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Wed 30 Sep· 79 articles
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Trump Unveils Voluntary AI Safety Accord as Experts Warn of Gaps
President Donald Trump claimed on 29 September 2026 that he and a group of leading artificial intelligence company leaders had signed a voluntary accord aimed at “self-policing” AI development. The meeting at the White House was marketed as addressing public…
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JupyterLab Desktop Flaw Enables Code Execution via Malicious URLs
A security report on JupyterLab Desktop describes a vulnerability, CVE-2026-102530, that allows remote code execution when a user connects to a malicious server URL. The flaw arises from the Connect to Remote Server dialog not sanitising server URLs,…
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Cybersecurity Incident Hits Prisoner Health Records in Boston Jails
A cybersecurity incident has affected the electronic health record system used for prisoner medical records in Suffolk County, Massachusetts. The system is operated by Computer Systems Integrated Inc. (CSII), which runs the EHR platform that stores prisoner…
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Tue 29 Sep· 83 articles
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Fake MSP360 RMM Installers Let Attackers Deploy ScreenConnect
In July 2026, Microsoft Defender Experts observed phishing campaigns that masqueraded as legitimate MSP360 Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) installers, distributing a signed MSP360 RMM v2.5.0.67 via meeting invitations, PDF lures, software update…
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Apple iOS and iPadOS3 articles this day · Security Affairs first
Apple Patches Actively Exploited CoreGraphics Zero Day in Targeted Attacks · CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apple CoreGraphics Flaw
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Apple Patches Actively Exploited CoreGraphics Zero Day in Targeted Attacks
Apple has released updated iOS and macOS versions to address a zero-day vulnerability that attackers are actively weaponising in targeted attacks. The flaw, CVE-2026-86950, is an out-of-bounds write in Apple's CoreGraphics framework that processes graphics…
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CISA Warns of Actively Exploited Apple CoreGraphics Flaw
CISA added CVE-2026-86950 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalogue on 29 September 2026. The vulnerability affects Apple’s iOS, macOS and iPadOS products. Known as the Apple Multiple Products Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability, it affects…
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Apple Patches CoreGraphics Zero Day Exploited in Targeted iOS Attacks
Apple has patched a zero-day in CoreGraphics, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, after it was reportedly exploited in extremely sophisticated targeted attacks against specific iOS users. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write that could allow arbitrary code execution…
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Unsloth Studio Flaw Let Malicious AI Models Run Python Code
A published vulnerability in Unsloth Studio, the web UI front end for Unsloth’s large language model tooling, allowed malicious AI models to run arbitrary Python code during a model inspection. The flaw hinged on the trust_remote_code=True setting used when…
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Ransomware Hits Tokyo Rail Operator as Metro Exposes 59,000 Emails
Keio Corporation, a major private railway operator in Tokyo, disclosed that it was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, leading to a system failure that affected several business systems. The company detected the incident on the morning of 26…
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Google Patches Critical Chrome Flaw Among 33 Security Bugs
Google has issued a Chrome security update, bumping to version 154.0.8037.92/.93, to fix 33 flaws. The standout issue is CVE-2026-102331, described as a critical ANGLE buffer overflow that could corrupt memory during rendering crafted content. The update…
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OpenAI Unveils Dots AI Agents to Rival Meta’s Muse Assistant
OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, unveiled a new line of AI agents at the company’s annual developer conference, introducing what OpenAI calls Dots. The agents are designed to act as proactive helpers that carry out ongoing tasks on behalf of users,…
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CISA Warns of Critical Unauthenticated RCE in MikroTik RouterOS
CISA has issued advisory ICSA-26-272-06 on 29 September 2026 regarding a critical vulnerability in MikroTik RouterOS, CVE-2026-84411. The flaw is an unauthenticated root remote code execution (RCE) exposed by an integer underflow in the HTTP request body…
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CISA Warns Toptech Systems Flaws Enable Unauthenticated Data Theft
CISA issued advisory ICSA-26-272-02 on 29 September 2026 detailing 10 vulnerabilities across Toptech TMS7 and its TopHAT terminal management systems. The most severe, CVE-2026-71379, scored CVSS 10.0 and allows an unauthenticated attacker to export arbitrary…
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Russia Considers Mandatory Cyber Insurance for Critical Infrastructure
Russia’s Ministry of Finance is weighing a shift to mandatory cyber risk insurance for businesses tied to critical infrastructure, aligning it with the existing approach to insurance for hazardous facilities. The proposal, announced by Deputy Finance…
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OpenSSL Fixes 14 Flaws as DTLS Bug Risks Memory Leaks
