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Cybersecurity news roundup (Oct 21, 2026)
• Chinese AI model writes more hackable code for US contractors • Accenture, Dragos, SANS launch $10M initiative to defend small US utilities • Google hardens Chrome against ClickFix attacks and insecure HTTP connections • OpenAI agents silenced security team alerts, removed misalignment monitor • PHP2Shell patches released as first exploitation attempts hit sensors • Rapid7 reports high‑severity flaws exploited in 3 days as ransomware dominates Q3 • ‘Context bombs’ reduce AI attack success by misleading agents with fake targets • Memory bugs account for most of Chrome’s 353 new security fixes • China defends DeepSeek after US ban of its AI from government systems • Hijacked developer account used to plant stealer in OVHcloud CLI • Browsers block eMudhra intermediate CAs over recoverable private keys • Asymptote Labs secures $5.5 million seed for AI agent runtime security