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Cyber Insurance's New Reality: Underwriting Isn't Enough

Rising AI, social engineering, and cloud risks are pushing carriers beyond risk transfer and deeper into cybersecurity itself.

Source: Dark Reading
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AI Agents as Insider Threats: Inside Microsoft's Bet on a Unified Security Stack

Microsoft's Project Perception adds Guardian Agents to monitor and contain anomalous AI agents, but experts warn that policing unpredictable agents with other agents may compound — not contain — the risk.

Source: Dark Reading
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PHP Warns of Another Unpatched RCE Risk Two Days After Emergency PHP2Shell Patches

PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws.

Source: The Hacker News
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Russia-Linked Hackers Used New Mesh Network Backdoor in Destructive Ukraine Attack

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year.

Source: The Hacker News
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Critical Flaw in Python’s Popular Pillow Image Library Allows Code Execution via a Crafted Image

Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open.

Source: The Hacker News
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Researchers Demonstrate Node2Shell RCE Exploit on Node.js Build Using Crafted Brotli Data

Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated.

Source: The Hacker News
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Critical x402 SDK Flaw Could Let Malicious APIs Drain AI Agents’ Token Balances

AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22.

Source: The Hacker News
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PHP2Shell Exploit Attempts Hit Millions as Attackers Try to Deploy Mirai Malware

Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be harder than previously thought.

Source: The Hacker News
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State Bank of India Suffers a Customer PII Data Leak

Relatively small data breaches in India can turn quite serious, thanks to a sophisticated underground market for trading PII.

Source: Dark Reading
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Microsoft Links Storm-0940 to ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack

The China-linked actor used an AI-enabled penetration-testing tool to automate and accelerate its attack on more than 2,200 tenants.

Source: Dark Reading
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What We Missed: Feds Lasso Texas Laptop Farms

In this video, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from busting up North Korea's stateside infrastructure in "Operation Lonestar Justice" to Staples' gift card bonanza.

Source: Dark Reading
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Les supermarchés de l'UE paient d'un firmware de réfrigérateur non mis à jour

Des centaines de magasins ont subi des pertes se chiffrant en millions d'euros parce qu'ils avaient fait appel à des tiers pour gérer le micrologiciel OT obsolète qui pilotait leurs systèmes de climatisation.

Source: Dark Reading