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Friday Squid Blogging: Pacific Flying Squid Populations Dropping in Korean Waters
Climate change is the issue . As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog m
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PostgreSQL Patches 52 Flaws, Including 22-Year-Old Bug Enabling Authenticated RCE
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with
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New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs
Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the
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FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Ko
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Trezor Confirms Hidden Implants in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallets That Can Steal Recovery Phrases
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hard
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SilentAir Hijacks Asian Telecom Networks to Intercept SMS 2FA Codes and Spy on Taiwanese Users
A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Tai
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Operation Endgame Takes Down Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC Servers, Seizes 6.4M Stolen Logins
An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week. Criminals used the three malware tools to gain
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The Body: Putting the Trust Layer Inside a Real Platform — How to Sign Off on 88,000 Lines
The third post in the series "Reining In AI: From Weekend MVP to Multi-Channel Command Console." The previous post laid out the groundwork: v2's trust
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Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell Flaws in Check Point Gateways to Deploy TSGA Backdoor and Wipe ESXi Files
An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting unpatched Check Point Security Gateways to obtain initial access via the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities
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Attackers Brute-Force Public Microsoft SQL Servers, Using 2,700+ Passwords to Plant Remote-Access Mining Malware
A new attack campaign is breaching Microsoft SQL Server systems exposed to the public internet through password guessing. Attackers use a dictionary c
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Hackers Exploit N-central Flaws to Infect 21 Servers, Including 19 Running Hotfix 2
N-able on Thursday said it's taking additional precautions in the wake of public disclosure of a new set of flaws tracked as 4EverAble2Shell and Agent
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Microsoft 365 outage drags past 10 hours, forcing Japan's government to fall back on phones
Core Microsoft 365 services including Outlook and Teams suffered a massive global outage in the early hours, with Downdetector logging close to 130,00
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US freezes $2.7 billion in Binance assets stolen by North Korean hackers, with total case value at $6 billion
The US has frozen $2.7 billion in the Binance theft case and identified a North Korean hacker group. The US government froze $2.7 billion of cryptocur
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ArcticRAT Android malware uses hidden VNC to control phones, with victims seeing only a black screen
A new Android remote access trojan named ArcticRAT can fully control a user's phone, while the owner sees only a black screen. The device appears to b
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OpenAI Launches Two AI Cybersecurity Tools for Automated Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Remediation
OpenAI has officially released Daybreak Red Team and Daybreak Defense Factory, two AI cybersecurity tools designed to help organizations of all kinds
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TSMC confirms data breach as employee information leaks via third-party cloud provider
TSMC has confirmed an employee data leak, with the source traced to a third-party cloud provider. The company verified that personal data of some curr
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New SignDrop Zero-Day Exploit Turns Windows CLFS Security Feature Into SYSTEM Access
Public exploit code released earlier this week claims that a local Windows user can gain SYSTEM privileges through the Common Log File System driver.
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Jensen Huang agrees to testify before Congress
Huang, who was ousted as CEO following reports of an alleged affair with a woman suspected of spying for China, agreed to testify Wednesday after seve
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Critical Red Hat Quay Flaw Lets Attackers Read and Overwrite All Private Container Images in a Registry
A critical flaw in Red Hat Quay allows an attacker who can access a Quay registry to read and overwrite private container images in every repository.
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Citrix Patches 12 NetScaler and Secure Access Client Flaws, Including Authentication Bypass
Citrix has released patches for multiple critical security flaws impacting NetScaler ADC, Citrix NetScaler Gateway, and NetScaler Console that could l
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SCKit Malware Turns ScreenConnect Support Sessions Into Potential MSP Attack Paths
The ongoing campaign targeting ConnectWise ScreenConnect deployments involves the exploitation of a now-patched critical security flaw in the remote a
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Google Cloud Warns Three AMD Turin CPU Flaws Could Leak Data Across Processes in VMs
Google Cloud VMs on AMD Turin chips need a guest OS patch and a stop-and-start to protect against three CPU side-channel flaws, Google said this week.
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Another Way Police Are Locating People from Their Smartphones
Penlink’s Webloc is an application that locates people using information from the weather, gaming, email, and religious apps on their phone. It’s sold
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New N-central Exploits Work Against Patched Servers, Enable Root RCE and Windows SYSTEM Access
N-able on Thursday said it's investigating a new public disclosure containing claims of additional vulnerabilities in on-premise versions of N-central
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Calendar Invites and Live Proxies: Inside a Google Session Hijacking Campaign
Since mid-August 2026, a phishing operation has been stealing live Google sessions from corporate users. Every check defenders normally lean on to jud
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PTC Patches Critical Windchill and FlexPLM Flaw That Could Enable Remote Code Execution
PTC has released patches for a new critical vulnerability impacting Windchill and FlexPLM software that, if successfully exploited, could result in re
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Germany's Competition Regulator Preliminarily Finds PayPal Suspected of Violating the Country's Antitrust Law
Germany's Federal Cartel Office said yesterday local time that, based on its preliminary assessment of PayPal's rules in the online retail payment mar
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Samsung Settles Reverse Wireless Charging Patent Lawsuit After Nearly 4 Years
Samsung has reached a settlement in a patent infringement lawsuit over the Wireless PowerShare reverse wireless charging feature on its Galaxy phones,
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