September 2026

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

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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 […]

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Deepfakes become a board priority once an executive falls for one

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation

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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 […]

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Cybersecurity hiring practices leave little room for junior talent

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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 […]

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Palo Alto Networks and NVIDIA want tighter control over AI agents

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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. […]

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

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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. […]

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

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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 […]

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 gets faster without a price hike

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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 […]

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GitHub’s AI agent found 24 Android app vulnerabilities

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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 […]

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

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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

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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A four-week plan to tackle vendor concentration risk

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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 […]

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

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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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