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Attacker Hijacks AI Coding Assistant Session, Spreads Shai-Hulud Across About 100 Repositories 2026-09-16 at 16:37 By Mandiant says an attacker hijacked an active AI coding-assistant session at an unnamed software-as-a-service provider and later spread Shai-Hulud across about 100 internal code repositories. Before the repository spread, the assistant recommended software that the attacker had poisoned, and the recommendation […]

Parallels Desktop Flaw Lets Non-Admin Mac Users Gain Root, but Intel Macs Can’t Install Fix 2026-09-16 at 16:14 By Parallels Desktop for Mac has a flaw that lets an ordinary local account run code as root, the highest level of access on a Mac, software company JFrog said this week. The attack needs code already […]

N0va Phishkit Targets US and EU Businesses: A New Challenge for Identity Security 2026-09-16 at 14:58 By N0va is targeting organizations across North America and Europe with phishing campaigns that impersonate trusted services and abuse legitimate authentication flows. Successful attacks can give threat actors access to valid accounts without relying on obvious malware activity. From […]

Google Patches Pixel Modem Flaw Amid Signs of Limited Targeted Exploitation 2026-09-16 at 14:15 By Google has disclosed that a high-severity security flaw in its Pixel Cellular Modem has come under exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704 (CVSS score: 8.0), is a privilege escalation flaw. “In Cellular Modem, there is a possible […]

Threat Intelligence Alone Won’t Close the Exploitation Gap 2026-09-16 at 14:15 By A leaked credential shows up in a criminal marketplace, or a vulnerability gets a disclosure advisory, and either one can be weaponized against a real target before most security teams have triaged the alert. Attackers are combining that kind of intelligence with AI-assisted […]

Acronis cPanel Backup Plugin Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks 2026-09-16 at 14:08 By Acronis has warned that a high-severity security flaw in its Backup plugin for cPanel and Web Host Manager (WHM) deployments has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-87886 (CVSS score: 7.8), is described as a case of local privilege […]

8 Places AI Is Quietly Entering Your Enterprise 2026-09-16 at 14:00 By Do you know where AI is entering your organization?  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Sensitive Data Thrives in a Quiet Environment 2026-09-16 at 13:00 By Prateek Temkar, Rai Johnson Symantec® CBX cuts noise and amplifies visibility for streamlined teams This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Anthropic is a cult and Claude is rapidly becoming its god — they treat AI like it’s human: source 2026-09-16 at 13:00 By Vivi Lin “These people are treating AI as if it’s a human in disguise, with human motives, with human emotions,” said University of Washington professor Pedro Domingos. This article is an excerpt […]

The Leadership Test You Don’t Know You’re Taking 2026-09-16 at 12:00 By When I was in high school, students joked that you got 200 points on the SAT simply for writing your name. True or not, it captured an important idea: your name got you into the game but didn’t distinguish you from anyone else. […]

Active Exploitation Attempts Target WSO2 API Manager JWT Bypass With Forged Admin Tokens 2026-09-16 at 09:41 By A critical security flaw in WSO2 API Manager has come under active exploitation in the wild, according to findings from watchTowr. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-5430 (CVSS score: 9.8/10.0), is a case of improper verification of a cryptographic […]

Attackers Exploit WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture Flaw to Plant PHP Web Shells 2026-09-16 at 08:48 By Threat actors are exploiting a critical security flaw in WooCommerce Wholesale Lead Capture, a premium WordPress plugin that has more than 6,000 active installs. “This vulnerability can be leveraged by unauthenticated attackers to upload arbitrary files, including PHP backdoors, […]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s handpicked AI watchdog has deep ties to woke Effective Altruism movement: ‘a complete joke’ 2026-09-16 at 01:40 By Thomas Barrabi Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei says he has found an outside team that can regulate AI and make sure it doesn’t destroy the world — and it just so happens to have […]

Forget data privacy, AI chatbots already know more than your own mother 2026-09-16 at 00:12 By Rikki Schlott AI companies are now in possession of heaps of personal information that social media giants could only dream of. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Google DeepMind researcher quits with chilling AI warning: It could ‘kill us all’ 2026-09-15 at 23:11 By Ariel Zilber Bilal Chughtai said Monday that he had become deeply worried about the direction of the technology after watching its rapid development firsthand. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View […]

Majority of Organizations Have Over 50 AI Agents 2026-09-15 at 21:54 By A report by Zentera Systems analyzed the deployment of AI agents within organizations. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

KREMLIN Banking Malware Hijacks Chrome and Edge to Steal Credentials and Session Tokens 2026-09-15 at 21:54 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a previously undocumented Brazilian banking malware operation that delivers a toolkit called KREMLIN. Elastic Security Labs is tracking the activity under the moniker REF9334. Active since at least May 2025, the threat […]

Iranian Hackers Use Telegram-Controlled Malware to Spy on Dissidents and Journalists 2026-09-15 at 19:29 By Cybersecurity agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands have detailed a Windows malware that they say Iran’s intelligence service uses to spy on dissidents, journalists, and activists around the world. The malware is controlled via the […]

BambooToken Malware Uses MQTT to Control Windows and Linux Systems 2026-09-15 at 18:23 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a multi-platform campaign that uses the Message Queueing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) protocol as a communication channel to control Windows and Linux systems. The emerging malware family, codenamed BambooToken, is assessed to be active since at […]

Ransomware Doesn’t Just Break Systems. It Breaks People. 2026-09-15 at 16:00 By The most enduring impact of ransomware attacks is human: stress, fear, job loss, and long-term consequences that rarely show up in incident reports. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source