October 2026

Abdulrahman Alfozan, 35, a Saudi national working as an engineer for OpenAI, was charged Tuesday with secretly bugging an executive conference room at one of the company’s buildings in San Francisco.

A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said.

Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI’s publicly available GPT-5.6 Sol model. Google has since confirmed all three bugs, fixed them, and paid XBOW its top $

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial fraud. 

Dutch mobile security company ThreatFabric said it identified replacements for eight Indonesian banking

The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part.

TL;DR

During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer’s production website, on its own.
One login request let the user choose where the one-time passcode went.
The attack was the easy part. Proving it

A flaw in Linux’s vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host’s memory and hijack the program that runs the virtual machine.

The bug is tracked as CVE-2026-74580 and named Vghost. Tencent Zhuque Lab, which found the

The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.

Anthropic’s latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be “challenging” to shut down.

Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan was arrested Friday and terminated by OpenAI.

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CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. 

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