Latest news as of 10/29/2026, 4:06:24 AM
Graham Cluley
Dutch spies, Russian hackers and Jared Kushner’s iPhone. It sounds like the ingredients for a thriller, but according to claims in a new book the US President's son-in-law may have been hacked twice. Is any of it true, and what does it tell us about the phones in our pockets? Meanwhile, James Ball explains that of the internet’s most trusted security keys were protected by numbers so small that one of them was... four. Yes, "4". And then, of course, to make the week worse we suffered a PHPocalpyse... Plus, Chuck Randolph of 360 Privacy explains how the internet has made it scarily easy to put company executives and public officials in danger. All this and more in episode 490 of the “Smashing Security” podcast with cybersecurity expert and keynote speaker Graham Cluley, and special guest James Ball.
Bleeping Computer
U.S. law enforcement has seized the primary domain of Virtualine, a bulletproof hosting service advertised on cybercrime forums for facilitating illegal activities. [...]
The Register
Attackers probe another EBS bug, and ShinyHunters' PeopleSoft 0-day turns out to involve three vulns
Dark Reading
The supply chain attack campaign's shift toward developer endpoints and cloud access signals what could be next for the cybercrime outfit.
Bleeping Computer
Discord will allow search engines to index discussions in Discoverable Servers and make them accessible on the web to users outside the platform without an account or invitation. [...]
The Hacker News
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," Lumen Technologies Black Lotus Labs said in a report shared
The Hacker News
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, for ongoing malware scanning. Approved stores get the features from December 1, but only on
Bleeping Computer
Sony Network Communications has confirmed a data breach that compromised approximately 2.5 million records containing current and former customers' personal information. [...]
The Hacker News
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 at the Pwn2Own Berlin contest in May. Microsoft fixed the Edge bugs the day after the contest,
The Hacker News
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 privilege escalation exploit to root