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Fri 9 Oct2
In Other News: AI Used in Korean Bank Breaches, Poem-Guided Botnet, Empire Admin Gets 40 Years
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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Tensorlake npm SDK compromised, Empire Market co-founder gets 40 years, exposed NVIDIA GPU monitors leak telemetry. The post In Other News: AI Used in Korean Bank Breaches, Poem-Guided Botnet, Empire Admin Gets 40 Years appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Flax Typhoon and other APTs used MicroScan and FishHub to scan and hack US and foreign critical infrastructure. The post US Disrupts Chinese State-Sponsored Hacking Tools appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Thu 8 Oct1
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Zhang Yu was charged alongside Xu Zewei, who was extradited from Italy to the US in April 2026. The post US Seeks Alleged Chinese Hafnium Hacker With $10 Million Reward appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Wed 7 Oct2
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The individual was detained in May and has been extradited to Germany to face hacking charges. The post Qilin Ransomware Suspect Arrested in Japan, Extradited to Germany appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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The Japanese chip testing giant said hackers stole personal information from its servers in the February 2026 cyberattack. The post Advantest Discloses Data Breach Months After Ransomware Attack appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Fri 2 Oct1
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The China-based hacking group has been exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities since July 2025. The post Warlock Expands SharePoint Exploitation in Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Thu 24 Sept1
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Australia disclosed that an OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to non-public government information. The post OpenAI Agents Probed Websites for Vulnerabilities While Fetching Public Data appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Tue 22 Sept1
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A Chinese threat actor has exploited the bug to exfiltrate sensitive information from nearly 1,000 ZyXEL switches. The post Recent ZyXEL Switch Vulnerability Exploited by Chinese Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Mon 21 Sept1
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It’s unclear if the attacks are part of previous campaigns against Rust, but the techniques used by the attackers match those used by North Korea. The post Rust Team Members and Popular Crate Owners Targeted via Video Calls appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Tue 15 Sept2
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The hackers staged numerous scripts for reconnaissance and CVE probing, along with brute-force utilities and privilege escalation tools. The post Thai Broadband Provider Hacked via Fortinet Vulnerability appeared first on SecurityWeek .
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Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a VPN product to steal the personal information of roughly 240,000 people. The post 240,000 Hit by Data Breach at Japan’s Digital Agency appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Mon 14 Sept1
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The Chinese-language input method editor for Windows can allow attackers to execute arbitrary code remotely. The post Chinese Hackers Exploit Critical Tencent Software Flaw for One-Click Code Execution appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Fri 11 Sept1
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Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Invisible Unicode slips past phishing filters, US puts $10 million bounty on Iranian cyber official, military ties of Chinese hacking group QTFY. The post In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Wed 9 Sept1
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Distillation is an ‘attack’ against an AI model designed to capture outputs, understand reasoning processes, and subsequently train a different model. The post US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Mon 7 Sept1
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The stealthy toolkit embeds a backdoor in HAProxy and targets automotive and media organizations in South Korea for long-term surveillance. The post North Korean Hackers Deploy New Linux Espionage Toolkit appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Thu 27 Aug1
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The operation focused on a group named QTFY, which offers hacking services to the Chinese government and others. The post US Disrupts Chinese Hacking Platform Used in Military and Critical Infrastructure Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek .
Fri 21 Aug1
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Hackers pushed a poisoned arrayref version that added a dependency to fetch a malicious payload from a remote server. The post Rust Supply Chain Attack Linked to North Korean Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek .