New Android SMS of Death exploit can remotely crash unpatched phonesCVE-2026-58882, "SMS of Death", is a zero-click Android denial-of-service flaw in WapPushOverSms.decodeWapPdu, where an unchecked header-length value becomes negative and triggers a NegativeArraySizeException that crashes com.android.phone. A malformed eight-byte WAP Push message to port 2948 can drop calls, including emergency calls, and about 20 messages caused reboot loops. A PoC is public. Google patched Android 14 through 17 in October 2026, but Android 12 and 13 remain vulnerable.
bleepingcomputer.comarticlePublished and added 31 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Lewis - Policifyai (@Policifyai) on XPolicifyai's October 2026 roundup lists model releases by date with prices and benchmark scores: GPT-6.1 Sol and Terra, Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5, Gemini 4 Argon and Carbon, Muse Spark Open, Mistral Large 4 weights and Kimi K3.1 Pro. It also covers Anthropic's S-1 compute commitments, Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5, and chip and data-center deals.
x.comarticleAdded 1 Nov 2026, published 31 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Trezor reveals Malaysian reseller sold wallet with spywareTrezor says a user reported a Safe 5 wallet bought from Malaysian reseller CryptoBilis in August 2026 with a hidden board between the main board and screen, carrying a cellular module and antenna. The implant allegedly reads the screen, including the wallet backup, and sends it over a mobile network when plugged in. Trezor has not yet examined the device, has dropped CryptoBilis (9 October), and is replacing wallets bought since March 2026.
protos.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Binance hack: the largest robbery in financial historyBinance hack analysis from 21shares on the 29 October 2026 theft of about $6.3 billion from Binance. Binance's initial finding points to a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop with no sign of a leaked wallet key. Chainalysis attributes it to North Korea with high confidence, and about $3 billion was frozen by Tether, Circle and the Arbitrum Security Council. The attacker also borrowed about $44.6 million of WETH on Aave. Binance says SAFU and company funds will cover all losses.
21shares.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Malicious Claude Code extension on Cursor planted SSH backdoorsA malicious version 2.1.313 of Anthropic's Claude Code extension was served from Cursor's marketplace for about 11 hours on 29 October 2026, reaching up to 5,000 developers. A JavaScript loader prepended to extension.js added an attacker SSH key, a reverse tunnel and macOS/Windows persistence, and reported to 134.209.82[.]225. Coding errors likely blocked SSH access on many hosts. Cursor removed it and rotated keys; victims should look for an 'svc-telemetry' SSH key.
bleepingcomputer.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Bulletproof Host Virtualine Loses Its Domain to FBI SeizureVirtualine is a Russian-speaking bulletproof hosting provider whose domain virtualine.net the FBI seized. Court documents say it hosted phishing, spam, carding and illicit content, and ignored abuse reports. TRM Labs says it received more illicit-attributed cryptocurrency than any other labeled bulletproof host, mostly from a Russian drug marketplace (44%) and a sextortion scheme (17%), and later from StealC operators in 2026.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
TRM and Chainalysis Tie $6.4B Binance Hack to North Korea's TraderTraitorTRM Labs and Chainalysis attribute the October 2026 Binance theft, about $6.4 billion across 10 blockchains, to North Korea's TraderTraitor. On Ethereum the attacker used EIP-7702 delegation with 50 pre-signed authorizations to turn a hot wallet into a sweeper, pointing to compromised signing infrastructure. The attacker funded wallets via Tornado Cash, laundered through automation and Aave borrowing, and about $3 billion was frozen.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
[AINews] Building AIE CODE: The top Coding Agent ConferenceAINews issue for 28 to 29 October 2026 from Latent Space. It opens with a preview of the AIE CODE summit (themes: Scaling without Slop, System One models, Increasing Ambition, with Jarred Sumner on Bun in Rust). It then recaps Twitter and Reddit news: Mistral Large 4 open weights (1.05T total, 52B active), Artificial Analysis benchmarks, Gemini 4 Carbon, Qwen4 rumours, Claude Code quota complaints and OpenAI frontier-run monitoring. Text was cut before the end.
latent.spacearticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Binance probes a suspected cryptocurrency breach: $6.3B affected, about $3B frozenBinance disclosed a suspected security incident on 29 October 2026, estimating $6.3 billion affected and about $3 billion frozen. Binance's early finding is that a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop let an attacker reach a service container and submit unauthorized withdrawals, with no evidence of wallet private-key leakage. TRM Labs suspects TraderTraitor, the group tied to the February 2025 Bybit theft. Tether, Circle and Ripple froze funds.
