[Virtual Event] Cybersecurity Outlook 2027
Latest threat intelligence analysis from Dark Reading: [Virtual Event] Cybersecurity Outlook 2027.
Continuous enterprise threat intelligence tracking active in-the-wild zero-days (CISA KEV), Microsoft Windows KB cumulative updates, MSRC security advisories, and CVE remediation.
Latest threat intelligence analysis from Dark Reading: [Virtual Event] Cybersecurity Outlook 2027.
ShareGate study claims to reveal a governance ‘crisis’ as AI usage grows
ClickFix has become the most common way attackers get into enterprise networks, and it does it without an exploit, an attachment, or a file on disk. Our new global threat report traces the technique from a novelty in late 2023 to a subscription product with on-chain infrastructure and a state-sponsored user base, and explains why blocking malicious domains i…
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined Google €403 million ($459 million) for violating European privacy law. The penalty follows a six-year inquiry into Google’s management of user location data between May 2018 and February 2020. During that time, Google collected users’ location data without making clear that it could be used to infer their …
SANS Institute report claims data rather than skills is now the main hurdle for threat hunters
GNOME 50.5, which the GNOME Release Team shipped on September 24, patches a CVE in the gvfs file system layer, a JavaScript injection flaw in the Epiphany web browser and a use-after-free bug in the librsvg image library. The release updates 22 modules. Users who browse with Epiphany, view SVG images through librsvg or reach files through gvfs keep these fla…
Microsoft has fixed a known issue that breaks the built-in File History backup feature on some Windows systems after installing the September 2026 security updates. [...]
Apple introduced a scam-prevention feature called Impersonation Risk Detection with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The feature allows supported apps to request a risk assessment when a user takes an action that could be connected to an active social engineering scam. “Impersonation Risk Detection helps protect against active social engineering scams. In these scams, …
Anthropic engineers made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app roughly three times faster during a two-week sprint in August, with Claude finding the bottlenecks and writing the fixes. The team merged more than 3,000 changes and says none of them caused a customer-facing incident or rollback. The engineers ran the whole thing out of one Slack channel, using a…
An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that handle Medicare claims and personal records. The agent reached files on it that were not …
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial institutions. It originated from 1,487 unique AWS EC2 source IP addresses. "The …
Yesterday, we received a phishing email with an interesting link. At first sight, it looks like garbage, but every piece of it has been carefully crafted to confuse basic security controls. Here is the defanged link:
Cisco Talos finds CLOSEDQUORUM, malware that lets four commercial AI models vote on its next move, with no human operator required. Cisco Talos found malware, dubbed CLOSEDQUORUM, that holds a vote before deciding what to steal from you. Four AI models vote on its next move, without any human interaction. CLOSEDQUORUM is the first Windows malware they’ve see…
Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). "An unauthenticated attacker can make get_page_template() page-template resolution include…
In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data path: what an agent can reach, what enters its context, and where results go. Ticketing systems, CRM platforms and shared drives hold years of sensitive context that agents can pull togeth…
By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, the small industrial computers that run pumps and valves. Operators lost monitoring or control, and in some cases water operations degraded. Federal investigators are examining po…
Ubuntu kernels will ship every week under a new release schedule from Canonical, which is merging its four-week cycle for regular Stable Release Updates (SRUs) and its two-week cycle for security fixes into a single two-week cycle. The cycles overlap, each starting a week after the one before, which is what produces a weekly release. Admins who need a kernel…
Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2026 identifies cybercrime, state-linked activity, foreign information manipulation and interference, hacktivism and vulnerability exploitation as key threats.…
Latest threat intelligence analysis from SANS Internet Storm Center: ISC Stormcast For Thursday, September 24th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/10108, (Thu, Sep 24th).
A store in Auckland vibe-coded itself a new website. Within hours, its inventory had somehow expanded to include a pair of crusty socks, an $850 banana, and all of New Zealand's national parks. What could possibly have gone wrong? Meanwhile, a hacker collective backed a truck into one of the license-plate-reading Flock safety cameras popping up on American s…
The "third-party.com" domain, commonly used as a placeholder in developer documentation and code examples, is serving a fake Cloudflare verification page that attempts to trick Windows users into executing PowerShell commands. [...]
Enterprise computing is moving to the edge. Keeping it secure requires tactics far beyond putting up firewalls. (Second in a three-part series.)
American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% in January. Half say they hurt home energy costs (up from 38%), and 49% say they harm quality of life for people living near…
A new Android malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called RemControl is targeting users through malvertising campaigns that impersonate the TVTap IPTV application. [...]