ThreatsDay: Ransomware Affiliate Betrayal, WhatsApp RAT, Exposed Hacker Tools and 12 More Stories
Ravie LakshmananOct 08, 2026Hacking News / Cybersecurity News The crooks have trust problems of their own. One ransomware affiliate decided...
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Andy Curtis is an award-winning security consultant, researcher and public speaker. He has been working in the computer security industry since the early 1990s, having been employed by state and federal government, leading healthcare and banking providers across three continents. He has given talks about computer security for some of the world’s largest companies, worked with law enforcement agencies on investigations into hacking groups, and is a regular voice on TV and radio explaining IT security threats.
Not like the old days: modern sea control will be episodic and local
A new combination of surveillance, drones and precision strike is eroding the old assumption that navies could generate sea control...
US freezes Microsoft, Adobe, Infosys green-card applications
The Trump administration has frozen some green-card filings by Microsoft, Adobe and major IT outsourcers and opened probes into nine...
EasyPark builds an AI agent to help it qualify B2B sales leads
Key points EasyPark has built an AI agent called Parker, based on Salesforce's Agentforce, to identify and qualify B2B leads...
MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands
MonsterCloud Owner Charged With Secretly Paying Ransomware Demands Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026 MonsterCloud owner Zohar Pinhasi allegedly paid ransomware...
Microsoft will let Copilot act on local files on Windows PCs
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> Copilot will also use AI models running on the PC alongside cloud models...
Japan Sees Sharp Rise in Web Data Leaks Amid Mobile API Abuse and Metabase Attacks
Attackers behind a string of personal data leaks at Japanese organizations have abused APIs for mobile apps and targeted known...
UAC-0099 Targets Ukrainian Government Personnel With ASHVEIN RAT Hiding Commands in HTML
The Russia-aligned threat actor known as UAC-0099 has been attributed to a previously undocumented .NET infostealer and remote access trojan...
ARTEX AI Pentesting Tool Used in Data Theft Attacks on South Korean Financial Firms
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a targeted campaign aimed at South Korean financial organizations that used an artificial intelligence...
Fast AI, slow rollback: the risk facing Apple IT teams
if ( !emtpy($headline_subheadline ) ) : ?> A new Fleet survey finds that 86% of IT teams let AI-written output...
The Man Behind a West Bank Telegram Channel Trying to Keep Palestinian Drivers Safe
With no accurate Big Tech mapping app to help him, Anas Hattab launched a Telegram group to get himself home...
Inside a brand deal scam targeting YouTube creators
Social Media A plausible-sounding sponsorship offer could mask an attempt to compromise your Google account Christian Ali Bravo 07 Oct...
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu
U.S. Offers $10 Million Reward for Alleged HAFNIUM Hacker Zhang Yu Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026 The U.S. offers $10M...
Atlassian Vulnerability Comes Under Attack Hours After Details Go Public
Atlassian Vulnerability Comes Under Attack Hours After Details Go Public Pierluigi Paganini October 08, 2026 Threat actors are exploiting CVE-2026-21589,...
How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators
How Technology Empowers—and Imperils—Dictators This essay was written with Seva Gunitsky, and originally appeared in Foreign Affairs. Two weeks after...
