Ransomware incidents in Japan rose 4.7% year over year. The Gentlemen was the most active group, with leak-site listings more than doubling from January…
16-31 August 2026 Cyber Attacks Timeline
The second half of August 2026 brought 110 confirmed cyber incidents, with Cyber Crime once again the dominant motivation at 78% of attacks. Malware…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-17 12h : 8 posts
8 posts published in the last hour 09:31CSIDES Unveils Full Agenda for 2026 Cybersecurity Community Event 09:31NightEagle Hackers Abuse Microsoft Dev Tunnels and GhostContainer to Breach Russian Companies 09:31Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s…
CSIDES Unveils Full Agenda for 2026 Cybersecurity Community Event
CSIDES has unveiled its full agenda for its 2026 cybersecurity community event, with more than 25 industry speakers and a programme of talks, workshops…
NightEagle Hackers Abuse Microsoft Dev Tunnels and GhostContainer to Breach Russian Companies
The NightEagle advanced persistent threat group, tracked as APT-Q-95, has expanded its operations to target businesses in Russia, combining stolen VPN…
Flock Once Touted Its Cameras as ‘Made in the USA.’ Now It’s Not So Clear
Flock reveals little about where its license plate readers are assembled, but the answer could have geopolitical and cybersecurity implications.
Google Ordered To Allow More Ad Competition
After ad tech monopoly finding, Google told to make ad products compatible with rivals and share more data
12 Serverless Security Options Compared (2026): Features & Pricing
Quick Answer: There is no standalone serverless-security SKU worth buying in 2026 functions are a line item inside CNAPP or observability contracts.…
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged…
Snap Adds Enterprise Apps To Specs AR Glasses
Snap adds AI tools from Salesforce, AWS to $2,195 Specs, announces internet-connected charging case, AI assistant
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-17 11h : 11 posts
11 posts published in the last hour 08:31EU Chief Promises ‘Action’ On Social Media Harms 08:31AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack 08:31Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords 08:31RatHat Abuses Android Wireless Debugging to Gain Shell Access…
EU Chief Promises ‘Action’ On Social Media Harms
Following years of pressure, EU set to propose social media restrictions under-15s, von der Leyen says bloc has ‘power to act’
AI Agent Carries Out Multi-Stage Data Theft Attack
Spanish data protection agency AEPD reveals the country’s first AI-powered data breach
Fake AI trading agent steals crypto wallet passwords
Attackers built a website for a fake AI crypto trading agent and used it to install Needle Stealer, malware that replaces a victim’s browser wallet with a…
RatHat Abuses Android Wireless Debugging to Gain Shell Access and Steal Banking PINs
RatHat, a newly identified Android banking malware family that combines Accessibility abuse, local Android Debug Bridge (ADB) pairing, native shell-level…
AI Agents Can Retrain Own Models Mid-Task, Leaking Secrets and Erasing Refusals
New research from Irregular shows AI agents can retrain and redeploy their own underlying models during routine maintenance tasks.
Chosen Brick, Iran’s Surveillance Malware
UK, US, and Dutch agencies expose Chosen Brick, Iranian malware used to track and harass dissidents, journalists, and activists via Telegram. The UK, the…
Drone Start-Up Zipline Seeks $1bn At $20bn Valuation
San Francisco-based drone delivery firm reportedly in early talks for funding round that would see valuation nearly triple
SIRIUS SPoC network meets as EU enters new era for electronic evidence
The 7th SIRIUS Single Point of Contact (SPoC) Network Meeting, organised by Europol’s EU Internet Referral Unit (EU IRU) together with the German Federal…
CISA Releases Guidance on Deploying Cyber Decoys
Complementing Zero Trust models, decoys enable organizations to detect, observe, and block malicious activity in their environments.
Growing number of data requests and complex legal landscape among key challenges for accessing electronic evidence
Over half of all criminal investigations today include a request for cross-border access to electronic evidence such as texts, e-mails or messages in…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-09-17 10h : 7 posts
7 posts published in the last hour 07:31Apple Developing Potential ARM-Based AI Server 07:31Docker Sandboxes Vulnerabilities Let Malicious Guests Escape Workspace and Access Host Files 07:31Flock gets plucked, OpenAI agents arrived even earlier, inside China’s AI spy shop 07:31Hackers Turn…
Apple Developing Potential ARM-Based AI Server
Apple reportedly working on server that could use future M8 Ultra chips, Nvidia communications tech, amid booming demand for AI compute
Docker Sandboxes Vulnerabilities Let Malicious Guests Escape Workspace and Access Host Files
Docker has released security fixes for two serious vulnerabilities in Docker Sandboxes that could let a malicious guest environment bypass workspace…