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Exclusive: FoxIO researcher says Bun never answered its May report of a server-crashing HTTP/3 flaw https://runtimewire.com/article/researcher-says-bun-did-not-answer-may-report-on-http3-flaw-7e4927?rwr=xmu4qsbu&rws=llpxf5e1

RuntimeWireExclusive: FoxIO researcher says Bun never answered its May report of a server-crashing HTTP/3 flawSébastien Féry told RuntimeWire that FoxIO reported the flaw through the channel in Bun's security policy and "never heard back." Bun shipped HTTP/3 security fixes Thursday in a release that doesn't mention FoxIO or the report.
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Operation IXIM: Preventing a botnet of millions of Popcorn Time users https://labs.eye.security/operation-ixim-preventing-a-botnet-of-millions-of-popcorn-time-users/

Eye ResearchOperation IXIM: Preventing a botnet of millions of Popcorn Time usersOver the past X months, Eye Research has been actively disabling the vulnerable update mechanism used by the popular download client PopCorn Time. This involved executing code on systems running the vulnerable software. This is the story on how we got here and why we took the unprecedented decision of taking matters into our own hands.
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Reversing a DPRK-linked toolkit that backdoors VS Code, Cursor, Discord and npm, with an Ethereum dead-drop C2 and a DEV#POPPER variant https://medium.com/@tarunrd77/north-korea-backdoored-their-vs-code-npm-kept-bringing-it-back-6371da5e74c4?sharedUserId=tarunrd77

MediumNorth Korea Backdoored Their VS Code. npm Kept Bringing It Back.No scheduled tasks. No registry keys. Just a RAT hidden behind 200 spaces in the tools developers use every day, with a Python stager…
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PHP Just Patched Two Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws. Update Now. https://kylesinvestigation.com/2026/10/21/php-just-patched-two-critical-remote-code-execution-flaws-update-now/

KYLES INVESTIGATIONPHP Just Patched Two Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws. Update Now. - Nationwide Private Investigator & Skip Tracing | Knoxville TN Background Checks & OSINT | Kyle's InvestigatOctober 21, 2026 If your website runs on PHP, check your version today. The PHP security team released emergency fixes this morning for two critical vulnerabilities, and attack tools are already circulating online. The fix: update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35. Any earlier release of those branches is exposed. What happened Details of […]
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CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 Are Two Directions Through the Same Pre-RINIT Window https://nefariousplan.com/posts/php-cve-2026-109618-109619-two-directions-one-window

nefariousplan.comCVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 Are Two Directions Through the Same Pre-RINIT WindowPHP's phprequeststartup() function reaches two consecutive calls in main/main.c. Line 1942 calls phphashenvironment(). Line 1943 calls zendactivatemodules().
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uCreator: virtualization-based Android spyware platform targeting WeChat, Telegram and other messaging apps https://www.0x0v1.com/ucreator-virtualization-based-android-spyware-platform-targeting-wechat-telegram-and-other-messaging-apps/

[0x0v1]uCreator: virtualization-based Android spyware platform targeting WeChat, Telegram and other messaging appsIntroduction uCreater (the vendor's own name for the product is YingGai) is a commercial Android surveillance platform built around 群控 (“mass control”). Branded through packages in the com.ucreator.* namespace, it is not a single malware family but a productized framework: a VirtualApp/LSPatch engine, a library of per-
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All vulnerabilities are now race conditions https://blog.himanshuanand.com/2026/09/all-vulnerabilities-are-now-race-conditions/

Himanshu Anand :: Security & Other Notesall vulnerabilities are now race conditionsTLDR AI made finding bugs cheap. It did nothing to make getting paid for them any easier. The same bug now gets found by ten different people inside a fortnight. One of them collects the money. The other nine collect a polite duplicate notice and a dent in their platform reputation. The programmes are drowning too. That is why curl shut down its entire bounty operation in January 2026, after fewer
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Prompt injection, XSS and SIEM-exfil payloads living in reverse DNS, plus 28 fake Googlebots that passed FCrDNS https://ellio.tech/en/blog/ignoreallpreviousinstructions-a-peek-into-340-billion-daily-reverse-dns-ptr-records/

ELLIOIgnoreAllPreviousInstructions: prompt injection in rDNS | ELLIO BlogA network named IgnoreAllPreviousInstructions got an AI search summary to write a poem. A home PTR tells AI agents to attack whoever sent them.
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