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November 14, 2026 · The Hacker News
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added a high-severity security flaw impacting UnrealIRCd, an open-source Internet Relay Chat (IRC) server, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-114713 (CVSS score: 8.6), is a case of i…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with 51 other security flaws. Full protection from this flaw also requires rebuilding any C-language extensions installed on the server. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-6460, has a CVSS score of 8.8. Any code run t…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the server's operator out. One of them, Mior, can also modify a VM's memory and fake the signed report confirming which software it runs. Both need control of the server's hypervisor, and Mior also needs contro…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme codenamed FaceStealer in the last 18 months. As part of a coordinated set of actions announced by the U.…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wallet maker Trezor said yesterday. The implant reads the phrase from the wallet's screen and sends it over the mobile network to a server controlled by the attackers. The company examined one of the wa…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
Suppose an AI agent is asked to sort support tickets and look up account details. A ticket contains instructions that lead the agent to export records to an unfamiliar destination. The agent can make the request because its identity has access to the records and its connected tools allow the action. That kind of scenario raises a response question: what d…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Taiwan. Enea, a telecom and cybersecurity software company based in Stockholm, found the group's attack sources in at least six Asian countries and named it SilentAir this week. It assessed with high confidence…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
An international police operation took down servers behind Gootloader, CastleRAT and StealC this week. Criminals used the three malware tools to gain access to computers, steal passwords, and launch ransomware attacks. Police also seized about 6.4 million stolen logins belonging to more than 40,000 victims, according to Germany's Federal Criminal Police O…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
An unknown threat actor has been observed targeting unpatched Check Point Security Gateways to obtain initial access via the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities and then a previously unreported local privilege escalation flaw in Gaia OS to deploy a backdoor called TSGA. The activity, detailed by Check Point, began on October 30, 2026, and targeted Israeli organizat…
Read the original reportNovember 13, 2026 · The Hacker News
N-able on Thursday said it's taking additional precautions in the wake of public disclosure of a new set of flaws tracked as 4EverAble2Shell and Agent2Shell. "We are restricting certain N-central features and integrations," the company said in a Thursday update. "These measures may affect some functionality, but we believe taking additional precautions wh…
Read the original reportNovember 12, 2026 · The Hacker News
Security teams have more alerts, logs, and monitoring tools than ever. Yet when an attack happens, one simple question can still take too long to answer: Who or what is behind this activity, and what can they access? A suspicious login might belong to an employee. An unusual API call could come from a machine account. Or an AI agent might be accessing sen…
Read the original reportNovember 12, 2026 · The Hacker News
A search result isn't always safe. An access request isn't always harmless. And a familiar account doesn't always mean a familiar person is using it. Simple things to remember. Yet a surprising amount of this week's trouble starts right there. Attackers are using fake websites, stolen access, and trusted tools to get into places they shouldn't be. AI is h…
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