Clear Infosec Threat Intelligence Bulletin – Oct 29th, 2026

Cyber Security News

State Bank of India Suffers a Customer PII Data Leak

Relatively small data breaches in India can turn quite serious, thanks to a sophisticated underground market for trading PII. Read more

TiDB Breach Exposes Flawed Cloud Security Assumptions

Cloud providers may be storing sensitive customer data, without either party knowing it. But when a provider is breached, the unseen information comes to light. Read more

PHP2Shell Bugs Signal Red Alert for Security Industry

Security teams are scrambling to remediate two critical PHP vulnerabilities following leaked details and reports of exploitation attempts. Read more

Hacker leaks 281 GB of data from Germany’s far-right AfD party

The AfD has confirmed that hackers breached its hosting provider. A leak site now claims to offer 421,179 of the party’s internal emails, and shows AI-written s… Read more

Krybit ransomware: what you need to know

Krybit is a fast-growing ransomware gang that was hacked by a rival, hit back, and is still extorting victims. Find out how it works, who it has targeted, and w… Read more

Best Practices

Two critical PHP flaws put the web on alert as emergency patches arrive

Organizations are scrambling to protect themselves following the disclosure of two critical vulnerabilities in commonly used code that po… Read more

Bank of America spent millions on anti-money-laundering tech but not enough to avoid a $12B fine

Bank of America has had to spend big on IT in response to an AI security audit and findings that its anti-money-laundering (AML) controls… Read more

Linux kernel gets a fix for a flaw that enabled attackers to escape VMs

The Linux kernel’s networking stack was found vulnerable to a guest-to-host escape attack, in which an attacker operating inside a virtua… Read more

Cyberattack AIs must be trained only on air-gapped systems hundreds of AI researchers say

Current security procedures for training AI models are inadequate, hundreds of AI researchers have warned governments and the AI communit… Read more

Malware evasion made easier with AI, but behavior still gives it away

Fresh research suggests recent panic over AI-generated malware may be overblown. Last month Anthropic detailed how Russia-linked cyber… Read more

New Threats and Vulnerabilities

Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hundreds of cases in which threat actors use… Read more

Attackers Hijacked Over 300 Tor Exit Relays to Intercept SSH Connections

Attackers took control of more than 300 Tor exit relays in early October and used them to redirect SSH connections to servers that stole login passwords, a rese… Read more

CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testing

AI agents being tested online reached the live systems of Indian organizations and read business records, including personal data and confidential material, CER… Read more

China-Linked Hackers Use ARTEX AI Agents in ConnectWise Supply Chain Attack

Microsoft on Wednesday disclosed that a China state-aligned actor dubbed Storm-0940 was behind the recent supply chain compromise of the ConnectWise Cloud Backu… Read more

Critical GitLab Flaw (CVSS 100) Could Allow Unauthenticated RCE Across 12 Years of Releases

GitLab released fixes on October 21 for a flaw that lets an attacker run code on a self-managed server without logging in, and it affects every version of the s… Read more

Patch Management

Microsoft Authenticator Flaw Let Permissionless Android Apps Steal Work Account Tokens

Microsoft has fixed a flaw in its Authenticator app for Android that let a malicious app with no permissions pose as a trusted Microsoft app, such as Teams, and… Read more

AI and Security

Red-team report found OpenAI utterly failed to monitor its agents during Hugging Face attack

An independent evaluation of OpenAI’s internal misalignment monitoring system revealed that the system was not fit for purpose during a period when the company… Read more