Chrome patches eighth exploited zero-day of 2026, N-able pulls N-central offline over 33 Able2Shell flaws, and France blames Iran for refrigeration attacks.

Exploited: Patch Now

Major Incidents and Breaches

• Wiz said an attacker used credentials for the AWS account that Qubole’s platform (a data lake service owned by Idera) uses to reach customers to break into multiple customers’ AWS accounts between 14 and 26 October, stealing stored secrets and data. How the credentials were obtained has not been disclosed.^[8][9]
• Attackers abused Ethersphere’s release automation to publish malicious bee-js 13.3.0 (the latest npm version for about 75 minutes) and Swarm Desktop 0.56.2, which steal the Swarm node wallet key and its password and install a backdoor. Both releases have been pulled and a clean Swarm Desktop update has been released.^[10]
• Researchers detected a malicious GitHub workflow in a supply chain attack affecting tens of thousands of repositories, including some owned by Uber.^[11]
• An attacker exploited a flaw in Web3Auth’s infrastructure to steal funds from Keplr wallets set up with Google or Apple sign-in; Web3Auth then used the attacker’s own route to empty other at-risk wallets for safekeeping, with staked and locked assets taking longer to secure.^[12]
• German web host Mittwald was breached by an allegedly AI-assisted attacker through its tool that lets customers connect AI assistants (MCP) to their accounts; the attacker first tested the flaw in October amid PHP2Shell patching and used diversionary tactics.^[13]
• Vanderbilt University is responding to a cyberattack affecting campus devices and systems, claimed by the BYOD ransomware gang, which says it encrypted databases and stole student, employee and research data.^[14][15]
• Amplifon Americas, the US arm of the hearing aid company, said a breach early this year exposed personal, health and insurance information, including Social Security numbers, of 1.3 million people.^[16][17]
• SEGA disclosed that a breach at its Japanese newsletter provider ARARA exposed the email addresses of 2.2 million subscribers.^[18][19]
• Revolve told regulators its September cyberattack affected more than 1.5 million individuals.^[20]
• Update Frontline Education told Indiana regulators its August breach affected over 3 million school district staff and students, up from the 1.3 million previously reported. (first reported 2026-11-03)^[21]
• Update Iris Ohyama has pulled its Iris Plaza online store with no reopening date following the cloud breach of 7.7 million records; some customers are being told to refuse deliveries to cancel orders. (first reported 2026-11-09)^[22][23]
• Update Beget confirmed the attack used data-wiping malware and that it is rebuilding its cloud infrastructure from scratch. (first reported 2026-11-04)^[24]
• York University disclosed that a threat actor stole personal information submitted through its online forms, with data dating back to 2007.^[25]
• Binance denied a new breach claimed by an actor using the ShinyHunters handle on a newly emerged forum, calling the sale of alleged Binance records a scam attempt.^[26][27]
• UK customers of toilet paper maker Who Gives A Crap had data exposed in a third-party security incident.^[28]
• Weill Cornell Medicine disclosed that patient information from Weill Cornell Imaging was entered into AI tools and processed with machine learning without authorisation as part of a radiology research study.^[29]
• Australian provider Epichealth, which runs four medical clinics in Victoria including the Warrnambool Medicare Urgent Care Clinic, reported unauthorised access to part of its IT systems.^[30]
• Researcher Nesbitt-Smith found that publicly available code across multiple UK government departments put private information at risk; one agency fixed a reported flaw within 20 minutes and said no breach occurred.^[31]

