Decrypted: The UK Cyber Briefing
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GitLab's perfect-ten flaw is being exploited, and the fix hid in the runtime
October 30, 2026 · 4 minA maximum-severity GitLab flaw is now exploited, and Alpine Linux's candid account shows why a version number alone proved nothing. Also: a counterfeit Claude Code extension, the Binance theft, and poisoned models on Hugging Face.
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Ofcom's age-check shortlist: the question is what gets kept
October 30, 2026 · 4 minOfcom has shortlisted four ways to check a user is 16 for the under-16 social media ban. The Secure by Design question is what each leaves behind. Also: a second exploited Cisco VPN zero-day since August, and an Amadeus breach reaching…
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123 Reg says an AI-driven attack read its customer data
October 29, 2026 · 4 minGoDaddy-owned 123 Reg says an intruder read customer records on 18 September in its first AI-driven attack. We separate evidence from the company's own assessment, then cover an ESXi flaw used as a zero-day and Ofcom's age-check assessment.
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Bristol's schools platform ran four days after the alarm, and the lesson is isolation
October 29, 2026 · 4 minBristol City Council took four days to shut down a schools platform after spotting suspicious activity, and a ransomware group has now listed the council. The Secure by Design question is who can switch a shared system off, and how fast.
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The Budget's one-line promise on software liability
October 28, 2026 · 4 minToday's Budget pledges to consult next year on where liability for cyber breaches should sit. A single bullet point, but it goes to the heart of Secure by Design. Plus the Everest claim against PwC, and Britain's new AI security money.
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Arista's third exploited VeloCloud zero-day in four months, and who can reach your console
October 28, 2026 · 4 minArista has patched another exploited flaw in VeloCloud Orchestrator, the console that runs an organisation's SD-WAN. The real question for UK organisations is who can reach that console at all. Also: Symantec's captured AI agent that…
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Police data keeps leaking from suppliers, and the inspectors say contracts are the gap
October 27, 2026 · 4 minHM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services found that every attack on police data since 2021 hit an outside supplier, not the police. The Secure by Design fix starts at procurement. Also: Apple's CoreGraphics patch reaches…
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DreamHost resets email and FTP passwords, and a locked-out customer has to hear about it from someone else
October 27, 2026 · 4 minDreamHost has spent four days forcing email and FTP password resets and has not yet said why. The lesson for UK firms is about recovery paths and blast radius. Also: Magento stores infected despite patching, and an AI pen-testing tool…
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Node2Shell reaches .NET: Microsoft's emergency Brotli patches
October 26, 2026 · 4 minMicrosoft has shipped emergency .NET updates for CVE-2026-111497, the Brotli flaw behind Node2Shell. No exploitation in the wild is reported yet, but proof-of-concept code is public. The catch is the runtimes bundled inside your apps and…
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An abandoned app's updater could have run code on millions of machines
October 26, 2026 · 4 minResearchers took over the lapsed update domain of a dead Popcorn Time fork and found its updater would run anything it was sent, as the most privileged user. The Secure by Design lesson is cheap: sign your updates and plan for end of life.
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A text file in Downloads can hijack your AI coding agent
October 25, 2026 · 4 minForever Security found a planted AGENTS.md file steering a developer's coding agent into installing malware, and says there is nothing for the vendors to patch. Plus an abandoned update domain, a lab portal breach and Windows Server 2016's…
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PHP2Shell and Node2Shell: the day the web's engines both broke
October 25, 2026 · 37 minA Decrypted special. Two engine-level flaws, PHP2Shell and Node2Shell, were patched on the same Wednesday. One took parts of the British state offline as a precaution. Both were found by AI. Annabel and Jude on where the exposure really…

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