A Check Point vendor blog post argues that AI training and inference workloads, private models, GPU infrastructure, containers, APIs and autonomous agents are changing data center security. It cites the 2026 Check Point Cloud Security Report: 29% of organizations are already moving AI workloads to on-premises or private cloud, and another…
Unit 42 analyzed the operational environment of a previously unreported, financially motivated, English-speaking actor using the handle BUGSTER. The actor ran the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek V4 as its reasoning engine and the Cursor IDE as a secondary tool, with safety controls disabled in both. With AI-generated scripts and reco…
Salt Security won three categories at Cyber Defense Magazine's 2026 Top InfoSec Innovators awards, announced at CyberDefenseCon 2026 in Orlando: Most Promising Agentic AI Security Solution, Trailblazing AI-based Cybersecurity Innovation and Transformational API Security Solution. This is vendor and industry news with no direct threat or i…
A Nielsen survey of 1,700 directors and senior managers in seven countries, commissioned by Monday.com, finds that AI adoption is creating management and governance problems. It is not a security incident. More than half of senior leaders say it is harder to evaluate employee work now that output arrives polished by AI. Nearly half say th…
Pascal, a startup co-founded by CEO Adam Slavney and CTO Jinyoung Seo, raised $8.5 million in a follow-on to its seed round. The round was co-led by Sazze Partners and LB Investment, with participation from KDB Silicon Valley. The company is developing a solid-state refrigeration approach that compresses carbon dioxide into cartridges hol…
Infillion, an advertising company, acquired location-data platform Foursquare last month at an undisclosed value. In a blog post, co-founder and former CEO Dennis Crowley said that neither preferred nor common stockholders appear to have received any value from the deal, and that he was heartbroken by the outcome. He blamed the result on …
Amazon's Blink home surveillance line is getting five new cameras, available for preorder from October 21, 2026, at prices from $50 to $200. They are the Blink Frontier XR+, Blink Outdoor 2K XR+, Blink Mini 4K+, Blink Pan-Tilt Zoom 2K+ and Blink Spotlight 2K+. The Mini 4K+ is Blink's first 4K wired camera, and the two XR+ models extend co…
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), under Secretary Markwayne Mullin, has issued an order under the Federal Acquisition Supply Chain Security Act of 2018 (FASCSA). It directs federal civilian agencies to stop buying and to remove products and services from Hangzhou DeepSeek Artificial Intelligence Co., Ltd. and its affiliates. It a…
Industrial Defender, an OT cybersecurity vendor, released a new platform version adding internal network security monitoring (INSM) and Risk Signal, announced via a CyberNewswire press release on October 20, 2026. The INSM capability targets the FERC-approved NERC CIP-015-1 standard, which requires entities with high and medium impact BES…
Check Point Research reports that commercial antidetect browsers, notably Kameleo, AdsPower and MultiLogin, are widely referenced on Russian-language underground forums and marketplaces. They are used for account takeover, payment card fraud (carding), fraudulent loan applications, ad-revenue fraud, bulk creation of fake accounts and coor…
Rapid7's Q3 2026 threat landscape report finds that high-severity vulnerabilities were exploited an average of three days after disclosure, with 71% exploited within the first seven days. 79% of them are classed as 'holy grail' flaws, meaning remote and needing no credentials or user interaction. Ransomware remains the dominant threat. Th…
Asymptote Labs has raised $5.5 million in an oversubscribed seed round led by Tower Research Ventures, with Lytical Ventures, 1984 Ventures and South Park Commons also participating. The company is building runtime control and visibility infrastructure for enterprise AI agents. It was founded by Justin D'Souza (CEO) and Shukan Shah (CTO),…
Google promoted Chrome 156 to the stable channel for Windows, macOS and Linux on October 20, 2026, fixing 353 vulnerabilities, six of them critical (gbhackers.com, securityweek.com). The critical flaws are five memory corruption bugs and one use-after-free in Accessibility. Most of the 353 are memory safety issues: 163 memory corruption b…
ClickFix and its variants (FileFix, InstallFix, TerminalFix, ConsentFix) are now the most common browser-based attack technique seen by Push Security. They averaged 52% of Push detections through Q2 2026 and reached 67% in August, overtaking AiTM and device code phishing. The newest lures impersonate AI tools: ANY.RUN linked 1,258 public …
Resilience's report Cyber risk in energy and utilities analyzes cyber insurance claims filed between Jan. 1, 2023 and Sept. 5, 2026. Email compromise made up 21% of energy and utilities claims, against 10% across the rest of the portfolio. Ransomware was only 9% of claims but about 70% of incurred losses including reserves. In several cas…
The Cyber Security Agency of Singapore (CSA) and Google convened policymakers, critical infrastructure leaders and AI safety experts on Oct. 14 at Singapore International Cyber Week 2026. The tabletop exercise examined security risks from increasingly autonomous AI agents that act at machine speed. Participants concluded that perimeter de…
The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) published its Strategic Plan 2027-2032, which sets out how it will support congressional oversight of federal cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection and emerging technology risks. The plan cites persistent cyber threats, evolving national security risks and advances in artificial …
Researchers at Claroc disclosed GhostShares, a design flaw in Meta's Muse AI assistant that lets anyone discover shared conversations through passive DNS. Muse share links use the domain cf.metaaiusercontent.com and embed the conversation title and a random identifier in the hostname. Once a browser resolves the name, passive DNS sensors …
Nord Security reports 2,894 ransomware attacks between July and September 2026, a 50% increase year over year and an 8.6% rise over Q2 2026. Researchers attribute the rebound to the market stabilizing after law enforcement takedowns of LockBit, BlackCat and RansomHub, which suppressed activity during 2025. The Gentlemen (383 attacks) narr…
Tenable describes how it moved Tenable One AI Exposure detectors (jailbreaks, prompt injection, harmful content, data exposure) from an English-centric "translate-then-detect" design to a single native multilingual model. The article is product and engineering news and reports no incident, vulnerability or threat actor activity. Tenable b…