Roughly 700 French supermarkets were hit by the cyberattacks, for which no group has claimed responsibility.
Hackers Hacked European Market Cooling Units Set Temperature 50 Degree
HOC Shorts A massive cyber attack targeted industrial refrigeration controllers across nearly 700 European supermarkets—primarily in France. The…
Company Accused of Making $60 Million by Exploiting Sextortion Victims
A US-based digital forensics company is facing allegations that it collected at least $60 million from people seeking help with sextortion threats but…
Eight US States Sue OpenAI, Alleging ChatGPT Endangered Children for Profit
The attorneys general of eight US states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that the ChatGPT maker deceived and endangered the public,…
Ransomware Attacks Intensify: Criminals Shift Focus to Target Employees and Their Families
Guru Baran reports: Ransomware gangs are moving beyond locked files and stolen data. Criminals now threaten employees, executives, and their families to…
New ClickFix Attack Deploys Lorem Ipsum Malware Loader to Establish Remote Access
A ClickFix campaign uses the Lorem Ipsum Loader to install a Python-based tunneling implant, giving attackers a covert route into victims’ networks and…
Dangerous Deviation Detection: Catching the Agent Action Nobody Asked For
Key takeaways In the past year, 78 percent of organizations reported a confirmed or suspected AI-related security incident, according to Check Point’s…
Generative AI Data Leakage: Risks for Enterprise Teams
By HOC Team | Updated: October 2026 | Read time: ~18 min In April 2023, a Samsung engineer…
New PEERSTITCH Malware Targets FortiGate Firewalls and Hides Inside System Memory
PEERSTITCH, a memory-resident ARM64 implant deployed against FortiGate firewalls during a prolonged intrusion into a telecommunications managed service…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-15 15h : 26 posts
26 posts published in the last hour 12:32Work Documents and AI: What to Remove Before You Paste 12:32Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Power Self-Spreading AI Worms 12:32Q3 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics Infographic 12:32Google aims to make BigQuery spending on…
Work Documents and AI: What to Remove Before You Paste
Learn what to remove from work documents before using AI, including credentials, personal data, business secrets, and hidden content in uploaded files.
Anthropic Warns Small AI Models Could Power Self-Spreading AI Worms
Anthropic finds small AI models can set up inference servers across different hardware, raising concerns about future AI…
Q3 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics Infographic
Ninety-two days, 588 incidents, one attack roughly every four hours. This infographic distils the Q3 2026 cyber attacks statistics into the numbers that…
Google aims to make BigQuery spending on AI functions more predictable with token quotas
Google has made daily token quotas generally available for BigQuery’s generative AI functions to give enterprises a way to limit AI consumption by project…
Fake AI Attacks Spread Across US Companies: How MSSPs Can Stop Incidents Early
Attackers are impersonating popular AI products to distribute malware, steal browser sessions, and compromise business accounts. ANY.RUN linked 1,258…
Ransomware gets personal: ‘We-know-where-you-are kind of stuff’
37% of ransomware attacks involve psychological or physical threats, global survey found
Why AI Confidence Is Not Validation
AI is already part of digital forensics and incident response work, with or without a policy in place to govern it. The issue is that these tools are…
Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?
Organizations are reporting that employees face threats of stalking, physical violence, and abduction. But these alarming claims are hard to verify.
Drupal Patches Critical Core RCE Flaw with No-Login Path via Contributed Modules
Drupal core has a critical flaw in its Field UI module that could let an attacker run code on the site’s server, and fixes were shipped on October 14 in…
Q3 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics
In the third quarter of 2026, I recorded 588 cyber incidents. Cyber Crime accounted for 77.1% of motivations, Malware was the most common attack technique…
Microsoft Patches Record 1,413 Flaws, Including Exploited Windows Shell Bug
Microsoft on Tuesday shattered its own Patch Tuesday record by shipping patches for a whopping 1,413 vulnerabilities, including one that it said has come…
Microsoft Patches More Than 1,400 Security Flaws
Microsoft today issued updates to fix more than 1,400 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating systems and other software. Today’s epic patch…
An OpenAI Employee Allegedly Used a Chatbot to Help Plant a Recording Device at the Office
Chatbot prompts reveal the engineer’s alleged efforts to set up a covert listening device days before one was found in a meeting room used by high-level…
Largest-ever food destruction cyber-attack, Microsoft patches 1,411 flaws, Drones knock out Russia’s Yandex
French Supermarket Freezers Turned to Ovens, Ahold Delhaize Outage, Microsoft’s 1,411-Fix Patch Tuesday, AI Worm Debate, and Drones Hit Yandex Cloud…