Credential harvesting on developer machines has widened. Earlier infostealers worked from a short list of known targets, mostly browser stores and a few…
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Cybercriminals are building phishing pages that exist only inside victims’ browsers
A phishing campaign routes victims through genuine Microsoft OAuth and Teams infrastructure before showing them a fake login page built entirely inside…
A new open standard locks AI weights to approved hardware
OPAQUE, a confidential computing company that runs AI workloads inside hardware-isolated environments so operators cannot inspect them, released an open…
AI adoption brings new security headaches for already stretched CISOs
CISOs are taking on AI governance without a matching increase in resources or expertise, adding to an already broad remit spanning data protection,…
Kevin Mandia joins the Amazon board with 30-plus years in cybersecurity
Amazon elected Kevin Mandia to its Board of Directors on September 8. Mandia founded Mandiant and served as its CEO before Google acquired the firm in…
OpenSSL’s new alpha build speeds up post-quantum crypto
The OpenSSL project released the first alpha of OpenSSL 4.1.0, giving developers an early look at a version built for encrypted communication over…
Akeyless adds real-time enforcement for AI agents in production
Akeyless has announced the general availability of Akeyless Agentic Runtime Authority, the real-time identity control layer for AI agent actions. It works…
Orchid Security targets AI agent risk with drift detection and kill switches
Orchid Security has announced identity drift detection and application-level kill switches for AI agents. They can complete authorized objectives beyond…
$245 million in stolen crypto funded racketeering crew’s lavish lifestyle
A 22-year-old man built his fortune by breaking into strangers’ digital wallets, then spent it on nightclub tabs, private jets, and a fleet of cars worth…
Hackers deploy Linux rootkit on F5 BIG-IP APM devices, hiding web shell in memory
A rootkit found on hacked F5 BIG-IP APM devices skips the usual step of writing a web shell to disk, hiding it in memory instead, according to Sophos. F5…
Zscaler Agentic SOC combines AI agents with zero trust telemetry
Zscaler has announced Zscaler Agentic SOC, a new approach to security operations built to proactively reduce exposures, scale human expertise and stop…
Securin Platform helps security teams prove when attack paths are closed
Securin has announced the general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native Preemptive Exposure Management platform designed to answer three…
Chinese AI firms are siphoning capabilities from American models, CISA warns
China-based AI companies are using large-scale knowledge distillation campaigns to copy capabilities from leading U.S. AI models, according to a joint…
September 2026 Patch Tuesday: Record patch count, 2 zero-days, and a SigRed successor
September 2026 Patch Tuesday is here, with Microsoft delivering another record-breaking number of patches, including those for two vulnerabilities that…
Google fixes yet another actively exploited Chrome zero-day (CVE-2026-87491)
Google has fixed 230 vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day flaw, CVE-2026-87491, with an in-the-wild exploit. “Google is aware that an exploit…
AI-Infra-Guard: Open-source security scanner for AI systems
Tencent’s Zhuque Lab built AI-Infra-Guard, an open-source security scanner for AI systems. It fingerprints running services such as Ollama, vLLM and…
Gartner: 70% of SOCs will pilot AI agents. Only 15% will see results
In the Gartner report Validate the Promises of AI SOC Agents With These Key Questions, analysts Craig Lawson and Andrew Davies posit that “By 2028, 70% of…
AWS spent years rebuilding its routing control plane without taking the network down
Every AWS API call, CloudFront video stream, and Route 53 lookup crosses the same infrastructure, which AWS calls its border network. It now runs on a…
What breach and attack simulation needs to become in the AI era
Breach and attack simulation (BAS) has always had a supply chain. Somebody has to read the threat report, pull out the techniques, and turn them into…
BleachBit 6.0.4 fixes secure wiping that skipped clusters on Windows
The open source cleaner BleachBit reached version 6.0.4 this week, erasing caches, browser traces, and files on Windows, Linux, and now macOS. If you…