02 Oct

Fortinet sounds the alarm over actively exploited FortiMail zero-day

Fortinet is warning customers to lock down FortiMail after attackers started exploiting a critical bug that lets them write files to vulnerable systems without logging

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01 Oct

AI agents hacked the hackers, stealing email addresses from security research org

AI agents hacked the hackers – the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD) – via two zero-day bugs in its Zammad support platform, abusing the

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01 Oct

EU’s hodgepodge tech policy exposes members to Chinese vendor risks, says think tank

Depending on Chinese technology for European infrastructure poses risks that not every country takes seriously. So says the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), which suggests

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01 Oct

Suspected Chinese spies spoofed an Anthropic exec, ex-White House official in AI phishing

A suspected Chinese espionage group impersonated AI policy figures, including a senior Anthropic employee and a former White House official, in phishing campaigns targeting AI

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01 Oct

Microsoft catches hackers exploiting Zimbra bug before disclosure

Attackers were poking at a critical Zimbra mail server bug weeks before it was publicly disclosed, and then moved on to steal credentials, raid mailboxes,

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01 Oct

MI5 warns UK academics their research may have helped Chinese spies

MI5 has warned that more than 100 UK-linked academics contributed to research projects allegedly funded to improve China’s spying capabilities. The Security Service issued an

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01 Oct

CISO thought he had a ‘r3@lg00dp@$$w0rd’ but forgot to patch

Welcome back to PWNED, the weekly column where we warn you about weak security practices. This week’s terrifying tale involves a lack of important patching

Author rabih
01 Oct

Securing Water and Wastewater Operational Technology Environments

Recent cyberattacks on the U.S. water and wastewater systems (WWS) sector are highlighting the escalating threat to our nation’s critical infrastructure and the practical challenges

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01 Oct

England’s schools are getting better at mopping up cyber incidents

England’s secondary schools are reporting slightly fewer cybersecurity incidents and faster recovery when disaster strikes, according to a survey by exams regulator Ofqual. Twenty-seven percent

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01 Oct

UK privacy watchdog starts over with new board and Manchester HQ

Britain’s data protection watchdog has acquired a new legal identity and governance structure, although the familiar ICO initials are staying put. On September 30, the

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01 Oct

Fewer women than ever in UK’s ‘old boys’ club’ cyber industry

The proportion of workers in the UK cybersecurity industry identifying as women has dropped to 16 percent, the lowest level since 2021. Gender diversity has

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30 Sep

Irony alert: OpenAI whines that Chinese model stole its special IP that it stole from everybody else

OpenAI, which hoovered up vast amounts of internet content amid copyright fights, has accused individuals associated with China’s Moonshot AI of being involved in a

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30 Sep

16-year-old researcher found a Microsoft bug, got admin access to databases with 17.3 trillion rows

A 16-year-old security researcher named Faav found an authentication flaw in Microsoft’s Titan analytics service that allowed him to gain administrator access, submit unauthorized SQL

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30 Sep

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in basic cyber skills

More than half of UK businesses lack confidence in their ability to perform at least one basic cybersecurity task, according to the government’s latest skills

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30 Sep

UK rail cops’ £320K face-scanning spree nets zero matches

British Transport Police (BTP) spent more than £320,000 putting half a million commuters through live facial recognition cameras, only for the system to identify precisely

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30 Sep

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – September 2026 edition

Autonomous AI agents go on a hacking spree, and Microsoft ships what used to be a year’s worth of security patches in one go –

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30 Sep

Spectre bug is back, this time to haunt JIT engines

The Spectre microarchitecture vulnerability has returned yet again, this time to vex just-in-time (JIT) engines that generate machine code for browsers, runtimes, and kernels. The

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29 Sep

Add one more AI worry to the nightmare scenario: self-replicating prompt injections

Imagine a prompt injection that keeps replicating itself like a worm. It’s not just the stuff of bad dreams. “We have found instances of our

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