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ShinyHunters Suspect Rey Reportedly Detained in Jordan, Helping FBI Identify Group Members

Oct 04, 2026Cybercrime / Data Breach

A suspected member of the ShinyHunters digital extortion group, who goes by the online alias "Rey," has been allegedly detained by authorities in Jordan, Reuters reported , citing three people familiar with the matter. Rey, whose real name is Saif ‌al-Din Khader, is said to have been brought into custody on September 29, 2026, cooperating with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and law enforcement to identify other members of the group. "His cooperation is critical to ongoing efforts to arrest these hackers," a source told the news agency. Rey, who also went by the online alias ReyXBF, is not an unknown face. In a report published in November 2025, independent security journalist Brian Krebs labeled him as one of the three administrators of Scattered LAPSUS$ Hunters (SLH or SLSH), a group that's assessed to be an amalgamation of Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters. "Previously, Rey was an administrator of the data leak websi...

Reco Finds Four in Five Agents Run With Zero IT Oversight

Reco AISaaS Security / AI Security

See which agent permissions security teams aren't reviewing, and why it matters now.

China-Aligned TA419 Targets U.S. AI Policy Experts With Microsoft AitM Phishing

Oct 04, 2026Cyber Espionage / Phishing

A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations. The campaigns have impersonated prominent economists and AI policymakers, as well as a prominent Anthropic employee, to single out an AI policy expert at a U.S. think tank in February 2026. The phishing email carried the subject line "Request for Feedback on Military Integration of Claude." "This activity likely supports wider Chinese intelligence objectives to better understand ongoing developments within the U.S. AI policy and regulatory landscape and occurs amid intense strategic competition, accusations of model distillation, and export controls involving the U.S. and China," Proofpoint said in an analysis published this week. The enterprise security company has described TA419 as a China-aligned and espionage-motivat...

MI5 Says China’s MSS Funded Research Involving 100+ U.K.-Linked Academics

Oct 03, 2026Cyber Espionage / Artificial Intelligence

The U.K.'s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing's state security service. In a "Security Service Espionage Alert" issued on September 30, 2026, MI5 said the "primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) 中国通用技术研究院 is to fund research that directly improves Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) technical capability for espionage." CGTRI, also known as the China Academy of General Technology (CAGT), is assessed to be a front company for MSS. The body, per MI5, funds academic research in China on topics including artificial intelligence (AI), cybersecurity, covert communications systems, and steganography. More than 100 U.K.-linked academics have contributed to research projects funded by MSS via CGTRI, the alert read. In some cases, the individuals may not be aware that CGTRI is providing monetary ...

Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

Oct 03, 2026Vulnerability / Critical Infrastructure

The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new , in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, has hit critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. "In the past two months, Longlegs has attacked at least four organizations, including two critical infrastructure operators (a water utility and a telecommunications provider), a regional government body, and a university," the Broadcom-owned cybersecurity unit said . "Victims were in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries, spanning Europe, Africa, and Latin America."  Warlock, also tracked as Gold Salem, Longlegs, and Storm-2603, gained prominence in mid-2025 in connection with the zero-day exploitation of the "ToolShell" SharePoint flaws to deploy ransomware on ...

The State of Cybersecurity in 2026: Key Segments, Insights, and Innovations

Oct 03, 2026Identity Security / Artificial Intelligence

Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infrastructure, security is shifting toward continuous visibility, control, and the ability to respond to risk at scale. This report examines how core areas of cybersecurity are evolving in response to that shift. Across identity security, telemetry management, human security, endpoint management, human risk intelligence, exposure management, email and domain security, connected device security, AI-native security operations, and cloud security, it explores how organizations are adapting to threats that increasingly move across systems, identities, and infrastructure rather than targeting a single point of failure. Read the full report here:  https://report.papryon.com/thehackernews

Build Your Email Security Strategy for the Agentic Era

Adaptive SecurityEmail Security / Cybersecurity

Get the 2026 checklist for defending against AI phishing, compromised accounts, and human error.

GitLab Patches Critical 9.9 AI Gateway Flaw Allowing Command Execution on Self-Hosted Servers

Oct 02, 2026Vulnerability / Application Security

A critical flaw in GitLab's AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab  said in an advisory . The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance to AI models, and only organizations that host their own gateway need to act. The flaw is fixed in gateway versions 19.2.4, 19.3.2, and 19.4.1. The flaw is tracked as  CVE-2026-90970 . GitLab disclosed it on October 2 and rated it critical, with a CVSS score of 9.9 out of 10. GitLab runs AI Gateways for its customers and has already fixed them. Customers on GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated, and self-managed instances that use a GitLab-hosted gateway do not need to act, the company said. Self-managed customers can instead  host their own gateway , an option GitLab offers for keeping AI request and response data inside the customer's own environment. GitLab strongly recommends that those customers update immediately. It sent that gui...

Antino Backdoor Uses Outlook and OneDrive for C2 in China-Nexus Espionage Campaign

Oct 02, 2026Cyber Espionage / Malware

Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar, involves the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Antino. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster under the moniker UAT-11587 . The threat actor was first detected in September 2025 in connection with a spear-phishing campaign directed against Taiwan's academic, think tank, and civil society policy community. Since then, attacks linked to the intrusion set have expanded to target 16 entities across eight Asian countries. "Antino is a Rust-compiled Windows backdoor that supports host reconnaissance, shell and PowerShell execution, file transfer, in-memory shellcode loading and persistence," security researcher Ashley Shen said . "Its native command-and-control channel ...

