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NIK C2 Malware Can Use Victims’ OpenAI Keys for AI Queries
NIK C2 malware can fall back on victims’ OpenAI API keys to run AI queries
How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI
Unpatched voting machines, unverifiable QR-coded ballots, and AI-driven influence campaigns leave US elections short of secure. The post How Secure Are US Elections? Voting Machine Risks and the Growing Threat of AI appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Yoba malware hides in fake desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude
Fake GitHub projects posing as desktop versions of ChatGPT and Claude have been used to spread a malware chain that ends with a cryptocurrency miner, Check Point has found. The researchers have been tracking the campaign, dubbed Yoba, for the past two months.
Belgium's tax agency confirms cyberattack, pulls services offline
Microsoft fixes Remote Desktop failures caused by recent Windows updates
Microsoft has resolved a known issue that prevents non-admin users from connecting to devices via Remote Desktop when the "Administrator protection" security feature is enabled. [...]
Why Old Vulnerability Management Habits Keep Rising from the Grave
Three customer stories show how to keep severity-only priorities and closed-ticket counts from undermining your CTEM program by tying findings to attack paths and verifying fixes.
Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, Microsoft’s VS Code and Anthropic’s Claude Desktop. In all five, a web page or a local file reached the computer behind the browser.
Cohere’s Qwen Story: Looks More Like Model Jaggedness
Key findings On October 26, Cohere reported a puzzling incident involving Qwen3.8-Flash-Next, an open-weight model from Alibaba. The task was straightforward: write a detection rule for suspicious curl downloads followed by bash execution.
Mattermost security advisory (AV26-1104)
Serial number: AV26-1104 Date: October 29, 2026 As of October 28, 2026, Mattermost is affected by a vulnerability in the following product: Mattermost Prior to or equal to 11.10.0 Prior to or equal to 11.9.2 Prior to or equal to 11.8.6 Prior to or equal to…
3 Ways AI Agents Already Operate in Your Browser
AI agents can control authenticated browsers, interact with corporate applications, and access sensitive data while appearing to act as legitimate employees.
CREST Urges Whole-Ecosystem Approach to Financial Cyber Resilience
CREST has published a framework for strengthening cyber resilience across financial services
Reports of SIEM's Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated
n8n security advisory (AV26-1103)
Serial number: AV26-1103 Date: October 29, 2026 As of October 28, 2026, n8n is affected by vulnerabilities in the following product: n8n Prior to 2.44.1 Prior to 2.43.5 The Cyber Centre encourages users and administrators to review the provided web links and…
FTC to probe major companies over personalized pricing and pay
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal data to set individual consumer prices and employee compensation.
Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
The flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, authorization bypasses, and privilege escalation. The post Adobe, Veeam, Juniper Networks Patch Critical Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Google's Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Benchmarks for Finding, Exploiting, and Patching Vulnerabilities
Cyberattack disrupts Belgian tax services before filing deadline
The Federal Public Service Finance (FPS Finance), which oversees taxation and other financial administration, said Wednesday that it was investigating the extent of the attack and had temporarily suspended access to MyMinfin, the country's main online…