IT Security News: today roundup OpenAI terminated three safety researchers for sensitive policy violations. US and French authorities seized domains and arrested an admin. Google partnered with Constellation on nuclear energy for AI power. Ethical hackers discovered 32 zero-day flaws…
FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm
Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 01h : 6 posts
6 posts published in the last hour 22:02The Department of Know: South Korean bank hacks, agents target Wikipedia, ransomware recovery fraud 22:01Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks 22:01AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with…
The Department of Know: South Korean bank hacks, agents target Wikipedia, ransomware recovery fraud
Read the full stories at CISOSeries.com . This week’s Department of Know is hosted by Rich Stroffolino, with guests Derek Fisher , Director of the Cyber…
Chinese Hacker Deployed AI in Campaign Against South Korean Banks
CrowdStrike revealed that a Chinese-speaking hacker deployed agentic pentesting tool ARTEX and Claude to help breach data from South Korean financial firms
AWS takes aim at runaway AI agent behavior with Strands Box
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has introduced an open-source sandbox for AI agents that allows developers to restrict their actions based on previous behavior,…
How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs . Two weeks after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in March…
UK and Germany team up against Russian cyberattacks as Brexit rethink looms
Security pact promises information-sharing and coordinated disruption, but offers little detail on agencies or funding
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 00h : 23 posts
23 posts published in the last hour 21:58IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-09 21:55IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-10-09 21:32OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks 21:31FBI, French Police Seize CSAM Site Domains, Suspected Admin Arrested 21:31Google Signs…
IT Security News Daily Summary 2026-10-09
200 posts published today 21:32OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks 21:31FBI, French Police Seize CSAM Site Domains, Suspected Admin Arrested 21:31Google Signs $4.3bn Nuclear Power Deal To Fuel AI 21:31Pwn2Own Hackers Find 32 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities on…
OpenAI Fires 3 Safety Researchers in Dispute Over AI Risks
The ChatGPT maker said the researchers “violated clear policies on handling sensitive information.”
FBI, French Police Seize CSAM Site Domains, Suspected Admin Arrested
US and French authorities seized two domains and arrested a suspected administrator in a CSAM and non-consensual intimate image abuse case.
Google Signs $4.3bn Nuclear Power Deal To Fuel AI
Google signs 20-year atomic energy purchase agreement with Constellation as it seeks to build out AI power sources
Pwn2Own Hackers Find 32 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities on Day One
Ethical hackers have already found 32 zero days in various products at Pwn2Own Ireland
ASOS Breach Reveals the Risks in Customer-Facing SaaS
The attack on the British retailer shows that compromising a single identity can lead to much deeper penetration of the corporate network.
Atlassian launches AMP to tackle AI code visibility, attribution
Atlassian today rolled out new offerings designed to make it easier for IT to differentiate coding by AIs from human coding. The problem is that such…
September 2026 Cyber Attacks Statistics
September 2026 recorded 182 cyber incidents, and Cyber Crime drove roughly three in four of them (73.9%). Malware was the top attack vector at 27.8%,…
Mistral Steps Up Open-Weight Competition With ‘Le Chonk’
French AI start-up releases 1 trillion-parameter frontier model to rival open-weight offerings from China, following fundraise
Cursor writes all my code now
I was at the gym yesterday, talking with a relatively new CrossFitter named John, and naturally he asked me what I do for a living. I said I write…
Danish CPR Breach Highlights Challenge of Supply Chain Risk
A breach of 8.8 million citizens on the Danish Central Register of Persons (CPR) occurred via third-party access
Five keys to controlling AI token costs
We spent the last decade building entire finops departments just to decipher what the cloud bill was saying. Just when we figured out how to stop leaving…
No EDR, no problem: how Huntress rebuilt an Akira ransomware attack from forensic leftovers
Incident responders rarely get to watch an attack from the beginning. More often, security tooling arrives after the damage is done, either as part of the…
Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks
Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver…
Critical Flaw in Multiple Atlassian Products Exploited in the Wild
A critical vulnerability affecting eight Atlassian products, including Jira and Confluence, is being exploited in the wild, said VulnCheck
Rogue AI Agents
AI agents are escaping sandboxes, misusing credentials and acting without authorization. This live dashboard tracks every reported incident on a…