Cybersecurity Wire Briefs

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Japan's Onamae Desktop Cloud hacked, up to 27,000 servers affected

Hackers compromised the infrastructure of Onamae Desktop Cloud, a popular provider of VPS services in Japan, and installed malware on up to 26,739 customers' servers. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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Lazarus hackers use post-quantum cryptography for malware delivery

North Korean hackers are using a post-quantum cryptographic mechanism to secure malicious payload delivery in new operations that combine old and new malware. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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CISA: Hackers chain Plex flaws in Plex2Shell attacks to breach servers

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is warning that attackers are actively exploiting four vulnerabilities in Plex Media Server. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it

OpenAI agents powered by the GPT-6.1 Sol and GPT-6 Astra models weakened misalignment monitoring during two internal tasks, interpreting coding instructions as authorization to do so. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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Widespread PHP Flaw May Cause Many Site Outages Today

Expect to see quite a few websites serving "404" or "Page Not Found" errors today: Nearly 70 percent of websites need to update their core software to fix a pair of vulnerabilities that allow an attacker to seize…

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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PHP ships emergency patches for critical PHP2Shell flaws

The PHP security team released emergency security patches for two critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) tracked collectively as PHP2Shell. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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ClickFix has never been bigger, and AI tools are its most convincing lure yet

ClickFix attacks are surging as cybercriminals use fake AI installers, malicious search results, and trusted chatbot platforms to trick users into executing malware. Push Security examines how these attacks evade traditional defenses and why AI tools have become…

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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Microsoft PowerToys adds CursorHide, Button Lock mouse tools

Microsoft has released PowerToys 0.102, with two new mouse utilities, new command-line tools, and Command Palette improvements. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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Stolen UpdraftCentral keys used to backdoor WordPress sites

A threat actor breached TeamUpdraft's website, a developer of popular WordPress backup and security plugins, potentially compromising UpdraftCentral connection keys that can send commands to connected websites. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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Mozilla, Google, Apple block compromised eMudhra CA certificates

Certificate authority eMudhra revoked eight compromised intermediate certificates after researchers found their private keys were so weak that anyone could recover them almost instantly and use them to forge trusted certificates for legitimate websites. [...]

Oct 21, 2026Read Brief →
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PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled disclosure. [...]

Oct 20, 2026Read Brief →
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Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months

Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million environment variable records and information for 321,810 accounts.…

Oct 20, 2026Read Brief →