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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

PHP warns admins of two critical flaws, emergency patches coming tomorrow

The PHP security team is warning administrators to prepare for emergency security updates tomorrow to address two critical vulnerabilities, as information about the flaws has reportedly leaked ahead of their scheduled…

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

Zeabur shutting down after second security breach in two months

Development platform Zeabur has disclosed details of a cybersecurity incident in which an attacker used leaked internal credentials stored in plaintext to compromise its infrastructure and steal over 3.2 million…

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

OpenAI says GPT-6.1 Sol is dramatically better at migrating legacy code

OpenAI confirmed that its newer models are much better at writing and migrating software in older programming languages. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

CJIS v6.1 Compliance: 5 Practical Priorities for Agencies

CJIS v6.1 requires agencies to maintain strong authentication, account security, and audit controls while demonstrating ongoing compliance. Specops outlines five practical priorities covering MFA, account management,…

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

Hacker gets 8 years for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers

A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery

Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

OVHcloud CLI releases backdoored on GitHub to steal developer secrets

French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 20, 2026

Revolut outage disrupts online banking operations worldwide

Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 19, 2026

Nikkei discloses third data breach in a month, 1.8M records exposed

Nikkei Inc. disclosed a new data breach, the third in about a month, that exposed 1.83 million personal information records. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 19, 2026

WordPress SEO plugin Rank Math compromised to backdoor websites

Some downloads of the Rank Math PRO WordPress plugin from the vendor's official website carried malware that planted hidden backdoors in a supply-chain attack last week. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 19, 2026

Hackers hijack AOMEI update servers to secretly spread malware

Hackers reportedly compromised AOMEI's servers to distribute malware through a built-in promotional feature in its backup software, briefly tampering with configuration files before restoring them to their original…

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BleepingComputer Oct 19, 2026

Bullhorn takes staffing platform offline to contain cyberattack

Staffing software company Bullhorn has disabled access to its platform to contain a cyberattack that caused a system-wide outage. [...]

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BleepingComputer Oct 19, 2026

OpenCode hack exposes API keys amid AI distillation attacks

The open-source AI coding project OpenCode has notified a small number of users that API keys they used with external providers were exposed in a security breach. [...]

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