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An attacker chained three zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure, a VPN appliance, to run commands as root without logging in, security firm Volexity said on October 13. Ivanti has released fixes for two of the flaws and told customers on affected versions to “act immediately.” A fix for the third is still pending, according to Volexity.

Volexity, which reported the flaws to Ivanti,

A flaw in Docker Hub, the registry where container images are published and downloaded, let one user push, pull, or delete images as another user. Docker fixed the flaw on September 30 and says it found no evidence that anyone exploited it.

The flaw was in the feature that converts a personal account into an organization, Docker said in a security advisory on October 12.

Small artificial intelligence (AI) models may be months away from developing capabilities to self-replicate on IoT devices like smart ovens and off-brand Android TV boxes, according to a warning from Anthropic.

The frontier AI lab said small AI models could form autonomous, self-propagating worm botnets that are “challenging to shut down,” since “there’s no centralized point to shut off.”

More than two dozen people were arrested by police in Ghana and Nigeria as part of a U.K.-hosted operation that also included tech companies.

The new research, published by AI security startup AIR, found that a network filtering flaw in Vercel Sandbox — a tool used to run code in isolated environments — could allow agents to exploit certificate validation processes to transmit data outside approved networks.

An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint.

More than 40 residences in Texas were the target of a federal operation in September to clamp down on remote worker scams that feed money back to the North Korean regime.

Google is restructuring bug bounty rewards with a focus on complex memory safety vulnerabilities. 

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The flaws affect products such as Commerce, Photoshop, ColdFusion, Substance 3D, Dimension, FrameMaker and Bridge.

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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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