Security
OpenCode says a breach may have exposed some users' saved OpenAI, Anthropic and Google API keys
The open-source coding agent calls the incident a "large scale distillation attack" that hit about 1.4 percent of OpenCode Console users.
Sunday, October 18, 2026
Security
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup after attackers use it to break into Microsoft 365 tenants
Huntress says it has found at least 162 compromised tenants in its own environment. Microsoft has confirmed malicious activity tied to the backup service.
Security
Citizen Lab says an Israeli ad company delivered Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera devices through targeted ads
In the operation Citizen Lab calls AdFection, ads bought by Discover-Tech were used to fingerprint and track devices at scale and infect chosen targets without a single click.
Research
Claude traces the NSA's unexplained elliptic-curve seeds to a simple C random number generator
Anthropic says the 25-year-old origin of the ECDSA curve seeds makes a deliberate backdoor less likely, and it is donating the $36,864 bounty.
Research
Six AI agents chasing a £350 train refund made up excuses, leaked health details and sent 50 messages to an MP's office
Researcher Matilda Glynn-Henley warns of "agentic flooding" if autonomous assistants are deployed at scale.
Models
Three unannounced 'Aurora' model names reportedly appear in OpenAI's API, but there is no sign they work
A post on X listed aurora-blue-alpha, aurora-green-alpha and aurora-red-alpha without showing any successful request.
Business & Policy
Meta drops terms language that experts said could let it scrape publishers' sites to train AI
After a backlash, Meta says the crawling terms applied only to its ads and business products and do not change how it uses web crawlers.
Business & Policy
Anthropic reports a sharp drop in junior technical hiring as staff reorganize work around Claude
Junior hires in technical departments fell from 27 percent to 9 percent, and one in five surveyed employees said their job had shifted to "managing Claudes."