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Trump brushes off AI doom predictions as ‘things that won’t happen,’ says US must push ahead: ‘Whoever wins AI, wins.’ 2026-09-13 at 17:22 By Ryan King “I think you have a lot of negative voices that are bringing it up that shouldn’t be bringing it up, and they’re bringing up things that won’t happen.” This…

Attackers Use Passkey Phishing to Hijack Microsoft Cloud Accounts and Exfiltrate Data 2026-09-13 at 13:11 By Microsoft has disclosed details of two campaigns in which threat actors are abusing third-party email delivery infrastructure to blast financial fraud scam messages and using passkey-themed social engineering to breach cloud environments. The first campaign, per the tech giant,…

CISA Adds 5 Actively Exploited Artifactory, ScreenConnect, and RouterOS Flaws to KEV 2026-09-12 at 18:54 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added five security flaws impacting JFrog Artifactory, ConnectWise ScreenConnect, and MikroTik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation in the wild. Details of the…

When the Whole Company Adopts AI: What It Does to Your SOC 2026-09-12 at 13:24 By Over the past year, we watched a new class of alert appear in enterprise security operations centers and grow faster than anything else in the stream: alerts that were triggered by AI tools and agents. Not attacks against AI,…

OpenAI Agents Linked to RubyGems Campaign That Gained RCE on RubyDoc Servers 2026-09-12 at 13:01 By The “major malicious attack” that targeted RubyGems in May 2026 was the work of a swarm of OpenAI agents, according to a new report published by researchers Spencer Kitts, Thomas Larsen, and Sydney Von Arx. On May 12, Maciej…

Mom horrified after Meta AI starts asking about her young daughters, where family lives — and allegedly digs up old deleted photo 2026-09-12 at 06:13 By Ariel Zilber Kalie Robins said the episode began when she shared what she called an “innocent” clip of herself singing in the car with one of her daughters. This…

Silicon Valley parents think NYC is crazy to ban AI in schools: ‘Can’t make children live in the past’ 2026-09-11 at 22:52 By Vivi Lin If public schools were to opt out of AI, a technology gap is sure to open up. Affluent, tech-savvy families will teach their kids the tech at home. Families of…

Anthropic Says Seven China-Based AI Labs Ran Industrial-Scale Claude Distillation Attacks 2026-09-11 at 22:17 By Anthropic on Thursday said it identified and disrupted industrial-scale illicit distillation attacks against Claude from seven labs based in China, including Alibaba, Moonshot, DeepSeek, Z.ai (aka Zhipu), and MiniMax. Knowledge distillation by itself is a legitimate training method. It refers…

Hunter Biden crashes out over collapse of his $LAPTOP meme coin: ‘There was a f–k up’ 2026-09-11 at 22:09 By Ariel Zilber Hunter Biden publicly crashed out over the spectacular collapse of his meme coin, ranting online about the “f–k up” that crushed four out of five investors. This article is an excerpt from Latest…

TikTok rejects Meta ads urging firm to join landmark child safety settlement: report 2026-09-11 at 21:40 By Thomas Barrabi The rejected video ad featured a voiceover pressuring TikTok and YouTube to take action, Axios reported, citing sources familiar with the matter. TikTok informed Meta on Wednesday that it wouldn’t run the ads because they violate…

Critical Infrastructure Cyberattack Encrypts Central IT Structures 2026-09-11 at 21:00 By Municipal utility Stadtwerke Landsberg experienced a cyberattack that encrypted its central IT systems.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Flock Cameras Suspended in Wisconsin County, Data Concerns Cited 2026-09-11 at 20:00 By A law enforcement agency in Wisconsin is choosing to suspend its Flock cameras.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

GitLab CVSS 10 File-Read Flaw Draws In-the-Wild Probes After Disclosure 2026-09-11 at 19:30 By GitLab has released patches to address multiple flaws, including a maximum-severity security vulnerability that has witnessed in-the-wild probes within hours of public disclosure. The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score: 10.0), a path traversal issue in the repository commits API…

Your Critical Vulnerabilities Might Not Be Your Biggest Risk 2026-09-11 at 19:26 By Security teams have become exceptionally talented at finding vulnerabilities. Now, it’s time to turn our attention to optimizing the process for determining which of those vulnerabilities actually create a path to compromise. A critical vulnerability may look alarming on a scanner report,…

Iran-backed rebels in Yemen tried using Anthropic’s Claude to build guided missiles, alarming report finds 2026-09-11 at 19:21 By Thomas Barrabi Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen tried to use Anthropic’s powerful Claude AI model to craft software for use in ballistic missiles, according to an alarming report released by the company. This article is an…

The cost of every new Apple product that debuted this week — and the price hikes since last launch 2026-09-11 at 19:17 By Aurielle Weiss Apple is taking a bite out of your pocket. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

United States Observes the 25th Anniversary of 9/11 2026-09-11 at 18:26 By Tribute events are taking place all across the country, including in New York City and Washington D.C. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

A Fourth Claude Model Escaped Guardrails 2026-09-11 at 18:00 By Another Anthropic model breached guardrails during testing.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Claude Used to Automate Exploitation and Data Theft Across Multiple Victims 2026-09-11 at 17:29 By Anthropic has warned that cybercriminals and state-sponsored hackers alike are using its Claude models for cyber attacks, weapons design, propaganda, and mass surveillance between December 2025 and August 2026. The threat actors, which the artificial intelligence (AI) company has branded…

Russian State-Sponsored Hackers Use Claude to Rebuild Malware After Detection 2026-09-11 at 17:10 By Anthropic on Thursday revealed it disrupted a campaign mounted by a Russian state-sponsored threat actor that abused Claude for developing an AI-assisted workflow to get ahead of the detection curve. The operation has been attributed to a cyber espionage group it…

The White House has an AI problem — and it may worry Wall Street even more than Iran 2026-09-11 at 14:00 By Charles Gasparino Making sure that the AI buildout forges ahead has become somewhat of an obsession among Trump officials. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

Striking a Balance 2026-09-11 at 12:00 By Raymond Hankins, Chief Security Officer, Security Branch, at National Labor Relations Board talks about striking the balance of securing government facilities while maintaining an opening environment to the public. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source