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Ransomware

A 16-year-old and 110 terabytes

Spanish police arrested a 16-year-old suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group as investigators took its leak site, five servers and at least 110TB of stolen data. Three suspects were arrested and a fourth, the alleged developer, has been identified.

OCTOBER 11, 2026
Vulnerabilities

Two hours after the write-up

Atlassian disclosed a critical file-read flaw in eight self-hosted products on Monday. On Tuesday a research firm explained how it turns into Jira administrator access in some setups, and honeypots saw attacks within two hours.

OCTOBER 7, 2026
Vulnerabilities

Patched by Wednesday, rebooting by Friday

Federal agencies had until 30 September to put Citrix's fix on their NetScaler gateways. By Friday the fixed build was crashing under a new attack. Citrix has now patched its third exploited NetScaler zero-day in a week, and CISA wants it in by Wednesday, with a forensic check, for a flaw Citrix describes as a denial-of-service bug.

OCTOBER 6, 2026
Vulnerabilities

Fixed in July, explained on Wednesday, attacked on Thursday

A flaw that Anthropic's Mythos model found in an open-source file server was patched 80 days before anyone was seen exploiting it. The attacks began the day after the researchers who found it published how the model had worked the exploit out, step by step.

OCTOBER 3, 2026
Vulnerabilities

The ninth time this year

Cisco says attackers are using a flaw in Catalyst SD-WAN Manager that lets a request with no login act as the admin user. CISA added it to its exploited list on Wednesday with a Saturday deadline. It is the ninth Cisco SD-WAN entry the catalogue has taken in 2026, and the seventh to name the Manager.

OCTOBER 1, 2026
Vulnerabilities

Fixed for the phones that did not upgrade

Apple patched an actively exploited CoreGraphics flaw on Monday in iOS 26.7.1 and two older macOS lines. Its own note says the attacks it knows of hit versions of iOS before iOS 27. The CVE does not appear in iOS 27's security notes, and CISA has given federal agencies until Friday.

SEPTEMBER 30, 2026
Data Breach

A zero-day, or a flaw on the list since June

ShinyHunters says it broke into the FBI's jobs portal with an unknown PeopleSoft flaw. The PeopleSoft flaw it is known to use has been on the federal must-patch list since 12 June, with a deadline three days later. Either answer is awkward, and the FBI has not yet said whose server it was.

SEPTEMBER 28, 2026
AI Security

Gemini guessed a password that worked

Google says its model reached three real companies during a security evaluation in May, stopped on its own, and did not need to be disclosed. It disclosed on Friday anyway.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2026
AI Security

Three researchers, one model, $6,500

A small team used a newly released frontier model to reach OpenAI's internal code repository, proved it with a harmless pull request, and got paid a bug bounty. The price is the story.

SEPTEMBER 18, 2026
Data Breach

The breach came through a known VPN flaw

Japan's Digital Agency lost about 246,000 records of personal data through a remote access device. The vulnerability was rated medium and was not new.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2026
Fraud

The request came from a real government domain

Revolut says an impersonator used a legitimate government email domain to file fraudulent data requests. The control that fails here is one almost every institution relies on.

SEPTEMBER 14, 2026
Opinion

Catch me if you can

The models that make headlines by breaking out may be the least capable ones. The strategy worth fearing is the one that never gets noticed at all.

SEPTEMBER 13, 2026
AI Security

Anthropic publishes what it stopped

A third misuse report describes blocked attempts at cyberattacks, surveillance and biological research, and argues the capability floor for serious attacks has dropped.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2026
Threat Intelligence

Japan's ransomware record has one entry point

A record 123 cases in six months, most of them at smaller companies, and the most common way in was the remote access appliance sitting at the edge of the network.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2026