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Google’s AI push in schools fuels plunging test scores — as kids left ‘dependent’ on chatbots: report 2026-10-01 at 21:58 By Thomas Barrabi Google’s aggressive AI push in schools has caused many students to become “academically and emotionally dependent” on the technology, according to an alarming report. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology […]

‘Gets it done’: Trump has a new AI concierge for all government requests — here’s what it can do 2026-10-01 at 21:37 By Ben Cost This brings new meaning to artificial intelligence. This article is an excerpt from Latest Technology News | New York Post View Original Source

Trump, AI Executives Sign Voluntary AI Safety Accord 2026-10-01 at 20:00 By Breaking down the voluntary AI safety accord signed by President Trump and AI executives.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Police Arrest 16-Year-Old Suspected of Running KillSec, Seize Ransomware Leak Site and Servers 2026-10-01 at 19:55 By Police in Spain have arrested a 16-year-old whom investigators suspect of running the KillSec ransomware group. KillSec is accused of stealing data from organizations and threatening to publish it on its leak site unless they paid. The 16-year-old […]

ThreatsDay: AI-Powered Zero-Day Chain, 543K Live Secrets, Model Inspection RCE and 13 More Stories 2026-10-01 at 19:45 By This week, the useful words are boring ones: inspect, cache, compile, store, trust. Each sounds harmless. Each can become an attack path when a system does a little more than people expect. A model check can run […]

Cybersecurity Awareness Month Drives Home a Key Challenge: Agentic AI 2026-10-01 at 18:30 By As AI continues to evolve, governance is struggling to keep pace. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

WordPress Backdoor Rebuilds Itself After Cleanup Using Files, Database, and Shared Memory 2026-10-01 at 17:37 By Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a WordPress compromise in which threat actors deployed multiple persistence mechanisms to ensure that the final payload kept returning without having to infect the site again. The backdoor has been codenamed SC after […]

Warlock Ransomware Attackers Hit Water and Telecom Operators 2026-10-01 at 16:00 By Threat Hunter Team China-nexus group behind Warlock is still exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities, attacking organizations in Portuguese and Spanish-speaking countries, hitting critical infrastructure, government, and education organizations. This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

Symantec CBX is Here 2026-10-01 at 15:40 By Adam Bromwich The answer to AI-accelerated threats is now available worldwide This article is an excerpt from SECURITY.COM View Original Source

How Financial Services Companies Can Modernize Their Software Supply Chain 2026-10-01 at 14:45 By Every security leader at a bank, insurer, or asset manager has had a version of this conversation: Security wants to eliminate a class of vulnerabilities. Engineering explains what it would take to upgrade the platform where they live. Somebody prices out […]

OpenAI Disrupts Reasoning Extraction Campaign Linked to Moonshot AI Associates 2026-10-01 at 14:34 By OpenAI on Wednesday said it identified and disrupted a coordinated distillation campaign that was designed to illicitly extract protected reasoning from its artificial intelligence (AI) models. A “core cluster of the activity,” going back to the first week of July, has […]

CISA Adds Exploited Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager Auth Bypass to KEV 2026-10-01 at 14:34 By The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a critical authentication bypass flaw impacting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV), following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score: 9.8), […]

Tech companies launching their own programs to train grads because they ‘can’t rely’ on Ivy Leagues 2026-10-01 at 13:00 By Lydia Moynihan “It used to be the case that you could rely on somebody who went to an Ivy or Ivy-equivalent to be top notch,” said Palantir’s Jordan Hirsch. “But that’s not the case anymore.” […]

Google Rolls Out Gemini 4 Argon to Trusted Cyber Defenders, Plans Guardrail-Free Version 2026-10-01 at 10:49 By Google on Wednesday announced its latest frontier artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 4 Argon, that it said is being rolled out to a set of trusted cyber defenders through its Fairwind Program. “It delivers frontier performance in complex […]

Apple CoreGraphics PoC Emerges as WhatsApp PDF Checks Hint at Possible Delivery Path 2026-10-01 at 08:54 By Security researchers have published the first public proof-of-concept for CVE-2026-86950, an Apple CoreGraphics flaw Apple says may have been used in attacks against specific targeted individuals. The trigger is a malicious PDF with a crafted embedded font that […]

Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft 2026-10-01 at 08:21 By Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget on Wednesday confirmed that attackers who stole $387.5 million last week exploited a zero-day flaw in third-party security products, citing ongoing investigation findings from SlowMist. “Their investigation identified malicious activity involving third-party security products, including a zero-day vulnerability, and […]

MetaMask Security Incident Prompts Exit of Affected Ethereum Validators 2026-10-01 at 08:10 By MetaMask on Thursday said it’s responding to what it described as an “ongoing security incident” impacting part of its infrastructure. “We are actively addressing and remediating the issue internally, in coordination with external partners and security advisors,” the software cryptocurrency wallet maker […]

The Problem with CISA’s 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Recommendations 2026-10-01 at 08:00 By The issue with CISA’s 2026 Cybersecurity Awareness Month suggestions? Identity attacks have evolved. This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Citrix NetScaler Post-Exploitation Payload Creates Superuser, Maps Web Shell to CSS-Like URLs 2026-10-01 at 07:35 By Threat actors have been observed exploiting a critical pre-authentication command injection vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to drop web shells and attempt theft of configuration data. LevelBlue’s Threat Hunt Operations & Research (THOR) team, which analyzed […]

Attackers Exploit Zimbra Flaw to Deploy Web Shells and Harvest Authentication Secrets 2026-09-30 at 21:27 By Threat actors have weaponized a now-patched security flaw in Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) to deploy web shells and access mailbox data, according to findings from the Microsoft Security Research team. The attack exploits CVE-2026-73570 (CVSS score: 8.9), an unauthenticated […]