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New infosec products of the month: September 2026
Here's a look at the most interesting products from the past week, featuring releases from Akeyless, Akuity, Bitsight, BugBase, Cloud Range, Cohesity, Dataminr, Gurucul, Nozomi Networks, Orchid Security, Ping Identity, Scytale, Securin, Superna…
AI-Controlled Cyber Jailbreaks: Dark LLMs, Deepfakes And 'Just-In-Time' Cyberattacks
Eric Herzog is the Chief Marketing Officer at Infinidat, a Lenovo company. Cybercriminals aim to trick an AI model into circumventing its own ethical parameters, guardrails and safety filters that are built in. This nefarious tactic, which…
Meta bolsters Muse safety warning after security vulnerability found, The Information reports
26 Sep 2026 01:54AM (Updated: 26 Sep 2026 02:15AM) Sept 25: Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that could let an attacker access a user's sensitive…
Meta bolsters Muse safety warning after security vulnerability found, The Information reports
Sign up now: Get ST's newsletters delivered to your inbox Published Sep 26, 2026, 02:58 AM SAN FRANCISCO - Meta Platforms is adding a clearer safety warning within Muse after a security researcher discovered a vulnerability in the AI agent that…
White House blocks CNN from Air Force One in latest escalation with news media
The White House has blocked CNN from traveling aboard Air Force One on Saturday, impeding its TV press pool duties in the latest escalation of the administration's battle with the news media. CNN had been scheduled to fly with Donald Trump to…
ShinyHunters Hits the FBI, Fake LastPass Installers, and a $459M Google Fine: This Week's Cybersecurity Chaos
It's been a busy week in cybersecurity, starting off with two notable breaches from our old friends ShinyHunters. This week, we reported that the group hacked CLOP, a ransomware group that ShinyHunters says stole a method from them to exploit a…
The new agent craze gives OpenAI a Mark Zuckerberg-shaped problem
OpenAI's ChatGPT is still the face of consumer AI. But it's no longer the hot new thing. Meta's Muse agent overtook ChatGPT on the free app charts this week, part of a new craze over personal AI assistants in Silicon Valley. Muse can browse, click…
Kiteworks urges customers to shut down their servers amid 'imminent' threat of cyberattack
Technology giant Kiteworks is urging customers to shut down their systems after the company received information that hackers may attempt to target them. Kiteworks (formerly Accellion), which makes tools for transferring large files and sensitive…
Google employee says he quit because aiming for superintelligent AI is 'inherently irresponsible
A Google employee said he resigned from the company, citing the pursuit of powerful artificial intelligence as 'inherently irresponsible.' Robert O'Callahan, who worked at Google DeepMind, wrote in an X post that his team was developing chips to…
Kosovar Owner of Rydox Marketplace Pleads Guilty in US Court
A Kosovar national pleaded guilty in a US court to charges related to the creation and administration of the Rydox cybercrime marketplace. The individual, Ardit Kutleshi, 28, was arrested in December 2024 along with two other suspects, Jetmir…
North Korea Suspected in $351 Million Bitget Crypto Heist
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitget says the hackers who stole roughly $351.6 million in digital assets from its systems used techniques that closely resemble those of known North Korean threat actors. “Based on IP behavior patterns and on-chain…
Roundcube Webmail Vulnerability in Attackers' Crosshairs
Threat actors have been exploiting a high-severity vulnerability in Roundcube, the popular open source webmail client, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security warns. Tracked as CVE-2026-48842 (CVSS score of 8.1), the security defect is described as…
AI can't take over your holiday shopping quite yet, a new study suggests.
AI isn't able to take over your holiday shopping yet, a new study suggests. AI-powered shopping assistants frequently give conflicting answers about prices, product specifications, and which items are current, according to a study published this…
'SalesBleed' Flaws in Salesforce Agentforce Enabled Zero-Click Data Exfiltration
Three vulnerabilities in Salesforce Agentforce could have allowed attackers to hijack trusted agents for sensitive CRM data exfiltration and phishing, Zenity Labs reports. Dubbed SalesBleed, the flaws could be exploited via Web-to-Lead forms…
CISA Election Security Plan Flags Patching Barriers, Voter Database Attacks
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published its 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan, which describes the cyber and physical threats facing election systems and the free services CISA offers to election…
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