Did Ukraine’s drone strikes on Russian data centers really knock bot traffic down by 90%—and what does that mean for online disinformation? This week on Hack5’s Threat Wire, Ali breaks down Cloudflare’s findings, revisits research showing how just 250 malicious documents could poison an AI model, and explores a critical Linux KVM escape vulnerability discovered with the help of AI.
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LINKS
🔗 Story 1: A New Kind of Linux Escape
https://vercel.com/blog/one-million-dollar-hacker-challenge-for-vercel-sandbox
https://pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-99999
https://x.com/PaulosYibelo/status/2112200668257665149?s=46
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-99999
🔗 Story 2: Bot Arms And Bot Farms
https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddling-ahead-of-us-midterms/5303234
https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/2110430142199644314
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-bot-activity-collapses-by-84-after-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-23546
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/2110430142199644314
🔗 Story 3: A Throw Back Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rg46Z6ZwCc
🔗 Story 4: BSides News
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/opencode-hack-exposes-api-keys-amid-ai-distillation-attacks/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/opencode-console-breach-may-have.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkgeq0k1wevo
https://zmain.info/blog/plex2shell
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-spy-device-in-office/
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@endingwithali →
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/endingwithali
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@endingwithali
Everywhere else: https://links.ali.dev
Want to work with Ali? [email protected]
[❗] Join the Patreon→ https://patreon.com/threatwire
LINKS
🔗 Story 1: A New Kind of Linux Escape
https://vercel.com/blog/one-million-dollar-hacker-challenge-for-vercel-sandbox
https://pwn.ai/blog/pwnescape
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2026-99999
https://x.com/PaulosYibelo/status/2112200668257665149?s=46
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-99999
🔗 Story 2: Bot Arms And Bot Farms
https://blog.cloudflare.com/yandex-outage/
https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/15/x-purges-13000-accounts-linked-to-suspected-meddling-ahead-of-us-midterms/5303234
https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/2110430142199644314
https://united24media.com/war-in-ukraine/russian-bot-activity-collapses-by-84-after-strikes-on-yandex-data-centers-23546
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/oct/13/ukrainian-strikes-russian-datacentres-online-disinformation-bots
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9y7l0pm8jkko
https://x.com/GlobalAffairs/status/2110430142199644314
🔗 Story 3: A Throw Back Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rg46Z6ZwCc
🔗 Story 4: BSides News
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/opencode-hack-exposes-api-keys-amid-ai-distillation-attacks/
https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/opencode-console-breach-may-have.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjkgeq0k1wevo
https://zmain.info/blog/plex2shell
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artificial-intelligence/openai-engineer-arrested-for-allegedly-planting-spy-device-in-office/
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Founded in 2005, Hak5's mission is to advance the InfoSec industry. We do this through our award winning educational podcasts, leading pentest gear, and inclusive community – where all hackers belong.