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  1. The Hacker News

    Bitget Says Attacker Exploited Third-Party Security Product Flaw to Steal $388M

    The attacker who stole about $388 million from the cryptocurrency exchange Bitget gained access through a vulnerability in a third-party security product the exchange used, Bitget said on Monday. The attacker exploited the flaw to obtain high-level internal credentials and then, on September 24...

  2. The Hacker News

    RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims

    RatHat's operators build and publish the Android banking trojan and control infected phones from a web console, according to security company Cleafy. Cleafy has traced nearly 100 deployments of that console since April 2026. It said this fits a malware-as-a-service model, in which each customer...

  3. Security Week

    Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection

    The misuse and abuse of AI-generated voice is growing. Modulate’s intention is to allow real time detection and intervention. The post Modulate Raises $25 Million to Advance Deepfake Detection appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  4. CSO Online

    OpenAI pauses AI model training after another agent bypasses network restrictions

    OpenAI has paused training, evaluation, and inference involving tool use for its most-capable AI models after an agent bypassed network restrictions to communicate with an external chatbot during reinforcement-learning training of an internal research model. “Our safety case assumed that the model...

  5. Dark Reading

    Chrome Store Hosts 'Poper Blocker' Spyware Downloaded by Millions

    A purported ad-blocker exfiltrates reams of sensitive information and benefits from having Google's stamp of approval despite researcher warnings.

  6. Dark Reading

    JadePuffer AI Actor Compromises Azure Tenant in Destructive Cloud Attack

    The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.

  7. Security Week

    Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit

    SecurityWeek seeks original, vendor-neutral presentations that help cybersecurity leaders navigate emerging threats, strengthen resilience, and address the strategic challenges facing today’s enterprise security programs. The post Call for Presentations Open for 2026 CISO Forum Virtual Summit...

  8. Infosecurity Magazine

    Bitget Restarts Bitcoin Withdrawals Following $387.5m Wallet Breach

    Bitget has restarted Bitcoin withdrawals after a $387.5m breach of its hot and warm wallets

  9. Wired

    These Extremists Are Running for Election in November

    With the threat of political violence at unprecedented levels, state and federal GOP candidates are openly sharing racist, pro-militia, anti-vaccine, sexist, antisemitic, and secessionist views.

  10. CSO Online

    Autonomous agents attack Azure using compromised identities, destroying resources

    Jadepuffer, an autonomous AI attacker first identified in July, has expanded into Azure environments, using compromised digital identities to enumerate resources, delete cloud assets and collect other credentials, according to Microsoft. The activity includes “extensive Azure-focused resource...

  11. The Hacker News

    ⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats

    A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed...

  12. Help Net Security

    FBI job portals remain offline after ShinyHunters claims breach via PeopleSoft zero-day

    The FBI’s online portals for job applicants (at apply.fbijobs.gov) and special agent applicants (at fbijobs.gov/special-agents) are still unavailable, following what appears to be successful compromises by the ShinyHunters cyber extortion group. Last week, the United States’ domestic intelligence...

  13. Help Net Security

    16-year-old researcher breaks into Microsoft analytics service with access to 17 trillion rows of data

    A flaw in Titan, an internal Microsoft analytics service, could have let an attacker read employee records and Bing search analytics, a 16-year-old security researcher has disclosed. The researcher, who goes by Faav, found that Titan did not verify the signature on login tokens. That let him pose...

  14. Infosecurity Magazine

    NVIDIA Launches Open Platform to Secure Autonomous AI Agents

    NVIDIA has launched a platform pairing runtime controls with hardware monitoring for AI agents

  15. Wired

    Best External Hard Drives (2026): SanDisk, Samsung, and More

    Need an ultrafast drive for video editing or a rugged option to back up your photos in the field? We’ve got a solution for every situation.

  16. Wired

    Bose Launches New Wired Earbuds After More Than a Decade

    The Bose Noise Cancelling Wired Earbuds are the first new wired headphones from the brand since 2015, inspired directly by teen preferences. We got an early listen.

  17. Infosecurity Magazine

    Deepfakes Are Becoming a Costly Reality for Businesses, Report Warns

    A quarter of victims of deepfake attacks have lost over $1m. CISOs worry that boardrooms don’t understand the threat

  18. Security Week

    Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon

    Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek.

  19. Washington Post

    Trump dined with the Anthropic CEO who called for AI slowdown

    The president’s first one-on-one meeting with Dario Amodei followed months of tensions.

  20. Help Net Security

    Other users can watch your browsing and time your keystrokes through OS file notifications

    Researchers at Graz University of Technology have used the file-notification systems in Windows, Linux, and macOS to spy on activity in other accounts. On Windows, a standard unprivileged account detected 95.7 percent of another user’s visits to popular websites in Firefox, and every site it...