Cybersecurity News

Microsoft has confirmed that USB audio devices may fail on some Windows systems after installing the KB5124008and KB5124012 September 2026 security updates. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned that hackers are now exploiting a maximum-severity GitLab vulnerability in attacks. [...]

Threat actors linked to a China-aligned espionage group are exploiting a critical vulnerability (CVE-2026-51990) in Tencent's Sogou Input Method for Windows to deploy the GrayRabbit backdoor. [...]

Dario Amodei warned that within six to 12 months AI could be capable of leading a swarm of agents that could take over the entire internet. The post Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei Says AI Industry Needs to Give Safety Measures Time to Catch Up appeared first on SecurityWeek.

The Dutch Nationaal Cyber Security Centrum (NCSC) is warning of imminent exploitation of two critical flaws in Check Point VPN tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103. [...]

Multiple espionage-motivated threat actors have adopted BlueMoon in opportunistic, rushed deployments. The post BlueMoon Exploit Kit Chains Recent Chrome, Windows Zero-Days appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Anthropic said the users did not succeed in “fielding an operational device” but did carry out a failed test of a guided rocket. The post Users in Houthi-Held Yemen Tried to Develop Advanced Weapons With AI, Anthropic Says appeared first on SecurityWeek.

OpenAI confirmed their agents were behind a campaign in May that researchers say flooded the popular online code repository with malicious software packages. The post Researchers say OpenAI agents were behind May hacking campaign targeting RubyGems appeared first on CyberScoop.

A Department of Transportation rule published last week says that airlines complying with cybersecurity regulations will have reduced customer obligations in the event of an attack. The post Cyberattack causes a flight delay? Airlines won’t owe you a hotel or meal appeared first on CyberScoop.

Anthropic says multiple threat groups, including the financially motivated and state-sponsored espionage groups linked to Russia and China, tried to abuse its Claude AI model for malicious purposes. [...]

The Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles (FLHSMV) has confirmed that its DAVID driver database suffered a data breach, saying the attackers gained access using credentials belonging to a police department employee. [...]

One flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to read files from the server. GitLab urged operators of self-managed installations to upgrade immediately. The post GitLab’s critical flaw is already drawing internet-wide probes appeared first on CyberScoop.

Microsoft says threat actors linked to ShinyHunters, Helix, and other extortion gangs are using passkey and single sign-on-themed social engineering attacks to compromise corporate Microsoft accounts and steal data from Microsoft 365 services. [...]

Analysis of 2.47 million simulated attacks shows why organizations should measure credential leaks and reporting, not just clicks. The post Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Threat actors are exploiting critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in JFrog Artifactory to bypass authentication, gain administrative privileges, and deploy a Rust backdoor on vulnerable self-hosted servers. [...]

The critical-severity path traversal flaw allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files from the GitLab server. The post GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: Invisible Unicode slips past phishing filters, US puts $10 million bounty on Iranian cyber official, military ties of Chinese hacking group QTFY. The post In Other News: InjectEave Attack, SIM Swapper Sentenced, Glasswing Findings Review appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Threat actors are abusing trusted AI platforms to host malicious content, poison search results, and trick users into installing malware. Huntress examines campaigns targeting AI users through weaponized Claude Artifacts, shared AI conversations, sponsored search results, and ClickFix-style lures. [...]

KnowBe4 researchers observed a new phishing campaign leveraging Microsoft 365’s Direct Send to send malicious emails

Hackers compromised the Brevo marketing platform and used that access to send phishing emails to users of Trezor, BitBox, and CoinTracking. The post Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko has been sentenced to 4 years in prison after he was arrested in Ireland in 2023. The post Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison appeared first on SecurityWeek.

GitLab urged users on Thursday to patch their servers immediately against a maximum-severity path traversal vulnerability tracked as CVE-2026-85706. [...]

Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103, the flaws could be exploited for remote code execution. The post Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Financials have not been disclosed, but the estimated cost is in the tens of millions of dollars. The post Kiteworks Acquires Bonfy.AI to Fill the AI Gap in Data Governance appeared first on SecurityWeek.

A misconfigured test server containing engineering material, including internal configurations, was accessed by threat actors. The post Surfshark Systems Targeted by Hackers appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Microsoft has fixed a bug that prevented Teams and Outlook from launching on ARM-based Windows devices after installing updates released since the August 2026 Patch Tuesday. [...]

A new Syskit study has shown that only 43% of organizations with AI agents deployed in Microsoft 365 environments completed a permission review before doing so

Anthropic reveals how criminal groups are increasingly targeting AI vendors' own infrastructure, including to steal a pre-release Claude model. The post Anthropic Says Russian Hackers Used Claude AI to Automate Malware Evasion appeared first on SecurityWeek.

Trezor has revealed that phishing attacks against its customers earlier this week targeted 347,000 email addresses and affected 2,500 users who clicked an embedded malicious link. [...]

A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in Conti ransomware attacks between 2021 and 2022. [...]