CYBERSEC

US Air Force Pilots Bought USB Drives From Kabul Markets for Mission Planning in Afghanistan

A former Air Force IT security chief reveals that pilots in the early 2000s purchased USB drives from local Afghan vendors to move mis…

Oct 15, 2026views - 816

CYBERSECCRITICAL

CenterPoint: Data of 1 Million Texans Exposed, No Customer Notice Issued

The Texas Attorney General confirms a CenterPoint Energy breach affecting 1,062,060 residents, compromising names, addresses, Social S…

Oct 14, 2026views - 712

CYBERSECZERO-DAY

Cisco SEG Under Siege: Third Zero-Day in a Year, Root via Email

Cisco fixes CVE-2026-76519 in Secure Email Gateway: CVSS 9.8 and active exploitation. A crafted email attachment can enable commands w…

Oct 14, 2026views - 788

CYBERSEC

Vghost: Tencent's AI Finds Linux Kernel vhost Flaw in Two Hours

CVE-2026-74580, dubbed Vghost, is a Linux kernel vhost subsystem vulnerability discovered with Tencent's Corvus AI multi-agent system.…

Oct 14, 2026views - 5.6k

VULN

Chrome and Firefox: 114 Vulnerabilities Patched as Mozilla Launches Firefox Enterprise

On October 14, 2026, Google and Mozilla released security updates fixing a combined 114 vulnerabilities — 37 in Chrome 155 and 77 in F…

Oct 14, 2026views - 27k

ransomware

Ransomware Gets Personal: 37% of Attacks Now Include Direct Threats Against Staff

A Semperis survey of 1,200 organizations hit by ransomware in the first half of 2026 finds that 37% of attacks involved psychological…

Oct 14, 2026views - 828

CYBERSEC

471 Million Breach Notices, But Only 24% Say How It Happened

In the first half of 2026, U.S. residents received 471.2 million data breach notifications, surpassing the full-year 2025 total of 297…

Oct 14, 2026views - 1.3k

CYBERSEC

Meta Notifies 1,500 People After GitHub Breach Exposes Personal Data and Source Code

Meta is notifying roughly 1,500 individuals, mostly U.S. employees, after an unauthorized GitHub repository access via stolen employee…

Oct 13, 2026views - 7k

VULN

Vercel Sandbox: AI Agents Bypass Network Restrictions via Manipulated Certificates

AIR researchers have demonstrated a vulnerability in the Vercel Sandbox that allows confined AI agents to exfiltrate sensitive data by…

Oct 13, 2026views - 3.8k

ai

AI Agent Re-grades 10,000 Cloud Alerts: Three-Quarters Had the Wrong Severity

Sola Security study of 9,967 HIGH findings: 58.5% downgraded, 16.6% upgraded. Static CSPM vendor severities do not reflect real risk i…

Oct 13, 2026views - 888

ai

Phishing Now Strikes Twice: The Human and the AI Assistant

Barracuda Research has documented phishing campaigns that exploit HTML comments, invisible CSS, and zero-width characters to manipulat…

Oct 13, 2026views - 964

CYBERSEC

Check Point: Attacks Up 48% YoY as AI Becomes Standard Offensive Tooling

The October 12, 2026 Threat Intelligence Report documents 2,803 weekly attacks per organization and the convergence of generative AI w…

Oct 12, 2026views - 3.1k