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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a previously unseen variant of the DarkSword iOS exploit kit called P7 DarkSword . "Compared with the variants we usually observe, P7 reduces its on-device footprint, adds on-device keychain and crypto-wallet theft, and adds two way C2 communication with the attacker's infrastructure," iVerify said in a new report published Thursday. The name "P7" is a nod to the threat actor's use of the "p7_" variable prefix in changes made to the original DarkSword code. DarkSword was first publicly documented earlier this March by Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), iVerify, and Lookout, detailing its ability to target iPhones running iOS versions between iOS 18.4 and 18.7. The kit was detected in the wild in November 2025. The toolkit is engineered to chain multiple iOS vulnerabilities to escape the browser sandbox, escalate to kernel privileges, and inject the main payload into SpringBoard, t...

Four more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with   Texas filing a suit in February . Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link  denies the claims  and says it will fight them in court. TP-Link Systems is based in Irvine, California. Until a 2024 restructuring, it was affiliated with TP-Link Technologies, a Chinese company that the suits do not name as a defendant. The complaints from  Florida ,  Montana  , and  Nebraska  do not allege that the Chinese government has obtained customers' data through TP-Link. They describe that as a risk under Chinese law. Separately, they say state-backed hackers have exploited flaws in TP-Link routers. Iowa's announcement is worded more strongly in places. Attorney General Brenna Bird's office said TP-Link firmware gives the Chinese governm...

Security researchers have  published a full working exploit  for a pre-authentication remote code execution flaw in AnyDesk Linux that gives attackers root access before anyone approves the connection. AnyDesk patched the flaw in version 8.0.3 in June, but its  changelog  described the fix only as "fixed a bug that could lead to a crash," with no CVE assigned and no security advisory. The exploit, called AnyPwn, targets a heap buffer overflow in AnyDesk's session protocol, a remote desktop tool. The code was released on GitHub on October 8. Administrators should update AnyDesk Linux to at least version 8.0.3. The latest release is 8.1.0. What the Exploit Demonstrates The published exploit works only over direct TCP connections on port 7070. The exploit is probabilistic: the heap layout must place a target object adjacent to the overflowed buffer; otherwise, the service crashes instead of executing the attacker's command. The offsets in the published code...

Anthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said . "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." Anthropic also noted that the outputs of the scanner will be fully model-generated and do not require human review or triage, thereby facilitating faster and more frequent scanning. These reports are expected to be generated by its strongest models, including Claude Mythos. The company pointed out that it expects to use a set of criteria similar to Google's OSS-Fuzz to pick projects, while emphasizing that the process may evolve over time. Project maintainers are advised to provide a short description  explaining the importance of their project in cases where "...

Threat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below - CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java" component. CVE-2026-105134 (CVSS v4 score: 9.3) - An operating system command injection vulnerability in the Replication Receiver component. A remote attacker could chain the two vulnerabilities to bypass authentication and execute arbitrary commands on affected systems. It's worth noting that CVE identifiers for these flaws were not published until October 4, 2026. According to Huntress, exploitation efforts aimed at the two flaws began on October 7, 2026, at 11:20 p.m. UTC, with unidentified threat actors weaponizing them to achieve remote code execution on impacted hosts...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added five security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, following their abuse by a China-linked threat actor known as Flax Typhoon. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below - CVE-2015-3306 (CVSS score: 10.0) - An improper access control vulnerability in ProFTPD that could allow remote attackers to read and write to arbitrary files via the site cpfr and site cpto commands. CVE-2021-3199 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A path traversal vulnerability in ONLYOFFICE Docs that can occur when JSON Web Token (JWT) is used, via a "/.." sequence in an image upload parameter and could allow for remote code execution. CVE-2023-22894 (CVSS score: 7.2) - A cleartext storage of sensitive information vulnerability in Strapi that could allow an attacker with access to the admin panel to discover sensitive user details via the query filter. CVE-2016-3081 (CVSS score: 8.1) - A...

A bug in GoBalance , a tool many dark-web sites use to stay reachable during attacks, lets anyone work out the secret key that controls a site's .onion address using only public information, and then take that address over. Searchlight Cyber, which  disclosed the flaw  on October 8, says an attacker who recovers the key can redirect the site's visitors to a copy of the site they control. Taking over the address does not grant the attacker access to the site's servers, database, or stored user data. How the Flaw Works An .onion address is really  a public key , so whoever holds the matching private key controls the address. To stay reachable, a site publishes a signed record, called a descriptor, that anyone on the Tor network can fetch, and GoBalance signs that record. The flaw is in the signing step. A Tor private key is  64 bytes  long, but GoBalance passed only the first 32 bytes to the signer and dropped the rest. The dropped half is the part that k...

