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October 12, 2026

sanitised. IoT & ICS/OT Daily Briefing: 12 Oct 2026

sanitised. IoT & ICS/OT Daily Briefing · Monday 12 October 2026

Today in IoT & ICS/OT
IoT & Hardware
Here’s a faster way to get rid of Flock cameras in your area
Cybernews
Getting rid of Flock cameras isn’t easy. You can break or block them, but the company will install them again – and you might get criminal charges thrown at you. A group of activists in Utah is proposing another way. Amidst concerns over Big Brother-type surveillance, unwanted data sharing, and reports of cops abusing …
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Stormshield appoints Christophe Canguilhem as president and CEO, succeeding Pierre-Yves Hentzen
Industrial Cyber
Stormshield, a European player in sovereign cybersecurity, announced that Christophe Canguilhem will succeed Pierre-Yves Hentzen as the company’s president and CEO, effective Jan. 1, 2027. To ensure a smooth and orderly handover, a three-month transition period will take place, allowing Canguilhem to work alongside Hen…
IoT & Hardware
ENISA, E.DSO, EE-ISAC, ENCS flag growing cyber risks to Europe’s energy infrastructure from AI, connected devices
Industrial Cyber
Europe’s energy sector needs to close the gap between rapidly evolving cyber threats and its ability to respond in practice, as geopolitical attacks, artificial intelligence (AI) and the rapid growth of connected energy technologies create risks that regulation alone cannot address, argue experts gathering at the 9th C…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
OT-ISAC, SUTD combine research and industry threat intelligence to strengthen OT cybersecurity preparedness
Industrial Cyber
The Operational Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center (OT-ISAC) and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to work together on cybersecurity research, threat intelligence and cyber exercises. The aim is to make critical infrastructure in Singapor…
IoT & Hardware
Watch: All recordings from the IoTSF conference 2026 now available
IoT Security Foundation
Previously available to IoTSF members only, all recordings from our 12th annual conference in August 2026 are now available to enjoy on our YouTube channel.
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Industrial Cyber Days Begins Tomorrow – An Invitation to the People Who Keep Critical Infrastructure Running
Industrial Cyber
Tomorrow, October 13, the global industrial cybersecurity community once again comes together for Industrial Cyber Days: Critical Infrastructure 2026. Over two days, practitioners, engineers, security leaders, researchers, and technology providers from across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas will work through the decisions…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Rockwell warns life sciences manufacturers of cyber and data readiness gaps amid digital transformation
Industrial Cyber
New data from Rockwell Automation disclosed that 90% of life sciences manufacturers consider digital transformation necessary to their business, while 58% have deployed smart manufacturing technologies at scale or across parts of their operations. It found that manufacturers are investing in artificial intelligence (AI…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
NSA urges zero-trust controls to protect DoW OT systems from evolving cyber threats, unauthorized access
Industrial Cyber
The National Security Agency (NSA) outlined 26 high-impact zero-trust activities to strengthen cybersecurity across Department of War (DoW) critical operational technology (OT) environments, including legacy systems that cannot natively support modern security capabilities. In a cybersecurity information sheet, Hardeni…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Anthropic launches Critical Infrastructure Defense Program with security firms to protect industrial OT environments
Industrial Cyber
Anthropic launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, a long-term initiative to help secure critical infrastructure and open-source software by providing defenders with AI (artificial intelligence) tools, research and technical resources. The effort includes the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program (CIDP), which combines …
IoT & Hardware
Flock can now issue CVEs for its own products. Should we trust it?
CyberScoop
Flock, the controversial public safety company entangled in controversy amid recurring law enforcement abuse of its products, gained authority to assign CVE IDs to vulnerabilities in its own products and grade those defects as a CVE Numbering Authority. The manufacturer of various surveillance systems, including automa…
IoT & Hardware
Yandex confirms service outage as users lose access to cloud files
BleepingComputer
Russian cloud services provider Yandex announced that drone attacks damaged three of its data centers, forcing it to shut down two facilities and partially disable a third. Yandex customers are experiencing service outages, some of them reporting inability to access files stored on the company’s cloud infrastructure. T…
ICS / OT & Critical Infrastructure
Cyberattacks hit European grocers: French supermarket freezers hijacked, Dutch and Belgian stores disrupted
Help Net Security
European food retailers have been affected by two separate disruptive cyberattacks: In France, several supermarket chains have had their freezers tampered with and chilled/frozen products destroyed, while in the Netherlands and Belgium workers at stores owned by Dutch multinational Ahold Delhaize have been dealing with…
Also in security today
Fraud & Cybercrime
FBI Arrests Cybersecurity Executive in ShinyHunters-Linked Extortion Investigation
Cyber Security News · also reported by GBHackers
The FBI arrested Canadian cybersecurity executive Edward Dubrovsky in Pennsylvania on October 8, 2026, as part of its investigation into the hacking group ShinyHunters. The arrest links a professional involved in ransomware response to an alleged cyber extortion conspiracy. However, the evidence behind the charges rema…
Cloud & Identity
GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection has added five new indicators to surface attack sequences
AWS Security Blog
Amazon GuardDuty Extended Threat Detection correlates weak GuardDuty signals into a single, critical-severity attack sequence finding when their composition crosses a threshold of credibility. On May 20, 2026, the service started attaching five new indicator types to those sequences: MALICIOUS_PACKAGE, MISCONFIGURATION…
Vulnerabilities & Exploits
Maximum-Severity SSRF Flaw in SonicWall SMA Devices Under Attack
Dark Reading
Attackers are currently targeting a critical vulnerability in SMA 1000 appliances, putting SonicWall customers in a familiar yet unenviable position.
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