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The devil is still in the email – but wearing a new mask https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/business-security/devil-email-wearing-new-mask/ When phishing can increasingly pass familiar checks, avoiding or limiting the damage depends on how quickly your company can detect and contain the attack

Dutch Police Arrest 24-Year-Old Amsterdam Man in ShinyHunters Investigation https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/dutch-police-arrest-24-year-old.html 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

Official MCP Python SDK Flaw Can Let Malicious Servers Steal OAuth Credentials https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/official-mcp-python-sdk-flaw-can-let.html 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 Shelves GPT-6.1 Astra After Tests Find Deception and Unauthorized Actions https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/openai-shelves-gpt-61-astra-after-tests.html 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 Pauses Tool Use After Agent Bypasses Internet Controls to Reach External Chatbot https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/openai-pauses-tool-use-after-agent.html 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:

Apple Patches CoreGraphics Flaw Possibly Exploited in Targeted Attacks https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/apple-patches-coregraphics-flaw.html 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

Hackers Use NeedyMantis to Maintain Long-Term Access in Breached Networks https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/hackers-use-needymantis-to-maintain.html Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations, and government contractors. Its use goes back to at least

IAM for AI agents: A Practical Enterprise Framework https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/iam-for-ai-agent.html What is IAM for AI agents? AI agents authenticate, invoke tools, and act across enterprise systems with delegated authority. IAM for AI Agents is the identity-control architecture that governs those actors. This guide covers the limits of conventional provisioning, the components that matter, how to evaluate framework choices, and what runtime evidence proves an agent behaved as intended.

Bitget Says Attacker Exploited Third-Party Security Product Flaw to Steal $388M https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/bitget-says-attacker-exploited-third.html 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, used them to send fraudulent withdrawal commands to Bitget's wallet system. Exchanges keep most

RatHat Android Malware Console Uses Gemini to Identify Higher-Value Victims https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/rathat-android-malware-console-uses.html 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 runs a separate copy. The console stores what the malware collects from each phone,

⚡ Weekly Recap: $387M Crypto Hack, Citrix Exploits, AI Agents Go Off-Script, and More Threats https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/weekly-recap-387m-crypto-hack-citrix.html 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 systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful work for attackers. Nothing

Webinar: How to Govern AI Agents, Reduce Excessive Access, and Control Shadow AI https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/webinar-how-to-govern-ai-agents-reduce.html AI agents are moving into production faster than security teams can govern them. They are connecting to apps, handling data, calling APIs, and acting across business systems—often without the same controls applied to human users. According to Okta’s Global CISO Insights 2026 report, only 47% of CISOs are confident they can identify every AI agent in their environment. Even among those who feel

Carbonato Botnet Compromises Docker Hosts to Deploy Telegram-Controlled Hermes AI Agent https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/carbonato-botnet-compromises-docker.html Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a new botnet malware called Carbonato that's targeting exposed Docker daemons to deploy an open-source artificial intelligence (AI) agent framework called Hermes Agent. "The implant installs the framework unchanged, then overwrites its SOUL.md persona file," ThreatDown said. "The 39-line prompt directs it to execute tasks received through

JADEPUFFER-Linked Attackers Used Compromised Service Principals to Delete Azure Resources https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/jadepuffer-linked-attackers-used.html The threat actor known as JADEPUFFER has been observed orchestrating destructive actions within a Microsoft Azure environment using compromised service principals. Microsoft, which is tracking the activity under the name Storm-3168, has called it an evolution of the threat actor's tradecraft. The attack took place in early June 2026 over a period of about 18 hours. "The destructive operations

CISA Says Attackers Are Exploiting Two Critical Citrix NetScaler Flaws Globally https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/cisa-says-attackers-are-exploiting-two.html The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Sunday added two critical Citrix NetScaler ADC and Gateway flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of active exploitation. The vulnerabilities are listed below - CVE-2026-88771 (CVSS score: 9.5) - An improper input validation vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to

Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/warning-two-unpatched-citrix-netscaler.html Two new unpatched zero-day vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway appliances that allow remote code execution are being actively exploited in the wild, security firm watchTowr said on September 26. Citrix has not confirmed the flaws or published a fix. Some administrators say they have taken appliances offline rather than wait for one to be available. NetScaler ADC and

Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/lunex-stealer-abuses-amd-driver-to.html The Psychedelic Stealer malware distributed via compromised Ukrainian websites using ClickFix-style Cloudflare verification checks is part of a wider malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform called Lunex. The new findings come from Ontinue, which described the activity as a four-stage attack chain aimed at targeting Ukrainian-speaking users. "The attack chain begins with a fake CAPTCHA page and

Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/attackers-bypass-wafs-to-exploit-oracle.html Google is warning of renewed mass exploitation of a known security vulnerability in Oracle PeopleSoft as part of a campaign targeting multiple sectors globally. The ShinyHunters-linked activity involves the weaponization of CVE-2026-35273 (CVSS score: 9.8), a critical security flaw that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability was first exploited as a zero-day

Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/zero-trust-for-ai-agents-starts-with.html The way we talk about AI agents is shifting, and the way we implement them requires an even more fundamental shift. While earlier discourse focused on how quickly organizations could stand up agents and how much productivity they could promise, a string of recent incidents, including a widely discussed intrusion at Hugging Face during an evaluation of OpenAI agents, has spurred organizations to

Is that vibe coded app safe? 5 checks before you download https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/mobile-security/is-new-vibe-coded-app-safe-5-questions-ask-first/ As AI lets anyone build software, here’s how to vet that shiny new app before it exposes your data