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The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 18:12 UTC Cybersecurity

An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign active since July 2025. According to Dutch e-commerce security company Sansec, the activity is designed to add a small…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 17:45 UTC Cybersecurity

PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compression library that the packages include. The flaw can let an attacker corrupt memory and potentially run code. PHP…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 15:52 UTC Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use Microsoft Teams' external chat creation feature to conduct impersonation scams…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 15:32 UTC Tech Market & VC

Anthropic, one of the leading artificial intelligence (AI) companies and the developer of the large language model Claude, has filed for an initial public offering (IPO), moving closer to becoming a publicly listed company. The company…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 14:22 UTC Tech Market & VC

Bengaluru-based social gaming platform Matiks has raised $10 million in a pre-Series A funding round led by General Catalyst. The round also saw participation from entrepreneur Ronnie Screwvala and existing investors Info Edge Ventures…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 14:06 UTC Cybersecurity

This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers run code remotely are showing up everywhere. Hackers are scanning for targets, some flaws are already being used in…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 13:23 UTC Tech Market & VC

Digital travel booking platform MakeMyTrip swung back into profit for the three months ending September, 2026 boosted by increased booking across all categories. The company reported a net profit of $1.8 million for the second quarter of…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 13:02 UTC Tech Market & VC

Lean teams rarely lack ambition. What they lack is the headcount to turn it into production-ready AI, from the engineers who build agents to the security staff who keep them in check. That is the gap Google Cloud’s next webinar, in…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 12:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

So Late in the Day by Claire Keegan is a short but thought-provoking work of literary fiction that explores relationships, regret, gender expectations, and the quiet ways people reveal their true character. The story follows Cathal, a man…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 12:20 UTC Tech Market & VC

Tata Communications on Monday said it plans to invest $450 million (about Rs 4,280 crore) for setting up a high-speed long-haul fibre network in India to connect AI data centres. The first phase of the programme will focus on the…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 11:57 UTC Tech Market & VC

A customer browsing a brand’s Instagram page late at night may have questions about a product, need help choosing the right option or want to know when an order will arrive. If the business cannot respond immediately, that moment of…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 11:52 UTC Cybersecurity

Two critical flaws in Wasmtime, a WebAssembly runtime that can be built into other software, could allow a malicious WebAssembly module to escape the sandbox intended to contain it, the project's maintainers say. An attacker would first…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 11:37 UTC Tech Market & VC

Why does someone who claims to love you also make you feel afraid, guilty, or unworthy? In Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men , author Lundy Bancroft explores the behaviour of abusive and controlling men…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 11:31 UTC Tech Market & VC

Healthcare technology company BioStack has raised $9.5 million in a seed funding round led by Peak XV, Afore Capital, DCVC, Emerson Collective, SV Angel, Verdict Capital, Streamlined Ventures, and Y Combinator. The round will support…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 11:23 UTC Cybersecurity

Every SOC struggles with a pile of alerts. Very few of those alerts explain how an attack started or how it progressed. Network data, like that from a network detection and response (NDR) platform, connects individual alerts into one…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC Tech Market & VC

Electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1.26 crore in the second quarter of FY27, reversing a net loss of Rs 154 crore in the year-ago quarter. Revenue from operations rose 63% year-on-year (YoY) to…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 09:54 UTC Cybersecurity

A rentable Android spyware kit called uCreator takes over Telegram and WeChat accounts by hiding its code inside working copies of the two apps, researcher Ovi found. It only reaches people who install one of these tampered copies, spread…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 09:11 UTC Tech Market & VC

A washing machine arriving at a recycling plant may look like a single product. For a recycler, however, its value depends on what is inside, which components are missing, how much material can be recovered, and what it will cost to…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 09:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Living with 88% locomotor disability, the National Award-winning founder of IDEA has spent seven years making one argument: persons with disabilities should be treated as entrepreneurs and job creators, not welfare recipients. Mallikarjuna…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 08:47 UTC Tech Market & VC

Every AI startup today starts from the same place. The same frontier models, the same open-source alternatives, the same rented GPUs. A two-person team in Bengaluru and a thousand-person incumbent buy them on nearly the same terms. So why…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 08:35 UTC Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a Microsoft 365 campaign that has been observed leveraging an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) relay to capture sign-in sessions and then replay the stolen tokens to break into email accounts at 79…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 08:24 UTC Tech Market & VC

For years, the media industry has operated in silos. Talent agencies managed stars, studios made films, platforms distributed content, and brands paid to reach audiences. Today, those boundaries are blurring. Creators are building their…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 07:49 UTC Cybersecurity