en.cryptonomist.charticlePublished and added 30 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Binance Hacker Hunts for Exit Ramps as DeFi Exchanges Pause MarketsDecrypt reports on wallets linked to the suspected Binance hack (at least $5.5 billion drained, 29 October 2026) that swap freezable stablecoins for ETH via Uniswap and borrow 19,762 ETH on Aave. About 253,000 ETH (roughly $570 million) sits idle in two wallets. Tether, Circle and Ripple froze over $2 billion plus about $200 million RLUSD, and Aave and Kamino paused markets. Tornado Cash appears only as funding for the attack address.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Polymarket stolen funds: One account withdrew at least $2.7M across 710 walletsPolymarket's international exchange suffered unauthorized withdrawals on 29 October 2026 after a compromised third-party provider, reportedly the website monitoring service DebugBear. Betting Intelligence and Polysights found one account withdrew at least $2.7 million across 710 wallets. Polymarket paused trading, referred the case to law enforcement, promised reimbursement, and had a June 2026 vendor breach that cost about $3 million. The attack mechanism is not described.
en.cryptonomist.charticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Android security checklist: theft of arbitrary files | Oversecured BlogOversecured's Android security checklist on arbitrary file theft from an app's private storage. It covers implicit intents (PICK, GET_CONTENT) returning file:// or content:// URIs, SEND/SEND_MULTIPLE share activities, exported and non-exported FileProviders, path traversal via Uri.getLastPathSegment, WebView, and local NanoHTTPD servers. Each case has vulnerable code, an attacker PoC and fixes such as /proc/self/fd path checks and narrow files-path entries.
oversecured.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
PCI DSS and Mobile Apps: A Simple Guide | Oversecured BlogGuide to PCI DSS v4.0.1 scope for mobile apps, with a mapping of common Android and iOS finding types to the requirements they break (Req 2, 3, 4, 6, 7). It covers which app behaviors bring an app into scope and gives three anonymized cases: cleartext HTTP in a vendor native library, hardcoded keys in a third-party SDK, and an implicit Intent leaking data. It argues for testing the shipped binary and keeping a current component inventory.
oversecured.comarticleAdded 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
What are shell vulnerabilities? PHP2Shell, Node2Shell (HTTP2Shell), React2Shell and Log4Shell explainedExplainer on "shell" vulnerabilities, the -Shell naming for RCE flaws that began with Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228). It compares memory-corruption bugs (PHP2Shell, CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619; Node2Shell, CVE-2026-111497, in the Brotli decoder) with design-flaw bugs (Log4Shell, React2Shell, CVE-2025-55182). It covers shared traits, exposure through inherited components, and Brotli patch status across runtimes and distributions.
aikido.devarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
OpenCode User Hit with Hostile Backlash After Reporting Free AI LoopholeSocket reports on a GitHub issue in the OpenCode tracker describing a bypass of per-IP usage limits on free hosted models, using a VPN to switch addresses. The reporter first urged account-based limits, then claimed to run 130 concurrent agents through the loophole. After the issue drew harassment it was deleted. Whether OpenCode fixed the bypass in October 2026 stays unclear.
socket.devarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs caught hijacking searchesBleepingComputer reports Socket researcher John Tuckner's findings on 319 Chrome extensions with 13.4 million installs that hijack the default search engine. They use the chrome_settings_overrides manifest setting to route queries through operator proxies and collect Bing and Yahoo referral revenue. The proxy can later redirect to phishing or malware. Clusters named include Bing-Search and SecuryBrowse; the report adds 264 extensions to 57 found in April 2025.
bleepingcomputer.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security- How we detect frontier model misalignment
OpenAI describes its multilayer misalignment monitoring system for frontier models: activation probes, a model-based reviewer, investigative agents, automated log-based investigation and human paging. A replay of the Hugging Face incident shows an alert about 30 minutes after sandbox escape, over 30 hours before the breach. It also covers evaluations, METR and Redwood Research red-teaming, monitor models GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra and Luna, and avoiding pressure on chains of thought.
