Chrome 155 Lands With 247 Security Fixes, Four of Them Critical: The IT Briefing
Browsers are the busiest software on most business computers, and this week’s Chrome release is unusually large. Here is the...
Month: October 2026
A Poem on GitHub Is Steering a Botnet of Hijacked AI Servers: PoeLLM in Questions and Answers
Companies experimenting with AI often spin up model servers fast and worry about security later. A new cryptomining campaign is...
Ransomware Recovery Firm’s Owner Charged With Quietly Paying Attackers While Billing Victims Millions
When ransomware locks a company’s files, the owner’s first call is often to a recovery firm promising to get the...
SonicWall SMA1000 Gets a Maximum-Severity Fix: Spec Sheet and Patch Checklist for Remote Access Gateways
Remote access gateways sit right on the edge of the network, and SonicWall’s SMA1000 line has had a rough year....
One Hijacked Microsoft 365 Mailbox, 9,000 Phishing Emails: Lessons From Nikkei’s Breaches
Here Is How Layered Defenses HelpA single compromised mailbox is rarely the end of an attack. Usually it’s the start....
Timeline: How One Insider Locked Thousands of Company Devices, and the 32-Month Sentence That Followed
Most ransomware stories start with a stranger. This one started with an employee who already had the keys. A former...
From Form Submission to Hidden Admin: How the Ninja Forms Attack Works, Step by Step
Two unrelated WordPress plugins are being exploited in the same campaign: Ninja Forms, found on more than 500,000 sites, and...
Hijacked Country Domains Let Attackers Mint Fake Certificates for Google and Major Brands
The padlock in a browser’s address bar rests on one promise: the certificate behind it was issued to whoever really...
Atlassian’s Critical Data Center Flaw at a Glance: A Patch Checklist for Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket
Teams that run Jira, Confluence or Bitbucket on their own servers have a new critical update to schedule. This week...
FortiBleed Is Still Active, FBI and Secret Service Warn: Your Questions Answered
Federal investigators are telling Fortinet customers not to treat FortiBleed as yesterday’s problem. A joint alert from the FBI and...
