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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 […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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