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 …

Discord to Make Discoverable Public Server Messages Searchable on Google

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Discord will make selected messages from Discoverable Servers searchable through Google and other search engines, opening some community discussions to the wider web. Announced on October 27, the change begins on November 16, 2026, with Server Web Pages and discussion …

Criminal IP Joins INTERPOL’s Gateway Initiative to Support Global Cybercrime Efforts

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Torrance, United States / California, October 27th, 2026, CyberNewswire AI SPERA, the company behind the cyber threat intelligence and attack surface management platform Criminal IP, has signed a cooperation agreement with the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) under its Gateway …