Huntress analyzed an active credential-phishing campaign in which the lookalike domain watchguard-vpn.net harvests WatchGuard SSL VPN credentials. On October 7, 2026, an administrator at a managed service provider searched Bing for "watchguard vpn sll download" and clicked through to the fake page, which Huntress classifies as SEO poisoni…
Mozilla and the Chrome Root Program confirmed on October 20 that the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate CA certificates (emSign brand) are compromised. Anyone holding these keys could issue certificates for any website that a browser would accept. A researcher credited as "Wayne" reported the compromise on October 17, and Chrome a…
On October 20, the Go team released Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10 on its URGENT track. The certificate verifier now rejects any chain passing through one of eight intermediate CA keys, citing unspecified "specific security concerns around their operation." A commenter on the Go issue matched the SHA-256 key hashes to intermediates of the India…
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retailers, confirmed that a cyberattack discovered last week forced it to take systems offline, including brand websites and apps, in Europe and the United States. Affected brands include Albert Heijn, Etos and Gall & Gall in the Netherlands, Delhaize in Belgium, and Stop & Shop in the US, w…
The FBI arrested a Canadian cybersecurity executive in Pennsylvania on October 8, 2026, in connection with its investigation into the ShinyHunters extortion group. Court records point to Edward Dubrovsky, a ransomware negotiation specialist formerly of Cypfer and now associated with CyberSteward. He faces charges of conspiracy to threaten…
Ahold Delhaize, the Dutch grocery group behind Food Lion, Giant Food, Stop & Shop, Hannaford, Martin's and Albert Heijn, confirmed that a cyberattack caused by "malicious actions of others" forced it to proactively take IT systems offline, including websites and apps. The incident was first disclosed on October 12 and affected most of the…
A multinational advisory (CISA, NSA, FBI, AIVD, MIVD, NCSC-UK and others) warns that the Russian state-supported APT LAUNDRY BEAR (aka Void Blizzard, TA488) has compromised Western government, defense industrial base and NGO organizations running Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) since at least July 2025. The campaign uses a view-based XSS…
U.S. federal investigators pursuing ShinyHunters, which recently stole sensitive personnel data from the FBI recruitment site fbijobs.gov, reportedly identified executives at two ransomware negotiation firms with unusually close ties to the group. One U.S. consulting firm executive is suspected of helping operate the now-defunct extortion…
The FBI has publicly called on remaining ShinyHunters members to surrender. Cyber division assistant director Brett Leatherman released a video thanking Dutch police for arresting a 24-year-old in Amsterdam. The FBI calls him "one of the alleged leaders" of the group, while Dutch police say only that he played a role. He is also suspected…
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…
Kaspersky identified MovieReaper, a previously unknown modular, multi-stage crimeware framework distributed since mid-August 2026 through movie-themed torrents, including fake "The Odyssey (2026)" releases. Rather than compromising individual trackers, the actor modified the public torrent file repository itorrents.org, so trackers relyin…