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Security Affairs newsletter Round 598 by Pierluigi Paganini

Security Affairs newsletter Round 598 by Pierluigi Paganini

Securityaffairs • October 4, 2026

Security Affairs Round 598 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

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International Press –

Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals

Former U.S. Soldier Sentenced for Hacking and Extortion Scheme That Exposed Sensitive Data of U.S. Government Official

Dutch Police Arrest ‘Reformed’ Hacker in Shiny Hunters Investigation

Pentagon data breach of military personnel raises national security concerns

Japanese Railway Operators Hit with Weekend Cyber Attacks

Vietnamese National Charged for Role in Massive “Pig Butchering” Cryptocurrency Scam

FBI to ShinyHunters: ‘We know how to find you

Delaware Men Sentenced for Cyber Intrusion Scheme Targeting Victims in the Southern District of Iowa

Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft

Teenager suspected of leading KillSec ransomware group as law enforcement seizes servers and leak site

Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Stealer Deployed Through BYOVD

Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call Your APIs | TraderTraitor Backdoors Resurface on Victim With No Crypto Ties

PhantomSub: Malicious npm Campaign Secretly Adds Users to WhatsApp Spam Channels

CloudSyncD: a two-stage macOS backdoor that hides a phished password in zero-width Unicode

Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation

Roundcube Pre-Auth SQL Injection Flaw Actively Exploited in the Wild

Defeating Satellite Spoofing With Galileo’s Encryption

GPT-6 Astra performs unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations

Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’

Defending Against Active Exploitation of Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway Appliances

Vulnerability Discovery and Exploitation Trends in the AI Era

CVE-2026-86950: The Great Glyph Grift

Rogue Agents Investigation

AI Agents Targeted U.S. and Canadian Government Websites

The EDR blind spot: 3 ways browser attacks evade endpoint telemetry

Intelligence and Information Warfare

Star Blizzard refines phishing and malware delivery with the RedFlick technique

DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

Russian tech surveillance company infiltrated Europe’s law enforcement agencies

Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators

Tech CEO, Russian National Arrested on Complaint Alleging They Hid Russian Ownership and Development of Software Sold to U.S. Government

How Jared Kushner’s firm’s investment in an Israeli company could be a major conflict of interest

China-nexus UAT-11587 targets government and policy organizations across Asia with Antino backdoor

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

NVIDIA Launches Open Agent Safety Platform to Secure Agents From Testing to Deployment

Kiteworks Urges Server Shutdown, Finds Advanced Forms Vulnerability

SecondSight Threat Hunting Report

High-Risk ICT Vendors and Critical Infrastructure: European Approaches

Trump, AI CEOs sign voluntary safety pact, back data center expansion

Microsoft to block Entra ID script injection attacks starting October

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills

Judge dismisses spyware case brought by Salvadoran journalists targeted with Pegasus

PixelLeak: How AI Agents Exposed Developer Screenshots from Leading Tech Companies

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