A user opens a browser tab, pastes data into a chat assistant, and nothing is installed.

A developer adds a coding assistant as an editor extension, and nothing shows up in the installed programs list.

Someone downloads a local model runtime, a program that runs models directly on the machine instead of sending data to an external service, because they were told not to send company data

Attackers took remote control of fridges and freezers at hundreds of French supermarkets on the night of October 11 and warmed them, forcing stores to throw food away, several retail chains said.

The attackers reached them through the controller that runs all of a store’s fridges and freezers, a device made by Danish company Danfoss that maintenance firms can manage remotely. Les Mousquetaires

Two of 31 newly disclosed flaws in Progress Software’s MarkLogic Server database could let an account given only some management privileges take administrator control of the server, the company says.

Progress published all 31 on October 12 and scored five of them critical. Fixes have been available since September 10, in MarkLogic 11.3.7 and MarkLogic 12.1.0.

Affected

GitLab has released patches for a maximum-severity security flaw impacting its Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that could result in arbitrary code execution.

“GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server via a specially crafted regular expression in a CI/CD

Low-cost Android smartphones have been shipped with malicious software baked into the device firmware, allowing bad actors to covertly install apps, conduct ad fraud, and turn devices into residential proxies.

The activity, which targets Android devices built on MediaTek platforms across several brands, is being tracked by Bitdefender under the moniker Midnight Mimosa.

The preinstalled

Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position.

Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.

The company said it took some systems offline as part of “precautionary measures.” Websites for all five of the grocer’s U.S. banners were down Monday morning.