Hackers Hijack Government and School Subdomains to Promote Illegal Gambling Websites

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Hackers have abused government and school domains to promote illegal gambling websites, creating unauthorized subdomains while leaving the institutions’ main websites running normally. Two unrelated operations used changes to Domain Name System (DNS) records to place gambling pages beneath trusted …

Top 10 Best Ransomware Recovery Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]

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Prevention lost; now what? That question not backup-window math defines ransomware recovery, a discipline measured in hours-to-business and judged on three hard problems: finding the clean restore point, proving it’s actually clean, and rebuilding at scale without reinfecting yourself. We …

Top 9 Best Backup & Recovery Solutions in 2026 [Ranked & Scored]

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Ransomware crews attack backups before they attack production encrypting or deleting recovery points first, then ransoming what’s left. That inverted kill chain has turned backup from an infrastructure checkbox into a security control, judged now by immutability, blast-radius isolation, and …

Sony Suffers Massive Data Breach- 2.58 Million So-net and Plala Users Data Exposed

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Sony Network Communications has confirmed a breach exposing 2,585,481 customer records linked to its So-net and plala (S Course) internet services. The company disclosed the incident on October 27, 2026, after finding unauthorized access to its member database. The exposed …

Hackers Target U.S. Election Commission, Forcing Online System Shutdown Days Before Midterms 

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Hackers targeting the U.S. Federal Election Commission forced officials to shut down its electronic filing system days before the November 3 midterm elections, blocking campaign finance disclosures during a critical spending period. The disruption affects how political committees report money …

Hackers Hijack 42 GitHub Repositories to Plant Malware Traps for Claude, Gemini, and Cursor Users

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Hackers have quietly planted malware in 42 real GitHub repositories. The traps fire when a developer opens a project with Claude, Gemini, Cursor, or VS Code. The repositories belong to 11 legitimate owners, including individual developers, students, and one company. …

Sweet Security Offers All Organizations Affected by HTTP2Shell Virtual Patching Protection at No Cost

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New York, NY, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire The root-cause fix will take weeks; protection can’t wait Sweet Security today announced Sweet Safety Net, extending its runtime Virtual Patching protection to every organization affected by HTTP2Shell (CVE-2026-111497). The capability will enable …

Japan’s GMO Internet Urges Customers to Shut Down PCs After Hackers Threaten Ransomware Attack

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Japan’s GMO Internet urged customers of its Onamae.com Desktop Cloud service to disconnect their PCs, shut them down, and unplug connected cables after suspected attackers threatened a ransomware attack. The warning followed a breach involving malicious programs on customer servers …

Microsoft Whistleblower Alleges Foreign Engineer Was Approved to Access U.S. Government Cloud Logs

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A claimed Microsoft whistleblower has raised concerns about government cloud security after screenshots appeared to show approval for an engineer, allegedly based in India, to receive logs from a U.S. government cloud environment through Microsoft’s escort process. The documents raise …

Critical UEFI Firmware Flaw Could Expose Millions of Servers to Pre-Boot Code Execution

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A critical bug in open-source EDK II firmware lets a remote attacker run code on a machine before the operating system starts. The flaw is tracked as CVE-2026-97631. It sits in the network boot (PXE) driver and received a CVSS …