Check Point Software has released emergency fixes for a critical Check Point Management Server vulnerability (CVE-2026-93616) that has been exploited as…
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GPT-6 Sol and Luna arrive with 50% lower API prices
OpenAI has expanded GPT-6 with the GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna models. Both are available in ChatGPT Work and Codex for Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise, and…
WordPress 7.1.2 fixes critical unauthenticated path traversal vulnerability (CVE-2026-87902)
WordPress released version 7.1.2 to fix a critical flaw that lets an unauthenticated attacker make the software load a PHP file of the attacker’s choosing…
Claude Opus 5.5 cuts costs and adds safeguards for autonomous AI
Claude Opus 5.5 is available across Anthropic’s platforms, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Developers can access it through the…
Microsoft disrupts EvilTokens phishing service that gave criminals access to 12,000 inboxes
The EvilTokens phishing service, which compromised more than 12,000 inboxes at over 10,000 organizations, has been disrupted by a coalition of law…
Prismor: Open-source runtime control plane for AI agents
Prismor is a free, open-source security layer for AI coding agents. It sits between an agent such as Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor and the actions that…
Product showcase: Scamwise checks the red flags before you take the bait
Scamwise is a free scam-checking service from Savi that examines suspicious messages, emails, websites, phone numbers, images, and real-world situations…
Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test
Malicious bot activity increased 124% between July 2025 and June 2026, compared with 13.2% growth in human traffic. Traffic from AI agents and large…
Rabbit’s new OS lives in the cloud and borrows your laptop to get things done
Rabbit, the Santa Monica company that makes the r1 handheld, released OS3, an agentic operating system. It runs in Rabbit’s cloud and operates a user’s…
NetBSD 10.2 security fixes close a remote kernel bug in ipfilter
A NetBSD box at the edge of a network, filtering traffic with ipfilter, has been carrying a kernel flaw that someone outside the machine can set off. The…
Brief hijack makes Elsevier domains redirect to LAPSUS$ “Chapter II” page
Three domains / web portals belonging to Dutch academic publishing company Elsevier have been redirecting users to a page branded “LAPSUS$ GROUP, Chapter…
Researchers uncover malware that uses AI to choose its next move
To help security practitioners catch malware that leans on AI, researchers from Cisco Talos shared an open-source framework that they hope will be used to…
The next intellectual property thief may sound like your CEO
Impersonation, phishing and domain-name abuse are the most concerning types of online intellectual property infringement, according to CSC’s The State of…
The latest deepfake numbers give CISOs plenty to worry about
AI is letting cybercriminals reach deeper into organizations than a phishing email ever could. 41% of CISOs reported at least one social engineering…
Attacker compromised nearly 1000 Zyxel switches since August (CVE-2026-7273)
A Chinese-speaking threat actor has exploited a vulnerability (CVE-2026-7273) in unpatched ZyXEL GS1900 Smart Managed Switches and has exfiltrated…
Somewhere in your traffic logs, a bot is doing more than looking
Akamai has watched verified AI crawlers, ChatGPT among them, move from reading web pages to sending high-frequency POST requests. In a 30-day analysis of…
Scammers use genuine Google sign-ins to sell costly, unverified AI subscriptions
Scammers are using a $249 website toolkit to sell unverified AI subscriptions worth up to $2,000 a year, and a genuine Google sign-in screen is what makes…
A cheap fake base station can still track 5G subscribers
Researchers from the i2CAT Foundation, the University of Murcia, and NEC Laboratories Europe built a low-cost tool called 5G-Shark that lures a target…
Passwork NIS2 efficiency guide: Save your team hours before the 2026 audit
By the second half of 2026, national competent authorities across the EU are actively reviewing NIS2 compliance documentation. Under Article 20(1) of the…
European AI spending is on track to reach nearly $470 billion by 2030
European organizations will spend nearly $470 billion on AI in 2030, IDC forecasts, with spending growing at a compound annual rate of 35% from 2025. At…