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There has been a sharp escalation in attacks that use malicious calendar invites to reach targets, email security providers Check Point and Sublime Security have warned. Sublime recorded a 1,216% month-over-month increase in August 2026, and the first half of September alone surpassed the whole of August by 1,426%. Check Point’s numbers tell a similar…
Help Net Security
Staffing software giant calls in CrowdStrike as customers face login headaches and questions remain over possible data theft…
The Register+1 source
Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail chains, confirmed that last week’s cyberattack disrupted services at stores across Europe and the United States.
BleepingComputer+3 sources
A data breach exposed AfD emails, while an anonymous site published AI summaries of 421,000 messages, raising questions about authenticity and privacy. Germany’s Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) confirmed on October 19 that its hosting provider was hacked in September and that mailboxes were copied. By the time the confirmation reached Bild, a website called hexane.cc…
Security Affairs
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The compromised information includes names, addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth.
SecurityWeek+1 source
The Russian group known as APT28 and Fancy Bear used a recently documented backdoor to dwell in the networks of two defense contractors and a law enforcement agency in two NATO allies, researchers said.
The Record
Fintech company Revolut is working to resolve a massive outage that disrupted most of its services worldwide earlier today.
BleepingComputer+1 source
Paradigm Healthcare Services detected an intrusion in October 2025, but it took nearly a year to start notifying affected individuals.
SecurityWeek
On the night of 11 October, someone remotely put the cold cases of several hundred French supermarkets into defrost. At Intermarché and Netto stores, fridges and freezers warmed to around 50°C and stayed there for about six hours, according to Les Mousquetaires, which expects losses in the tens of millions of euros. By morning, staff…
CSO Online UK
Blackwall has raised $100M at a $2.2B valuation to continue building security and filtering tools that help websites grapple with growing bot and AI traffic.
TechCrunch
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a ClickFix delivery platform called ROMULUS that’s being used to distribute malware such as Legion Loader. According to Forescout Research – Vedere Labs, ROMULUS is akin to a malware delivery service that employs ClickFix-style lures on bogus landing pages to trick unsuspecting users into running malicious commands and infecting…
The Hacker News
70K accounts
In September 2024, the French national pension fund Assurance Retraite suffered a data breach affecting approximately 370k assistance beneficiaries. The data included 70k unique email addresses along with names, dates of birth, physical addresses, phone numbers, income levels, marital statuses, French social security numbers (NIR) and contact details of relatives or other nominated contacts. In…
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