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  1. OpenAI’s August fix for theft of reasoning traces was quickly bypassed

    CSO Online Security · · Low severity

    Cybersecurity research firm Xint on Monday published details of a bug in the OpenAI API that leaks raw reasoning traces from frontier OpenAI models, revealing the risk of other data leaks. OpenAI has confirmed the flaw, mitigated it,...

  2. Worm armed 42 GitHub repos by hiding a payload too big to fail

    The Register ·

    A new Miasma-family npm worm , originally believed to be just a test with no victims, secretly armed 42 real GitHub repositories from 11 owners, hijacking accounts as early as July and using a stealthy payload built to stay hidden from...

  3. OpenAI rolls out budget-priced mid-tier GPT-6.1 Terra

    The Register ·

    OpenAI has added a mid-range model to its GPT-6.1 family, offering strong performance at a lower price. The AI business' general-purpose models span four tiers. Products named "Sol" or "Astra" are its high-end offerings and come with...

  4. Humanity can't afford not to spend $800B on AI, Anthropic insists

    The Register ·

    Anthropic's IPO filing dropped on Monday morning, and the prospectus reads like a real estate agent desperately trying to sell a house of cards as an investment property: The upsides are enormous. There are just a few disclosures you...

  5. Japanese virtual desktop cloud hacked so hard it asks to be banned

    The Register · · Medium severity

    Japanese ISP GMO Internet has warned customers the cloudy desktop service it offers as an ideal foreign exchange trading environment was compromised by an attacker, and that it had been slow to improve the service's security. GMO runs a...

  6. Intel buys quantum software pioneer Classiq for $2.2B

    SiliconANGLE ·

    said today it has agreed to the terms of a blockbuster acquisition for the quantum computing software startup Classiq Technologies Ltd. It’ll pay $2.2 billion to buy the Israeli company, making it the second-largest acquisition in its...

  7. Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing

    TechCrunch ·

    An AI model said it wouldn’t use any tools, then tried to send something to a server in Beijing anyway, and while researchers say it’s probably a training quirk and not espionage, the whole thing has people asking how much to trust free...

  8. Apple Patches for October 2026, (Mon, Oct 26th)

    SANS Internet Storm Center · · Medium severity

    Apple today released patches for 304 vulnerabilties. This number is still in line with prior Apple updates, and comes just about a month after the last apple update. Noteworthy Issue: CVE-2026-86950: This is an already exploited...

  9. CISA KEV: CVE-2026-109619 — PHP Group PHP actively exploited

    CISA KEV · · Critical severity

    PHP Stale Internal Request-State Vulnerability. PHP contains a stale internal request-state vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions,...

  10. CISA KEV: CVE-2026-109618 — PHP Group PHP actively exploited

    CISA KEV · · Critical severity

    PHP Memory Corruption Vulnerability. PHP contains an out-of-memory corruption vulnerability that allows for unauthenticated remote code execution. Required action: Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring...

  11. Microsoft offers to buy out a quarter of its workforce

    Ars Technica ·

    On Monday, Microsoft said it will offer voluntary buyouts to eligible employees in select parts of the company. CNBC reports that the buyouts will be offered to roughly 60,000 employees , or about a quarter of its global workforce. The...

  12. Discover and remediate PHP2Shell exposure with Tenable

    Tenable Research · · Medium severity

    Learn how to use Tenable solutions to find vulnerable PHP versions, prioritize remediation, and patch the critical PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619) faster. Key takeaways The PHP2Shell vulnerabilities (...

  13. Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

    TNW · · Medium severity

    Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported....

  14. LiteLLM supply chain attack started with an exposed master key

    The Register · · Critical severity

    LiteLLM has traced last week’s supply chain attack to a master key it accidentally committed to a public GitHub repository in May. The cloud and AI model secret-stealing part of the incident began when someone uploaded a poisoned...

  15. Alibaba's Qwen AI caught trying to contact server in China

    The Register ·

    Open-weight models from China have become very popular, but they've also raised some security suspicions. Cohere, a Canada-based biz that offers AI models to enterprises, says that when it was testing Alibaba's Qwen3.8-Flash-Next in its...

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