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IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 20h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 17:31AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge 17:31Fake Ransomware Recovery Firm Charged Over $11M Decryption Markup 17:31Attackers Are Already Exploiting SonicWall’s Freshly Patched Max-Severity SMA1000 Flaw 17:00IT Security News Hourly…
AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge
AI Adds to Open-Source Security Pressure as Vulnerability Reports Surge A growing number of security vulnerabilities are being discovered using artificial…
Fake Ransomware Recovery Firm Charged Over $11M Decryption Markup
The owner of a US cybersecurity company has been charged with running a ransomware recovery fraud that allegedly involved secretly paying attackers for…
Attackers Are Already Exploiting SonicWall’s Freshly Patched Max-Severity SMA1000 Flaw
Just three days after SonicWall shipped a patch for a maximum-severity vulnerability in its SMA1000 secure remote access appliances, attackers have…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 19h : 9 posts
9 posts published in the last hour 16:31Europol and US Spending Watchdog Sound the Alarm Over Quantum Threats 16:31Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD event 16:31Japan Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Hacker, Extradites Him to Germany 16:06IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-10…
Europol and US Spending Watchdog Sound the Alarm Over Quantum Threats
Europol and US Government Accountability Office urge faster transition to post-quantum cryptography
Filigran announces speakers for first THREAD event
Filigran has announced the speaker line-up for THREAD, its first annual event for the cyber defence and threat intelligence community, taking place in…
Japan Arrests Suspected Qilin Ransomware Hacker, Extradites Him to Germany
A suspected member of the Qilin ransomware group has been arrested in Japan and extradited to Germany, where he is expected to face charges related to…
IT Security News Roundup: 2026-10-10 Afternoon
IT Security News: Afternoon roundup, 2026-10-10 Check Point reported global weekly cyberattacks jumped 48 percent year-over-year. A Chinese hacker targeted South Korean banks using AI agents. The FBI arrested a cybersecurity co-founder in a ShinyHunters probe. FBI arrested a Canadian…
Public Exploit Reveals Critical AnyDesk Linux Vulnerability That Could Allow Root Access
Security experts have released a functional exploit demonstrating how a vulnerability in AnyDesk for Linux could be abused to gain the highest level of…
Cyber exec arrested in case allegedly tied to ShinyHunters hackers
Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports…
Silent Ransom Group Allegedly Extorted $207 Million Without Encrypting Files
Silent Ransom Group allegedly extorted $207 million from 27 law firms in six months using phone calls and social engineering, not encryption. Silent…
Atlassian CVE-2026-21589 Exploited Hours After Public Disclosure
Attackers started scanning the systems vulnerable to the Atlassian flaw several hours after the researchers published the technical details and…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 18h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 15:01September 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Global Attacks Jump 48% as Phishing and GenAI Data Exposure Rise 15:01ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks 15:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10…
September 2026 Cyber Threat Landscape: Global Attacks Jump 48% as Phishing and GenAI Data Exposure Rise
Key takeaways Organizations experienced 2,803 weekly cyber attacks on average in September, up 16% month over month and 48% year over year. Education…
ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks
The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing…
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 17h : 3 posts
3 posts published in the last hour 14:31FBI Arrests Executive at Ransomware Negotiation Firm 14:01Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in federal extortion case 14:00IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 16h : 4 posts
FBI Arrests Executive at 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…
Canadian cybersecurity executive arrested in federal extortion case
Details of the case align with the investigation into ShinyHunters’ attack on FBI IT systems.
IT Security News Hourly Summary 2026-10-10 16h : 4 posts
4 posts published in the last hour 13:01Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management 13:01From Automation to Infection (Part III): Naming, Measuring, and Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills 13:01Chinese Hacker Uses AI in South Korean…
Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management
Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP…
From Automation to Infection (Part III): Naming, Measuring, and Detecting Malicious AI Agent Skills
In Part I and Part II of this series, we looked at an initial sample of 3,016 AI agent skills and showed how they were becoming a new supply-chain…
Chinese Hacker Uses AI in South Korean Bank Campaign
Multiple South Korean financial institutions suffered data breaches in a campaign where a suspected Chinese threat actor deployed AI-powered pentesting…