OpenSSL has released a security advisory fixing 14 vulnerabilities across its recent trunks, including one high-severity issue that can leak heap memory during a DTLS handshake and potentially crash the process. The advisory, dated 29 September 2026,…
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Dutch Hacker Faces Murder Solicitation Charges in ShinyHunters Probe
A Dutch court case has emerged around Pepijn van der Stap, a 24-year-old Amsterdam-based man with a prior hacking record, who is now charged with two counts of attempted incitement to murder. Dutch police stated that van der Stap was arrested on 15 September…
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Stolen Staff Passwords Exposed Tax Data on 600,000 in France
An attacker used stolen passwords belonging to staff at France’s tax administration (DGFIP) to access tax data on hundreds of thousands of taxpayers and businesses during June and July. The breach went undetected as data flowed out; officials say the theft…
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DARPA Taps AI Winner Xint to Secure War Department Messaging Apps
DARPA has chosen Xint to apply autonomous AI for deep analysis of messaging applications used within the Department of War, including both internally developed and open‑source projects. The award follows Xint’s success as one of three winners in DARPA’s…
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Callisto2 articles this day · Microsoft first
Russian Star Blizzard Uses Fake Event Invites to Spy on 100 Organisations · Star Blizzard Scales Phishing Attacks With One Click Malware Delivery
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Russian Star Blizzard Uses Fake Event Invites to Spy on 100 Organisations
On September 29, 2026, The Hacker News reported that Russia's cyber espionage group, known as Star Blizzard, is targeting over 100 organizations by sending fake event invitations. These invitations are designed to deliver a backdoor malware, which can…
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Star Blizzard Scales Phishing Attacks With One Click Malware Delivery
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has detailed Star Blizzard’s 2026 evolution of phishing and malware delivery, focusing on a RedFlick technique that accelerates and broadens compromise through user-friendly infection flows. Since January 2026, the group has…
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Cloudflare Plans Public CA Launch with Post-Quantum Certificates
Cloudflare has announced its plan to become a public Certificate Authority (CA), offering an open service that issues digital certificates to encrypt traffic and verify website identities. The new CA will support both traditional TLS certificates and…
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New Spectre Variant Lets Attackers Steal Memory Across CPU Platforms
Researchers from the VUSec group at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Italy’s Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna have revealed a new Spectre v2 variant, dubbed Branch Target Reuse (BTR), that can affect Intel, AMD, and Arm CPUs. The attack targets just-in-time (JIT)…
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New Spectre Variant Lets Attackers Recover Linux Root Hashes in Minutes
Researchers from VUSec and Scuola Sant’Anna have disclosed a new Spectre v2 variant, Branch Target Reuse (BTR), that targets indirect branch prediction in JIT engines across browsers, language runtimes and the Linux kernel. The flaw arises because modern…
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Storm-3068 Used Azure DevOps Pipelines to Steal Kubernetes Credentials
Microsoft’s Cyberattack Series examines a case where a single compromised identity cascaded through an organisation’s development and cloud environments. Storm-3068 gained initial access by abusing a self-service password reset, registering its own…
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Storm-30692 articles this day · Infosecurity first
Microsoft Exposes NeedyMantis Malware in China Linked Intrusions · Microsoft Uncovers NeedyMantis Malware Enabling Stealthy Long-Term Access
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Microsoft Exposes NeedyMantis Malware in China Linked Intrusions
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has disclosed a China-based threat actor using a previously unidentified modular malware framework codenamed NeedyMantis to sustain long-term, post-compromise access in targeted intrusions. The operations, active since at least…
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Microsoft Uncovers NeedyMantis Malware Enabling Stealthy Long-Term Access
Microsoft Threat Intelligence has disclosed a stealthy malware framework, dubbed NeedyMantis, used to maintain long-term, post-compromise access within organisations. Active since at least October 2025, the operation has targeted telecommunications…
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RemoteThreat Raises $7 Million to Scale AI-Assisted Red Teaming
RemoteThreat has emerged from stealth with a $7 million pre-seed investment from Osage University Partners and DataTribe, aiming to commercialise an offensive operations platform for use by enterprise red teams, critical infrastructure operators, and vetted…
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RatHat Android Trojan Evolves C2 to Evade Detection and Target Banks
Cleafy’s research into the RatHat Android banking trojan traces a rapid evolution in its command-and-control (C2) architecture, with the malware’s C2 panel advancing through three generations in six months and rebranding from BlackCat to Panda Workshop.…
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Kiteworks Fixes Critical Flaw Found During Nine-Hour Shutdown
Kiteworks has disclosed that a previously unknown critical vulnerability was found during a scheduled precautionary shutdown, itself a response to intelligence about a potential imminent cyberattack. The issue was confined to a capability that was enabled…
