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These are the Cybersecurity Headlines for Monday, October 26th, 2026.

I'm Steve Prentice.

Microsoft teams to get AI-powered, context-aware phishing detection.

Microsoft has announced that Teams will start using AI-powered phishing detection with a rollout starting in early November of this year.

The Canadian Crimestoppers Association and individual chapters blamed a third-party vendor for a lack of information on the breach, but the Toronto chapter decided to come forward with a timeline showing what it knew and when.

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These are the Cybersecurity Headlines for Friday, October 23rd, 2026.

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Hundreds of websites taken offline due to PHP vulnerabilities.

Continuing our coverage of the PHP vulnerabilities story, the European Union, the US, Japan, Australia and several European countries have all released warnings locally about the two critical PHP 2 shell vulnerabilities which are rated 9.2 and 10 and which support up to 70% of all websites globally.

No hacking group has taken credit for the incident as of Wednesday and no mention of ransomware has yet been made.

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These are the Cybersecurity Headlines for Monday, October 19th, 2026.

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Cybersecurity jobs report reveals mixed bag.

Published by workforce intelligence company CyberSN, the October jobs report is an assessment of the job market by skills required rather than by the recruiting company's role titles.

Once opened, it displays a decoy document and launches a hidden PowerShell process to decode and run an embedded executable." Its final payload following this process is the SikaBikaBotRat, which immediately registers the infected machine with Discord and starts its reconnaissance routine, harvesting system information, processes and network configuration, and taking screenshots.

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[upbeat music] These are the cybersecurity headlines for Friday, October 16th, 2026.

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Zero-click Candiru spyware infections at Al Jazeera tracked to targeted online ads.

According to researchers at the Citizen Lab based at the University of Toronto, this is, quote, "The first public technical confirmation that mercenary spyware has reached real devices through targeted ads." End quote.

Microsoft does advise IT admins to upgrade to Windows Server 2025, which began rolling out to Windows Insiders in January of 2024 and reached general availability in November of 2024.

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[upbeat music] These are the cybersecurity headlines for Monday, October the 12th, 2026.

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Anthropic cuts live internet access for internal AI tests after exploitative behaviors.

Anthropic made the announcement on Friday saying it's, quote, "Cutting off live internet access for all its internal evaluations following the discovery of new incidents in which its artificial intelligence models exhibited misaligned behavior and targeted real websites." End quote.

Korneev was arrested in North Carolina last December.

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