October 2026

One cyber firm listed a half-dozen exploitations of the PHP2Shell bugs, and another identified a well targeted, suspected Chinese campaign that breached U.S. “government affiliated” servers.

General Motors agreed to pay $220 million to settle a lawsuit filed by a coalition of 36 state attorneys general who alleged the company unlawfully sold information about driver behavior to outside parties.

“No data was extracted,” a spokesperson for BAE Systems, a federal contractor, told Recorded Future News about its probe into a cyberattack against its systems for federal bankruptcy courts.

The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal data to set individual consumer prices and employee compensation.

Some attacks take real skill. Others just need someone to leave a door open. This week has both. Exposed passwords, old bugs still getting exploited, and trusted software doing things it shouldn’t.

There’s a strange mix of clever tricks and careless mistakes. Hackers are borrowing trust from familiar apps, websites, and AI tools. Some are using AI to speed things up. Others are leaving their

A flaw in the Linux kernel’s TCP code, tracked as CVE-2026-98432, affects Ubuntu, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), and other Linux distributions. The kernel’s own CVE team rates it 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale.

Anthropic said on October 27 that its AI model wrote an exploit that uses the flaw to let a remote attacker with no credentials run commands as root on Linux servers with a

Threat actors are delivering malicious loaders and cryptocurrency miners under the guise of artificial intelligence (AI) desktop applications for Anthropic Claude and OpenAI ChatGPT as part of a campaign dubbed Yoba.

The activity involves creating fake GitHub projects that claim to be desktop applications like GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and Claude Opus, only to deliver a malware family called

Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities.

“It shows significant gains across coding and agentic tasks as well as across key capabilities critical for cybersecurity defense, landing a firm lead in SEC-bench Pro (88.2%) for finding vulnerabilities, ExploitGym (54.8%) for exploitation, and

The enigmatic service is providing popular AI coding tools to mainland China and other regions where OpenAI and Anthropic products are not officially for sale — but with key security features turned off.

Researchers can’t quite explain why cyber threats look so different in Italy compared to everywhere else.