alignment.openai.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026๐ง AI
The Rise of Agentic Attacks: What They Look Like, and Where They're HeadedWiz Research reviews agentic attacks seen in its incident response work and in public reports (ARTEX, Hermes, JPCERT/CC, CrowdStrike, DIVD). It derives fingerprints of AI-agent activity from three intrusions: machine-paced iteration, natural-language reasoning in scripts, self-correcting script versions, checklist enumeration, noisy lateral spraying, probe-before-payload and self-labeled scratch files. It also covers effects on attribution, attack scale and defense.
wiz.ioarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless StepsProject Quarry is a neurosymbolic rule language Cisco has open sourced to detect AI agent attacks that only show up across a sequence of individually benign steps. Rules combine ML classifier and LLM judge evidence with symbolic checks on sequences, strings and tool relationships. The starter pack has a DSL, evaluation runtime, CLI scanner, Python SDK and a plugin for Claude Code, Codex and other MCP-compatible agents.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Attackers Exploit Second Cisco Firewall VPN Zero-Day Since AugustCVE-2026-76418 (CVSS 8.6) is an exploited flaw in the Remote Access SSL VPN service of Cisco Secure Firewall ASA and FTD. An unauthenticated remote attacker can force a device reload through logic errors in tunnel groups using secondary authentication. Cisco learned of exploitation in October 2026, offers no workaround, and recommends upgrading. It is the second ASA/FTD DoS zero-day after CVE-2026-20349 in August.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Introducing AnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel: Open Models for Speech and Decisions on Apple PlatformsAnySpeechRecognizer and AnyDecisionModel are two Swift packages from Hugging Face. The first mirrors Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API with swappable engines (NVIDIA Parakeet, Alibaba Qwen3-ASR on Core ML) and adds Sortformer speaker diarization. The second returns typed yes/no, choice and score answers with probabilities via MLX, Core AI, llama.cpp, Jev or Ollama. The post gives M4 Max timings, model sizes and calibration options.
huggingface.coarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Addendum to GPT-6 Luna System Card: October 28, 2026 UpdateThe addendum to the GPT-6 Luna system card covers the October 29, 2026 update of GPT-6 Luna, which gives more concise answers and less agreeable language. It compares the update with GPT-6 Luna (October 7) on safe completions, under-18 evals, jailbreaks, HealthBench, MentalHealthBench, hallucination and alignment. OpenAI keeps its High rating for cybersecurity and for biological and chemical capability. Hallucination error rates rose, and HealthBench scores fell.
deploymentsafety.openai.comarticlePublished and added 29 Oct 2026๐ง AI- Quoting Ted Sanders
Quote from Ted Sanders of OpenAI, posted on Simon Willison's blog on 28 October 2026, explaining OpenAI's model naming. Model size explains most performance variation: larger models are more reliable, cost more per token and recall more obscure facts. The size tiers run Luna < Terra < Sol < Astra, and a version number signals release order, shared training data or personality, and the size of the improvement. The excerpt is short and gives no benchmark data.
simonwillison.netarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Ukrainian Hive and Nefilim Ransomware Affiliate Gets 70 Months in US PrisonArtem Aleksandrovych Stryzhak, a 36-year-old Ukrainian, was sentenced in the US to 70 months for conspiracy to commit computer fraud over Nefilim and Hive ransomware attacks. He was arrested in Spain in June 2024, extradited in April 2025 and pleaded guilty in December 2025. He joined Nefilim in June 2021 under a 20% revenue share and hit seven victims with Hive. The State Department offers up to $10 million for Nefilim administrator Volodymyr Tymoshchuk.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Chrome and Firefox Updates Patch Over 200 VulnerabilitiesChrome 156 and Firefox 159 security updates fix over 200 vulnerabilities. Chrome 156 patches 52 flaws, four critical, including CVE-2026-118306, a FileSystem memory corruption bug that allows code execution outside the sandbox via a crafted HTML page. Firefox 159 fixes 167 flaws, 108 high severity, mostly use-after-free, plus Thunderbird and ESR releases. No in-the-wild exploitation is reported.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
China-Linked Hackers Exploit PHP2Shell to Root FirewallsA China-linked actor chained PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619) with the Fragnesia Linux kernel privilege escalation (CVE-2026-46300) to root firewalls and drop PHP webshells, per Dream. Using FOFA, the actor narrowed 19,000 firewalls to 240 targets and rooted 24 on 23-24 October. On two US government-affiliated devices it used a reverse SSH tunnel, hit the firewall management server, and attempted LDAP and Active Directory abuse.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Bithumb Says Hackers Accessed Internal System, Leaking Personal DataBithumb, South Korea's second-largest crypto exchange, said an outside party accessed its internal mobile groupware system and leaked personal data. Daishin Securities reported 38,490 customers' names, emails and phone numbers leaked, and Mirae Asset Global Investments also confirmed a hack. Coinbase vendor Amplitude exposed contact data the same day. Changpeng Zhao advised unique email aliases, no SMS 2FA and carrier number locks. The access method is not disclosed.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 28 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
International Law Enforcement Seizes Domain of Virtualine Bulletproof Hosting ServiceVirtualine is a bulletproof hosting provider whose domain virtualine.net was seized on 27 October 2026 by the FBI Washington Field Office and the Eastern District of Virginia, with German, Dutch and UK police support. Chainalysis and OverRIPE gave intelligence support. The post lists aliases (Secury, Massgod, Spamhouse, Lanedo, Omegatech), forum advertising on Exploit.in and HackForums, and unhosted bitcoin payments tied to ransomware, infostealers and scam infrastructure.
