- Massive Microsoft outage disrupts businesses, schools and governments around the world
November 13, 2026
A massive Microsoft outage has left people around the world without access to Outlook email, Teams meeting tools and other staples of modern office life. In the United States, fed-up workers at some companies went home early on Thursday. In Australia, businesses couldn’t print invoices and some schools couldn’t hold online classes on Friday. And there was ...
- Shipping giant Maersk confirms data breach as hackers demand $5 million ransom
November 12, 2026
One of the world’s largest shipping and logistics companies, A.P. Moller–Maersk (often just called Maersk) has confirmed it recently suffered a cyberattack in which it lost sensitive data from one of its earlier acquisitions. The criminals are now trying to pressure the company into paying a ransom, threatening to release all of the stolen information on ...
- Attackers use Autonomous AI to target semiconductor, defense and civil society sectors
November 12, 2026
From August–September 2026, Chinese-speaking attackers used an open-source AI penetration testing framework called Cairn to autonomously conduct 25 operations against at least 19 organizations. The attackers weaponized Cairn by pairing it with Chinese AI models Zhipu GLM and DeepSeek. The attackers supplied a target and a goal, then Cairn planned, executed and recorded results on its ...
- Nvidia’s Jensen Huang resigns, chipmaker names CFO Colette Kress as interim CEO
November 12, 2026
Jensen Huang has resigned from his position as president and chief executive of Nvidia, the company said on Thursday, just a few days after he admitted to a romantic affair with an alleged Chinese spy, sparking a U.S. national security crisis. In a regulatory filing, Nvidia said its board accepted Huang’s resignation on Wednesday. Nvidia said ...
- Hackers exploiting ScreenConnect plugin flaw to spread malware across hundreds of PCs
November 12, 2026
Hackers have used a dodgy third-party ScreenConnect extension to push malware onto at least 288 machines across 48 organizations, prompting ConnectWise to disable a handful of plugins in hundreds of customer environments. Security outfit Huntress first raised the alarm in a Reddit post on Wednesday, warning of an active campaign targeting cloud-hosted ScreenConnect instances. At the ...
- Transcending the trust boundaries: how a cloud pentest works
November 12, 2026
Users trust a cloud provider to configure and maintain their IT services, including data storage. In turn, the provider guarantees that hosted services will stay up and that data will remain strictly confidential. To demonstrate that their platforms are secure, providers choose different strategies: some run bug bounty programs, some rely on regular internal audits, and ...
- European tech buyers add digital sovereignty to cyber shopping list
November 12, 2026
European tech buyers are increasingly choosing cybersecurity vendors from their own continent in a bid to reduce their reliance on American technology. Digital sovereignty isn’t only prompting enterprise customers to question their clouds of choice, it is also reshaping other parts of the industry too, and the shift is marked. According to sales figures compiled by Context, ...
- Patch Tuesday – November 2026
November 11, 2026
Microsoft is publishing 1,092 own-product vulnerabilities on November 2026 Patch Tuesday, including 1,102 vulnerabilities in Windows. Until a few months ago, these volumes would have been unimaginable, but if anything, this month feels like a slight reprieve. The jury is still out on whether patching many more vulnerabilities will lead to better security outcomes; every code ...
- Remus malware claims Gmail access even after you change your password
November 11, 2026
Changing your password should be part of recovering a compromised account. The developers of Remus Stealer are advertising a Gmail-reading feature they claim can survive that step and even session revocation. That is a serious claim. It is not, however, a demonstrated capability in the published investigation. Threat intelligence company Hudson Rock examined Remus’s promotional material ...
- Japan’s furniture giant Nitori says hackers stole 37.6 million customer records
November 11, 2026
Japan’s largest furniture chain Nitori Holdings has disclosed suffering a cyberattack which saw it lose tens of millions of customer records. Both consumer and business customers are affected, but passwords and payment data have not been compromised. In a statement, Nitori said it spotted unauthorized access to its systems on November 6 2026 – and after ...
- Critical vulnerabilities in N-able N-central prompt hosted shutdown
November 10, 2026
On November 9, 2026, N-able announced that it was responding to the public disclosure of critical vulnerabilities affecting N-central, its remote monitoring and management (RMM) platform. In a public disclosure titled Able2Shell, an independent researcher has published details and proof-of-concept (PoC) code covering 33 issues. According to the disclosure, the issues include unauthenticated remote code execution ...