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OCT14
U.S. Shuts Down Over 40 Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Fraud

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday charged 14 people and seized about 187 computers as part of its ongoing efforts to disrupt North Korea's fraudulent remote IT worker (ITW) scheme. The indictment charges a mix of U.S. citizens and Chinese nationals for their roles in an IT worker conspiracy affecting more than 70 U.S. companies, charging them with wire fraud conspiracy, money

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OCT14
AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems and Move Equipment in Minutes, Booz Allen Finds

In Booz Allen’s isolated OT lab, AI models met every objective across eight scenarios and reached an industrial control network from a perimeter compromise in just over 16 minutes. The post AI Agents Navigate Unfamiliar OT Systems and Move Equipment in Minutes, Booz Allen Finds appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Kevin Townsend
OCT14
ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw

ABB previously published an advisory warning about possible probing of a dynovaPRO vulnerability. The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Issues 17 Advisories, Rockwell Fixes ArmorBlock Takeover Flaw appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT14
U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services...

Krebs on Security by BrianKrebs
OCT14
Harmonic Security Raises $50 Million for Workforce AI Protection

The cybersecurity startup plans to expand engineering and go-to-market teams in the US and UK. The post Harmonic Security Raises $50 Million for Workforce AI Protection appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT14
Virtual Event Today: Zero Trust Strategies Summit

This summit is laser-focused on the next generation of Zero Trust and Identity security, moving beyond theory to deliver actionable strategies. The post Virtual Event Today: Zero Trust Strategies Summit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

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OCT14
Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages

Backed by a federal court order, Microsoft and Health-ISAC seized domains powering YAM Store, CoGUI, and Iron Man. The post Microsoft Disrupts Chinese-Language Phishing Market Behind 1B+ Messages appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Eduard Kovacs
OCT14
CISA Urges Immediate Ivanti Connect Secure Updates as Honeypots Log 105 Exploit Attempts

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday urged organizations to take steps to immediately update their Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) appliances and deployments to the latest version following the disclosure of an actively exploited vulnerability. The security flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104935 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of authentication bypass impacting ICS

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OCT14
curl Patches HTTP/2 Upload Flaw After PoC Demonstrates Client-Side Code Execution

A flaw in how curl handles HTTP/2 uploads lets a malicious server receiving an upload corrupt the client's memory, and the researcher who reported it turned that into code execution on the uploading machine. The curl project fixed it on October 14 in curl 8.23.0. Taking over a client needs exact knowledge of its build and memory layout, and curl expects a real attack to end in a crash

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OCT14
How to Run a Deepfake Readiness Drill Before a Cloned Voice Calls Your Team

Cloned voices and synthetic video calls now show up in payment fraud, help desk resets, and access requests. A structured drill shows security teams exactly where verification breaks down, while nothing is at stake. The call comes in at 4:40 on a Friday. It's the CFO, or it sounds exactly like her, asking the controller to push a supplier payment out before the weekend because a deal closes

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OCT14
Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days

A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI's publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has since confirmed all three bugs, fixed them, and paid XBOW its top $

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OCT14
Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial fraud. Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it identified replacements for eight Indonesian banking

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OCT14
An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer's production website, on its own. One login request let the user choose where the one-time passcode went. The attack was the easy part. Proving it

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OCT14
US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms

Investigators stormed 40 locations in Texas and seized 187 laptops used by North Korean IT workers to hide their location. The post US Arrests Two in Crackdown on North Korean IT Worker Laptop Farms appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Security Week by Ionut Arghire
OCT14
AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine. The bug is tracked as CVE-2026-74580 and named Vghost. Tencent Zhuque Lab, which found the

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