Boston Scientific Warns Cyberattack Will Break 2026 Guidance

IDC Frontier, a SoftBank subsidiary that provides cloud services, announced on the 7th that it suffered unauthorized access by a third party, causing an outage in its IDCF Cloud service for municipalities and businesses. The outage occurred around 3:40 a.m. that day, leaving some services unavailable. The company said it received an external ransomware attack, and the cloud management platform automatically executed a shutdown. The company has not disclosed details of its service customers, but numerous websites, including those of Ibaraki Prefecture, the city of Kodaira in Tokyo, Jiji Press, and Tobu Zoo, became impossible to view or update. To prevent secondary damage and data leaks, the company has cut off its network and is working to identify the detailed intrusion route while rushing to set up an alternative environment.

Samart Telcoms Public Company Limited, or SAMTEL, announced that Secure Info Company Limited, or SCI, an indirectly held subsidiary through Samart Comtech Company Limited with a 99.99% stake, signed a purchase agreement for equipment and devices for the project to establish a cyber operations center and data backup center, known as the Digital Resilience Center, or DRC, at the SMART PARK Industrial Estate office of the Industrial Estate Authority of Thailand, or IEAT, on September 29, 2026. The total project value is 146.20 million baht, including value-added tax. Delivery is scheduled for completion by April 27, 2027, with payment terms divided into five installments based on completed work progress.

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung revealed on Tuesday, October 6, 2026, that there are signs artificial intelligence, or AI, may have been used in cyberattacks on several banks in the country, and called on South Korea to speed up development of cybersecurity systems suited to the AI era. Speaking during a cabinet meeting, he said that in some hacking cases traces of AI use have begun to emerge, which has caused considerable public concern, and ordered relevant agencies to swiftly establish the facts clearly, while mobilizing personnel and resources to minimize damage. South Korean police have launched a full-scale investigation after several commercial banks were hit by cyberattacks that led to the leakage of customers' personal data. The Financial Services Commission, or FSC, disclosed that Shinhan Bank and KB Kookmin Bank, as well as other financial institutions, reported being hit by cyberattacks, while Hana Bank and Woori Bank also faced data leakage incidents. The Financial Supervisory Service, or FSS, and the Financial Security Institute passed on information about 28 suspicious IP addresses, as well as some country data linked to the latest cyberattack attempts, to the financial sector for further checks and prevention. However, South Korean authorities have not yet disclosed what type of AI tools the attackers used, and there are still no details about the full scope of damage from the incidents.

Revyz, a Spin.ai company, announced Revyz Command Center for Bitbucket, extending its enterprise data protection platform from Jira and Confluence to source code and pipelines in Bitbucket Cloud, alongside the appointment of Justin Leader as Head of Partnerships, Atlassian Ecosystem. The launch, announced ahead of Atlassian Team '26 Europe in Amsterdam on October 6-8, adds granular recovery of specific repositories, branches, pipelines, or issues, run-to-run diff visibility, and AI code protection. Revyz, acquired by Spin.ai in April 2026, is a Platinum Atlassian Marketplace Partner whose platform is SOC 2 Type II compliant. Justin Leader founded HyperVelocity Consulting in 2014, growing it to $24M in revenue before its acquisition by Isos Technology in 2023, where he served as VP of Product, and brings 15 years of SaaS experience to overseeing global Atlassian ecosystem partner strategy. Revyz Command Center for Bitbucket is available today, with solution partners able to access the app and co-selling support through the updated Revyz Partner Program.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang closed out a blockbuster third quarter in which Nvidia's stock rose about 19% and the company announced the largest stock buyback in history at $150 billion, bringing its total buyback program to $235 billion. Huang also joined other tech executives at a White House AI safety gathering, where his signature drew attention on social media, and appeared at a state dinner with the president. On the company's August earnings call, Huang said growth could exceed 100% next year. Separately, Rubrik CEO Bipul Sinha told Yahoo Finance that AI carries 1000 times more opportunities and 1000 times more risk, and warned that much of the Fortune 500 still runs on legacy technology as AI-powered attacks expand the threat surface. Micron and SanDisk were also in focus on Micron's earnings day, with both trading at single-digit forward earnings multiples despite triple-digit revenue growth.

NetApp announced new capabilities that let enterprises activate data in place with zero-copy access to accelerate agentic AI adoption. The heterogeneous metadata capability of NetApp AI Data Engine now extends metadata discovery across the full enterprise data estate, including NetApp ONTAP, StorageGRID, and non-NetApp storage, spanning NFS, SMB, and S3 repositories. NetApp is also previewing upcoming AIDE innovations, including expanded AI-powered data understanding, deeper governance intelligence, open analytics integrations with engines such as Starburst and Onehouse.AI, and new agentic services. An expanded integration with Commvault connects the NetApp Platform to Commvault recovery orchestration, delivering near-real-time threat detection, cleanroom validation, and advanced clean recovery from the Commvault console, enabling joint customers to recover in minutes rather than days or weeks. Asad Khan, Senior Vice President and General Manager of AI at NetApp, said the agentic enterprise will be defined by how quickly and safely organizations turn data into intelligence, while Commvault Chief Technology and AI Officer Pranay Ahlawat said the integration helps customers reduce mean time to clean recover.