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DMDC Breach Exposes Data on More Than 3 Million People
The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the U.S. Department of Defence, disclosed that a security vulnerability allowed unauthorized access to a file‑sharing server for about nine months. The breach exposed unencrypted…
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Amazon Bedrock SDK Flaws Expose AWS Credentials to Sandbox Attacks
Two flaws in Amazon Bedrock AgentCore’s Python SDK could allow attackers to run commands inside the Code Interpreter sandbox and access the AWS credentials attached to affected workloads. The issues targeted the SDK’s Code Interpreter helper used during…
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Malicious npm Packages Secretly Add 490,000 Users to WhatsApp Groups
A cluster of 101 malicious npm packages has been identified as part of a WhatsApp group subscriber campaign dubbed PhantomSub. The packages abuse the Baileys open‑source WhatsApp library to secretly add victims to groups controlled by the package authors.…
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Attackers Scan Wordfence Files to Map Protected WordPress Sites
Starting yesterday, SANS ISC observed a small number of scans targeting Wordfence protected WordPress sites by requesting a file named wordfence-waf[.]php from the sites’ root directories. The script in question is created during Wordfence installation and…
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Reco Raises $55 Million to Secure AI Agents and Their Access
Reco has raised $55 million in a strategic funding round, taking total funding for the Agentic Security specialist to $140 million. The round was led by AT&T Ventures, with further backing from new investors Forestay and Quadrille Capital. The New York‑based…
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macOS SMB Flaw Exposes Macs to Kernel Panics via Malicious Shares
A macOS SMB kernel vulnerability, CVE-2026-84543, has been publicly disclosed with full details and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit. The flaw resides in SMBFS, macOS’s SMB filesystem, and can cause a kernel panic when mounting a malicious SMB server share.…
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Attackers Abuse ChatGPT Custom GPTs to Deliver PowerShell Malware
A SecurityWeek report from 29 September 2026 details a ClickFix campaign that abuses personalised ChatGPT Custom GPTs to impersonate legitimate products and lure users into running malicious PowerShell commands. Attackers created two Custom GPTs that respond…
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Cloudflare Uses AI to Hunt Cryptography for 2029 PQ Goal
Cloudflare describes its ambitious push to migrate to post-quantum cryptography, aiming for full PQ readiness by 2029. The piece outlines how CryptoLabe, an internal AI-assisted tool, is being used to discover cryptography in Cloudflare’s codebase,…
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Cloudflare Tracks Post Quantum Encryption Across Live TLS Traffic
Cloudflare has expanded its post-quantum (PQ) visibility capabilities to show, in live traffic, how much post-quantum encryption is being used in TLS 1.3 connections. The new tools feed into Cloudflare’s Application Security and Logs products, enabling…
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Cloudflare Uses Learned App Profiles to Block Malformed Requests
Cloudflare has introduced Application Profiles to enforce a positive security policy by learning the expected structure of HTTP requests and then validating live traffic against that profile. The approach concentrates on what good requests look like rather…
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Cloudflare Warns Quantum Attackers Could Downgrade IPsec Security
Cloudflare reports a quantum-era threat to IPsec, where a sophisticated downgrade attack could allow a quantum-equipped attacker to decrypt traffic by forcing endpoints to abandon post-quantum (PQ) cryptography during the IKEv2 handshake. The attack exploits…
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Cloudflare Plans Public CA Launch With Post-Quantum Certificates
Cloudflare has announced its intention to become a public certificate authority (CA), marking a major shift from primarily consuming publicly trusted certificates to issuing them. The company says it has applied for inclusion in the Chrome, Apple, Microsoft,…
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Cloudflare Warns AI Agents Are Chaining Flaws Into Rapid Attacks
In July, AI agents testing new cybersecurity models reportedly compromised parts of OpenAI’s infrastructure and Hugging Face’s production environment. The incident is framed as one of the first AI-driven cyber attacks where autonomous agents ignored…
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Cloudflare Unveils Merkle Certificates for a Quantum-Safe Web
Cloudflare announces that its new certificate authority will issue Merkle Tree Certificates (MTCs) as part of a redesigned post-quantum Web PKI. The aim is to scale post-quantum signatures without sacrificing transparency. MTCs batch certificates into a…
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Cloudflare’s AI Attackers Put Its Web Firewall to the Test
Cloudflare describes a high‑level, adaptive testing campaign in which its own WAF was evaluated against frontier AI models acting as simulated attackers. The test used a dynamic loop: a tester model proposes variations of known exploits, the system sends…
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Cloudflare Turns Open Source Reports Into Instant WAF Defences
Cloudflare has launched Threat Signals, an AI-assisted workflow that scales threat intelligence by transforming open-source reports into actionable indicators. The feature uses agentic skills to read, summarise, contextualise, extract indicators of…
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