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Fortinet is warning customers of a critical FortiMail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-104286, that is being actively exploited in zero-day attacks to execute unauthorized code or commands on vulnerable devices. The vulnerability is rated critical, with a CVSS score of 9.8, and affects the FortiMail management interface. “An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted […]

Autonomous AI agents using aggressive strategies attempted to hack U.S. and Canadian government websites to find school and divorce statistics. The failed breach attempts targeted a website under the U.S. Department of Education and Library and Archives Canada. However, the collected data shows no evidence of access to non-public information. Nonprofit research lab Transluce says […]

Microsoft says cyberattackers are currently benefiting from artificial intelligence faster than defenders, allowing threat actors to speed up vulnerability discovery, malware development, and post-compromise activity while security teams struggle to keep pace. This comes from Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, which strongly focuses on how artificial intelligence is changing both offensive and defensive cybersecurity operations. […]

An international law enforcement operation dubbed “Operation KillSwitch” seized the KillSec ransomware gang’s data leak site and servers, led to three arrests, and identified a 16-year-old as the group’s alleged administrator. The coordinated law enforcement action was carried out on September 30, involving authorities from Belgium, the United States, Finland, Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, Romania, […]

Zero Trust principles are now commonplace in enterprise infrastructure; organizations have spent years investing in measures that secure identities and systems against sophisticated attacks. However, human error is still a readily exploitable path into even hardened organizations, particularly where trust is established manually. Onboarding and service desk processes are a natural pressure point where agents […]

Secure file-sharing software company Kiteworks has released security updates to address 126 vulnerabilities, including a max-severity flaw affecting its Email Protection Gateway (EPG) security solution. EPG is a component of the Kiteworks Private Content Network (PCN), which integrates enterprise email, Managed File Transfer (MFT), file sharing, APIs, and web forms into a single platform. Formerly […]

The Pentagon’s Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) is notifying millions of military service members that hackers stole their data after breaching the Pentagon’s human resources management system in October 2025. In data breach notification letters shared online by affected individuals, the DMDC told affected military personnel that “a small number of unauthorized users” had access […]

More than 543,000 credentials exposed in public GitHub repositories were still valid in July despite the platform’s security measures to prevent accidental leaks of sensitive data. Data pulled from scanning 224 million repositories and more than 58 billion files show that the median time a unique credential remained publicly accessible was 784 days. The research […]