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CYBEROct 9Two police constables among five arrested by Mumbai Police in illegal telecom data racketPolice said investigators identified nine accused in the network supplying call detail records (CDRs), subscriber detail records (SDRs) and mobile phone location informationThe Hindu
CYBERBREAKINGOct 9Credential-Stealing GitHub Actions Workflows Planted in Tens of Thousands of RepositoriesThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Philadelphia police say Anthropic AI submitted a "false homicide tip"Anthropic notified the Philadelphia Police Department of the incident and later published a report describing what happened.CBS News
CYBEROct 9AI deepfake ads grow more popular in US midterm campaigns, blurring truthThe US midterm election campaign has been filled with political ads featuring AI deepfakes that can mislead voters.Al Jazeera [en]
CYBEROct 9FBI Arrests Another ShinyHunters Suspect Reportedly Involved in Its Jobs Portal HackThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9What We Missed: FBI Strikes Back at ShinyHuntersIn this video conversation, Dark Reading editors discuss some of the news they didn't get a chance to cover, from the arrest of a suspected ShinyHunters operative to the compromise of a Pentagon-run data center.Dark Reading
CYBEROct 9FBI arrests suspected member of ShinyHunters in connection with jobs site hackThe FBI this week arrested another individual suspected of being connected to ShinyHunters, the cybercriminal group that hacked the bureau's job website, FBI Director Kash Patel said.CBS News
CYBEROct 9P7 DarkSword iOS Exploit Kit Adds Crypto Wallet Data Theft and Remote CommandsThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Security Threats Don't Stop at the Office: Why Executives' Families Need Training TooThose closest to executives must match their security postures because the weakest link in a family can become the entry point for attacks.Dark Reading
CYBEROct 9How Iranian Operatives Used AI To Publish Fake Stories In US MediaRFE/RL
CYBEROct 9Lomas de Zamora: students' homes raided for allegedly creating nude photos of classmates using AI, and an adult is under investigationThe Justice system seized computers, cell phones, and a video game console. So far, four minors have been charged in the Colegio Modelo Lomas case.Clarín
CYBEROct 9Google’s SynthID Detector Goes Global in English“As AI tools become better and easier to use, having clear context about the content you encounter online helps you make informed decisions about what to trust. Since launching Google SynthID in 2023, we've helped people identify AI-generated media using imperceptible watermarks across images, video, and audio. To date, we've watermarked over 180 billion images […] The post Google’s SynthID Detector Goes Global in English appeared first on Human Progress.Human Progress
CYBEROct 9F.B.I. Arrests Key Suspect in ShinyHunters Hack of Its Own Agents’ DataThe hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.NYT US
CYBEROct 9Love online shopping? Here's how you can protect your wallet.Cargo theft, suspicious pricing and online scams are great reasons to be cautious while shopping online. Kelly O'Grady shares some tips.CBS News
CYBEROct 9Why A Starlink Test In Italy Has Iran’s Internet Censors WorriedA Starlink trial on an Italian hilltop connected an ordinary smartphone to the Internet without mobile coverage, a satellite dish, or an external antenna. The demonstration quickly drew attention in Iran, where Internet access remains heavily filtered and authorities imposed a near-total blackout during the January protests. As Hannah Kaviani from RFE/RL's Radio Farda program Negah-e-Farda (Iran Tomorrow) explains, for many Iranians the test raised a provocative possibility: getting online without relying on infrastructure the state can control or switch off.RFE/RL
CYBEROct 9Anthropic claims Chinese AI firms secretly use Claude. Is it true?Did Chinese AI companies secretly tap US models to close the technology gap? That is the central question hanging over China’s tech sector following a wave of allegations from Washington and American AI lab Anthropic. According to a joint advisory by the National Security Agency, FBI, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency last month, Chinese AI developers have been systematically extracting capabilities from US frontier models to reduce their own computing, electricity and...South China Morning Post
CYBEROct 9TP-Link Sued by Four More U.S. States Over Router Security and China TiesFour more U.S. states sued router maker TP-Link Systems on October 6, bringing the total to five, with Texas filing a suit in February. Florida, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska allege the California company misled buyers about how secure its routers are and how separate it is from China. TP-Link denies the claims and says it will fight them in court. TP-Link Systems is based inThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Zero Trust gets harder when every user, device, weapon, and AI agent needs an identityThe next phase of Zero Trust reaches beyond users and devices, experts discussed during a Breaking Defense webinar.Breaking Defense
CYBEROct 9Three in four EU workers face suspicious emails and links, report findsPhishing remains the most common cyber threat — only one in two respondents say they are able to spot a deepfake video.EuroNews [en]
CYBEROct 9Social Engineering AI Agents: The New BEC for 2026As AI agents gain authority over business systems, attackers can manipulate them like business email compromise (BEC) victims.Dark Reading
CYBERBREAKINGOct 9Researchers Publish Working Exploit for Pre-Auth AnyDesk Linux Flaw That Gives Root AccessThe Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Anthropic Launches Free AI Vulnerability Scanner for Open-Source ProjectsAnthropic on Thursday unveiled OSS Scanner as an opt-in vulnerability scanner to help secure the open-source ecosystem using artificial intelligence (AI). "It's an opt-in service informed by our experience using Claude to find vulnerabilities during Project Glasswing," Anthropic said. "Projects that join will receive thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost."The Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Attackers Exploit AhsayCBS Flaws to Deploy XMRig Miners Disguised as Microsoft EdgeThreat actors have been observed exploiting two recently disclosed flaws in the AhsayCBS backup utility to seize control of affected devices and deploy web shells and XMRig cryptocurrency miners. Details of the flaws are below - CVE-2026-105133 (CVSS v4 score: 5.5) - An improper authentication vulnerability in the checkSysPwd() function in the "com/ahsay/obs/api/ApiStructsAction.java"The Hacker News
CYBEROct 9Preventing The MCP Layer From Becoming A Cyber ThreatEvery new integration expands the enterprise's attack surface, and every MCP server becomes part of the organization's software supply chain.headtopics · united states of america