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The worst week in cybersecurity history... so far
It was the worst week in cybersecurity history. So far.
Fireship’s Code Report (3 November 2026) rounds up four disasters in a single week: Cursor shipped a backdoor; Polymarket got drained; North Korea pulled off the largest theft in human history; and Anthropic showed an unreleased Claude model can get root on any unpatched Linux server. Four stories, four different kinds of failure, one very bad week.
The running joke in the comments is that every week is now the worst week yet — and the punchline writes itself: next week will be worse.
Conclusion: cybersecurity is not a war. It is a blooper reel with a body count.
Read the original at Fireship (The Code Report)
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