COPENHAGEN, Denmark, 7 October 2026 – Heimdal today officially launches the “Cyber in 60” weekly video series in which Adam Pilton, a former cybercrime…
Insignary Launches Clarity AIR to Detect Undeclared Open-Source and AI-Written Code
Toronto, Canada, 8th October 2026, CyberNewswire
Meta’s Muse AI files away your friendships, arguments, and secrets
Meta’s Muse AI builds personal dossiers that would make the FBI jealous. Even people who never signed up can get caught in its files.
Gitea Patches 27 Security Flaws, Including Critical SSH Authentication Bypass and SSRF
Gitea has released security updates addressing 27 reported flaws across versions 28.0.0 and 28.1.0, including a critical SSH authentication bypass and…
ASOS links data breach to social engineering attack, credential theft
ASOS is sending updates to affected customers about the cybersecurity incident it suffered earlier this week, confirming that hackers accessed some…
Update Chrome and ChromeOS to fix critical security issues
Google has released a new update for the Chrome browser and ChromeOS. There are a lot of security fixes in them so don’t delay.
Solo Hacker Used AI Tools to Breach South Korean Financial Organizations and Steal Data
A suspected lone threat actor used an AI-powered penetration-testing tool called ARTEX to breach several South Korean financial organizations and steal…
Musician sent to prison for $10 million streaming fraud using AI bots
A North Carolina musician was sentenced to 18 months in prison for collecting more than $10 million in royalties from Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music,…
Royal Navy Service Member Charged with Spying for a Foreign Country
A serving Royal Navy member has been charged with spying for an unnamed foreign country after an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing London. Teddy…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-08 14h : 41 posts
41 posts published in the last hour 11:33Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws 11:33Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands 11:32UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as…
Anthropic Expands Claude Access for Vetted Cyber Teams as Glasswing Finds 129,000 Flaws
Anthropic on Tuesday said it’s expanding a program that allows vetted cybersecurity professionals to test its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) models…
Anthropic’s new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commands
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 5.5 model, designed for quick, repetitive workloads and speed-sensitive tasks, is now better at finding vulnerabilities and…
UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding
One breach, please, and make no mistakes
The cybersecurity community has seen examples of autonomous agents, built inside AI labs, attacking public infrastructure. How you prepare for agentic…
wolfSSH Patches 5 Security Vulnerabilities, Including Critical SSH Authentication Bypass
wolfSSL has released wolfSSH version 1.6.0, which addresses five security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw that could allow a man-in-the-middle…
100+ Ukrainian Websites Hacked to Install Lunex Stealer with ClickFix Lure
Over 100 hacked Ukrainian websites used fake Cloudflare checks to install Lunex Stealer and steal browser passwords, tokens and cryptocurrency wallets.
September 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics Infographic
September 2026 saw 181 confirmed cyber incidents, roughly one every four hours. Cybercrime drove 73.8% of attacks and espionage 19.1%. Malware led the…
How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs . Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March…
AI Will Replace Tasks, Not Analysts – Falgun Rathod | Leaders Talk
In today’s HOC Cybersecurity Leaders Talk, we feature Falgun Rathod, a cybersecurity professional, entrepreneur, and author of The…
Ofcom Probes Meta Over Safety Of ‘Instagram Instants’
Regulator begins first probe of Meta under Online Safety Act, challenging whether company sufficiently assessed safety of new feature
Rein Security Raises $25 Million to Guard AI Agents at Runtime
The cybersecurity startup will invest in product innovation, agentic research, and employee base expansion.
AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior,…
Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks
CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms
Exposed DarkSword iOS Servers Reveal Crypto Wallet Theft From Compromised iPhones
Exposed directories on five servers have revealed an operational DarkSword/Coruna exploitation platform built to compromise iPhones and harvest…