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Adobe Patches 140 Vulnerabilities Across 10 Products

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 1:14pm

The flaws affect products such as Commerce, Photoshop, ColdFusion, Substance 3D, Dimension, FrameMaker and Bridge.

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Google Partially Reverses Chrome Bug Bounty Cuts

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 1:00pm

Google is restructuring bug bounty rewards with a focus on complex memory safety vulnerabilities. 

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Meta Says Hackers Took Code, Personal Data of 1,500 in GitHub Breach

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 12:01pm

Most of the affected individuals are Meta employees in the United States and they are being offered credit monitoring services.

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Small AI Models May Soon Be Able to Self-Replicate on IoT Devices, Anthropic Warns

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 7:58am

Experiments show cheap TV boxes can run capable AI models, and small models may soon be able to spread across such devices on their own.

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XWorm RAT Evolves Into Surveillance Platform

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 7:13am

Expanded plugin count allows the malware to monitor users’ location, stream live audio, and interact with authenticated browser sessions.

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AI Turns Familiar Cyberattacks Into a Race Against Time

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 7:00am

IBM’s Steve Wallin talks to SecurityWeek on the effect of AI-driven attacks on enterprise defenses.

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$86 Million Crypto Heist Linked to Ledger Signer Hardware Implant

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 6:36am

A small circuit board hidden under the signers’ screens read user data and transmitted it to the attackers.

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Cyberattack Prompts Ahold Delhaize to Disconnect Systems

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 5:37am

The company says it took some of its systems offline to contain a security issue within its network.

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Refrigeration Controller Hack Spoils Food Across European Supermarkets

Security Week - Tue, 10/13/2026 - 4:28am

A cyberattack targeted refrigeration controllers, setting refrigerators and freezers across hundreds of supermarkets to defrost.

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IonQ to Acquire Zero Trust Firm Elisity for Up to $1.3 Billion

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 10:25am

The all-stock deal brings Elisity’s least-privilege access technology into IonQ’s security portfolio.

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Bricksforge WordPress Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 9:14am

The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85097 can allow threat actors to take control of the targeted WordPress websites.

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Canonical Websites Disrupted in Second DDoS Attack This Year

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 7:58am

The outage hit the main Ubuntu and Canonical websites, including the Ubuntu blog and developer portal.

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Mastermind of 15,000-Mule Cybercrime Laundering Network Pleads Guilty in US

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 7:24am

Oleg Korniev was a leader of YMCO, a sophisticated network of money mules that helped hackers move funds outside the US.

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iRhythm Data Breach Impacts at Least 360,000 People

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 7:05am

Hackers stole patients’ personal information, including names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth, and phone numbers.

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Ransomware Response Expert Arrested in ShinyHunters FBI Hack Probe

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 6:32am

The suspect is believed to be Edward Dubrovsky, a Canadian cybersecurity executive who was visiting the United States for a conference.

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Critical SonicWall Vulnerability Exploited Days After Disclosure

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 4:36am

CVE-2026-102255 is a pre-authenticated SSRF flaw that could allow attackers to perform unauthorized operations.

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Let’s Encrypt Cuts Default Certificate Validity to 64 Days Ahead of 45-Day Switch

Security Week - Mon, 10/12/2026 - 3:53am

Beginning February 2027, all newly issued certificates will have a 64-day validity period by default.

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Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison

Security Week - Sat, 10/10/2026 - 7:00am

The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.

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OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks

Security Week - Fri, 10/09/2026 - 5:07pm

The ChatGPT maker said the researchers "violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.”

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In Other News: AI Used in Korean Bank Breaches, Poem-Guided Botnet, Empire Admin Gets 40 Years

Security Week - Fri, 10/09/2026 - 8:03am

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Tensorlake npm SDK compromised, Empire Market co-founder gets 40 years, exposed NVIDIA GPU monitors leak telemetry.

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