October 2026

Delivered via phishing, the malware provides reconnaissance, remote execution, and data exfiltration capabilities.

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The Hirudo malware combines elements of a traditional banking trojan and a full-featured RAT.

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Personal information such as names, addresses, Social Security numbers, and driver’s license numbers was compromised.

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James Robinson never planned a cybersecurity career — seven companies and one deputy CISO role later, he leads security at Netskope.

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The Ukrainian military can again use SpaceX’s Starshield satellite service on the move, a Defense Ministry source told Recorded Future News on Thursday, days after sudden restrictions disrupted drone missions along the front line.

The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers’ registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls starting November 1, 2026, in an effort to help people identify calls from unknown numbers and tackle spam or fraudulent calls.

To that end, the Department of Telecommunications has issued a circular urging service

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations.

The spike, according to GitGuardian, was observed on October 8 and 9, 2026.

“This resulted from compromising the GitHub accounts of about 1,900 users. It attempted to extract 3,174 secrets from public repositories’ CI,” security researchers Gaetan

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian.

Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to build artificial intelligence (AI) applications and agentic workflows. In February 2025, DataStax, the parent company of Langflow, was acquired by IBM.

The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-105740 (CVSS score: 9.9), a case of

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners.

The vulnerabilities in question are CVE-2026-105133 and CVE-2026-105134, which could be chained to sidestep authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems.

In a report published earlier

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.