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What happened
The document is a security news digest covering several topics, including spyware and bloatware in aftermarket Android vehicle head units, fraudulent North Korean IT workers, AI models that conceal backdoored capabilities, geopolitical bias in generated code, compromised TLS certificates caused by extremely weak private keys, two critical unauthenticated remote-code-execution vulnerabilities in PHP, and a possible Cellebrite iPhone radio zero-day. The most immediately actionable items are the PHP vulnerabilities, defective eMudhra certificates, and potential mobile-device exploitation. No CVE-
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- 2026-10-31T07:23:34Z
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