"Sector 2026 reveals a rapidly shifting cybersecurity landscape."

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Today

SecTor 2026 Reveals a Rapidly Shifting Cybersecurity Landscape

54min

The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth.

F-Secure Launches Victim-First Scam Encyclopedia Covering 50+ Types of Consumer Fraud

1h

Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims' perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber crime.

AI Slop Isn't Just for Social Media; It's Ruining Cyberattacks, Too

by Nate Nelson / 2h

Don't buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.

AI won't replace devs. It'll change their job

by Corelight

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AI codes confidently. It also hallucinates. Cybersecurity pros say devs must do this to stay safe.

Vulnerability Management Isn't About the Score — It's About How It Applies to You

by Arielle Waldman / 7h

Organizations need to move away from vendor-assigned, theoretical scores toward real exploit data specific to their environments.

Yesterday

EU Grocers Pay a Steep Price for Unpatched Fridge Firmware

by Nate Nelson / 16h

Hundreds of stores lost millions of euros because they hired third parties to manage the outdated OT firmware running their cooling systems.

Ivanti ICS Zero-Day Attacks Highlight Vendor Patching Hurdles

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by Rob Wright / 1d

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CVE-2026-104935

CVE-2026-104935, a high-severity authentication bypass + RCE vulnerability, was only partially discovered and patched in July, leaving an opening for threat actors to capitalize on.

Yam Store: The Phishing Network Behind a Billion Messages

by Alexander Culafi / 1d

A sprawling cybercrime marketplace supplied cloud infrastructure and phishing kits that helped fuel more than 1 billion phishing messages worldwide.

Anthropic 'SneakPeek' Flaw Is a Silent Zero-Click Threat

by Becky Bracken / 1d

A bug in Claude Code Desktop's preview pane can allow adversaries to quietly steal credentials from developers, including SSH private keys, AWS credentials, and Claude 0Auth tokens.

Russian Influence Operation Widely Targets Latin America

by Robert Lemos / 1d

The AI-enabled operation used spoofed emails, fake government documents, and the creation of a local organization to target schools in Peru and Ecuador, among other efforts.

Oct 13, 2026

Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?

by Nate Nelson / 1d

Organizations are reporting that employees face threats of stalking, physical violence, and abduction. But these alarming claims are hard to verify.

Zero-Days Lurk in Microsoft's Overgrown October Patch Tuesday

by Tara Seals / 2d

The scary surprises in the largest security update ever include defense bypasses and unauthenticated RCEs.

North Korea Phishes Ukrainians for War Intel

by Nate Nelson / 2d

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) is trying to get insight into its own war effort in Ukraine, through simple reply-baiting phishing attacks.

Anthropic Finds Ingredients for Future AI Worms

by Alexander Culafi / 2d

Anthropic's latest study combines IoT and network tests to explore AI self-replication, which researchers said would be "challenging" to shut down.

Oct 12, 2026

Maximum-Severity SSRF Flaw in SonicWall SMA Devices Under Attack

by Rob Wright / 3d

Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position.

Prominent Ransomware Negotiator Faces Extortion Charges

by Alexander Culafi / 3d

Edward Dubrovsky, a longtime cybersecurity executive, was arrested and charged in Pennsylvania last week under conspiracy to extort money.

No Identity, No Recovery: Cyber Resilience Starts With IAM

by Todd Thiemann / 3d

The proliferation of enterprise apps and the centrality of cloud identity providers requires an identity security rethink.

Passing the Baton: Dark Reading Names New Editor-in-Chief

by Fahmida Y. Rashid / 3d

Fahmida Y. Rashid will keep the momentum going as she leads Dark Reading.

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