Adversaries are turning the tools businesses trust into delivery mechanisms for malicious activity. Cisco Talos observed abuse of more than 25 legitimate…
Russian Hackers Steal Credentials and Open Secret SSH Tunnel Into NATO Defense Firm’s Network
Swallowtail, the Russian espionage group also tracked as APT28, Fancy Bear and Forest Blizzard, targeted organizations in two NATO member states,…
Eight reasons coding agents are better than software developers
I can’t stop anthropomorphizing my coding agent. I use both Claude Code and Cursor , and whenever I talk about these tools, I always refer to them as…
U.S. Orders DeepSeek Removed From Federal Civilian Systems, Bans New Purchases
U.S. federal civilian agencies must remove DeepSeek products from their information technology systems, along with any third-party products or services…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-21 12h : 18 posts
18 posts published in the last hour 09:33ThreatLocker adds external controls for AI agent access and execution 09:33Anthropic ‘Lost $80bn’ In First Half Of Year 09:32SafePay Ransomware Has Affected 600+ Organizations by Exploiting VPNs and Backup Servers 09:32Oracle Releases 1,295…
ThreatLocker adds external controls for AI agent access and execution
ThreatLocker has announced the launch of Zero Trust AI Control (ZTAIC), giving organizations a tool to deploy agentic AI without surrendering control of…
Anthropic ‘Lost $80bn’ In First Half Of Year
Start-up’s net loss reportedly rose to $80bn in the first half of this year, as it expects up to $750bn in compute costs
SafePay Ransomware Has Affected 600+ Organizations by Exploiting VPNs and Backup Servers
SafePay ransomware has affected at least 600 separate victims across multiple critical infrastructure sectors, according to a joint government advisory…
Oracle Releases 1,295 Security Patches to Fix Critical Vulnerabilities Across Multiple Products
Oracle has released its October 2026 Critical Patch Update, which includes 1,295 new security patches across its enterprise portfolio. Published on…
Children’s Data Stolen After Ransomware Attack Compromises ‘Password1’ Account
The ICO has slammed security failings by the Welsh local government data unit and IT service provider following the 2024 incident
CrowdStrike Named a Leader in the 2026 IDC MarketScape for Worldwide Modern Endpoint Security for Enterprises Vendor Assessment
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Info-stealing malware slipped into OVHcloud CLI releases on GitHub
OVHcloud, the French cloud computing and web hosting company, alerted customers that a hacker tampered with its open-source command-line interface (CLI)…
Apache Tomcat Security Flaws Allow Attackers to Bypass Authentication and Expose User Data
Apache disclosed eight vulnerabilities in Tomcat, including authentication bypass, cross-user data exposure, insecure socket access, and cryptographic…
Safari blocks trackers that turn your email into a tracking ID
Apple’s new anti-tracking protections in Safari and WebKit, the open-source web engine used by Safari, block connections to identity resolution services…
Top 10 Best File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Every breach eventually touches a file a dropped binary, an edited config, a replaced DLL and file integrity monitoring is the control that notices. The…
CISA: SafePay ransomware hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) says the SafePay ransomware gang has breached over 600 critical infrastructure organizations…
Top 10 Best Data Masking Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
The fastest way to leak production data is to copy it somewhere less defended and most organizations do exactly that every sprint, cloning customer…
Apache Tomcat Fixes 8 Security Flaws That Could Let Hackers Bypass Authentication
Apache Tomcat has fixed eight security flaws that could let attackers bypass password checks, expose data between users, and disrupt connections under…
Hackers Compromise 333 Tor Exit Nodes to Steal SSH Credentials and Deploy Ebury Malware
Attackers compromised 333 Tor exit nodes in a coordinated campaign to intercept SSH connections, steal passwords, and deploy the Ebury Linux backdoor,…
Top 10 Best Data Privacy Management Software in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Privacy stopped being a policy problem and became a data-engineering problem: you cannot fulfill a deletion request against data you cannot find, and in…
Shares Of South Korean Data Centre Firm Plummet On Debut
South Korea’s Elice sees shares drop nearly one-third on their first day of trading, as higher borrowing costs dent AI enthusiasm
Top 10 Best Database Security & Activity Monitoring Tools in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]
Databases hold what attackers came for, and service accounts hold the widest keys database security decides whether either gets noticed.We scored ten…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-21 11h : 10 posts
10 posts published in the last hour 08:31How Some Malicious AI Skills Hide Instructions from Reviewers 08:31Scattered Spider, LAPSUS$, and ShinyHunters Operate as Distinct Groups Within The Com Ecosystem 08:31Chinese AI Tool Used In Wave Of Japanese Hacks 08:03State Bank…
How Some Malicious AI Skills Hide Instructions from Reviewers
In Part III of our “From Automation to Infection” series (following Part I and Part II ), we analyzed 35,878 AI agent skills submitted to VirusTotal and…