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Italy Fines Meta €805 Million Over Facebook’s Android Gallery Access Without Explicit Consent
Meta was fined €805 million in Italy yesterday over a Facebook for Android feature that suggests photos and videos from users' phone galleries for them to post. The Garante, Italy's data protection authority, found that the feature was enabled by default and that the app accessed Italian users' photos, videos, and related metadata without their explicit consent. The company has 60 days to…
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Also reported by SecurityWeek, Security Affairs
Pentagon Renames CDAO ‘Super Intelligence Office’
SecurityWeek
U.S. CISA adds Check Point and UnrealIRCd flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
Security Affairs+1 source
YARA-X 1.23.0 Release, (Sun, Nov 15th)
YARA-X&#;x26;#;39;s 1.23.0 release brings 4 improvements and 16 bugfixes.
SANS Internet Storm Center
Hack at French postal unit exposes 22 million people’s data
Türkiye Today and AFP report: A cyberattack on Maileva, a digital subsidiary of France’s national postal operator La Poste Group, exposed the personal data of about 22 million people, French media reported Sunday. La Poste confirmed on Saturday that the…
DataBreaches.net
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From the agencies
Public bodies in the UK, the EU and the US, published in full where their licence allows.
Operation Machinize: NCA-coordinated crackdown across the UK as work to reclaim the high street gathers pace
A UK-wide crackdown on criminals exploiting high street businesses has taken place for a third time as the National Crime Agency leads the law enforcement response to organised crime on…
NCSC scheme will help critical organisations test their cyber defences
New NCSC Cyber Adversary Simulation scheme will help critical organisations strengthen their resilience through rigorous, real-world testing by trusted providers.
Around the world
The incidents, breaches and state campaigns making headlines.
Statement from Microsoft
We are deeply sorry for the disruption this incident has caused our customers and partners. We know the trust they place in our services and take that responsibility extremely seriously.…
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No Signs of Hacking in FAA Ground Stop as FBI Reportedly Probes Software Update
SecurityWeek
SCKit abuses ScreenConnect to deploy remote access and target technician sessions
Microsoft Threat Intelligence
Researchers continue to find serious vulnerabilities in internet connected refrigerators
CyberScoop
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UK desk
Attacks, government and regulation closest to home.
How AI is changing the nature of cyberattacks
AI may be helping cyberattackers increase the speed and scale of their operations, but it is not yet changing their core objectives or the techniques they employ as part of…
CSO Online UK
Mid-sized businesses can’t leave quantum readiness to their suppliers
Computer Weekly
Record number of cyber incidents reported to UK privacy regulator
The Record
Italian court rejects data from police hacking of Sky ECC cryptophone network
Computer Weekly
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Threat intelligence
Malware, exploited flaws, phishing and botnets, from the researchers who found them.
ARTEX and beyond: AI-enabled penetration testing platforms
AI-enabled penetration testing and red team frameworks can automate and chain reconnaissance, vulnerability testing, and follow-on actions, lowering the skill threshold for attackers and accelerating intrusions when the tools are…
Cisco Talos
Does your phone’s VPN protect devices connected to its hotspot?
Bitdefender
Common Banking Scams Every Small Business Owner Should Know
Bitdefender
Curious about “Curious Worm”
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Enterprise & cloud
Microsoft, identity, cloud and the security operations centre.
Attackers use Crypto Exchange Names to Disguise Unauthorized Sessions on 100+ ScreenConnect Servers
Fake crypto exchange sessions are showing up on ScreenConnect servers and could be bait for technicians. See what Huntress found and what to do.
Huntress
Amazon Threat Intelligence observes threat actors running cybercrime campaigns with ARTEX AI agents
AWS Security Blog
KnowBe4 and AWS: Behind Every AI Advancement Is Strong Collaboration
KnowBe4
Inside the loop: Five AI attack frameworks that never ask permission
Elastic Security Labs
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AI & emerging tech
How attackers use AI, how AI is attacked, and how defenders use it.
Is AI Making Us Worse at Cybersecurity?
Overreliance on AI could erode the creativity, clear communication, and critical thinking security teams need when there’s no playbook.
