Smart TVs can harbor unpatched security flaws and track what you watch

Fake IT help desk callers got by on little more than names and email addresses

Attackers posing as IT help desk staff contacted employees by phone, email and Microsoft Teams in the third quarter of 2026 and talked them into opening remote access sessions, Cisco Talos Incident Response (Talos IR) found across several engagements. In one case, that access ended in ransomware. They knew names and email addresses “The attackers appeared to know employee names and email addresses, as they contacted…

What exactly is ISOC? And what does it mean for you?

Gartner recently released a new category of assessing security tools: the Integrated Security Operations Center (ISOC). Even though SIEM isn’t going anywhere, a rapidly evolving threat landscape is forcing a shift in industry logic that is reflected in the emergence of this new category. For years, SIEM has dominated as an all-encompassing category. But SIEMs are no longer sufficient to collect data, support investig…

Scammers rebuild fake shopping sites within hours of a takedown

One retail scam used more than 1,200 look-alike .shop domains sharing a single IP address. The sites reused HTML, JavaScript and payment-page designs intended to harvest card numbers, expiry dates and security codes, according Akamai’s Fraud and Abuse Report 2026. A ticket scam used a similar setup. Several websites impersonating official ticketing and hospitality portals for a major sporting event were designed to r…

CVE-2026-98432: Linux TCP Use-After-Free Risk and Patch Validation