An automated campaign is using stolen GitHub tokens to plant workflows that print a repository's secrets into its GitHub Actions logs, which the attackers then download before deleting the runs. The attacks have succeeded in private…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 07:44 UTC Tech Market & VC

Advertising and discounts can attract customers, but getting them to return takes more than marketing. At TechSparks 2026 in Bengaluru, Natasha Tuli, Founder, CEO and Chief Formulator of Soulflower, spoke about the importance of building…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 07:12 UTC Tech Market & VC

YourStory presents the daily news roundup from the Indian startup ecosystem and beyond. Here's the roundup for Monday, October 26, 2026. Latest News Electric two-wheeler maker Ather Energy reported a consolidated net profit of Rs 1.26…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 06:52 UTC Tech Market & VC

What Indian users consider an ordinary conversation could be the toughest test for voice AI, and solving it could unlock applications worldwide. An AI voice can answer a question, confirm an order or help book a reservation. But can it…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

Nagendra Nagaraja, founder, CEO, and chairman of QpiAI, believes that artificial intelligence is fundamentally misunderstood. “I don’t want to use the word AI, I want to use the word intelligence modelling,” Nagaraja said during his…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 06:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

Senior living is evolving beyond simply providing safe, comfortable homes. For Sharad Gadsing, Founder, Cradle Of Life , the opportunity lies in rethinking what life after 55 can look like from thoughtfully designed homes and active…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 06:21 UTC Tech Market & VC

The next wave of India’s digital economy raises a different set of questions: who controls the layers through which consumers discover apps, access services and make payments? And how can India build for the next 500 million users without…

The Hacker News 26 Oct 2026, 06:03 UTC Cybersecurity

A malicious instruction file sitting in a developer's Downloads folder tried to make their AI coding agent install a known-malicious npm package, security firm Forever Security said in a report published last week. The company caught the…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 05:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

Getting around an Indian city has always been harder than it should be. Cabs were expensive, public transport was overcrowded, and for millions of daily commuters, the last mile remained unsolved. When Aravind Sanka, Pavan Guntupalli, and…

YourStory (India) 26 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Dear Reader, The AI boom is fuelling a datacentre expansion, but local communities are pushing back. In the UK, residents are raising concerns about noise, pollution, and blocked sunlight, putting the spotlight on the environmental costs…

The Hacker News 25 Oct 2026, 17:44 UTC Cybersecurity

A single hacked device on a Tailscale network can be used to gain root access to other servers it can reach, according to a security researcher who published the findings this week. The attack requires two things: Tailscale SSH set up to…

The Hacker News 25 Oct 2026, 17:19 UTC Cybersecurity

In an update, Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 said it's retracting its earlier assessment that the post-compromise activity targeting the European government agency involved the exploitation of the PHP2Shell flaws. "What researchers saw was an…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 13:45 UTC Tech Market & VC

Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Reserve Bank of India's Rs 169-crore data centre and Cybersecurity Training Institute in Bhubaneswar on Sunday, officials said. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, RBI Governor Sanjay…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 13:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Karnataka Chief Minister DK Shivakumar said on Sunday that the state government would take appropriate action if private institutions were found deliberately sidelining Kannadigas in job opportunities. In a post on 'X', Shivakumar said the…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 12:40 UTC Tech Market & VC

Gen Z is changing how India shops for beauty. For this generation, beauty is part of how they show up every day. They protect their skin before fixing it and try premium brands through minis, and they are taking beauty well beyond the…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 09:04 UTC Tech Market & VC

Five companies, including EAAA India Alternatives, SFC Environmental Technologies, and M K Sons Fine Jewels, are set to launch their initial public offerings (IPOs) next week, aiming to raise nearly Rs 2,600 crore in the primary market…

The Hacker News 25 Oct 2026, 06:54 UTC Cybersecurity

OpenAI has announced plans to conduct frontier model training with no live internet access, as it resumes reinforcement learning (RL) training and internal inference of its most advanced AI models. "Based on the current state of alignment…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 06:24 UTC Tech Market & VC

India’s payments ecosystem has shown that financial infrastructure can operate at enormous scale. But as fintech companies expand into cross-border business payments and adopt AI, they face a different set of challenges. At TechSparks…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 06:23 UTC Tech Market & VC

India has made digital payments as simple as scanning a QR code. The next opportunity lies in using payments to connect consumers with relevant financial products and help businesses address the challenges of growing online. At TechSparks…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 06:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 1,020 posts, we featured an art festival, <a…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 05:58 UTC Tech Market & VC

Lateral Sparks, the weekly quiz from YourStory, tests your domain knowledge, business acumen, and lateral thinking skills (see the previous edition here ). In this 255th edition of the quiz, we present issues tackled by real-life…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 03:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

