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The Indicator You Didn't Backtest: Fake TradingView Videos Driving Infostealers
Phil Roberts, Giacomo Marchese | 16 October 2025 The latest AI trading hype on YouTube is winning big -- for threat actors. This blog post will provide details on the campaign, its infection steps, novel techniques identified, investigation guidelines for similar incidents, recommended detection…
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This Week In Security: Broken Embargoes, UEFI Overflow, Wormable Tailscale, Starlink Ad Snooping, And A DHS Directory Dump
In the rush to publish, it’s also become less clear what the actual severity of the bug is in the real world. It clearly exists, and is of concern, but groups are still struggling to prove a complete exploit path,…
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Forgotten Popcorn Time updater left up to 350,000 Macs exposed
By Anurag Chawake • 6:46 am, October 30, 2026 Remember streaming TV and films with Popcorn Time? Maybe not. A forgotten Popcorn Time updater could potentially let attackers hijack up to an estimated 350,000 Macs. As it turns out, it kept running in the background…
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Claude Code extension poisoned with persistent SSH backdoor
A tampered build of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension for VS Code-compatible editors planted an SSH backdoor on developers’ machines, researchers at macOS security firm Phorion have found. “The compromised extension.js file starts with an injected immediately invoked function expression…
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Government Snoops Who Want Your Data Hand 4 Million Personnel Records to Hackers
J.D. Tuccille | 6.4.2015 8:54 PM The Office of Personnel Management explains: Within the last year, the OPM has undertaken an aggressive effort to update its cybersecurity posture, adding numerous tools and capabilities to its networks. As a result, in April 2015, OPM detected a…
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Popcorn Time Updater Security Flaw Exposed Up to 350,000 Macs; Researchers Warn Old App Could Still Be Dangerous
Mac users who previously installed Popcorn Time could still face a security risk even if they stopped using the application years ago. Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a vulnerability in an old version of the software that could potentially allow attackers…
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Drupal Commerce Core Vulnerability Exploited Against Online Stores
Drupal says a highly critical Commerce Core access bypass is exploited in the wild and urges store owners to audit their orders. Drupal is urging online store owners to patch a highly critical access bypass vulnerability in the Commerce Core…
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LiteLLM gateways need key scope and administrative separation
At about 23:48 UTC on 29 October 2026, count-only ZoomEye SDK queries with sub_type=all and page size 1 returned 58,944 matches for app="LiteLLM" and 62,957 for title="LiteLLM". The title query is the primary observation for this article. The counts describe fingerprint matches, not public…
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Cursor says up to 5,000 users affected by tampered Claude Code extension
Oct 30 (Reuters) – Cursor, the coding-tool company owned by SpaceX, said on Friday that a maliciously modified version of Anthropic’s Claude Code extension was available on its Cursor VS Code extension marketplace on Thursday, affecting up to 5,000 users. • Cursor said the…
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