International Cyber Digest
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‼️ Sam Altman says it's "quite terrible" that people keep the world's scarce DRAM in their own computers.

Arguing against running AI locally, he wants it in data centres instead, as home PCs use it just 5% of the time.

"Many people's intuition is the opposite of that," he said.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116338615303475228
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🚨 BREAKING: Apple has warned iPhone users in 99 countries that mercenary spyware is targeting them.

Lebanese journalist Radwan Mortada is one. Apple had already warned him in 2021.

He says he doesn't know if this attack is linked to his film on Lebanon's 2024 pager explosions.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116353714730700948
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‼️ Hackers are exploiting a highly critical flaw in Drupal Commerce Core, the module behind checkout on 42,000+ sites.

CVE-2026-118539 needs no login, works on any setup and may cost stores money.

Drupal told sites to audit their orders.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116368814250291542
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❗️ A covert campaign has served "Great Replacement" and anti-Qatar ads 533M times across Facebook, YouTube and TikTok.

Researchers say it likely came from Israel, citing Hebrew folder names on its editing machines.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116382403899920779
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❗️ MapQuest now shows drivers where licence plate cameras are watching them.

Its Surveillance Layer marks known readers made by 11 vendors, from Flock Safety to Motorola and Axon, plus other outdoor cameras.

The locations come from volunteers who map them on OpenStreetMap.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116398006828240910
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‼️ Hackers chained three Ivanti VPN zero-days to get root without a password, and CISA now lists all three as exploited.

Volexity says they left no web shell, rerunning the whole chain for every command.

US agencies must patch the root flaw by Nov 2 and check for compromise.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116413357666582823
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❗️ Proton CEO Andy Yen scrapped the staff "re-interviews" on AI use that a leaked email called "consequential".

He said they had "already served their purpose" and that he is "still going to push."

An employee says AI use will count in performance reviews.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116428457253232996
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🚨 BREAKING: Fan fiction site AO3, with 11M+ users, is down after a security incident.

Its nonprofit owner doesn't think the user database was stolen but can't rule it out. It holds usernames, emails and IP addresses, plus hashed passwords.

The site will stay down 2 to 4 weeks.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116443557007409245
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‼️ US intelligence warned Germany's BND it is reviewing ties after ex-chief August Hanning's arrest for suspected espionage, WDR, NDR and SZ report.

Prosecutors say he paid his old office head for BND intelligence for years.

Security sources tell nothing is restricted yet.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116458656271413496
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‼️ Meta, TikTok and X lost their High Court fight over how much data Ofcom can demand under the UK's Online Safety Act.

Ofcom asked how many posts they removed and how many users saw harmful content.

X had called it the most burdensome request any regulator ever sent it.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116473755853521171
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🚨 BREAKING: Cloud platform Northflank is telling all users to assume their environment variables were decrypted and rotate all keys.

It acted on a Wiz alert and says users confirm their AI keys were used.

A week ago, it courted Railway users after Railway's env var incident.

https://x.com/IntCyberDigest/status/2116488855436108113
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