Vulnerabilities and Patches

• Google fixed nine Chrome vulnerabilities including CVE-2026-125350, an actively exploited use-after-free in the XML component reported anonymously on 6 November and the eighth exploited Chrome zero-day of 2026. Update to 157.0.8103.50/.51 on Windows and macOS or 157.0.8103.50 on Linux.^[1][2]
• N-able took its hosted N-central environments (Americas, APAC, Europe) offline and told on-premises customers to shut down servers after researcher Sean Bales published 33 flaws dubbed Able2Shell with PoC exploits, including RCE and privilege escalation chains and a stored XSS that runs commands as root. N-able has seen no exploitation and is developing a hotfix.^[32][33][34]
• Update GreyNoise recorded the first successful exploitation of SSHole (CVE-2026-123158) on 7 November at 00:46 UTC, about 40 hours after OpenSSH 10.6p2, with exploit code public about four hours after the fix. Early activity is attributed to botnets and crypto miners, some deploying a TAC Agent implant with command execution, reconnaissance, file transfer and self-update; CISA has added the flaw to KEV. (first reported 2026-11-05)^{[3][35][4][5][6]}
• Update The exploited SonicOS SSL-VPN flaw CVE-2026-19868 bypasses SAML-enforced MFA and affects Gen7 7.3.3-7015 and older and Gen8 8.2.2-8015 and older; fixes are in 7.3.4-7013 and later and 8.2.3-8015, with no workarounds. (first reported 2026-11-07)^[36]
• LNbits told all operators of its open-source Bitcoin Lightning wallet servers to shut down amid attacks exploiting unpatched flaws, with one operator losing about 0.023 BTC; fixes were expected within 24 to 48 hours and operators were earlier advised to disable the Paywall extension.^[7]
• Researchers Sam Curry and Shah chained WAF bypasses and default admin:admin credentials on ForgeRock (Ping Identity) servers behind two automakers’ apps in Australia and the US, allowing takeover of any customer account and remote unlocking and starting of cars; the issues were fixed within two hours of reporting.^[37][38]
• Anthropic will not fix an ‘Office Party’ flaw in Claude’s document-processing tool on Linux, where a helper script loads whatever file sits at a fixed temporary path via LD_PRELOAD, letting attackers run code on the user’s machine, AIR Research Lab said.^[39]
• Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.2022 with more than 470 security fixes spanning the kernel (now 6.6.161.1), OpenSSL, curl, Kubernetes, Docker, QEMU, containerd and KubeVirt.^[40]

Threat Actor Activity

• France attributed the October refrigeration attacks on more than 700 supermarkets and other retail sites to Shahid Kaveh, an IRGC cyber unit previously linked to attacks on US water utility controllers, saying they caused food losses and at least 15 fires.^[41][42][43]
• Fortinet reported that Bitter (TA397) is targeting South Asian organisations with PapRAT, a new RAT with C++ and Rust versions, staged via scripts pulling PowerShell commands from techtalkhelp[.]com.^[44]
• Acronis TRU said a single Taiwan-based attacker using AI agents built on abliterated DeepSeek, GLM and Qwen models (investigation BOSSAI) stole 119 emergency dispatch records covering seven Taipei districts, found a fire department platform exposing patient data since 2018 including ECG readings and ambulance video, and logged into a fire-dispatch vendor’s database panel with default root credentials.^[45][46]
• Update Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani’s personal data was published on the dark web, with Prime Minister Meloni blaming pro-Russian hackers. (first reported 2026-11-09)^[47]
• Ukrainian police arrested four men, including the alleged leader, over crypto investment scam call centres that stole more than €4.3 million (about $5 million) from victims in Germany.^[48][49]
• Huntress found further webshells, a second cryptominer and a host-bound Python C2 implant on exploited AhsayCBS backup servers.^[50]

Trends, Tools and Tactics

• Acronis TRU Cyber Pulse 2026 found more than 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivering malware to Windows and macOS.^[46]
• Malbear Labs found a jailbroken DeepSeek agent ran a two-week attack against a European telecom.^[51]
• SecurityScorecard found internet-exposed refrigeration controllers in supermarkets and cold storage being hijacked for a suspected spam botnet and proxy services.^[52]
• Google DeepMind’s AI agents, working with cryptographers, cut the cost of forging RSA-1024 signatures and found a cheaper way to factor 1024-bit keys.^[53]
• A new Google DeepMind tool formally verified that the Signal Protocol works as intended.^[54]
• Microsoft FORGE Lab used agentic tooling to find memory-safety bugs in Rust’s core and std libraries, including cases where safe Rust can trigger undefined behaviour.^[55]
• Anthropic’s Mythos bug-finding model is being integrated into Cisco and IBM security products without customers getting direct model access; Anthropic also released Mythos and Fable 5.2.^[56]
• Cisco Talos reported phishing remained the top initial access vector in Q3 2026, with ransomware gangs using voice phishing to gain footholds.^[57]
• SANS ISC honeypots observed attackers scanning for existing SAP NetWeaver webshells.^[58]
• PyPI added a Security tab to project pages showing whether release files carry digital attestations and full provenance.^[59]

