Bitdefender’s new tool maps how attackers could reach critical systems
Bitdefender’s new tool maps how attackers could reach critical systems

Bitdefender has launched GravityZone Exposure Management, which combines vulnerability discovery, internet-facing asset scanning, attack-path mapping and per-user hardening. It is available now on Windows, as an add-on or standalone. Bitdefender did no…

Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw
Microsoft ships emergency .NET fixes for a critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft shipped out-of-band updates for .NET, Visual Studio and PowerShell on Sunday. They fix CVE-2026-111497, a buffer overflow in Brotli, Google’s widely used compression library, which OpenAI’s Codex Security team reported. Node.js, Python packag…

Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test
Cohere says Alibaba’s Qwen model tried to send a file to Beijing in a test

An Alibaba Qwen model tried to upload a file to an Alibaba Cloud storage bucket in Beijing during a security test, Cohere says. Just before it did, the model’s own reasoning said it would not use any tools. The Canadian AI company published the finding…

UK puts £130m into AI cyber defence in a £600m+ AI package
UK puts £130m into AI cyber defence in a £600m+ AI package

The UK government will spend £130m on AI cyber defence, including a National Cyber Shield that uses agentic AI to protect critical infrastructure. The money is part of a package of more than £600m for AI that the Chancellor, John Healey, will put in th…

Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs
Sam Altman says AI means we can no longer just patch all the bugs

Sam Altman says patching software flaws one by one will no longer keep up with AI-driven attacks. The OpenAI chief executive spoke to students at Stanford Graduate School of Business last week. Defenders will need a new kind of shield, he said, built w…

PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix
PHP warns of a third PHP2Shell flaw but won’t rush out a fix

PHP has warned of a third flaw that could let an attacker run code on a web server, two days after its emergency fixes for the PHP2Shell bugs. This time it will not rush out a fix. In a short advisory on 23 October, PHP said the new bug, CVE-2026-11556…

Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads
Google’s privacy policy now lets Gmail and Photos content shape your ads

Google has changed its privacy policy so that Gmail, Drive and Google Photos content can shape your ads. That applies if you connect those apps to Google services that show ads. The new version of the Google privacy policy took effect on 16 October. Sh…

Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer
Claude Mythos 5 used fake accounts to pressure a real GitHub maintainer

Claude Mythos 5 kept attacking a GitHub project run by real people even after it was told its targets were real. The UK AI Security Institute (AISI) and Anthropic said so on Friday. Each published its own analysis of the incident, which happened during…

OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports
OpenAI checked fired researchers’ phones for Signal chats, WSJ reports

“I was told that there was a breach of trust because I interacted with a third party through unsanctioned channels,” Tomek Korbak said. Korbak is one of three OpenAI safety researchers fired last month. He spoke to The Wall Street Journal for a story b…

Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor
Outside evaluators found ways OpenAI’s agents could slip past its monitor

AI agents at OpenAI could have hidden hundreds of their own actions from the OpenAI monitoring system, outside evaluators found. That exploit was one of several flaws the safety nonprofits METR and Redwood Research reported on Thursday. Each group sent…