DDoS attacks can knock services offline before links reach capacity
More than 9.1 million DDoS attacks were recorded globally between January and June 2026, an increase of nearly a quarter year over…
New infosec products of the week: October 16, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from NinjaOne, Qualys, Scytale, and SolarWinds. NinjaOne combines…
Fastfetch 2.70.0 changes how Disk free space is reported
Fastfetch is a system information tool written mainly in C that runs on Linux, macOS, Windows 8.1 and later, Android and several…
SecTor 2026 Reveals a Rapidly Shifting Cybersecurity Landscape
The event closed in Toronto last week, with experts sharing critical perspectives on emerging risks, drawing record attendance and marking 22% growth.
F-Secure Launches Victim-First Scam Encyclopedia Covering 50+ Types of Consumer Fraud
Built from decades of threat intelligence research, the new resource explains scams from the victims’ perspective and tracks emerging forms of cyber…
Federal bankruptcy courts dealing with outages after contractor cyberattack
A cyberattack on a U.S. government contractor has impacted the platform used by all federal bankruptcy courts across the country. The Administrative…
AI Slop Isn’t Just for Social Media; It’s Ruining Cyberattacks, Too
Don’t buy the hype! AI has been dumbing down cyberattacks, and serious threat actors are barely touching it.
Targeted ads delivered 0-click exploits to install mercenary malware
Among the major vendors that listed Discover-Tech as a “certified” or “verified” vendor were Google and the advertising industry association IAB Europe.…
Hackers exploit Collabora RCE flaw to backdoor Nextcloud servers
Threat actors are exploiting a critical command execution flaw, now tracked as CVE-2026-110447, in the Collabora Online – Built-in CODE Server app…
Critical PwnEscape Linux Kernel Vulnerability Lets Guest VMs Read Host Memory
A newly disclosed critical flaw in the Linux kernel allows code inside a virtual machine to read memory on the host computer…