Archive for October 2026
Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 9, 2026 has one thing in common: nobody needed a new exploit. A credential campaign against Fortinet firewalls now locks owners out of their own devices and feeds ransomware affiliates. An open-source AI tool probed South Korean banks through employee-facing systems. ASOS customers received their breach announcement…
Read MoreDenmark CPR Data Breach: 8.8 Million Records
The Denmark CPR data breach exposed the names, addresses and personal ID numbers of about 8.8 million people, roughly four in five records in the country’s Central Person Register. Unauthorized parties reached it through a smaller company’s lawful lookup access, ran more than 14 million queries over about ten days in September, and were noticed…
Read MoreAtlassian File Access Vulnerability in Data Center
The Atlassian file access vulnerability CVE-2026-21589 (CVSS 9.3) lets an unauthenticated attacker read files from the web root of eight self-hosted products: Jira Software, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo, Crowd, Crucible and Fisheye. Every version is affected until it is upgraded. CISA lists it as exploited, and the patched releases are out. What decides…
Read MoreSeptember 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup
This September 2026 Cybersecurity Roundup covers a month in which ransomware kept disrupting public services and critical infrastructure, while flaws in widely used network appliances created serious exposures of their own. Attacks hit German government and utility networks, and a misconfigured database exposed 220 million Vietnam-linked travel records. Below are the month’s key cyberattacks and…
Read MoreWarlock Ransomware SharePoint Attacks
Warlock ransomware SharePoint attacks have reached a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body and a university, according to Symantec and Carbon Black. The China-linked group still gets in through on-premises SharePoint, switches off endpoint protection on dozens of machines within about two hours, and then launches ransomware from a share that every…
Read More