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The Hacker News 2h ago

Default 'admin:admin' Server Password Helps Researchers Hack Two Automakers, Unlock and Start Cars

The login systems behind two car brands' mobile apps could be taken over completely, two security researchers found, allowing them to access any customer's account and, for an owner with a connected car, unlock the doors and start the engine. Both apps signed customers in throug...

The Hacker News 3h ago

Web3Auth Flaw Exploited to Steal Keplr Crypto, Provider Empties Other Wallets for Safety

Some people who set up a Keplr crypto wallet with their Google or Apple account have had money stolen by an attacker. Keplr uses a company called Web3Auth to run that Google and Apple sign-in. The attacker used a security flaw at that company to reach the wallets, both companies...

The Hacker News 3h ago

LNbits Urges All Operators to Shut Down Their Bitcoin Lightning Wallet Servers Amid Attacks

Everyone running LNbits, a free, open-source Bitcoin Lightning wallet system, should shut down their servers now because of a wave of attacks, the project said yesterday. It has several security fixes to release and asked operators to be careful until they are out. One operator ...

The Hacker News 4h ago

Taiwan-Based Hacker Used BOSSAI AI Agents to Steal Taipei Emergency Dispatch Records

A single attacker using AI agents pulled emergency dispatch records covering seven Taipei districts, researchers at Acronis's Threat Research Unit said last week. The agents also found a Taipei fire department platform exposing patient data from 2018, including ECG readings and ...

The Hacker News 6h ago

Former OpenAI Engineer Pleads Not Guilty to Planting Covert Device in Executive Meeting Room

The OpenAI engineer who was arrested and charged last month for planting a covert audio recording device in the company's office has pleaded not guilty. According to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC, Saudi national Abdulrahman Alfozan made an appearance in San Francisco federal c...

The Hacker News 7h ago

U.S. Agencies Warn Refrigeration Controller Attacks Could Cause Fires and Inventory Losses

U.S. government agencies have warned that threat actors are actively targeting industrial refrigeration and cold-chain monitoring systems globally with an aim to cause service disruptions, fire hazards, and loss of inventory. "The actors may exploit vulnerabilities or weaknesses...

The Hacker News 7h ago

CISA Flags SonicWall SonicOS MFA Bypass Flaw Amid Reports of Possible Exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added a high-severity vulnerability impacting SonicWall SonicOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports that it said may have been exploited in real-world attacks. The vulnerabil...

Saturday, 7 November 2026
The Hacker News 2d ago

Claude Code's “Don't Ask Again” File Exposes Passwords and Keys in 1,122 Public Copies on GitHub

Passwords and API keys that developers typed into commands they approved in Claude Code are sitting in public GitHub repositories, where anyone can read them. When a user selects "Yes, and don't ask again," Anthropic's AI coding assistant can save the command, word-for-word, inc...

Friday, 6 November 2026
The Hacker News 2d ago

Installing the Fix for an Exploited WordPress Flaw Can Expose Some Sites One Last Time

Some WordPress sites can still be attacked while they install the fix for an actively exploited flaw, according to Umut Bayram, the Picus Security researcher who found it. The update that installs the fix still unpacks its files using the site's old, unpatched code, so an attack...

The Hacker News 2d ago

Hackers Target OpenSSH SSHole Flaw Within Hours of Disclosure, Gain Root on Honeypot

Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting OpenSSH that can enable sign-ins to accounts that have no password set, according to Previdian. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-123158 (CVSS score: 8.1) and codenamed SSHole (or *sshole),...

The Hacker News 2d ago

OpenAI Launches GPT-6 Cyber After AI Helps Find 81 Firefox Flaws, 948 Linux Exploits

OpenAI on Thursday unveiled GPT‑6 Cyber, which it described as a major step forward in security research that brings together stronger cybersecurity capabilities with a step-change improvement in model alignment. The new model is "more capable at finding and fixing vulnerabili...

The Hacker News 3d ago

Microsoft Paint RCE Fix Now Available, but Windows Update Won't Deliver It

A fix for CVE-2026-83844, a remote code execution flaw in Windows Paint, is now in the Microsoft Store. Paint gets this fix only through a Store update, not through Windows updates. The fixed build, 11.2609.401.0, was the newest Paint build in all ten countries The Hacker News c...

The Hacker News 3d ago

Malicious Browser Extensions Could Use Claude Dispatch to Run Code on Users' Computers

A browser extension that can run scripts on claude.ai could make Claude Desktop run code on a person's computer, researchers at Forever Security, an endpoint security company, showed in a test. The attack needs Dispatch, a Claude feature that lets people send tasks from their ph...

The Hacker News 3d ago

The Flood is Coming And The Pipes Were Already Full

An update on Athena, and some unsolicited predictions on what's coming next On Saturday, Dario Amodei published We Must Pace the Frontier. I agree with him. Go read it if you haven't. I've spent the summer looking at what these models find, and the gap he describes between what ...

The Hacker News 3d ago

Chainalysis Breach Exposes All Users' Credentials, Forces Shutdown of Key Services

Blockchain analysis firm Chainalysis has revealed that its ongoing investigation into the agentic cyber attack targeting its systems also exposed names, usernames, password hashes and live tokens for all users. "While we investigated, we removed access to Reactor and Data Soluti...

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