Daily OT Security News: October 29, 2026

Five source-verified developments published October 22–28, 2026, selected for this edition using a source cutoff of October 29, 2026, 13:00 UTC. Each briefing distinguishes reported facts from operational considerations. 1. New IoT Report Finds TVs, Smart Plugs and NAS Devices Account for Two-Thirds of Smart Home Vulnerabilities Original primary report: October 22, 2026. Later coverage and joint issuer release: October 28, 2026. The cited Spur research was published June 22, 2026. Bitdefender’s October 28 article about its joint report with NETGEAR says telemetry from roughly 10.4 million protected home routers, sampled January–September 2026, recorded 270.3 million vulnerability observations for TVs, 266.7 million for smart plugs, and 261.6 million for NAS devices. The report displays category shares of 22.7%, 22.4%, and 22.0%, or 67.1% combined. An observation is a device–known-vulnerability match; it is not a count of unique devices or a successful attack. The article also reports 4.85 billion port scans, 90.1% of approximately 5.38 billion attack-category events, and 466.6 million brute-force events, including 455 million against Windows RDP. Scans…