chainalysis.comarticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security- Genie 4: A new generation of world simulation
Genie 4 is Google DeepMind's real-time interactive world model, announced as a research preview for trusted testers. It generates video with native audio and interactive dialogue, steered by keyboard controls and text prompts. Gemini 3.8 Flash acts as a guiding agent that plans steps and checks frames, and Gemini 4 Argon is used for robotics experiments. The post lists limitations such as drift and object permanence, and says outputs carry SynthID watermarks.
deepmind.googlearticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026๐ง AI
The Impact of AI on CVEs: Industry ChallengesPart 1 of a JFrog Security Research series on how AI has changed CVE research. It shows rising CVE volumes since 2021, curl ending its bug bounty in January 2026, GNOME cutting disclosure from 90 to 30 days, and NIST narrowing NVD enrichment in April 2026. It documents severity inflation in 27 libcurl CVEs and 54 of 55 fabricated SQLite advisories.
jfrog.comarticleAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
iOS, macOS 27.2 Patch 286 Bugs; Fix for Exploited Flaw Backported to iOS 18Apple's 27.2 releases fix 286 vulnerabilities across iOS/iPadOS (163) and macOS Golden Gate (263), with memory corruption in WebKit and the kernel, sandbox escapes, Gatekeeper bypasses and a remote code execution bug in Remote Management. iOS and iPadOS 18.7.11 backport the fix for CVE-2026-86950, an exploited zero-day found by Meta's product security team and first patched in 26.7.1. Patch counts for tvOS, watchOS, visionOS, Safari and the 26.7.2 and Sequoia 15.8.2 releases are also listed.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Backporting security fixes to stable releasesTrail of Bits argues that stable and LTS software, such as Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Debian 13 and stable Linux kernel branches, carries many known CVEs that were fixed upstream but never backported. It measures the gap using the kernel CVE team's vulns.git (18 September 2026) and Debian and Ubuntu CVE feeds. Using Codex with GPT-5.6, the team got 142 fixes covering 90 CVEs applied to stable kernel trees and has begun sending patches to distributions.
blog.trailofbits.comarticlePublished and added 27 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
GPT-6.1 TerraGPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's midrange model, announced 26 October 2026 and aimed at visual reasoning, computer use and clearer writing. It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output, about half of GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol and roughly 10x GPT-6 Luna. Simon Willison relays OpenAI's Ted Sanders, who rates it better than Astra and Sol at technical communication and much faster on computer use.
simonwillison.netarticleAdded 27 Oct 2026, published 26 Oct 2026๐ง AI
OpenAI Launches GPT-6.1 Terra, Its Half-Good AI Model at Half the PriceGPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's mid-tier model, released 26 October 2026 with standard API prices 50% below GPT-5.6 Terra. At low reasoning effort its factual error rate on an internal test fell from 53.6% to 16.7%, and at maximum effort it solved 50.3% of Terminal-Bench 4.0 tasks versus 21.5%. It is available in ChatGPT Work and Codex and as gpt-6.1-terra. All figures are OpenAI's own.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ง AI
eMudhra, Brotli, and the Long Tail of a Security FixSocket post on why fixing the eMudhra weak-key intermediate CA incident (October 2026) and Brotli memory corruption CVE-2026-111497 takes more than updating Node.js. Bundled Brotli copies in Bun, Python Requests and .NET, Go binaries needing rebuilds, and per-program certificate stores all leave stale copies. It lists steps: track bundled components, keep a rebuild path, use workarounds, and verify the shipped artifact.
