City council may be waking from its Oracle nightmare but the accounting hangover continues
Europe's largest local authority still cannot get auditors to vouch for its books as historic data problems linger
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AI-Powered Campaign Targets Hundreds of Online Retailers
A threat actor is using three AI harnesses for vulnerability research, exploitation, and attack orchestration. The post AI-Powered Campaign Targets Hundreds of Online Retailers app…
Windows 11 KB5124010 update released with 46 changes and fixes
Microsoft released the KB5124010 September 2026 non-security preview update for Windows 11 24H2 and 25H2, with 46 changes including Bluetooth improvements and the ability to remap …
Corp MDM Spyware Targets Logistics Firms, Steals New SMS and Redirects Calls
The logistics sector has become the target of a new malicious cyber campaign that distributes an Android spyware codenamed Corp MDM. According to Have I Been Squatted, the campaig…
Island Raises $400 Million at $6.4 Billion Valuation
The enterprise security firm has raised more than $1 billion since its launch in 2020; Evolution Equity Partners led the latest funding round. The post Island Raises $400 Million …
Meta ads steered Polish Android users into a premium-rate billing trap
CERT Polska linked 852 promotions to 17 Google Play apps capable of sending costly texts or starting recurring subscriptions
Malicious npm Packages That Evade Defenses
This is an impressive piece of malware. Its sophistication says nation-state to me, but there is no direct evidence and certainly no attribution.
OT Security Guidance: NIST Drafts Updated Guide, CISA/FBI Advise on ICS Integrators
Revision 4 of NIST’s operational technology security guide is open for public comments until November 30. The post OT Security Guidance: NIST Drafts Updated Guide, CISA/FBI Advise …
Secrets Sprawl Is an Identity Problem That AI Just Made Impossible to Ignore
AI coding agents are changing how quickly developers can build and ship software as well as how quickly credentials can become exposed. According to GitGuardian’s 2026 State of Sec…
Begin at the End: How to Enable Agentic Remediation
Agentic remediation is not an act of faith. We are talking about fixing known problems, not judgment calls about unfamiliar risk. The post Begin at the End: How to Enable Agentic …
HSBC decides Samsung Secure Folder and Android's Private Space are no place for a banking app
Customers say the unannounced change also cut off web access that relied on mobile authentication
CISA: Ransomware gangs now exploiting critical TeamCity flaw
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned federal agencies on Wednesday that ransomware gangs are now also exploiting a critical JetBrains TeamCity v…
SolarWinds Patches Critical RCE Flaws in Observability Self-Hosted
The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-28324 and CVE-2026-28325, can be exploited without authentication. The post SolarWinds Patches Critical RCE Flaws in Observability Self-Hos…
For MariaDB, LLMs are the new search engines to win over
Its vector search is ready, but coding assistants keep pointing developers toward other databases, says the foundation's chairman
Astrana Health Data Breach Impacts Private, Confidential Information
Hackers impersonated the company’s personnel and contacted its employees to gain access to Astrana Health’s servers. The post Astrana Health Data Breach Impacts Private, Confidenti…
OpenAI hacked Australian Medicare govt site, probed data providers
OpenAI agents targeted public data providers in multiple countries, probing some for vulnerabilities and exploiting a security weakness in an Australian government portal while per…
Experts question whether Salesforce demo breaches SAP API policy
For the German vendor, greater challenges may lie ahead, as rivals seek to control the user experience
17,000 URLs Reveal How ClickFix Turns Trusted Websites Into Malware Traps: Report by CTM360
ClickFix has become the most common way attackers get into enterprise networks, and it does it without an exploit, an attachment, or a file on disk. Our new global threat report tr…
US Court Sentences Armenian Man to Prison for Ryuk Ransomware Attacks
Karen Vardanyan has also been ordered to pay over $1.2 million in restitution to victims. The post US Court Sentences Armenian Man to Prison for Ryuk Ransomware Attacks appeared fi…
Government contractor exposed path to immigration records
IT took a shortcut when the boss was away, and it led to danger!
Microsoft fixes bug that broke Windows File History backup feature
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that breaks the built-in File History backup feature on some Windows systems after installing the September 2026 security updates. [...]
Critical WordPress Vulnerability Exploited Immediately After Disclosure
Tracked as CVE-2026-87902, the path traversal flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Critical WordPress Vulnerability Exploited Immediate…
OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The …
TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 t…
Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: …
Europe’s internet registry wants governance ‘correction’ because its ‘Executive Board’ is not the executive
RIPE NCC hopes members get aboard effort to tidy things up and give its CEO a vote
India’s outsourced software industry grows 9.5 percent to reach $239 billion
Software product development industry shrinks a little, but if AI has dented prospects, it’s not in these numbers
OpenAI's Astra model went for a drive and no one died
First LLM to pass test did it in a parking lot at snail's pace, at considerable expense, but it still counts for something
OpenAI agents ‘infiltrated Australian government website’
Canberra is fuming after AI lab sent the news to a generic unattended email address
Placeholder domain used in dev docs now serves ClickFix attacks
The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a placeholder in developer documentation and code examples, is serving a fake Cloudflare verification page that attempts to trick Win…