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US Agencies Warn China Is Systematically Extracting Frontier AI Capabilities

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 8:32am

Distillation is an ‘attack’ against an AI model designed to capture outputs, understand reasoning processes, and subsequently train a different model.

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Meta Launches Personal AI Agent, Muse, Emphasizes Safety and Privacy

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 8:00am

Muse runs on a dedicated, secure virtual machine that houses both the agent and the user’s data.

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ICS Patch Tuesday: Schneider Electric, Siemens Fix Critical Flaws

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 6:49am

AVEVA and Rockwell Automation also released patches for vulnerabilities affecting industrial control system products.

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Ivanti Patches Critical Flaws Across Enterprise Security Products

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 6:28am

Six critical vulnerabilities in Neurons for ITSM could enable remote code execution, while Sentry and EPMM received patches for authentication bypass flaws.

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This Key Will Self-Destruct: An Open Standard for Revocable API Keys

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 6:00am

Every leaked credential should be dead, or dying, within sixty seconds of being found. Here's a proposal to make that the default.

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New Phishing Attack Creates Malicious Pages Inside the Victim’s Browser

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 6:00am

Attackers are using trusted Microsoft services and blob URLs to generate stealthy phishing pages that leave defenders with no static website to detect or block.

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Chrome 153 Patches Seventh Zero-Day of 2026

Wed, 09/09/2026 - 5:45am

The Chrome update includes 230 security fixes, and users are advised to update their browsers as soon as possible.

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Microsoft Patches Record 974 Vulnerabilities, Including Two Exploited Zero-Days

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 3:20pm

The record-breaking September security update fixes two exploited privilege-escalation zero-days and 20 potentially wormable vulnerabilities.

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Adobe Patches Over 170 Vulnerabilities, Including Commerce Zero-Day

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 2:37pm

Tracked as CVE-2026-75650, the exploited defect allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary code.

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The Hidden Instructions That Can Hijack AI Agents

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 1:00pm

Malicious prompts concealed in documents, metadata, emails, images and code can manipulate autonomous agents into taking dangerous actions.

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Hackers Return $263 Million Stolen From Liquid Network

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 12:35pm

Alleged ‘white-hat’ hackers drained $320 million from Liquid’s federation wallet, demanding a bug fix.

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Cylake Raises $245 Million Ahead of Cybersecurity Platform Beta

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 11:21am

The startup founded by Palo Alto Networks’ Nir Zuk has raised $290 million to build an AI-native security platform for highly regulated organizations that cannot rely on the public cloud.

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SAP Patches Critical Extended Passport Processing Vulnerability

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 10:55am

Affecting the SAP kernel code, the flaw allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to run arbitrary commands, recover secrets, and modify data.

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Party’s Over for Crypto Scammers Who Went on a Spending Spree After a $240 Million Bitcoin Theft

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 9:00am

The scammers purchased fleets of sports cars, flew on private jets, hired security guards and rented mansions in Miami and the Hamptons.

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MikroTik Patches Critical Flaws Chained to Hack Routers

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 7:15am

Dubbed MikroTrick, the bugs allow attackers to bypass authentication, overwrite configuration files, and take over devices.

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Mathspace Data Breach Exposes Over 1 Million People

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 6:47am

Hackers stole the information of students, teachers, staff, and parents/guardians from a self-hosted Metabase instance.

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N-able Patches Critical Zero-Day in N-central

Tue, 09/08/2026 - 6:37am

Administrators are advised to check their deployments for newly created user accounts they don’t recognize.

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