SecurityWeek
ArcticRAT Cybercrime Gang Profiles Victim Finances With AI
Dark Reading
White House task force says companies deserve liability relief for AI-fueled cyberattacks
Cybersecurity Dive+1 source
China-nexus actor uses AI tool in campaign targeting US defense, semiconductor industries
Cybersecurity Dive
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Law & compliance
Privacy, regulation and the courts.
Tech Companies Are Trying to Shift the Entire Concept of Privacy (Again)
Privacy, which companies were once happy to claim was all about personal choice, is now primed to affect everyone around you even more than it already did. Meta and Google’s…
EFF
General Motors Settles Multistate Driver Privacy Claims
Hunton Andrews Kurth
German parliament passes law giving spy agencies hacking, sabotage powers
The Record
Microsoft Outage 2026: What Happened and What the Law Says
DataBreaches.net
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Awareness & education
Guidance and explainers for staying safe.
The Binance Aftershocks: Tracking the Nearly 130% Spike in Crypto Impersonation Scams
Lead Analysts: Emily Hanlon, James Dyer…
KnowBe4
New York City votes to ban surveillance pricing
Malwarebytes
Report: Online Scams Nearly Doubled in 2026
KnowBe4
Capabilities and vulnerabilities of the Muse AI agent | Kaspersky official blog
Kaspersky
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Vulnerability watch
Exploited vulnerabilities
Vulnerabilities CISA has confirmed attackers are using, newest first, with the chance each is exploited in the next 30 days (EPSS) – and the critical CVEs published this week.
12added to CISA’s list this week
35in the last 30 days
Known exploited – newest first
- CVE-2026-123039Added 13 Nov
Check Point Multiple Products Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
- CVE-2026-114713Added 13 Nov
UnrealIRCd UnrealIRCd Improper Neutralization of Delimiters
- CVE-2026-20320Added 10 Nov
Cisco BroadWorks Improper Restriction of XML External Entity Reference
- CVE-2026-125350Added 10 Nov
Google Chromium Use-After-Free
- CVE-2026-124194Added 10 Nov
Microsoft Office Outlook Missing User Interaction for Potentially Unsafe Action
- CVE-2026-116606Added 10 Nov
Barracuda Networks Barracuda Email Security Gateway (ESG) Email Security Gateway (ESG) Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
- CVE-2026-111793Added 10 Nov
Openwave Messaging Limited Webtop Media Transcoder Incorrect Resource Transfer Between Spheres
Critical CVEs – last 7 days
- 9.9CVE-2026-12943314 Nov
Dokploy before 0.31.1 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in getComposeContainerCommand() that allows authenticated organization members to execute shell commands via the serviceName parameter. Attackers can… (show the full description)
Dokploy before 0.31.1 contains an OS command injection vulnerability in getComposeContainerCommand() that allows authenticated organization members to execute shell commands via the serviceName parameter. Attackers can store serviceName values with shell metacharacters through backup.create or backup.update tRPC procedures, executing commands as root when scheduled backups run and taking over the host via the mounted Docker socket.
- 10.0CVE-2026-12935315 Nov
A vulnerability was detected in D-Link DIR-600L 2.17/2.17b02. Affected by this vulnerability is the function authenticationcgi_main of the file authentication.cgi. Performing a manipulation of the argument… (show the full description)
A vulnerability was detected in D-Link DIR-600L 2.17/2.17b02. Affected by this vulnerability is the function authenticationcgi_main of the file authentication.cgi. Performing a manipulation of the argument id/password results in stack-based buffer overflow. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. The exploit is now public and may be used.
- 10.0CVE-2026-12935114 Nov
A security vulnerability has been detected in TRENDnet TEW-657BRM 1.00.1. This vulnerability affects the function sprintf of the file /setup.cgi of the component mini_httpd. Such manipulation… (show the full description)
A security vulnerability has been detected in TRENDnet TEW-657BRM 1.00.1. This vulnerability affects the function sprintf of the file /setup.cgi of the component mini_httpd. Such manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been disclosed publicly and may be used. The vendor explains: ""I am not able to confirm if such vulnerability exists as the product has been EOL for more than 15 years. We will send out an announcement letting customers know." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.
