Remember, remember the fifth of November

The Talos Threat Source newsletter highlights recent security developments: a high-severity Linux privilege-escalation flaw being exploited by ransomware gangs, large-scale data breaches affecting millions (Conduent and a Polish loan platform), privacy risks from commercial location-data brokers, and a list of prevalent malware file hashes and detections observed in telemetry; the report is a situational roundup for analysts rather than a deep technical investigation.