One Hacker Uses AI Agents to Breach Over 100 Company Websites for Just $5,000

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A Chinese-speaking hacker used AI agents to break into more than 100 company websites while spending an estimated $5,000 on AI tokens, according to a Reuters investigation in October. The operation shows how one person can direct software to carry …

Claude AI Detects Hidden Crypto Miner While Building Temperature Monitor App on Mac

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An ordinary coding task led to an unexpected security discovery when Claude Code reportedly found a hidden cryptocurrency miner on a developer’s Mac. The AI assistant was building a temperature monitoring app when unusually high sensor readings prompted it to …

Critical Drupal RCE Vulnerability Could Let Attackers Take Over Websites Without Authentication

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Drupal has released security updates for a critical remote code execution vulnerability that could let attackers take over affected websites without logging in. Tracked as CVE-2026-108097, the flaw affects the Field UI module in Drupal core. The Drupal Security Team …

Microsoft Says AI Agents Cannot Be Trusted and Could Become Insider Security Threats

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Microsoft warns organizations to treat AI agents as potential insider risks not because they are automatically malicious, but because they can access company data, apps, and tools and act on that access at high speed. The warning, published on October …

Bright Security Introduces STAR Fuzzer, Agentic Fuzzing That Writes Its Own Harnesses and Proves Every Finding

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San Rafael, United States, October 19th, 2026, CyberNewswire Built on an evolutionary engine first released in 2018, STAR Fuzzer by Bright Security finds crashes, memory exhaustion and memory-safety bugs in security-critical code without a running application. In its first open …

Feds Suspect Ransom Negotiator Ran ShinyHunters Extortion Site

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U.S. federal investigators pursuing the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently stole highly sensitive data from the FBI have identified executives at two different ransomware negotiation firms who maintained unusually close relations with the extortion group, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. Sources close …

NSA, CISA and NIST Release New Security Guidelines to Detect and Shut Down Rogue AI Agents

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NSA, CISA, and NIST have released joint security guidelines to help organizations detect, contain, and shut down AI agents that act beyond their approved tasks. Published October 16, 2026, the voluntary guidance sets out ten practices for managing incidents during …

Hackers Exploit SiteGuard WAF Vulnerability That Could Give Them Full Control of Servers

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Hackers are exploiting a command injection flaw in SiteGuard Server Edition, a web application firewall installed directly on protected servers. Tracked as CVE-2026-106931, the vulnerability could let attackers run operating system commands with root or SYSTEM privileges, potentially giving them …

Hackers Registered New Teams-Based Domains and Used a Login Page to Steal Your Logins

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A newly registered domain copies Microsoft Teams’ login page and interface, raising concerns about a phishing attempt targeting workplace users. Security researcher Steven Lim reported that teams-cloud[.]live was just five days old when he flagged it on October 18, 2026. …

16-Year-Old Broadcom Wi-Fi Flaw Lets Attackers Hack Routers Without Knowing Passwords

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A 16-year-old flaw in Broadcom’s Wi-Fi software can let attackers within wireless range take control of affected routers without knowing the network password. Security researcher Quentin Kaiser disclosed the issue at Hexacon in Paris on October 16, 2026, warning that …