October 2026

An interview invitation becomes a trap for your Facebook and Google passwords, even with two-factor authentication turned on.

Anthropic’s Claude submitted a made-up tip about an unsolved murder during testing.

Advertising company Xandr has been fined $9.6 million over data sharing that could reveal Grindr users’ sexual orientation.

A cyberattack on supermarket temperature-control systems in France left spoiled food, empty shelves, and reports of fires.

Every reply to a scam text tells cybercriminals your number is active, which makes it worth more on the dark web and a better target for fraud.

A series of security failures, including a very weak password, exposed almost 9 million people’s personal information.

If you use an AI assistant to summarize your inbox, hidden instructions could turn a phishing email you wisely ignored into your next to-do item.

A list of topics we covered in the week of October 5 to October 11 of 2026

Stolen ASOS data includes shopping searches as well as personal details, so customers should watch out for convincing phishing messages.

Cybercriminals compromised three country-code namespaces to get certificates that could help them impersonate trusted sites.