Policy and Regulation

• The US Treasury cut MEXC Global off from the US financial system over sanctions evasion and links to cybercrime gangs.^[60]
• President Trump nominated Palantir’s Michael LoSapio as CISA director; the agency has had no Senate-confirmed director during Trump’s second term.^[61]
• CISA launched an enhanced web-based cyber incident reporting form on its Incident Reporting Portal.^[62][63][64]
• The Financial Action Task Force proposed new measures to disrupt scam compounds.^[65]
• Homeland Security Investigations estimates it has issued about 185,000 administrative subpoenas since January 2025, more than in the six and a half years from 2016 to mid-August 2022.^[66]
• NIST published basic security guidance for less-technical solo business owners.^[67]

Sources

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2. Chrome Update Patches Exploited XML Zero-Day, Eighth This Year - securityweek.com
3. CISA Warns of Active Exploitation of OpenSSH, GPUStack, FreeSWITCH, and IBM Flaws - thehackernews.com
4. Hackers exploit SSHole OpenSSH flaw to breach Linux systems - bleepingcomputer.com
5. Hackers Exploiting ‘SSHole’ Authentication Bypass in OpenSSH - securityweek.com
6. CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog - cisa.gov
7. LNbits Urges All Operators to Shut Down Their Bitcoin Lightning Wallet Servers Amid Attacks - thehackernews.com
8. Hackers Exploit Qubole's Trusted AWS Access to Breach Customer Accounts and Steal Data - thehackernews.com
9. Attackers backdoor trusted AWS integrations to steal secrets - theregister.com
10. Hackers Compromise Ethersphere's bee-js and Swarm Desktop to Deliver Wallet-Stealing Malware - thehackernews.com
11. New Supply Chain Attack Compromises Tens of Thousands of GitHub Repositories - infosecurity-magazine.com
12. Web3Auth Flaw Exploited to Steal Keplr Crypto, Provider Empties Other Wallets for Safety - thehackernews.com
13. Alleged AI-aided cyberattack exploits assistant interface to breach German web host - therecord.media
14. Vanderbilt University hit in BYOD ransomware attack, data theft claimed - bleepingcomputer.com
15. Vanderbilt cybersecurity incident impacting campus devices and systems - therecord.media
16. Amplifon Americas Data Breach Impacts 1.3 Million - securityweek.com
17. Data breach at hearing aid giant Amplifon impacts thousands - therecord.media
18. SEGA newsletter data breach exposes 2.2 million email addresses - bleepingcomputer.com
19. Email Addresses of 2.2 Million Sega Customers Leaked in Vendor Breach - infosecurity-magazine.com
20. Revolve Puts Data Breach Victim Count at 1.5 Million - securityweek.com
21. Over 3 Million People Hit by Frontline Education Data Breach - securityweek.com
22. Iris Plaza Breach May Have Exposed Data of 7.7 Million Customers - securityweek.com
23. Japanese homeware giant pulls online store after cloud breach puts 7.7M records at risk - theregister.com
24. Russian cloud firm Beget rebuilds from scratch after data wiper attack - bleepingcomputer.com
25. York University breach exposed personal information dating to 2007 - bleepingcomputer.com
26. Binance denies data breach after alleged ShinyHunters claims - bleepingcomputer.com
27. Binance calls alleged “ShinyHunters” post a scam attempt - databreaches.net
28. Who Gives A Crap? Hackers, apparently, after toilet paper maker's customer data exposed - theregister.com
29. Weill Cornell patient data entered into AI tools without authorization - databreaches.net
30. AU: Important update from Epichealth – cyber incident - databreaches.net
