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by Pierluigi Paganini / 21min
AI agents probing US and Canadian government sites made SQL injection attempts while seeking data, but investigators found no evidence of compromise. Autonomous AI agents, working on what looks like ordinary data retrieval tasks, ended up throwing basic hacking attempts at a U.S. Department of Education site and Library and Archives Canada. Nobody told them to break in. They just drifted there wh
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Asymmetric Security traces rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that probed government sites, accessed staging servers, and evaded sandbox limits. Researchers at Asymmetric Security spent 48 hours over the last weekend reconstructing reported rogue OpenAI AI agent activity that hit the Australian government and other organizations between March and September this year. They worked from public data only
by Pierluigi Paganini / 8h
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Fortinet FortiMail flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Fortinet FortiMail flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-104286 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog . The flaw is a path traversal vulnerability that can be trigg
Operation KillSwitch: Europol says the KillSec ransomware group, allegedly led by a 16-year-old, was dismantled after attacks on about 1,000 victims. Law enforcement seized control of KillSec ‘s dark web leak site, the Tor website the group used to threaten victims with publishing stolen files unless they paid up. That single action locked down more than 110 terabytes of stolen data, cutting off
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model built for coding, enterprise work, and autonomous cybersecurity defense, rolling out to trusted testers. Google announced Gemini 4 Argon, and it’s not going straight to the public. It’s rolling out first to a set of trusted cyber defenders through what Google calls the Fairwind Program, which tells you something about where the company thinks thi
Apple patched a CoreGraphics zero-day that may have been exploited in targeted attacks. A public PoC for the flaw is now available. Apple patched a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 , in CoreGraphics that attackers may have exploited to target specific individuals. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write that can lead to arbitrary code execution when the system processes a specially cr
Sep 30, 2026
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added a Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Manager flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-76504 (CVSS score of 9.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog . The vulnerability resides in Cisco Cata
DIVD was breached through two Zammad zero-days that let an AI agent reach root in seconds, steal data and pivot to other services before being stopped. The Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure, a nonprofit organization of volunteer security researchers whose whole job is finding and responsibly disclosing vulnerabilities in other people’s software, just disclosed that it got breached thro
WatchGuard fixes 15 Fireware OS flaws, including a critical RCE bug that could give attackers root access to vulnerable Firebox appliances. WatchGuard has released security updates for Fireware OS that address 15 vulnerabilities , including a critical code injection flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86131 (CVSS score of 9.2), that could allow an attacker to execute commands with root privileges on a vuln
DOJ charges against Oxygen Forensics reveal the Russian-linked firm also sold forensic software to EU projects and European police forces for years. Last week’s Justice Department indictment of Oxygen Forensics looked, at first, like an American procurement scandal. CEO Lee Reiber and Russian co-founder Oleg Davydov stand accused of hiding that the company was Russian-owned and its software built
Sep 29, 2026
Threat actors abused fake ChatGPT Custom GPTs and ClickFix to deliver a multi-stage RAT . ChatGPT’s Custom GPT feature is the latest legitimate surface being turned into a delivery mechanism, and Huntress researchers caught it in action across at least 40 incidents. A Custom GPT (now simply called a GPT) is essentially a version of ChatGPT that you configure for one specific job. Think of it as c
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Apple Multiple Products flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added an Apple Multiple Products flaw, tracked as CVE-2026-86950 (CVSS score of 8.8), to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog . This week, Apple has released security updates for
Mandiant and GTIG detail active exploitation of a Citrix NetScaler zero-day, deploying custom web shells WHIPSHOT and SLAPSHOT for root access. Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group caught active exploitation of a zero-day in Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway appliances in late September 2026. The bug, tracked as CVE-2026-88772 (CVSS score of 9.5), has been exploited in attacks in the wild
Keio, a major Japanese railway operator, was hit by ransomware, disrupting business systems and forcing the company to shut down its network. Keio Corporation, one of Japan’s major private railway operators, was hit by a ransomware attack over the weekend, disrupting some of its business systems. The company detected a system failure early Saturday and later confirmed the ransomware attack. Keio
Pentagon personnel agency breach exposed data of 3 million people after attackers accessed a file-sharing server for about nine months. The U.S. Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), which maintains personnel records for the Department of Defense, is notifying people that their personal information was exposed in a data breach. According to the agency, unauthorized users accessed one of its file-s
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Apple patched zero-day CVE-2026-86950 in CoreGraphics, exploited in sophisticated targeted attacks against specific iOS users. Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS and macOS to fix a zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-86950, in CoreGraphics that may have been exploited in attacks against specific individuals. The flaw is an out-of-bounds write that can lead to arbitrary co
Sep 28, 2026
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 29. Multiple sources, includin
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 real-looking targets outside the tes
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 rather than the result of historical c
Nearly 400,000 DC Medicaid and Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries may have had personal data exposed through reports published on a public website. The District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance is notifying nearly 400,000 Medicaid and DC Healthcare Alliance beneficiaries that their personal information may have been exposed. The incident affects people who enrolled between 2023 and 20
Microsoft details Storm-3168, the JADEPUFFER-linked actor that used stolen service principals to delete Azure storage in minutes and harvest keys. Microsoft just published the first detailed look at what JADEPUFFER does inside Azure. Sysdig first spotted the group’s activity in July 2026 and called it the first documented agentic ransomware operation. Microsoft tracks the same actor as Storm-3168
Sep 27, 2026
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by Pierluigi Paganini / 4d
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Citrix NetScaler flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog : CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score: 9.5) Citrix NetScaler Improper Input Validation Vulnerability CVE-2026-88772 (
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, putting unpatched webmail servers at risk of database compromise. A Roundcube Webmail vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score of 8.1) and patched four months ago, is now being exploited in the wild. The Canadian Centre for Cyber Security added the warning to its advisory on September 21, citing open-source reporting and urging administrators to apply the available updates. The vuln
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by Pierluigi Paganini / 4d
Citrix confirmed two critical NetScaler zero-days were exploited before patches were available, with attackers able to remotely execute code. Citrix confirmed that two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway were exploited before the company released patches. The flaws allow remote code execution, meaning attackers can potentially take control of affected applianc
by Pierluigi Paganini / 4d
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Kosovo national Ardit Kutleshi pleaded guilty to running Rydox, a cybercrime marketplace that sold stolen identities and credentials for years. Ardit Kutleshi , 28 years old and a citizen of Kosovo, pleaded guilty last week to building and running the cybercrime marketplace Rydox. The Rydox marketplace has been active since February 2016; it facilitated over 7,600 sales of stolen PII, access devi
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