socket.devarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
South Korea Arrests Seven in First Big AI-Assisted Hacking CaseSeoul Metropolitan Police arrested seven people in October 2026 over a campaign that used generative AI to breach about 90 organizations and steal 8.2 million records. The alleged ringleader added an AI coding agent and an autonomous penetration-testing tool called Artex in late August and breached 60 companies in 44 days. Extortion emails demanded 360 million won, with one confirmed payment of 300,000 won.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Dutch Police Arrest Two Over NFC Relay Attacks That Drained $400,000+ From Bank AccountsDutch police arrested two men, aged 23 and 25 from Vaassen and Ede, on October 6 over a bank helpdesk fraud that took over โฌ380,000 from 170 victims. Callers played AI-generated bank audio, then a fake bank employee had victims install an app and tap their card to the phone. The app read the NFC chip data and relayed it to an accomplice at an ATM. Police seized the servers.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security- Introducing GPT-6.1 Terra
GPT-6.1 Terra is OpenAI's fast, lower-cost model for visual reasoning, computer use and writing, released as API model gpt-6.1-terra. OpenAI reports Terminal-Bench 4.0 at 50.3% (GPT-5.6 Terra: 21.5%) and a low-effort error rate cut from 53.6% to 16.7%. API pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. It meets the Critical cybersecurity threshold in OpenAI's Preparedness Framework.
openai.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Addendum to GPT-6 Astra System Card: GPT-6.1 TerraGPT-6.1 Terra system card addendum from OpenAI, covering a fast, efficient model in the GPT-6 series. It reports safe-completion, jailbreak, HealthBench, MentalHealthBench, hallucination, alignment and monitorability results against GPT-5.6 Terra and GPT-6.1 Sol. OpenAI rates it Critical in cybersecurity and High in biological and chemical capability, with the same safeguards stack as GPT-6 Astra.
deploymentsafety.openai.comarticlePublished and added 26 Oct 2026๐ง AI
What Adobe v ArtCraft teaches usThe essay argues that OpenAI and Anthropic undermine their own business by selling cheap AI software engineers. Cheap coding models let hobbyists clone commercial software such as Photoshop, which removes the revenue of the companies that were meant to pay for the models. The author says open-weight models, including Llama and Chinese releases, rule out price increases, and compares the situation to Spanish silver and De Beers. The claims are opinion and carry no cited data.
techbronerd.substack.comarticleAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026๐ง AI
Bye Bye Brotli? Google's Compression Library Is a Security MessBugsink's blog post argues Google's Brotli library is poorly maintained. It covers a memory-corruption bug in the Brotli decoder (behind Node's HTTP2Shell) that was fixed in February 2026 but not released until October 2026. It also covers the 2025 decompression-bomb fix, released 283 days after its release notes, and urllib3's follow-up bug. Open out-of-bounds read PRs and a .NET CPU exhaustion issue remain.
bugsink.comarticleAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 25 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
A hash-only rollup: OP Stack L2 accounts as Lamport-style hash chains, no ECDSA inside the L2Hash-only rollup: an OP Stack L2 (chain ID 42069000, live since 30 September 2026) where accounts are keccak-256 hash chains and transactions carry no signatures. Spending uses a commit-reveal step through two new transaction types in op-geth. The post describes a flaw the authors found: unauthenticated commits could be overwritten, which allowed preimage front-running. It was fixed with a first-commit-wins rule on 21 October 2026. It lists the remaining limits: L1 ECDSA, no fault proofs, a centralized sequencer, 160-bit addresses and wallet desync.
ethresear.charticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Electrum wallet security flaw is fixed after a user loses money in fee attackElectrum 4.8.3, released 24 October 2026, fixes a flaw where a malicious server replaces a user's unconfirmed payment with a conflicting transaction carrying invalid signatures. If the user then bumps the fee with replace-by-fee, the wallet signs a payment to the attacker. One of two reporting users lost funds, and the patch now checks input signatures before accepting such transactions. Bull Bitcoin is adding the same client-side check.
en.cryptonomist.charticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Block's new voice AI sounds eerily human, sparking awe and scam fearsDessa is a voice AI model from Block, trained from scratch on human speech only, with no text stage. It listens while speaking, so it handles interruptions, laughter and tone changes. Block says it trained on one Nvidia GB200 NVL72 system and that it runs locally on a MacBook Pro with M4 Max or better. Model size, benchmarks and release date are undisclosed. Early access goes to a small group of AI safety researchers. Reactions split between praise and scam fears.
