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BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer

DHS bans DeepSeek products across US federal civilian agencies

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is ordering federal civilian agencies to stop using DeepSeek products and remove them from government systems.…

The Record
The Record

AOMEI yet to notify customers after hackers hijacked its software updates

In an email, the Hong Kong-registered company confirmed to Recorded Future News that hackers repeatedly altered configuration files on its update servers betwe…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Hackers Use Autonomous AI Agents to Breach Company Websites, Target Over 1,200 Sites

A Chinese-speaking criminal pointed autonomous AI agents at company websites and let them break in with almost no help, and a security researcher watched it ha…

The Record
The Record

Anti-Putin messages disrupt nationwide school assessments in Russia

A pro-Ukraine group that says it operates within Russia took responsibility for anti-Putin messages appearing on an education assessment platform. Authorities …

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer

CJIS v6.1 Compliance: 5 Practical Priorities for Agencies

CJIS v6.1 requires agencies to maintain strong authentication, account security, and audit controls while demonstrating ongoing compliance. Specops outlines fi…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Welsh firms ‘Password1’ and ‘Test 2’ fails led to hackers stealing children’s data

Alex Hickey reports: Two Welsh organisations have been censured by the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) after a ransomware attack led to the theft of pe…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net

Pryx – Four Dead in Cairo, a Cybercrime Past and…

Simone Kraus writes: On October 9, 2026, Reuters introduced the world to Adem El Adeb, a 19-year-old so called former cybercriminal known as Pryx, who claimed …

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer

Hacker gets 8 years for stealing $3.3 million from taxpayers

A Nigerian national was sentenced to eight years in prison for his involvement in a series of spearphishing attacks targeting US tax preparation businesses sin…

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net Breaches & leaks

Attorney General Tong Announces $625,000 Settlement with Frontier Over Data Breach

Connecticut Attorney General William Tong has been active in litigating data breaches. The press release below relates to a 2024 breach of Frontier Communicati…

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DataBreaches.net

U.S. bans DeepSeek from government agency systems amid AI rift with China

Jenny Lee reports: The Trump administration banned Chinese AI startup DeepSeek from civilian U.S. government agencies, citing security concerns. The Department…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Vulnerabilities

Pegasus Spyware Infection Confirmed on Serbian University Rector's iPhone Days Before Election

The iPhone of Vladan Đokić, rector of the University of Belgrade and a prominent supporter of Serbia's student protest movement, was infected with NSO Group's …

Apple

DataBreaches.net
DataBreaches.net

Suspected cyber incident blocks Parkview Health patient portal in Indiana and Ohio

DysruptionHub reports: The health system disabled its network after suspicious activity, leaving MyChart and doctor searches unavailable and directing urgent m…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer

Windows Server 2025 gets support for quick machine recovery

Microsoft announced that IT administrators can now use quick machine recovery on Windows Server 2025 after installing the October 2026 security update.…

Windows

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

WhatsApp Hid Instructions in Help Pages Telling Its AI Chatbot Not to Recommend Privacy Regulators

WhatsApp's help pages carried hidden instructions for its support chatbot that told it not to recommend a data protection authority or regulator to users who c…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

What Security Teams Can Do To Tame Wild Code

A sales manager builds an AI-assisted workflow to route leads. It connects to customer records, summarizes inbound requests, and posts updates to a shared chan…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Go Issues Emergency Update Blocking Eight CA Keys Over Undisclosed Security Concerns

Go 1.27.3 and Go 1.26.10, released on October 20, make Go's certificate verifier reject any certificate chain that passes through one of eight intermediate cer…

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

OVHcloud CLI releases backdoored on GitHub to steal developer secrets

French cloud and hosting provider OVHcloud is warning users that attackers compromised its open-source command-line interface (CLI) tool to distribute informat…

OVH GitHub

BleepingComputer
BleepingComputer Breaches & leaks

Ahold Delhaize: Cyberattack affects services across US and Europe

Ahold Delhaize, one of the world's largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week's cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News Breaches & leaks

Russian APT28 Breaches NATO Naval Shipbuilder in NATO Country, Deploys New Reflective Loader

The Russia-linked state-sponsored threat actor tracked as APT28 (aka BlueDelta, Fancy Bear, and Forest Blizzard) has been attributed to attacks targeting two m…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

ConnectWise Resets Credentials as Cloud Backup Remains Offline After Security Incident

ConnectWise on Monday said it has taken remediation measures, including strengthening administrative-access protections and resetting accounts and replacing ap…

The Record
The Record Breaches & leaks

Defense contractors in two NATO allies hacked in recent Russia-linked campaign

The Russian group known as APT28 and Fancy Bear used a recently documented backdoor to dwell in the networks of two defense contractors and a law enforcement a…

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Hackers Hijack Five OVHcloud CLI Releases to Distribute Secret-Stealing Malware

An attacker used a contributor's GitHub account to replace the download archives on five existing releases of OVHcloud's command-line tool on Monday, October 1…

OVH GitHub

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The Hacker News Vulnerabilities

ClickFix Attackers Exploit Siemens Software Center Flaw to Deploy Remote Access Trojan

Siemens has addressed a DLL sideloading vulnerability impacting Siemens Software Center that it said has been exploited in ClickFix attacks. The high-severity …

The Hacker News
The Hacker News

Ex-OpenAI Engineer Detained in Spy Device Case as Saudi Royal Contacts Emerge

A U.S. court on Monday granted the U.S. government's request to detain a former OpenAI engineer accused of planting a recording device in an executive conferen…