WorkOS says attacker used ARTEX AI to breach internal sales app

Developer platform WorkOS suffered a data breach after a threat actor accessed business contact records and summaries of customer communications. According to the company, the attacker used an AI offensive security framework to automate reconnaissance and exploitation attempts. Based on evidence from the investigation, no WorkOS app data or production services were accessed or affected. […]

Google: LLMjacking attacks rack up $1 million in cloud AI charges

Large language model hijacking attacks, also known as LLMjacking, are generating large fraudulent cloud charges, with some organizations losing more than $100,000 per day. Companies can record costs as high as $1 million due to fraudulent calls using stolen API keys, researchers at Google’s Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) and Mandiant in analyzed incidents. Based on their observations, there […]

Barracuda warns of critical flaws allowing root access to devices

Cybersecurity company Barracuda Networks warned customers to patch two vulnerabilities that can let attackers run commands with root privileges. The first is a critical flaw (CVE-2026-116606) stemming from an Email Security Gateway (ESG) authentication weakness that attackers can exploit to modify an appliance’s global configuration, while the second (CVE-2026-111560) lets threat actors with admin permissions […]

Chinese hackers use ARTEX AI in automated attacks against 200 orgs

Chinese hackers used ARTEX, an open-source, multi-agent AI penetration-testing framework, in attacks against more than 200 organizations across 14 countries. The operation began on October 17 and targeted government ministries, telecommunications providers, and organizations in the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, defense, nuclear, and financial sectors. The threat actor compromised at least nine organizations and carried out password […]

Fintech platform Sageworks taken offline after suspected cyberattack

Financial technology company Abrigo has restored its Sageworks risk management application, except for borrower-facing capabilities, following an outage triggered by “irregular activity” in its environment. On October 30, the company began emergency maintenance and took the Sageworks application offline to investigate suspicious activity detected earlier that day, with the outage continuing through the weekend. Abrigo […]

Google disrupts million-device XCPE Android malware botnet, bans TV box maker

Google and industry partners have dismantled the XCPE malware botnet consisting of more than 1.3 million Android TV streaming TV boxes that Google says its manufacturer intentionally infected with malware to generate revenue through cybercrime activities. The company attributes the botnet with high confidence to Chinese device manufacturer Videostrong Technology Co, accusing the company of deliberately […]

BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet crypto thefts on outdated instances

The maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining “hot wallets” on instances running older versions. Operators were initially advised to shut down their servers pending a full investigation into the unauthorized Bitcoin and Litecoin payments. The BTCPay Server project provides […]