The China-nexus cyber espionage group known as Volt Typhoon has been attributed to a now-disrupted covert access network dubbed Silent Train that has been put to use for zero-day exploitation and strategic access. “First identified in late 2023, Silent Train uses rotating chains of compromised SOHO, IoT, and enterprise infrastructure,”Read More »Volt Typhoon Used Covert Silent Train Network in Four Zero-Day Exploitation Campaigns

Third-party Android app stores can now apply to Google for permission to install apps with one tap, without Android’s usual confirmation screens, and to update them in the background. To qualify, a store must pass identity checks and send Google its full catalog, along with every new app and update, forRead More »Google to Allow One-Tap Android App Installs From Approved Third-Party Stores Outside U.S.

A chain of logic flaws, with no memory corruption, can turn a malicious web page into code running on a Windows computer outside Microsoft Edge’s sandbox, a security researcher has shown. Orange Tsai of DEVCORE published the full method on October 28, five months after the chain won $175,000 atRead More »Researcher Reveals How Logic Bugs Alone Cracked Microsoft Edge in $175,000 Pwn2Own Win

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of what appears to be an artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted attack orchestrated by a suspected China-nexus threat actor that has leveraged the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to breach exposed systems. The activity, which was observed on October 25, 2026, involved an attacker combining PHP2Shell with a kernel privilegeRead More »PHP2Shell Attack Roots 25 Servers, Breaches U.S. Government-Affiliated Network

Hackers targeted the US Federal Election Commission, emphasizing that election security shouldn’t start and end with voting machines. 

Threat actors are beginning to probe for a newly patched critical vulnerability in Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS), according to threat intelligence firm Defused Cyber. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-101767 (CVSS score: 9.8) , a case of improper authentication in the Oracle Application Object Library of Oracle E-Business Suite. ItRead More »Hackers Target Critical Oracle E-Business Suite RCE Flaw Days After Security Patch