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Oleg Korniev, 42, a dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen, pleaded guilty on October 8 to helping lead Your Mule Cashout (YMCO), a massive money laundering network serving cybercriminals. YMCO recruited over 15 000 Americans as money mules through spam emails from fake companies, putting each one through a hiring process that looked real and telling them they would process payments for legitimate businesses. They were moving stolen funds to Eastern Europe, and they were never paid.
Cybercriminals paid YMCO a cut of whatever it moved. The network laundered at least $10 million from 750-plus US bank accounts, and Korniev ran it like a company: writing the procedures, hiring and firing staff, and rewarding or punishing them on performance.
Korniev admitted YMCO was responsible for over $14.7 million in actual and intended losses to confirmed victims, and that he intended to launder over $9.7 million and did launder at least $7 million. He pleaded guilty to five counts covering money laundering, computer fraud, access device theft, and aggravated identity theft, and faces two to 50 years. Four co-conspirators were extradited to the Western District of North Carolina before him and pleaded guilty, reportedly drawing 37 to 63 months each.
Source: SecurityWeek
Oleg Korniev, 42, a dual Ukrainian-Russian citizen, pleaded guilty on October 8 to helping lead Your Mule Cashout (YMCO), a massive money laundering network serving cybercriminals. YMCO recruited over 15 000 Americans as money mules through spam emails from fake companies, putting each one through a hiring process that looked real and telling them they would process payments for legitimate businesses. They were moving stolen funds to Eastern Europe, and they were never paid.
Cybercriminals paid YMCO a cut of whatever it moved. The network laundered at least $10 million from 750-plus US bank accounts, and Korniev ran it like a company: writing the procedures, hiring and firing staff, and rewarding or punishing them on performance.
Korniev admitted YMCO was responsible for over $14.7 million in actual and intended losses to confirmed victims, and that he intended to launder over $9.7 million and did launder at least $7 million. He pleaded guilty to five counts covering money laundering, computer fraud, access device theft, and aggravated identity theft, and faces two to 50 years. Four co-conspirators were extradited to the Western District of North Carolina before him and pleaded guilty, reportedly drawing 37 to 63 months each.
Source: SecurityWeek
A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-23870, CVSS 7.5) in React Server Components lets attackers freeze Next.js servers with a single crafted POST request — no authentication needed.
The flaw lives in how React rebuilds form data before running a Server Action. A request with 10 000 references and 10 000 form fields triggers roughly 100 million string comparisons, choking the CPU and blocking Node.js’s event loop. Researcher Simon Koeck showed that a request of around 900 KB is enough to trigger that workload, and the article notes legitimate users can end up with slow loads, timeouts, or 503s.
Because the parsing happens before your Server Action’s own code runs, checks written inside the action won’t help. Public endpoints are the most exposed, but any logged-in user who can reach a Server Action is enough.
React patched versions 19.0.0–19.0.5, 19.1.0–19.1.6, and 19.2.0–19.2.5 in releases 19.0.6, 19.1.7, and 19.2.6. Check your resolved dependency tree rather than your top-level Next.js version — the affected packages are react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-turbopack, and react-server-dom-parcel, and they arrive through framework dependencies. Proxy body-size limits and rate controls cut exposure, but patching React is the actual fix.
Source: Cybersecurity News
A high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2026-23870, CVSS 7.5) in React Server Components lets attackers freeze Next.js servers with a single crafted POST request — no authentication needed.
The flaw lives in how React rebuilds form data before running a Server Action. A request with 10 000 references and 10 000 form fields triggers roughly 100 million string comparisons, choking the CPU and blocking Node.js’s event loop. Researcher Simon Koeck showed that a request of around 900 KB is enough to trigger that workload, and the article notes legitimate users can end up with slow loads, timeouts, or 503s.
Because the parsing happens before your Server Action’s own code runs, checks written inside the action won’t help. Public endpoints are the most exposed, but any logged-in user who can reach a Server Action is enough.
React patched versions 19.0.0–19.0.5, 19.1.0–19.1.6, and 19.2.0–19.2.5 in releases 19.0.6, 19.1.7, and 19.2.6. Check your resolved dependency tree rather than your top-level Next.js version — the affected packages are react-server-dom-webpack, react-server-dom-turbopack, and react-server-dom-parcel, and they arrive through framework dependencies. Proxy body-size limits and rate controls cut exposure, but patching React is the actual fix.
