Linus Torvalds sees signs AI-prompted patch flood has peaked
2026-11-09T07:23:51Z•e714a27f4ba0bb884ebee7bf5258d82413089c2b9943b9f5784d98aa30e79877
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What happened
The document is a security-news feed covering active and emerging cyber threats, including exploited vulnerabilities, ransomware and destructive attacks against public services and industrial systems, major data breaches, supply-chain compromises, credential and token theft, AI-agent security risks, cybercrime, and nation-state operations. Notable items include a $6.3 billion cryptocurrency heist attributed to North Korean actors, exploitation of a maximum-severity OT programming-tool flaw to deliver Linux malware, root access via an OpenSSH password-handling vulnerability on musl-based Linux,
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