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Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks

CISA added CVE-2026-65660 to its KEV catalog, giving federal agencies a patching deadline of September 28. The post Microsoft SharePoint Flaw CVE-2026-65660 Now Exploited in Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

China and US Agree to Establish AI Safety Channel and Continue Trade and Military Talks

The US and China agreed to set up a communication mechanism for artificial intelligence-related incidents. The post China and US Agree to Establish AI Safety Channel and Continue Trade and Military Talks appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining

The Windows botnet relies on AI to maintain persistence, using xAI Grok to choose from predefined actions. The post New x47.c Windows Botnet Weaponizes xAI Grok, AI API Draining appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged With US Government Websites in New Model Misbehavior Disclosure

OpenAI’s CEO said there is an “extensive and ongoing review related to our agents’ use of internet access during training and evaluation.” The post OpenAI Says Its Models Engaged With US Government Websites in New Model Misbehavior Disclosure appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

AI tools help hacker break in for $25 per target

It’s cheap to set yourself up as a hacker these days using AI. Someone attacked 105 online retailers over a period of five days, compromising 27 of them — all for an average of $25 per attack, according to research by Israeli security company Gambit. But the attacks have been going on for much longer. […] more…

OpenAI wants you to use AI — but not to train its AI

Here’s an interesting concept: an AI company that fires people for using AI. It sounds like a strange way to run a company but there’s a real reason behind it. OpenAI has been hiring contractors who have been tasked with reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to help improve responses by providing some real human input. Unfortunately […] more…

Microsoft’s new Copilot ‘super app’ unifies chat, code, agents

Microsoft’s Copilot “super app” has arrived, two months after CEO Satya Nadella confirmed it was in development. It combines conversational Chat, the autonomous Cowork agent, a redesigned coding environment named Code, and Autopilot, the persistent agent formerly known as Scout, into a single Copilot experience. The idea is to make those capabilities look less like […] more…

Adobe’s next platform for Creative Cloud? Your AI assistant

Adobe is preparing for a future where users increasingly interact with its software through AI assistants, rather than always going directly to its applications. That’s the idea behind its expanded integration with Anthropic’s Claude, as well as the first connector for Google’s Gemini, announced Thursday. The updated Claude integration adds new ways for users to […] more…

iOS 27: Why you should learn to love Impersonation Risk Detection

I once had a friend who gave $1,000 to an online fraudster who claimed to be a tax assessor. My own father (bless his soul) once managed to hand over several hundred pounds to a lawyer from Africa promising to send him funds. We know it happens. We know people impersonate trusted entities to trick us into […] more…

In Other News: Clop Leak Site Takeover, Docker Botnet Hunts AI Keys, Water Utility Exposure

Noteworthy stories that might have slipped under the radar: BragJack attack against browser AI assistants, TDengine flaw threatens industrial telemetry uptime, Ubuntu update overhaul. The post In Other News: Clop Leak Site Takeover, Docker Botnet Hunts AI Keys, Water Utility Exposure appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist

Bitget’s security systems caught the unauthorized transfers on September 24, and some wallet addresses linked to the attacker have been frozen. The post North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Meta floats project to lay first petabit submarine fiberoptic cable

The 7,000 km (4,350 mile) cable, called Petal, will connect the US and France. Meta is partnering with NEC and Sumitomo Electric Industries to build it, and working with French telecommunications company Orange to coordinate the landing of the cable on the French coast. Petal will have more than double the capacity of today’s fastest […] more…

Quantum computing’s “dark horse” just proved it can go universal

Researchers have shown that exotic quantum particles called non-Abelian anyons can perform the full range of operations needed for universal quantum computing. Using 54 qubits on Quantinuum’s H2 processor, they combined braiding and fusion to unlock capabilities that braiding alone could not provide. more…

CISA Election Security Plan Flags Patching Barriers, Voter Database Attacks

Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin tasked CISA with developing the plan in July. The post CISA Election Security Plan Flags Patching Barriers, Voter Database Attacks appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court

Ardit Kutleshi created and operated Rydox, which allowed miscreants to trade PII and cybercrime tools and services. The post Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court appeared first on SecurityWeek. more…

Google plans Gemini 4 release before year-end

Google’s Gemini 4 AI model is in the early days of post-training, the phase in which a base AI model is refined to behave reliably, and should be released “much earlier” than the end of this year, Google DeepMind head Koray Kavukcuoglu told The Information at its AI Agenda Live Summit. Some Google observers have […] more…

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