{
  "id": 9958217,
  "title": "Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/26/kiteworks-urges-customers-to-shut-down-systems-for-9-hours-over",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-26T07:48:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Hacker News",
    "slug": "the-hacker-news",
    "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/kiteworks-urges-customers-to-shut-down.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about an imminent cyber attack. \"Kiteworks received credible threat intelligence from federal intelligence authorities indicating that a threat actor may attempt to target some Kiteworks systems,\" said Frank Balonis, Chief",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "TechCrunch",
        "title": "Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid ‘imminent’ threat of cyberattack",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/kiteworks-urges-customers-to-shut-down-their-servers-amid-imminent",
        "published": "2026-09-25T15:52:13.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Record",
        "title": "Kiteworks urges customers to stop using platform after warning from federal intelligence agencies",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/kiteworks-urges-customers-to-stop-using-platform-after-warning-from",
        "published": "2026-09-25T20:19:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}