2026 - Security Ticks

New Android malware RemControl steals banking PINs and blocks removal attempts

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New Android malware RemControl steals banking PINs and blocks removal attempts 2026-09-24 at 12:40 By Sinisa Markovic A new Android banking trojan called RemControl tricks victims into installing a fake TV app, then takes control of their phones to steal banking PINs, Group-IB has found. Researchers confirmed that the malware targets customers of more than […]

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Bitcoin ETFs add $347M as BTC falls below $84K after topping $87K

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Bitcoin ETFs add $347M as BTC falls below $84K after topping $87K 2026-09-24 at 12:32 By Cointelegraph by Helen Partz US spot Bitcoin ETF inflows slowed to $347 million on Wednesday as Bitcoin fell below $84,000, while five-day inflows reached $2.65 billion. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices

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Google plans to give Private AI Compute a memory that follows users across devices 2026-09-24 at 12:32 By Anamarija Pogorelec Google plans to add private, server-side memory to Private AI Compute, enabling AI assistants to maintain continuity across devices while providing privacy protections normally associated with on-device processing. Private AI Compute is Google’s cloud platform […]

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Institutions held crypto through 50% drawdown, Bitwise finds

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Institutions held crypto through 50% drawdown, Bitwise finds 2026-09-24 at 12:18 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Every institution interviewed that owned crypto held Bitcoin, usually as its largest asset; some set exit conditions for Ether and Solana. This article is an excerpt from Cointelegraph.com News View Original Source

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US Court Sentences Armenian Man to Prison for Ryuk Ransomware Attacks

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US Court Sentences Armenian Man to Prison for Ryuk Ransomware Attacks 2026-09-24 at 11:38 By Eduard Kovacs Karen Vardanyan has also been ordered to pay over $1.2 million in restitution to victims. The post US Court Sentences Armenian Man to Prison for Ryuk Ransomware Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from […]

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GNOME 50.5 security fixes patch a gvfs CVE and Epiphany code injection

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GNOME 50.5 security fixes patch a gvfs CVE and Epiphany code injection 2026-09-24 at 11:32 By Sinisa Markovic GNOME 50.5, which the GNOME Release Team shipped on September 24, patches a CVE in the gvfs file system layer, a JavaScript injection flaw in the Epiphany web browser and a use-after-free bug in the librsvg image […]

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OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files

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OpenAI Agent Bypassed Australian Medicare Portal Controls to Access Non-Public Files 2026-09-24 at 11:32 By An AI agent on an internal OpenAI research task bypassed access controls on an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said. The portal publishes aggregate figures, such as spending, and is separate from the systems that […]

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TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords

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TeamFiltration Campaign Compromises Seven Microsoft 365 Accounts Using Default Passwords 2026-09-24 at 11:32 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an active TeamFiltration campaign codenamed UNK_CondorFiltration that has targeted over 5,700 accounts across 28 Microsoft 365 tenants. According to Proofpoint, the activity has primarily focused on Chilean retail and financial institutions. It originated from 1,487 […]

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Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure

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Attackers Exploit WordPress CVE-2026-87902 Within Hours of Disclosure 2026-09-24 at 11:32 By Threat actors have begun to actively exploit a critical security flaw in WordPress within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-87902 (CVSS score: 9.2), which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain remote code execution (RCE). “An unauthenticated attacker can […]

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Claude.ai is about 3x faster after 3,000+ changes

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Claude.ai is about 3x faster after 3,000+ changes 2026-09-24 at 11:19 By Anamarija Pogorelec Anthropic engineers made claude.ai and the Claude desktop app roughly three times faster during a two-week sprint in August, with Claude finding the bottlenecks and writing the fixes. The team merged more than 3,000 changes and says none of them caused […]

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Apple’s new iOS 27 feature looks for signs you’re being scammed

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Apple’s new iOS 27 feature looks for signs you’re being scammed 2026-09-24 at 11:02 By Anamarija Pogorelec Apple introduced a scam-prevention feature called Impersonation Risk Detection with iOS 27 and iPadOS 27. The feature allows supported apps to request a risk assessment when a user takes an action that could be connected to an active […]

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Critical WordPress Vulnerability Exploited Immediately After Disclosure

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Critical WordPress Vulnerability Exploited Immediately After Disclosure 2026-09-24 at 10:12 By Ionut Arghire Tracked as CVE-2026-87902, the path traversal flaw allows remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code. The post Critical WordPress Vulnerability Exploited Immediately After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. This article is an excerpt from SecurityWeek View Original Source

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What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data

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What to do first when you get 90 days to secure AI agent data 2026-09-24 at 08:00 By Mirko Zorz In this interview with Help Net Security, Kelly Herrell, CEO at Nol8, explains where AI agents create exposure inside organizations. The first thing to examine is the data path: what an agent can reach, what […]

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Bitcoin’s ‘last resort’ quantum-safe solution just got 79% cheaper: StarkWare

US weighs overseas push for dollar-backed stablecoins: Bloomberg

Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator?

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Your security program knows about the firewall, but does it know about the elevator? 2026-09-24 at 07:30 By Anamarija Pogorelec By early August, attackers had hit water systems in at least seven U.S. states. The FBI and EPA said the intruders remotely accessed internet-facing programmable logic controllers, the small industrial computers that run pumps and […]

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Ubuntu kernel CVE fixes are moving to a weekly release schedule

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Ubuntu kernel CVE fixes are moving to a weekly release schedule 2026-09-24 at 07:27 By Anamarija Pogorelec Ubuntu kernels will ship every week under a new release schedule from Canonical, which is merging its four-week cycle for regular Stable Release Updates (SRUs) and its two-week cycle for security fixes into a single two-week cycle. The […]

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target

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Europe’s technology backbone is becoming a cyber target 2026-09-24 at 07:00 By Anamarija Pogorelec Disruptive attacks on public-facing services, financially motivated cybercrime and compromises of shared technology providers are increasing cybersecurity risks across Europe. ENISA’s Threat Landscape 2026 identifies cybercrime, state-linked activity, foreign information manipulation and interference, hacktivism and vulnerability exploitation as key threats. Geopolitical […]

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Kalshi says CFTC hasn’t contacted it over ‘unusual’ $5B trading activity

Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative

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Americans’ views on data centers have turned more negative 2026-09-24 at 01:15 By Anamarija Pogorelec American attitudes toward data centers have turned noticeably more negative over the course of 2026, according to a new Pew Research Center survey. 54% of U.S. adults now say data centers are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% […]

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