An $80 million settlement has been proposed to resolve the consolidated class action In Re Conduent Business Services Data Breach Litigation, pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The suit stems from the 2024 breach at Conduent Business Services, LLC, in which an unauthorized party had network access from Octo…
Central Ohio Primary Care Physicians, a large physician-owned primary care group based in Westerville, Ohio, with more than 80 locations, disclosed a breach affecting about 1.4 million current and former patients. In August 2026, an unauthorized third party used a voice phishing (vishing) attack to obtain credentials that gave access to i…
California has settled with 23andMe for $6 million over the 2023 credential-stuffing breach. The breach exposed personal and genetic data of about 6.9 million people, including 855,000 California residents. The settlement follows a July 2026 $18 million settlement with a coalition of 42 state attorneys general, which California did not jo…
Citizen Lab documented AdFection, a campaign in which the Israeli-founded ad firm Discover-Tech delivered zero-click mercenary spyware attributed to Candiru through the online advertising ecosystem. During 2024 and 2025, 45 devices belonging to Al Jazeera were targeted. Citizen Lab calls this the first detailed public technical evidence o…
Federal prosecutors charged Abdulrahman Alfozan, a 35-year-old Saudi national and US permanent resident who joined OpenAI in July 2025, with using a device to intercept oral communications. He allegedly planted a covert audio recorder in an executive-only conference room no later than 28 September 2026. OpenAI's countersurveillance sweep …
Documents released by the defense team in the federal case against the Minnesota 15 show that a joint task force of six local officers and eight HSI Chicago agents surveilled an April 2 talk at the Co-Prosperity gallery in Chicago. The talk was part of a Crimethinc national tour in which Twin Cities anarchists discussed resisting Operatio…
A US federal magistrate judge in San Francisco ordered former OpenAI engineer Abdulrahman Alfozan to remain in custody, citing flight risk. Prosecutors allege he planted a covert audio recording device, hidden in toilet paper behind a TV, in an executive conference room used for confidential meetings. OpenAI found the device in late Septe…
Canada's proposed C-22 bill, first put forward in 2025 and since partly revised, would require tech companies, including foreign ones, to introduce "technical capabilities" for law enforcement data access. It would also require retention of user metadata. Signal has said it would exit the Canadian market, and Psiphon VPN says it will leav…
Privacy firm Redact found that around 80 WhatsApp help and FAQ pages exposed hidden text instructions written for a Meta large language model support chatbot. The text, about 100 blocks in total, sat in the page source under a code block headed "HelpContentGalaxyLLMInclude". Some instructions told the chatbot not to recommend contacting a…
A Chainguard survey released at its Assemble London event on October 14 found that 66% of security leaders at companies with $1bn or more in revenue admit leaving high or critical vulnerabilities unpatched "at least sometimes". Among companies with under $250m in revenue, the figure was 27%. Larger firms cite business trade-offs: disrupti…
Microsoft released fixes for a record 1,411 CVEs in its October 2026 Patch Tuesday on October 13, more than the roughly 1,100 issued in all of 2025 and above the records set in July and September. The surge is attributed to Microsoft's use of AI-driven vulnerability discovery, including its multi-model agentic scanning harness (MDASH). Th…
A cyber-attack that began on October 11 against refrigeration controllers in French supermarkets is larger than first reported. It now appears to affect Dixell Electronics (a Copeland brand) temperature regulation devices as well as Danfoss controllers. CERT-FR named Danfoss AK-SC and AK-SM series, Dixell xweb and Copeland xweb as affecte…
Dashlane's third annual Passkey Power 20 report found that passkey use is growing but still trails passwords. The report covers millions of aggregated, anonymized authentications between July 2025 and June 2026. Authentications by Dashlane users nearly doubled year on year to 2.5 million per month, and 57% of users now store at least one …
Researchers at Vedere Labs (Forescout Research) reported on October 14 that they found ROMULUS, a new multi-payload shared ClickFix delivery platform, while investigating an incident. The same malware from a separate ClickFix campaign was linked to another server tied to that incident, and that server hosted the ROMULUS panel. ROMULUS is …
Microsoft, working with industry partners and Japanese police, disrupted a Chinese-language phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) ecosystem centered on Yam Store, an underground marketplace tracked as Storm-3119. The phishing kits sold there were responsible for over a billion phishing emails and texts sent to more than 75,000 organizations since…
The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued a reprimand and an enforcement notice to the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) over governance failures in its use of the third-party Auror retail crime intelligence-sharing platform. Between March 2023 and September 2024, MPS officers and staff used Auror without formal approval, …
Check Point researchers disclosed two high-risk vulnerabilities in LiteLLM, an open-source LLM gateway with almost 100,000 downloads a month. The gateway connects enterprise AI applications to providers such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic. The flaws, CVE-2026-35029 and CVE-2026-59823, could let any user with an account on a vulnerable de…
Censys observed a 71% drop in internet-exposed Danfoss StoreView control panels in France in three days after the October 11 cyber-attack on hundreds of French supermarkets. The attack targeted refrigeration controllers that Danfoss confirmed were mostly older models without security updates (AK-SM800, AK-SC355) or newer models on outdate…
Symantec's Threat Hunter Team reports that new versions of the Aoki infostealer now target credential and session files used by AI coding assistants. Earlier versions focused on browser, cryptocurrency wallet and password manager data. Aoki is a relatively new and sparsely documented stealer, first observed earlier in 2026, and its AI-rel…
A cybersecurity incident at US government contractor BAE Systems has knocked out the systems behind the Bankruptcy Noticing Center (BNC), which generates and distributes bankruptcy notices for all federal bankruptcy courts in the US. The Administrative Office of the US Courts (AOUSC) confirmed on October 15 that BNC IT systems and website…