October 2026

Day in the Life of a Cyber Research Communicator: From Threats to Takeaways

Day in the Life of a Cyber Research Communicator: From Threats to Takeaways 2026-10-01 at 17:00 By Karl Sigler Cybersecurity research, threat intel, and novel findings produce no shortage of information. Every day brings new vulnerabilities, malware campaigns, proof-of-concept exploits, threat reports, headlines, and predictions about what comes next. This article is an excerpt from […]

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16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested

16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested 2026-10-01 at 16:59 By Sinisa Markovic A 16-year-old is suspected of being the main operator of KillSec, a ransomware group that Eurojust says is responsible for almost 1,000 attacks worldwide. Seizure notice (Source: Eurojust) According to Eurojust, KillSec has been active since 2024. The group got into […]

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DeepKeep’s AI Lens flags coding agent data leaks and routes destructive commands for approval

DeepKeep’s AI Lens flags coding agent data leaks and routes destructive commands for approval 2026-10-01 at 16:57 By Industry News DeepKeep has announced AI Lens for Developers, a new extension to the company’s AI usage control and runtime protection modules to secure software developers and their coding agents that can write, modify, and execute code […]

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Exabeam brings AI-assisted security investigations to data that must stay on-premises

Exabeam brings AI-assisted security investigations to data that must stay on-premises 2026-10-01 at 16:50 By Industry News Exabeam has introduced a new wave of capabilities that bring the Agentic SOC to life in the cloud and on-premises environments, combining AI-driven investigation, execution, and governance. Analyst workflows alone can’t keep pace with machine-speed threats or the […]

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RadarFirst helps teams investigate AI bias, data exposure and unintended actions

RadarFirst helps teams investigate AI bias, data exposure and unintended actions 2026-10-01 at 16:39 By Industry News RadarFirst has announced the general availability of Radar AI Incident Management, a purpose-built solution that helps organizations investigate, manage, and document AI-related incidents. As organizations deploy AI across customer experiences, employee workflows, business operations, and decision-making processes, adverse […]

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Sophos uses agentic AI to show businesses which security fixes deserve funding

Sophos uses agentic AI to show businesses which security fixes deserve funding 2026-10-01 at 16:25 By Industry News Sophos has launched Sophos CISO Advantage, an agentic AI-enabled solution that connects security operations to security strategy. The solution gives organizations a picture of their cyber risk, a prioritized plan to reduce it, and measurable proof of […]

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AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals

AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals 2026-10-01 at 16:15 By Joshua Goldfarb As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, so-called virtual patching still comes down to defense-in-depth and strong application security fundamentals. The post AI Has Changed Attack Speed, Not Security Fundamentals appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek […]

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Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators

Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators 2026-10-01 at 16:00 By Threat Hunter Team China-nexus group behind Warlock is still exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities, attacking organizations in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries, hitting critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

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Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure

Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure 2026-10-01 at 15:55 By Ionut Arghire Under certain conditions, CVE-2026-73570 can be exploited via specially crafted emails without user interaction. The post Zimbra Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild Prior to Public Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original […]

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TIKTOUK: Tracing a WordPress Credential Collection Toolkit

TIKTOUK: Tracing a WordPress Credential Collection Toolkit 2026-10-01 at 15:41 By Maor Gabay TIKTOUK brings together WordPress probing, collection of exposed configuration data, recovery of encrypted email credentials, and JavaScript secret scanning. Its two Python components and Go-based Linux crawler turn website responses into structured results for a central hub: an HTTP service that distributes […]

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How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain

How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain 2026-10-01 at 14:45 By Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out […]

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OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates

OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates 2026-10-01 at 14:34 By OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A “core cluster of the activity,” going back to the first week of July, has […]

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CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV

CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV 2026-10-01 at 14:34 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score: 9.8), […]

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Armadin raises $255.5 million to expand AI offensive security platform

Armadin raises $255.5 million to expand AI offensive security platform 2026-10-01 at 14:16 By Industry News Armadin has raised $255.5 million in Series B funding co-led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Accel that brings the company’s valuation to over $2.5 billion. The round includes participation from new investors Bain Capital Ventures (BCV) and Redpoint. Existing […]

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Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network

Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network 2026-10-01 at 13:51 By Eduard Kovacs The US government continues its crackdown on Tren de Aragua over its ATM jackpotting scheme. The post Treasury Blacklists Most-Wanted ATM Malware Developer and His Network appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Tokenized assets don’t always mirror traditional markets, Dune finds

Tokenized assets don’t always mirror traditional markets, Dune finds 2026-10-01 at 13:50 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Dune found that tokenized markets show different trading patterns from traditional markets, with RWA value reaching $34.5 billion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack

Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack 2026-10-01 at 13:42 By Ionut Arghire The flaws were chained to hijack sessions, achieve remote code execution, and elevate privileges to root. The post Zammad Zero-Days Exploited in AI-Powered DIVD Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Bitcoin trapped below $86K as PCE changes cloud inflation reading

Bitcoin trapped below $86K as PCE changes cloud inflation reading 2026-10-01 at 13:30 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin erased its post-PCE gains as analysts cautioned that methodology changes complicated the lower-than-expected inflation reading. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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New Cisco SD-WAN zero-day exploited in-the-wild (CVE-2026-76504)

New Cisco SD-WAN zero-day exploited in-the-wild (CVE-2026-76504) 2026-10-01 at 13:18 By Zeljka Zorz For the fifth time this year, Cisco revealed attackers have exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-76504) in its SD-WAN solution in zero-day attacks. The vendor’s incident responders became aware of active exploitation of this vulnerability in September 2026, after getting pinged and resolving a […]

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