IT News Analysis

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Binance Reveals How Fake Job Interviews and AI Tool Abuse Led to $6.43 Billion Theft

Binance on Tuesday said the record-setting theft of $6.43 billion in assets from the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange was the culmination of a "sophisticated, multi-stage campaign" that involved the use of a tampered Homebrew installation and recruitment-themed social engineering attack targeting two of its engineers. "It was not a single isolated breach or a simple phishing incident," the company said . "The attackers combined a range of techniques, including social engineering by fake recruitment interviews, malicious software downloads, compromised internal AI tooling, endpoint compromise, and an advanced transaction-authorisation method." The starting point has been traced back to a supply chain attack targeting one of its engineers from the Wallet DevOps team (named "Engineer A"), who downloaded a trojanized Homebrew installer to install a popular artificial intelligence (AI) tool after searching for it on a search engine....

Nov 03, 2026

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Shadow AI Is Everywhere. Here’s How You Can Find and Secure It

Learn what works for uncovering shadow AI apps, agents, integrations, and data exposure—and what falls short.

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Barracuda Flaws Could Be Chained to Bypass Authorization and Gain Root Access

Barracuda has disclosed details of two vulnerabilities affecting its products that, if chained together, could allow an attacker to bypass authorization controls and gain root access to a susceptible device. The vulnerabilities, a pre-authentication authorization bypass vulnerability and a command injection vulnerability, have been assigned the CVE identifiers CVE-2026-116606 (CVSS score: 9.3) and CVE-2026-111560 (CVSS score: 8.6), respectively. While CVE-2026-116606 only affects Email Security Gateway, CVE-2026-111560 impacts the following Barracuda products - Email Security Gateway Load Balancer Application Delivery Controller Message Archiver WAF Control Center Web Application Firewall Web Security Gateway "Successful exploitation requires an attacker to have access to the administrative interface of an affected product," Barracuda said . "If exploited in combination, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass authorization co...

Nov 03, 2026

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Google Warns LLMjacking Attacks Are Costing Some Enterprises Up to $1 Million in Cloud Charges

Google on Monday warned that threat actors are hijacking enterprise access to Large Language Models (LLMs) to fraudulently leverage expensive computing resources and AI services. The tactic is called LLMjacking , a form of resource hijacking adapted for the LLM era, where an attacker obtains an API key through phishing, source code leaks, misconfigured environments, or exposed client-side code to gain unauthorized access to an organization's LLM accounts, while the legitimate owner covers the consumption costs. Such attacks have a wide geographical footprint, with impacted entities located in North America, South America, and Asia Pacific across the financial services, retail, technology, and transportation sectors. "Unlike the gradual resource consumption associated with cryptojacking, LLMJacking can generate large spikes in fraudulent cloud charges in a matter of hours," Google Threat Intelligence Group and Mandiant said in a report shared with The Hacker News...

Nov 03, 2026

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cPGuard Update Channel Hijacked to Backdoor Linux Servers and Collect Password Hashes

An attacker broke into the update system of the cPGuard security tool on November 2 and used it to send a malicious script to customers' Linux servers. The script installed a backdoor and collected password hashes and other sensitive files from servers that ran it, cPGuard maker OPSSHIELD said in an advisory . The attacker has since taken some of that data. cPGuard 5.88.25 and later versions remove the backdoor and the files the script left. Credentials the script copied may still work after the update, so any server that may have run the script also needs new passwords and keys. At 02:06 UTC, the attacker, who has not been identified, used compromised credentials to get into cPGuard's update system. The script went out in cPGuard versions 5.88.12 through 5.88.19. The attack was detected within 12 hours of those versions going out, according to OPSSHIELD. The company has cleared its infrastructure credentials and stopped the script from reaching more servers. It is sti...

Nov 03, 2026

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Red Hat Patches 9.8-Rated Linux TCP RCE Flaw While Ubuntu Releases Fixes for Testing

Fixed kernels for a use-after-free vulnerability in the Linux kernel's IPv4 TCP code are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, 9, and 10, while Ubuntu's fixes for its three newest long-term-support releases remain in its opt-in testing channel with no date for a regular update. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-98432 , can be reached by a remote, unauthenticated attacker and can lead to remote code execution,  Red Hat  and  Canonical  said. The Linux kernel's own CVE team rates the flaw 9.8 out of 10 on the CVSS scale. Red Hat, which initially rated it Moderate at 5.9, has raised its score to 9.8 and now calls it Critical. The bug has been present since Linux 4.4, and the upstream fix landed in October. What the Flaw Is When a server accepts an IPv4 TCP connection, the kernel passes IP options from the incoming request to the new socket without copying them. If the client retransmits its connection request while another processor still rea...

Nov 03, 2026

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The 4 Elements of Exposure Prioritization and How to Operationalize Them

Your team is remediating more vulnerabilities than ever, yet your breach risk has barely changed. You’re spending too much time and effort on exposures attackers may never exploit, while higher-risk exposures sit, waiting in the queue. Gartner ® ’s report on exposure prioritization states that fewer than 10% of vulnerabilities are exploited, yet most are treated as urgent. The report also argues that CVSS scores alone do not predict actual exploitation or business impact. Gartner predicts that by 2028, organizations that prioritize exposures using threat intelligence , asset context , exploitability modeling , and security control validation will reduce breach likelihood by at least 70% compared to their peers relying primarily on CVSS-based vulnerability prioritization. Let’s break down how each element works, and how the Picus Platform puts all four into practice. Severity-based prioritization made sense. Then it didn't. Severity-driven prioritization was an entirely r...

Nov 03, 2026

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Russia-Aligned Gorbag Hackers Exploit WinRAR Flaw to Deploy Data-Stealing Malware

A Russia-aligned threat actor known as Gorbag has been observed using simple information stealer malware in attacks targeting Ukrainian organizations. "Active since at least February 2025, the group has focused exclusively on Ukrainian targets, with a clear preference for law enforcement and justice entities, local administrations near the front line, and the defense sector," ESET researcher Damien Schaeffer said in a report shared with The Hacker News. The activity shares overlaps with a cluster tracked by the Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine (CERT-UA) under the moniker UAC-0226 and by Trend Micro as SHADOW-EARTH-066 . Gorbag is known to be active since at least February 2025. A key tool in the threat actor's malware arsenal is GIFTEDCROOK, a C/C++ stealer that facilitates the theft of sensitive data from web browsers like Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Mozilla Firefox, such as cookies, browsing history, and authentication data. Earlier this Ju...

Nov 03, 2026

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Hackers Exploit BTCPay Server Flaw to Steal Bitcoin and Litecoin From Hot Wallets

BTCPay Server, a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version of its software in response to reports of Bitcoin and Litecoin being stolen from hot wallets on instances running older versions. "Our investigation found that these attacks targeted servers running BTCPay Server 2.4.1 (released on 23 July 2026) or earlier," BTCPay Server said . "The attackers used a different method to exploit the vulnerability fixed in 2.4.2, released on 7 August 2026." Users who are running versions 2.4.1 or earlier are recommended to move to a fresh server with a new wallet, even in scenarios where users have not noticed a theft. In the event of stolen funds or suspected unauthorized access, it's imperative that users consider the entire machine and all secrets stored on it as compromised and follow the same recovery procedures. It's currently unknown when the attackers behind the campaign first began exploi...

Nov 03, 2026