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Oct 16, 2026Three weeks before Americans vote in the 2026 midterm election, fraudsters are borrowing candidate names, logos and slogans to collect fake donations and harvest personal data, the FBI warned. "The FBI warns the public that scammers could exploit th...
Oct 16, 2026Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week. Cadence Riddle, a cybersecurity researcher at Fortr...
Oct 16, 2026A suspected advanced threat actor has been observed exploiting a security flaw in Fortinet FortiOS to deliver a previously unreported memory-resident ARM64 malware known as PEERSTITCH. The attack involves the exploitation of CVE-2025-61624 (CVSS sco...
Oct 16, 2026BeyondTrust warned customers on Thursday to patch a critical flaw in its Remote Support (RS) that has been exploited in zero-day attacks since late August. Remote Support is the company's enterprise-grade support solution that helps IT service desks...
Oct 16, 2026More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over year, according to Netscout's DDoS Threat Intelligence Report. ### Large attacks and distributed targeting strain defe...
Oct 16, 2026US employers posted 235,786 cybersecurity jobs from January through September 2026. That is the lowest total for those months in the four years that staffing and workforce intelligence firm CyberSN has tracked. They pulled the listings from job data ...
Oct 16, 2026David Fuhr, CTO at intcube, talks about a security cohort for public administration, where 27 municipalities hardened Windows Server and Active Directory together over 12 weeks. This Help Net Security interview covers how a cohort works, with weekly ...
Oct 16, 2026A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer it runs on. A researcher demonstrated the leak against Vercel's live cloud sandboxes, and Vercel confirmed it. The flaw, now...
Oct 16, 2026The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth. ### October 15, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE TORONTO, Oct. 14, 2026 — SecTor, Canada's largest cyb...
Oct 16, 2026Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime. ### October 15, 2026 ### PRESS RELEASE LOS ANGELES, Oct. 15, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — There ...
Oct 16, 2026Researchers say that mercenary hackers laced ads with zero-click exploits that installed sophisticated malware on the devices of targeted individuals when they did nothing other than load a website or open an installed app. The finding, published Th...
Oct 15, 2026Someone built a tool to steal data, then decided it should scare the victim for fun. Yes, that's an actual feature. And somehow, it fits right in with this week's security stories. The rest gets interesting in different ways. A small permission can ...