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Oct 16, 2026Dive Brief: - The open-source software community needs to understand several key lessons in order to improve its cybersecurity posture, according to IBM, which operates a clearinghouse for analyzing and disclosing open-source vulnerabilities. - "Fi...
Oct 16, 2026A suspected China-nexus hacker has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support since late August as part of an espionage campaign, according to a report released Thursday by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The hacker, tracked ...
Oct 16, 2026The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked...
Oct 16, 2026Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. Founded in 1953 in Florida, Burger King is now a multination...
Oct 16, 2026OpenAI has disclosed two incidents in which internal AI models, asked only to look up public figures, instead broke into the live systems hosting that data. The reports, published on October 15, are the latest in a run of misalignment disclosures Op...
Oct 16, 2026A Chinese APT has been exploiting a BeyondTrust vulnerability as a zero-day since August as part of its state-sponsored espionage operations. The exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score of 9.3), is described as an improper validation ...
Oct 16, 2026Federal bankruptcy courts across the US have been unable to send notices through the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC) for a week. The outage followed a cybersecurity incident affecting the BAE Systems infrastructure that runs the center. The BNC han...
Oct 16, 2026The Administrative Office of the US Courts says a cyberattack on government contractor BAE Systems has taken down the notice system used by federal bankruptcy courts. In a Thursday press release, the Administrative Office of the US Courts said the B...
Oct 16, 2026Microsoft says some users may have trouble turning on Smart App Control after installing this month's KB5127648 Windows 11 security update. Smart App Control is a Windows 11 security feature that uses Microsoft's app intelligence services and code i...
Oct 16, 2026Hot on the heels of its record Patch Tuesday rollout, Microsoft on Thursday announced patches for over 30 new vulnerabilities. Most of the new fixes address security defects in the Office suite. Two dozen of them patch high-severity remote code exec...
Oct 16, 2026F5 and Juniper Networks have rolled out patches for dozens of vulnerabilities across their products, including critical-severity remote code execution (RCE) flaws. Security and application delivery firm F5 announced fixes for 11 security defects in ...
Oct 16, 2026Arch Linux users who mistyped yay or paru while installing the package helpers from the Arch User Repository (AUR) may have given a stranger root access to their machine. AUR is a popular community package source for Arch Linux and related distribut...