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  • French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks

    French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks 2026-09-29 at 21:51 By An attacker used stolen passwords of staff at France’s tax administration to take tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses in June and July. Neither the tax administration nor France’s national cybersecurity agency saw the…

  • Trump calls for ‘tremendous self-regulation’ of AI at lunch with billionaire tech titans

    Trump calls for ‘tremendous self-regulation’ of AI at lunch with billionaire tech titans 2026-09-29 at 21:51 By Steven Nelson President Trump called for “tremendous self-regulation” of artificial intelligence at a White House lunch with tech billionaires — as he prepared to sign orders renaming AI as “super intelligence” in official communications. This article is an…

  • Cyber Skills Diminish Quicker than Organizations Can Build Readiness

    Cyber Skills Diminish Quicker than Organizations Can Build Readiness 2026-09-29 at 21:00 By Research finds organizations are experiencing lapses in in onboarding talent, cultivating skills, and maintaining readiness.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

    DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps 2026-09-29 at 20:24 By Kevin Townsend The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software. The post DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps…

  • Apple CEO John Ternus seeks major overhaul, wants products released faster: report

    Apple CEO John Ternus seeks major overhaul, wants products released faster: report 2026-09-29 at 20:18 By Reuters Early ideas include moving away from Apple’s traditional spring and fall product-release cycle and eliminating some middle-management roles to narrow the gap between engineers and top executives, the report said. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology…

  • Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF after token’s recent surge

    Bitwise launches first US spot NEAR ETF after token’s recent surge 2026-09-29 at 20:14 By Cointelegraph by Nate Kostar Bitwise’s NEAR ETF begins trading on NYSE Arca as the token rallies more than 160% over the past month and activity on NEAR Intents grows. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks

    New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks 2026-09-29 at 20:00 By Eduard Kovacs Branch Target Reuse (BTR) is a new Spectre v2 attack targeting JIT compilers in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel The post New Spectre v2 Variant Exposes Intel, AMD, Arm CPUs to Data Leaks…

  • New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses

    New Spectre-v2 BTR Attack Leaks Linux Memory Despite Existing Defenses 2026-09-29 at 20:00 By A group of academics from VUSec and Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have disclosed details of a new Spectre CPU vulnerability variant that affects Just-In-Time (JIT) engines present in web browsers, language runtimes, and the operating system kernel, across multiple CPU vendors. The…

  • Bitcoin gives back gains as long-term holder supply keeps $85K out of reach

    Bitcoin gives back gains as long-term holder supply keeps $85K out of reach 2026-09-29 at 19:26 By Cointelegraph by William Suberg Bitcoin failed to make another run at $85,000 as sellers held the line above current levels, while surging US bond yields weighed on stocks and precious metals. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com…

  • Bitget CEO ‘not very optimistic’ on recovering funds from $388M breach

    Bitget CEO ‘not very optimistic’ on recovering funds from $388M breach 2026-09-29 at 19:18 By Cointelegraph by Turner Wright Gracy Chen said she saw the 2025 Bybit hack as a “good reference point” for Bitget’s security breach, noting that only a small percentage of funds had been frozen or recovered. This article is an excerpt…

  • 17.3 Trillion Microsoft Records Exposed

    17.3 Trillion Microsoft Records Exposed 2026-09-29 at 19:00 By Approximately 17.3 trillion stored rows within several Microsoft datasets were found to be accessible via an internal analytics service. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited Globally

    Citrix NetScaler Zero-Day Exploited Globally 2026-09-29 at 18:41 By Karl Sigler On Sept 27, Citrix released patches for two critical vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild. Based on current information, we confirm there has been no exposure or impact to LevelBlue or our clients. CISA has already added these vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities…

  • A Practical Guide to Symantec PAM Secondary Sites

    A Practical Guide to Symantec PAM Secondary Sites 2026-09-29 at 18:05 By Mickey Part 2: Why “Less Is More” in Symantec PAM Clustering This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

  • Death at Care Home Leads to Upgraded Security

    Death at Care Home Leads to Upgraded Security 2026-09-29 at 18:00 By Following an unexplained death, a care facility is increasing security.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

  • NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771)

    NetScaler zero-day exploitation escalates into mass attacks (CVE-2026-88771) 2026-09-29 at 17:59 By Zeljka Zorz The hacking of internet-exposed, vulnerable Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway deployments has escalated. What started as stealthy targeting via zero-day exploits has now become widespread “spray and pray” exploitation, fueled by the publication of a root-cause analysis and a proof-of-concept exploit…

  • RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform

    RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform 2026-09-29 at 17:38 By SecurityWeek News The company emerged from stealth mode with pre-seed funding from Osage University Partners and DataTribe. The post RemoteThreat Launches With $7 Million for Offensive Operations Platform appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown

    Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Precautionary Shutdown 2026-09-29 at 17:13 By Kiteworks on Monday said it worked with federal intelligence authorities over the weekend as it identified and addressed a critical security vulnerability during the scheduled precautionary shutdown. “During the shutdown, this activity led to the discovery of a previously unknown critical vulnerability…

  • New iPhone buyers demand refunds after $1,199 gizmo changes color just weeks after purchase

    New iPhone buyers demand refunds after $1,199 gizmo changes color just weeks after purchase 2026-09-29 at 17:02 By Ben Cost Color them surprised. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

  • Beyond Alerts: What the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide Says About the Future of MDR

    Beyond Alerts: What the 2026 Gartner® Market Guide Says About the Future of MDR 2026-09-29 at 17:00 By Managed Detection and Response has long helped organizations extend their security operations capabilities, but buyer expectations are changing. Detecting suspicious activity and notifying internal teams is no longer enough. Organizations increasingly expect MDR providers to help investigate…

  • LastPass warns employees before they share sensitive data with AI tools

    LastPass warns employees before they share sensitive data with AI tools 2026-09-29 at 16:47 By Industry News LastPass has announced an expansion of its Business Max offering to include AI Monitoring & Protect and Web Monitoring & Protect, new visibility and governance capabilities that enable organizations to identify and secure the AI tools, SaaS applications,…

  • 101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers’ WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent

    101 Malicious npm Packages Add Developers’ WhatsApp Accounts to Groups Without Consent 2026-09-29 at 16:45 By Cybersecurity researchers have identified a cluster of 101 npm packages that are used to trap developers into a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. “The malicious packages abuse the ‘Baileys’ WhatsApp open source project to add the victims to…

  • Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers

    Postman adds security controls for AI agents, APIs, and MCP servers 2026-09-29 at 16:40 By Industry News Postman has announced the general availability of Fabric Gateway, a protocol-agnostic control plane for governing how AI agents, LLMs, and MCP servers discover and interact with APIs, tools, and other agents. With Fabric Gateway, organizations can securely connect…

  • Peter Brandt says Bitcoin may hit $600K by 2029, calls XRP a ‘fool coin’

    Peter Brandt says Bitcoin may hit $600K by 2029, calls XRP a ‘fool coin’ 2026-09-29 at 16:30 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun An October pullback could offer a buying opportunity before Bitcoin’s next cycle peak, which Brandt expects between $300,000 and $600,000. He’s not sold on “fool coin” XRP. This article is an excerpt from…

  • Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security

    Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security 2026-09-29 at 16:20 By Ionut Arghire The company will use the funds to expand its sales, partnerships, channels, and customer support teams. The post Reco Raises $55 Million for Agentic Security appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Hackers Use ChatGPT Custom GPTs in ClickFix Attacks

    Hackers Use ChatGPT Custom GPTs in ClickFix Attacks 2026-09-29 at 16:03 By Ionut Arghire The personalized versions of ChatGPT were used to impersonate legitimate products and trick users into executing PowerShell commands. The post Hackers Use ChatGPT Custom GPTs in ClickFix Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original…

  • Webinar: Closing the accountability gap in AI-assisted delivery

    Webinar: Closing the accountability gap in AI-assisted delivery 2026-09-29 at 16:00 By Help Net Security Source control records who committed code. It does not record who made the decisions behind it, and that gap is widening as AI agents take on more of the delivery process. This session explores how organisations can adapt accountability models…

  • Meta gives small businesses an AI agent that knows their work

    Meta gives small businesses an AI agent that knows their work 2026-09-29 at 15:45 By Anamarija Pogorelec Meta has introduced Muse for Small Business, adding skills and connectors to its personal AI agent to help business owners get work done using the tools they already use. Muse launched earlier this month in the US and…

  • Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation

    Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation 2026-09-29 at 15:30 By Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. “It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters,” the Politie Landelijke…

  • Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People

    Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People 2026-09-29 at 15:25 By Eduard Kovacs The data breach affects the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense. The post Pentagon Personnel Agency Data Breach Impacts 3 Million People appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from…

  • ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board

    ECB puts AI agent payments on the digital euro drawing board 2026-09-29 at 15:00 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun The ECB is seeking firms to explore AI agents and machine-to-machine interactions as it prepares a separate digital euro pilot for 2027. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks

    Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks 2026-09-29 at 15:00 By Kevin Townsend Rig provides an identity dependencies graph to distinguish between legitimate users and rogue AI agents The post Rig Security Emerges From Stealth With $12M to Tackle Agentic AI Identity Risks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article…

  • Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one

    Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one 2026-09-29 at 14:59 By Anamarija Pogorelec Nearly three-quarters of security leaders have encountered or suspect a deepfake attack in the past year, while just 10% say their organizations have purpose-built defenses, according to Pindrop’s 2026 Deepfake Readiness Index. Real-time communications have become a target…

  • Malicious Custom GPT on chatgpt.com lures users into installing a RAT

    Malicious Custom GPT on chatgpt.com lures users into installing a RAT 2026-09-29 at 14:55 By Zeljka Zorz Malware peddlers are using sponsored Google results to push a malicious ChatGPT Custom GPT named “Plus 5.6,” created to lead users to a fake Cloudflare CAPTCHA check and, ultimately, make them download and run a remote access trojan…

  • OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran supply chain attacks despite being told not to

    OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra ran supply chain attacks despite being told not to 2026-09-29 at 14:41 By Sinisa Markovic OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra carried out supply chain attacks on software outside the scope of a security test, according to the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Anatomy of an unsanctioned simulated supply-chain attack (Source: AISI) AISI tested the…

  • Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future

    Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future 2026-09-29 at 14:30 By Steve Durbin – AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations. The post Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is…

  • OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training

    OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training 2026-09-29 at 14:15 By Eduard Kovacs The GPT-6.1 Astra model was slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October, but it fell short of expectations.  The post OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training appeared first on…

  • Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation

    Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation 2026-09-29 at 14:01 By Ionut Arghire Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them. The post Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original…

  • Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent

    Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent 2026-09-29 at 14:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Twenty-minute training sessions that fit into the workweek could help new hires become productive sooner, keep employees’ skills current and build problem-solving skills they can use across different tools, according to SkillBit’s The Shift to Continuous Cybersecurity Micro-Training report. Reasons…

  • Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6

    Ethereum schedules Glamsterdam upgrade on Sepolia for Oct. 6 2026-09-29 at 13:46 By Cointelegraph by Yohan Yun Glamsterdam will bring proposer-builder separation, block-level access lists and new gas pricing, while its mainnet date remains unset. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents

    Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents 2026-09-29 at 13:21 By Anamarija Pogorelec Palo Alto Networks is expanding its work with NVIDIA to help companies control what AI agents can access and do. The collaboration covers agent activity, network traffic and identity management through NVIDIA’s Open Agent Safety Platform reference design.…

  • US crypto ETF inflows cool after $3.3B week but streaks hold

    US crypto ETF inflows cool after $3.3B week but streaks hold 2026-09-29 at 13:15 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra US spot crypto ETF inflows fell about 80% from Friday as Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and XRP funds attracted $64.8 million combined on Monday. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

  • OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions

    OpenAI Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions 2026-09-29 at 11:39 By OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal.…

  • OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot

    OpenAI Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot 2026-09-29 at 11:39 By OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. “An…

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike

    Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike 2026-09-29 at 11:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 5.5, an AI model for coding and office work. The company says it responds more than 30% faster than its predecessor and uses fewer tokens to complete many tasks, reducing the cost per task without…

  • GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities

    GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities 2026-09-29 at 09:39 By Anamarija Pogorelec GitHub Security Lab researcher Kevin Stubbings built custom AI-driven audit workflows, called taskflows, on top of the lab’s open source Taskflow Agent, and used them to find and report more than 20 vulnerabilities in Android apps. Two of the disclosed bugs…

  • Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ 

    Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’  2026-09-29 at 09:18 By Eduard Kovacs Apple has released iOS and macOS updates to patch the zero-day vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-86950. The post Apple Patches Meta-Reported Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’  appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

  • Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials

    Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials 2026-09-29 at 09:08 By A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK’s maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent…

  • Nvidia unveils AI safety platform to rein in ‘rogue’ AI agents

    Nvidia unveils AI safety platform to rein in ‘rogue’ AI agents 2026-09-29 at 08:32 By Cointelegraph by Felix Ng The launch comes after several AI agents breached their testing environments this year, adding to calls for companies to slow the development of autonomous AI systems. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original…

  • A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk

    A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk 2026-09-29 at 08:00 By Help Net Security In this Help Net Security video, Guilliano Molaire, founder of Skycloak, explains how to map vendor concentration risk. A company may pay 30 vendors and think its tools are spread out, but many of those vendors run on the same…

  • Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026

    Hottest cybersecurity open-source tools of the month: September 2026 2026-09-29 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec Presented here is a curated selection of noteworthy open-source cybersecurity solutions that have drawn recognition for their ability to enhance security postures across diverse settings. Open-source secrets scanning tool Sift hunts credentials in Microsoft 365, Slack, and Jira Sift is…

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