In 2024, MCP (Model Context Protocol) set out to become the USB-C of AI: one standard for connecting models, agents, and IDEs to tools and data. The…
Denmark Population Registry Breach Exposes 8.8 Million Citizens
Denmark is grappling with one of the most significant data breaches in its history after unauthorized actors gained access to the Central Population…
What is MATCHBOIL? The Russia-aligned malware that installs a spying backdoor
ESET researchers traced almost two years of changes to MATCHBOIL, a downloader that the Russia-aligned group UAC-0099 uses to plant a second program on…
Protecting citizens, preserving rights
How can law enforcement make effective use of data and technology while ensuring that fundamental rights and the rule of law remain protected? This…
Incident affecting ASOS customers
ASOS has said it is investigating a cyber incident and that some customer personal information may have been accessed.
Asos app delivers a data leak threat instead of fast fashion
Rogue notification claims Snowflake instance compromised, but customer info theft remains unverified
US cyber resilience, oversight tested in series of attacks
Attacks targeting key industrial sites and unforced errors among leading AI companies are raising alarm bells.
AI has accelerated coding. Now software organizations must redesign everything around it
Software teams running AI coding tools are generating more output than ever before. Commits are up. Pull requests move faster. By the numbers, developer…
Chinese Man May Be Linked To South Korean Bank Hacks
Researchers find indications that 26-year-old in Guangdong province may be behind AI-assisted data breaches of South Korean banks
LibreOffice says ‘no AI’ is now a software feature
The maker of the open source document editor says it has no plans to add AI to its software’s default configuration, citing user privacy.
ISC Stormcast For Wednesday, October 7th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10126, (Wed, Oct 7th)
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Fake Decryption Tools Masked $11M Markup in Ransomware Recovery Scheme
Zohar Pinhasi was paying ransoms to obtain decryption keys and then charging victims substantially more for remediation.
GitHub adds AI to catch passwords before a code push
GitHub has announced an AI detector, developed with Microsoft Applied Sciences, to help prevent developers from uploading passwords and other credentials…
Cannabis smuggling from North America and Thailand into Europe: Europol highlights growing threat
Cannabis smuggling from North America and Thailand in Europe has seen a sharp rise, driven by oversupply in legal markets and the adaptability of…
Check Point PromptGuardX: Securing the Files AI Agents Trust
Key Highlights Prompt injection is becoming an execution risk. Instructions hidden in external content can attempt to activate an AI agent’s tools, APIs…
FBI Removes Accenture Contractor Over ShinyHunters Job Site Data Breach
The FBI removed a contractor over a ShinyHunters-linked breach. Reuters sources identified Accenture and an unpatched Oracle PeopleSoft system.
Samsung Expects Nearly Ninefold Profit Jump
Samsung guidance projects nearly ninefold rise in third-quarter profit from a year earlier, amid worldwide memory shortages
ASOS “hackers” send push notifications to customers
ASOS customers received a push notification regarding a breach of the company. Here’s what we know so far.
WordPress RCE Risk: How Malicious HEIC Uploads Can Execute Server Code
Researchers demonstrated a WordPress attack using malicious HEIC uploads to trigger remote code execution on servers with vulnerable image-processing…
Tines Named Headline Sponsor of CSIDES 2026 in Weston-super-Mare
Tines has been announced as the headline sponsor of CSIDES 2026, a community-focused cyber security event taking place at the Grand Pier in…
Nikkei Discloses Two Employee Cloud Account Compromises
Nikkei says two employee cloud accounts were accessed, with one used to send 9,000 phishing emails
OpenAI agents tried to hack Wikipedia tools and flooded it with traffic
The reports of OpenAI agents harming third-party sites keep coming.
Fake ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude Ad Portals Capture Credentials and MFA Codes
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a “human-operated phishing platform” that impersonates advertising products for artificial…
ChainDrop and PolinRider Use Blockchain C2 to Steal Cloud and CI/CD Credentials
Threat actors are increasingly using blockchain networks as resilient command-and-control infrastructure to steal cloud credentials from developer…