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An October cyberattack on refrigeration controllers at about 700 French retail sites was carried out by a cyber unit of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the French government said yesterday. The attackers broke into controllers on the night of October 11 and changed their defrost settings to high temperatures. That caused food losses and, in at least 15 cases, fires. The unit is called Shahid Kaveh . It is known mainly through hacktivist personas, such as CyberAveng3rs and Cyber Isnaad Front , that publicly claim some of its attacks, France says. France's Foreign Ministry plans to summon Iran's ambassador and to ask its European partners to adopt new sanctions against Iranian organizations and individuals involved in the attack. The Paris prosecutor's office opened a judicial investigation yesterday against the unit's head, the head's two deputies and anyone else identified. It has asked for international arrest warrants. The offenses u...

Anthropic on Monday released Claude Fable 5.2 and Claude Mythos 5.2 models, which it said exhibit improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision. During pre-release training, the large language models (LLMs) helped its engineers "complete otherwise-infeasible software migrations, designed three working electronic devices from scratch, solved two open problems in the physics of black holes, made substantial progress on robotics evaluations, and formalized the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem in 30 hours." The artificial intelligence (AI) company said high-stakes risks arising from misalignment remain low, and claimed the models matched or performed better than Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, and Claude Mythos 5.1 on most alignment measures, resistance to misuse, honesty, and factuality. "It was roughly an order of magnitude less likely than Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 to publish harmful content to public package registries without encouragement, though it still did...

Google on Monday released updates to patch nine security vulnerabilities, including one that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The high-severity vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2026-125350 (CVSS score: N/A), has been described as a use-after-free bug in the XML component. Use-after-free bugs typically occur when a program attempts to access a memory location after it has already been freed. Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to achieve data corruption, program crashes, or arbitrary code execution. An anonymous security researcher has been credited with discovering and reporting the flaw on November 6, 2026. Google acknowledged it is "aware that an exploit for CVE-2026-125350 exists in the wild," but has not revealed any additional specific information related to how it's being abused in real-world attacks or who is behind them. "Access to bug details and links may be kept restricted until...

N-able said it has taken N-central Hosted Environments offline and is urging on-premises customers to shut down their servers until further notice following the public disclosure of over 30 vulnerabilities collectively tracked as Able2Shell . "As a precautionary measure, we are temporarily taking our Hosted N-central environment offline while we take the necessary actions to secure the environment and implement appropriate remediation," N-able said . "During this time, customers will be unable to access their Hosted N-central classic environment, and associated services may be unavailable. However, the Ecoverse services under N-able Login remain available and online, including Asset View, Patching, Vulnerability Management, scripting, policies and tagging." The company also said it has not observed any signs of active exploitation of these vulnerabilities, adding it's currently working on a hot fix to address them. The following services are impacted -...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added four security flaws impacting GPUStack, SignalWire FreeSwitch, OpenBSD OpenSSH, and IBM Aspera Faspex to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-123218 (CVSS score: 9.8) - An incorrect authorization vulnerability in IBM Aspera Faspex that could allow an authenticated user to craft a specific message to bypass authorization, causing privilege escalations. (Fixed in November 2026) CVE-2026-116779 (CVSS score: 9.8) - A code injection vulnerability in SignalWire FreeSwitch that could result in configuration and credential disclosure, arbitrary call control, and command execution. (Fixed in October 2026) CVE-2026-123158 aka SSHole (CVSS score: 8.1) - An unexpected status code or return value vulnerability in OpenBSD OpenSSH on Linux that could allow for authentication bypass. (Fixed in November...

