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AI Helped Find Critical PHP Flaws: 4 Things to Do Today

AI helped researchers find two critical PHP flaws, and one sat in the code for at least a decade. PHP runs roughly 70% of websites, and attackers were probing on the day the patches shipped, October 21. Dirk Schrader, VP of Security Research at Netwrix, lists four things to do today: update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, or 8.2.35 and restart the workers; on PHP 8.1 or older, where there’s no official release, use vendor extended support or take the server offline; check your logs and web roots from before the patch; and limit the account PHP runs under.

Browse a backup target on OpenShift | Trilio for Kubernetes

Turn on target browsing in Trilio for Kubernetes and look inside a backup target on OpenShift: the backup plans, backups and snapshots it holds. You will: Chapters Check that browsing is on (read-only): oc get targets.triliovault.trilio.io -A -o custom-columns=NAMESPACE:.metadata.namespace,NAME:.metadata.name,BROWSING:.spec.enableBrowsing Recorded on Red Hat OpenShift 4.21 with Trilio for Kubernetes 5.4.1.

A Look at Keeper Security with Cybercrime Magazine | Black Hat USA 2026

As AI agents and non-human identities proliferate, managing secrets and identities is a primary security challenge. Keeper Security CTO and Co-founder Craig Lurey met with Cybercrime Magazine at Black Hat USA 2026 to highlight Keeper’s modern, unified platform, which secures passwords and passkeys, secrets, endpoint privileges and privileged access management.

The shadow AI user has one weakness... UpGuard

The shadow AI user is notoriously hard to observe. This elusive creature hunts in incognito tabs and leaves almost no trace on the approved tools list. In this rare footage, a looming deadline draws one employee into the open, and an unapproved AI tool is only a few keystrokes away. Even the stealthiest hunter can be stopped, though. UpGuard User Risk uncovers shadow AI across your workforce and redirects people to approved tools in the moment.

Cyber Risk in the Wild: The Shadow AI User UpGuard

The shadow AI user is notoriously hard to observe. This elusive creature hunts in incognito tabs and leaves almost no trace on the approved tools list. In this episode of Cyber Risk in the Wild, a looming deadline draws one employee into the open, and the pride’s AI policy is put to the test. UpGuard User Risk uncovers the shadow AI and unsanctioned SaaS your teams are using, blocks risky uploads and pastes in the browser, and redirects people to approved AI tools in the moment.

OpenMatter Network Positions Decentralized Computing as an Alternative to Data Centers for AI

OpenMatter Network, a pioneer in decentralized infrastructure for agentic artificial intelligence, is positioning its decentralized computing platform as an alternative to massive, centralized data center development amid growing public opposition to new facilities. The company says its approach can support continued AI adoption by enabling computing workloads to run across distributed resources rather than relying primarily on large-scale data center infrastructure.

SIEM or XDR? Yes

Same logs, two places, overlapping outcomes. It's time to rethink the SIEM vs. XDR question. In my last blog, I asked where XDR fits into the SIEM-less conversation. To answer that, start with the endpoint. If every threat could be stopped there, there would be less need for detection and response products such as endpoint detection and response (EDR). But attackers got better at evading even the most robust endpoint security, for example by abusing dual-use tools in living-off-the-land (LOTL) attacks.

The State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2026

This year’s State of Ransomware survey showed financial services and insurance providers handing over less money to attackers than it did a year ago. Median ransom demands fell by two-thirds and median payments continued a three-year slide. The recovery story was less positive. The sector took a week longer to recover than last year, and its typical recovery bill is double the median across all sectors.

Black October? What PHP2Shell Tells Us About the Future of Vulnerabilities

October was a busy month for AI and security, with the story that got the most attention being PHP2Shell. On 20th October the PHP security team announced an out-of-cycle release for two critical remote code execution flaws in the PHP interpreter (CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619), affecting every version of PHP, from 5.4 through 8.5.