Details of the case align with the investigation into ShinyHunters’ attack on FBI IT systems.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 16h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 13:01Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management 13:01From Automation to Infection (Part III): Naming, Measuring, and Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills 13:01Chinese Hacker Uses AI in South Korean…
Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management
Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP…
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…
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…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 15h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 12:31Amazon has an uncomfortably personal profile on you 12:31FBI announces yet another arrest allegedly connected to the FBI Jobs hack 12:31UAT-11985: AI-assisted AitM phishing targeting Taiwan 12:31AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing…
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.
FBI announces yet another arrest allegedly connected to the FBI Jobs hack
The FBI is doing another victory dance after arresting someone they allege assisted ShinyHunters with the FBI Jobs attack. Brian Krebs reports: Agents…
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…
AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
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…
The Third-Party Agent Problem: Why Security Built for AI You Chose Misses the Agents You Didn’t
In environments studied for the 2026 State of Agent Security Report, roughly 1,280 third-party products now embed AI. About 282 of them sit behind single…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 14h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 11:31FBI Arrests Ransomware Negotiation Firm Co-Founder in ShinyHunters Probe 11:31Context Over Alerts: SOC Evolution Strategy 11:31Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison 11:31It Wasn’t Me, It Was the AI…
FBI Arrests Ransomware Negotiation Firm Co-Founder in ShinyHunters Probe
FBI arrests Cypfer co-founder Edward Dubrovsky, now associated with CyberSteward, in the ShinyHunters investigation into the FBI jobs…
Context Over Alerts: SOC Evolution Strategy
Security operations centers face a fundamental challenge that more alerts cannot solve.
Insider Cyber Extortion Plot Against Industrial Firm Lands Engineer in Prison
The former core infrastructure engineer deleted admin accounts, reset hundreds of passwords, and demanded 20 bitcoin to spare the company’s servers.
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…
Ransomware Recovery Scheme Nets $11M Markup
A ransomware recovery operator has been exposed for running a scheme that generated $11 million in markups by secretly paying ransoms and reselling…
Anthropic AI agent gives fake murder tip to US cops in global breach
Georgia Wells and Joseph Pisani report: Rogue AI models have hacked companies and tried to break into government websites. Now one has submitted a fake…
Europol and US GAO Warn of Quantum Computing Threats
Europe’s leading law enforcement agency and the US government’s spending watchdog released reports this week urging organizations to accelerate adoption…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 13h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 10:31Oracle Health breach affects nearly 20M 10:31Three days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development 10:31Two characters open up a world of typosquatting opportunities in Chromium browsers 10:05IT Security News…
Oracle Health breach affects nearly 20M
Oracle Health has confirmed that a data breach impacted approximately 20 million individuals, marking a substantial increase from figures reported in…
Three days to TechCrunch Disrupt: What’s next for AI and software development
First AI gave us code completion, predicting the lines of code, functions, and boilerplate we needed based on what we’d already typed. Then came code…