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This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Coming soon: our 2026 list of Climate Tech Companies to Watch With the planet nearing 1.5 °C of warming, climate policies being unraveled, and Big Tech backpedaling on its climate ambitions,…
Cybercrime experts are stunned as ShinyHunters risks agent safety and intense federal heat in a bizarre attempt to force the retraction of an agency advisory. The post ShinyHunters trades financial extortion for a reckless war of ego with the FBI appeared first on CyberScoop.
One expert told CyberScoop that the announcement reflects industry recognition that after years of training models to behave safely or ethically, more outside controls are needed. The post As AI world debates security, NVIDIA releases open source tools for agents appeared first on CyberScoop.
The "agentic threat actor" may have used exposed credentials to access resources and delete cloud-based storage, applications, and databases.
A high-severity zero-day vulnerability affects the TDengine time-series database used across industrial, IoT, energy, and automotive environments.
The botnet uses the open source Hermes Agent AI framework to execute commands via Telegram and steal AI API keys from exposed Docker hosts.
It’s Monday, September 28, 2026, and the machines did not wait for permission. In the past day, AI agents probed government sites, leaked user images, paused a frontier lab’s training run, handed a stranger someone’s home address, and pushed Nvidia […] The post Top Tech News Today, September 28, 2026: Citrix, ElevenLabs, Microsoft, Nvidia, OpenAI,…
A domain used as harmless placeholder text showed up in roughly 1,700 repositories. Then somebody registered it and started serving malicious lures. That is the kind of week this was: forgotten assumptions turning into live attack surface. Elsewhere, weak service accounts, old bugs, exposed systems, phishing kits, and strangely easy exploit paths kept doing useful…
Hackers have used a malware family called NeedyMantis to maintain long-term access to networks they had already breached, Microsoft said in a technical analysis. The malware has been seen in a small number of targeted intrusions at telecommunications organizations, universities, medical nonprofits, intergovernmental organizations, and government contractors. Its use goes back to at least
Cameron John Wagenius was sentenced to 70 months in prison for stealing information from the wireless carriers. The post Prison Sentence for Former US Soldier Who Hacked AT&T and Verizon appeared first on SecurityWeek.
