Hirudo Android malware replaces banking apps to evade security checks
A new Android malware called Hirudo steals bank account credentials by replacing legitimate banking apps with modified versions that disable security checks. [...]
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1757 notíciasResearchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days
A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the user only loads a web page, the company said. Its researchers built the attack in six days by directing AI agents running OpenAI's public…
Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed to bypass security checks from inside the app itself, marking a new escalation in financial …
Ivanti Connect Secure Zero Day Exploited in Attacks
A high-severity authentication bypass vulnerability has been identified in the Ivanti Connect Secure (Pulse Connect Secure) enterprise-grade SSL VPN that […] The post Ivanti Connect Secure Zero Day Exploited in Attacks appeared first on The HIPAA Journal.
An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.
The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR During an authorized assessment, an AI pentesting agent found a critical authentication bypass on a major insurer's production website, on its own…
Check Point Reports LiteLLM Flaws Enabling Admin Takeover and API Key Theft
Check Point Research found two LiteLLM vulnerabilities that could let low-privilege users execute code, access sensitive files, hijack admin accounts, and steal AI provider API keys.
AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host
A flaw in Linux's vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of kernel versions. In one virtualization setup, it lets an untrusted virtual machine write to the host's memory and hijack the program that runs the vi…
Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave
Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the computer is taken over. The protected area is a VBS enclave, an isolated slice of memory the operating system uses to guard secrets, and the one …
Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?
Organizations are reporting that employees face threats to their families, stalking, physical violence, and abduction. But these alarming claims are hard to verify.
OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly planting spy device in office
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company's San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations. [...]
Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
Ghostscript flaw lets hackers hijack servers via PDF uploads
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files. [...]
AI Scams Target Crypto Users, Not Protocols, and Wallet Security Is Catching Up
Picture a composite case drawn from documented scams where a tech professional spends forty minutes on a video…
North Korea Phishes Ukrainians for War Intel
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.
Anthropic warns self-replicating AI could spread to your smart devices
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers. [...]
Anthropic Finds Ingredients for Future AI Worms
Anthropic's latest study combined IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down.
Microsoft October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes 1,411 flaws, 3 zero-days
Today is Microsoft's October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities. [...]
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Soon Form Self-Propagating IoT Botnets
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…
Attacker Chains Three Ivanti Connect Secure Zero-Days for Root Access, Only Two Patched So Far
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." …
SAP Discloses Critical CVSS 10 Flaw in Cloud SDK for Python Allowing OAuth2 Credential Theft
A flaw in SAP's Cloud SDK for Python can send an application's OAuth2 client credentials to a server an attacker controls, SAP said in a security advisory on October 13. The flaw affects multi-tenant applications on SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) that use the SDK, SAP's o…