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The @IBMSecurity Intelligence publication was closed earlier this year. I didn't lose all my hard work thanks to @Authory 💾
Sadly, I have worked for a lot of brand publications that were shuttered without warning.
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🚨 UPDATE: Railway says hackers targeted AI API keys to carry out model distillation attacks.
Up to 100,000 workspaces may have been exposed.
Attackers allegedly used uncensored AI models and massive compute resources to breach its infrastructure.
What we know: thehackernews.com/2026/10/ra…
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I asked 30 Japanese 12-year-olds one question.
"What do you think of when you hear 'America'?"
(My nephew's teacher let me visit his class. I was not prepared.)
"Hamburgers the size of my head."
"Everything is big. Even the milk."
"Cowboys." Then a boy asked me, "Do cowboys still exist?"
I said yes.
The whole class cheered.
"They went to the moon."
I told them only Americans have ever walked on it.
The room went completely silent. Respect.
"The best baseball in the world. Even Ohtani had to go there."
"Superheroes. They all live in New York."
Then a quiet girl in the back raised her hand.
"My grandma says when the tsunami came, American soldiers came to help her town. She still has a photo with them on her fridge."
Nobody said anything for a while.
Then the teacher asked, "Who wants to go to America someday?"
Every hand went up.
Including the teacher's.
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Quest Diagnostics has been hacked. Patient data was exposed. They serve roughly half of U.S. hospitals and physicians. Investigation ongoing.
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70% of the internet was vulnerable yesterday to very bad security flaws inside a coding language. Turns out, *one volunteer* is mostly responsible for maintaining that code & helping push updates. Yesterday Ondřej Surý saved the internet. So I called him up. He rules. theatlantic.com/technology/2…
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JUST IN: Quest Diagnostics reports a cybersecurity breach potentially exposing sensitive patient records, with the number of affected patients still unknown.
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Does opting out of smart TV tracking work? Research finds “suspicious” traffic. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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BREAKING: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents operating inside customer accounts, with some agents attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, per Axios
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BREAKING: JPMorgan, Bank of America, Wells Fargo, & other major banks have reportedly detected unauthorized AI agents operating inside customer accounts.
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A casino got hacked through a fish tank.
It has sensors. automated feeding, temperature control, remote monitoring.
connected to the internet. isolated on its own VPN. segregated from everything else.
Hackers still found it anyway, compromised it, pivoted to the main network.
started pulling data.
nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic, why would they it's a fish tank.
Darktrace caught it, anomalous transfers to an external destination nobody in the building had ever talked to.
the casino had done everything right. separate network. isolated device. proper segmentation.
Still didn't matter.
The fish tank was still online, still running software, still had an attack surface.
Every device you connect is a door you didn't know you opened.
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Fake Claude, ChatGPT Attacks Surge, Putting Developers at Risk bit.ly/4yZ1Cyc By Rob Wright #CybersecurityAwarenessMonth. #CyberMonth
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Wild story from @briankrebs: 1) Dubrovsky, the arrested ransomware negotiator, knew ShinyHunters stole FBI data but never told FBI; 2) an exec from another large US negotiating firm played an active role operating ShinyHunters' victim extortion website
krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/…
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New: The FBI believes an exec at a prestigious U.S. consulting firm (1,000+ associates) helped run Shinywire, the ShinyHunters site used to extort nearly 100 victims.
The people victims hire to negotiate with hackers may have been on the other side of the table.
- Dutch police raided ShinyHunters suspect Pepijn van der Stap with flash-bangs while he was logged into Signal
- His chats showed frequent contact with ransom negotiators in the U.S. and Canada
- Those negotiators often knew about new victims before the victims knew they'd been breached
- Per sources, Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian negotiation exec charged earlier this month, knew ShinyHunters had the FBI's personnel files and never told the FBI
- Dubrovsky's other firm, CyberSteward, helped PowerSchool pay its ~$2.85M ransom
Meanwhile ShinyHunters was griping on Telegram that Coveware kept telling victims not to pay and it was wrecking their conversion rate.
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🚨 An unpatched Broadcom Wi-Fi flaw lets attackers within radio range execute code as ROOT on affected routers, without a Wi-Fi password or pairing.
Researcher demonstrated password extraction and a remote shell. Potentially impacting millions of routers.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/un…
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New: Chinese hackers broke into Staples. Staples has an internal customer support tool called Nexus, Chinese hackers got into that, issued millions of dollars of gift cards. Mules then went on a spending spree across the U.S. Gang made $100 million+ 404media.co/how-a-massive-ch…
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‼️ AI agents broke into the SCADA system of Booz Allen's mock factory and took over the control room's screens.
One realised it could now send commands to every controller in the plant and "make the operator screens lie".
Another hacked a robotic arm and moved it in minutes.
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Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses found recording audio without wearers' consent arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026…
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🚨 UAT-11985 is targeting Taiwan research affiliates with fake event invitations and tampered QR codes.
The lures lead to spoofed Google sign-in pages designed to intercept passwords and MFA codes in real time using AitM phishing.
Read - thehackernews.com/2026/10/ua…
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Here's how exactly Telegram provides user data to U.S. authorities. A letter recently filed in court shows how Telegram transfers that data, such as IP address and phone number.
More: 404media.co/heres-what-teleg…
