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UK Legal Aid Agency: Hackers stole records dating back to 1978

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 15, 2026

The Legal Aid Agency (LAA), an executive agency of the UK’s Ministry of Justice that manages the country’s Public Defender Service, says attackers who breached its IT systems in April 2025 stole records dating back to 1978. […]

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Palo Alto Networks warns of PAN-OS RCE flaw exploited in attacks

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates for a high-severity PAN-OS RCE zero-day, tracked as CVE-2026-0322, that has been exploited in attacks targeting firewalls. […]

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Yandex outage: Data shows that instead of going dark, malicious bots went on the move

Cloudflare, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

When strikes hit Yandex data centers, many assumed Russian bot operations went dark. Cloudflare data reveals that while search crawling stopped, malicious bots simply migrated to other networks.

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FBI raids DPRK IT worker laptop farms in Texas, US nationals arrested

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) has disrupted the Famous Chollima threat group’s operations by arresting two suspects, charging 14 individuals, and seizing nearly 187 laptops used in North Korean remote IT worker schemes. […]

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Ledger asks sellers across Asia to halt sales after supply-chain attack

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

Ledger has asked resellers and distributors of its wallets in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong to suspend device sales and remove products from shelves while it investigates device tampering. […]

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Cisco patches new Secure Email Gateway zero-day exploited in attacks

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

Cisco has patched another actively exploited zero-day flaw in its Secure Email Gateway (SEG) that lets remote unauthenticated attackers execute commands with root privileges. […]

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Microsoft fixes VPN issues caused by September Windows updates

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

Microsoft has resolved a known issue that caused Always On VPN connection issues after installing the September 2026 Windows 11 security updates. […]

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U.K. Sanctions Cryptomus for RU Money Laundering

IT News, Krebs on Security / admin / October 14, 2026

The United Kingdom has issued economic sanctions against Cryptomus, a chameleonic cryptocurrency platform that experts say serves as a major conduit for payments related to ransomware, narcotics, darknet markets, fraud and cybercrime services that are helping Russia circumvent existing financial restrictions.

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The Blind Spots of Agentic Pentesting and How to Close Them

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

AI-powered penetration testing can uncover complex attack paths, but safety restrictions and network limitations leave many assets and vulnerabilities untested. Picus Security explains how combining agentic pentesting with exposure validation and breach simulation can help close these gaps. […]

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Global takedown hits network behind 1 billion phishing messages

Bleeping Computer, IT News / admin / October 14, 2026

A massive cybercriminal ecosystem facilitating more than a billion malicious messages targeting over 75,000 organizations across 150 countries has been disrupted by law enforcement agencies and partners worldwide. […]

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