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Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November

Microsoft announced that it will add .msix and .msixbundle attachments to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook Web and the new Outlook Windows client starting next month. [...]

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ShinyHunters Extorted Boeing Spin-off Prior to Arrests

A teenager from Amman, Jordan suspected of leading the prolific data theft and extortion group ShinyHunters has been detained and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members of the hacking gang. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that the suspect, who uses the hacker handle "Rey," was detained as ShinyHunters was in the process of extorting a…

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Threats

More RMM Tools In the Wild, (Tue, Oct 6th)

It seems that a trend started… I continue my journey discovering more RMM ("Remote Management & Monitoring") tools abused by threat actors! A few days ago, I wrote a diary[1] about ScreenConnect used in the wild. Today, I found another one.

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Vulnerabilities

Hitachi Energy REB500

Hitachi Energy is aware of open-source software vulnerabilities that affect REB500 product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out Denial of Service (DoS) attack on the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the mitigation/remediation. The following versions of Hitachi…

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Vulnerabilities

Hitachi Energy Asset Suite

Hitachi Energy is aware of unauthenticated servlet access vulnerabilities that affect Asset Suite product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to potentially cause confidentiality, integrity and availability impact on the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about the…

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Vulnerabilities

Hitachi Energy SOI

Hitachi Energy is aware of RCE (Remote Code Execution) vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ component of SOI product versions listed in this document. These vulnerabilities can be exploited to carry out various attacks affecting confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the product. Please refer to the Recommended Immediate Actions for information about…

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Vulnerabilities

Savannah lwIP SMTP client

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could crash the device being accessed; a buffer overflow condition may allow remote code execution. The following versions of Savannah lwIP SMTP client are affected: lwIP SMTP client 2.2.1 (CVE-2026-15340) CVSS Vendor Equipment v3 9.8 Savannah lwIP SMTP client 1 Vulnerability Buffer Copy without Checking Size…

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Vulnerabilities

Hitachi Energy RTU500

Hitachi Energy is publishing this cybersecurity advisory in response to the security findings reported by Dragos affecting end-of-life RTU500 CMU firmware version 9.x. The reported findings are associated with legacy RTU500 firmware versions that were developed according to the cybersecurity requirements, threat landscape, and industry practices that…

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Threats

TTY Logs and the Data it Captures, (Sun, Oct 4th)

For an experiment, I created a script [1] that parses and send the TTY logs collected from actors or bots activity that run various commands after they successfully login the DShield sensor. Those TTY logs are sent daily at the end of each day to the DShield SIEM [2] to be correlated with all the data. 

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Vulnerabilities

CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-88779 Citrix NetScaler Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer Vulnerability This type of vulnerability is a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors and poses significant…

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Research

ShinyHunters Suspect Rey Reportedly Detained in Jordan, Helping FBI Identify Group Members

A suspected member of the ShinyHunters digital extortion group, who goes by the online alias "Rey," has been allegedly detained by authorities in Jordan, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Rey, whose real name is Saif ‌al-Din Khader, is said to have been brought into custody on September 29, 2026, cooperating with the U.S…

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Identity

China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM Phishing

A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations. The campaigns have impersonated prominent economists and AI policymakers, as well as a prominent Anthropic employee…

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Research

MI5 Says China’s MSS Funded Research Involving 100+ U.K.-Linked Academics

The U.K.'s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing's state security service. In a "Security Service Espionage Alert" issued on September 30, 2026, MI5 said the "primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI)…

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Vulnerabilities

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, has hit critical infrastructure, government…

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GitLab Patches Critical 9.9 AI Gateway Flaw Allowing Command Execution on Self-Hosted Servers

A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance to AI models, and only organizations that host their own gateway need to act. The flaw is fixed in gateway versions…

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Threats

Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar, involves the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed…

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Research

OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. "Our…

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Vulnerabilities

CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2026-102489 Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability CVE-2026-102490 Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper Privilege Management Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber…

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Vulnerabilities

Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report

The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides. Then a board member asks three questions: How secure is the…

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Research

Android 17 Advanced Protection Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Accessibility Tools

Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major…

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Vulnerabilities

Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score: 9.8), allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files…

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