IT Security News: Afternoon roundup, 2026-10-10 Check Point reported global weekly cyberattacks jumped 48 percent year-over-year. A Chinese hacker targeted South Korean banks using AI agents. The FBI arrested a cybersecurity co-founder in a ShinyHunters probe. FBI arrested a Canadian…
`123456’ password used in massive Danish CPR data breach
Ritzau has more on the Denmark Central Person Register (CPR) breach: At least three accounts at the company linked to a major breach of Denmark’s CPR…
Anthropic Restricts Live Internet Access After Claude Evaluation Failures
Anthropic’s models kept working around the rules on the live internet. The company published the cases. Anthropic released a report on unintended actions…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 22h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 19:31A famous quantum effect can finally be predicted in real materials 19:017 Best Solutions to Manage Shadow AI Across the Enterprise 19:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 21h : 6 posts
A famous quantum effect can finally be predicted in real materials
Scientists have developed a powerful new way to calculate the Kondo effect, a strange quantum phenomenon that appears when magnetic atoms are embedded in…
7 Best Solutions to Manage Shadow AI Across the Enterprise
Discovering shadow AI is the part everyone talks about. Managing it is the part that actually reduces risk.…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 21h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 18:31Attackers Hijack Three ccTLDs to Obtain Google Certificates 18:31Global cyber attacks up 48% as ransomware and phishing climb, Check Point finds 18:01ASOS Confirms Data Breach Linked to Stolen Employee Credentials 18:01MonsterCloud Owner Charged…
Attackers Hijack Three ccTLDs to Obtain Google Certificates
Attackers compromised .gh, .sl and .as registries to obtain unauthorized HTTPS certificates
Global cyber attacks up 48% as ransomware and phishing climb, Check Point finds
Organisations worldwide faced an average of 2,803 cyber attacks per week in September 2026, up 16% on August and 48% on the same month last year,…
ASOS Confirms Data Breach Linked to Stolen Employee Credentials
The ASOS hack comes from the compromise of agentic marketing platform Simon AI, said the attackers
MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands
MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware demands behind clients’ backs, then charged them millions for the supposed recovery. Zohar…
Cyber Briefing: 2026.10.08
Welcome to Cyber Briefing, your daily source for all things cybersecurity. We bring you the latest advisories, alerts, incidents, and news every weekday.…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 20h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 17:31AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge 17:31Fake Ransomware Recovery Firm Charged Over $11M Decryption Markup 17:31Attackers Are Already Exploiting SonicWall’s Freshly Patched Max-Severity SMA1000 Flaw 17:00IT Security News Hourly…
AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge
AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge A growing number of security vulnerabilities are being discovered using artificial…
Fake Ransomware Recovery Firm Charged Over $11M Decryption Markup
The owner of a US cybersecurity company has been charged with running a ransomware recovery fraud that allegedly involved secretly paying attackers for…
Attackers Are Already Exploiting SonicWall’s Freshly Patched Max-Severity SMA1000 Flaw
Just three days after SonicWall shipped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability in its SMA1000 secure remote access appliances, attackers have…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 19h : 9 posts
9 posts published in the last hour 16:31Europol and US Spending Watchdog Sound the Alarm Over Quantum Threats 16:31Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD event 16:31Japan Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Hacker, Extradites Him to Germany 16:06IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-10…
Europol and US Spending Watchdog Sound the Alarm Over Quantum Threats
Europol and US Government Accountability Office urge faster transition to post-quantum cryptography
Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD event
Filigran has announced the speaker line-up for THREAD, its first annual event for the cyber defence and threat intelligence community, taking place in…
Japan Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Hacker, Extradites Him to Germany
A suspected member of the Qilin ransomware group has been arrested in Japan and extradited to Germany, where he is expected to face charges related to…
Public Exploit Reveals Critical AnyDesk Linux Vulnerability That Could Allow Root Access
Security experts have released a functional exploit demonstrating how a vulnerability in AnyDesk for Linux could be abused to gain the highest level of…
Cyber exec arrested in case allegedly tied to ShinyHunters hackers
Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports…
Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files
Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent…
Atlassian CVE-2026-21589 Exploited Hours After Public Disclosure
Attackers started scanning the systems vulnerable to the Atlassian flaw several hours after the researchers published the technical details and…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 18h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 15:01September 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Global Attacks Jump 48% as Phishing and GenAI Data Exposure Rise 15:01ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks 15:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10…