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AI boy avatars go viral in China, using sob stories to trick elderly out of money

AI-generated “sob-story boys” have recently taken Chinese short-video platforms by storm, allegedly using emotional mani...

BREAKING NEWS: GMO Internet calls on users to unplug computers as noon cyberattack looms

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Australia warns of ‘unprecedented’ AI threat

Global worries about AI tools are mounting after a string of hacking incidents involving developers such as OpenAI and A...

So Many AI Security Benchmarks, But None Tell the Whole Story

Measuring AI model security gets complex fast — a growing patchwork of benchmarks targets different variables in the equ...

Experts temper emergency-level alarms over critical Brotli defect

The defect in a widely distributed open-source library provoked an emergency response, yet exploitation hasn’t been obse...

‘Digital hostile environment’: AI secretly being embedded across Home Office, report claims

Tasks from determining asylum seekers’ ages to border surveillance now involve AI, says Open Rights Group AI has been em...

Japanese firms to pay out after wave of cyberattacks

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Kyodo News Digest: Oct. 27, 2026

The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo News.----------Cyberattack-hit GMO says hacker thre...

Trading Platform Rocked by Japan Hack, $50 Million Ransom

Hackers targeting a currency trading platform have published what they claim to be customer information after failing to...

Mexican Official Used AI Deepfakes for Extortion of Politicians

In a report for Grupo Fórmula, journalist Leopoldo Espejel broke down how a Mexican official Luis Miranda Contreras, the...

Did the United States and Russia Just Agree to Collaborate on Data Centers? | CSIS

A recent commentary by Nikita Shah and Justin Sherman for the Center for Strategic & International Studies considers the...

University of Copenhagen data breach exposes data of 525,000 people

The University of Copenhagen in Denmark confirmed that hackers accessed one of its test environments containing personal...

Cross-request KV cache exposure in the GLM-5.3 Workers AI model, and our remediation with SGLang

A configuration mismatch in GLM 5.3 on Workers AI triggered an SGLang bug that exposed KV cache pages across requests. H...

Risks & Rewards: How AI Is Redefining the CISO's Role

Nvidia security executive Mark Weatherford says CISOs must help business leaders weigh AI's pros and cons, and ensure th...

Former pentester used ARTEX AI to steal 8.2 million data records

South Korean police identified seven suspects linked to a cybercrime operation that breached more than 90 organizations ...

In-the-Wild Attack Abuses AI Agents' Trust in Markdown

A new AI agent prompt injection technique exploits how coding assistants consume local instruction files, blurring the l...

DreamHost forces password resets in ongoing "incident"

DreamHost has forced password resets for email and FTP/SFTP users following an incident that disrupted connections to th...

Hackers Infect 953 Online Stores With Scanner-Evading JavaScript, Mostly on Magento

An unknown threat actor has infected 953 online stores, most of them running Magento, as part of a long-running campaign...

Senators, rights groups say Trump administration breaking law by withholding surveillance court opinion

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has lapsed, but another decision on its future nears, and the c...

'Gheist' Weaponizes GitHub Tokens to Steal Cloud Secrets

An ongoing supply chain attack is harvesting credentials and sensitive data from thousands of developer repositories.

Top cyber spy braces for more AI-powered hacking attacks

Australia's cyber-spy agency offers an insight into how it is dealing with the surge in AI threats.

PHP Issues Second Windows Security Update in Five Days to Fix Brotli Code Execution Flaw

PHP has rebuilt its official Windows packages for PHP 8.2 through 8.5 to fix CVE-2026-111497, a flaw in the Brotli compr...

FBI considering espionage case against Saudi OpenAI suspect: Report

FBI considering espionage case against Saudi OpenAI suspect: Report Submitted by MEE staff on Mon, 10/26/2026 - 14:51 En...

Serbian autocrat loses election following widespread reports of digital repression

Serbian strongman leader Aleksandar Vučić on Sunday admitted defeat in his race for prime minister, a loss that follows ...

Critical 'HTTP2Shell' Brotli vulnerability triggers emergency patches

A critical flaw dubbed 'HTTP2Shell' in Brotli, the C decoder library built into Node.js, could allow attackers to corrup...

Musk's meddling in Ukraine's Starlink is a warning to every country relying on private tech

In the midst of Donald Trump's attempt to turn Russian diesel into a political asset to help him avoid disaster in Novem...

CISA 2030 Sets Out ‘Aggressive, Anticipatory’ Cyber Defense Strategy for Critical Infrastructure

CISA’s new strategy, CISA 2030, will focus on rapid detection and response and resiliency of critical services ahead of ...

Attackers Use Microsoft Teams IT Support Scams to Deploy Malware and Ransomware

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to what they say is a "recurring social engineering pattern" across hund...

Microsoft releases emergency .NET patches for critical Brotli flaw

Microsoft released emergency .NET security updates to patch a critical vulnerability known as Broccoli2Shell, also track...

Swedish government blocks ChatGPT and Claude. Here’s why

The ban on employees using browser-based versions of ChatGPT and Claude took effect on Monday 26 October amid security c...

Nigeria: Court Rules El-Rufai Has Case to Answer in Phone-Tapping Trial

[Premium Times] The judge ordered Mr El-Rufai to enter his defence, if he so wishes, in the trial on phone-tapping charg...

Gheist Attackers Stumble in Attempt to Abuse GitHub Tokens

A large-scale GitHub campaign abused stolen access tokens to target 13,500+ branches and repositories with secret-steali...

Yandex Supercomputers Unscathed After Ukrainian Strikes, Company Says

The company said its three supercomputers, among the most powerful in the world, have been moved to more secure location...

CISA promises proactive critical infrastructure defense in new strategic plan

Supply-chain security receives special attention in the plan, with CISA promising to “develop data-driven guidance and b...

Ukraine warns hackers are exploiting Chinese-made Dahua surveillance cameras

CERT-UA says it has identified cases in which hackers compromised Dahua internet-connected cameras and video recorders, ...

⚡ Weekly Recap: This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything's an RCE? Rogue AI, Supply Chain Chaos and More

This2Shell, That2Shell, Everything2Shell. That's pretty much how the last week went. Critical bugs that let attackers ru...

When an AI Agent Is the Incident, the Identity Record Is the Evidence

A new NIST, CISA, and NSA guide treats runaway agents as incidents to be rehearsed. The hard part of the response is ans...

10 Software Security Practices Built for the Next 250 Years

This Cybersecurity Awareness Month's theme, "Securing the Next 250," asks us to look beyond vulnerabilities and consider...

Linux Flaws Exposed Before Fixes as Root Exploit Goes Public

Six Linux flaws were made public, including one with a working root exploit and no merged fix