- 10.0CVE-2026-12935415 Nov
A flaw has been found in D-Link DIR-600L 2.17b02. Affected by this issue is the function hnap_main of the file htdocs/cgibin of the component HNAP Handler.… (show the full description)
A flaw has been found in D-Link DIR-600L 2.17b02. Affected by this issue is the function hnap_main of the file htdocs/cgibin of the component HNAP Handler. Executing a manipulation can lead to stack-based buffer overflow. The attack can be executed remotely. The exploit has been published and may be used.
- 9.9CVE-2026-12000210 Nov
Incorrect authorization in Microsoft Office SharePoint allows an authorized attacker to elevate privileges over a network.
Exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog (CC0). Exploit prediction: EPSS by FIRST. This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.
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Friday
Friday Squid Blogging: Pacific Flying Squid Populations Dropping in Korean Waters
Climate change is the issue. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Blog moderation policy.
Schneier on Security
Friday
FAA Ground Stop Issued Due to ‘Extraordinary Circumstances’
Federal officials have yet to say what caused the communications disruption or whether they are investigating a possible cyberattack.
SecurityWeek+1 source
Friday
North Korea ‘s Crypto Theft Operations: DOJ Seizes $1.2 Billion and Disrupts Hacker Infrastructure
The DOJ seized over $1.2 billion from North Korea ‘s Binance theft, and says the same hackers are targeting open-source developers The U.S. Department of Justice announced two separate but connected actions against North Korea ‘s cryptocurrency theft operations. The press release covers the seizure of…
Security Affairs+1 sourceT1684.001Impersonation
Friday
Industry guidelines for offensive cyber tools unveiled through international Pall Mall Process
The United States this week signed on to an international set of industry standards for commercial offensive cyber tools that human rights groups and other advocates wish had been stronger. The Pall Mall Process voluntary industry guidelines for commercial cyber intrusion capabilities (CCICs), such as spyware,…
CyberScoop
Friday
Customers Still Want Human Service. Here’s How Small Businesses Can Benefit
AI chatbots are becoming a familiar part of customer service, and customers are increasingly comfortable using them. But research shows an important distinction: people are happy to use AI for routine questions, product information, or tracking orders. When they have a problem, need advice, or want…
Bitdefender
Friday
City of Osaka warns of data breach impacting 1 million as Japan reels from dozens of cyber incidents
Osaka, Japan's third-largest city, told its 2.8 million residents to be wary of suspicious emails purporting to come from the local government.
The Record
Friday
NYC to bar surveillance pricing as momentum for bans grows nationwide
The New York City government will be able to fine companies $1,000 for each verified instance of surveillance pricing.
The Record
Friday
German military drone operations disrupted by cyberattack
German defense technology company Quantum Systems confirmed that it detected an incident in late October that was part of an active cyberattack by "hostile actors."
BleepingComputer
Friday
University of Texas at Arlington warns personal information stolen during cyberattack
In a statement to Recorded Future News, a spokesperson said an investigation into the attack confirmed the stolen data but declined to say what information was obtained by the threat actors.
The RecordT1567Exfiltration Over Web Service
Friday
PostgreSQL Patches 52 Flaws, Including 22-Year-Old Bug Enabling Authenticated RCE
A type confusion flaw in PostgreSQL lets a database user who can create objects run code on the server. Updates released yesterday fix it, along with 51 other security flaws. Full protection from this flaw also requires rebuilding any C-language extensions installed on the server. The…
The Hacker NewsT1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
Friday
ChatGPT Wallet lets agents pay without seeing your card number
OpenAI began rolling out ChatGPT Wallet, which lets ChatGPT agents pay for purchases with a stand-in card number, so the user’s card details are not shared with the agent or the merchant. OpenAI built it with American Express, Mastercard, and Visa. It runs inside dots, where…
Help Net Security
Friday
DOJ: Gootloader used in at least 44 ransomware attacks costing $29 million since 2018
In a briefing adjacent to European announcements about an international anti-malware operation, U.S. officials detailed the history and impact of the Gootloader ransomware.
