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The Hacker News (Security) Nov 5, 4:31 AM

OpenAI AI Pipeline Generates 948 Linux Root Escalation Exploits in 30-Hour Run

OpenAI on Wednesday detailed a pipeline that employed an upcoming cyber-focused artificial intelligence (AI) model to validate and patch 948 local privilege ...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 5:00 PM

Debian and Ubuntu APT Flaw Lets MitM Attackers Swap Verified Packages and Run Code as Root

A flaw in APT, the package manager for Debian and Ubuntu, allows an attacker who can modify package downloads to swap a checked package for their own. The at...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 5:00 PM

SonicWall Won't Patch EoL GMS Flaws That Could Expose Files, Alter Database Records

SonicWall has warned of two vulnerabilities impacting end-of-life Global Management System (GMS) systems that it said will not be patched. Details of the sec...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 4:06 PM

Researchers Uncover Prompt Adware Hidden in OpenAI Codex Jailbreak Toolkit

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an OpenAI Codex jailbreak bundle that's designed to modify an artificial intelligence (AI) agent's truste...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 2:27 PM

APT29-Linked Hackers Hijack Web Analytics Script to Deliver iOS and Android Exploits

The Russia-linked threat actor known as APT29 is presumed to be behind a large-scale watering hole campaign targeting iOS and Android users through compromis...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 12:07 PM

Critical Rails Flaw Lets Attackers Write Server Files via Crafted ImageMagick Uploads

A critical flaw in Ruby on Rails could allow an unauthenticated attacker to write arbitrary files on an app's server by uploading a crafted file if the app p...

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The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 11:46 AM

Xen Hypervisor Flaws Let One Malicious VM Read and Write Any Other VM's Memory

Two flaws in the Xen hypervisor allow a malicious guest virtual machine (VM) to read and write the memory of other VMs on the same host, including dom0. Dom0...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 11:34 AM

Radio With No Radar: Why Agent Runtime Security Fails Without the Layers Beneath It

Nearly every agent security pitch now ends on the same promise: the product stops the bad action in real time. The promise holds for one kind of agent, the k...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 11:24 AM

China-Aligned Hackers Hijack Sogou Input Method DNS Requests to Deploy DarkVigil Backdoor

A China-aligned threat actor known as SlippyNunchucks has been attributed to a Domain Name System (DNS) hijacking operation abusing insecure HTTP communicati...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 8:17 AM

Russian Police Arrest 3 Suspected VasyGrek Hackers, Dismantle Criminal Infrastructure

Russian authorities have arrested three suspected members of a threat group known as VasyGrek and dismantled its criminal infrastructure. Also known as Fluff...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 7:46 AM

Google Issues Patches for Critical Android Flaw That Could Allow RCE Without User Interaction

A critical Android flaw could allow an attacker to run code on a phone without any user action remotely, Google said in its November security bulletin. The f...

The Hacker News (Security) Nov 4, 5:43 AM

CISA Confirms Hackers Exploiting WordPress Core Flaw During Software Upgrades

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a security flaw in WordPress Core to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) cat...