Daily Archives: Nov 2, 2026

Ethan Mercer

New Extortion Gang Lists Companies on the Dark Web and Counts...

ScarlettGroup: Emerging Extortion Gang Uses Dark Web Leak Site and Countdown Timers ScarlettGroup, a newly observed cyber extortion gang, is naming companies on a dark web leak site and using countdown timers to threaten the release of allegedly stolen data. ...
Ethan Mercer

Hackers Targeted Critical PHP Vulnerabilities Days Before Patches

A threat actor attempted to exploit two critical PHP vulnerabilities four days before those flaws were publicly disclosed and patched, Amazon Threat Intelligence reported. The activity began on October 17, 2026, while the vulnerabilities were under coordinated disclosure. Tracked as CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 and collectively called...
Ethan Mercer

Hackers plant malware on Japanese cloud servers, forcing provider to shut...

Attackers installed malware inside customer server environments at Japan’s Onamae.com Desktop Cloud, prompting the provider to begin shutting down servers across every service plan. Onamae listed 26,739 servers as potentially affected, a number that indicates the possible scope rather than a confirmed count of infected systems....