An attacker broke into AWS accounts belonging to multiple Qubole customers between October 14 and October 26 and stole stored secrets and data, cloud security company Wiz said today. The attacker used credentials for an AWS account that Qubole's platform uses to reach those customers. How the attacker got those credentials has not been disclosed. Qubole , a data lake platform owned by Idera, operates within its customers' AWS accounts. To let it in, a customer creates an IAM role, which is an AWS identity with its own set of permissions. The role's trust policy allows Qubole's AWS account to assume the role, granting those permissions. Each request to do this, called AssumeRole , must include a matching code from Qubole known as an External ID. Apart from the attack, most of the roles the attacker assumed were unused, according to Wiz's researchers. But each role still trusted Qubole's account, so the attacker's requests worked. Any organization...

Attackers used the Ethersphere project's own release automation to publish malicious versions of two of its tools for the Swarm decentralized storage network: bee-js 13.3.0 and Swarm Desktop 0.56.2. Both releases download and run code built to steal the wallet key that Swarm Desktop keeps for its node, along with the stored password that unlocks it. The code is also built to install a backdoor on Windows, macOS, and Linux machines. The bee-js package is the JavaScript library behind Swarm Desktop and the swarm-cli command-line tool. Swarm Desktop runs a Swarm node on a user's own computer and saves the node's private keys there. Both malicious releases have been taken down, and the project's maintainers released a clean Swarm Desktop update today. Neither step removes a backdoor already installed nor protects a key already sent. No theft of funds had been reported at the time of writing. Swarm Desktop 0.56.2 appeared on GitHub at about 00:36 UTC today and was w...

The South Asian cyber espionage group known as Bitter (aka APT-C-08, APT-Q-37, Hazy Tiger, Orange Yali, T-APT-17, and TA397) has been observed targeting South Asian organizations with a previously unreported remote access trojan called PapRAT. "PapRAT has both C++ and Rust implementations," Fortinet FortiGuard Labs researcher Cara Lin said . "Its capabilities include command execution, file uploads and downloads, file deletion, directory and drive enumeration, and screenshot capture. The Rust variant adds PowerShell execution and other commands." The campaign is notable for making use of three different infection chains - A Windows Shortcut (LNK) file that abuses the native "ftp.exe" utility to run scripts and create scheduled tasks designed to maintain contact with a command-and-control (C2) server. A VHDX disk image containing a LNK file that launches a lure Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, while running an MSI installer in the background to d...

A system doesn't always need a complicated bug to let someone in. Sometimes, a blank password is enough. That's one of the bigger stories this week. And it gets worse when the tools meant to keep systems updated or running safely become part of the attack. Elsewhere, attackers are hiding inside normal web traffic, stealing credentials from network devices, and finding new uses for exposed systems. AI is helping some of them move faster, but old mistakes are doing plenty of the work too. Even forgotten settings and small changes made months ago are coming back to cause trouble. There's a lot packed into this week's news, including some strange research findings, fresh attacks, and a few warnings worth taking seriously. Here's the full recap. ⚡ Threat of the Week OpenSSH Flaw Sees Exploitation Attempts — Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set....

The login systems behind two car brands' mobile apps could be taken over completely, two security researchers found, allowing them to access any customer's account and, for an owner with a connected car, unlock the doors and start the engine. Both apps signed customers in through ForgeRock , an identity platform now part of Ping Identity , and on those servers the researchers reached an administrator console that still used its default password. They tested the full attack only on their own and consenting owners' cars in the United States, in February 2026, and both systems were fixed about two hours after they reported the problem. Shubham Shah and Sam Curry published their work late last week. They had started with the apps: both brands signed customers in through the same platform, which runs in two parts: one for login and one, called OpenIDM , that holds customer records. OpenIDM comes with a built-in administrator console powered by the Apache Felix tool. For...

Some people who set up a Keplr crypto wallet with their Google or Apple account have had money stolen by an attacker. Keplr uses a company called Web3Auth to run that Google and Apple sign-in. The attacker used a security flaw at that company to reach the wallets, both companies said late last week. Web3Auth then used the attacker's own route to empty other at-risk wallets before the attacker got to them, it said. It moved that money, with help from the wallet maker, into recovery wallets for safekeeping. So an empty balance may mean the money was rescued, not stolen. Wallets made with a recovery phrase (a backup list of 12 or 24 words) or a hardware wallet are not affected, the wallet maker said. It has paused Google and Apple sign-in while it investigates. What Affected Users Should Do The wallet maker has given this  user guidance  for accounts created with Google or Apple login: Do not send new funds to the account. Do not re-import the account or recr...

