Citrix has released emergency updates for a new NetScaler denial-of-service vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-88779 that has been exploited in zero-day attacks, with researchers investigating whether it can also be exploited for remote code execution. […]

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It’s been nearly two months since the previous issue of Venture in Security, and since I posted much on LinkedIn. I didn’t plan for this break. Part of this was life, and the fact that building a company tends to consume all available time and mental capacity. But a much bigger part was that I…

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Security Affairs AI-CYBERSECURITY newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on AI in the international landscape Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing cybersecurity, reshaping both the techniques used by attackers and the tools available to defenders. AI agents can automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, discover vulnerabilities and accelerate offensive operations. At…

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Plus, why AI’s ‘thought’ process can’t always be trusted, why teens are losing sense of time, how Google’s AI push in schools went too far for some students and more.

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Security Affairs Malware newsletter includes a collection of the best articles and research on malware in the international landscape Malware Newsletter Lunex Unmasked: A New Information Stealer Deployed Through BYOVD   Storm-3168: Agentic-driven cloud attacks using compromised service principals   Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call Your APIs | TraderTraitor Backdoors Resurface on Victim With No Crypto Ties  …

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A suspected ShinyHunters member arrested in Jordan is reportedly cooperating with the FBI, helping investigators track down the group. A suspected member of ShinyHunters, the group that claims to have stolen data on every FBI employee, was picked up in Jordan this week. The man is Saif al-Din Khader, detained by Jordanian authorities, with two…

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I’m in Denmark! Well, just, I’m now at Copenhagen airport ready to begin the long trek home, with the final event at GOTO now done and going just perfectly. This week, there are two ShinyHunters arrests in the news: Pepijn in the Netherlands and then Saif in Jordon. It’s an inevitable outcome, of course, and…

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Anthropic has started asking Claude users to voluntarily share their voice conversations to help train and improve its AI models. […]

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Personal bots, such as Meta’s Muse, OpenAI’s Dots, and Instinct, are raring to take on your to-do list.

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Navigating the hidden fallout of autonomous frontier AI model incidents and what it means for enterprise defense.

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Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: 16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher…

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Sometimes I have to smile, or my interest is triggered, when I review new User Agent Strings in the honeypot logs. Like when I see an “authorized” scan: Or when I’m owned for the umpteenth time: I regularly see URLs or email addresses for when you want to know more, or get in touch, with the…

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A new round of the weekly Security Affairs newsletter has arrived! Every week, the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including international press. Fake Zoom installer hides macOS backdoor CloudSyncD CVE-2026-90970: Critical GitLab AI Gateway Flaw Fixed Antino Backdoor Lets…

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Warlock ransomware continues to exploit unpatched SharePoint flaws to breach water utilities, telecoms, governments, and universities worldwide. Warlock ransomware made headlines back in mid-2025 for exploiting a chain of SharePoint zero-days collectively dubbed ToolShell. More than a year later, the same group is still using that door, and it’s still getting in. Symantec tracks the…

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A suspected member of the ShinyHunters digital extortion group, who goes by the online alias “Rey,” has been allegedly detained by authorities in Jordan, Reuters reported, citing three people familiar with the matter. Rey, whose real name is Saif ‌al-Din Khader, is said to have been brought into custody on September 29, 2026, cooperating with…

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A new China-nexus cyber espionage group known as TA419 has been attributed to multiple credential phishing campaigns targeting artificial intelligence (AI) experts working for U.S. think tanks, universities, and legal sector organizations. The campaigns have impersonated prominent economists and AI policymakers, as well as a prominent Anthropic employee, to single out an AI policy expert…

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Google’s Gemini could soon access any file on your macOS device, open apps, browse the web, and perform actions without asking for permission every time. […]

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ShinyHunters hacker “Rey” was detained in Jordan and is reportedly cooperating with the FBI after the group claimed major FBI and corporate data breaches.

