Ransomware Gangs Embrace Physical Threats, Family Stalking?

2026-10-14T08:51:32Z•46179c0b766ba796dd6ea1a03c5b5766ed3da9b3a30fec027bcf13b8927a713c
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What happened

Dark Reading roundup covering active exploitation of critical vulnerabilities, ransomware and cybercrime activity, state-sponsored phishing and espionage, malicious IoT and Linux malware, ClickFix campaigns, cloud and AI-agent security risks, and broader cyber resilience and governance developments. The most urgent items include an actively exploited critical SonicWall SMA SSRF flaw, Microsoft Patch Tuesday zero-days including unauthenticated RCE, and vulnerabilities affecting widely deployed middleware and edge devices.

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2026-10-14T08:51:32Z
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