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Expanded plugin count allows the malware to monitor users’ location, stream live audio, and interact with authenticated browser sessions.

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Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software’s MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says.

Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical. Fixes have been available since September 10, in MarkLogic 11.3.7 and MarkLogic 12.1.0.

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Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said.

The attackers reached them through the controller that runs all of a store’s fridges and freezers, a device made by Danish company Danfoss that maintenance firms can manage remotely. Les Mousquetaires

A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.

A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.

Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data

Three vulnerabilities in LG’s webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner.

LG has issued a fix, according to an advisory published by SSD Secure Disclosure on October 12.

The chain was tested on two TV models, the 32LQ636BPSA and the 27TQ600SW, running webOS 7.5.7-25 on firmware

The company says it took some of its systems offline to contain a security issue within its network.

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Some meetings last longer than it took attackers to jump on a newly disclosed security flaw this week. Within hours, they were already testing it. That’s not much time to read the warning, let alone do something about it.

But speed is only part of the problem. A secure connection didn’t always mean a safe destination. People offering to fix a ransomware mess had questions to answer themselves.

The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85097 can allow threat actors to take control of the targeted WordPress websites.

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The all-stock deal brings Elisity’s least-privilege access technology into IonQ’s security portfolio.

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Fahmida Y Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading.