2026-10-26 18:01CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News: Research DigestOctober 2026 will be remembered as "Black October" in cybersecurity circles - a week in which two critical PHP vulnerabilities, discovered with AI assistance, threatened …2026-10-25 03:01CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News: Research DigestThe headline this week is that ransomware operators have built a working AI-driven intrusion ecosystem and left it exposed, giving researchers a complete record of how co…2026-10-23 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News: Research DigestThe cybersecurity landscape in 2026 is defined by three converging trends: nation-state attacks targeting critical infrastructure at scale, ransomware operations becoming…2026-10-23 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe cybersecurity story of 2026 is the convergence of three trends that used to operate on separate timelines: nation-state actors going after government payroll and pers…2026-10-22 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestQ3 2026 set a new record for claimed ransomware attacks (2,627, the highest quarter ever recorded), and the story behind that number is a ransomware ecosystem that has ab…2026-10-21 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe cybersecurity landscape in October 2026 is defined by three converging trends: nation-state actors targeting critical infrastructure with increasing boldness, ransomw…2026-10-21 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe cybersecurity landscape this month has two separate stories that are converging into one larger problem. The first is the shift in how attackers get in: the 2026 Veri…2026-10-20 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestAviatrix Threat Research Center / Defense.gov (Week 40, 2026): The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) suffered a breach exposing personal data of 3.09 million…2026-10-20 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestThe Hacker News (September 30, 2026): Police in Spain arrested a 16-year-old suspected of running the KillSec ransomware group, one of three people arrested when police a…2026-10-19 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestSenthorus (Oct 5-11, 2026): The US Department of Defense's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) confirmed a massive breach affecting over 3 million military personnel and …2026-10-19 03:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestAviatrix Threat Research Center (2026): The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) suffered a breach exposing personal data of 3 million military personnel and ve…2026-10-18 18:00CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestAviatrix Threat Research Center (Oct 15, 2026): The Pentagon's Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) suffered a breach exposing personal data of 3 million military personne…2026-10-18 14:33CYBERSECURITYCybersecurity News, Research DigestQ3 2026 set a new record: Comparitech counted 2,627 claimed ransomware attacks in Q3 2026 (finance, technology, education, healthcare saw significant increases (Oct 9). P…
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