The RecordT1486Data Encrypted for Impact
Friday
US cracks down on North Korean cryptocurrency-theft scheme, recovers more Binance funds
Federal agents used court orders to chip away at North Korea’s cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity Dive
Friday
56 AWS API calls in 141 milliseconds: Inside an AI-run intrusion
A CyberStrikeAI server spent 16 days in four AWS accounts using eight identities, and the CloudTrail record shows why six detection rules each caught only part of it.
Elastic Security Labs
Friday
New Mior and Skyfall Attacks Let Rogue Cloud Hosts Steal Secrets From AMD SEV-SNP VMs
Two attacks made public this week allow a malicious host to read data inside AMD SEV-SNP-protected virtual machines (VMs), which are built to keep the server's operator out. One of them, Mior, can also modify a VM's memory and fake the signed report confirming which software…
The Hacker News
Friday
How one AI agent exposed five critical enterprise security gaps
An AI agent built to automate invoice processing could be manipulated into changing vendor bank details through a malicious email, without triggering traditional security alerts. Token Security examines five critical AI agent security gaps and shares practical guidance from industry security leaders on preventing them.
BleepingComputerT1566Phishing
Friday
Fake GTA 6 download goes after Steam logins and crypto wallet data
Cynet researchers followed a “GTA 6 EXE file download” link from a Google Colab notebook to a ZIP archive and found a WARDEN Stealer loader inside. The malware takes saved passwords, browser cookies, Steam and Roblox credentials, and cryptocurrency wallet data from the machine it runs…
Help Net Security
Friday
US freezes billions stolen by North Korean hackers in Binance heist
US authorities have frozen billions in cryptocurrency stolen by North Korean hackers, while dismantling a separate operation that used deepfake video calls to steal hundreds of millions more. The US Justice Department has announced a major crackdown on North Korea's cryptocurrency theft operations, securing court authorization…
BitdefenderT1684.001Impersonation
Friday
Hospitals, airlines and governments hit by Microsoft outage as employee risk warnings mount
Sheriff’s offices, courts, state agencies and hospitals lost email as the Microsoft 365 failure ran past 12 hours. The bigger risk for insurers may be what staff did to keep working. An insurance perspective on the outage from Insurance News. From a post by Matthew Sellers:…
DataBreaches.net
Friday
Crackdown on UK medical record snooping after staff reported sneaking 300+ times this year
Carly Page reports: Britain’s privacy watchdog has put healthcare bosses on notice after receiving more than 300 reports of staff snooping through medical records this year, demanding that executives personally confirm they’re doing enough to keep prying eyes out of patient files. The Information Commissioner’s Office…
DataBreaches.net
Friday
Over 144,000 Norwegian and Widerøe passengers affected by data breach
The following is an automated translation of an article that originally appeared in Norwegian. Helge Aadland Carlsen and Martin Gundersen report: Information about 144,249 passengers at Norwegian and Widerøe has been leaked in connection with the data breach at the Spanish IT provider Amadeus. This is…
DataBreaches.netT1199Trusted Relationship
Friday
FBI Says North Korean Hackers Stole Over $400 Million in Crypto Using Deepfake Video Calls
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has established that threat actors tied to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK aka North Korea) have stolen more than $400 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of a social engineering scheme codenamed FaceStealer in the last 18…
The Hacker NewsT1684.001Impersonation
Friday
Ransomware attack on Belarusian cloud firm disrupts businesses for days
ActiveCloud said hackers had breached its systems and encrypted parts of its cloud infrastructure, leaving customers unable to access key services for several days.
The RecordT1486Data Encrypted for Impact
Friday
GeoVision Camera Software Abused to Deploy XMRig Cryptominer
Attackers abused publicly exposed GeoVision camera software at 13 organizations, tried to disable Defender, and deployed XMRig. Get the IoCs and next steps.