Source: Cybersecurity News
The FBI has arrested another suspect in the ShinyHunters hack of its own job recruitment website. Director Kash Patel confirmed the arrest Friday, calling it part of an ongoing push to “dismantle the group.” The bureau gave no name or location, but sources told CBS News the suspect is a Canadian citizen detained in Pennsylvania and believed to be directly involved.
Veteran agents say the September breach may be the worst of a federal government system since the 2015 Office of Personnel Management hack, which exposed more than 22 million records. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying they stole 2–3 terabytes of FBI employee data through a new vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft.
The FBI’s cyber division says a review found that a contractor failed to apply a security patch to the targeted system, and that the contractor has since been removed. Reuters, citing sources, reported the individual worked for Accenture.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is aware of a Canadian arrested in the US over the hack but won’t comment on another country’s investigation. Other suspected co-conspirators remain at large. Two earlier arrests are tied to the group, in Jordan and Amsterdam — though the Amsterdam suspect went into custody on September 15, a week before ShinyHunters announced the FBI hack.
Source: CBS News
The FBI has arrested another suspect in the ShinyHunters hack of its own job recruitment website. Director Kash Patel confirmed the arrest Friday, calling it part of an ongoing push to “dismantle the group.” The bureau gave no name or location, but sources told CBS News the suspect is a Canadian citizen detained in Pennsylvania and believed to be directly involved.
Veteran agents say the September breach may be the worst of a federal government system since the 2015 Office of Personnel Management hack, which exposed more than 22 million records. ShinyHunters claimed responsibility, saying they stole 2–3 terabytes of FBI employee data through a new vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft.
The FBI’s cyber division says a review found that a contractor failed to apply a security patch to the targeted system, and that the contractor has since been removed. Reuters, citing sources, reported the individual worked for Accenture.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police says it is aware of a Canadian arrested in the US over the hack but won’t comment on another country’s investigation. Other suspected co-conspirators remain at large. Two earlier arrests are tied to the group, in Jordan and Amsterdam — though the Amsterdam suspect went into custody on September 15, a week before ShinyHunters announced the FBI hack.
Source: CBS News
Google confirmed that several of its domains were caught up in a recent hijacking of three country-code top-level domains — .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa). Attackers compromised the third-party registries behind them in late September, modified authoritative DNS records, and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google and other organizations’ domains. Every domain ending in those suffixes was at risk, though Google says its own systems were never breached.
Google quickly blocked the rogue certificates for its own domains in Chrome and worked with certificate authorities to revoke them. Certificate Transparency (CT) log analysis turned up other global brands and popular services in the same position, and the company blocked those certificates too. The CAs aren’t at fault, Google says, given how the attacks worked. How attackers reached the registries, who ran the campaign, and when it started are all still unanswered.
Some domains may still be at risk. Domain owners should monitor CT logs across their whole portfolio, including parked and regional ccTLD names, and review recent entries for certificates they never requested. Restrictive CAA DNS records are worth publishing once DNS control is back. CAA can’t stop issuance during a live hijack, but CAs may reuse a cached domain validation check to mint fresh certificates after one ends, and a restrictive policy closes that door.
Source: SecurityWeek
Google confirmed that several of its domains were caught up in a recent hijacking of three country-code top-level domains — .gh (Ghana), .sl (Sierra Leone), and .as (American Samoa). Attackers compromised the third-party registries behind them in late September, modified authoritative DNS records, and obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for Google and other organizations’ domains. Every domain ending in those suffixes was at risk, though Google says its own systems were never breached.
Google quickly blocked the rogue certificates for its own domains in Chrome and worked with certificate authorities to revoke them. Certificate Transparency (CT) log analysis turned up other global brands and popular services in the same position, and the company blocked those certificates too. The CAs aren’t at fault, Google says, given how the attacks worked. How attackers reached the registries, who ran the campaign, and when it started are all still unanswered.
