Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland (2026-10-08 06:32 UTC)
Kurz: On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. […]
Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments (2026-10-07 23:04 UTC)
Kurz: The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data.…
Kurz: The FBI is warning that FortiBleed attacks are still ongoing, targeting exposed Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL VPN gateways and locking out legitimate administrators. […]
Kurz: The npm package known as “tensorlake,” a TypeScript software development kit (SDK) for Tensorlake applications, sandboxes, and cloud services, was compromised as part of a ChainDrop / Shai-Hulud supply chain attack. The malicious version 0.…
Attackers Hijack .gh, .sl, and .as Registries to Obtain Certificates for Google Domains (2026-10-07 18:48 UTC)
Kurz: Attackers compromised three country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains, Google said on October 6. Google’s own systems were not breached, but any domain ending in .gh (Gha…
Eight Malicious npm Packages Downloaded 40,767 Times Deliver Overlord RAT and Stealer (2026-10-07 17:43 UTC)
Kurz: Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a long-running npm supply chain malware campaign that pushes information stealers and remote access trojans (RAT) to compromised hosts. The campaign has been codenamed MALFEX by CloudSEK a…
Kurz: Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals. Prior to 0.3.25, the @backstage/plugin-scaffolder-backend-module-confluence-to-markdown package is affected by improper input validation in confluence to mar…