IT Security News: Morning roundup, 2026-10-29 Summary The morning was dominated by edge-device and browser exploitation: Cisco patched a second actively exploited firewall VPN zero-day since August, a researcher showed a zero-click Microsoft Edge chain, and Volt Typhoon was tied…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-29 16h : 38 posts
38 posts published in the last hour 14:39FTC to probe major companies over personalized pricing and pay 14:39Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps 14:38OWASP: AI Agents Lower Barriers to Cyberattacks 14:38Adobe Fixes 8…
FTC to probe major companies over personalized pricing and pay
The Federal Trade Commission ordered nine food delivery, airline and ride-sharing companies to turn over detailed information on how they harness personal…
Cisco Open Sources Quarry to Catch AI Agent Attacks Hidden in Harmless Steps
Cisco open sourced Project Quarry, a rule language for detecting AI agent attacks that only emerge across sequences of benign actions.
OWASP: AI Agents Lower Barriers to Cyberattacks
The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) has released research warning that artificial intelligence agents and chatbots are significantly…
Adobe Fixes 8 Critical Campaign Classic Flaws Allowing Code Execution and Security Bypass
Adobe has released patches to address multiple critical security flaws in Campaign Classic that, if successfully exploited, could result in arbitrary code…
Fake AI Attacks Target US Firms as Researchers Warn of Corporate Credential Theft
ANY.RUN analyzed 1,258 sandbox submissions showing how fake ChatGPT and Claude downloads and setup guides steal corporate credentials and browser session…
Brazilian Magecart Group Exploits Plausible Installation to Steal Checkout
Data Magecart, a Brazilian group of hackers, compromised the analytics script used by e-commerce platform Convertr, potentially revealing payment…
Researchers broke the browsers built into VS Code, Cursor, Copilot, Codex and Claude Desktop
Forever Security found ways out of the built-in browsers in five AI coding assistants: Cursor, GitHub Copilot, OpenAI’s Codex, Microsoft’s VS Code and…
Malicious Firefox extensions impersonate popular crypto wallets
Fake Firefox extensions posing as Phantom, Jupiter, and Bitget targeted users to steal crypto wallet recovery phrases and private keys.
AI Takes Root in Hospital Corridors, Raises Security Stakes
Artificial intelligence (AI) is everywhere in healthcare, from doctors’ intake forms to cancer screenings. But, in some cases, life-and-death uses are…
Three Gartner Reports. One Emerging Direction for Exposure Management.
In a short period, Check Point has appeared across three new Gartner research publications examining autonomous remediation, exposure assessment, and the…
Akamai Cloud Is Scaling for What Comes Next (Updated October 2026)
Explore Akamai Cloud’s Q3 2026 updates: expanded NVIDIA RTX PRO™ 6000 GPUs, Valkey Managed Database, LKE Enterprise Kubernetes scaling, and enhanced load…
Model Poisoning Attacks: How Attackers Corrupt AI Training Data
By HOC Team | Update: October, 2026 | Read time: 22 min · Model Poisoning Attacks: How Attackers…
China Proposes Expanded AI, Biotech Export Restrictions
China’s government proposes expanded export restrictions for key technologies, as it looks to protect AI ecosystem
Studying Fraudulent North Korean IT Workers
Researchers set up a fake start-up company to study fraudulent North Korean IT workers.
GMO Group data breach; ransomware threat
GMO Group, a major Japanese internet services provider, has issued an emergency security advisory instructing customers to immediately disconnect their…
Google’s Gemini 4 Carbon Leads Benchmarks for Finding, Exploiting, and Patching Vulnerabilities
Google on Wednesday took the wraps off Gemini 4 Carbon, its latest frontier model with state-of-the-art cybersecurity and long-horizon capabilities. “It…
Chrome and Firefox updates fix serious security flaws. Install them now
Google and Mozilla released security updates for Chrome and Firefox on October 27. Update your browser as soon as you can.
Secure AI-Scale Traffic with the Maestro MHO 200
AI is pushing data center traffic to levels most security architectures were never built for, and much of it is encrypted. Today we’re introducing the…
ChatGPT Mil Rolls Out New Memory Capabilities
ChatGPT Mil, an AI platform designed for military applications, is preparing to roll out new memory capabilities that will enable personalized user…
Attackers Aren’t Hacking Your Customers. They’re Impersonating You.
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CYBER BRIEFING | October 29, 2026
Microsoft pulls 7 eMudhra certs; GMO tells users to unplug
Backdoor or Confused Agent? What We Learned Replaying the Qwen Incident
Key takeaways After Alibaba’s Qwen model tried a test upload to a server in Beijing during a Cohere experiment, we replayed that moment 64 times, and the…
Microsoft Emergency Update Revokes eMudhra Certificates
Microsoft has deployed an emergency security update to revoke trust in certificates associated with compromised keys from eMudhra, a certificate authority.