Cybersecurity News and Updates

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

Hackers stole personal information and iRhythm account and device data from third-party-hosted business applications.

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An exploited flaw in the Remote Access SSL VPN service lets unauthenticated attackers remotely force ASA and FTD firewalls to reload.

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Cisco Talos linked SD-WAN key-stealing malware to infrastructure overlapping Volt Typhoon’s Silent Train network, which Lumen detailed.

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The data of So-net and Plala customers in Japan was exposed, along with 54,401 email account passwords and 16 bank account records.

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

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.

Hackers exploited a critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN flaw, fixed in February, to plant custom malware inside the systems that control an organization’s SD-WAN network.

The malware, called KeyDrift, is designed to copy the keys that encrypt traffic between sites and store them for later use, Cisco Talos said on October 28. Talos calls the attacks historical but does not specify when they

An attacker tried to exploit a critical GitLab vulnerability on the Alpine Linux project’s own GitLab server a week after GitLab released a fix, Alpine Linux said on 28 October.

The flaw, CVE-2026-97229 (CVSS score: 10.0), can let an attacker run code on a GitLab server through a crafted regular expression in a CI configuration. Alpine found no evidence that the attack worked but

GitHub has announced that it’s introducing a new package firewall as a preview to block installation of suspicious npm packages during installation time.

“The firewall inspects both metadata requests and package downloads for signs of malicious activity, acting as an install-time policy gate,” GitHub said.

The feature, which currently supports only npm packages, is available in public preview