Trump appointees asked CISA to secretly hack a voting machine and not reveal the results, report
The effort stalled, but election officials say the administration’s cuts have left CISA less equipped to defend voting systems against real threats.
Surveillance without borders, weaponized cameras, and the Russian bot myth: Best infosec long reads 10/17/26
Hacked cameras become weapons of war, China deepens its surveillance, Uganda slides into surveillance authoritarianism, Outlit wants AI agents to watch customers, Russian bots blackout is a myth Goodfire essay on neural networks is all the rage
Cyberattack on BAE Systems knocks US bankruptcy notices offline
Attack disrupts the platform serving every federal bankruptcy court, halting notice production and cutting access to key judiciary websites.
Spyware turns digital ads into silent attack vectors
Citizen Lab uncovered an ad-delivered, zero-click spyware campaign targeting 45 Al Jazeera devices—no clicks or visible warning required.
FBI uproots over 40 of North Korea’s US laptop farms
Authorities dismantled more than 40 Texas laptop farms supporting fraudulent IT hires whose paychecks allegedly financed Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile programs.
Retail hacking spree continues as incidents hit UK retail chains, global grocery chain giant
Cyber incidents forced Ahold Delhaize to take systems offline, with grocery deliveries and distribution disrupted at the conglomerate’s Albert Heijn chain, and halted online orders at fashion retailers Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles,
Hackers raise the heat on French supermarkets with attacks on refrigeration controls
A cyberattack on Danfoss refrigeration controls reportedly forced continuous defrost cycles, spoiling fresh and frozen food at major French retailers and potentially causing millions of euros in losses.
AI without brakes, porous data boundaries, and murky cyber alliances: Best infosec long reads 10/10/26
Zuckerberg gives risky AI agent the green light, TikTok’s ByteDance ties test US data safeguards, China’s AI expansion defies a central kill switch, AI agents erode the human oversight they need, Ukraine’s Cyber Corps shows ties to military intelligence
US seizes seven domains in fresh blow to China-linked hackers
The crackdown targets Integrity Technology Group’s hacking infrastructure as a joint advisory details tools used to breach critical infrastructure and browse stolen emails.
AI could crack crypto’s defenses before quantum computers do, Buterin warns
Ethereum’s co-founder warns that AI-driven mathematical breakthroughs could undermine wallet security—and weaken even cryptography designed to withstand quantum attacks.
Europe’s wind and solar farms leave controls exposed, raising the risk of sabotage
Dutch researchers identified 8,547 internet-facing systems across 35 countries, with potential full control at roughly 181 sites
Asos hack alert sends shares tumbling as unfamiliar threat group takes credit
The retailer is investigating after thousands of app users received a notification claiming its Snowflake database was fully compromised and directing them to the group’s Telegram channel.