October 2026

The situation illustrates a trend toward using AI and deterministic validation to identify flaws and exploitability, and provide a risk assessment.

In this video interview, Nick Kakolowski, senior director for CISO research at IANS, talks AI: budgets, ROI, and changes inside security teams.

The FBI has removed an Accenture contractor over a data breach that exposed personal information of thousands of bureau employees.

The post FBI Blames Contractor’s Missed Patch for ShinyHunters Breach appeared first on SecurityWeek.

An alleged leader of Tren de Aragua’s ATM jackpotting activities, Canelon Aguirre was on the FBI’s top 10 most wanted list since March 2026.

The post FBI Arrests ‘Most Wanted’ Developer of Ploutus ATM Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Aguirre was added to the FBI’s “Top 10 Most Wanted Fugitives” list in March, becoming the first cybercriminal added to the list.

The personal data of at least 68,000 people was reportedly exposed in breaches of at least seven financial institutions, with officials saying they believe a Chinese cybersecurity tool was used to hack the banks’ systems.

Osaka Metropolitan University said on Tuesday that the outage left its internal network, email and a range of administrative and academic systems unavailable.

CERT-UA found fake Cloudflare verification pages that led visitors into a now-familiar ClickFix trap. This time the goal was to infect machines with an infostealer.

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a “human-operated phishing platform” that impersonates advertising products for artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, OpenAI ChatGPT, Perplexity, Meta Muse, and Manus.

The products, which claim to offer campaign optimization, spend audits, and business-account connections, are designed with one goal in

Linux backdoors targeting telecom and network appliances in South Korea and Taiwan have been disguising their traffic as email services and seemingly legitimate processes to blend in and evade detection.

Threat actors are known to name their malicious software after a legitimate operating system component or a process as a defense evasion measure. By borrowing the name of a real binary, it may