Three research teams broke into Google's Pixel 10 on October 8 at Pwn2Own Ireland, a hacking contest in Cork whose rules require every target to be fully patched. The contest pays researchers to show working exploits and passes the flaws to the vendors. One of the three Pixel exploits earned Ikotas Labs $300,000, the contest's top prize, and made the team the overall winner. Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI), which runs Pwn2Own,  posted the results  but had not published how the three exploits work as of October 9. The wins were demonstrations on contest phones, and at least two of the three used a bug that was already known before the attempt. The  contest rules  require each entry to use bugs that are not already known to the vendor or to the organizer. An entry that uses an already-known bug, which ZDI calls a collision, can still be accepted at a lower prize. The three Pixel 10 wins, in the order they happened: Team ...

Citrix has released patches for yet another critical security flaw impacting NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that could result in remote code execution or denial-of-service (DoS) under certain conditions. " CVE-2026-107406 is a memory overflow vulnerability that may lead to remote code execution or denial-of-service under specific configuration conditions," Citrix said. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 9.5 out of 10.0. There is no evidence that the issue has been exploited in the wild. Citrix has credited Michael Tucker, Chew Keong Tan, and Alex Bernier of the JPMorgan Chase XOR Team, along with Maxim Suhanov, for discovering and reporting the flaw. Successful exploitation hinges on the NetScaler deployments being configured as a SAML identity provider (IdP) or service provider (SP). Customers can determine if their instances meet the criteria by checking the configuration for entries like below - SAML SP: add authentication samlAction SAML IdP: ...

Hackers tied to a Chinese cybersecurity company stole email from government organizations, law enforcement agencies, healthcare systems, and religious institutions in Southeast Asia, the FBI and agencies in 6 other countries said on October 8. The company, Integrity Technology Group , has been sanctioned by the U.S. and the UK. The hackers scanned websites for flaws using a tool containing more than 1,300 scripts, guessed passwords for Microsoft 365 and Exchange accounts, and copied mailboxes using tools designed to collect mail. The hackers have been breaking into networks since at least mid-January 2021, according to the agencies'  joint advisory . It describes the hacking in the present tense but provides no date for any theft and does not specify how many organizations were breached. The same hackers targeted U.S. government services, critical manufacturing, healthcare, and IT organizations, along with U.S. law enforcement, education, and religious groups. Organizations ...

The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided to keep the profits for himself. Elsewhere, an attacker left a server exposed, complete with tools and traces of an intrusion. Apparently, keeping things secure is a problem on both sides of the fence. The rest of the week isn't much more reassuring. Malicious code turned up in developer packages and extensions that looked harmless. Familiar online services helped phishing emails appear legitimate. A basic file upload flaw gave attackers a way in, while weak session cookies made impersonation far too easy. Even AI assistants are getting their own instructions hidden inside phishing messages now. What's interesting is the gap between effort and results. Some attacks involve several stages, careful timing, and plenty of tricks. Others get surprisingly far because of a bad design choice or something nobody bothered to check. Both seem to be working well enough. Anyway, here's what else turned u...

Attackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known software flaws, the JPCERT Coordination Center (JPCERT/CC) said. The Tokyo-based center, which takes incident reports, based its  October 8, 2026 alert  on those reports and other information. The alert names no attacker and no affected organization. JPCERT/CC called what it knows "limited and fragmentary" in the alert, translated here from Japanese. It said its account does not mean the same method was used in every incident. Besides consumer apps, the systems hit include business intelligence (BI) tools and employee-facing management systems that their operators did not expect the public to reach. Data stored in them leaked in some cases. For defenders, the alert includes eight source IP addresses, five User-Agent strings, and a list of API controls, including access controls on every endpoint, public or not. The only product it names a...

The U.S. State Department is offering up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of Zhang Yu, a Chinese national charged in the United States in connection with the 2021 Microsoft Exchange Server attacks known as HAFNIUM. The reward is for information leading to his identification or location, the news outlet  NTD reported  this week, citing a notice from the department's Rewards for Justice program. Zhang remains at large, U.S. authorities say, meaning he has not been arrested. The charges against him have not been tested in court. Rewards for Justice  is the State Department's national security rewards program. It says it has paid more than $250 million to over 125 people since 1984. Zhang is wanted for his alleged role in "malicious cyber activities against U.S. critical infrastructure," NTD quoted the notice as saying. The amount and that wording match an offer the program was already making  in January 2025 . That of...

