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Citrix has released security updates for a high-severity security flaw in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that has been exploited as part of targeted zero-day attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-88779 , carries a CVSS score of 8.7 out of 10.0. "CVE-2026-88779 is a memory overflow vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Citrix NetScaler Gateway that can lead to denial-of-service under specific deployment conditions," Citrix said . "The issue affects customer-managed NetScaler deployments running affected supported versions when the required preconditions are met." For successful exploitation, NetScaler ADC or NetScaler Gateway must be configured either as a SAML service provider (SP) or SAML identity provider(IdP). Customers can check if their NetScaler deployment meets the precondition by reviewing their configuration for entries matching the following - SAML SP - add authentication samlAction SAML IdP - add authentication samlIdPPro...

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, and cooperating with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and law enforcement to identify other members of the group. "His cooperation is critical to ongoing efforts to arrest these hackers," a source told the news agency. Rey, who also went by the online alias ReyXBF, is not an unknown face. In a report published in November 2025, independent security journalist Brian Krebs labeled him as one of the three administrators of Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH or SLSH), a group that's assessed to be an amalgamation of Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters. "Previously, Rey was an administrator of the data leak w...

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, to single out an AI policy expert at a U.S. think tank in February 2026. The phishing email carried the subject line "Request for Feedback on Military Integration of Claude." "This activity likely supports wider Chinese intelligence objectives to better understand ongoing developments within the U.S. AI policy and regulatory landscape and occurs amid intense strategic competition, accusations of model distillation, and export controls involving the U.S. and China," Proofpoint said in an analysis published this week. The enterprise security company has described TA419 as a China-aligned and espionage-motivat...

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) 中国通用技术研究院 is to fund research that directly improves Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) technical capability for espionage." CGTRI, also known as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT), is assessed to be a front company for MSS. The body, per MI5, funds academic research in China on topics including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, covert communications systems, and steganography. More than 100 U.K.-linked academics have contributed to research projects funded by MSS via CGTRI, the alert read. In some cases, the individuals may not be aware that CGTRI is providing monetary ...

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, and education organizations. "In the past two months, Longlegs has attacked at least four organizations, including two critical infrastructure operators (a water utility and a telecommunications provider), a regional government body, and a university," the Broadcom-owned cybersecurity unit said . "Victims were in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, spanning Europe, Africa, and Latin America."  Warlock, also tracked as Gold Salem, Longlegs, and Storm-2603, gained prominence in mid-2025 in connection with the zero-day exploitation of the "ToolShell" SharePoint flaws to deploy ransomware on ...

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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 19.2.4, 19.3.2, and 19.4.1. The flaw is tracked as  CVE-2026-90970 . GitLab disclosed it on October 2 and rated it critical, with a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10. GitLab runs AI Gateways for its customers and has already fixed them. Customers on GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed instances that use a GitLab-hosted gateway do not need to act, the company said. Self-managed customers can instead  host their own gateway , an option GitLab offers for keeping AI request and response data inside the customer's own environment. GitLab strongly recommends that those customers update immediately. It sent that gui...

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 Antino. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the moniker UAT-11587 . The threat actor was first detected in September 2025 in connection with a spear-phishing campaign directed against Taiwan's academic, think tank, and civil society policy community. Since then, attacks linked to the intrusion set have expanded to target 16 entities across eight Asian countries. "Antino is a Rust-compiled Windows backdoor that supports host reconnaissance, shell and PowerShell execution, file transfer, in-memory shellcode loading and persistence," security researcher Ashley Shen said . "Its native command-and-control channel ...