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Advantest confirms data stolen in ransomware attack
Advantest Corporation has confirmed that attackers stole sensitive personal data during a ransomware incident that occurred in February 2025.
September 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Global Attacks Jump 48% as Phishing and GenAI Data Exposure Rise
Key takeaways Organizations experienced 2,803 weekly cyber attacks on average in September, up 16% month over month and 48% year over year. Education…
PoC Exploit Released for Zammad Vulnerability Enabling Session Hijacking and Remote Code Execution
A proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit has been released for CVE-2026-102489, a critical vulnerability in Zammad that can expose active users’ session cookies…
Anthropic Launches Three-Tier Claude Cyber Access Program
Anthropic has launched a restructured Cyber Verification Program that divides access to Claude AI models into three distinct tiers, each calibrated to…
Japanase Media Company Nikkei Reveals Intrusions Attacking Users and Employees
Japanese media company Nikkei has disclosed two separate cyber incidents involving employee accounts on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. One of the…
Musician sentenced for $10M streaming fraud
A federal court sentenced a North Carolina musician to 18 months in prison for orchestrating a streaming fraud scheme that netted more than $10 million in…
Attackers Hide AI Prompt Injections Inside Phishing Emails
Barracuda finds phishing emails designed to manipulate both human users and AI assistants
Gartner Defines New ISOC Security Tool Category
Gartner has defined a new category of security tools called Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC), marking a significant shift in how the industry…
The trust gap that AI watermarking can’t close
By Alex Laurie, GTM CTO, Ping Identity Generative AI has made content creation effortless, but establishing where content originates – and whether it can…
Chinese Hacker Uses AI in South Korean Bank Campaign
Multiple South Korean financial institutions suffered data breaches in a campaign where a suspected Chinese threat actor deployed AI-powered pentesting…
CVE-2026-21589: Critical unauthenticated arbitrary file access in Atlassian products
Overview On October 5, 2026, Atlassian published a security advisory for CVE-2026-21589 , a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability affecting eight…
De Kalb County, Indiana fell prey to vendor impersonation billing
The Star reports that the DeKalb County government fell victim to a cybersecurity incident for the second time in little more than a year. This time, it…
From Automation to Infection (Part III): Naming, Measuring, and Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills
In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at an initial sample of 3,016 AI agent skills and showed how they were becoming a new supply-chain…
UAT-11985: AI-assisted AitM phishing targeting Taiwan
Cisco Talos Intelligence has identified an advanced persistent threat campaign targeting individuals affiliated with Taiwan-based research organizations…
SonicWall and Splunk Patch Critical Vulnerabilities
Critical and high-severity vulnerabilities could allow attackers to bypass authentication, execute arbitrary code, and elevate their privileges.
Amazon has an uncomfortably personal profile on you
Amazon thinks it knows your body, your family, and your life. You didn’t sign up for it, and we couldn’t find a way to opt-out.
Middle managers want tighter human oversight of AI than their bosses, TeamViewer research finds
Executives may be more relaxed about handing IT decisions to AI than the managers who answer to them, according to new research from TeamViewer. The study…
What Is Agentic Pentesting? What It Proves, and Where It Stops.
If you’re evaluating an agentic pentesting solution right now, you’ve probably heard the same pitch more than once: point it at a target, and it…
Hackers exploit critical Atlassian flaw after public PoC release
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) affecting multiple Atlassian product families, including Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket, is being exploited in…
Russia-Aligned UAC-0099 Evolves MATCHBOIL Malware
Russia-aligned UAC-0099 has steadily upgraded its MATCHBOIL downloader since 2024
Authorities seize sites selling hacked, stolen intimate images of 17,000 women and girls
The FBI and French law enforcement have seized two websites that sold hacked and stolen sexually explicit images and videos of young women and girls, and…
It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI Agent” May Not Avoid Liability Under New Senate Proposal
Odia Kagan of FoxRothschild writes: “It wasn’t me, it was the AI agent” may not help companies avoid civil or criminal liability under a new bipartisan…
Context Over Alerts: SOC Evolution Strategy
Security operations centers face a fundamental challenge that more alerts cannot solve.