SonicWall has released hotfixes for four flaws in its SMA1000 appliances, the gateways that give remote workers access to a company's network and applications. The most serious could allow an attacker without a login to send requests through the appliance and reach internal functions. SonicWall rates it 10.0 on the CVSS scale and says it has no evidence that any of the four flaws is being used in attacks. The most serious flaw, tracked as  CVE-2026-102255 , is a server-side request forgery (SSRF) bug in WorkPlace, the portal that SMA1000 users log in to. It exists due to an unintended access path through SonicWall and can be reached before authentication. An attacker who abuses that path could "reach internal functionality and perform unauthorized operations," SonicWall said in its  security advisory , dated October 6, without saying which functions. All four flaws affect SMA1000 models 6210, 7210 and 8200v on these platform-hotfix versions:

A critical vulnerability in LMCache , open-source software that speeds up large language model (LLM) servers such as vLLM, lets an attacker run code on the cache server without logging in, and no fixed version is available. The flaw is in LMCache's  multiprocess mode , where the cache runs as a standalone server that LLM workers reach over the ZeroMQ messaging library. A single network message to that server can run commands as the user the LMCache process runs as. The server can be reached from another machine only when an operator sets it to listen on a routable address, rather than the localhost it uses by default. JFrog disclosed the flaw  on October 7 and assigned it a severity score of 9.8 out of 10, in the critical range, the rating it gives a server bound to a routable address. The vulnerability, tracked as  CVE-2026-105192 , affects LMCache from version 0.3.9, released in October 2025, through 0.5.5, the latest stable release, and is also present in the ...

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new malware family that has been observed targeting exposed artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) infrastructure with an aim to deploy cryptocurrency miners and further expand the scale of the botnet. The financially motivated campaign, dubbed Canto Incognito , has been found to install cryptocurrency miners, including XMRig and Iron, and connects victims to Kryptex, a Russian cryptocurrency mining service. "Compromised hosts are reused to expand the botnet," Lumen Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared with The Hacker News. "Infected servers are turned into scanners and exploit servers, allowing the actor to find and compromise additional vulnerable systems." The malware distributed as part of the campaign has been codenamed PoeLLM owing to what has been described as a "creative" technique that hides the command-and-control (C2) address within a poem the threat actors wr...

Threat actors have begun to exploit a newly disclosed critical security flaw impacting Atlassian Data Center products that could allow access to sensitive files under certain conditions. The arbitrary file access flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS score: 9.3) affects multiple products, including Bitbucket Data Center, Confluence Data Center, Jira Service Management Data Center, Jira Software Data Center, Bamboo Data Center, Crowd Data Center, Crucible, and Fisheye. "This arbitrary file access vulnerability allows an unauthenticated attacker to access specific files within the web application root directory in affected versions," the Australian company said. "Exploitation requires prior knowledge of the target file's exact name and path; this vulnerability does not allow attackers to enumerate or list directory contents. In some configurations, there may be sensitive files present that increase your risk." Atlassian said impacted Atlassian Cloud pro...

If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it discovers, validates, and exploits attack paths autonomously, the way a real attacker would. That promise is worth taking seriously. It’s also worth pressure testing, and three questions do the heavy lifting.  What can the assessment actually prove?   When is that proof produced? And,  How much of your environment does the proof cover?  Most evaluations stop at the first step. However, it’s at the second and third ones where validation programs are won or lost. One note on where we stand: Picus builds and sells autonomous pentesting . That is exactly why we can be precise about where it ends, because the limits belong to the method, not to any vendor's implementation, and no roadmap can remove them. The problem in four numbers Four numbers from this year explain why the second and third questions now c...

Anthropic on Tuesday said it's expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models with reduced safeguards and blocking classifiers, as the company claimed its Project Glasswing initiative uncovered at least 129,000 verified software vulnerabilities between April and July 2026. The company said it also found an additional 5,500 verified software vulnerabilities between April and October 2026 through open-source scanning efforts. "Of these verified vulnerabilities, more than 33,000 have so far been rated as critical- or high-severity," Anthropic said . "This is likely an undercount, as it is based on survey data from only a subset of Glasswing partners. As such, we expect the true impact to be at least five times higher." The updated program, called the Cyber Verification Program (CVP), features three access tiers, allowing organizations and security teams to apply for one that best a...

A malicious spreadsheet can make LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice run an attacker's code as soon as the file is opened, security researchers have shown. There is no warning first, of the kind either program shows before it runs a macro. The attack works only when the program's Java support is enabled. So far, it has only been shown as a proof of concept, and there are no reports of its use in real attacks. LibreOffice has already  fixed the flaw , which it tracks as CVE-2026-63277, in updates released on October 5. It recommends that users move to version 26.2.5 or 26.8.0. Versions before those are affected. Apache OpenOffice has not fixed the matching flaw, which it tracks as CVE-2026-59265. Every version up to and including its current release, 4.1.16, is affected, and the project  says a fix is expected  in version 4.1.17, which is still being tested. Until then, Apache OpenOffice users can block the attack by turning off Java in the program's settings, or by...