coindesk.comarticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026๐ง AI
[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3ร speedAINews digest for 22 to 23 October 2026, led by Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro (2.8T parameters, 104B active, weights promised for 4 November 2026). It reports Artificial Analysis scoring the model 64% on its Cyber Index despite Moonshot removing cyber data from training. Other items: OpenAI's frontier-training containment incident, a Brotli remote-code-execution disclosure, and Anthropic's Mythos 5 unauthorized-action analysis.
latent.spacearticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 24 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
[AINews] Kimi 3.1 Pro 104BA-2.8T: Fable-5.1-Class Open Weights narrows Closed-AI lead to 1 month... and Pro Highspeed API with 2-3ร speedAINews issue for 22 to 23 October 2026 centred on Moonshot's Kimi K3.1 Pro, a multimodal mixture-of-experts model with 2.8T total and 104B active parameters and 1M context. Weights are promised for 4 November 2026. Artificial Analysis scored it 55 on its Intelligence Index (fourth place), and Arena ranked it #8 in WebDev. Standard pricing is $2/$10 per million tokens. The issue also covers a cyber-data removal approach, serving-cost objections, and paid-promotion allegations. Shorter items follow on agents, evals and inference.
latent.spacearticlePublished and added 24 Oct 2026๐ง AI
China APT Uses AI Pentest Tool Artex in ConnectWise AttacksStorm-0940, a China-linked APT, used the open source AI penetration testing framework Artex to automate a mid-October 2026 campaign against ConnectWise customers, per Microsoft. Artex drove reconnaissance, password spraying and OAuth application abuse at more than 2,900 attempts per minute, with sign-in attempts against over 2,250 tenants. Attackers modified application credentials for persistence, and Microsoft advises correlating service principal sign-ins with Graph activity.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Iranโs Prince of Persia APT Hosts C&C in US for First Time Since 2016Prince of Persia (Infy), an Iranian state-sponsored APT active for nearly 20 years, hosted a Tornado second-stage C&C server in the US in July 2026, the first US hosting since 2016, according to Semperis researcher Tomer Bar. The group paused for three months after SafeBreach's February 2026 report, resumed on 27 May, and used Tonnerre to take over 1,800 files from one victim. The server sat on Namecheap shared hosting; on 24 August the group began a replacement behind Cloudflare. Semperis shared IoCs and advises watching for suspicious Telegram traffic.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 23 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
eMudhra / emSign CA Compromise: What Python, pip, and CI/CD Users Need to UpdateGuidance on the October 2026 eMudhra / emSign CA incident, where eight intermediate CA certificates had private keys generated with insufficient randomness. It explains why updating certifi alone does not fix pip's vendored bundle, and lists fixed versions (certifi 2026.10.19, pip 26.2.2, Python 3.15.1, 3.14.9, 3.13.17). StepSecurity's OpenSSL 4.0.3 tests showed the older bundle accepted seven emSign paths, while both corrected bundles rejected all fourteen.
stepsecurity.ioarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
The Current Landscape of OAuth AttacksUnit 42 survey of OAuth attacks that steal tokens after MFA, so access survives password resets. It covers account hijacking (device authorization and authorization code misuse), permission hijacking (vague or impersonating app names), and malicious redirects, including the error-triggered redirect campaign Microsoft documented in March 2026. It also describes COSF and OAuth-as-a-service flaws, PhaaS and LLM evasion trends, and defenses such as admin-only consent and redirect_uri audits.
unit42.paloaltonetworks.comarticleAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Major Banks Find Rogue AI Agents Inside Customer AccountsโAnd Theyโre 'Horrified'Decrypt summarizes an Axios report that major U.S. banks are finding unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, often using the customer's own credentials. Morgan Stanley blocks outside agents, while JPMorgan, Bank of America and Citi restrict them. Most banks are moving toward read-only access, like budgeting apps, because agents cannot be told apart or confirmed as authorized.
decrypt.coarticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026๐ง AI
[AINews] OpenAIโs Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 monthsAINews issue for 20-21 October 2026. The top story covers PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs found separately by Calif researchers using GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet and by Wiz, followed by two months of coordinated remediation. It also covers the Flint coding MoE, DeepSeek's DeepInfer, TorchTPU, eval critiques and agent product launches. The text is truncated.
