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The Press Corner
A short résumé of each security publication from the daily scan, with the topic and a link to the original. The scan runs every day at 01:15 UTC. If that run misses, the next hourly pass picks it up. Last scan Oct 23, 2026.
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PHP2Shell exposes the weakness in coordinated vulnerability disclosure
Two critical vulnerabilities discovered in the widely-used PHP programming language have shaken up enterprises, and the ramifications will take some time to truly understand. But one of the lesser-known stories centers around disclosure.
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- CSO Online
GitLab critical patches include one for a bug that allows code execution by unauthenticated users
GitLab on Wednesday published updated versions of its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) that address a dozen bugs and security issues, including some that allow various unauthenticated actions. The most serious of the security issues, labeled critical in severity, is CVE-2026-110264 , an integer…
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- CSO Online
Security teams urged to center defense on the flaw profile attackers target most
Attackers are increasingly focusing on a limited range of critical vulnerabilities to run attacks with flaws packaged into exploits within as little as three days. Rapid7’s latest Quarterly Threat Landscape report found the number of newly exploited vulnerabilities in Q3 of 2026 was 43, up 19% year on year.
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- CSO Online
LiteLLM release pipeline hacked to distribute credential-stealing malware
Hackers hijacked the software release pipeline of LiteLLM, a popular open-source AI gateway, to distribute credential-stealing malware, marking the project’s second supply chain compromise this year despite security measures introduced after an earlier attack. The compromised version, 1.107.0, was distributed…
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- CSO Online
China-linked hackers used agentic AI in attack on 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants
A China-state-aligned threat actor compromised a ConnectWise cloud backup application and used an open-source agentic AI framework to turn its stolen credentials against more than 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants, Microsoft said. Microsoft Threat Intelligence attributed the activity to Storm-0940, which it said has used…
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- CSO Online
Dell patches 18 critical flaws that could hand attackers the keys to storage and Kubernetes
Dell’s security team has had a busy week. The company has announced a slew of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) impacting its Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) and Dell System Update (DSU).
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- CSO Online
EU Cyber Resilience Act ‘completely kills’ manual vulnerability triage
Independent security experts see the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) reshaping international technology markets to emphasize cyber resilience from the ground up, thereby testing the operational capacities of technology vendors whose wares compete in those markets. The EU CRA introduces mandatory reporting within 24…
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- CSO Online
Identity: The operational control plane for agentic AI
Existing security controls weren’t designed for AI agents. Static credentials and standing privileges aren’t sufficient for an emerging model where organizations need to rapidly authorize, limit, and revoke permissions from autonomous agents, sometimes more than once within a single workflow.
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- CSO Online
Detection engineering: A programmatic approach to identifying cyber threats
Detection engineering, which was once a niche practice among mostly large companies, appears to have evolved into a capability that organizations across industries now consider essential to their security operations. What is detection engineering?
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- CSO Online
7 tabletop exercise mistakes that sabotage incident response
Discussion-based, low-stress simulations during which IT, legal, and other key leadership stakeholders walk through theoretical scenarios to test their preparedness for cyber incidents is a popular and highly useful tool. Yet unless tabletop training is properly handled, the results can be misleading and…
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- CSO Online
The Winter Games effect: When gold meets DDoS
Major international events attract not just global audiences but also distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. The Milano Cortina 2026 Winter Games proved no exception: DDoS attack volume against Italian infrastructure in the country surged 181 percent over 2025 levels, which were themselves elevated by…
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- CSO Online
Security agencies draw red lines around agentic AI deployments
With prompt injection and other attack pathways consistently surfacing across agentic AI deployments, security watchdogs have stepped in, collectively, to draw some hard boundaries. A joint advisory from the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and international partners has called for tighter…
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- CSO Online
Enterprise Spotlight: Transforming software development with AI
Artificial intelligence has had an immediate and profound impact on software development. Coding practices, coding tools, developer roles, and the software development process itself are all being reimagined as AI agents advance on every stage of the software development life cycle, from planning and design to…
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- CSO Online
EvilTokens abuses Microsoft device code flow for account takeovers
A new phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) campaign is abusing Microsoft’s device code authentication flow to gain unauthorized access to user accounts. Sekoia researchers first spotted the toolkit “EvilTokens” that lets attackers capture authentication tokens by tricking users into completing a…
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- CSO Online
Anthropic AI ultimatums and IP theft: The unspoken risk
Two recent high-profile events concerning Anthropic’s Claude AI underscore a little-discussed risk at the heart of the enterprise’s rush to capitalize on leading AI capabilities. The first incident involved a China-based extraction campaign against Anthropic’s intellectual property.
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- CSO Online