled appointments at more than 30 clinics. The post Cybersecurity Issue Forces a Major New Mexico Hospital to Divert Patients and Close Clinics appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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