Certainties in life: Death, taxes, and critical Citrix vulns under attack
Sunday NetScaler patch dump fixes trio of critical vulns and five more serious messes
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Techie assumed boss knew what they were talking about and killed Exchange by deleting data
Friday afternoon is not the time for snap decisions, but weekends are useful to cover your tracks
CISA orders feds to patch exploited Citrix flaws by Wednesday
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has ordered U.S. government agencies over the weekend to secure their systems against attacks exploiting two critical Ci…
OpenAI pauses some training amid allegations its rogue agents behaved more badly than first thought
Amid allegations that agents may have gone off the rails thousands of times, China set up some kind of agentic incident hotline
Amazon evaluating drone deliveries in Australia, Asia
PLUS: Singapore helps Meta find new form of scam; Nothing bets it can create Indian consumer tech giant; Bangkok floods, tech holds on
OpenAI is preparing “o,” an always-on ChatGPT assistant that could handle email
OpenAI is testing a new always-on assistant called "o", and references to the unannounced feature briefly showed up on the company's website. [...]
Citrix confirms two NetScaler RCE zero-days exploited in attacks
Citrix has confirmed that two critical NetScaler remote code execution vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2026-88771 and CVE-2026-88772, are being exploited in attacks and that it has…
Cloudflare fixes Containers cross-tenant flaw exposing customer data
Cloudflare has fixed a vulnerability in Containers and Sandboxes that allowed customers with a Workers Paid account to recover residual data from other customers' containers on the…
Anthropic turns Claude into an AI marketplace with 2,000+ plugins and connectors
Anthropic has just announced a new Claude Marketplace, and it brings all AI-related tools into one place, including plugins, connectors, agents, and more. [...]
Apple buried Copland 30 years ago. Now the failed OS boots in a browser
The final developer build offers a glimpse of the future Cupertino abandoned for NeXT
Big AI's content problem: Take the work, keep the money
The more we learn about how AI does business, the more unfair it looks
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 Attack…
Warning: Two Unpatched Citrix NetScaler RCE Zero-Days Under Active Exploitation
Two critical vulnerabilities in Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway that allow remote code execution have been exploited in the wild, Citrix confirmed on September 27. It re…
ShinyHunters uses WAF bypass trick in Oracle PeopleSoft attacks
The ShinyHunters extortion gang is using a URL-encoding trick to bypass web application firewall rules that mitigate the Oracle PeopleSoft CVE-2026-35273 flaw, allowing the threat …
Lunex Stealer Abuses AMD Driver to Disable Security Monitoring and Steal Browser Credentials
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) pl…
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 T…
Claude Opus 5.5 uses 95% fewer em dashes, but its answers are getting longer
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 appears to be changing how it writes, with new analysis showing fewer obvious AI writing patterns, shorter sentences, and simpler wording compared with …
Microsoft pauses KB5002907 update after Office license deactivations
Microsoft has paused the rollout of the KB5002907 Microsoft 365 update after users report that it deactivated, or in some cases completely removed, perpetual Office 2016 and Office…
GitHub Actions re-enabled with Mini Shai-Hulud payload still active
Two third-party GitHub Actions previously compromised in a Mini Shai-Hulud campaign were re-enabled by their maintainer and remained accessible for more than a week despite still p…
OpenAI's AI agents accidentally uploaded user-provided images to third-party sites
OpenAI says its AI agents uploaded user-provided images to third-party image-hosting services while carrying out research and evaluation tasks. [...]
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 ap…
Attackers Bypass WAFs to Exploit Oracle PeopleSoft Flaw and Deploy Web Shells
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-l…
Zero Trust for AI Agents Starts With Fixing Zero Visibility
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 cou…
How Samsung turned months of inactivity into a very attention-seeking smartphone
Your spare Android won’t come back to life in a hurry but – like neglected PCs – it really should
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 W…
Elementor CSRF Flaw Lets Attackers Take Over Sites After Admin Clicks Crafted Link
Details have emerged about a high-severity security flaw in the Elementor Website Builder WordPress plugin that could be exploited by an unauthenticated attacker to create rogue ad…
SharePoint RCE and MikroTik RouterOS Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added two security flaws impacting Microsoft SharePoint and Mikrotik RouterOS to its Known Exploited Vuln…
Space Jam: UK debuts space squadron to protect satellites
Number III Space Effects Squadron likely to use electronic warfare rather than lobbing missiles at hostile orbiting threats
Kiteworks Urges Customers to Shut Down Systems for 9 Hours Over Possible Cyber Attack
Kiteworks (formerly Accellion) is urging customers to shut down their systems as a precautionary measure for nine hours over the weekend after it received threat intelligence about…
U.S. Soldier Gets 70 Months in Prison for AT&T, Verizon Extortions
A U.S. Army soldier who pleaded guilty to hacking into multiple telecommunications companies and stealing mobile call and text metadata for more than 100 million AT&T customers in …