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Top 5 Cybersecurity News
This week’s Top 5 Cybersecurity News for October 16, 2026 has one thing in common: each story turns on a check that looked like proof of safety. A VPN appliance was fully patched and the vendor’s integrity tool found nothing, yet an attacker held root. French supermarkets ran refrigeration controllers that sit outside most IT…
Read MoreAhsayCBS Backup Server Vulnerability Exploited
An AhsayCBS backup server vulnerability is being exploited, and the version everyone was told to install did not fix it. Huntress saw attackers chain two flaws from October 7 to run code as SYSTEM on exposed Ahsay Cloud Backup Servers. On October 8 it found that 10.3.4, the release the public CVE entries call fixed,…
Read MoreIDC Frontier Ransomware: One Cloud, 495 Customers
One ransomware attack on one cloud region has hit 495 companies and local governments in Japan at once. IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary, said its IDCF Cloud service was struck by ransomware on October 7 at 3:40 a.m. local time, forcing it to shut down the network and systems of its East Japan Region 1.…
Read MoreCyber Dependencies and Attack Surface: ENISA 2026
The ENISA Threat Landscape 2026, published on 22 September, has a message that gets less attention than the usual list of threats: organisations are increasingly exposed through their cyber dependencies, meaning the technologies, suppliers and services they rely on. For German businesses, that means cyber risk no longer sits only in internal networks and endpoints.…
Read MoreSonicWall SMA1000 SSRF Vulnerability: Third Max Flaw
A third maximum-severity flaw in three months has been fixed in SonicWall’s SMA1000 remote-access appliances, and this SonicWall SMA1000 SSRF vulnerability may already be under attack. SonicWall’s October advisory describes an unauthenticated server-side request forgery rated CVSS 10.0. A security firm says its honeypots saw exploitation attempts, while SonicWall says it has no evidence of…
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