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The Week in Ransomware at glance

The Australian, US, and UK governments announced sanctions against Aleksandr Gennadievich Ermakov, a Russian national connected to the 2022 Medibank hack and the REvil ransomware group.

According to a report by Intel471, Ermakov was very involved in cybercrime, working as a ransomware operator and affiliate. It is also thought that he was involved in both legal and illegal software development.

CISA adds PHP2Shell to KEV, PHP Releases New Security Updates to Fix Critical HTTP2Shell flaw

CISA has updated a new alert to reflect the addition of CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV)...
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CISA adds PHP2Shell to KEV, PHP Releases New Security Updates to Fix Critical HTTP2Shell flaw

Cloudflare Unveils Emergency WAF Ruleset Update on Brotli flaw

Cloudflare has shared an urgent update to its Web Application Firewall (WAF) rules due to CVE-2026-111497, a Brotli issue. The release...
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Cloudflare Unveils Emergency WAF Ruleset Update on Brotli flaw

Daily Cyber security update for 26.10. 2026

Cyberattacks are rising around the world, including ransomware, malware, data leaks, and hacked websites. These events show how complex and...
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Daily Cyber security update for 26.10. 2026

The Washington Post report
Ex-DOGE AI startup Cathedral Breaches Anthropic Internal Systems within 12 Hours

AI startup Cathedral gained a limited access to internal systems at Anthropic in less than 12 hours, exposing employee information,...
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The Washington Post report  Ex-DOGE AI startup Cathedral Breaches Anthropic Internal Systems within 12 Hours

Daily Cyber security update for 25. 10. 2026

Cyberattacks are rising around the world, including ransomware, malware, data leaks, and hacked websites. These events show how complex and...
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Daily Cyber security update for 25. 10. 2026

Daily Cyber security update for 24. 10. 2026

Cyberattacks are rising around the world, including ransomware, malware, data leaks, and hacked websites. These events show how complex and...
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Daily Cyber security update for 24. 10. 2026

PHP shares new RCE flaw (CVE 2026-115560) with no patch but mitigation

The PHP security team shared ways to protect against a new flaw that lets someone run unwanted code on certain...
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PHP shares new RCE flaw (CVE 2026-115560) with no patch but mitigation

US banks faced unauthorized access by AI agents in customer accounts: Axios reports

Major US banks have detected unauthorized access to customer accounts by third-party AI agents, with some systems taking actions beyond...
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US banks faced unauthorized access by AI agents in customer accounts: Axios reports

Atlassian patched 176 flaw in Jira and Confluence: Fortinet Urges to Patch Flaws Affecting FortiOS, FortiManager

Fortinet has urged customers to prioritize security updates for FortiOS, FortiManager, and FortiAnalyzer scheduled for October 22, 2026. The coordinated...
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Atlassian patched 176 flaw in Jira and Confluence: Fortinet Urges to Patch Flaws Affecting FortiOS, FortiManager

Hacker claim to access Rajasthan Police data: 70,000 records allegedly exposed

Hacker offers to sell Rajasthan Government’s Department of Information Technology & Communication (DoIT&C) data in a underground forum. The threat...
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Hacker claim to access Rajasthan Police data: 70,000 records allegedly exposed

The US government sentenced Russian national Vladimir Dunaev to five years and four months in prison for creating and distributing the TrickBot malware and working with ransomware operations.

“Dunaev was a malware developer for the Trickbot Group, overseeing the creation of internet browser injection, machine identification, and data harvesting codes used by the Trickbot malware,” reads the complaint against Dunaev and his co-conspirators.

Dunaev, according to the DOJ press release, created ransomware and used it to target hospitals, schools, and businesses in the USA.

This week, there were several big attacks reported. Tietoevry was targeted by an Akira attack, Veolia North America experienced an attack, and Equilend was attacked by LockBit. loanDepot shared that the January 6th ransomware attack exposed data from 16.6 million people.

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