Security Bulletin

As 2026 begins, these journalists urge the cybersecurity industry to prioritize patching vulnerabilities, preparing for quantum threats, and refining AI applications, in the latest edition of Reporters' Notebook.

Ransomware defense requires focusing on business resilience. This means patching issues promptly, improving user education, and deploying multifactor authentication.

Russian and Chinese nation-state attackers are exploiting a months-old WinRAR vulnerability, despite a patch that came out last July.

To stop the ongoing attacks, the cybersecurity vendor took the drastic step of temporarily disabling FortiCloud single sign-on (SSO) authentication for all devices.

The retail sector must adapt as consumers become more cybersecurity-conscious. Increased attack transparency is a good place to start.

In two separate campaigns, attackers used the JScript C2 framework to target Chinese gambling websites and Asian government entities with new backdoors.

The region is up against tactics like data-leak extortion, credential-stealing campaigns, edge-device exploitation, and attackers leveraging AI.

AI "model collapse," where LLMs over time train on more and more AI-generated data and become degraded as a result, can introduce inaccuracies, promulgate malicious activity, and impact PII protections.

A new ransomware strain that entered the scene last year has poorly designed code and an odd "Hebrew" identity that might be a false flag.

While telnet is considered obsolete, the network protocol is still used by hundreds of thousands of legacy systems and IoT devices for remote access.

To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker would need either system access or be able to convince a user to open a malicious Office file.

The malware-as-a-service kit enables malicious extensions to overlay pages on real websites without changing the visible URL, signaling a fresh challenge for enterprise security.