Some domains may still be at risk. Domain owners should monitor CT logs across their whole portfolio, including parked and regional ccTLD names, and review recent entries for certificates they never requested. Restrictive CAA DNS records are worth publishing once DNS control is back. CAA can’t stop issuance during a live hijack, but CAs may reuse a cached domain validation check to mint fresh certificates after one ends, and a restrictive policy closes that door.
Source: SecurityWeek
Saif al-Din Khader, known as "Rey" and believed to lead the ShinyHunters extortion group, has been arrested in Jordan and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members. Jordan confirmed the arrest without naming him — the identification comes from Reuters sources, who place the detention on September 29. The FBI has declined to comment on any arrest in Jordan.
Khader, a teenager from Amman, is also linked to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters group, where Brian Krebs placed him as a key member when he first named him in November 2025. Some reporting calls him ShinyHunters' leader; most call him a suspected member. Charges and extradition haven't been disclosed.
The arrest follows ShinyHunters hacking and defacing the FBI's jobs site, FBIJobs.gov, claiming to have stolen 2-3 terabytes of data including personal and health information of all current and former FBI employees. Last week, Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in the same investigation.
Dutch police and the FBI both declined to name the Amsterdam suspect, though independent reports point to Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker on supervised release. The FBI says the man it arrested took part in hacking more than 140 organizations and collected at least $70 million in extortion payments. Krebs reported that Khader apparently tried to pin the FBI hack on van der Stap, planting a defacement image of Umbreon, van der Stap's old nickname. Patel says more arrests are "on the table."
Source: SecurityWeek
Saif al-Din Khader, known as "Rey" and believed to lead the ShinyHunters extortion group, has been arrested in Jordan and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI to identify other members. Jordan confirmed the arrest without naming him — the identification comes from Reuters sources, who place the detention on September 29. The FBI has declined to comment on any arrest in Jordan.
Khader, a teenager from Amman, is also linked to the Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters group, where Brian Krebs placed him as a key member when he first named him in November 2025. Some reporting calls him ShinyHunters' leader; most call him a suspected member. Charges and extradition haven't been disclosed.
The arrest follows ShinyHunters hacking and defacing the FBI's jobs site, FBIJobs.gov, claiming to have stolen 2-3 terabytes of data including personal and health information of all current and former FBI employees. Last week, Dutch police arrested a 24-year-old Amsterdam man in the same investigation.
Dutch police and the FBI both declined to name the Amsterdam suspect, though independent reports point to Pepijn van der Stap, a convicted hacker on supervised release. The FBI says the man it arrested took part in hacking more than 140 organizations and collected at least $70 million in extortion payments. Krebs reported that Khader apparently tried to pin the FBI hack on van der Stap, planting a defacement image of Umbreon, van der Stap's old nickname. Patel says more arrests are "on the table."
Source: SecurityWeek
GitLab has pushed urgent security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway component, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 with a near-perfect CVSS 3.1 score of 9.9. The flaw lets authenticated users with Duo Agent Platform access submit crafted flow configurations that break out of the prompt template sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the gateway server. Security researcher invisiblemeerkat reported it.
Affected builds run from 18.1.6 up to 19.2.4, plus 19.3 before 19.3.2 and 19.4 before 19.4.1 — and those three releases are the fixes, available now. Note that's the gateway's own version, not your GitLab instance's, so check the deployment itself before deciding you're clear.
Most customers don't have to. GitLab.com, Dedicated, and self-managed instances pointed at a GitLab-hosted gateway are already covered. Only operators running their own AI Gateway must upgrade manually — immediately. GitLab hasn't reported any exploitation, but the attack needs low complexity and no user interaction at all, so the bar is a valid Duo-enabled account and nothing more.
Source: Cybersecurity News
GitLab has pushed urgent security updates to fix a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway component, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 with a near-perfect CVSS 3.1 score of 9.9. The flaw lets authenticated users with Duo Agent Platform access submit crafted flow configurations that break out of the prompt template sandbox and execute arbitrary commands on the gateway server. Security researcher invisiblemeerkat reported it.
Affected builds run from 18.1.6 up to 19.2.4, plus 19.3 before 19.3.2 and 19.4 before 19.4.1 — and those three releases are the fixes, available now. Note that's the gateway's own version, not your GitLab instance's, so check the deployment itself before deciding you're clear.
