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The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data.
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Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch batch dwarfs September’s record of nearly 1,000 fixes, which was already about ten times the normal monthly patch load from Redmond.
The scary surprises for the largest security update ever include security bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.
A critical heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2026-39919) in the Ghostscript interpreter and rendering engine could allow remote code execution through specially crafted PDF files.
The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.
Today is Microsoft’s October 2026 Patch Tuesday, with security updates addressing a record-breaking 1,411 flaws, including one actively exploited and two publicly disclosed zero-day vulnerabilities.
CVE-2026-104935 affects Ivanti Connect Secure and it can be exploited for unauthenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges.
A Saudi OpenAI engineer has been arrested for allegedly planting a hidden recording device in an executive conference room at the company’s San Francisco offices to secretly record sensitive conversations.
Anthropic is warning that small AI models could soon be able to self-replicate across consumer IoT devices, from Android TV boxes to smart ovens, creating distributed botnets capable of running AI workloads without relying on data centers.
Microsoft released the Windows 10 KB5126657 extended security update, which includes this month’s record-breaking October 2026 Patch Tuesday fixes and a few bug fixes and changes.
Microsoft announced today that devices running Windows 11 24H2 Home and Pro editions have reached the end of support and will no longer receive monthly security and non-security preview updates.
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