October 2026 – Page 7 – SMITH COMPUTER CONSULTING

Microsoft: Windows 11 23H2 reaches end of support in 30 days

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 12, 2026

Microsoft has reminded customers that systems running Windows 11 23H2 Enterprise, Education, and IoT Enterprise editions will stop receiving security updates next month. […]

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Nippon Columbia malware incident exposes 8.6 million karaoke fan records

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 11, 2026

Daiichi Kosho, a major Japanese entertainment system maker, disclosed that a malware infection at its contractor, Nippon Columbia, exposed more than 8.7 million customer and employee records. […]

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Cyber exec arrested in case allegedly tied to ShinyHunters hackers

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 10, 2026

Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky has been arrested in Pennsylvania in connection with alleged extortion activity that multiple reports have linked to the FBI’s ongoing crackdown on the ShinyHunters hacking group. […]

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ARTEX AI, Claude agents used in cyberattacks on South Korean banks

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 10, 2026

The cyberattacks that shook the South Korean financial sector earlier this month were launched by a Chinese hacker using the ARTEX AI penetration testing suite and Claude agents. […]

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Criminal IP Introduces AITEM as the Next Evolution of Attack Surface Management

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 10, 2026

Traditional attack surface management helps organizations discover exposed assets, but visibility alone is not enough to address threats. Criminal IP introduces AITEM, an AI-powered approach that connects exposure discovery with investigation, risk prioritization, and response. […]

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FBI Arrests Founder of Ransomware Negotiation Firm

IT News, Krebs on Security / admin / October 9, 2026

Agents with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday arrested the co-founder of a Canadian cybersecurity firm in connection with an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group that recently relieved the FBI of sensitive data on thousands of agents, multiple sources tell KrebsOnSecurity.

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Hackers abuse Google Ads, Bing redirects to push Claude ClickFix attacks

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 9, 2026

Hackers are abusing legitimate Bing search-result redirects as click URLs in Google search ads to direct users to fake Claude installers that deliver ClickFix attacks. […]

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Introducing Clef-omni with full multimodality, plus a faster Clef and a cheaper Clef-flash

Cloudflare, IT News / admin / October 9, 2026

We are expanding the Clef decision model family with Clef-omni, natively processing audio, video, images, and text in a single pipeline. We’ve also lowered Clef-flash pricing and boosted Clef inference speeds by up to 2.0x.

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Unpatched AhsayCBS flaws exploited to deploy webshells, mine crypto

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 9, 2026

Threat actors are exploiting one critical and one medium-severity vulnerability still unpatched in the AhsayCBS backup management platform to deploy webshells and cryptocurrency miners. […]

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FBI arrests another suspected ShinyHunters hacker after agency breach

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 9, 2026

The FBI has arrested another suspected member of the ShinyHunters extortion group believed to be involved in the recent breach of FBI systems, Director Kash Patel announced Friday. […]

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