Securexion Daily Brief - 30 Sept 2026
Today's top cybersecurity stories from trusted sources.
Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write…
Source: thehackernews.com
Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown
Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. "During the shutdown, this activity led to the…
Source: thehackernews.com
Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications…
Source: thehackernews.com
Bitget Says Attacker Exploited Third-Party Security Product Flaw to Steal $388M
The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level…
Source: thehackernews.com
Russia's Star Blizzard Targets 100+ Organizations With Fake Event Invites to Deliver Backdoor
Russian state hackers known as Star Blizzard have been using fake event invitations to trick people into installing a backdoor on their Windows computers, according to Microsoft. The campaigns, aimed at people and organizations tied to Ukraine, have…
Source: thehackernews.com
New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses
A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel,…
Source: thehackernews.com
RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims
RatHat's operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a…
Source: thehackernews.com
French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France's tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France's national cybersecurity agency saw the data…
Source: thehackernews.com
101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers' WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent
Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. "The malicious packages abuse the 'Baileys' WhatsApp open source project to add the…
Source: thehackernews.com
Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group…
Source: thehackernews.com
Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials
A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client…
Source: thehackernews.com
OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions
OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall…
Source: thehackernews.com
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