Huntress
Friday
Trezor Confirms Hidden Implants in CryptoBilis-Sold Wallets That Can Steal Recovery Phrases
Three Trezor Safe 5 wallets bought from the reseller CryptoBilis contain an implant, an extra circuit board that can copy their recovery phrases, hardware wallet maker Trezor said yesterday. The implant reads the phrase from the wallet's screen and sends it over the mobile network to…
The Hacker News+1 source
Friday
Microsoft Struggles to Restore Email and Other Services in a Global Outage
Microsoft is trying different ways to identify the cause of the problem and get its servers back online, using “a measured approach to identify and repair affected infrastructure.”
SecurityWeek
Friday
Microsoft’s latest email outage turned into a full blown global cloud crisis
Microsoft's day-long outage began with Outlook and Teams, and ended up taking much of the company's cloud services offline. Microsoft says it's gradually restoring service.
TechCrunch
Friday
Attackers in Binance Breach Targeted Known Weakness, Missing Controls
Blockchain complexities, such as attacker-deployed sweepers, hobble security controls designed to limit the damage of an exchange compromise.
Dark Reading
Friday
Apify Confirms Customer Data Accessed in Cyberattack
The web scraping company says an intruder accessed customer accounts and obtained personal information or stored data.
SecurityWeek
Friday
Microsoft says November security updates cause printing issues
Microsoft warned customers earlier this week that the November 2026 security updates may break printing for documents with complex formatting.
BleepingComputer
Friday
When an AI Agent Goes Wrong, Can You Stop It?
Suppose an AI agent is asked to sort support tickets and look up account details. A ticket contains instructions that lead the agent to export records to an unfamiliar destination. The agent can make the request because its identity has access to the records and its…
The Hacker News
Friday
Apple details Secure Exclaves, isolated runtimes for camera and microphone data
Apple published details of Secure Exclaves, a security architecture designed to protect camera and microphone data during background processing. Apple says data processed and analyzed within Secure Exclaves cannot be accessed by the main operating system, apps, or the company itself. The company uses Secure Exclaves…
Help Net Security+1 source
Friday
SilentAir Hijacks Asian Telecom Networks to Intercept SMS 2FA Codes and Spy on Taiwanese Users
A newly identified spying group used hacked equipment inside Asian mobile operators to intercept the calls and texts of selected people, mostly in Taiwan. Enea, a telecom and cybersecurity software company based in Stockholm, found the group's attack sources in at least six Asian countries and…
The Hacker News+1 source
Friday
354 dark web vendors and buyers arrested in Operation TorNado
Europol and police in 14 countries arrested 354 dark web vendors and buyers in Operation TorNado, which ran from May 2025 to October 2026. Investigators went after people who had traded on five marketplaces that were already offline: Archetyp, Bohemia, Nemesis, Kingdom and Tor2Door. Seized money…
Help Net Security
Friday
Check Point warns of zero-day flaw exploited for root access
Check Point Software has released emergency hotfixes to address a high-severity flaw that hackers have been exploiting to gain root privileges and establish persistence on vulnerable devices since late October.
BleepingComputerT1190Exploit Public-Facing Application
Friday
GTA VI isn’t out yet – and the scams are already in full swing
Cybercriminals attempt to cash in on the hype around the game, luring fans with malware-laced downloads and ‘early access’ that doesn’t exist…
ESET WeLiveSecurity
Friday
Microsoft confirms Windows activation failures after November updates
Microsoft has confirmed that this month's Patch Tuesday security updates are causing Windows activation and licensing failures with 0x80041008 error codes.
BleepingComputer
Friday
OpenAI’s Daybreak brings AI agents to security testing and vulnerability fixes
OpenAI is bringing AI agents into more of the software security process with Daybreak, pairing web application penetration testing with tools that investigate vulnerabilities and develop fixes. The two offerings, Red Team and Defense Factory, connect the work of finding security weaknesses with patching and retesting…
Help Net Security
Friday
OpenAI Unveils Daybreak Red Team, Defense Factory Security Tools
Daybreak Red Team pentests web applications with AI agents, while Defense Factory investigates security findings and prepares patches.
SecurityWeek
Friday
Microsoft outage: Impact shows risk of M365 bundle lock-in
The Microsoft 365 suite provides everything from office productivity to cyber security tools. Should organisations rethink their Microsoft strategy?
Computer Weekly
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