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Oct 20, 2026A Chinese-speaking attacker has compromised hundreds of websites across the globe, looting from big fish like John Deere, SharkNinja, and engine manufacturer Cummins. Chinese-speaking hackers have largely outsourced a maelstrom of malicious activity...
Oct 20, 2026Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update. Quick machine recovery (QMR) lets IT admins fix critical boot failures with targeted Windows Upda...
Oct 20, 2026A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses since 2019. 40-year-old Chukwuemeka Victor Amachukwu (also known as Chukwuemeka Victor Eletuo...
Oct 20, 2026For agencies responsible for protecting Criminal Justice Information (CJI), meeting CJIS requirements means more than putting security controls in place. Those controls need to work across the systems staff use every day, and agencies need to be able...
Oct 20, 2026ConnectWise said it suspended access to its Cloud Backup service after a suspected supply chain attack targeting Microsoft 365 users was uncovered in an attack that was first detected on Wednesday. ConnectWise said services for SaaS Security and Clo...
Oct 20, 2026Palo Alto Networks researchers warned that ransomware operators have stepped up exploitation of a high-severity flaw in the company's GlobalProtect portal, months after it was first disclosed. The authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-...
Oct 20, 2026Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-110936 (CVSS v4 score: 8.4), could allow an attacker to...
Oct 20, 2026An 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 ...
Oct 20, 2026Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today. Since the incident began, thousands of users on the Downdetector outage tracking platform have reported issues with the Revol...
Oct 20, 2026Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States. Right before the cyberattack was disclosed, customers couldn't use websites, apps...
Oct 20, 2026French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute information-stealing malware. The attacker hijacked a developer's GitHub account to gain access to...
Oct 20, 2026Paradigm Healthcare Services has told the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that a data breach discovered last year affected more than 970,000 people. San Francisco-based Paradigm processes billing for Medi-Cal, California's Medicaid ...