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Owner of Empire cybercrime market gets 40 years in prison

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 8, 2026

The co-creator of Empire Market, one of the largest dark web marketplaces before its shutdown, has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for facilitating $430 million in illegal transactions from 2018 to 2020. […]

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Samsung Galaxy S26 hacked three more times at Pwn2Own Ireland

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 8, 2026

On the second day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2026, security researchers collected $232,500 in cash awards after exploiting 45 unique zero-day vulnerabilities. […]

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Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

The owner of ransomware remediation company MonsterCloud has been charged with allegedly defrauding ransomware victims by secretly paying their attackers for decryptors while claiming to use proprietary technology to recover encrypted data. […]

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FBI: Ongoing FortiBleed attacks lock out FortiGate VPN admins

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

The FBI is warning that FortiBleed attacks are still ongoing, targeting exposed Fortinet FortiGate firewalls and SSL VPN gateways and locking out legitimate administrators. […]

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Hackers hijack Google domains after breaching ccTLD registries

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

Hackers obtained unauthorized HTTPS certificates for several Google domains and hijacked domains in the country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) for Ghana, American Samoa, and Sierra Leone after compromising third-party operators and modifying authoritative DNS records. […]

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Building an evidence-grounded agentic security operations harness on Cloudflare

Cloudflare, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

Cloudflare Managed Defense uses a team of specialized AI agents built on Workers and global network telemetry to analyze security alerts. By separating deterministic evidence collection from model inference, the system delivers grounded recommendations to Managed Defense Analysts.

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3 lessons from frontier AI vulnerability research

IT News, Microsoft / admin / October 7, 2026

Read how How Microsoft Security’s FORGE Lab is scaling vulnerability research from Windows to the Linux kernel.

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Microsoft Outlook to block MSIX attachments starting November

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

Microsoft announced that it will add .msix and .msixbundle attachments to the list of blocked attachments in Outlook Web and the new Outlook Windows client starting next month. […]

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PoeLLM malware infects exposed AI servers in cryptomining attacks

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

A cryptomining campaign targeting exposed AI services is using PoeLLM malware to turn compromised servers into scanners and exploit launchpads. […]

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Ransomware has a new target. Is your backup ready?

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 7, 2026

Ransomware groups are increasingly targeting backup infrastructure to eliminate recovery options and increase pressure on victims to pay. Kaseya explains why organizations need isolated, immutable, and regularly tested backups that attackers cannot easily reach. […]

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