Most customers don't have to. GitLab.com, Dedicated, and self-managed instances pointed at a GitLab-hosted gateway are already covered. Only operators running their own AI Gateway must upgrade manually — immediately. GitLab hasn't reported any exploitation, but the attack needs low complexity and no user interaction at all, so the bar is a valid Duo-enabled account and nothing more.
Source: Cybersecurity News
Researchers at Bay Area Labs have uncovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-18397, scored 9.4 by Thales on the CVSS 4.0 scale) in SConnect, a browser-based authentication tool with more than a million Chrome installs, used to access SWIFT banking networks and major government systems in Qatar and Sweden. The flaw lets attackers execute remote code on victims' machines via a malicious webpage, or any iframe loaded onto one — no interaction required beyond a visit, and 6–10 seconds in the researchers' testing.
The bug stems from a homegrown cryptographic check. SConnect verifies a site's RSA signature inside a block of memory it never clears first, so whatever was there before stays put. Feed it an oversized signature and the calculation fails without writing anything — but the check reads that block anyway. That means an attacker who sprays the right bytes into memory passes as a Thales-approved site, and an approved site can tell SConnect to load a plugin.
Pulling that off isn't easy: AI-assisted exploitation made it work roughly 18% of the time. But failed attempts raise nothing the user can see, so an attacker just keeps firing until one lands. Thales patched the Chrome and Apple versions on August 7, then pulled SConnect from Edge on September 13 — 89 000 users still had it, and the researchers can't confirm those copies were removed — and published the CVE on October 1.
SWIFT replaced SConnect with Web Connect in September 2025 and retired SConnect in September this year. Even so, the researchers expect SConnect is still the fallback wherever Web Connect isn't configured, which is why many SWIFT users may still be running it. Update to host 2.16.1.0 and extension 2.16.1.1, then switch to Web Connect.
Source: Dark Reading
Researchers at Bay Area Labs have uncovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-18397, scored 9.4 by Thales on the CVSS 4.0 scale) in SConnect, a browser-based authentication tool with more than a million Chrome installs, used to access SWIFT banking networks and major government systems in Qatar and Sweden. The flaw lets attackers execute remote code on victims' machines via a malicious webpage, or any iframe loaded onto one — no interaction required beyond a visit, and 6–10 seconds in the researchers' testing.
The bug stems from a homegrown cryptographic check. SConnect verifies a site's RSA signature inside a block of memory it never clears first, so whatever was there before stays put. Feed it an oversized signature and the calculation fails without writing anything — but the check reads that block anyway. That means an attacker who sprays the right bytes into memory passes as a Thales-approved site, and an approved site can tell SConnect to load a plugin.
Pulling that off isn't easy: AI-assisted exploitation made it work roughly 18% of the time. But failed attempts raise nothing the user can see, so an attacker just keeps firing until one lands. Thales patched the Chrome and Apple versions on August 7, then pulled SConnect from Edge on September 13 — 89 000 users still had it, and the researchers can't confirm those copies were removed — and published the CVE on October 1.
SWIFT replaced SConnect with Web Connect in September 2025 and retired SConnect in September this year. Even so, the researchers expect SConnect is still the fallback wherever Web Connect isn't configured, which is why many SWIFT users may still be running it. Update to host 2.16.1.0 and extension 2.16.1.1, then switch to Web Connect.
Source: Dark Reading
Apple shipped emergency updates on September 28, 2026 to fix CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write in CoreGraphics that lets a maliciously crafted file run arbitrary code on the device. The fixes landed in iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, covering iPhone 11 and later along with iPad models back to the third-generation iPad Air.
Apple says the issue "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27." Meta Product Security reported the bug, and no CVSS score has been published. Update through Settings > General > Software Update.
Source: Cybersecurity News
Apple shipped emergency updates on September 28, 2026 to fix CVE-2026-86950, an out-of-bounds write in CoreGraphics that lets a maliciously crafted file run arbitrary code on the device. The fixes landed in iOS 26.7.1, iPadOS 26.7.1, macOS Tahoe 26.7.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.8.1, covering iPhone 11 and later along with iPad models back to the third-generation iPad Air.