Myntra’s Big Fashion Festival (BFF) gives brands an opportunity to reach shoppers across India. This year, the event features 21,000 emerging brands and labels, including 13,000 participating for the first time, and more than eight million…

YourStory (India) 25 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Dear Reader, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that the commerce ministry is identifying " AI-proof " professions where artificial intelligence enhances efficiency rather than replaces workers. Addressing Indian researchers and students in…

YourStory (India) 24 Oct 2026, 13:55 UTC Tech Market & VC

The commerce ministry is identifying professions less vulnerable to artificial intelligence (AI) to prepare for a fast-changing technological landscape and seize opportunities for India to emerge as a global leader, Union Minister Piyush…

The Hacker News 24 Oct 2026, 11:03 UTC Cybersecurity

LiteLLM on Friday revealed that an Agent Platform master key accidentally published to a public GitHub repository in late May 2026 ultimately allowed the threat actor to push a malicious version of the popular Python package. "On May 27…

The Hacker News 24 Oct 2026, 10:36 UTC Cybersecurity

Google has updated its privacy policy to spell out that using personalized artificial intelligence (AI) features in Search or Gemini could allow the company to serve targeted ads to users based on their activity on other connected Google…

The Hacker News 24 Oct 2026, 09:04 UTC Cybersecurity

Between November 2025 and March 2026, the Dutch security firm Eye Security pushed more than 2 million updates to computers it did not own to switch off a background updater that it said could have allowed an outsider to take over the…

The Hacker News 24 Oct 2026, 08:45 UTC Cybersecurity

A memory-corruption flaw in Google's Brotli decoder sits in many programs that unpack Brotli-compressed data, among them Bun, Microsoft's .NET, the Python Brotli and brotlicffi packages, and Envoy proxies set up to decompress Brotli…

The Hacker News 24 Oct 2026, 06:25 UTC Cybersecurity

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two vulnerabilities impacting Collabora Online Built-in CODE Server and Arista VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO) to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)…

YourStory (India) 24 Oct 2026, 05:49 UTC Tech Market & VC

Launched in 2014, PhotoSparks is a weekly feature from YourStory, with photographs that celebrate the spirit of creativity and innovation. In the earlier 1,020 posts, we featured an art festival, <a…

YourStory (India) 24 Oct 2026, 02:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

For most deeptech entrepreneurs, the hardest lesson is not solving complex physics but overcoming their own technical fascination. Professor Satya Chakravarthy, Founder and technical lead of The ePlane Company, explained this clearly at…

YourStory (India) 24 Oct 2026, 02:15 UTC Tech Market & VC

India's restaurant industry is attracting serious capital, but building a profitable restaurant remains one of the most difficult businesses to crack. According to Lavanya Jayashankar, Founder and CEO of Hotshare, an F&B investment…

YourStory (India) 24 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Dear Reader, Cybercriminals wasted little time turning a software disclosure into an opportunity. Cloudflare detected millions of attempts to exploit vulnerabilities in PHP soon after they were made public, underscoring how quickly…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 18:50 UTC Cybersecurity

Diplomatic organizations in Central Asia have been targeted by a sophisticated new Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) bootkit called BlackX. The activity, which singled out diplomatic entities in Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 17:54 UTC Cybersecurity

Ruby has released versions 4.0.9, 3.4.12, and 3.3.13 to fix three bugs in Onigmo, the regular expression engine built into the language. The bugs lie behind four critical security flaws that GitLab patched over the past month. GitLab found…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 17:50 UTC Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven intrusion ecosystem run by affiliates of the INC and The Gentlemen ransomware groups. Central to the operation is an "Autonomous Red Team Kill Chain…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 14:02 UTC Tech Market & VC

Venture capital funding for Indian startups saw a steep decline in the third week of October, primarily due to a lower number of deals and the absence of any large-value transactions. Venture capital funding during the week stood at just…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 13:50 UTC Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a large-scale campaign that has targeted exposed network edge devices such as Fortinet FortiGate and Palo Alto Networks GlobalProtect firewalls. "Artifacts from this investigation also…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 13:43 UTC Tech Market & VC

The global shortage of memory chips has driven up costs, placing a huge strain on electric vehicle makers in the country. Bengaluru-based Ultraviolette—which produces high-performance electric motorcycles—says it will not pass on the high…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 12:10 UTC Tech Market & VC

Information has always shaped human civilisation. From ancient stories and religious texts to newspapers, television and social media, the way people share information influences what they believe, how they make decisions and whom they…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