31. Security Flaws Across UK Government Sites Exposed ‘God-Tier’ Information - wired.com
32. N-able Takes N-central Cloud Offline After Researcher Discloses 33 Zero-Days with PoC Exploits - thehackernews.com
33. N-able takes cloud platform offline after 30+ "zero-days" published - bleepingcomputer.com
34. N-able Disables Cloud Services Following Disclosure of "Able2Shell" Exploit Chains - huntress.com
35. ⚡ Weekly Recap: SSHole Exploited, APT Root RCE, Robot Takeovers, 15K Hacked Sites, and More - thehackernews.com
36. Exploited SonicWall SSL-VPN flaw lets attackers bypass SAML-enforced MFA (CVE-2026-19868) - helpnetsecurity.com
37. Default 'admin:admin' Server Password Helps Researchers Hack Two Automakers, Unlock and Start Cars - thehackernews.com
38. Researchers pwn automakers’ Android apps to remotely unlock cars, honk horns - theregister.com
39. Attackers Crash Claude's 'Office Party' Flaw to Run Malicious Code on Linux - darkreading.com
40. Microsoft's Azure Linux gets 470-plus security fixes in one almighty patching session - theregister.com
41. France blames Iranian hackers for supermarket attacks that sparked fires - bleepingcomputer.com
42. France blames Iran for fridge cyberattacks, says some caused fires - therecord.media
43. France blames Iran for supermarket hack meltdowns - theregister.com
44. Bitter Hackers Deploy New PapRAT Backdoor in Cyberespionage Campaign Targeting South Asia - thehackernews.com
45. Taiwan-Based Hacker Used BOSSAI AI Agents to Steal Taipei Emergency Dispatch Records - thehackernews.com
46. Over 575 malicious OpenClaw skills delivered malware to Windows and macOS - helpnetsecurity.com
47. Italy’s Meloni Blames Pro-Russian Hackers for Leak of Foreign Minister’s Data on the Dark Web - securityweek.com
48. Ukraine dismantles crypto scam network that stole €4.3 million - bleepingcomputer.com
49. Ukraine arrests four in $5 million crypto scam targeting Germans - therecord.media
50. Inside an AhsayCBS Intrusion: Hidden Webshells, a CryptoMiner, and a C2 Implant - huntress.com
51. Jailbroken AI Agent Ran Two-Week Attack on European Telecom - infosecurity-magazine.com
52. Hackers abuse refrigeration controllers to send spam and route proxy traffic - helpnetsecurity.com
53. Google DeepMind’s AI Agents Make 1024-Bit RSA Keys Cheaper to Attack - securityweek.com
54. A New AI Tool From Google DeepMind Proved the Signal Protocol Is Secure - wired.com
55. FORGE Lab uses agentic tools to identify memory safety issues in Rust - microsoft.com
56. Anthropic's super bug-finding Mythos model is going into Cisco and IBM products - theregister.com
57. Report: Social Engineering Remained the Top Initial Access Vector in Q3 2026 - blog.knowbe4.com
58. Attackers Searching for SAP Netweaver Webshells, (Mon, Nov 9th) - isc.sans.edu
59. PyPI makes release attestations easier to find with new security tab - helpnetsecurity.com
60. US bans MEXC crypto exchange over sanctions evasion, cybercrime links - bleepingcomputer.com
61. Trump picks Palantir’s LoSapio to head CISA - cyberscoop.com
62. CISA Announces Enhanced Reporting Form for Cyber Incidents - darkreading.com
63. CISA Announces Enhanced Reporting Form for Cyber Incidents - databreaches.net
64. CISA Announces Enhanced Reporting Form for Cyber Incidents - cisa.gov
65. Anti-Money Laundering Watchdog FATF Targets Scam Compounds - infosecurity-magazine.com
66. DHS Has Used This Controversial Investigative Tool 185,000 Times Since Trump Took Office - wired.com
67. NIST: Solo Shouldn't Mean Less Secure - darkreading.com