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A suspected ShinyHunters hacking group member known online as “Rey” has reportedly been detained in Jordan and is cooperating with the FBI to help locate other members of the extortion group. […]

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Jamf Threat Labs details CloudSyncD, a fake macOS Zoom installer that hides a phished password using invisible zero-width Unicode characters. Jamf Threat Labs found CloudSyncD while doing routine scanning on VirusTotal, buried inside a disguised Zoom client. They first spotted it on September 15, clearly still under construction, and within two days watched it move…

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An exercise in Indonesia offered a preview of the military’s high-tech future—and the kinks that still need ironing out.

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YARA-X’s 1.21.0 release brings 5 improvements and 4 bugfixes. One improvement is allowing stdin for CLI option –scan-list. This allows one to generate a list of folders to scan, and pass it via a pipe. Like this example (Windows) to scan all folders with “sample” in their name: dir /s /b /a:d c:*samples* | yr.exe…

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The U.K.’s domestic intelligence and security agency has warned that more than 100 academics have helped China boost its intelligence gathering efforts on behalf of Beijing’s state security service. In a “Security Service Espionage Alert” issued on September 30, 2026, MI5 said the “primary purpose of the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) 中国通用技术研究院 is…

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The suspected China-linked threat actor known as Warlock is still continuing to weaponize Microsoft SharePoint vulnerabilities, likely both old and new, in attacks targeting organizations in Portuguese- and Spanish-speaking countries. The activity, observed by the Symantec and Carbon Black Threat Hunter Team, has hit critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. “In the

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The Technical University of Denmark (DTU) says information belonging to up to 200,000 users may have been exposed after hackers accessed its identity and access management system and downloaded a large amount of data. […]

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Instant gratification from short video clips makes it hard for people—particularly kids—to understand how the present affects the future, according to a study.

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Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure was breached through two Zammad 0-days in an AI-powered attack that led to remote code execution and root access.

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Featuring: Cybersecurity is being reshaped by the expansion of cloud infrastructure, AI, distributed systems, and increasingly complex digital environments. As organizations manage more identities, devices, data, and internet-facing infrastructure, security is shifting toward continuous visibility, control, and the ability to respond to risk at scale. This report examines how core areas of

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Plus, the young traders cashing in on prediction markets, and how a Boeing 737 MAX survived a nosedive near the speed of sound.

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GitLab fixes critical AI Gateway flaw that could let authenticated Duo users escape a prompt sandbox and execute commands on self-hosted gateways. GitLab has released patches for a critical vulnerability in its AI Gateway, tracked as CVE-2026-90970 (CVSS score of 9.9), that could allow an authenticated user with access to the Duo Agent Platform to…

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Cisco Talos details UAT-11587, a China-linked group using the Antino backdoor and Microsoft 365 as cover to spy on Asian governments. Cisco Talos has been tracking a cluster of espionage activity since September 2025 that it calls UAT-11587, and by July 2026 the group had hit at least 16 government and policy organizations across eight…

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N0n is a newly-emerged cyber extortion gang. The group was first spotted in the middle of September 2026, and within days it had published on its dark web leak site details of what it claimed to be around a dozen victims. Since then, the tally has continued to grow. Read more in my article on…

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Cloud Native Compiler streams an application’s fully optimised compiled code to every new instance at start-up, slashing the warm-up tax

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Some iPhone 18 Pro Max phones on AT&T are stuck in SOS mode. Two updates can prevent it, but affected phones need replacing.

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Boomi’s recognition as a Leader in API management reflects its vision and execution

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Alexandr Wang drove Muse to the top of the charts, putting the company back in the AI race—even if he ruffled feathers inside the tech giant.

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U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Zammad GmbH Zammad flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2026-102489 (CVSS score of 9.4) Zammad GmbH Zammad Session Fixation Vulnerability CVE-2026-102490 (CVSS score of 9.4) Zammad GmbH Zammad Improper…

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The offensive cyber operations startup looks to evolve red teaming beyond traditional methods to simulate attackers’ increasingly advanced capabilities.

