The day's cybersecurity headlines from public sources, in one place. Search them, filter by theme or CVE, or show only vulnerabilities CISA has confirmed are being exploited. Every headline links to the original.
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GhostMap Android flaw lets malicious app trigger persistent boot loop
Attackers can force Android devices into a continuous boot loop using a specially crafted app that requires no permissions and only needs to be installed. [...]
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Apple to Start Scanning Publicly Shared iCloud Photos and Files for Harmful Content
Apple has revealed that it plans to start checking public iCloud links for harmful content starting with iOS 27.3, iPadOS 27.3, macOS 27.3, and visionOS 27.3. The change specifically applies to scenarios where users share iCloud content, such as photos in iCloud Photos or files in iCloud Drive, by…
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OpenAI’s upcoming AI model built 948 working Linux root exploits in a single run
An automated system running on an upcoming AI model turned hundreds of Linux kernel bugs into working exploits that give an ordinary user root access, and wrote a patch for each underlying flaw, OpenAI revealed in a new research post. Source:OpenAI The company’s Cyber team ran the pipeline in…
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A banking malware sample led researchers to an Android bug that can loop-crash phones
Bitdefender Labs researchers built an Android app that contains no executable code and requests no permissions, and installing it leaves a Pixel 10 in a crash loop that can take a factory reset to clear. The flaw, which Bitdefender calls GhostMap, comes from how Android reads the ZIP structure…
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CERT-In Flags AI-Driven Attacks as Backdoored ARTEX Exposes 62 Consoles to Root Access
The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has disclosed that an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted threat actor it tracks as Crafty Falcon is targeting organizations in the Banking, Financial Services, and Insurance (BFSI) sectors in the country. Describing the threat as active and…
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Apple is bringing harmful content checks to iCloud link sharing with potential account penalties
Apple will begin checking iCloud content shared using the “Anyone with the link” option for harmful material in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and visionOS 27.3 or later. When sharing content stored in iCloud, users can choose “Share a Link” or “Send a Copy.” Those who choose “Share a Link” can restrict…
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Zyxel GS1900 Patch Fails to Block Zero-Day Exploit Allowing Root Command Execution
Zyxel GS1900 network switches that received the vendor's earlier fix for an actively exploited flaw are still open to the exploit attackers used, researchers at Binarly found. The exploit lets anyone who can reach a switch's web management interface run commands on it without logging in. Zyxel has…
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ICSA-26-211-07: Mitsubishi Electric CC-Link IE TSN Communication Protocol (Update B)
Highest CVSS 7.1. Affects Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC MX Controller MX-R model MXR300-16, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC MX Controller MX-R model MXR300-32, Mitsubishi Electric MELSEC MX Controller MX-R model MXR300-64 and 119 more. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker…
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AI agent detection signals that still work when agents look human
Bots follow a script. AI agents work toward a goal and choose their own steps, which makes them harder to catch. In this Help Net Security interview, Zohaib Ahmed, CEO of Resemble AI explains how agents arrive as declared, undeclared or disguised traffic, and why binary bot detection misses the…
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Healthcare can’t govern the AI tools it hasn’t found yet
Nearly nine in ten healthcare leaders say security or compliance staff always or usually review AI-written code that touches patient data before it goes live, and seven in ten have still found an AI-built tool handling that data without IT or security knowing, according to Paubox. Source: Paubox…
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Companies are spending more on AI governance and getting less control
Companies are increasing their cybersecurity budgets, with AI security and governance the top priority for additional spending, followed by cloud security, according to DNSFilter’s The Cost of Shadow AI report. Some 74.5% of respondents reported a larger cybersecurity budget than 12 months…
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Most consumers aren’t ready to let AI agents shop unsupervised
Customer control, account security and ease of use are influencing the adoption of AI agents that make purchases, book services and access personal information, according to Okta’s 2026 Customer Identity Trends Report. Consumers’ willingness to delegate depends on what an agent can do, the…
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Want to Rent an Internet Address at the White House?
Several staffers at the White House are using computers or mobile devices equipped with residential proxy services that render their internet address available for others to rent, security experts warned today. One of the proxy services is a Russian company whose founder's web hosting business was…
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OpenAI AI Pipeline Generates 948 Linux Root Escalation Exploits in 30-Hour Run
OpenAI on Wednesday detailed a pipeline that employed an upcoming cyber-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model to validate and patch 948 local privilege escalation vulnerabilities in Linux for $1.2 million in API costs. "Our prototype identified and analyzed 2,308 candidate Linux kernel…
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Ukraine fires two senior security officials amid corruption probe into scam call centers
Ukraine's security service has fired two senior officials amid a corruption investigation into an alleged criminal network that bribed law enforcement officers to protect fraudulent call centers and other illegal operations.
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Chainalysis warns all users hit in cyber breach involving ‘agentic’ techniques
Chainalysis, the blockchain analytics company, said Wednesday night that some information belonging to all its users — which its website says include those in the law enforcement and national security sectors — had been exposed in a cyberattack.
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Critical Rails Bug Threatens to Derail Vulnerable Servers
An attacker could write arbitrary files and read sensitive files via images uploaded to the Rails Active Storage ImageMagick integration, possibly positioning a threat actor for lateral movement.
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Vercel rolls out new protection against stolen session cookie attacks
Vercel is gradually rolling out Device Bound Session Credentials (DBSC) on its platform as a key defense against information stealer malware. [...]
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More Asian airlines announce data breaches after attack on Spanish IT provider Amadeus
Japan Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air, Asiana Airlines, Singapore Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have all come forward over the last week to report data breaches traced back to Amadeus IT Group — a company that builds and maintains platforms for flight reservation, ticketing and check-in…
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Zyxel fixes zero-day exploited to hack nearly 1,000 network switches
Zyxel has patched a zero-day vulnerability in its GS1900 series network switches that hackers exploited to compromise nearly 1,000 devices worldwide and steal configuration files and credentials. [...]
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Canadian extradited to US for allegedly hacking schools in at least four states
The Department of Justice said it identified two suspects in a case that dates back to 2016 and involved illicit cryptomining on the computers of U.S. educational institutions.
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DreamHost confirms data breach exposed FTP logins and webmail sessions
DreamHost is warning of a data breach after attackers gained access to its File Manager platform for two months and stole customers' FTP/SFTP usernames and passwords. [...]
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French bank confirms cyber heist, hackers suspected to have stolen an estimated $133 million
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa said in a press notice that the attackers were able to make transfers using the bank’s own account after compromising an unnamed supplier.
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Cyberattack disrupts blood storage refrigeration systems in France
France's national blood service has confirmed that a cyberattack targeting a refrigeration equipment provider raised temperature and defrost settings at three of its facilities, threatening stored blood products. [...]
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Debian and Ubuntu APT Flaw Lets MitM Attackers Swap Verified Packages and Run Code as Root
A flaw in APT, the package manager for Debian and Ubuntu, allows an attacker who can modify package downloads to swap a checked package for their own. The attacker's code then runs as root, according to advisories that Debian, Ubuntu, and APT's developers published on November 4. The attack needs…