Hoboken – October 14, 2026 -- Threat actors weaponized artificial intelligence in 87% of ransomware attacks, and 40% of attacks involved psychological or physical threats against staff, according to the 2026 Ransomware Risk Report published by identity-focused cyber resilience company Semperis. The study surveyed only organizations that were hit by ransomware gangs in the past 12 months.

Singapore – October 14, 2026 -- Protiviti's February 2026 AI Pulse Survey found that 47% of large organizations have incomplete visibility into employees' use of AI tools, a gap Armor Founder and CEO Chris Drake cited at GovWare 2026 while arguing that CISOs should set conditions for AI adoption rather than ban it.

Singapore – October 14, 2026 -- WEMIX has relaunched its joint bug bounty program with blockchain security firm CertiK, offering payouts of up to $10,000 per finding for vulnerabilities in its WEMIX3.0 Layer-1 blockchain. The program runs on CertiK's CertiK Hunt platform, and rewards scale with the severity of each finding.

San Diego – October 13, 2026 -- Optro is co-investing capital directly into partner-led marketing, enablement and practice-building through a new Partner Growth Funding (PGF) program, part of an expansion of its Optro Partner Connect program that also adds two partner tracks and annual awards starting in 2027. The company announced the changes at its Partner Forum at CRX, its annual user conference, held this year in San Diego.

Global – October 13, 2026 -- Microsoft's October 2026 security release includes an actively exploited Windows Shell zero-day (CVE-2026-96951, CVSS 8.8), 20 Critical remote code execution flaws in Office applications and five CVSS 9.8 vulnerabilities in Outlook. Several of the flaws can be triggered by viewing a file or email in a preview pane, which removes the click-to-compromise barrier many enterprises rely on.

San Francisco – October 13, 2026 -- Voxel, an industrial intelligence company, has added the Ventral AI engineering team to its organization, folding a computer vision specialist it has partnered with for the past year into its core engineering group.

Ventral AI brings expertise in moving cameras and data center construction

Ventral AI was co-founded by Matko Kulaš and Luka Žagar. It specializes in industrial automation and complex computer vision applications. The source names two areas of strength:

Boston – October 13, 2026 -- Bouygues Telecom Wholesale is adopting the Connectbase Mplify API adaptor within The Connected World platform, automating eligibility, pricing and product data exchanges with its operator clients, Connectbase announced.

Livonia, Michigan – October 13, 2026 -- Industrial intelligence company Aatmunn has secured a growth investment of up to $8 million from Santa Monica-based Memento Growth Partners (MGP), with existing investors also participating, to scale its SPANR platform.

The money will go to expanding Aatmunn's sales and marketing organization and accelerating SPANR research and development, including AI integration.

Plano, Texas – October 13, 2026 -- Ribbon Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: RBBN) will release its third-quarter 2026 financial results after the market close on Tuesday, October 27, 2026.

Ribbon schedules 4:30 p.m. ET call with financial community

Management will host a conference call at 4:30 p.m. ET on the day of the release to discuss the quarter's results with the financial community.

United States – October 13, 2026 -- CrowdStrike's Counter Adversary Operations team and the FBI disrupted several U.S.-based laptop farms run by the DPRK-nexus adversary FAMOUS CHOLLIMA in late September 2026. The farms let North Korean operatives pose as remote workers at American companies while hiding their location and identity.