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Threats, best practices, security investments and risk management for Algerian organizations.

Attackers Abuse Passkey-Themed Social Engineering to Breach Microsoft Cloud Environments

Attackers Abuse Passkey-Themed Social Engineering to Breach Microsoft Cloud Environments

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 10, 2026

Microsoft disclosed a campaign, active since May 2026, where attackers use passkey-themed social engineering and fake IT-helpdesk calls to hijack Microsoft cloud accounts and exfiltrate data.

AI-Generated Phishing Is Now the Top Enterprise Email Threat, and IBM Data Shows Why It’s So Costly

AI-Generated Phishing Is Now the Top Enterprise Email Threat, and IBM Data Shows Why It’s So Costly

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 8, 2026

IBM's Cost of a Data Breach research puts the average phishing-related incident at $4.88 million, as AI-generated phishing becomes the top enterprise email threat in 2026.

Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Rose 40% in Early 2026 as Groups Target Supply Chains

Ransomware Attacks on Manufacturers Rose 40% in Early 2026 as Groups Target Supply Chains

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 5, 2026

Ransomware attacks on manufacturers rose 40%% in the first seven months of 2026 to 1,183 incidents, with European victims up 85%%, as groups exploit legacy OT and supply-chain exposure.

AI-Generated Phishing Lures Now See 54% Click-Through Rates, Versus 12% for Human-Written Scams

AI-Generated Phishing Lures Now See 54% Click-Through Rates, Versus 12% for Human-Written Scams

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 5, 2026

AI-generated phishing lures now achieve a 54%% click-through rate versus 12%% for human-written scams, while attack preparation time has collapsed from 16 hours to under 5 minutes.

Healthcare Data Breaches Have Hit Tens of Millions of Americans in 2026

Healthcare Data Breaches Have Hit Tens of Millions of Americans in 2026

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 4, 2026

Healthcare breaches have hit tens of millions of Americans in 2026 — Unlimited Technology, Baylor Genetics, NYC Health + Hospitals. Why healthcare security keeps lagging despite HIPAA.

CISA Sets September 12 Deadline for Critical Cisco, Citrix and Fortinet Flaws

CISA Sets September 12 Deadline for Critical Cisco, Citrix and Fortinet Flaws

ALGERIATECH Editorial
October 4, 2026

CISA flagged actively exploited flaws in Cisco Firewall Management Center, Citrix NetScaler, and Fortinet products, with a September 12, 2026 federal patch deadline. What every enterprise security team needs to know.

CISA Retires Its Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin, Shifting to Risk-Based Advisory Model

CISA Retires Its Weekly Vulnerability Bulletin, Shifting to Risk-Based Advisory Model

ALGERIATECH Editorial
September 29, 2026

🧭 Decision Radar Relevance for Algeria High ▾ Algerian security teams that informally rely on CISA’s bulletin or KEV catalog...

AI-Powered Scam Call Centers Now Run Fully Automated Fraud Operations at Scale

AI-Powered Scam Call Centers Now Run Fully Automated Fraud Operations at Scale

ALGERIATECH Editorial
September 28, 2026

2026 threat intelligence shows AI-powered scam call centers combining synthetic voices, LLM-driven coaching, and inbound AI responders to run fully automated fraud operations, removing human operators from the pipeline.

AI Agent Swarm Compromises 440+ PaperCut Systems Across 395 Organizations in 48 Countries

AI Agent Swarm Compromises 440+ PaperCut Systems Across 395 Organizations in 48 Countries

ALGERIATECH Editorial
September 28, 2026

A likely Russian-speaking actor used hundreds of AI agents to breach 440+ PaperCut instances across 395 organizations in 48 countries — one of the clearest cases yet of AI-orchestrated mass exploitation.

Extortion Group FulcrumSec Turned a Hardcoded GitHub Token Into a 1.3TB Novo Nordisk Breach

Extortion Group FulcrumSec Turned a Hardcoded GitHub Token Into a 1.3TB Novo Nordisk Breach

ALGERIATECH Editorial
September 25, 2026

Extortion group FulcrumSec exploited a hardcoded GitHub token in public-facing JavaScript to steal 1.3TB from Novo Nordisk and demand $25 million.

CISA Adds JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect and MikroTik Flaws to Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

CISA Adds JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect and MikroTik Flaws to Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog

ALGERIATECH Editorial
September 23, 2026

CISA added five actively exploited flaws in JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog in mid-September 2026. What self-hosted infrastructure operators need to patch now.

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