With 42% of organizations allowing AI agents to act autonomously, GRC leaders face unprecedented oversight gaps. When decision-making accelerates without central visibility, risk escalates rapidly across business operations.

The 2026 agentic enterprise report delivers actionable insights to help risk leaders unify oversight, establish clear boundaries, and transform agentic AI into a strategic advantage without sacrificing control.

Key topics covered include:
✅ Balancing AI decision-making authority with central visibility
✅ Mitigating systemic risks across autonomous agentic workflows
✅ Actionable benchmarks and proactive control strategies

Get the report - https://thn.news/agentic-enterprise-authority

‼️ Researchers used AI agents running OpenAI's public GPT-5.6 Sol to build a 3-bug Chrome exploit chain in 6 days.

Loading a web page could execute code on Windows, outside Chrome. Google fixed all three bugs and paid $250,000.

Details → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/researchers-used-public-openai-model-to.html

🚨 curl patched a High-severity HTTP/2 upload flaw (CVE-2026-92392).

A malicious server can corrupt client memory; a PoC demonstrated code execution under strict conditions.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/curl-patches-http2-upload-flaw-after.html

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⚠️ CISA urges immediate Ivanti Connect Secure updates as honeypots log 105 exploit attempts from 50 IPs.

The zero-day has also been exploited in real attacks to steal credentials. Honeypot payloads mainly test for code execution.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/cisa-urges-immediate-ivanti-connect.html

A call from your CFO could sound real and still be fake.

62% of cybersecurity leaders surveyed in 2025 reported a deepfake attack on their organization in the prior year.

Can your team stop a fake wire transfer, MFA reset, or admin access request?

Here's how to test it safely → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/how-to-run-deepfake-readiness-drill.html

🚨 U.S. authorities dismantled over 40 laptop farms and charged 14 people in a North Korean IT worker fraud case.

The scheme affected 70+ U.S. companies and generated about $3 million. Employer laptops were hosted in U.S. homes to disguise overseas workers.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/us-shuts-down-over-40-laptop-farms.html

⚡ Over 1 billion phishing emails and texts. 75,000+ organizations targeted.

Microsoft and partners have disrupted 3 phishing kits linked to the actors behind the campaigns: CoGUI, Haozi and Iron Man System.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/microsoft-disrupts-3-phishing-kits.html

‼️ Attackers planted PHP web shells on Nextcloud servers via Collabora's Built-in CODE app (CVE-2026-110447).

Catch >> Disabling the app does NOT close the flaw. Exploitation requires its local document server to be down.

Update to 26.4.303+ or remove it.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/hackers-backdoor-nextcloud-servers.html

‼️ WARNING - Cisco confirms active, in-the-wild exploitation of a new critical flaw (CVE-2026-76519 // CVSS 9.8) in Cisco Secure Email Gateway.

Unauthenticated attackers can achieve full root command execution simply by sending an email with a crafted attachment.

Details >> https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/cisco-warns-of-active-attacks.html

🚨 Palo Alto Networks patches actively exploited PAN-OS RCE flaw (CVE-2026-0322).

Authenticated attackers with network access to the management interface can run code as root.

Palo Alto reports "very limited" exploitation. CISA added it to KEV.

Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/palo-alto-networks-patches-pan-os.html

🚨 Ahsay has released new fixes for two AhsayCBS vulnerabilities exploited by attackers after earlier patches failed to fully address them.

Attackers used the flaws to install web shells and cryptocurrency miners.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ahsaycbs-flaws-exploited-to-deploy-web.html

⚠️ 1,423 Langflow RCE exploit attempts hit Previdian honeypots from 27 IPs.

The bug lets authenticated users, even non-admins, run OS commands through MCP server configs. Fixed in 1.9.0.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/langflows-critical-authenticated-rce.html

🛑 GhostAction attackers compromised about 1,900 GitHub accounts and targeted 30,000+ repositories with malicious GitHub Actions workflows designed to steal CI/CD secrets.

They attempted to extract 3,174 secrets. GitHub blocked later attack waves.

Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/ghostaction-compromises-about-1900.html

⚡ India orders telecoms to show registered caller names for unsaved domestic numbers starting November 1, 2026.

The CNAP mandate targets 4G and newer networks, aiming to help identify unknown callers and tackle spam and fraudulent calls.

Read: https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/india-mandates-registered-caller-name.html

SANS introduces two separate AI frameworks for digital forensics and incident response.

One maps to SWGDE standards, the other to NIST CSF 2.0.

The core rule: AI can assist investigations, but humans must verify forensic findings and retain final authority.

Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/why-ai-confidence-is-not-validation.html

IBM found that 1 in 5 organizations reported a breach tied to shadow AI. At the same time, sensitive data enters AI prompts every day, often without anyone flagging it. And without visibility into how AI is actually being used, proving compliant usage becomes guesswork.

To address these risks, NordLayer AI Scout gives security teams the visibility to detect AI usage, flag sensitive data before a prompt is sent, and support governance that works in practice, not just on paper.

Learn more 👉 https://thn.news/security-visibility-tools

🚨 Drupal has patched a critical Field UI RCE flaw (CVE-2026-108097) with at least one known exploit path requiring no login.

Core alone doesn't expose it. Contributed modules can make it reachable.

Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/drupal-patches-critical-core-rce-flaw.html

‼️ ALERT - Next.js just shipped an out-of-band security update for TWO critical unauthenticated RCE flaws (both CVSS 9.5) + a high-severity DoS.

RCEs: RSC use cache (GHSA-673q-mjm6-r5xr) and librsvg via sharp (CVE-2026-96889).

🔗 Read - https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/nextjs-ships-out-of-band-patch-for-two.html

⚠️ Fake AI downloads are turning into malware traps.

ANYRUN linked 1,258 public sandbox analyses to fake AI campaigns (Apr–Oct 2026).

One fake Claude page copies a command to the clipboard, then tells users to run it in PowerShell to fetch a malicious HTA.

Read → https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/fake-ai-attacks-spread-across-us.html