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New infosec products of the week: September 11, 2026
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Akeyless, Orchid Security, Scytale, and Securin. Securin has announced the general availability of the Securin Platform, an AI-native Preemptive Exposure…
The time is now: Incentivize AI companies to share critical security information
The revelation that OpenAI and Anthropic AI models escaped test environments and hacked third parties demonstrates the imperative of collaboration to prevent harm from frontier artificial intelligence. When OpenAI learned that its models identified…
The K-Shaped Economy And The Future Of AI
Dr. TJ Jiang, Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of AvePoint. As governments and businesses race to capture AI's upside, the technology is already reshaping how value is created, who has access to opportunity and which skills command a…
A Meta Exec's 150-Porn-Downloads-a-Day Habit, a 23-Year Botnet Bust, and $1M Phone Unlocks
If I gave you a million dollars to unlock your phone and hand it to me, would you take the money? According to a new survey we covered earlier this week, 60% of Americans would say no. It's just one example of how, even though many say they have…
GitLab Vulnerability Exploited One Day After Disclosure
Threat actors have started exploiting a newly patched vulnerability in GitLab one day after public disclosure, attack surface management firm WatchTowr warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-85706 (CVSS score of 10/10), the security defect is described as a…
Trezor Says 347,000 Users Received Phishing Emails After Brevo Hack
Cold cryptocurrency storage provider Trezor says roughly 347,000 of its customers received phishing emails after a third-party marketing platform used by the company was hacked. The incident involved the marketing platform Brevo, which Trezor uses…
Surfshark Systems Targeted by Hackers
VPN and cybersecurity services provider Surfshark this week disclosed a cybersecurity incident impacting certain internal data. The incident, it says, was discovered on August 31, but initially treated as low risk. By September 2, however, the…
Ukrainian Conti Ransomware Developer Sentenced to 4 Years in US Prison
A United States court sentenced Ukrainian national Oleksii Oleksiyovych Lytvynenko to four years in prison this week for his role in the Conti ransomware operation. Lytvynenko, 44, was arrested in Ireland in 2023 and extradited to the United States…
Check Point Patches Critical VPN Vulnerabilities
Cybersecurity firm Check Point this week announced patches for two critical-severity vulnerabilities in its gateway and firewall products using VPN functionality. Tracked as CVE-2026-85102 and CVE-2026-85103 (CVSS score of 9.8), both security…
AI May Not Replace Every Job. Anthropic Reveals Where It Could Hit Hardest
Artificial intelligence is poised to reshape a wide range of occupations. Summary is AI-generated, newsroom-reviewed AI is boosting productivity but raises concerns over job losses and workplace disruption By 2030, AI could increase GDP by 32% but…
FRO - Declares special one-time dividend after sale of two VLLCs
Frontline plc (the “Company” or “Frontline”) (NYSE: FRO – OSE: FRO) refers to its announcement on August 4, 2026 regarding the sale of two VLCCs. Following the completion of the sale of the two VLCCs, the Board of…
PaperCut Flaws Exploited in AI-Powered Attacks
Two recent PaperCut NG/MF vulnerabilities have been exploited in AI-powered attacks that hit hundreds of organizations worldwide, GreyNoise reports. Tracked as CVE-2026-82078 and CVE-2026-81578, the security defects were disclosed on August 27 as…
Calamos International Growth Strategy Q2 2026 Commentary (CIGIX)
The strategy's outperformance was driven by strong security selection in information technology, particularly semiconductors, and favorable exposure to emerging Asia equities. I maintain a balanced approach across secular, cyclical, and defensive…
Phishing Research Challenges Conventional Security Awareness Testing
The message is simple: fine-tune future in-house phishing simulation tests through the findings and analysis of Pistachio's research. Pistachio was founded in Oslo Norway in 2019, with additional offices in London and Valencia. It specializes in…
Anthropic Says Russian Hackers Used Claude AI to Automate Malware Evasion
Anthropic disrupted a cyberespionage operation whose tradecraft and targeting match the Russian state-nexus group tracked as Midnight Blizzard, the company said in a threat intelligence report published this week. The report covers activity the…
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