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Treasury Sec. Scott Bessent says OpenAI bears ‘responsibility’ for Hugging Face hack 2026-09-21 at 21:22 By Thomas Barrabi “The Hugging Face incident, that is the responsibility of the OpenAI management, not a bunch of agents,” Bessent said during an appearance on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News…

OpenAI, Anthropic held talks to ‘stress-test’ each other’s AI models: report 2026-09-21 at 20:51 By Thomas Barrabi The two sides began negotiations a “legally binding deal” earlier this year – before high-profile incidents such as OpenAI’s accidental hack of rival firm Hugging Face occurred, The Information reported, citing a person with direct knowledge of the…

AI ‘hacker houses’ in Silicon Valley out of control with destructive parties, sexual harassment claims: report 2026-09-21 at 20:46 By Taylor Herzlich At some of these modern-day tech frats, entrepreneurs pay up to $10,000 a month in rent for a room, according to a report. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News |…

Fake LastPass Authenticator Installer Abuses Microsoft-Signed Driver to Kill Antivirus and EDR 2026-09-21 at 20:31 By A fake LastPass Authenticator installer offered on GitHub installs a Windows kernel driver that shuts off antivirus and other security software before a password stealer runs if a victim downloads and runs it, researchers at LastPass and Delphos Labs…

Contagious Interview Campaign Compromises 30,000 Devices, Steals $10.71M in Crypto 2026-09-21 at 20:19 By The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The…

NYC’s Founders School ‘guarantees’ students will graduate with $1M businesses 2026-09-21 at 20:04 By Will Zimmerman A new high school promises big success for entrepreneurial teens — or you get your tuition back. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Google Fined €403 Million Over GDPR Violations Tied to Location Data 2026-09-21 at 19:57 By Google has been fined €403 million for breaking the EU’s data protection law, the GDPR, in the way three of its features handled people’s location data from May 2018 to February 2020. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC), Google’s lead regulator in the…

A Background Check Is Only as Reliable as the Identity Behind It 2026-09-21 at 19:00 By Before asking whether someone’s history makes them suitable for a role, employers need to be confident that the person applying, interviewing, and ultimately joining the organization is who they claim to be. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe…

US pitches China on AI notification deal ahead of UN General Asssembly 2026-09-21 at 17:54 By Ryan King Negotators for the US and China reached a deal on an alert system between the two countries for artifical intelligence, but punted on a longer-term extension of the fragile trade truce, which is set to expire in…

⚡ Weekly Recap: Cisco 0-Day, AI Agent RCE, ClickFix Attacks, ClickFix Surge, and Browser Hijacks 2026-09-21 at 17:24 By A browser. A plugin. A package. A login screen. Normal stuff. That is basically the problem this week. The trouble keeps showing up inside things people already trust: code that takes a bad turn, old payloads…

TASK#STOMP PowerShell Backdoor Steals Documents, Wi-Fi Passwords, and Clipboard Data 2026-09-21 at 17:15 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new campaign dubbed TASK#STOMP that delivers a PowerShell backdoor designed to harvest sensitive data from compromised hosts. The backdoor “automatically harvests and exfiltrates business documents, watches the filesystem for new files in real time,…

Is everyone Bricking their phones without you? The anti-FOMO (and anti-doomscroll) wellness craze 2026-09-21 at 13:59 By McKenzie Beard One of the hottest trends of the digital age is logging off — but it’s not as easy as you might think. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View…

Execution Runtime Security in the Era of Agentic AI 2026-09-21 at 13:00 By Paul Miller The death of blocklisting and resurrection of positive controls This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Where Mass Notification Makes the Biggest Difference 2026-09-21 at 12:00 By In an emergency, there’s no time for delay. Notifying everyone in a timely manner can help prevent further damage when a crisis occurs. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

ClickFix Lures Deploy ChainScript RAT Using Polygon to Rotate C2 Infrastructure 2026-09-21 at 11:39 By Threat actors are leveraging ClickFix-like lures to deliver a previously undocumented remote access trojan (RAT) called ChainScript. “ChainScript has appeared under multiple build names, including ComponentTask33, UpdateDigital, HostShared, and OrchidViolet66, while presenting itself as Spotify, Zoom Workplace, and Microsoft Teams…

Jade Sleet Linked to Indian IT Provider Breach With FLATROOF and ROOFDECK Backdoors 2026-09-21 at 09:06 By The North Korean threat actor known as Jade Sleet has been attributed to the compromise of an India-based “much smaller organization” in the information technology (IT) services industry, once again highlighting how the adversary continues to target developers…