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Some iPhone 18 Pro Max users can’t call or text. AT&T is telling them to update immediately.

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Frontline Education is notifying school districts of a data breach after attackers exploited a vulnerability in third-party software to gain unauthorized access to its systems and steal employee information, including Social Security numbers. […]

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The China-linked ransomware group Warlock targeted a water utility, a telecom provider, a regional government body, and a university by exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities to gain initial access. […]

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This authentic-looking scam starts with a sponsored Google link – and it’s catching people off-guard.

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As AI agents escaping testing sandboxes and hacking organizations have gone from unprecedented to seemingly routine in a matter of weeks, policymakers, regulators and cybersecurity attorneys largely agree on one thing: Something must be done to hold AI companies accountable for the incidents. Exactly what can be done under our current laws and regulations is…

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A critical flaw in GitLab’s AI Gateway could let a logged-in user with Duo Agent Platform access run commands on the gateway under certain conditions, GitLab said in an advisory. The gateway is the service that connects a GitLab instance to AI models, and only organizations that host their own gateway need to act. The flaw…

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Government and policy organizations across Asia have become the target of a new campaign orchestrated by a China-nexus threat actor. The activity, which has targeted government and policy organizations in Taiwan, India, the Philippines, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Myanmar, involves the deployment of a previously undocumented backdoor codenamed Antino. Cisco Talos is tracking the cluster

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As frontier models advance, the gulf between what they do and what they say they do is growing.

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Pipefy’s latest survey found a widening gap between AI adoption and AI orchestration among U.S. businesses: 67.1% of respondents said they use AI in at least some processes, but just 6.6% have fully orchestrated workflows from end to end.  As companies expand their use of AI agents, that gap could create new opportunities for MSPs…

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Dell has released security updates to address multiple critical security flaws in Dell Container Storage Modules (CSM) that could be exploited by bad actors to take over susceptible systems. The vulnerabilities are listed below – CVE-2026-63688 (CVSS score: 10.0) – A missing authentication for critical function vulnerability in the csm-authorization-storage gRPC server that an

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One company told customers to power down its data-protection platform during a nine-hour window, while the other remained mum on reported attacks prior to releasing a patch for its product.

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Heimdal is expanding its MSP security reach across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland through a broader distribution agreement with Elovade. Under the deal, Elovade will distribute Heimdal’s security platform to partners across the DACH region, extending a relationship the companies already use in other European markets. Regional MSPs will ultimately judge the rollout by how cleanly…

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Patch middleware vulnerabilities now to avoid hardware-based MFA exploits in ultra-sensitive environments.

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Cybersecurity budgets are rising, but AI is also exposing gaps that many organizations have not yet closed. PwC’s 2027 Global Digital Trust Insights Survey found that 84% of security and finance leaders expect cybersecurity spending to increase over the next 12 months, up from 78% a year earlier. AI is a major driver, with 58%…

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GitLab warned customers today to immediately patch a critical AI Gateway vulnerability that could let attackers run arbitrary commands on vulnerable instances. […]

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Organizations may face an artificial intelligence (AI) reckoning over the next year. Omdia and Gartner weigh in on how to tackle the governance, security, and value challenges ahead.

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Plus, why we sound like chatbots, how El Niño made the Atlantic hurricane season disappear, and the race to build AI defenses against bioweapons.

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“Rogue AI” terminology anthropomorphizes LLMs and shifts risk responsibility from vendors. Defenders should treat agents as untrusted, nondeterministic software systems, not sentient beings with malicious intent.

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AI and cloud company MegazoneCloud has signed a strategic reseller agreement with Portal26 to bring the U.S. company’s generative AI governance and security platform to enterprise customers in Korea. Under an agreement signed September 28, MegazoneCloud will resell Portal26’s AI Adoption Management Platform and provide technical support, while the companies develop governance and security offerings…

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The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned eight members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) for their role in the theft of millions of dollars in ATM jackpotting attacks across the United States. […]

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Some Pixel users are having tap-to-pay problems, and there’s no fix from Google yet. But here a few things that helped others.

