UtilForge, free cybersecurity tools, is a registered 2026 Champion of Cybersecurity Awareness Month. This page holds the launch release, the facts, the images and the contact for journalists.
Launch release, 1 October 2026
October Launches Cybersecurity Month in the United States and Europe With a Call for a How to Become Safer Online World
Distributed by EIN Presswire on 1 October 2026. These are copies of a press release, listed here so you can read the original.
- The release on EIN Presswire
- The release on EIN News
- The release in the press-release section of fox8.com
Mentions
ThreatCluster, a website that gathers news stories automatically, mentioned UtilForge in a group of stories titled “October Marks Cybersecurity Awareness Month in United States and Europe” on 2 October 2026. Software assembled the page, and it is not an article written by an editor. See the ThreatCluster page.
Facts
What it is. A set of free cybersecurity tools for checking a payment page, finding payments that keep coming out, using artificial intelligence without sharing names, and checking documents before they are sent or published.
How it works. Every tool runs on the person’s own phone or computer. What is typed into a tool stays on that device, and each tool keeps working with the wifi switched off.
Free. Twenty-eight tools, twelve of them everyday ones on the homepage. The full list is here.
Paid. Release Check, $29 for one person. Artificial Intelligence Tools for Work, $119, which includes Release Check for a team of up to ten. Family Safety Tools, pay what you want from $0. Pricing
Official help. Where to report a scam, in 20 countries and territories, with the four core steps from the United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
Cybersecurity Awareness Month. UtilForge is a registered 2026 Champion of the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s programme. Cybersecurity Awareness Month is led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Cybersecurity Alliance.
The 2026 theme. “Don’t Make It Easy for Them”, as stated on the National Cybersecurity Alliance’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month page.
See it for yourself
Open any free tool, let the page finish loading, switch the wifi off (aeroplane mode on a phone) and use the tool. It carries on working. Before You Pay and Release Check are good places to start.
Images
Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2026 Champion badge (Portable Network Graphics) · UtilForge preview image (Joint Photographic Experts Group, 1200 × 630)
Logos. Logo, dark background (Portable Network Graphics) · Logo, light background (Portable Network Graphics) · Horizontal logo (Portable Network Graphics) · Elephant mark only (Portable Network Graphics). Please use the logos unaltered.
About UtilForge
UtilForge is a public-interest project that offers free cybersecurity tools to make the online world safer for everyone. The tools check payments, subscriptions, private details, documents and the use of artificial intelligence on the visitor’s own phone or computer, so nothing typed is uploaded. Its habit is Check first: a short pause when you pay, paste, sign, send or share. UtilForge is a registered 2026 Champion of Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which is led by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the National Cybersecurity Alliance. Website: utilforge.org. Media contact: support@utilforge.org. Statements are given by a UtilForge spokesperson.
Contact
Write to support@utilforge.org and put “Press” in the subject.
Which UtilForge?
This is utilforge.org, free cybersecurity tools. Other websites use similar names, and this one is independent of them.