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Someone Tried to Exploit PHP2Shell 4 Days Before the Vulnerabilities Were Publicly Disclosed

October 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Amazon’s Threat Intelligence team on Wednesday said it detected an attempt to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities on October 17, 2026, against its MadPot honeypot service, as the flaws…

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New QPACK Flaws Can Crash HTTP/3 Servers, Trigger Up to 4,000-Fold Memory Amplification

October 22, 2026 Blogmaster

A remote attacker who has not logged in can crash many HTTP/3 web servers with a single connection, security firm FoxIO disclosed, releasing working proof-of-concept code. By sending a small…

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Node.js Brotli Decoder Bug Could Allow Remote Code Execution in All Supported Versions

October 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression…

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LiteLLM Suspects GitHub Token Leak in AI Gateway Logs Behind Malicious Package Release

October 22, 2026 Blogmaster

LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised “multiple independent security controls” to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October…

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China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack

October 22, 2026 Blogmaster

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backup application. During the incident, Storm-0940 used ARTEX,…

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Epic Rolls Out Vibe-Coded Launcher Update & It’s Absolute Trash

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Alright, I don’t quite know what to make of what Epic Games is doing with this AI-driven nonsense, but it’s not great. I’ve spent a bit of time trying to…

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FCC chair warns media not to run the “fake polls” Trump keeps complaining about

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr today warned broadcasters about airing “fake polls,” amplifying one of the many complaints that President Trump has regularly made about the news media. Carr’s…

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Tesla profits drop 43% in Q3

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Tesla published its third-quarter 2026 financial results this afternoon. Earlier in October, it reported its sales and deliveries for the three-month period, selling fewer cars than in the same quarter…

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Enterprises keep buying software upgrades that IT thinks will make things worse

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

Enterprise-sized businesses spend, on average, 28 percent of their software budgets on unwanted upgrades, migrations, and licensing changes. Often, those firms’ IT heads think those changes are detrimental. Those results…

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Xbox wants you to pay 24 to 40 cents per hour to stream games you already bought

October 21, 2026 Blogmaster

In September, when Microsoft severely limited the game-streaming buffet available to Game Pass subscribers, the company said non-subscribers would soon be able to “purchase cloud playtime hours through the Xbox…

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