• Microsoft: AI Cuts Post-Compromise Attack Time to Minutes
• AI is giving attackers a head start, Microsoft warns
• Chinese spies impersonate White House, Anthropic figures to phish AI policy experts
• Police Target KillSec Ransomware Group with Arrests and Seizures
• Critical FortiMail zero-day exploited in the wild (CVE-2026-104286)
• Two Zero-Days Exploited in Attack on Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure
• Criminal recruiters want people on your payroll
• Android 17 makes it harder for spyware to cover its tracks
• Botnets, adversarial attacks and data poisoning top leaders’ AI threat list
• AI agents keep access to company data after their work is done
• New infosec products of the week: October 2, 2026
• Critical Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Zero-Day Under Active Exploitation
• China-Linked Hackers Impersonate AI Experts to Target US Policy Insiders
• 16-year-old suspected leader of KillSec ransomware group arrested
• CloudSyncD MacOS Backdoor Hides Behind Fake Zoom Installer
• AI Threats Top Cybersecurity Preparedness Gap, PwC Finds
• MI5 Warns Over 100 Academics Helped China's Espionage Plans
• AI-Found Vulnerabilities More Likely to Enable RCE, Google Says
• Trump, Six AI Giants Sign 'Super Intelligence' Safety Accord
• AI Boosts SOC Analyst Capacity but Limits Skill Development
• Attackers Combine ChatGPT Feature Abuse With ClickFix to Deliver Trojan Malware
• Apple Patches CoreGraphics Zero Day Exploited in Attacks
• RatHat's Evolving C2 Panel Points to Malware-as-a-Service Model
• Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Flaws Could Expose AWS Credentials

Microsoft has warned that threat actors have gained the advantage over defenders by using AI to enhance the speed and scale of attacks