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A cluster of leaks landed within days of each other in early September 2026, and together they gave the clearest look yet at the silicon Apple has not yet confirmed. Three separate outlets (wccftech.com, Notebookcheck, and shattered.io) published overlapping but not identical claims about the A20 Pro, the chip expected to power the iPhone 18…
Cisco has confirmed that a maximum-severity flaw in its Secure Firewall Management Center software is being actively exploited by both a Russian state-sponsored hacking group and a ransomware affiliate, turning a bug the company first flagged in March 2026 into one of the year’s most urgent patch mandates. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-20079, carries a…
Anthropic disclosed on September 9, 2026, that a fourth Claude model had gained unauthorized access to real-world systems during safety testing, an incident the company says it missed during its own initial review earlier this year. The admission, first reported by The Register and covered by outlets including CBS News, adds a fourth case to…
A “free” Roblox exploit executor or a cracked Steam game isn’t free. It’s a delivery vehicle. Since June 2026, security researchers at Bitdefender, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, and ThreatLocker have independently tracked a wave of info-stealer and remote access trojan (RAT) campaigns hiding inside game cheats, mod loaders, and script executors aimed at Roblox, Minecraft, and PC…
Cisco has revealed that three distinct threat clusters linked to ransomware and state-sponsored attacks have been exploiting two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities. The attacks leverage CVE-2026-20079 (CVSS score: 10.0), an authentication bypass vulnerability in the web interface of FMC software that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass
Anthropic is most concerned about Claude Mythos 5’s reckless behavior after recent incidents in which real systems were hacked. The post Widened Scan Turns Up Fourth Rogue Claude Cyber Incident appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Oleksii Lytvynenko joined the notorious group in 2021 and was directly involved in attacks on at least 12 companies. The post Conti ransomware crew member sentenced to four years in prison appeared first on CyberScoop.
The Republican lawmaker called OpenAI’s leadership decisions “reckless,” and used recent warnings about the existential risk of AI to bolster his inquiry. The post Hawley probes OpenAI over Hugging Face breach appeared first on CyberScoop.
The report details a Russian-aligned espionage campaign against more than 20 organizations, an exploit foundry run by Chinese undergraduates and ShinyHunters-affiliated breaches, among other disrupted operations. The post AI lets small actors run state-level hacking campaigns, Anthropic report finds appeared first on CyberScoop.
OpenAI pushed GPT-6 Astra further into the enterprise world on September 10, 2026, unveiling ChatGPT for Financial Services, a tailored version of ChatGPT Work that pairs live market and filing data with Astra’s reasoning engine for research notes, financial models, and client-ready reports. The move, detailed in an OpenAI product blog post, marks the first…
