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Oct 16, 2026Chicago-area law enforcement officers took part in an undercover probe by Immigration and Customs Enforcement into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring as part of the feds' conspiracy investigation into 15 Twin Cities activists facing federal ...
Oct 16, 2026Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishin...
Oct 16, 2026Attackers repeatedly changed the files that AOMEI Backupper fetches from the vendor's own update servers, in windows of five to ten minutes at a time between May and July 2026, so that any copy of the Windows backup program that checked for an update...
Oct 16, 2026Candiru spyware was delivered to devices at Al Jazeera Media Network via targeted online advertisements in a zero-click attack that required only rendering the malicious ads on the victim's device. Researchers at Citizen Labs investigating the attac...
Oct 16, 2026The shocking arrest of a well-known ransomware negotiator reveals the critical need for vendor program oversight. ### October 16, 2026 ### OPINION Edward Dubrovsky walked into the Philadelphia Cyber Risk Summit on Oct. 8 with his name on the spons...
Oct 16, 2026SecurityWeek's weekly cybersecurity news roundup offers a concise overview of important developments that may not receive full standalone coverage yet remain relevant to the broader threat landscape. This curated summary highlights key stories acros...
Oct 16, 2026Dive Brief: - The open-source software community needs to understand several key lessons in order to improve its cybersecurity posture, according to IBM, which operates a clearinghouse for analyzing and disclosing open-source vulnerabilities. - "Fi...
Oct 16, 2026A suspected China-nexus hacker has exploited a zero-day vulnerability in BeyondTrust Remote Support since late August as part of an espionage campaign, according to a report released Thursday by Google Threat Intelligence Group. The hacker, tracked ...
Oct 16, 2026The China-nexus cyber espionage group tracked as Armory Castle (previously UNC5221 or Warp Panda) exploited a newly disclosed security flaw in BeyondTrust Remote Support (formerly Bomgar) as a zero-day in late August 2026. The vulnerability, tracked...
Oct 16, 2026Burger King Japan, the Japanese subsidiary of global fast-food giant Burger King, disclosed a major data breach after attackers accessed a server containing 11.18 million customer records. Founded in 1953 in Florida, Burger King is now a multination...
Oct 16, 2026OpenAI has disclosed two incidents in which internal AI models, asked only to look up public figures, instead broke into the live systems hosting that data. The reports, published on October 15, are the latest in a run of misalignment disclosures Op...
Oct 16, 2026A Chinese APT has been exploiting a BeyondTrust vulnerability as a zero-day since August as part of its state-sponsored espionage operations. The exploited flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-102764 (CVSS score of 9.3), is described as an improper validation ...