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In April 2026, we at Kaspersky’s Global Emergency Response Team (GERT) responded to a security incident at a manufacturing organization in the Middle East. The threat actor obtained domain admin-equivalent control of the organization’s Active Directory environment and authored a malicious Group Policy Object (GPO) named PAYLOAD, linking it at the domain root. Through that…

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that the threat of hybrid attacks by Russia against Europe and France has intensified.

A recent wave of AI-powered voice phishing attacks targeting some of Wall Street’s most sophisticated financial firms has highlighted a growing cybersecurity reality: organizations can no longer trust what they hear. In August 2026, attackers reportedly used AI-generated voice clones to impersonate executives and trusted colleagues in an attempt to gain access to systems at…

MOSCOW, Sept 19 (Reuters) – Russian authorities reported attacks on voting systems and communication lines across the country on Saturday, the second day of a September 18-20 parliamentary election that Moscow is treating as a test of public support for the war in Ukraine.

Why This Matters to Distributors:Ransomware attacks against transportation, freight and warehousing companies continue to increase after adjusting for an unusually large 2025 attack campaign. Black Kite also found that 42% of the 2,289 distribution companies it monitors are above its critical threshold for ransomware susceptibility.

A new ransomware variant named Settra has been deployed in incidents targeting the retail and manufacturing sectors

Ransomware attacks that disrupted the computer networks of New Britain and Meriden earlier this year may have exposed sensitive personal information belonging to more than 12,600 residents, newly released state data shows. 

Hiscox’s 10th Cyber Readiness Report found that 29% of organisations suffered at least one successful cyber attack in the past year. The study drew on responses from 6,800 cyber security decision-makers, including 1,000 in the UK.

Attackers are increasingly moving upstream, targeting the systems that build and distribute code rather than the applications that emerge from them. CI/CD pipelines, package registries including npm and PyPI, GitHub Actions workflows, and the AI agent tooling are now connected to all of them, attracting the attention that production software used to. Adversaries take over…

If you clicked on an HBO Max ad on Reddit over the past week, you might want to check your computer for malware.