Week in review: Cisco patches exploited email gateway 0-day, Revolut breach
Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news, articles, interviews and videos: What we know about the Revolut data breach so far Someone i...
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Bots with good manners are better at fooling people on social media
Most people can’t tell a bot from a human online, and the bots most likely to fool them are the polite ones, according to a new Surfshark study. The company ...
Arcjet brings security controls and audit trails to AI agents
Arcjet has launched agent runtime security, a new product that helps engineering teams secure the AI agents they are building while giving security teams the...
Zero-click RCE vulnerability hit four major AI coding agents, two remain unpatched
Four major AI coding agents, Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot and Gemini CLI, all share the same zero-click RCE vulnerability, one that could give an attac...
Android apps can now check security patches down to individual device components
New AndroidX Security State libraries provide a more granular way to determine how securely patched an Android device is. The stable Security State v1.
Abandoned IoT apps keep sending sensitive data to broken servers
Millions of people still run smart home and IoT companion apps, the apps used to control devices like smart plugs, cameras, and thermostats, that stopped rec...
Hardcoded MCP credentials found in public GitHub files
Hardcoded API keys, access tokens and other credentials used by AI coding tools have been found in publicly accessible MCP configuration files on GitHub, acc...
98% of fraudulent hires have company credentials by the time they’re caught
A 90-day period between hiring and onboarding is creating a blind spot in enterprise identity security, according to HYPR’s State of HR Identity Fraud Detect...
Most WordPress pros still lack a breach recovery plan
Melapress, a maker of WordPress security plugins, surveyed 319 WordPress professionals and found that most had dealt with at least one known security inciden...
New infosec products of the week: September 18, 2026
Here’s a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Akuity, Bitsight, Cohesity, Dataminr, Nozomi Networks, and Tuskira...
Iranian strikes on AWS facilities left customer data beyond recovery in Bahrain, UAE
Six months after Iranian drone strikes tore through its Middle East infrastructure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has acknowledged the permanent loss of customer...
A fake ChatGPT billing email is after your OpenAI password
A fake ChatGPT billing email is steering users to a copy of the OpenAI login page that keeps whatever username and password they type. Josh Varden of Cofense...
Download: The IT leader’s guide to AI code sprawl
AI hasn’t just made building faster, it’s made everyone a builder. Across every department, employees are shipping apps, agents and automations using AI tool...
CISA wants critical infrastructure orgs and smaller security teams to start using cyber decoys
Cyber deception has long been the domain of well-resourced security teams, but CISA’s latest guidance, titled “Using Cyber Decoys to Strengthen Detection and...
Druva expands identity resilience with ransomware detection
Druva has announced new capabilities for Druva Identity Resilience alongside the launch of Ransomware Detection, a new feature fueled by a proprietary AI thr...
Google’s new agent security system detects tool misuse, loops and rogue behavior
Google’s Agent Anomaly Detection is a reasoning-based oversight and audit layer for autonomous agents deployed on Agent Runtime in the Gemini Enterprise Agen...
FBI takes down one of the longest-running DDoS-for-hire services
The FBI has seized the domains behind NightmareStresser, a DDoS-for-hire service officials call one of the longest running “booter” operations in existence. ...
Unauthenticated attackers are bypassing Cisco ISE’s management interface (CVE-2026-76460)
Two days after it warned customers about an actively exploited email gateway zero-day, Cisco confirmed one more flaw is being targeted: CVE-2026-76460, an au...
Scammers leave AI fingerprints all over fake antivirus renewal page
AI appears to be helping scammers with little web development skill build convincing fake antivirus-renewal pages, Malwarebytes found. The researchers came a...
Spain reports first data breach involving autonomous AI agent
Spain’s data protection authority (AEPD) has reported its first data breach blamed on an AI agent acting on its own, after the system reportedly logged into ...