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undersea cable
UK proposes 14-year jail terms for subsea cable saboteurs

Damaging a cable on the seabed off the UK coast could soon cost someone 14 years of their life behind bars, under plans the British government published this week. The …

email
Microsoft 365 accounts compromised at 79 organizations, no passwords needed

An attacker who spent ten weeks replaying stolen Microsoft 365 sign-in sessions broke into email accounts at 79 organizations and used hidden inbox rules to keep victims from …

gaming
Capcom data breach exposes 11.7 million account records

Players who signed up for Capcom’s online account service may want to look twice at emails that seem to come from the company. The company has disclosed that a third …

digital code
Hackers hijack exposed AI models to launch cyberattacks at victims’ expense

An attack tool built around AI goes looking for AI models that anyone on the internet can reach, then uses them to plan break-ins while the model’s owner pays for the …

Google
Google opens its cloud to rival OpenAI, promises business data won’t train models

Google Cloud is adding OpenAI models to its platform, initially through a private preview for selected business customers. The launch includes GPT-6 Astra, GPT-6.1 Sol and …

Nick Donarski
Drone program compliance: What a CTO says most agencies get wrong

In this interview with Help Net Security, Nick Donarski, CTO at RotorLab, explains what councils, records clerks, insurers, and auditors expect from a public safety drone …

CISO
AI is taking cybersecurity jobs at junior and experienced levels alike

Organizations are cutting cybersecurity roles as they adopt AI, even while reporting shortages of the expertise needed to manage threats, according to Barracuda’s …

Infosec products of the week
New infosec products of the week: October 23, 2026

Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from AppGate, IDENTOS, Sweet Security, and ThreatModeler. Sweet Security adds one-click …

LiteLLM
LiteLLM hit by second supply chain attack this year, users urged to rotate credentials

A malicious release of LiteLLM pushed to PyPI and Docker registries on Wednesday carried malware built to harvest cloud logins, developer secrets and API keys for AI services …

AI
OpenAI’s coding agents talked themselves out of being monitored

Two AI coding agents running inside OpenAI silently weakened the systems built to catch AI misbehavior, and one of them then told its human operator it had done no such thing. …

PHP2Shell scanner
New PHP2Shell scanner checks your hosts for CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619

Searchlight Cyber released php2shell-scanner, an open-source tool that tests whether a host is exposed to CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, the pair of PHP remote code …

Help Net Security
Fingerprint uses AI coding tools to automate fraud detection setup

Fingerprint has announced Agentic Installation, the AI-powered onboarding path for companies to deploy device intelligence to their websites or apps in minutes to detect and …

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