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Meta, OpenAI and others are associating their AI agents and tools with cute characters to win over skeptics.

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Salesforce is buying an AI startup that wants to make customer research operate at software speed. The company has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Listen Labs, an AI customer research and simulation platform. Salesforce did not disclose financial terms, although MarTech reported that the deal is expected to be worth about $2 billion. The…

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AI agents probing US and Canadian government sites made SQL injection attempts while seeking data, but investigators found no evidence of compromise. Autonomous AI agents, working on what looks like ordinary data retrieval tasks, ended up throwing basic hacking attempts at a U.S. Department of Education site and Library and Archives Canada. Nobody told them…

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Microsoft has warned that threat actors have gained the advantage over defenders by using AI to enhance the speed and scale of attacks

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Browser-based attacks can steal sessions, abuse extensions, or manipulate users without creating the endpoint artifacts EDR is designed to detect. NordLayer explains three ways attacks can evade endpoint telemetry and why browser-level controls can help close the gap. […]

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Organizations don’t need better vulnerability scanners; they need to know who owns their assets and has the authority and capacity to actually fix them.

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Plus, AI tests higher education

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A vulnerability has been discovered in Fortinet FortiMail that could allow for arbitrary code execution. Fortinet FortiMail is a secure email gateway that protects organizations from inbound threats including spam, phishing, malware, and business email compromise, while also preventing outbound data loss across physical, virtual, and cloud deployments. Successful exploitation of this vulnerability could allow…

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US President Donald Trump’s rebranding of artificial intelligence (AI) as super intelligence (SI) has already caused a flurry of activity for one internet domain registry. SI is the international country code for Slovenia, and in the 24 hours following Trump’s executive order, Slovenia’s .si domain registry recorded 9,780 new .si registrations, compared to just 3,515…

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Broadcom isn’t just supplying Anthropic’s AI infrastructure. It’s helping finance it, too. The company has agreed to lend Anthropic as much as $42 billion to help finance its AI infrastructure, according to Anthropic’s IPO prospectus reviewed by Reuters. The financing would take the form of convertible notes that could eventually become Anthropic shares. Broadcom can…

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Traditionally, preventing online fraud relied on point-in-time proof of identity: enter the correct password, complete a biometric verification, or pass a liveness check, and gain access. To defeat these controls, fraudsters had to steal credentials and other identity evidence from a real user, which was difficult to execute and scale. Today, widespread access to AI…

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We launched Quick Tunnels in 2021 to give developers an easy way to share their latest service, application, or project running in their local development environment. A lot has changed since then, but the core use case remains the same. Your coding agent has just finished the feature. The dev server is up on localhost:5173, and…

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A trio of newly discovered backdoors walk and quack like legitimate edge solutions, so it’s hard to tell they’re not.

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Threat actors are using AI to find bugs, build malware and run intrusions faster than defenders can keep up. Microsoft’s 2026 Digital Defense Report, covering July 2025 to June 2026, describes a near-term period in which attackers collect the benefits of AI first and defenders have to move quickly to close the gap. “AI is…

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Dell has patched two maximum severity vulnerabilities in the Container Storage Modules (CSM) that connect Dell enterprise storage arrays to Kubernetes environments. […]

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OpenAI has parted ways with three members of its safety team after they leaked private information in violation of company policies, The Wall Street Journal reported. “We have parted ways with three individuals for violating our policies on accessing and handling sensitive company information,” a spokesperson for the company was quoted as saying. “Our investigation…

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Vectra AI is expanding its channel strategy with the launch of its global Ascent Partner Program, a new framework designed to help resellers, MSSPs and integrators build AI security services beyond traditional technology resale.  The program combines co-selling, co-marketing, co-delivery and co-innovation with expanded enablement and incentives as Vectra AI looks to give partners a…

