October 2026

Protections have been added against scams and social engineering, including new site warnings and server-side Gemini analysis.

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Several cybersecurity companies saw exploitation attempts of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 before PHP released the patches.

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Deceptive prompts lure AI agents into decoys and dead ends, cutting attack success by up to 91% in tests and raising the cost of a successful attack 23-fold.

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Rapid7’s Q3 analysis finds high-severity flaws exploited within three days on average, while AI appeared in just 8% of tracked incidents.

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The Cambridge Analytica data privacy scandal from a decade ago is still weighing on Meta’s finances.

Up to 500 under-resourced utilities will receive support in order to bolster their cybersecurity through a private sector initiative launched this week.

The pair stressed the latest update showed no country is pursuing the technically challenging effort to interfere with or hack into the country’s election infrastructure or tamper directly with votes.

In a lengthy statement about two critical vulnerabilities, the PHP Foundation explained how one dated to 2024, how a recent third-party review by AI companies heightened attention on both, why it scrambled to post information earlier than planned.

GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the software going back to 7.0, released in 2014.

The fix matters even for administrators who patched nine days earlier: the October 12 update covered only versions 19.2 and later, and the new fixed versions sit one patch above it, so an

The popular LiteLLM Python package has been compromised as part of a software supply chain attack that delivered a credential stealer and a backdoor, according to reports from SafeDep, Socket, StepSecurity, and Upwind.

The compromise affects LiteLLM 1.107.0, distributed through PyPI wheels and Docker images. The Python package has since been quarantined on Python Package Index (PyPI), and the