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Fortinet
Fortinet patches critical FortiOS flaws found with AI help

Fortinet rolled out security hardening updates for FortiOS, FortiManager, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail, and FortiAuthenticator last week, but is keeping the details about the …

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. …

email threats
Attackers abuse legitimate platforms to deliver phishing emails that pass authentication checks

A Dell order confirmation lands in your inbox and it looks pretty legitimate: it comes from Dell’s order domain, passes DKIM and DMARC checks, uses Dell’s real …

supply chain
AOMEI Backupper servers hijacked for minutes at a time to push backdoor

An unknown number of AOMEI Backupper users had their computers infected with a backdoor through an unusually stealthy supply chain attack, security researchers discovered. …

email
Quarantined, but still on your calendar: The explosion of invite-based attacks

There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. …

ConnectWise
ConnectWise suspends Cloud Backup service after attackers abuse its Microsoft 365 access

American software company ConnectWise is contending with a security incident that has allowed unknown attackers to use its application identities to break into organizations’ …

Ivanti
Attackers chained three Ivanti zero-days to gain root on fully patched VPN appliances

A threat actor has been using an exploit chain combining three vulnerabilities in Ivanti’s Connect Secure (ICS) appliances to breach organizations, collect credentials, …

patch tuesday
Microsoft fixes exploited Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951)

In another record-breaking Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has squashed over 1,400 security bugs, including a Mark of the Web bypass vulnerability (CVE-2026-96951) exploited by …

hand
Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted

European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their fridges and freezers tampered with and …

Ledger
Hidden implant in Ledger hardware wallets linked to $93M theft

Three days after customers in Southeast Asia began reporting drained wallets, Ledger says the damage is limited. In its 72-hour update on X on October 11, the Paris-based …

YouTube
YouTubers targeted with fake sponsorships and “channel verification” phishing

Scammers are going after YouTube creators’ Google accounts by posing as a brand looking for sponsorship partners. By sending out personalized emails that reference a …

Atlassian
Exploitation attempts against critical Atlassian flaw have begun (CVE-2026-21589)

One day after Atlassian released patches fixing a critical arbitrary file access vulnerability (CVE-2026-21589) in its self-managed Data Center products, and a few hours after …

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