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- ConnectWise Suspends Cloud Backup After Attackers Compromise Microsoft 365 Tenantsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 18, 2026 at 8:23 am
ConnectWise on Saturday said it has disabled seven ConnectWise application identities as it continues its investigation into an incident in which unknown threat actors obtained unauthorized access to the application identities and compromised Microsoft 365 tenants. The disabled identities are listed below – ConnectWise Cloud Backup – 506e08f9-6e9a-4da4-942b-a099a03644ae ConnectWise
- MALFEX npm Package ‘imgdecode’ Hides Shellcode Loader in Windows Native Addonby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 17, 2026 at 11:11 am
Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a malicious npm package that’s part of a recently disclosed software supply chain attack campaign dubbed MALFEX. The package, named “imgdecode,” was uploaded to the package registry on September 30, 2026, by a user named “malfexteste8.” It has been downloaded 979 times as of writing and is still available on npm as of writing. The latest version of
- Hackers Use Compromised ConnectWise Credential to Sign In to 173 Microsoft 365 Tenantsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 17, 2026 at 6:16 am
Cybersecurity researchers are sounding the alarm related to an active campaign in which unknown threat actors are abusing a compromised Microsoft 365 (M365) credential belonging to ConnectWise Cloud Backup (formerly SkyKick) to gain unauthorized access to customers’ M365 environments. ConnectWise Cloud Backup is a cloud-based backup and recovery service built for managed service providers (MSPs
- Researchers Demonstrate OpenBSD Root Exploit Chaining 37-Year-Old Shared-Memory Bugby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 5:48 pm
A local privilege escalation exploit published today gains root on OpenBSD 7.9 by chaining a roughly 37-year-old integer overflow with a separate kernel flaw, bypassing OpenBSD’s KARL kernel-address randomization and its SMAP and SMEP hardware protections.Security firm Calif, which found and reported the flaws, published a detailed writeup and full proof-of-concept code after OpenBSD shipped
- Attackers Tampered with AOMEI Backupper’s Update Servers for Minutes to Deliver a Backdoorby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 4:43 pm
Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor’s own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update during one of those windows would download and run a backdoor. Google Threat Intelligence Group, Mandiant, and ManageEngine’s Threat Analysis
- UAT-11985 Uses Fake Event Invites to Target Taiwan Research Affiliates With Google AitM Phishingby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 4:16 pm
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The activity is being tracked by
- OpenAI Research Model Spent 3rd-Party Test ETH Without Permission to Deploy Smart Contractby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 2:03 pm
OpenAI has disclosed seven new incidents in which its artificial intelligence (AI) models exhibited misaligned behavior, including one case where its research model, after not having funds on an Ethereum test network, spent test cryptocurrency from a third-party’s wallet without authorization to complete a coding task. The incident, the AI company said, involved an internal research model part
- AI Decision Models and Their Impact on AI SOC Platformsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 11:30 am
In the space of a month, a new category of AI model went from nonexistent to everywhere. TypeSafe AI released Jev on September 15 and called it a System One model, a nod to Kahneman’s fast, intuitive thinking. OpenAI announced its own Decisions API at DevDay and opened a public beta on October 6. Cribl published cribl-decision, an open LoRA adapter you can run locally. Others, like Laya, are
- China-Linked Hackers Exploited BeyondTrust Zero-Day to Take Over Remote Support Serversby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 6:55 am
The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score: 9.3), is a case of improper origin validation in an internal messaging component that could be exploited by a
- CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testingby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 6:53 am
AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CERT-In said in an advisory on October 15. The agents went beyond their assigned tasks, and none of the organizations detected the unauthorized access. After internal reviews, the AI companies whose models were being tested
- PEERSTITCH Malware Deployed via FortiOS Flaw Bypasses Checks on Tagged VPN Sessionsby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 16, 2026 at 4:59 am
A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS score: 5.4), a path traversal flaw in the command line interpreter of FortiOS, FortiPAM, FortiProxy, and FortiSwitchManager that could allow a
- Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memoryby info@thehackernews.com (The Hacker News) on October 15, 2026 at 8:24 pm
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel’s live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-99999 and nicknamed PwnEscape, is in the Linux kernel’s networking code, not in any one cloud’s setup, so it reaches the shared











