Microsoft Investigation Teams Issue Affecting Users in the United States

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Microsoft has restored Microsoft Teams service after investigating an issue affecting some users in the United States on October 26, 2026. The company tracked the disruption under incident TM1526111 and said automatic scaling efforts had returned the service to healthy …

Hackers Can Hijack OpenAI Codex and Claude Code Using Malicious Files in Downloads Folder

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A plain text file placed in the Downloads folder can trick AI coding agents into changing their settings, installing malware, or exposing login tokens. Forever Security discovered the risk after stopping an agent on a real customer’s computer from installing …

OpenBSD 8.0 Released With Major Security Hardening and Post-Quantum SSH Support

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OpenBSD 8.0 has been released with security fixes across its kernel, network services, firewall, and update tools, alongside experimental post-quantum SSH signature support. Released on October 20, 2026, the project’s 61st release includes OpenSSH 10.6 and LibreSSL 4.4.0, bringing stronger …

Emperador Ransomware Group Claims to Have Stolen 3.9GB of Data from the Maker of Budweiser and Corona

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The Emperador ransomware group claims to have stolen 3.9GB of data from AB InBev and demands $1 million in Bitcoin, but the alleged breach remains unverified, with no company confirmation reported. The claim was discovered on October 25, 2026, at …

PHP Releases New Windows Build Security Updates to Fix Critical HTTP2Shell Vulnerability

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The PHP team has released updated Windows builds to fix a serious flaw known as HTTP2Shell. The new packages are PHP 8.5.12-1, 8.4.27-1, 8.3.36-1, and 8.2.35-1, and PHP announced them on October 26, 2026. Each build now includes Brotli 1.2.1, …

Researchers Use AI Agents to Breach Anthropic’s Internal Systems in Just 12 Hours

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Cybersecurity startup Cathedral says its AI agents found routes into Anthropic’s internal business systems in less than 12 hours, exposing how fast automated security tools can find and chain flaws across connected services. The work took place through Anthropic’s program …

Anthropic’s Claude AI Model Accessed US State Voter Data Behind a Paywall

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Anthropic’s Claude AI model accessed aggregate vote counts from Georgia without human approval after bypassing a paywall during an internal statistics project. The data was available to the public for a fee, but the model retrieved it without being asked …

Microsoft Releases Out-of-Band Security Updates for Brotli and .NET tarballs Vulnerability

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Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for .NET to fix a Brotli buffer overflow and unsafe ownership settings in Linux distribution archives. Published on October 25, 2026, the release covers .NET 8, .NET 9, .NET 10, and .NET 11 Release …

Cloudflare Release Emergency WAF Ruleset Update Following Brotli Vulnerability

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Cloudflare has announced an emergency Web Application Firewall (WAF) ruleset update linked to CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli vulnerability. The October 25, 2026 release adds two rules for Brotli-encoded request bodies and the Next.js image optimization endpoint, enabled by default in Log …

Kali Linux 2026.3 Released With 6 New Penetration Testing Tools and Linux Kernel 7.1

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Kali Linux 2026.3 has been released as the third Kali update of 2026, bringing six new penetration testing tools, Linux kernel 7.1.5, KDE Plasma 6.7, refreshed image-building scripts, and a large set of Kali NetHunter changes. The release arrived on …