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India Mandates Registered Caller Name Display on 4G and Newer Networks From November 1

The Indian government has directed telecom service providers (TSPs) in the country to mandatorily display callers’ registered names along with their numbers for incoming calls… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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GhostAction Compromises About 1,900 GitHub Accounts, Targets Over 30,000 Repositories

The credential-theft campaign known as GhostAction has ramped up, targeting more than 30,000 repositories across 3,000 users and organizations. The spike, according to GitGuardian, was… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Langflow’s Critical Authenticated RCE Flaw Targeted in 1,423 Honeypot Exploit Attempts

Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in Langflow, according to an alert from Previdian. Langflow is an open-source platform that allows developers to… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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AhsayCBS Flaws Exploited to Deploy Web Shells Get New Fixes After Incomplete Patches

Singapore-based Ahsay Backup has released security updates to address two security flaws in AhsayCBS that have been exploited by bad actors to drop web shells… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Palo Alto Networks Patches PAN-OS Authenticated RCE Flaw Amid Active Exploitation

Palo Alto Networks on Wednesday issued security updates for a high-severity flaw in PAN-OS software that has come under active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Researchers Used a Public OpenAI Model to Build a $250,000 Chrome Full-Chain Exploit in Six Days

A team at security firm XBOW chained three then-unknown Google Chrome bugs into a single attack that runs code on a Windows computer when the… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Hirudo Android Trojan Uses Patched Banking Apps to Bypass Their Built-In Security Checks

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new Android banking trojan called Hirudo that works by replacing legitimate banking apps with purpose-built patched versions designed… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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An AI Agent Found a Critical OTP Bypass in Production. The Attack Was the Easy Part.

The bug was simple: the login let you choose where your sign-in code went. Proving it on a live website was the hard part. TL;DR… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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AI-Found Linux Kernel Flaw Gives Local Users Root, and Can Break a Guest Out to the Host

A flaw in Linux’s vhost subsystem lets a local user read and write kernel memory at will and become root across nearly a decade of… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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Four-Byte Write and Timing Bug Let Researchers Run Code in Windows SmartScreen Enclave

Security researchers ran their own code inside a protected part of Windows that is meant to stay sealed off even when the rest of the… Read MoreThe Hacker News

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