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β€ŠHackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware

Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original state to hide the attacks.a [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-hijack-aomei-update-servers-to-secretly-spread-malware/
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β€ŠOVHcloud CLI releases backdoored on GitHub to steal developer secrets

French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ovhcloud-cli-releases-backdoored-on-github-to-steal-developer-secrets/
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β€ŠHacker gets 8 years for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers

A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hacker-gets-8-years-for-stealing-33-million-from-taxpayers/
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β€ŠCJIS v6.1 Compliance: 5 Practical Priorities for Agencies

CJIS v6.1 requires agencies to maintain strong authentication, account security, and audit controls while demonstrating ongoing compliance. Specops outlines five practical priorities covering MFA, account management, passwords, logging, and audit readiness. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cjis-v61-compliance-5-practical-priorities-for-agencies/
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β€ŠDHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/dhs-bans-deepseek-products-across-us-federal-civilian-agencies/
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β€ŠZeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months

Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and information for 321,810 accounts. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/zeabur-shutting-down-after-second-security-breach-in-two-months/
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β€ŠPHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-warns-admins-of-two-critical-flaws-emergency-patches-coming-tomorrow/
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β€ŠMozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates

Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websites. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/mozilla-google-apple-block-compromised-emudhra-ca-certificates/
β€ŠStolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/stolen-updraftcentral-keys-used-to-backdoor-wordpress-sites/
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β€ŠMicrosoft says October updates didn’t actually fix VPN issues

Microsoft says it mistakenly flagged a bug causing Always On VPN connection issues as fixed in the October 2026 Windows 11 cumulative updates. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-didnt-actually-fix-vpn-issues-caused-by-windows-updates/
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β€ŠClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet

ClickFix attacks are surging as cybercriminals use fake AI installers, malicious search results, and trusted chatbot platforms to trick users into executing malware. Push Security examines how these attacks evade traditional defenses and why AI tools have become increasingly effective lures. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/clickfix-has-never-been-bigger-and-ai-tools-are-its-most-convincing-lure-yet/
β€ŠPHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws

The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively as PHP2Shell. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/php-ships-emergency-patches-for-critical-php2shell-flaws/
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β€ŠOpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it

OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. [...]

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/openai-agents-disabled-safety-monitoring-one-lied-about-it/
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