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FASHION RETAILER RESOLVE SAYS HACKERS STOLE PAYMENT CARD INFORMATION

Revolve told the SEC that attackers accessed multiple systems and used automated methods to obtain names, contact details, and card numbers and expiration dates from customers who stored payment data online. Texas regulators recorded 127,200 affected residents. Vermont reported 1,328. Revolve notified law enforcement, hired a cybersecurity firm, and said operations and finances were unaffected.

CLOUDFLARE DDOS THREAT REPORT 2026 Q3: MORE SWARMS, FEWER GIANTS

Cloudflare mitigated 18.2 million network-layer DDoS attacks and 14.4 trillion HTTP requests in Q3 2026. Short attacks under 10 minutes and 1 Gbps rose 208% year over year, while attacks above 1 Tbps fell 69% from Q2. CLDAP floods dropped 99.5%. DNS amplification rose 215%, and UDP floods rose 122%. The United States was the most-attacked country, followed by China and Indonesia. Canada rose from 16th to 6th, and Israel to 10th. IoT botnets remain active, with Mirai-classified traffic peaking at 57.23 PB in August.

TURNING THE VALVE - EXPLOITING RCE AND LPE IN THE STEAM PLATFORM

Atredis researchers found four local privilege escalation flaws and two remote code execution bugs in Steam for Windows. The LPE paths abused Steam's SYSTEM service through install-script allowlists, module loading, secure-desktop input forwarding, and driver installation. The remote bugs affected Steam-to-Steam synchronization messages: stack overflows in download-schedule and app-status handlers, plus an uninitialized-memory leak of steamclient64 pointers. The researchers combined the leak with an overflow to build a zero-click RCE using a ROP chain. They reported the issues to Valve through HackerOne. The bugs are patched or past the disclosure timeline, and proof-of-concept code is public.

HOW WE TOOK OVER CHATGPT ACCOUNTS

Researchers at Parameter Labs discovered a complex attack chain that could let attackers create malicious pages using ChatGPT's HTML Previews (formerly Canvas). The exploit begins by using the MathLive JavaScript library to create a new iframe that could load scripts from YouTube despite OpenAI's CSP policy. That iframe could then use YouTube's oEmbed endpoint to access OpenAI API endpoints and steal private data from anyone who accesses the ChatGPT share URL.

SECURING INTERNET CRITICAL SOFTWARE: HOW WE COULD HAVE BACKDOORED BASH

Researchers at Hacktron discovered a command injection vulnerability in GNU Savannah that let them gain root and take over user accounts, including a Bash maintainer. The vulnerability stemmed from the GPG key validator inserting a user's email address directly into commands it executed without sanitizing the input. The attackers utilized this vulnerability to install a webshell, read the database password, set their account to a superuser, impersonate other users, and also escalate privileges by exploiting GemOver(lay).

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