Dell CSM Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Admin Access and Root on Kubernetes Nodes

Oct 02, 2026Vulnerability / Cloud Security

Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an unauthenticated remote attacker could exploit to obtain unauthorized access to storage backend administrator credentials for all registered storage arrays. CVE-2026-63692 (CVSS score: 10.0) - A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the authorization proxy and tenant service that an unauthenticated network attacker could exploit to bypass authentication controls and gain administrative-level privileges. CVE-2026-67269 (CVSS score: 9.9) - An improper privilege management vulnerability in the ContainerStorageModule Custom Resource reconciler that a low-privilege remote attac...

OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling

Oct 02, 2026Artificial Intelligence / Data Security

OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported . "We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information," a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. "Our investigation confirmed that these individuals mishandled sensitive information outside established company procedures, violating our policies and breaking the trust essential to our work." The impacted employees are Jasmine Wang , Tomek Korbak , and Mikita Balesni , the Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The three researchers have all previously expressed concerns about the pace of artificial intelligence (AI) development. It's said that the individuals shared confidential information with a third-party AI-safety organization. The name of the organization was not disclosed. According...

Why CISOs Struggle to Answer the Board's Three Hardest Questions, and How to Fix the Report

Oct 02, 2026Enterprise Security / Artificial Intelligence

The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides. Then a board member asks three questions: How secure is the organization, overall? What is the actual financial exposure? Is the security posture better than it was last quarter? Most security leaders cannot answer any of them with confidence. Not because the data doesn't exist, but because it lives in a dozen tools that don't share context. A new guide to confident board reporting for CISOs takes on exactly this problem. This article walks through why traditional reporting fails and what a better model looks like. Boards Have Stopped Trusting Activity Metrics For years, security reporting has run on counts. Vulnerabilities found. Patches applied. Alerts closed. P...

Android 17 Advanced Protection Locks Accessibility Services to Verified Accessibility Tools

Oct 02, 2026Mobile Security / Android

Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android's accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major attack pathway. Advanced Protection is a security setting that turns on all Android's security features to secure the device against potential threats. "In Android 17, enabling Advanced Protection automatically restricts AccessibilityService access exclusively to verified applications categorized as Accessibility Tools, closing off a major avenue of attack while preserving vital assistive technology," Google said Thursday. The Android AccessibilityService API is a powerful framework that allows an application to run in the background, intercept user interface events, and interact with other applications on...

Critical FortiMail Zero-Day Flaw Exploited in Attacks Allows Unauthenticated Arbitrary File Writes

Oct 02, 2026Vulnerability / Enterprise Security

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), on Thursday, added a critical security flaw impacting Fortinet FortiMail to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities ( KEV ) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score: 9.8), allows unauthenticated attackers to write arbitrary files on the underlying system. "An improper limitation of a pathname to a restricted directory ('path traversal') [CWE-22] and improper neutralization of NULL byte or NULL character [CWE-158] vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary files on the underlying system via crafted HTTP or HTTPS requests," Fortinet said in an advisory. The vulnerability impacts the following versions - FortiMail 8.0.0 through 8.0.1 (Upgrade to upcoming 8.0.2 or above) FortiMail 7.6.0 through 7.6.6 (Upgrade to upcoming 7.6.7 or above) FortiMail 7.4.0 through 7.4.8 (Upgrade to upcoming 7.4.9 or a...

Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers

Oct 01, 2026Ransomware / Cybercrime

Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old was one of 3 people arrested on September 30, when police also took control of that site. Investigators identified him as KillSec's suspected administrator and main operator,  Hamburg police said  on October 1. Police and prosecutors in Hamburg, Germany, led the operation. The Guardia Civil and the Mossos d'Esquadra, both Spanish police forces, detained him in Alicante and searched a home and an office at a hotel in the province. Their joint statement,  carried by elperiodic.com , calls him one of the group's administrators and its presumed main administrator. The other 2 people arrested are in their 20s, one in the U.K. and one in Romania, a spokesperson for Europol, the European Union's police agency,  told Reute...

ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories

Oct 01, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News

This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run code. A cache can mix up requests. A public secret can stay useful for years. That is the lesson running through the list. Attackers do not always need a brilliant new trick. They can hide commands in public infrastructure, reuse old flaws, abuse weak defaults, or let automation stitch together a rough path that still works. Faster tools are changing the pace, but basic mistakes are still doing plenty of the work. So the interesting question this week is not “what broke?” It is “what did we assume was safe because it looked ordinary?” The full list has answers. The threats change every week. Subscribe, and we’ll alert you when each new ThreatsDay Bulletin is out.

WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory

Oct 01, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after the "SC_" markers present in the injected content. Sucuri has described the malware as a "self-healing mesh" that's blockchain-controlled. "The payload lives in at least eight places at once, spread across files, the database, and shared memory, and every one of those places can rebuild all the others," security researcher Gabriel Barbosa said . "Delete the plugin and a drop-in rewrites it. Delete the drop-in and the theme rewrites it. Clean every file on disk, and the next page load restores the whole set from the database or from a shared-memory segment. The result is a circular system with no single point you can remove to stop it." According to Sucuri, the malware does no...

How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

Oct 01, 2026DevSecOps / Patch Management

Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out the regression testing. Somebody else raises the change-freeze calendar. The finding gets an exception, a compensating control, and a date eighteen months out on the roadmap to address it. Nobody in that conversation is being unreasonable. Financial services carry more legacy software than almost any other industry for a few reasons: decades of accumulated infrastructure, regulatory obligations that reward stability, and applications where an hour of downtime is unacceptable. In that environment, minimizing change is risk management. Every dependency bump, every base image swap, every migration is a chance to break something that clears trades or moves money. So the instinct to stick to the status quo has been sound. The problem...