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The Hacker NewsOct 13, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Identity Security The dangerous part of a stolen identity isn’t always the initial login. It’s what an attacker can do with that access next. With AI accelerating reconnaissance, exploitation of vulnerabilities, and privilege… Read More "[Webinar] How to Stop AI-Driven Privilege Escalation With Runtime Identity Controls"
Twenty years ago, almost to the day, Amazon Web Services (AWS) launched Simple Storage Service (S3). A few months later, the company’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service opened for public beta testing before rolling out officially in 2008. These events sparked the era of modern… Read More "Virtual machines, virtually everywhere – but not all protected"
Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across commercial IoT devices, without needing a data center, according to research from Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team. The study looks at AI worms that run their own… Read More "Small AI Models May Soon Be Able to Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns"
A crypto security event that promised to teach attendees how to avoid scams is now the subject of scam allegations. The gathering, branded “Don’t Get Played,” was held as a side event during TOKEN2049 week in Singapore and co-hosted by… Read More "Don’t Get Played: TOKEN2049 Security Event Faces Scam Claims"
Swati KhandelwalOct 13, 2026Vulnerability / IoT Security Three vulnerabilities in LG’s webOS can be chained to give an attacker on the same local network root access to certain smart TVs without a PIN or any interaction from the owner. LG… Read More "LG Smart TVs Vulnerable to Pre-Auth Root Takeover From Local Network"
Two other flaws target pipeline security. CVE-2026-16301 (CVSS 8.5) could have allowed users with the Developer role to execute CI/CD pipelines on protected branches without authorization. CVE-2026-14814 (CVSS 8.2) potentially enabled attackers to poison cached responses for raw repository files,… Read More "GitLab patches a max-severity regex flaw alongside five high-severity bugs"
Silver Fox is back in Japan, spoofing tax and HR emails timed to the one season when no one thinks twice about opening them 27 Mar 2026 • , 4 min. read Japan has entered its annual tax filing and… Read More "A cunning predator: How Silver Fox preys on Japanese firms this tax season"
The XWorm RAT developers have expanded the malware’s capabilities with fresh plugins that turn it into a surveillance platform, cybersecurity firm Netskope reports. A sophisticated, multi-functional Windows RAT first observed in 2022, XWorm provides attackers with full control over the… Read More "XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform"
Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software’s MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says. Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five… Read More "Two Critical MarkLogic Flaws Could Give Delegated Managers Persistent Admin Control"
The issue is now fixed, Bloom Security researcher Golan Myers told CSO. “The npm team confirmed that a fix had been shipped on October 2, introducing a 48-hour expiry for unvalidated Trusted Publishing configurations,” he said. Myers said Bloom has… Read More "Over 1,500 npm packages exposed by Trusted Publishing validation flaw"