Everyone running LNbits , a free, open-source Bitcoin Lightning wallet system, should shut down their servers now because of a wave of attacks, the project said yesterday. It has several security fixes to release and asked operators to be careful until they are out. One operator said new accounts used an exploit to withdraw 2,285,545 satoshis, about 0.023 bitcoin, from his server before he could stop it. The shutdown notice came about 80 minutes after a first, narrower warning. That warning asked operators to disable Paywall, an add-on that makes people pay to view content, while the project looked into a possible bug. As of 09:00 UTC today, the project had not released a fixed version. On X, it had not canceled the notice, offered another option, or told operators how to check whether their servers were hit before they were shut down. Ben Arc, an LNbits developer, said in a  patch estimate  yesterday that patches "should be merged and available within 24-48hrs." Cou...

A single attacker using AI agents pulled emergency dispatch records covering seven Taipei districts, researchers at Acronis's Threat Research Unit said last week. The agents also found a Taipei fire department platform exposing patient data from 2018, including ECG readings and ambulance video footage, without a login. The researchers are highly confident that the attacker is a single person based in Hualien City, Taiwan. He aimed the agents at hundreds of organizations in at least 11 countries, including emergency services, banks, universities and military systems. The agents collected data or accessed systems at about 10 of them in Taiwan, Mexico and Thailand. The evidence comes from the attacker's own server, which initially appeared to be a misconfigured development system. It turned out to be his operational attack platform, containing more than 90,000 files, including the agents' conversations, his command history, hacking tools, credentials, and victims' d...

The OpenAI engineer who was arrested and charged last month for planting a covert audio recording device in the company's office has pleaded not guilty. According to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC , Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan made an appearance in San Francisco federal court on Friday, where he entered the plea. His next hearing is scheduled for November 17, 2026. If proven guilty, the 35-year-old faces a maximum of five years in prison and a $250,000 fine, followed by three years of supervised release. He has been held without bail since his arrest on October 9, 2026. Late last month, a grand jury indicted Alfozan on a single count of interception of oral communications. Prosecutors allege that the former OpenAI employee placed a "sophisticated recording device" in an executive OpenAI conference room in what has been described as an attempt to unlawfully record sensitive conversations. He was arrested three days before he, along with his wife and s...

U.S. government agencies have warned that threat actors are actively targeting industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems globally with an aim to cause service disruptions, fire hazards, and loss of inventory. "The actors may exploit vulnerabilities or weaknesses in unpatched or internet-accessible controllers to remotely alter settings and force units into continuous heating and defrost cycles, which can cause widespread inventory loss and equipment hazards," according to a joint advisory. According to the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Agriculture (USDA), and Department of Transportation (DOT), threat actors are likely to exploit authentication bypasses, arbitrary code injection, and weak configurations to gain access to these systems and cause the following effects - Change of temperature, which, in turn, could affect the service l...

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity vulnerability impacting SonicWall SonicOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, following reports that it said may have been exploited in real-world attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-19868 (CVSS score: 7.1 / 7.5), has been described as an authentication reinforcement vulnerability via alternate authentication methods. "An authentication enforcement vulnerability in SonicOS SSL-VPN service may allow a user with valid credentials for an alternate authentication method to bypass SAML authentication controls. Successful exploitation may also bypass SAML-enforced multi-factor authentication (MFA)," SonicWall said in a Friday advisory. The company also acknowledged that it "investigated a report indicating potential exploitation of this vulnerability," urging customers to update to the latest version as soon as possible. SonicWall did not di...