Breaches
- State Bank of India Data Exposure — SBI confirmed 3,897 customer records were exposed on the dark web, with all affected individuals notified.
- IDC Frontier Ransomware Outage — The SoftBank subsidiary continues recovery efforts following an early October ransomware attack that impacted its East Japan Region 1 cloud infrastructure.
AI Attacks
- Storm-0940 ARTEX Campaign — A China-state-aligned actor is using the ARTEX framework to automate cloud intrusions, impacting over 2,250 Microsoft 365 tenants via compromised ConnectWise credentials.
Dark Web
- October 2026 Ransomware Surge — Global ransomware activity remains elevated, with hundreds of victims reported across various sectors throughout October.