The deeptech sector in the Indian startup ecosystem has emerged out of the shadows and carved a niche for itself. Many aspects are falling in place for the growth of deeptech startups, and despite various challenges companies from India…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 11:47 UTC Tech Market & VC

Anxiety, distraction and overthinking can make everyday life feel overwhelming. In Mindful Thinking: Simple Ways to Let Go of Your Anxiety, Boost Your Productivity and Rewire Your Thoughts , technologist and mindfulness coach Prithvi Raj…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 11:32 UTC Tech Market & VC

From remote monitoring and early disease detection to tools that help frontline health workers make better decisions, startups are developing solutions to address gaps in healthcare delivery. The bigger challenge, however, lies in…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 11:25 UTC Cybersecurity

PHP has warned of another way an attacker could run code on a web server, two days after it shipped emergency fixes for the critical PHP2Shell flaws. The new issue, assigned CVE-2026-115560, affects only web applications configured in an…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 11:11 UTC Cybersecurity

The Russian state-sponsored hacking group Sandworm teamed up with another threat actor to carry out a destructive wiping attack targeting a Ukrainian logistics company last year. According to ESET, the attack involved UAC-0099 (aka Earth…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 09:55 UTC Tech Market & VC

YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors. Funding news GVFL leads Rs 3.7 Cr seed funding round in SpectraGaze Systems GVFL has led a Rs 3.7 crore seed round in Ahmedabad-based SpectraGaze Systems…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 09:36 UTC Cybersecurity

Pillow, the most widely used image library for Python, can be made to run operating system commands on a server by specifying the name of a file it is told to open. The flaw, CVE-2026-112900, is in the way Pillow handles EPS images, which…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 08:35 UTC Cybersecurity

AI agents paying for API calls with the x402 SDKs could sign a payment for their full balance of a supported token if a malicious API asked for it, security firm V12 said on October 22. The cause was the SDKs' default client, which set no…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 08:04 UTC Tech Market & VC

Ask a room of developers about agents today and you will get plenty of answers. Almost everyone has built one, and most have a demo they are proud of. The harder question is what happens after that, when the agent has to hold up against…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 07:50 UTC Cybersecurity

Malicious Brotli data can make an application on an official build of Node.js run attacker-supplied code, security researchers at Imperva have demonstrated. Their "Node2Shell" proof of concept ran code on the official Node.js 24.22.0 image…

The Hacker News 23 Oct 2026, 07:40 UTC Cybersecurity

Threat actors have been observed unsuccessfully attempting to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities to rope infected systems into a Mirai botnet variant called Potassium, as it emerges that weaponizing the flaws may be…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 07:29 UTC Tech Market & VC

Every year, thousands of families in Bihar move from one place to another in search of employment. A significant number of these families work at brick kilns. For them, migration is not simply about changing locations. It means changing…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 07:05 UTC Tech Market & VC

Markets regulator Sebi has cautioned investors against fraudulent WhatsApp stock-tip groups that use 'astroturfing'–fake endorsements and profit claims–to create a false impression of credibility and lure investors. In a statement, Sebi…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 07:03 UTC Tech Market & VC

Shares of Tonbo Imaging India, a defence electronics maker, on Friday listed with a premium of 66% against the issue price of Rs 700. The stock made its debut at Rs 1,162 apiece, registering a premium of 66% from the issue price on the…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 06:31 UTC Tech Market & VC

As AI-generated creators and near-identical AI visuals flood social feeds, the question of what is left for humans to do has become hard to avoid. At TechSparks 2026 , Chandrika Deb, Country Manager, India, Canva, offered a clear answer…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 05:05 UTC Tech Market & VC

Apple is learnt to have exhausted the first week’s stock of its most expensive iPhone, the iPhone Duo, which is scheduled to go on sale in India on October 23, sources aware of the development said. Apple Stores in BKC (Bandra Kurla…

YourStory (India) 23 Oct 2026, 02:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

Dear Reader, Shiprocket expands into the food commerce market. The company’s AI-native commerce platform fastrr has partnered with Vegorama Group, which operates Punjabi Angithi, and Bikkgane Biryani, to help the restaurant brands manage…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 19:05 UTC Cybersecurity

Attackers are exploiting a zero-day SQL injection flaw in Arista's VeloCloud Orchestrator (VCO), the central management system for VeloCloud SD-WAN networks, the company said in an advisory on October 22. The flaw lets anyone who can log…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 18:12 UTC Cybersecurity

eMudhra, an Indian certificate authority (CA), will withdraw from its global SSL/TLS certificate business, its board decided on Thursday. The decision came five days after a researcher reported recovering the private keys of eight of its…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 17:45 UTC Cybersecurity