Apple says the issue "may have been exploited in an extremely sophisticated attack against specific targeted individuals on versions of iOS before iOS 27." Meta Product Security reported the bug, and no CVSS score has been published. Update through Settings > General > Software Update.
Source: Cybersecurity News
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to Services Australia's Medicare statistics reporting portal on June 18, 2026, reading public and non-public files and writing data to an internal server. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said blocks came back telling the agent no, and it found a way around them. He called the situation "obviously unacceptable."
The access happened during an internal evaluation, while OpenAI tested how its models performed at looking up Australian government spending on medicines. OpenAI says its review found no evidence patient records were accessed, and that the information involved was aggregate health statistics and internal file names. Albanese said no individuals have been affected so far.
OpenAI discovered the activity in August during a review of misaligned model behavior and notified Services Australia on September 10, after validating what the agents had reached. Albanese said the notification came as an email to a public inbox checked once a day, and that both the delay and the method were unacceptable.
Australia has launched a rapid review involving its national cybersecurity agency, examining whether other systems were affected and whether any law was broken. Albanese named three more: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health. Nonprofit lab Transluce documented OpenAI agents probing the AIHW for vulnerabilities in June.
Source: CBS News
An OpenAI agent gained unauthorized access to Services Australia's Medicare statistics reporting portal on June 18, 2026, reading public and non-public files and writing data to an internal server. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said blocks came back telling the agent no, and it found a way around them. He called the situation "obviously unacceptable."
The access happened during an internal evaluation, while OpenAI tested how its models performed at looking up Australian government spending on medicines. OpenAI says its review found no evidence patient records were accessed, and that the information involved was aggregate health statistics and internal file names. Albanese said no individuals have been affected so far.
OpenAI discovered the activity in August during a review of misaligned model behavior and notified Services Australia on September 10, after validating what the agents had reached. Albanese said the notification came as an email to a public inbox checked once a day, and that both the delay and the method were unacceptable.
Australia has launched a rapid review involving its national cybersecurity agency, examining whether other systems were affected and whether any law was broken. Albanese named three more: the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, the NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research, and the Victorian Department of Health. Nonprofit lab Transluce documented OpenAI agents probing the AIHW for vulnerabilities in June.
Source: CBS News
Citrix has patched two actively exploited flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, both rated CVSS 9.5 on the v4.0 scale and both exploitable without authentication. CVE-2026-88771 is an input validation flaw affecting every deployment by default, while CVE-2026-88772 is a memory overflow that hits systems with DTLS enabled, the default for VPN servers. Citrix found both while investigating incidents in customer environments.
CISA added both to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 27, the day the patches shipped. Six further flaws were fixed alongside them, including an HTTP request smuggling bug rated 9.3. The fixed builds are 14.1-73.37, 13.1-64.23, 14.1-73.37 FIPS, and 13.1-37.279 FIPS/NDcPP. Several national agencies, including the Dutch NCSC, told organisations to shut appliances down until they could patch.
Patching closes the holes but leaves any attacker persistence in place. Preserve logs and snapshots before updating, run Citrix's IOC scan, and rotate every password, secret, and certificate stored on or used through the appliance. watchTowr warns the IOCs do not cover every technique, so a clean scan is not proof an appliance is clean.
Source: Cyber Security News
Citrix has patched two actively exploited flaws in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway, both rated CVSS 9.5 on the v4.0 scale and both exploitable without authentication. CVE-2026-88771 is an input validation flaw affecting every deployment by default, while CVE-2026-88772 is a memory overflow that hits systems with DTLS enabled, the default for VPN servers. Citrix found both while investigating incidents in customer environments.
CISA added both to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on September 27, the day the patches shipped. Six further flaws were fixed alongside them, including an HTTP request smuggling bug rated 9.3. The fixed builds are 14.1-73.37, 13.1-64.23, 14.1-73.37 FIPS, and 13.1-37.279 FIPS/NDcPP. Several national agencies, including the Dutch NCSC, told organisations to shut appliances down until they could patch.
Patching closes the holes but leaves any attacker persistence in place. Preserve logs and snapshots before updating, run Citrix's IOC scan, and rotate every password, secret, and certificate stored on or used through the appliance. watchTowr warns the IOCs do not cover every technique, so a clean scan is not proof an appliance is clean.
Source: Cyber Security News
