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eMudhra to Exit Global SSL/TLS Business After 8 Intermediate CA Keys Found Easily Guessable

22 October 2026
eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its intermediate CA certificates. eMudhra said it will replace affected customers' certificates with free ones from partners, though its

ThreatsDay: AI Secrets Leak, PingCAP Source Theft, Signal Hang-Up Flaw, Laravel Auth Bypass + 21 More

22 October 2026
This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's a lot to deal with in just a few days. And the week isn't even over yet. But those big headlines are only half the story. Stolen passwords, exposed

The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance | Editorial

22 October 2026
The Guardian view on AI safety: the push for global regulation must advance | Editorial The current US administration is an obstacle, but public demand for protection will ultimately prevailOrganisations around the world scrambled on Thursday to fix critical flaws in PHP, the software that powers much of the web. The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to take control of affected servers. Some websites were taken offline as a precaution while fixes were installed. The paradox is that while AI helped researchers uncover the flaw, it also threatens to accelerate the ability to exploit it. Amazon said that it had detected an attempt before the public disclosure of the PHP flaws.What the episode highlights is AI’s central role in security – and not always for the right reasons. OpenAI’s models have also been responsible for two alarming hacks this year – a security breach of an Australian health department website and a raid by a swarm of AI bots on Hugging Face, an AI services platform. Citing those incidents, the AI minister, Kanishka Narayan, warned that a similar cyber-attack on the UK is “likely, if not inevitable”. Continue reading...

The race to fix huge PHP code flaw at the heart of the internet - The Latest

22 October 2026
The race to fix huge PHP code flaw at the heart of the internet - The Latest Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue with the programming language was revealed, cybersecurity companies have said. Michael Safi speaks to global technology reporter Aisha Down Continue reading...

Two CVSS 9.0 Linux KSMBD RCE Flaws Disclosed on Public Mailing Lists Before Kernel Fixes

22 October 2026
Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them, ZDI-CAN-33774, can be triggered before any network authentication. The other, ZDI-CAN-33549, requires the SMB Direct transport and an RDMA-capable network

PHP: Pretty Huge Problem with the internet – The Latest

22 October 2026
PHP: Pretty Huge Problem with the internet – The Latest Websites around the world have been taken offline as governments and businesses scramble to fix a flaw in the computer language PHP. There are fears that hackers could exploit the vulnerability to steal data, take control of web servers and disrupt services. Millions of attempts have already been made to attack websites since the issue with the programming language was revealed, cybersecurity companies have said. Michael Safi speaks to global technology reporter Aisha Down – watch on YouTube Continue reading...

Meta Ordered to Pay $25 Billion After Court Finds 43 Million Privacy Violations

22 October 2026
Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According to multiple reports from the Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and the Wall Street Journal, state District Court Judge Francis J. Mathew called

Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit

22 October 2026
Corey Thuen hires hackers for what he calls ‘the evil bit’ — an adversarial streak he believes is either there or it isn’t. The post Hacker Conversations: Corey Thuen and the Evil Bit appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Tell us: have you been affected by the PHP code flaw?

22 October 2026
Tell us: have you been affected by the PHP code flaw? We’d like to hear from small businesses that have been affected by the PHP code flaw. Did you have to take you website offline? Did you manage to patch the fault? Websites around the world have been hit by millions of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in their code, cybersecurity companies have said, as the US National Security Agency warned the flaw could allow attackers to take control of web servers, steal data and disrupt services. The problem in the PHP programming language, which underpins about 70% of the world’s websites, emerged on Wednesday causing governments and companies to pull their websites off the internet before they could be attacked and so they could patch the fault. Continue reading...

Prepare for more website shutdowns in the age of AI – but human inaction is the real culprit | Chris Stokel-Walker

22 October 2026
Prepare for more website shutdowns in the age of AI – but human inaction is the real culprit | Chris Stokel-Walker I’ve been banging the drum about these vulnerabilities for years. It will take more than a handful of exhausted developers to keep us safeParts of the internet are going dark. In the Netherlands, government websites, including its digital ID login service, have become unavailable. Finland has taken public services offline, and Wikimedia, the organisation behind Wikipedia, has switched off some of its systems too.This sounds like the results of a cyber-attack. In most instances, however, the people running the sites deliberately switched them off because the alternative – keeping them online – was too risky. The future is here, and suddenly much of our digital infrastructure is looking very fragile.Chris Stokel-Walker is the author of TikTok Boom: The Inside Story of the World’s Favourite App Continue reading...

INTERPOL Arrests 1,462 Suspects, Disrupts 10,909 Cybercrime Networks in Global Crackdown

22 October 2026
INTERPOL on Thursday announced that a coordinated law enforcement action has disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. In tandem, the effort saw law enforcement agencies from 21 countries arrest 1,462 suspects. Codenamed Operation Serengeti III, the cybercrime crackdown took place between June 29 and August 31, 2026. "Authorities identified

Indurex Raises $8 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Platform

22 October 2026
The Amsterdam-based company plans to use the funding for research and development and commercial expansion in Europe and the Middle East. The post Indurex Raises $8 Million to Expand Industrial Cybersecurity Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw

22 October 2026
Websites across world hit by millions of attempts to exploit PHP code flaw Problem in language that underpins 70% of sites has led governments and companies to pull sites offline to patch faultWebsites around the world have been hit by millions of attempts to exploit a recently discovered vulnerability in their code, cybersecurity companies have said, as the US National Security Agency warned the flaw could allow attackers to take control of web servers, steal data and disrupt services.The problem in the PHP programming language, which underpins about 70% of the world’s websites, emerged on Wednesday causing governments and companies to pull their websites off the internet before they could be attacked and so they could patch the fault. Continue reading...

Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups

22 October 2026
Affecting the open source calling library RingRTC, the bug prevented calls from ending properly. The post Signal Vulnerability Lets Malicious Callers Block Hang-Ups appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities

22 October 2026
Vendors are checking their products for PHP2Shell, security firms are shipping detections, and governments are urging immediate patching. The post Tech and Security Companies Respond to PHP2Shell Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The AI Agent Nobody Owns: Watch Expert Webinar On Your Newest Insider Threat

22 October 2026
Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns it. If an employee had that much reach with that little oversight, you would call it an insider risk. So why do we still call the agent a productivity tool?

Railway Says Intruder May Have Accessed Customer Secrets, Urges Credential Rotation

22 October 2026
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables. Upon further investigation, the company found that an unauthorized third party may have gained access to encrypted environment variables, and, in some cases, obtained the decrypted contents. The impact, it said, is limited to a "subset of users,

Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates

22 October 2026
Patched vulnerabilities could allow attackers to execute code, elevate privileges, and leak sensitive information. The post Splunk, SolarWinds Release Fresh Security Updates appeared first on SecurityWeek.

OpenCode Flaw Lets Malicious MCP Servers Execute Code During Sign-In on Windows and WSL

22 October 2026
A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add outside tools, and such code would run with the developer's own access. Anomaly, the company behind OpenCode, fixed the flaw in version 1.18.33 on September

Cisco Patches 34 Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Products

22 October 2026
Critical-severity security defects could lead to command execution, authentication bypass, and XSS attacks. The post Cisco Patches 34 Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Products appeared first on SecurityWeek.