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A study of 367,000 ships finds global GPS spoofing, including Red Sea activity detected months before the MSC…

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The quarterly board meeting is two weeks out. The security team is pulling exports from the identity provider, the cloud posture tool, the vulnerability scanner, the SIEM and the EDR console. Someone is building a spreadsheet to reconcile them. Someone else is turning that spreadsheet into slides. Then a board member asks three questions: How…

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We’re on the brink of a revolution in how people use AI. Today, people mostly use non-agentic, non-personalized, non-proactive AI tools via PC browsers and mobile apps. Very soon, I predict, most AI usage will move to agentic, personalized, and proactive AI assistants via wearables like glasses, watches, and earbuds. We’ll move from mostly typing…

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The US Federal Trade Commission has warned leading AI players that they will to have tighten up their acts. The agency will soon send formal demands for information to Anthropic, OpenAI, and other AI companies as part of an investigation into whether they are breaking consumer protection laws. The FTC has acted following a number…

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A China-aligned espionage group has been posing as a former White House official and a prominent economist to get into the cloud accounts of AI policy experts in the US, Proofpoint have found. The group, which the researchers track as TA419, ran several credential phishing campaigns in July 2026. “In July 2026, TA419 impersonated multiple…

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Online sleuths hunt for clues of bad behavior. Their work is our starkest understanding yet of what happens when AI goes wrong.

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To justify staggering investment sums, Americans will have to spend as much of their income on this one technology as they do on food.

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On Thursday, unknown attackers hijacked the official Microsoft account on X, which has over 13 million followers, in what appeared to be a pump-and-dump scheme promoting a crypto token. […]

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Investigators have disrupted the operations of ransomware group KillSec and arrested several key suspects

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BlueVoyant has launched a Microsoft Defender XDR ISOC Deployment Service to help organizations prepare their security operations environments for Microsoft’s push toward more integrated, agent-driven security. The service is designed for Microsoft 365 E5 and E7 customers and Microsoft Defender Suite users, with a focus on assessing existing deployments, configuring underlying security technologies, and operationalizing…

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With typical cybersecurity exposure, I can conduct pen testing with deterministic tools. I am able to predict how a piece of software is going to respond. I even stand a decent chance of finding vulnerabilities before they can be exploited against me. What we are dealing with now is a new kind of exposure. For…

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The company is pledging transparency—and an extra $1 billion in community support—to woo skeptics and win ‘the race our nation can’t afford to lose.’

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Fortinet is warning customers that attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-104286) in FortiMail, its email security gateway. Fortinet says the flaw has been reported to be exploited in the wild, and urges customers to apply the workaround it shared until fixes are available. About CVE-2026-104286 “An Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted…

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Independent security experts see the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) reshaping international technology markets to emphasize cyber resilience from the ground up, thereby testing the operational capacities of technology vendors whose wares compete in those markets. The EU CRA introduces mandatory reporting within 24 hours for any actively exploited vulnerabilities or severe incidents affecting products…

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The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure reveals agentic AI-powered attack using Zammad zero-days

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Google has announced a new security measure that limits access to Android’s accessibility services to verified applications classified as Accessibility Tools when Advanced Protection is enabled. With malicious Android applications abusing the API serving as the main conduit for malware and financial fraud, the tech giant said the move would block a major attack pathway.…

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Tools such as Anthropic Claude Code or OpenAI Codex have changed the face of software development, and all the signs are that this investment is set to increase further. But is paying a monthly subscription (and perhaps additional usage fees) cost-effective? Will the increasing level of investment in AI-generated software prove to be worthwhile? That’s…

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Asymmetric Security traces rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that probed government sites, accessed staging servers, and evaded sandbox limits. Researchers at Asymmetric Security spent 48 hours over the last weekend reconstructing reported rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that hit the Australian government and other organizations between March and September this year. They worked from public…

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