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28 items from 5 monitored sources · collected Nov 2, 17:50 UTC
- Polymarket pledges to give $3.9 million back to victims after site compromiseIn a post-mortem on an October 29 incident, prediction market Polymarket said it will pay people back what they lost, as well as compensate them for the site's downtime.
- Understanding the 5 Capability Levels of Insider Risk MaturityUnderstanding and summiting the five capability levels of insider risk maturity.
- Russia's statistics agency confirms cyberattack claimed by Belarusian and Ukrainian hackersAn alliance of Belarusian and pro-Ukrainian hackers claimed to have taken out Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, and stolen vast amounts of sensitive government data in a cyberattack.
- Google Disrupts 1.3 Million-Device Android Botnet, Says TV Box Maker Sold Criminal AccessA botnet of more than 1.3 million Android devices, mostly TV set-top boxes, lost control of its servers in late October in a takedown led by Google. Key indicators: Android Botnet.
- BTCPay Server warns of hot wallet crypto thefts on outdated instancesThe maintainer of BTCPay Server, an open-source cryptocurrency payment processor, has urged users to install the latest version as hackers have been draining "hot wallets" on instances running older versions.
- Your Mobile Carrier Stores Your Call Logs for YearsMobile carriers can retain years of call and text metadata, exposing sensitive details about customers' relationships, locations, and daily routines if breached.
- Mutipath TCP: Use and Detection, (Mon, Nov 2nd)Last week, an often-ignored&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;TCP option, introduced in 2020, made the news due to a new vulnerability in Linux&#;x26;#;39;s implementation (RFC&#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;8684, &#;x26;#;xc2;&#;x26;#;xa0;CVE-2026-98432) Key indicators: CVE-2026-98432.
- DarkBlinders Compromises Israeli Target and Iraqi Kurdish Government Cloud EnvironmentCybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a cyber espionage campaign targeting Israel and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq by an Iran state-aligned threat actor between August and October 2026.
- Apple warns users in 99 countries of mercenary spywareApple does not attribute attacks or the notices to specific malicious actors or geographical regions, the notification said, due to the “extreme cost, sophistication, and worldwide nature of mercenary spyware attacks [which] make them some of the most advanced digital threats in existence today.”
- Russian and Ukrainian hackers hijack emergency apps to spread fake nuclear attack warningsA popular Ukrainian air raid alert system was hacked over the weekend, prompting a cyber group to breach a similar Russian system in retaliation.