Calling on Cyber Pros to Help Defend City Hall

Dark Reading roundup covering emerging cyber threats, including actively exploited critical vulnerabilities, ransomware, nation-state campaigns, malware, cloud and SaaS data theft, attacks against industrial systems, and security risks introduced by autonomous AI agents. Notable items include a critical GitLab zero-click flaw (CVE-2026-19478), a critical VMware vCenter campaign (CVE-2026-59310), Windows DNS Server RCE (CVE-2026-62878), exploitation of Fortinet flaws to bypass MFA, a Metabase SQL zero-day, and multiple AI-agent compromise and hijacking techniques.