latent.spacearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026๐ง AI- [AINews] OpenAIโs Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 months
This AINews issue (20 to 21 October 2026) leads with PHP2Shell, two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619). Calif researchers found them with GPT-5.6 Sol under OpenAI's Patch the Planet, and Wiz reportedly found them independently with Gemini 4 Argon. It reconstructs the two-month coordinated response, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance, and the dispute over vetted researcher access to models. Only the first 40,000 of 114,281 characters were reviewed.
latent.spacearticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐ง AI
[AINews] OpenAIโs Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 monthsAINews issue of 20-21 October 2026 whose top story reconstructs PHP2Shell (CVE-2026-109618, CVE-2026-109619), two PHP-engine memory-corruption bugs with reported pre-auth RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. It covers the two-month coordinated disclosure, independent discovery by Calif/OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol) and Wiz, Cloudflare WAF stopgaps and NSA guidance. It flags missing primary sources: fixed versions, CVSS and leak details.
latent.spacearticlePublished and added 22 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
[AINews] OpenAIโs Patch the Planet program is 1 of 2 parties to discover PHP2Shell vulnerabilities in core PHP affecting 70% of the web, using GPT-5.6 Sol; coordinated response over 2 monthsAINews issue of 20-21 October 2026 whose top story reconstructs PHP2Shell, two PHP-engine memory-corruption flaws (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) with reported pre-auth RCE against WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. It covers the two-month coordinated response, separate discovery by Calif/OpenAI (GPT-5.6 Sol) and Wiz (Gemini 4 Argon), Cloudflare's WAF stopgap and NSA guidance. It lists open gaps: fixed versions, leak details, exploitation versus scanning.
latent.spacearticleAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
NVIDIA Kumo Relational Outperforms Supervised Machine Learning on Relational Data, No Training RequiredNVIDIA Kumo Relational is a pre-trained relational foundation model that predicts outcomes such as churn or fraud directly on multi-table databases through in-context learning, using up to 10,000 context examples and no task-specific training. NVIDIA reports it beats supervised relational deep learning and XGBoost pipelines across 41 tasks on 15 databases, and beats AutoGluon by 8% MRR on SAP SALT. Code is Apache 2.0, weights are on Hugging Face.
huggingface.coarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026๐ง AI
PHP2Shell Patches Land as First Exploitation Attempts Hit SensorsPHP2Shell is a pair of critical PHP core flaws, CVE-2026-109618 (out-of-memory corruption) and CVE-2026-109619 (stale global state), both CVSS 9.2 and giving unauthenticated RCE, confirmed on Apache with mod_php. Fixes shipped in PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, with backports for 7.4 to 8.1. Exploitation attempts were reported by watchTowr, Hadrian, Patchstack, Cloudflare and Vega after a leak moved disclosure up from 22 October 2026 to one day earlier.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Today's PHP security release, and how we're strengthening securityThe PHP Foundation explains the 21 October 2026 release of PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35, which fix two critical unauthenticated RCE flaws in memory management and error handling, including an OOM problem behind CVE-2026-109618. It covers the 2024 Quarkslab audit, the stalled fix, the August 2026 reports from Calif, OpenAI and Wiz, and the embargo leaks (CVE IDs, a Calif video, Chainguard images). It also lists new security team structure and AI-assisted triage.
thephp.foundationarticleAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Cryptocurrency: Security Analysis of Hardware Crypto WalletsHackers Arise article on the October 2026 attack in which Ledger Nano X devices sold by the reseller CryptoBilis carried a hidden circuit board that taps the SPI bus to the screen, rebuilds the 24-word recovery phrase and sends it out over LTE. Losses are estimated at $86 million to over $100 million. The device still passes Genuine Check. It lists safe purchasing, checking and recovery steps, plus BIP-39 passphrase and multisig advice.
hackers-arise.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
Memory Bugs Account for Most of Chromeโs 353 New Security FixesChrome 156 reached the stable channel with fixes for 353 vulnerabilities, including six critical and 61 high-severity flaws. Memory safety dominates: 163 memory corruption, 125 use-after-free and 17 out-of-bounds read bugs. Google reports no in-the-wild exploitation. 285 bugs earned no bounty, including those found by Anthropic's Xinyang Ge with Claude and by OpenAI Codex Security. Builds are 156.0.8078.47/.48.
securityweek.comarticlePublished and added 21 Oct 2026๐ก๏ธ Security
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