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Generative AI has changed what a malicious email looks like. Messages that once gave themselves away through clumsy wording, generic pretexts, and reused templates now arrive fluent, personalized, and unique to each recipient, and the behavioral signals email filters have relied on for years are fading as a result. Proofpoint shared several examples of the shift at its Protect 2026 conference.
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BRONZE SANDCASTLE intrusions involving hidden Windows backdoors and the theft of the Active Directory database. The suspected China-based group combines legitimate applications, malicious DLLs, and encrypted payloads to execute code inside trusted processes while limiting artifacts available to conventional file scanning. Investigations covering August 2025 through August 2026 identified victims in the Philippines, Taiwan, Afghanistan, […]
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Google released Chrome version 156 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS, and Linux, addressing 353 security vulnerabilities, including six critical flaws. Announced on October 20, 2026, this update addresses memory corruption, use-after-free errors, input validation issues, and other weaknesses across various browser components. Google stated that the deployment will continue over the coming days […]
The post Google Chrome 156 Fixes 353 Security Vulnerabilities, Including 6 Critical Flaws appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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You cannot fully block the two critical PHP flaws called PHP2Shell before today’s fix, and the one setting being passed around as a workaround is not enough on its own, the security firm that suggested it now says. PHP will release the fix at 14:00 UTC on October 21 for two flaws it rates 9.2 out of 10, and has given no workaround of its own. Until you can install it, what lowers your
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An AppSec team can point an AI agent running on a general-purpose model at its own web apps with little setup. Sure, the model writes the attacks. But everything that makes those attacks safe to run against production and worth acting on afterward lives in the harness around the model. The harness is where the engineering in AI pentesting sits. The Hugging Face intrusion OpenAI disclosed in July
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Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a researcher found. Exit relays are the last hop in a Tor circuit, where traffic leaves the network for its destination. Only a password login to an SSH server made through Tor between October 1 and 5, after accepting the interception
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A privacy weakness in Meta’s Muse AI assistant that made shared conversations discoverable through passive DNS records, exposing personal files and internal business documents. Dubbed GhostShares, the issue affected public sharing links whose supposedly unguessable identifiers appeared inside searchable hostnames. Meta told Ars Technica on October 20 that it was suspending the feature. The finding […]
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Sophos found BRONZE SANDCASTLE abusing legitimate Windows apps to load encrypted backdoors, collect system information and steal Active…
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Swallowtail, the Russian espionage group also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear and Forest Blizzard, targeted organizations in two NATO member states, including a law enforcement agency, a naval shipbuilder and a manufacturer of military aircraft engines. The targets’ roles point to intelligence collection focused on national security and defense. The U.S. government identifies APT28 and […]
The post Russian Hackers Steal Credentials and Open Secret SSH Tunnel Into NATO Defense Firm’s Network appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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Horizon3.ai has released a public proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2026-106173, a critical vulnerability in Fortinet FortiSIEM. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated attackers to turn arbitrary file writes into remote code execution. Researcher Zach Hanley published a technical analysis on October 20, following Fortinet’s security advisory released on October 13. The vulnerability specifically affects the product’s gRPC communication […]
The post Critical Fortinet FortiSIEM RCE Vulnerability Gets Public PoC Exploit, Allowing Unauthenticated Attacks appeared first on GBHackers Security | #1 Globally Trusted Cyber Security News Platform.
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