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Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

Autonomous AI Agents Compromise Thousands of Credentials in Under Six Hours

Threat actors are continuing to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to streamline their operations, with one financially motivated hacking group employing an autonomous, multi-agent attack framework to carry out a large-scale credential harvesting campaign within six… 

CISA, NSA and FBI Warn of China-Based AI Companies Targeting US AI Models with Industrial-Scale Knowledge Distillation Campaigns to Shortcut AI Development

CISA, NSA and FBI Warn of China-Based AI Companies Targeting US AI Models with Industrial-Scale Knowledge Distillation Campaigns to Shortcut AI Development

WASHINGTON – The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in collaboration with the National Security Agency (NSA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), released a joint cybersecurity advisory today warning of China-based artificial intelligence (AI) companies targeting U.S. AI companies to systematically extract proprietary models through knowledge… 

WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls

WeChat Zero-Click Worm Took Over Accounts on iPhone and Android via Incoming Calls

Swati KhandelwalSep 08, 2026Vulnerability / Mobile Security Researchers at the security firm Calif have built a worm that takes over a WeChat account via an incoming call and demonstrated it spreading among three test phones. The person… 

Adobe Patches Magento Zero-Day Exploited to Deploy Rust Backdoor and PHP Web Shell

Adobe Patches Magento Zero-Day Exploited to Deploy Rust Backdoor and PHP Web Shell

Ravie LakshmananSep 08, 2026Vulnerability / Web Security Adobe on Monday released security patches to address a maximum-severity flaw impacting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, now… 

BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams

BengalSEO Poisons Bing Search Results to Deliver MayaBot and Tech Support Scams

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a sprawling search engine optimization (SEO) poisoning campaign that paves the way for malware deployment and tech support scams. The campaign, discovered by the DFIR Report in March 2026,… 

Grindr to Pay £26 Million to Settle U.K. Claims Over HIV Status Data Sharing

Grindr to Pay £26 Million to Settle U.K. Claims Over HIV Status Data Sharing

Ravie LakshmananSep 08, 2026Data Privacy / Regulation Online dating app Grindr has opted to pay £26 million ($35.1 million) to settle a lawsuit in the U.K. over allegations that it shared users’ personal information, including… 

PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution

PEEP Turns Chrome and Edge Into Post-Compromise Backdoors for Host Command Execution

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a complex Chromium-based post-exploitation toolkit called PEEP that masquerades as a bookmarks extension for the web browser. “Requiring prior administrative or code execution access, its installer injects the extension…