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AI agents are automating parts of cyberattacks with less human involvement, including vulnerability scanning, credential harvesting, and troubleshooting, according to Google Threat Intelligence Group’s Q3 2026 AI Threat Tracker. (Source: Google) The report draws on Mandiant incident response engagements, threat actor tracking, and live platform defenses. Researchers observed attackers moving from…

Mars Security has announced Real-Time Intel-Based Detection, a capability that turns newly published threat intelligence into validated, ready-to-deploy detection rules within minutes of release. Built by former offensive operators, the new capability converts advisories from CISA, Mandiant, and other intelligence sources into MITRE ATT&CK-mapped detection rules across CrowdStrike, Wiz, Splunk, a…

Researchers with security company Calif have discovered, weaponized, and privately reported to Tencent a critical vulnerability that allowed them to create “WeWorm”, a worm that spreads via WeChat calls without any user interaction. During its rampage, the WeWorm compromises the WeChat account of each user, and uses the saved contacts to propagate itself further, potentially reaching millions of …

Roughly 67,000 more customers of SatoshiLabs, the maker of hardware crypto-wallet Trezor, are at heightened risk of phishing attacks after their names, email addresses, phone numbers, and shipping addresses were exposed. “The leaked information could be used for scam emails, fraudulent calls or letters, and could potentially expose affected individuals to physical security risks,” the Czech-based…

IT help-desk vishing calls, stolen session tokens, and sign-ins routed through residential proxies are behind a wave of data theft and extortion against Microsoft 365 and other SaaS accounts, according to Arctic Wolf. The company is tracking the activity under the name PREY-0058 and notes it shares significant tradecraft similarities with a data extortion group that Google Threat Intelligence Gro…

Mathspace has confirmed that attackers broke into its internal reporting system through an unpatched Metabase vulnerability and stole data belonging to more than a million students, parents, and school staff. The Sydney-based maths education company wrote in a blog post that the vulnerability, in its self-hosted installation of Metabase, allowed attackers to obtain administrator access to the sys…

Jellyfin shipped version 12.0 of its media server. Several of the security fixes in it block requests built to reach files outside the folders the server is supposed to hand out. The rest of the security work touches first-run setup, plugin installs, parental controls, and the web interface. On a misconfigured server, someone who had not signed in could get the setup wizard, the first-run pages t…

In this Help Net Security video, Dave Ross, Senior Director of the Intelligence Fusion Team at Intel 471, explains what happens behind the scenes during ransomware negotiations. Ross walks through the tactics groups use once an attack begins, from research on a victim’s revenue and insurance coverage to test decryptions that prove they hold a working key. He describes how demands are often set at…

Every engineering team has spent years trying to keep credentials out of source code. Then AI agents moved the problem. Coding agents review code, agents run workflows, and MCP servers broker access to databases, cloud providers, and internal APIs on a developer’s behalf. For every engineer on a team, there are now dozens of automated identities that need secrets too, and each one is another plac…

Microsoft’s Project Zenith is a ready-to-code Windows 11 experience for developer-class PCs capable of running AI models with more than 30 billion parameters locally without relying on metered cloud tokens. Designed for systems with at least 64 GB of unified memory and 250 GB/s or more of memory bandwidth, it pairs powerful hardware with a preconfigured software environment for coding, testing, a…

CISO AudioCodes | Israel | Hybrid – View job details As a CISO, you will lead security strategy, governance, and risk management across SaaS, managed services, and customer-hosted environments. You will oversee security controls, incident response, Secure SDLC, customer security engagements, and compliance with SOC 2 and ISO 27001, while partnering across Product, R&D, IT, and Services to continu…

Attackers are exploiting a chain of RouterOS vulnerabilities to hijack MikroTik devices with SSH open to the internet, CERT Polska found. CERT Polska, Poland’s national CSIRT team, have discovered six vulnerabilities in RouterOS and coordinated their disclosure with MikroTik. Among the six, two combined let an attacker take full control of a device without authentication, provided the device has …

N-able released an emergency hotfix for CVE-2026-86218, a remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting N-central, its remote monitoring and management (RMM) solution popular with managed service providers (MSPs). In its release notes, N-able described CVE-2026-86218 as a “critical-CVSS-rated vulnerability that could allow for pre-authenticated remote code execution on the N-central server.” N-able …

A file transfer flaw in ScreenConnect Remote Access Support and Access sessions affects both Cloud and On-Premise deployments, ConnectWise confirmed. “A CVE identifier and an official fix will be issued within the week,” the company wrote in its September 3 advisory. ScreenConnect is a popular remote support and access solution tailored for IT departments and managed service providers (MSPs). The…

OpenAI has announced that it has reached a goal set last fall of having an automated research intern by September 2026. The milestone means a system can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including work that would take a skilled researcher several days. The company is also working toward creating an automated AI researcher by March 2028. All categories of research activi…

ToolHive is an open-source platform that runs Model Context Protocol servers inside containers. An MCP server is the connector that lets an AI client like Cursor or Claude Code reach an outside tool, and Stacklok ships ToolHive under Apache 2.0, so the runtime, the Kubernetes operator, and the registry cost nothing to self-host. A server you install by hand sits on the machine with the machine’s …

In this interview, Chris Webber, VP, Product Marketing at Teleport, explains why zero trust principles need to change for AI agents. He covers how agents act fast, unpredictably, and continuously, and why old ideas like least privilege and point-in-time verification fall short. Webber also discusses Teleport’s approach: trusted runtimes with zero starting privileges, and identity security that wa…

ETSI has published TR 104 180, a technical report that defines 18 metrics for measuring data quality, giving companies a way to check whether their data is good enough for AI before they use it. The report defines each metric and includes the formulas needed to calculate it. The metrics fall into four groups. The first deals with the basics, whether data is complete, accurate, consistent, and fre…

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: Anthropic locks out Claude users after infostealers hijack login sessions Anthropic has started locking users out of their Claude accounts due to their login sessions having been compromised through infostealer malware. September 2026 Patch Tuesday forecast: All we need is more time The Patch Apocaly…

Synology launched ActiveProtect Manager 2.0 (APM 2.0), the latest software update for its ActiveProtect data protection appliances. This release introduces expanded platform coverage, cross-platform recovery, and enhanced security, with future updates bringing AI-driven threat mitigation. “Managing fragmented backup infrastructure drives up costs and slows recovery. The ActiveProtect appliance un…