October 2026

Ex-OpenAI Worker Accused of Bugging Conference Room Planned to Fly to Saudi Arabia, Prosecutors Say

Ex-OpenAI Worker Accused of Bugging Conference Room Planned to Fly to Saudi Arabia, Prosecutors Say 2026-10-20 at 15:33 By Associated Press Abdulrahman Alfozan’s wife and young son also left the country the day after the 35-year-old Saudi national’s arrest. The post Ex-OpenAI Worker Accused of Bugging Conference Room Planned to Fly to Saudi Arabia, Prosecutors […]

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Attackers exploit Siemens Software Center flaw in active ClickFix malware campaign

Attackers exploit Siemens Software Center flaw in active ClickFix malware campaign 2026-10-20 at 15:23 By Sinisa Markovic Siemens has confirmed the active exploitation of CVE-2026-110936, a DLL side-loading vulnerability in Siemens Software Center, the company’s tool for downloading, installing and managing its software. Siemens first published its security advisory on 15 October 2026, giving the […]

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Quarantined, but still on your calendar: The explosion of invite-based attacks

Quarantined, but still on your calendar: The explosion of invite-based attacks 2026-10-20 at 15:18 By Zeljka Zorz There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. Sublime recorded a 1,216% month-over-month increase in August 2026, and the first […]

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Lloyds and Barclays among UK banks named in crypto transfer complaints, advocacy group says

Lloyds and Barclays among UK banks named in crypto transfer complaints, advocacy group says 2026-10-20 at 15:13 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz UK banks are facing scrutiny over crypto transfer limits and bans as Stand With Crypto reports thousands of complaints ahead of the country’s 2027 regulatory regime. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com […]

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WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators

WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators 2026-10-20 at 14:41 By WhatsApp’s help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who could no longer delete their accounts, even though WhatsApp’s own privacy […]

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Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns

Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns 2026-10-20 at 14:32 By Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go’s certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate certificate authority keys. Programs built on the new release will refuse connections to sites and services […]

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Microsoft Targets Rogue AI Agents With Dynamic Permissions, Risk Scoring

Microsoft Targets Rogue AI Agents With Dynamic Permissions, Risk Scoring 2026-10-20 at 14:30 By Eduard Kovacs Microsoft says companies should treat AI agents as insiders, and is adding controls that grant access per task and tighten it as an agent’s risk rises. The post Microsoft Targets Rogue AI Agents With Dynamic Permissions, Risk Scoring appeared […]

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Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader

Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader 2026-10-20 at 14:06 By The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Symantec Threat Hunter Team, which is […]

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ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident

ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident 2026-10-20 at 13:56 By ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing application credentials, as it continues to respond to a security incident that led to unauthorized access to application identities associated with Cloud […]

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Teradata expands AI data security with post-quantum protection and immutable backups

Teradata expands AI data security with post-quantum protection and immutable backups 2026-10-20 at 13:47 By Industry News Teradata has announced new privacy, security, and resiliency capabilities designed to address one of the defining challenges of enterprise AI: how sensitive data is protected, who and what can access it, and whether it remains available and recoverable […]

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Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei

Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei 2026-10-20 at 13:35 By Ionut Arghire The compromised information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. The post Hackers Steal 1.8 Million Records From Nikkei appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware

Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware 2026-10-20 at 13:23 By An attacker used a contributor’s GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud’s command-line tool on Monday, October 19. The account had been hijacked, and the new files were a build designed to steal secrets stored […]

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Extend Verify helps AI agents flag suspicious documents before acting

Extend Verify helps AI agents flag suspicious documents before acting 2026-10-20 at 13:08 By Industry News Extend has announced Extend Verify, a document fraud detection API that helps developers and AI agents assess the integrity of documents before using them to make decisions. Much of the work businesses want AI agents to perform begins with […]

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US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace

US Army is developing AI agents that could strike enemy networks and vanish without a trace 2026-10-20 at 13:03 By Sinisa Markovic The US Army is looking for AI agents that can slip into an adversary’s network, find their target, copy themselves onto nearby tablets and computers, and then erase themselves before anyone notices. Over […]

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Swallowtail: Russian Espionage Group Targets Defense Firms in Two NATO Countries

Swallowtail: Russian Espionage Group Targets Defense Firms in Two NATO Countries 2026-10-20 at 13:00 By Threat Hunter Team Russian group stole credentials and tunneled into the network during a two-month intrusion at a naval shipbuilder. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

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Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job

Microsoft wants to limit AI agents’ permissions when they stray from the job 2026-10-20 at 12:55 By Anamarija Pogorelec Microsoft’s Guardian Agents in Project Perception adapt as agent activity, risk, security context and organizational policy change. They help security teams understand why risk changed, investigate relevant evidence, recommend or apply containment measures and use what […]

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