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

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 ...

Oct 03, 2026

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Warlock Exploits SharePoint Flaws to Disable Security Tools and Deploy Ransomware

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 ...

Oct 03, 2026

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Reco Finds Four in Five Agents Run With Zero IT Oversight

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

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

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

Oct 03, 2026

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

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...

Oct 02, 2026

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

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 ...

Oct 02, 2026

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Build Your Email Security Strategy for the Agentic Era

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

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...

Oct 02, 2026

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OpenAI Parts Ways With Three Safety Researchers Over Sensitive Information Mishandling

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...

Oct 02, 2026

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

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...

Oct 02, 2026