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Grouped by series, newest first. By Kevin Swaney.
45 pieces · 3 series · Oct-Nov 2026
Series 01
Morning Threat Brief
2026-11-14Morning Threat Brief: Check Point gateways hacked to root with a wiper waiting, ransomware wipes a VMware estate with no hypervisor bug, the FBI disrupts a $400M fake video call scam, and AI agents break in under three hoursThreat Brief
2026-11-13Morning Threat Brief: Attackers hijack ScreenConnect panels to hit 288 endpoints, a new N-central zero-day beats the emergency patch, police seize StealC servers, and Citrix patches 10 critical flawsThreat Brief
2026-11-12Morning Threat Brief: 30-plus N-central zero-days under attack, a new Windows flaw with no patch, Xen Orchestra logins bypassed, and Maersk confirms a breachThreat Brief
2026-11-11Morning Threat Brief: Microsoft patches an exploited Outlook zero-day in a record Patch Tuesday, Barracuda flaws chain to root with a Friday deadline, SAP patches four perfect 10s, and Vanderbilt's attacker claims a million SSNsThreat Brief
2026-11-10Morning Threat Brief: Chrome patches its eighth exploited zero-day of 2026, Fireworks AI is breached again, CISA adds four exploited flaws, and Vanderbilt is hitThreat Brief
2026-11-09Morning Threat Brief: A cloud host tells every customer to rotate all keys, your AI coder may have posted your passwords on GitHub, a retailer breach hits 7.7 million, and a data broker's SSNs are claimed exposedThreat Brief
2026-11-07Morning Threat Brief: Your VPN's MFA can be bypassed, a runaway AI agent breached a company, crypto investigators lost every customer's credentials, and SSH has a no-password bugThreat Brief
2026-11-06Morning Threat Brief: Ransomware reached the hypervisor through a monitoring tool, a library system goes dark, freezers draw a federal warning, and DigiCert confirms a breachThreat Brief
2026-11-05Morning Threat Brief: An old Apple bug joins KEV as APT29 poisons websites, a perfect 10 Metabase flaw is still being hit, DreamHost confirms a two month breach, and WhiteArmor names UnileverThreat Brief
2026-11-04Morning Threat Brief: WordPress joins KEV with a Friday deadline, a Zyxel patch that did not patch, a perfect 10 Node-RED flaw under attack, and ransomware that may have run on autopilotThreat Brief
2026-11-03Morning Threat Brief: Ivanti patches the last two VPN zero-days, Synology boxes hit by C3RB3R, a security tool turned backdoor, and Google kills a 1.3 million box botnetThreat Brief
2026-11-02Morning Threat Brief: BeyondTrust probes widen, Trigger.dev secrets exposed, BTCPay hot wallets drained, and the Amadeus breach widensThreat Brief
2026-11-01Morning Threat Brief: FBI names North Korea in the $6.3 billion Binance theft, Chainalysis breached by agentic AI, and Northflank customers told to rotate everythingThreat Brief
2026-10-30Morning Threat Brief: GitLab 10.0 hits KEV, Cisco joins it, and a $6.3 billion theftThreat Brief
2026-10-29Morning Threat Brief: Linux kernel chain to root, VMware logging blind spot, and Cisco firewalls crashingThreat Brief
2026-10-28Morning Threat Brief: PolyShell and Brotli hit KEV, Apple patches 286 bugs, and a fake IT desk in TeamsThreat Brief
2026-10-27Morning Threat Brief: PHP2Shell hits KEV with an October 29 deadlineThreat Brief
2026-10-26Morning Threat Brief: FortiSIEM is now being exploited, PHP2Shell RCE confirmed, and an unverified J.B. Hunt claimThreat Brief
Oct 25, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: 70,000 firewall credentials harvested from the edge
Oct 24, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: CISA confirms the Collabora Nextcloud flaw is being exploited, and a Qilin bank listing that proves nothing yet
Oct 23, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: VeloCloud zero-day turns read-only logins into superusers, Signal calls that never hang up
Oct 22, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: PHP2Shell exploited before the patch, LiteLLM poisoned on PyPI
Oct 21, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: SafePay at 600 victims, Qilin and INC hit GlobalProtect
Oct 20, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: 11M Records Gone, 38 Ships on a Ransom List
Oct 19, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: The 20-Year-Old Flaw in Every Apple Device
Oct 17, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: The Support Tool That Became a Skeleton Key
Oct 16, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: A Phone Call, a Billion Phish, and a Fraud Ring
Oct 15, 2026
Morning Threat Brief: Two New Zero-Days Hit Your Edge
Series 02
AI Security
Oct 24, 2026
CrowdStrike and NVIDIA take AI agent security into silicon
Oct 24, 2026
AI Agent Security Week: OpenAI just took its frontier models off the live internet
Oct 13, 2026
Anthropic Took Its AI Evaluations Offline
Oct 12, 2026
Don’t Be Cruel to the Chatbot
Oct 10, 2026
Identity Controls for AI Agents: Treat Them Like Privileged Accounts
Oct 10, 2026
AI Is Practically Free Right Now. That Is Exactly Why the Labs Are Bleeding.
Series 03
Analysis
Nov 13, 2026
Nvidia loses its founder CEO days before earnings. What changes for AI teams
Nov 12, 2026
Microsoft 365 Is Down for Tens of Thousands, and This Week's Security Patch Is Breaking Windows Too
Nov 2, 2026
Election Security: If a Message Claims Your Registration Is at Risk, Do Not Click It
Oct 26, 2026
Anthropic Filed to Go Public. Here Is What That Means for the Businesses That Depend on Claude.
Oct 25, 2026
The Headlines Say the Internet Is Broken. Here Is What You Actually Need to Do.
Oct 25, 2026
Black October: A Disclosure Wave, Not a Single Attack
Oct 17, 2026
Proofpoint Is Buying Varonis for $6.3 Billion.
Oct 14, 2026
Three Ransomware Deadlines Hit Today
Oct 11, 2026
Ransomware Comes for the Consultants
Oct 11, 2026
Don’t Make It Easy for Them: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026