Prediction market platform Polymarket briefly halted trading on its international exchange on Thursday, October 29, after users reported unauthorized withdrawals from their wallets. Blockchain analytics…
Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into…
Ravie LakshmananOct 31, 2026Data Security / Cyber Attack American blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis said it was the target of a cybersecurity incident in which an…
Hospitals and clinics in Austria are gearing up to replace emails and phone calls with an end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service that promises to speed…
A Syrian man tied to the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has received a 42-month prison sentence in the US, more than 12 years after he…
Attackers Exploit Critical Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability CVE-2026-118539 Pierluigi Paganini October 31, 2026 Drupal warns that attackers are exploiting a critical authorization flaw in Commerce…
A Syrian man who prosecutors say was a central figure in a hacking operation run from former President Bashar Assad’s inner circle was sentenced Thursday…
Pre-operation (setup and reconnaissance): The weeks-long setup phase has been accelerated into mere moments. Gathering Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), provisioning infrastructure, building organizational charts, and configuring…
On October 19, 2026, we learned about eMudhra’s eight shockingly weak keys: where eMudhra was trusted to pick a 115-digit number for their virtual combination…
Attackers have started exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability patched earlier this month, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Tracked as CVE-2026-97229,…
Cursor has confirmed that malicious Claude Code extension packages were available through its VS Code Extension Marketplace for roughly 11 hours on October 29, 2026.…
Hackers impersonated IT help desk personnel on Microsoft Teams to gain remote access and abuse Active Directory Certificate Services (AD CS), turning approved support sessions…
