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A China-linked group called Fire Ant has expanded to Cisco routers, TACACS servers and Linux hosts, using compromised routers as spy platforms, according to Sygnia.
Germany has formally blamed Russia for an explosive-laden drone found at Leipzig/Halle airport, and announced measures including closing a Russian consulate and targeting Moscow's shadow fleet.
CrowdStrike unveiled SafeMind autonomous red-teaming AI at Fal.Con 2026, saying breakout time has hit zero.
Cognizant's security chief warns adversarial AI exposes decades-old vulnerabilities, urging enterprises to simplify architecture and govern AI agents.
At Fal.Con, Dash Security executives say agentic AI with delegated authority challenges traditional defenses, requiring runtime visibility and governance.
German authorities investigate explosion near a power plant as a possible grid attack, Le Monde reports.
Security researchers at Proofpoint have uncovered a malware campaign by the TA4922 group, which uses fake tax audit emails to deliver the PackClient remote access trojan to organizations in China and India.
Microsoft confirms Windows Defender bug triggers false 'turned off' alerts; fix in progress.
Study: Russians treat VPNs as an essential utility and build community networks to circumvent censorship.
Dropbox has told customers of unauthorized account access linked to a Lenovo single sign-on issue, but security researchers say the company's own failure to verify linked IDs was the bigger problem. The flaw has been fixed and affected sessions revoked.
NordVPN's next-gen antivirus blocked 94% of phishing sites in an independent AV-Comparatives test, with zero false positives, ranking third.
MIT Review’s September 1 newsletter exposes weak safety culture at OpenAI, a surge in AI control failures, and other tech developments.
Filigran launches OpenAEV v3 with Attack Chaining, enabling adaptive attack paths for automated penetration testing.
Bank of England Governor Andrew Bailey has warned G20 officials that advanced AI could increase cyber threats and financial contagion risks, urging preparedness for severe scenarios.
Probe finds DeepSeek Harness plugin ecosystem lacks governance and permission controls are ineffective.
Microsoft has discovered TerminalFix, a malicious campaign that tricks users into running PowerShell commands via fake CAPTCHAs, deploying a backdoor that tunnels into internal networks.
New 9to5Mac podcasts explore enterprise AI's human side and Apple's bug bounty program overhaul.
Teleport CEO argues in a TechRadar article that legacy identity systems are failing as AI agents enter production, urging a zero-anonymity model with hardware-rooted identities.
Intel and Dell are embedding data-loss prevention into PC hardware as AI tools draw ever more sensitive corporate data, with nearly 40% of AI-bound data now considered sensitive.
AI is giving data loss prevention a second act, with CrowdStrike, AWS and Nvidia-backed startup Jazz winning a cybersecurity accelerator for its context-first approach.
Engadget's new guide breaks down how Android users can fend off AI-powered scams with software updates, two-factor authentication, backup, and on-device scam detection.
CrowdStrike launches Falcon IQ, automates QuiltWorks assessments with AI agents, and brings Falcon to Google Cloud and Snowflake Marketplace.
A 17-year-old North Carolina girl was charged with murder for recording and sharing the livestream of a fatal mosque attack in San Diego, prosecutors said Monday.
Broadcom says agentic AI expands attack surfaces, pushing security into the hypervisor layer to stop threats at scale.