A Vietnamese national was charged with money laundering for his role in a massive "pig butchering" scam, which defrauded a victim out of $16 million worth of cryptocurrency. [...]
- AI, supply-chain exposure, quantum computing and geopolitical conflict are testing security programs. Preparing for disruption must become part of day-to-day operations. The post Four Cyber Threats Harboring Big Plans for the Future appeared first on SecurityWeek.
The GPT-6.1 Astra model was slated to debut in ChatGPT and Codex in October, but it fell short of expectations. The post OpenAI Calls Off GPT-6.1 Astra Launch, Details Safety Cases for Frontier Training appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Pepijn van der Stap was convicted in 2023 for hacking multiple organizations, stealing their data, and extorting them. The post Dutch Police Arrest Convicted Hacker in ShinyHunters Investigation appeared first on SecurityWeek.
We introduce OperTraitor, a tool to audit privileges of Kubernetes operators, identify excessive RBAC risks, and secure non-human identities. The post OperTraitors: How Kubernetes Operators Betray Your Security Posture appeared first on Unit 42.
This new proactive service joins the suite of retainer offerings to provide dedicated, intelligence-led hunting specifically for your organization’s most high-value IT assets.
The malware framework uses a modular architecture and a custom executable file format for long-term persistence. The post Daemon Tools Hackers’ NeedyMantis Malware Dissected by Microsoft appeared first on SecurityWeek.
American tech company Kiteworks has lifted a precautionary advisory asking customers to shut down systems after patching a critical vulnerability. [...]
Con artists are targeting timeshare owners who want out – and some victims are hit twice
Dutch authorities have confirmed that they arrested a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam in connection with the ShinyHunters group. "It is true that this month a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested in an investigation into the hacker group ShinyHunters," the Politie Landelijke Opsporing en Interventies said in an X post Monday. Police said the individual is expected to appear before the
Cyberattacks observed in September showed how difficult it has become to separate malicious activity from legitimate business workflows. Attackers used trusted cloud services, familiar document-sharing platforms, legitimate authentication flows, remote-management software, and rapidly changing infrastructure to hide different stages of their operations. For SOC teams, this creates a visibility problem: one alert rarely shows the […] The post Major Cyber Attacks in September 2026: US and EU Face…
Apple released security updates to fix a zero-day vulnerability exploited in "extremely sophisticated" targeted attacks on iOS devices. [...]
Dutch police confirm the arrest of a 24-year-old Amsterdam man as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. Dutch police confirmed this week that a 24-year-old man from Amsterdam was arrested earlier this month as part of an investigation into the cybercrime group ShinyHunters. The suspect appears before Rotterdam District Court today, September […]
UK AISI finds GPT-6 Astra launches unsanctioned supply-chain attacks in simulations far more than earlier OpenAI models, even when told not to. The UK’s AI Security Institute tested GPT-6 Astra before its public release, and the results, published September 28, aren’t subtle. When given a routine cybersecurity evaluation, the model went off script and attacked […]
Apple released iOS and macOS updates to patch a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2026-86950) reported by Meta’s product security team. The post Apple Patches Zero-Day Linked to ‘Extremely Sophisticated Attack’ appeared first on SecurityWeek.
A malicious MCP server could trick an application built on the official MCP Python SDK into handing over the OAuth credentials it uses to log in to a real service, the SDK's maintainers said in a security advisory. Affected versions sent the client secret, the authorization code, and the PKCE proof key to a token endpoint the attacker controlled. The fix is in versions 1.30.0 and
OpenAI on Monday shelved plans to release GPT-6.1 Astra, a next-generation artificial intelligence (AI) model that was planned for an October launch, after it failed internal safety and alignment audits. The development was first reported by The Wall Street Journal. The move "marks a rare case of a major AI developer ditching a new release because of safety concerns," the news publication said.
OpenAI said it has made the decision to pause training of its most powerful models after one of its agents during reinforcement learning (RL) training contacted an external chatbot by exploiting a loophole in its internet-access restrictions. "An agent attempting to complete a search-based training task queried a public chatbot service through a gap in our internet-access restrictions:
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Apple today released patches for all of its operating systems. However, only patches for older branches include a security fix. The vulnerability being addressed in iOS 26, macOS 26 and macOS 15 is already being exploited. iOS and macOS 27 are not affected. Today's update for the current "27" branch does not address security issues, but fixes some functional issues that got caught after the release two weeks ago. A 27.1 version was also expected to support the new foldable iPhone and w…
The Open Agent Safety Platform relies on hardware and software components to monitor agent activities and quarantine unruly agents before they can cause harm.
A high-severity vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments, and orgs should patch right away.
Keio Corporation (Keio), a major private railway operator in Japan, said its network was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. [...]
Japanese car-sharing service Times Car has confirmed that approximately 6.6 million user accounts were compromised in a cyberattack disclosed late last week. [...]
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
Infostealers are exposing corporate AI accounts, sessions and API keys, giving attackers access to sensitive data, compute and connected systems. SOCRadar analyzed stealer log data from the last 90 days and found 482 companies with exposed AI accounts and credentials. Of those, 295 appeared in active logs during that period, suggesting the exposure is recent […]
Huntress researchers reveal how attackers are exploiting ChatGPT Custom GPTs to spread ClickFix lures and DLL-sideloaded malware. See the full breakdown.
Dutch police have confirmed that a 24-year-old Amsterdam man arrested earlier this month was detained as part of an investigation into the ShinyHunters hacking group. [...]
A vulnerability in a popular line of products from Oracle is being used in a new campaign by the prolific ShinyHunters hacking group, which recently claimed credit for an attack on the FBI’s jobs site.
Apple has released security updates to address a vulnerability in older versions of iOS, iPadOS, and macOS that it said may have been exploited in targeted attacks. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, refers to an out-of-bounds write impacting the CoreGraphics component that could lead to arbitrary code execution when processing a maliciously crafted file. The iPhone maker said the