This week has already been rough for cybersecurity. Critical PHP and GitLab RCE flaws, serious Linux security bugs, compromised eMudhra certificates, a Node.js RCE flaw, a hacked LiteLLM release, and hundreds of hijacked Tor relays. That's…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 17:04 UTC Tech Market & VC

Bengaluru-based digital trust company eMudhra has decided to exit its global SSL/TLS certificate business following a security incident involving weak cryptographic keys that prompted action from Google and Mozilla. In a regulatory filing…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 17:01 UTC Cybersecurity

Linux servers running KSMBD, the kernel's built-in SMB server, are exposed to two publicly reported remote code execution flaws rated 9.0 by Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative, with no fix yet in the mainline kernel. One of them…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 16:12 UTC Cybersecurity

Social media giant Meta was ordered to pay 25 billion in penalties by a New Mexico court on Wednesday as part of a data privacy lawsuit that sprang from the company's Cambridge Analytica data scandal, which came to light in 2018. According…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 13:50 UTC Tech Market & VC

Food and grocery delivery platform Swiggy narrowed its net loss by 15.6% year on year (YoY) in the second quarter of FY27. Its revenue rose 36% during the same period. The company reported a loss of Rs 922 crore in Q2 of FY27, compared…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 13:38 UTC Cybersecurity

INTERPOL on Thursday announced that a coordinated law enforcement action has disrupted 10,909 malicious networks and recovered more than $105 million in illicit funds. In tandem, the effort saw law enforcement agencies from 21 countries…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 13:32 UTC Tech Market & VC

Saying no can be surprisingly difficult, especially when you worry about disappointing others, damaging relationships or being perceived as selfish. Whether it is agreeing to extra work, accepting social invitations you would rather…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 12:00 UTC Tech Market & VC

TravClan, a traveltech startup, has raised $5 million in funding from Flipkart and August One, along with debt financing from Trifecta Capital. The startup said it will use the funds to expand its global supply network, enhance its…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 11:45 UTC Cybersecurity

Right now, there is probably an AI agent running on a laptop somewhere in your network. It stores API keys and database passwords, can access your internal systems, and works without anyone watching. Nobody reviewed its access. Nobody owns…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 11:15 UTC Cybersecurity

Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider Railway on Wednesday disclosed "anomalous activity" related to systems that store customer environment variables. Upon further investigation, the company found that an unauthorized third party may have…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 10:44 UTC Cybersecurity

A flaw in the OpenCode AI coding agent allowed a malicious or hijacked MCP server to run code on a developer's Windows or WSL machine when the developer signed in. OpenCode connects to MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers to add outside…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 09:52 UTC Tech Market & VC

YourStory brings you today’s headlines with the latest developments across sectors. Featured stories Meet the ‘Flower Lady of Manipur’ Chokhone Krichena, founder of Manipur-based social enterprise Dianthe, is helping over 300 women farmers…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 08:28 UTC Cybersecurity

LiteLLM on Wednesday disclosed that threat actors compromised "multiple independent security controls" to push a malicious version of the Python package containing a credential stealer and a backdoor. On October 21, 2026, LiteLLM's release…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 08:25 UTC Tech Market & VC

Shiprocket’s AI-native commerce platform, fastrr, has entered the food commerce segment through partnerships with Vegorama Group, which operates Punjabi Angithi, and Bikkgane Biryani. The partnerships come as restaurant brands explore ways…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 08:03 UTC Tech Market & VC

Defaults are inevitable. For the past few years, we have been hearing about predictive analytics that can identify a borrower who is going to default before the default actually happens. Time and again, we have seen the limits of this…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 07:47 UTC Cybersecurity

Node.js released security updates on October 21 for its three supported release lines, 22.x, 24.x and 26.x, fixing 10 flaws. The most serious is a bug in the Brotli decompression code that Node.js bundles, which the project says can allow…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 06:38 UTC Cybersecurity

A remote attacker who has not logged in can crash many HTTP/3 web servers with a single connection, security firm FoxIO disclosed, releasing working proof-of-concept code. By sending a small batch of compressed HTTP headers that expands in…

The Hacker News 22 Oct 2026, 06:34 UTC Cybersecurity

Amazon's Threat Intelligence team on Wednesday said it detected an attempt to exploit the newly disclosed PHP2Shell vulnerabilities dating back to October 17, 2026, against its MadPot honeypot service, as the flaws come under broad…

YourStory (India) 22 Oct 2026, 05:30 UTC Tech Market & VC

Chapter Home, a home and kitchen consumer brand, has raised Rs 63 crore through a mix of equity and debt at a valuation of nearly Rs 1,000 crore. The funding round saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Stride Ventures…